DRIFT

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EMPAC Johannes Goebel, Director Kathleen Forde, Curator, Time-Based Arts Kimberly Gardner, Senior Administrative Coordinator Shannon Johnson, Web Director Hélène Lesterlin, Associate Curator, Dance Jason Steven Murphy, Project Manager Elizabeth Palazzo, Business Coordinator Micah Silver, Associate Curator, Music Todd Vos, Audio

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UPCOMING EMPAC EVENTS ::

Troika Ranch:: is a digital dance theater company which focuses on creation and innovation in theatrical performance. Lecture @ 2pm as part of INTERFACE series focuses on technology and performative presentation @ 7:30pm showing their body of work. Wed 11.01.2006 :: Lecture 2:00 pm @ Biotechnology Auditorium :: Presenta- tion 7:30 pm @ West Hall Auditorium

FEED | Kurt Hentschläger :: FEED is an artificial spectacle, stressing the limits of preeption. The audience is immersed in clouds of stroboscopic light and intense fog, in a digital landscape populated with virtual characters. 11.16.2006 - 11.18.2006 :: Rensselaer Playhouse :: Reservations Required

More info:: www.empac.rpi.edu | 276.3921 DRIFT

DRIFT is an immersive sonic/visual environment consisting of music, sounds and texts by Ranaldo in response to two 16mm analytical film projectors performed in real time by Singer. Much as a DJ scratches a vinyl record, Singer manipulates her films in a live improvisation with Ranaldo’s guitar, poetry and soundscapes.

LEE RANALDO + LEAH SINGER:

Lee Ranaldo is an original member of the group , formed in 1981 in City. Recent solo recordings include For more than a decade, the poet and musician Lee Ranaldo, a Music for Stage and Screen. and Text of Light. His books include founding member of Sonic Youth, has been collaborating with the Lengths & Breaths, Jrnls80s, and Road Movies. Visual works from artist Leah Singer on a multimedia performance piece involving the HWY SONG series, made from deconstructed acoustic guitars, sound, words and photographic projections. Titled ‘’Drift,’’ the work have been shown at the Hayward Gallery, London, The Sydney is to some degree improvisatory, with Mr. Ranaldo reciting his Musuem of Contemporary Art, and the Vienna Kunsthalle. poetry over the drone and clangor of electronic feedback as Ms. Singer projects pairs of images in rapid, percussive succession. Leah Singer has worked with film in live settings for over a decade Sometimes the pictures and the words connect; mostly they follow in areas as diverse as opera, music videos, rock shows and street separate paths, glancing off each other suggestively. performance. Selected venues include Centre George Pompidou, Paris; The Kitchen, NYC; and the Fondacao Serralves, Porto. HEFT, a selection of drawings, was recently published by the Swiss publisher Nieves Books.