music / sound Laurel Halo THU / SEP 04TH 7:30 PM STAFF Johannes Goebel / Director Geoff Abbas / Director for Stage Technologies Eric Ameres / Senior Research Engineer S. Argeo Ascani / Curator, Music David Bebb / Senior System Administrator Peter Bellamy / Senior Systems Programmer Michael Bello / Video Engineer Victoria Brooks / Curator, Time-Based Visual Arts Eric Brucker / Lead Video Engineer Ash Bulayev / Curator, Dance + Theater Michele Cassaro / Guest Services Coordinator John Cook / Box Office Manager Roxanne DeHamel / Web Developer David DeLaRosa / Production Technician Zhenelle Falk / Artist Services Administrator Laurel Halo William Fritz / Master Carpenter Directed by Joseph H. Lewis Kimberly Gardner / Manager, Administrative Operations Ian Hamelin / Project Manager Katie Hammon / Administrative Specialist Halo’s brand of electronic music fuses techno and dance-driven Ryan Jenkins / Event Technician sounds with a heavy dose of ambient synths and samples. Shannon Johnson / Design Director Pamela Keenan / Production Technician CathyJo Kile / Business Manager The sound of Laurel Halo resists categorization. Halo, who also has recorded under Eileen Krywinski / Graphic Designer the name King Felix, makes electronic music that reaches across genres. Her 2012 Carl Lewandowski / Production Technician album Quarantine is populated with synth-y drones and arpeggios accompanied by Eric Chi-Yeh Lin / Lead Stage Technician intense emotional lyrics (The Wire named it their album of the year), while her most Stephen McLaughlin / Event Technician recent release, Chance of Rain, leans more towards electronic dance music—some- Josh Potter / Marketing and Communications Manager how maintaining energy while resisting the impression of accelerating momentum. Alena Samoray / Production Technician Lesser known is Halo’s ambient work—pieces that rely less on beats and vocals, Candice Sherman / Business Coordinator but rather issue forth intuitively in waves of texture that hang, float and linger, Avery Stempel / Front of House Manager before jilting and tumbling forward into collages of sound. Halo excels at keeping Kim Strosahl / Acting Production Administrative Coordinator her listeners off balance—changing course and cadence right when least expected. Jeffrey Svatek / Audio Engineer Dan Swalec / Master Electrician Todd Vos / Lead Audio Engineer Laurel Halo is a producer and live electronic musician from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Pete Wargo / Manager, Information Systems United States. Influenced by her Midwest roots, the music speaks to new club Michael Wells / Production Technician ecologies, explored via abstracted rhythms, chaotic ambience and moody jazz ele- Emily Zimmerman / Associate Curator ments. As Halo once told The Wire magazine, “Techno is a meditative force that EMPAC 2014-2015 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from the National can process darkness and remove problems... In their place, the ideal of a non- Endowment for the Arts and The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital, primarily supported by the Doris Duke threatening, transcended, sexually charged headspace emerges.” Physical process Charitable Foundation; additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections and temporal drift are recurring motifs in Halo’s discography. She has released Fund of the MetLife Foundation, Boeing Company Charitable Trust, and the New York State Council for the Arts. two full-length albums on the London-based electronic label Hyperdub Records. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions. Upcoming Events An updated schedule for the 2014 Fall season is available online at empac.rpi.edu. Check back often for more information. oct 04 10 hours | 10 artists | 4 works | 1 day OCT 04 / 4–10 PM OCT 04 / 4:30 + 7:30 PM performance performance My Voice Has An Echo In It Obsolescere: The Thing is Falling Temporary Distortion Anthony Marcellini OCT 04 / 6:30 + 8:00 PM OCT 04 / 9:00 PM performance music / sound Empathy School Aaron Landsman + Brent Green Mick Barr.