Monthly Archives: September 2014

1.Oct.14 Pamela Z @ NYU-MAP class

Pamela Z presenting and performing in MAP class

WHEN: Wednesday, October 1st, 11AM

WHERE: NYU Music Department Room 320 (24 Waverly Place, NY 10003)

The great Pamela Z will be presenting @ NYU in the context of a Core Curriculum MAP Class. These presentations are generally designed and reserved for students registered in this class, but NYU students & faculty with ID are welcome to sit in if interested. It’s a full house, so we’ll accommodate you as well as we can. Write if you have any questions.

bio:

Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and media artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, she creates solo works combining experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, digital processing, and wireless MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. In addition to her solo work, she has been commissioned to compose scores for dance, theatre, film, and new music chamber ensembles including Kronos Quartet and the Bang on a Can Allstars. Her large-scale multi-media works have been presented at venues including Theater Artaud and ODC in SanFrancisco, and The Kitchen in New York, and her media works have been presented in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum (NY) , the Diözesanmuseum (Cologne), and the Krannert Art Museum (IL). Her multi-media opera Wunderkabinet – inspired by the Museum of Jurassic Technology (co-composed with Matthew Brubeck) has been presented at The LAB Gallery (San Francisco), REDCAT (Disney Hall, Los Angeles), and Open Ears Festival, Toronto. Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals including Bang on a Can at Lincoln Center (New York), Interlink (Japan), Other Minds (San Francisco), La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Festival (Wuppertal, Germany). She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts, The MAP Fund, the ASCAP Music Award, an Ars Electronica honorable mention, and the NEA and Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. For more information visit www.pamelaz.com

24.Sep.14 Katja Vetter @ NYC Patching Circle @ NYU

Katja Vetter presenting and performing @ the NYC Patching Circle

WHEN: Wednesday, 24th, 6:30PM

WHERE: NYU Music Department 24 Waverly Place, Room 220, NY 10003

Waverly Labs will be hosting the NYC Patching Circle for the first time…

Brief words by/about dutch artist Katja Vetter: Coming from a background as carpenter and musical instruments maker, I feel most attracted by the sounds of tangible things. Digital signal processing techniques allow to analyze and manipulate acoustic sounds, and that’s how I got into electronics. My dsp framework of choice is Pure Data, for it’s open source and lovely community. I’m still more a maker than a player, and like to share experiments and experiences with others. I can spend long days on Pd programming, talk about it for hours and share pages full of documentation. Little time left for music! But my rare minutes of live performance tend to be a sweet eccentric surprise.

The New York City Patching Circle is a free alternating monthly meeting and salon open to anyone who is working or interested in media programming and audiovisual performance. We mostly use Pd and Max/MSP, but all are welcome.

Beginners and Experienced welcome. Open to everyone, students, the public, unicorns. Work on personal projects, professional projects, school projects, ask for help, help others, or just patch quietly to yourself in a room full of other people patching patches and helping other people patch.

Each month there will be informal salon, featuring demonstrations of projects, performances and systems in the process of being built.  The format will include short performances, artist talks about process and performance techniques and Q&A depending on time availability.  The salon is openly curated with the intent of being as inclusive as possible and participation is open all practitioners working in realtime media.

For those of you who can not attend the Patching Circle, we will be experimenting with streaming, you will be able to watch the stream and chat (through Facebook so remember to set the posting to “only me”) here: thedepartmentofpublicworks.com