Schedule

1. February 11

2. March 5

3. March 20

4. April 8

5. April 30

6. May 7

7. August 20

8. September 24

9. October 26

10. November 12

11. November 19

12-14. Festival

Festival of Electronic Music, Art and Performance

Saturday, December 3, 2011

8-11PM in front of Harold Golen Gallery

Installations by Alba Triana, Kim Yantis and EMMI from 2PM.

Performance program:

1. Wade Matthews: A set for live electronics

Wade Matthews combines recordings of everyday sounds with various forms of digital synthesis in his improvised solo explorations of the moment. This is not music that forces you the hear. It is music that invites you to listen. In 1989, French-born American Wade Matthews completed his doctorate at Columbia University and moved to Madrid. Combining field recordings and digital synthesis, Matthews plays solo and with improvisers of every generation, including Derek Bailey, Peter Kowald, John Butcher, Radu Malfatti, John Tilbury and many, many others. He has performed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Center for the Arts, Mexico City; Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires; Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid; The Stone, New York; Fylkingen, Stockholm and innumerable concerts and festivals in London, Paris, Berlin, San Francisco, Montevideo, Barcelona, Beirut, Cape Verde, Lisbon, Dublin, Oslo, etc.

2. OI: A set for live electronics and video

For more than a decade, the io project has generated new sounds through an experimental, electronic approach to world music traditions. Whether as a solo artist or with collaborators, multi-instrumentalist and ethnomusicologist David Font departs from the sound and sensibility of traditional music and stretches form in new directions. Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico and raised in Miami, at the crossroads of rumba and booty bass, Font has dedicated himself equally to the study of African and Afro-Caribbean rhythms and to electronic experimentation. Through his label Elegua Records, he has released four io recordings, including 'io: little haiti suite' (2003) and 'io: mbira abstractions' (2011). He will bring the sonic heat to the street party: prepare yourself for Miami bass, Afro-futurism, and rhythmic hypnotism.

3. EAR Duo: Saxophones, bassoon and electronics

Program includes Northern Circles by Peter V. Swendsen for alto saxophone, bassoon, live electronics and film, Selections from Counting Duets by Tom Johnson for two human speakers, This person would be an animal by Dana Jessen for interactive computer keyboard, Improv. for saxophones, bassoon and robots, Dorian Reeds by Terry Riley for wind instruments, tape delay system, robots, and film.

Founded in 2005 by saxophonist Michael Straus and bassoonist Dana Jessen, the EAR Duo is dedicated to the performance of new, improvised and experimental electroacoustic music. Praised by the Boston Music Intelligencer for performing "with conviction and authenticity," the duo can regularly be seen collaborating with visual artists, composers, robots, turntablists, dancers and instrumentalists around the world. Highlights from EAR Duo's recent seasons include performances and residencies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Amsterdam's STEIM, Lisbon's Musicbox Nightclub, Washington D.C.'s Artomatic Festival, Belgium's Logos Foundation Tetrahedron Series among others.

4. Expressive Machines Musical Instruments: New pieces for MARIE, PAM, and MADI music robots, featuring collaborations with Aurie Hsu and the EAR Duo.

Expressive Machines Musical Instruments (EMMI) was founded in 2007 by composers Steven Kemper, Scott Barton, and Troy Rogers. EMMI designs and builds robotic instruments that are made by musicians, for musicians. EMMI's string, percussion, and wind instruments merge digital precision, analog fluidity, and acoustic richness. Rather than imitating human performers, EMMI's unique instruments offer expanded capabilities that push sonic boundaries and challenge preconceived expectations. EMMI's musical output reflects collaboration between three composers with distinct compositional voices. The group's kinetic sound art installations provide portals through which the virtual domain embraces its physical past and points to potential futures that prompt meditations on time, space, technology, nature, progress, and nostalgia.

5. Aurie Hsu: Sensor-embedded dance performance with EMMI.

Aurie Hsu is a composer, pianist, and belly dancer. She composes acoustic and electronic music, performs her own prepared/extended piano music, and collaborates regularly with musicians, choreographers, and musical robots. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Composition and Computer Technologies program at the University of Virginia and holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory (BM) and Mills College (MFAs). Current composition projects include a viola da gamba quartet and a suite for extended piano and electronics. Aurie dances with Fire in the Belly Dance Co., the only professional contemporary tribal belly dance company in Charlottesville, Virginia.

6. Kim Yantis: Expansions. Performative Installation.

This installation with dyed orange, red, and brown stitched and manipulated silk organza on large metal frames will host dancers and performers throughout the night. Performers: Kara Pedlebury, Rashad Ingraham, Berlaine Jean-Philippe and Krystall Degraff.