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Breathing and its Transformations – Tone, Lucier, Kuivila

BREATHING AND ITS TRANSFORMATIONS
by BARBARA HELD
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Ruth Gant Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
St. Cloud State University
Introduction by GODFRE LEUNG
SCSU Assistant Professor of Art History

BREATHING AND ITS TRANSFORMATIONS is a series of performances sponsored by the music department at Wesleyan University, St. Cloud University and University of California Santa Barbara. In connection with an interview by Alexandra Alisauskas and Godfre Leung in the Third Rail Quarterly, the program, with an introduction by Godfre Leung, presented new realisations of pieces created some years ago by Yasunao Tone, Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila and Clarence Barlow, with a newly created digital version of “Lyrictron” programmed by Wolfgang Gil.

Links to a recorded version of the Tone and Lucier pieces from Upper Air Observation, a CD published by Lovely Music, Ltd. can be found on my Listen Blog, and a concert fragment of Ron Kuivila’s “Electric Wind” on the Third Rail website.

Self-Portrait, Alvin Lucier
Trio for a Flute Player, Yasunao Tone
Lyrictron, Yasunao Tone

 

 

The Third Rail Quarterly, Issue 10
Barbara Held interviewed by Interviewed by Alexandra Alisauskas and Godfre Leung

 

Barbara Held

Ruidos, silencio, acciones, poesía, música experimental y arte sonoro, 1950-2017

 

Ruidos, silencio, acciones, poesía
Música experimental y arte sonoro, 1950-2017

Barcelona 15 / 06 /  2017

Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX se dio una importante interrelación entre música y arte, siguiendo las corrientes iniciadas, a principios de siglo, por músicos y artistas futuristas o dadaístas. Los artistas de la nueva vanguardia, frecuentemente, tuvieron un carácter interdisciplinar, se sintieron atraídos por diferentes medios y, los músicos, por los nuevos programas artísticos, produciéndose una desintegración de los límites y de las fronteras entre disciplinas.

La exposición está compuesta por unas 70 obras y documentos relacionados con la música experimental y el arte sonoro: instalaciones, partituras, discos, cassetes, discos compactos, libros, fotografías, dibujos, litografías, videos y películas de algunos de los creadores más relevantes de los últimos sesenta años. A traves de sus obras y documentos que conforman la exposición, podemos hacer un recorrido visual y sonoro de los últimos 60 años de experimentación.

Creadores presentes en la muestra: John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Katrin Stockhausen, Mestres-Quadreny, Luis de Pablo, Juan Hidalgo, Walter Marchetti, Eduardo Polonio, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Francesc Abad, Carlos Santos, Barbara Held, Jordi Benito, Concha Jerez, Richard Hamilton, Dieter Roh, Llorenc Barber, Francesca Llopis, Tacita Dean, Ana Solano, Hugo Westerdahl, Badouin Oosterlynk,  Jordi Cerdá, Raoul Hausmann, Henri Chopin, Joan Brossa, Vicenç Altaio, Badouin Oosterlynk, Christina Kubisch, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Brian Eno, Pedro Garhel, Robert Ashley, Bob Wilson, Giacinto Scelsi, Llorenç Balsach, Llorenç Barber, Hugo Westerdahl, Pelayo Arrizabalaga, Clónicos, Juan Belda, Victor Nubla, Arte Moderno, Fatima Miranda, Do the print, Irma Marco, Josué Coloma , Laura Llaneli La fura dels baus, Lawrence Weiner, Wolfgang Tilmans, Marcel.li Antunez, Giuseppe De Mattia, Jaume Plensa, entre otros

Actos durante la inauguración 15 de junio

20: 15 h Barbara Held inaugura Pausa, un performance/instalacion generativa con video de Benton C Bainbridge.
21 : 30 h  Cena con la actuación de Iván Telefunken en el restaurant El Ninot, C/ Casanova, 133, 08036 Barcelona

Actos día 22 / 06 a partir de las 19 h

Ana Solano proyectará y comentará la video instalación La oscuridad es blanca que realizó con el compositor Iván Solano
Presentación del CD de recopilación musical de Pedro Garhel de Entourage y proyección de fragmentos de video de su obra Prótesis
Hugo Westerdal, nos ofrecerá una selección de músíca experimental española de las décadas de 1980 y 1990
Jordi Cerdà, proyectará Acte directa, art brut
Do the print, Irma Marco, Josué Coloma y Laura Llaneli presentarán su instalación Acaso hubo búhos acá

Juan Naranjo
Casanovas, 136-138, B-3  08036 Barcelona
www.juannaranjo.eu
(34) 93 452 81 64 (34) 659 95 66 48
info@juannaranjo.eu

Pausa, generative audiovisual installation

Barbara Held, sound
Benton C Bainbridge, video
Custom audio software by Josep Aymi

As a generative, multi-channel installation, Pausa was premiered at Kiehle Gallery in St. Cloud, Minnesota in March-April 2017. Curated by Godfre Leung, the artwork includes 4-channel generative sound by Held and 3 video paintings by Bainbridge. The moving picture artworks were made live in New York City and Minnesota, including a performance in Kiehle Gallery for the exhibition opening. The exhibition also includes unique art objects used to make the sound and image: the Binary Pattern Generator, and Lisa Joy (W) – a modified Vectrex and custom modular synthesizer which together make electronic light drawings.

Pausa dossier

Pausa is a collaborative composition by media artist Benton C. Bainbridge and composer Barbara Held pairing acoustic and electronic sound with realtime image processing in which sound and image “conduct” each other. A unique Binary Pattern Generator creates rhythms that are interpreted by an A/V synthesis system, generating variations in the timbre of a live flute performance and layering abstract forms into moving pictures. Held and Bainbridge co-designed the system, with custom audio software by Josep Aymi and Binary Pattern Generator by Brendan Byrne.

Part of a series of pieces shaping subtle variations in the intensity of harmonics of the tone of an acoustic instrument, the generative sound composition pauses or holds flute sounds as a static image, using simple studio effects that make slight variations in the stereo image of the sound and an “overdrive” that awakens or enhances high partials, creating a fluid and shimmering sound texture that is further modified by control voltages and other data being received from the video instruments.

The video system is a custom analog and digital set of modules that generates and combines lines and shapes, yielding rich textures and palettes.  Custom audio software created by Josep Aymi, Binary Pattern Generator by Brendon Byrne.

As a generative, multi-channel installation, Pausa is currently on view at Kiehle Gallery in St. Cloud, Minnesota through Monday, April 10, 2017. Curated by Godfre Leung, the artwork includes 4-channel generative sound by Held and 3 video paintings by Bainbridge. The moving picture artworks were made live in New York City and Minnesota, including a performance in Kiehle Gallery for the exhibition opening. The exhibition also includes unique art objects used to make the sound and image: the Binary Pattern Generator, and Lisa Joy (W) – a modified Vectrex and custom modular synthesizer which together make electronic light drawings.

This project was produced in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds grant program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.

Recent Performances of Pausa

24Feb17  world premiere Pausa, part of Composers Now Festival at Harvestworks, NYC.
18MAR17  Studio Z, St. Paul
20MAR17 Pausa at Kiehle Gallery, University of MN at St. Cloud

Previous Collaborations Held/Bainbridge:

Observatory/Lisa Joy

The generative audiovisual installation Observatory / Lisa Joy by Barbara Held and Benton C Bainbridge was shown as part of “Escuchar con los ojos. Arte sonoro en España, 1961-2016”, a group exhibition of Spanish Sound Art from the past half century at the Juan March Foundation in Madrid. Held’s software system, a sonification of helioseismological measurements, translates numeric data into another numeric structure: the overtone series of a sampled flute note, filtered and reinforced in the rhythm of the sound waves produced by solar oscillations, varying the intensity of harmonics. These frequencies are used as control voltages to shape sinuous lines from Bainbridge’s modified video game console, creating calligraphic patterns from the same electronic signals.

ESCUCHAR CON LOS OJOS
Arte sonoro en España, 1961-2016
Fundación Juan March, Madrid
14 octubre 2016 – 15 enero 2017
14 October 2016 – 15 January 2017

“Escuchar con los ojos”, Visionary Film October 2016
……… a show that includes the main artistic expressions in Spain using sound by artists such as the ZAJ group, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Walter Marchetti, Francisco López, Esther Ferrer, Juan Hidalgo and Barbara Held.

Observatory, recorded at Eyebeam, New York

Encuentros AVLAB: Octubre 2016

Presentación de un proyecto audiovisual generativo en diálogo con música en directo
29.10.2016 18:00h
Place: Auditorio (2ª planta)

Os presentamos una propuesta nueva para animar nuestros encuentros AVLAB del mes de octubre. En esta ocasión contamos con la presencia de Barbara Held, Andrés Sanz, Javier Adán y Santiago Rapallo.
El encuentro tendrá lugar el próximo 29 de octubre a las 18h en Medialab-Prado.
Barbara Held (USA/Esp) y Benton C. Bainbridge (USA)

Para este encuentro presentamos la instalación sonora Observatory / Lisa Joy que fue creada como parte de un proyecto de diseño sonoro para el consorcio de museos en Tenerife, Islas Canarias. En ella, Barabara Held trabaja junto con Benton C. Bainbridge en una obra que funciona como una oscilación entre un microscopio y un telescopio. Mientras que Barbara varía con su flauta la intensidad de los armónicos (los elementos mas básicos del sonido) para poner de relieve una rica y profunda abstracción del tono puro y la inmediatez de la respiración, el sistema de Bainbridge divide el sonido en sus frecuencias componentes que se visualizan en la pantalla, creando una caligrafía a partir de sus mismas señales electrónicas.

About the artists:

BARBARA HELD es flautista de formación clásica.  Su trayectoria como compositora ha ido evolucionando a partir de colaboraciones con compositores experimentales como David Behrman, Alvin Lucier o Yasunao Tone, cuyo trabajo se basa en crear situaciones experimentales en las cuales el intérprete tiene libertad para explorar las posibilidades sonoras. Fue colaboradora fundadora del “Bowery Ensemble”, conjunto con estrechos vínculos con los compositores Morton Feldman y John Cage durante los años 80 en New York City, y en España, vivió el proceso de cambio con el “Grup Instrumental Català” con Carles Santos y Joan Brossa. Como flautista y artista sonoro, ha realizado muchos trabajos de instalación audiovisual en colaboración con otros artistas como Paloma Navares, Francesc Abad, Pere Noguera y Eugenia Balcells. Sus composiciones colaborativas de vídeo y música con Francesca Llopis, Adolf Alcañiz, Toni Serra y Benton C Bainbridge se han presentado en entornos muy diversos, desde el “Z to A Festival” organizado por el Storefront for Art and Architecture en las calles de New York hasta el Festival LOOP de videoarte en Barcelona. Fue comisaria de “Lines of Sight”, un ciclo de siete programas  para radio web macba, la radio web del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona,  desde el que se explora diferentes ideas alrededor de la transmisión y el radioarte como medio de expresión creativa.  Tambien por encargo del MACBA, se creo la exhibición “Posibilidad de acción. La vida de la partitura”, una exposición dedicada a la exploración de la notación musical entendida, en sentido amplio, como un soporte de transmisión a la vez musical y visual.  Se reunió tanto partituras históricas como composiciones contemporáneas y también creaciones de artistas no estrictamente procedentes del campo de la música, entre las que se cuentan obras experimentales de los ámbitos del arte sonoro, el noise/art/rock experimental y los territorios fronterizos entre estos y otros medios de creación. Fue creadora del festival “Musica a Metronom”, donde desarrollo un laboratorio de creación artística en colaboración con científicos del CSIC.

BENTON C BAINBRIDGE es un artista del Bronx, New York City, que trabaja con sus propios sistemas personalizados para crear ambientes de inmersión, instalaciones interactivas y obras de arte con video en tiempo real. Como residente en el Experimental Television Center, Bainbridge hizo obras que aplican las estrategias formales y prácticas de la música a las imágenes en movimiento. Ha sido VJ para 2 giras mundiales de los Beastie Boys, e creo efectos especiales de vídeo para “Mirar el Sol” de On the Radio. Proyectos recientes incluyen Kaki King / Resplandeciente Imágenes “El cuello es un puente para el Cuerpo” y dos colaboraciones con Jin HI Kim, “Ghost Komungobot” y “Digital Buddha”. Bainbridge ha sido artista residente de One Step Beyond desde su creación; esta serie mensual de música y obras visuales esta en su novena temporada en el Museo Americano de Historia Natural de New York. Bainbridge es profesor del School of Visual Arts facultad de informatica. Su navegador generativo “justasecXYZ # 3” se mostró recientemente en la exposición de MFACA “Techtonic Shift” y en línea en justasec.XYZ.

 

[Feb 24] “Pausa”, Barbara Held and Benton C Bainbridge, Harvestworks

Harvestworks, in partnership with Composers Now Festival presents “Pausa”, an Audiovisual performance for flute, synthesized and processed sound and image by Barbara Held and Benton C. Bainbridge.

Pausa” is a collaborative composition pairing acoustic and electronic sound with realtime image processing, with sound and image “conducting” each other. A unique Binary Pattern Generator creates simple rhythms that are interpreted by an A/V synthesis system, generating variations in the timbre of a live flute performance and layering abstract forms into moving pictures. Held and Bainbridge will co-create the A/V system for the premiere at Harvestworks for Composers Now Festival.

Friday, February 24, 8pm

Harvestworks 596 Broadway #602 New York NY 10012

Phone: 212-431-1130 Subway: F/M/D/B Broadway/Lafayette, R to Prince, #6

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Encuentros AVLAB: Octubre 2016 Medialab Prado

Encuentros AVLAB: Octubre 2016

29.10.2016 18:00h

Place: Auditorio (2ª planta)

Os presentamos una propuesta nueva para animar nuestros encuentros AVLAB del mes de octubre. En esta ocasión contamos con la presencia de Barbara Held, Andrés Sanz, Javier Adán y Santiago Rapallo.

El encuentro tendrá lugar el próximo 29 de octubre a las 18h en Medialab-Prado.

Entrada gratuita hasta completar aforo.

 

Barbara Held (USA/Esp) y Benton C. Bainbridge (USA)

Presentación de un proyecto audiovisual generativo en diálogo con música en directo

Para este encuentro presentamos la instalación sonora Observatory / Lisa Joy que fue creada como parte de un proyecto de diseño sonoro para el consorcio de museos en Tenerife, Islas Canarias. En ella, Barabara Held trabaja junto con Benton C. Bainbridge en una obra que funciona como una oscilación entre un microscopio y un telescopio. Mientras que Barbara varía con su flauta la intensidad de los armónicos (los elementos mas básicos del sonido) para poner de relieve una rica y profunda abstracción del tono puro y la inmediatez de la respiración, el sistema de Bainbridge divide el sonido en sus frecuencias componentes que se visualizan en la pantalla, creando una caligrafía a partir de sus mismas señales electrónicas.

 

Andrés Sanz

Presentación del proceso creativo del trabajo visual para “El jardin Infinito”

El Jardin Infinito Se trata de una videoinstalación creada para la exposición sobre “El Bosco. La exposición del V centenario” presentada en el Museo del Prado el pasado mes de Septiembre. Está formada por una multiproyección en la que imágenes del cuadro El jardín de las delicias son objeto de reinterpretación

y reelaboración por parte de los autores para constituir una obra nueva.

En El Jardín infinito se diseccionan, recortan y ensamblan detalles de los múltiples mundos pictóricos del cuadro generando un espacio completamente sensorial, envuelto a su vez por un paisaje sonoro dotado de acentos tridimensionales. Las imágenes fragmentadas, los cambios de escala o las sorprendentes micronarrativas adquieren una nueva dimensión, suscitando el primigenio asombro que la obra del Bosco siempre ha despertado.
Javier Adán y Santiago Rapallo

Presentación del proceso creativo del trabajo sonoro para “El jardín Infinito”

Se trata de una composición electrónica y acústica que crea un universo sonoro complejo, ambiguo y lleno de matices que acompaña y complementa las espectaculares imágenes de la obra creada por Álvaro Perdices y Andrés Sanz sobre el tríptico del Bosco “El Jardín de las Delicias”.

Para la grabación de la música se han utilizado instrumentos acústicos y electrónicos, voz, técnicas de síntesis granular y sustractiva, sampling, data bending, glitches, Supercollider y procesado y manipulación de audio en tiempo real. La composición y grabación de la música para Jardín Infinito es fruto de 6 meses de intenso trabajo de estudio y ha sido realizada íntegramente por Javier Adán y Santiago Rapallo.

En la composición pueden oírse ecos e influencias de la obra de Stockhausen, Ligeti, Xenakis, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota, Björk, Oval, Throbbing Gristle, Einstürzende Neubauten, Alva Noto o Pansonic.

 

Escuchar con los ojos Arte sonoro en España, 1961-2016

Escuchar con los ojos
Arte sonoro en España, 1961-2016
Fundación Juan March, Madrid

14 octubre 2016 – 15 enero 2017
 

Observatory / Lisa Joy is a generative audiovisual installation created by two multidisciplinary artists, Barbara Held (USA/Spain) and Benton C Bainbridge (USA). It is currently on view as part of “Escuchar con los ojos. Arte sonoro en España, 1961-2016”, a group exhibition of Spanish Sound Art from the past half century at the Juan March Foundation in Madrid.  Tones and flute from Held’s software system (coding by Ariadna Alsina) are used as control voltages to shape sinuous lines from Bainbridge’s modified videogame console.

Observatory, a sonification of helioseismological measurements, translates numeric data into another numeric structure: the overtone series of a sampled flute note, filtered and reinforced in the rhythm of the sound waves produced by solar oscillations. Like an oscillation between a microscope and a telescope, Held varies the intensity of harmonics (the building blocks of sound) to highlight the rich deep abstraction of pure tone and the immediacy of the breath, while Bainbridge’s system divides the sound into component frequencies which are visualized onto the display, creating calligraphic  patterns from the same electronic signals. Observatory was first created for Bioderivas, Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre, Tenerife. (Data thanks to the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, audio software created by Ariadna Alsina).

Benton C Bainbridge’s Lisa Joy generates electronic drawings with an analog video synthesizer and a modified video game console. Bainbridge assembled a set of unique Eurorack modules into a custom system to create the abstract moving paintings. The lissajous patterns emerge from the relationship of 3 signals which guide the electron gun from left to right, top to bottom, and up and down in brightness. The shapes vary as the 3 waves dance in relationship to each other and the sound frequencies.

BENTON C BAINBRIDGE AND BARBARA HELD

Bainbridge Held performance, distENDED cinema curated by David Linton, Brooklyn, NYC 2016, document video by Yana Milanberg

 

Media art collaborations by BENTON C BAINBRIDGE (The Bronx) and BARBARA HELD (NY/Barcelona) pair acoustic and electronic sound with realtime image processing. Their live performances, installations and recordings are composed using audiovisual synthesizers modulated with flute, as well as generative software. Solar seismic activity, the human breath, and other periodic measurements inspire their structural strategies.

Their generative audiovisual installation Observatory / Lisa Joy  is currently on view as part of “Escuchar con los ojos. Arte sonoro en España, 1961-2016”, a group exhibition of Spanish Sound Art from the past half century at the Juan March Foundation in Madrid.  Held’s software system, a sonification of helioseismological measurements, translates numeric data into another numeric structure: the overtone series of a sampled flute note, filtered and reinforced in the rhythm of the sound waves produced by solar oscillations, varying the intensity of harmonics. These frequencies are used as control voltages to shape sinuous lines from Bainbridge’s modified video game console, creating calligraphic patterns from the same electronic signals.

A previous collaborative performance with Nancy Meli Walker in 1995 for the Festival Grec in Barcelona, Spain used the sound and live video images of vintage laboratory glass and an original 19th century physics apparatus called the “singing flames”  on loan from the Mentor Alsina laboratory museum.

Bainbridge/Held’s current project is Pausa, a collaborative composition in which sound and image “conduct” each other. The Binary Pattern Generator, a one-of-a-kind modular instrument by Brendan Byrne, generates simple rhythms which are interpreted by a software and hardware A/V synthesis system, triggering variations in the timbre of a live flute performance and layering of abstract forms into moving pictures.

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BARBARA HELD is a flutist and composer based in Barcelona. She has performed the audiovisual work of Eugenia Balcells at MACBA; with Ursula Scherrer, Katherine Liberovskya and Anne Wellmer at LOOP Festival of Videoart in Barcelona ; Soundproof Festival, London; Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; Solianka Gallery, Moscow; Issue Project Room, New York; The Bridge, Cologne; Experimental Intermedia, New York; Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; she participated in the group show “Microcosmics” curated by Joan Fontcuberta at the Sala Metrónom in Barcelona, and “Bioderivas” at the Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre in Tenerife with Yapci Ramos and Richard Garet. Her music has been published by FO A RM magazine and Leonardo Music Journal, and on the Lovely Music Ltd. CD, “Upper Air Observation”.  A collaborative installation with Kenneth Kirschner and Wolfgang Gil was presented by Contour Editions at Eyebeam in New York, and she recently created from 0, a performance/generative installation for the Signal X festival in Cagliari, Sardinia.  She teaches as part of the University of Barcelona’s Master in Sound Art program.

https://barbaraheld.com/

BENTON C BAINBRIDGE is a Bronx artist who makes media art with his own custom systems. Bainbridge is best known for visual performances, solo and in diverse collaborations. Benton VJ’d for 2 Beastie Boys world tours and made analog video synth FX for TV On The Radio’s “Staring at the Sun”. His artworks have shown around the world; currently touring projects include Kaki King/Glowing Pictures “The Neck is a Bridge to the Body” and two collaborations with Jin Hi Kim, “Ghost Komungobot” and “Digital Buddha”. Bainbridge has been resident media artist for One Step Beyond since its inception; this monthly music and visuals series is now in its ninth season at American Museum of Natural History. Benton C Bainbridge teaches “New Forms in Media” at School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Arts Department. Benton’s generative browser artwork “justasecXYZ #3” recently showed at the MFACA exhibition “Techtonic Shift” and online at justasec.XYZ.

http://www.bentoncbainbridge.com/

 

 

Alimentació

Sala Ricson, Hangar, Barcelona
February 8-10, 2016

Alimentació  is a collaborative performance-based sound installation created by more than 20 artists under the direction of Barbara Held, as the final project of the Sound Installation course of the Master in Sound Art, University of Barcelona. It was conceived as a sonic mirror, a site-specific exploration of concepts of feedback (electronic and analog). The visually transparent glassed-in booth in the Sala Ricson creates an aural boundary.  Sounds are performed live in the brightly-lit booth, and sent to a series of digital and analogue performers in the large, dark main space, where they are re-alimented and transformed. The sound performances are related to the celebration of art world rituals such as the opening of an exhibition. The ritual is a way in which we relate to our surroundings. There is an element of voyeuristic pleasure in the mis en scene.

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The process took place over the space of 3 days, with a live invited audience at the project’s “closing”.

Senses of Place | LOOP 2015

28 may – 6 june
Reial Cercle Artistic de Barcelona

David Baker, José Manuel Berenguer, Blake Carrington, Melissa F. Clarke, Seth Cluett, Andrew Demirjian, Tom Chant, Brian Chase, David Galbraith, Richard Garet, Lorenzo Gattorna, Sandra Gibson-Luis Recoder, Wolfgang Gil, Andy Graydon, Jim Haynes, Barbara Held, Victoria Keddie, Kenneth Kirschner, LoVid, Katherine Liberovskaya, David Linton, Daniel Neumann, Phill Niblock, Yann Novak, Ursula Scherrer, Pinkcourtesyphone (Richard Chartier-Rob Parrish), Yapci Ramos, Phillip Stearns, Pilar Subirá, Fernando Velázquez, Byron Westbrook, Florian Wittenburg.

LOOP Festival 2015

LOOP Barcelona 2015, The Real Circulo Artístico de Barcelona, Hangar, Eyebeam Sound Research Group, PHONOS (University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) and the Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre de Tenerife present “Senses of Place”, a program of exhibitions and screenings of audiovisual work, installations and performance that respond to space.

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Exhibitions:

An Immanence of Nature | collective exhibition with the artists Richard Garet, Barbara Held y Yapci Ramos | 11.00h. – 21.00h | Reial Cercle Artistic – Gallery Space

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In this exhibition artists make use of technology to capture and display images and sounds that re-contextualize how we perceive the world. Through close listening, focused sight and careful attention to perception, these artists have created a micro-environment that rewards active exploration and encourages thoughtful contemplation of how we understand the world around us through our senses of sight and sound.

Winter | sound installation by Richard Garet, 2008
11.00h. – 21.00h | Reial Cercle Artistic – Blue Zone.
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Winter is a surround 4.0 sonic construction focused on Winter as a subject. This interpretation was made from aural material recorded during December 2007 and March 2008 within the same 16-foot perimeter location in Astoria, Queens, NY.

Dark Before Dawn | video by Blake Carrington, sound from the album “Ulysses Syndrome” by Soundwalk Collective
11.00h. – 21.00h | Reial Cercle Artistic – Hall

Reial Cercle Artístic LOOP2015

Reial Cercle Artístic LOOP2015

“Dark Before Dawn” explores the subjective choreography of sound and image, the feedback loop between the two that informs and shapes what we think we see and what we think we hear. It takes the viewer through a slowly shifting, minimal and foggy color space that follows the contours of the album “Ulysses Syndrome” by Soundwalk Collective. Commissioned by Soundwalk Collective for their album “Ulysses Syndrome”.

Acoustic Imaging the Hudson | video by Melissa F. Clarke
11.00h. – 21.00h | Reial Cercle Artistic – Hall

Reial Cercle Artístic LOOP2015

Reial Cercle Artístic LOOP2015

Acoustic Imaging the Hudson shows a subsoil and underwater topography and past glacial movement; a particular profile of deep time and space history reaches the surface through sound signals and image data sent over. The installation shows the relationship between sound and image, water and sound, and with the sediments beneath.

Color Tones | sound installation by Wolfgang Gil
11.00h. – 21.00h | Reial Cercle Artistic – Courtyard
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A site-specific, generative sound installation that produces its sonic content in response to the sounds occurring in the space in which the piece is installed. Comprised of slowly shifting tones and textures diffused over a multichannel sound system, the installation invites the audience to enter into a meditative dialog with the listening space. The piece is punctuated by periodic silences, during which the piece listens to the room and produces new content.

A project of the Sound Research Group at Eyebeam, New York

The Sound Research Group is a working group to focus on the what and why of sound art through critical discussion, collaborations, presentation of works in progress, and public events. For more information:http://research.eyebeam.org/sound

Recollections | video by Seth Cluett
11.00h. – 21.00h | Reial Cercle Artistic – Courtyard
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A single, unedited, wide-angle shot of the edge of a forest, this video contains monaural audio of the sound of a person walking from the left  to the right of the screen. The visual occlusion of the forest combined with audio whose close-mic’d detail  provides no cues for locating the position of the walker. The viewer is forced to search, knowing that there must be a connection between hearing and sight, but is forced to rely on scanning the video carefully in search for alternative clues as to location of the sound source.

Screening:

Screening | program of audiovisual works. Curated by Richard Garet and Barbara Held.
11.00h – 21.00h | Reial Cercle Artistic – Sala Atlants

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A  program of audiovisual works from artists working with sound, expanded cinema and video, presenting works of David Baker-Florian Wittenburg, Blake Carrington, Melissa F. Clarke, Andrew Demirjian, David Galbraith, Lorenzo Gattorna, Sandra Gibson-Luis Recoder, Richard Garet, Andy Graydon-Kenneth Kirschner, Jim Haynes, Victoria Keddie, LoVid, Katherine Liberovskaya-Phill Niblock, David Linton, Yann Novak, Ursula Scherrer-Brian Chase, Pinkcourtesyphone, Phillip Stearns, Fernando Velazquez and Byron Westbrook.

Concert:

Concert | performance by Aetherart
4 june – 21.00h. – 22.00h | Reial Cercle Artistic – Courtyard

This performance is a collective exploration of architectural acoustics, the interactive environment of Wolfgang Gil’s installation and Seth Cluett’s score system that utilizes concepts from machine listening research to enable performers to take on the role of adaptive listeners with a score. A visualization of the scored-work in tandem with the sounds of the ambient environment will drive a thin wire with mirrors placed at acoustically significant points along it. A thin strip of a video projection will be reflected throughout the courtyard, modulated chaotically by the sum of the sounds in the space. Barbara Held, Tom Chant, Pilar Subirà, Jose Manuel Berenguer, Daniel Neumann, video by Yapci Ramos.
A project of the Sound Research Group at Eyebeam, New York

Workshops:

Introduction to nonlinear methods of composition using MAX / MSP | workshop by Wolfgang Gil. Hangar – June 2 & 3
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This is an introduction to the use of statistics for audio processing in real time.

The focus on sound composition is based on the definition of “sections” or states of a stochastic system, and “transitions” between sections, using a series of modules that I have created in Max/MSP, a graphic tool that permits logical computation of sound using visual objects.

New York-based Venezuelan sound artist and programmer Wolfgang Gil explores the interrelationship of sound, the listener, and the space of listening. In his experimental work, it is in the listener’s willingness to engage in a personal dialog with the sound and space that the work finds its purpose. He is director of Eyebeam’s Sound Research group, and since 2012, Gil, Richard Garet y Daniel Neumann direct the portable gallery/platform for sound installation work on Contour Editions.

http://wolfganggil.com/about/

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Non-Representational Spatial Sound | workshop by Daniel Neumann
Hangar – June 2 & 3

This workshop is part of the investigation into the architectural space as strategies for exploring sound, sound material and its modulation by space and situation. The workshop will give a historical overview on the subject with some technical background and explore aesthetics and techniques for spatialization. Listening will be practiced as a phenomenological activity: the listener immersed in inner spaces / distance and continuity / sound as intersubjective space. The loudspeaker is an instrument, a resonating exciter, and the space is the resonator, like the wooden body of a violin.

Daniel Neumann is a sound artist based in Brooklyn, professional sound engineer with master’s degree in media art from the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. His main focus is the investigation of how sound interacts with space and how spaces can be shaped by sound. As curator, he directs the CT-Swam monthly series at Eyebeam, New York. He has presented work at Fridman Gallery, MoMA PS1, Pratt Institute, Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, Sculpture Center New York, Eigen & Art Gallery Leipzig, Skolska28 Prague, Lothringer13 Munich and many more.

danielneumann.org
danielneumann.wordpress.com
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