Sat Dec 04, 2010 00:00 - Thu Nov 18, 2010

[size=15][b]Point Play, Diapason Archive (Jukebox)
Opening December 4, 6pm
Installations run Saturdays, December 4, 11, 18, 25 2pm-8pm [/size]

Diapason, 882 Third Avenue, 10th Floor, Brooklyn, NY
[i]http://www.diapasongallery.org[/i][/b]

Saturdays in December Diapason hosts two concurrent exhibitions: POINT PLAY,
curated by Nisi Jacobs, showcases sound installations by Michael J. Schumacher,
Richard Garet, Adam Kendall, and Wolfgang Gil. The Diapason Archive (Jukebox)
features works by Stephen Vitiello, Marina Rosenfeld, Carl Stone, Leif Inge, and Micah Silver, among others.

POINT PLAY invites four artists (Schumacher, Garet, Kendall, and Gil) to compose
individual works through an interaction with Wolfgang Gilʼs ROctoR (Real-time
Octophonic Router), a new custom software instrument designed for multi-channel
sound diffusion. Enabling the creation of 8-channel soundscape compositions based on prerecorded or live sound, ROctor allows the ability to dynamically assign sounds to a selected set of speakers, and transition seamlessly to subsequent configurations, simulating the sensation of physical movement in space.

In Schumacherʼs work Sledge, for example, the composer spatializes sounds from sources such as “films, including The Exorcist, The Sentinel, The Dungeonmaster and The Birds / Arp, EMS and Buchla synthesizers / poet Bruce Andrews imitating the sounds of another of the composerʼs installations / workers hanging a theatrical curtain / a wooden toy car / a skipping CD / stones tossed into a lake / the composer playing guitar / a Ferrari.”

The cycle of sound works from the four artists plays each Saturday of December on the 8-channel ROctoR system in the Gallery room at Diapason for extended immersive listening.

DIAPASON ARCHIVE (JUKEBOX) showcases Diapasonʼs extensive archive of sound
work. Installed in the Lounge are multi-channel works by Marina Rosenfeld, Al Margolis, Zeena Parkins & Douglas Henderson, Carl Stone, Alessandro Bosetti, Patrick K. H., Bruce Andrews, Micah Silver, and Stephen Vitiello and Alam Licht, among others. Visitors choose a work to listen to, which is diffused through Diapason's custom 12 channel sound system.

DIAPASON is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the city council, the Phaedrus Foundation, Kirk
Radke, and by generous individuals. Diapason is a 501(c)3 organization.

Fri Sep 24, 2010 00:00 - Tue Sep 21, 2010

Diapason Gallery Presents

Modular Collaborative Workshop Performance

Gil Houldcroft Jacobs Moscovich Neumann Yadao _ Made Space

Diapason Gallery
882 Third Avenue (betw. 32nd & 33rd Street), 10th Flr.
Brooklyn, NY

September 24, 8pm
Suggested donation, $7

Wolfgang Gil, Real-time OCTOphonic Router (ROCTOR, custom software)
Travis Houldcroft, laptop
Nisi Jacobs, video RGBA to sound converter
David Moscovich, microphone, fiction, vocalization
Daniel Neumann, microphones, mixing board, 4-channel PA
Tamara Yadao, generational speech synthesis

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We are happy to invite you to _ Made Space, the results of the first time running 5-day intensive workshop in Modular Collaboration. The six participants are working together to create individual sound works under an overall theme that will culminate in the live performance this Friday, in which all the works are presented simultaneously as part of a larger piece utilizing the full capacity of Diapason’s special multi-channel sound systems. Starting from thinking about the differences between places and spaces participants are working on digital color space, text as a place, the narrow border between stable and unstable conditions, re-spatialization, speech synthesis, and on transient extraction as a form of de-/re-contextualizing.

Thu Sep 16, 2010 00:00 - Wed Sep 08, 2010

The VCW Performance @ Diapason Gallery

Thurs 9/16
8pm
$7

Diapason Gallery
882 3rd Avenue
(bet. 32 & 33 Streets)
10th Floor
Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Chris Burke, Courtney Brown, Brian Edgerton, Adam Kendall, Matthias Neumann, Joe Tekippe

The VCW Performance is a show of live video pieces created as part of the Video Composition Workshop.

The Video Composition Workshop is dedicated to writing performative video pieces. It explores how artists approach their compositions and how they notate the scores from which the videoists perform.

This show presents completed compositions and works-in-progress of four videoists and musicians resulting from this summer's six-week workshop. The video pieces incorporate human breath control, XBox, language as controller, and physical architecture. The evening will end with the VCW composers discussing their printed scores and compositional approaches.

Compositions by:

Courtney Brown (with performers Gennette Gill, Jacqueline Arias)
Chris Burke (with collaborator Tamara Yadao)
Brian Edgerton (with performers Glenda Reed, Jason Orrell)
Matthias Neumann (with performers Adi Shniderman, Jeffrey Potterfield,
George Tsontakis)

September 16, 8pm

Thu Sep 02, 2010 00:00 - Wed Sep 01, 2010

Vociferous: Sound Works by 21 Contemporary Colombian Artists

Opening Thursday, September 2, 6pm
w/ special performance by Ricardo Arias and Carlos Gómez, 8pm

Installations run Saturdays, September 4, 11, 18, 25, 2pm-8pm
Diapason, 882 Third Avenue, 10th Floor, Brooklyn, NY

for more info: http://www.diapasongallery.org

Saturdays in September 2010 Diapason hosts Vociferous: Sound Works by 21 Contemporary Colombian Artists. The show opens on Thursday, September 2 with a special performance by Ricardo Arias and Carlos Gómez. Installations by the shows 21 artists will run every Saturday in September from 2pm to 8pm.
Curated by Colombian electroacoustic composer and improviser Ricardo Arias, Vociferous: Sound Works by 21 Contemporary Colombian Artists presents an overview of the current state of sound art in Colombia. It is the first exhibition of its kind to be presented outside of the country, and one of a few recent curatorial initiatives to bring together sound works by artists from a variety of disciplines such as electroacoustic music, video art, sound installation art, and sound sculpture. One of the virtues of the term “sound art,” however vague and undefinable it might be, is precisely that it allows for such a grouping together of apparently disparate practices.

Opening: September 2, 2010
Carlos Gómez and Ricardo Arias started working together in 1988 in Barcelona where Gómez was a frequent guest performer with Sol Sonoro, an electroacoustic improvisation ensemble formed by Arias, Roberto García and Catalan guitarist and composer Luis Boyra. At roughly the same time they formed the proto-rock duo &NiL (which soon turned into a trio with the inclusion of García) and they collaborated regularly in ad-hoc projects until the mid 1990’s. In October, 2009 they renewed their musical collaboration with an appearance in the Phonos Concert Series that inaugurated the new performance space at the Universitat Pompeu i Fabra in Barcelona.

Installations: September 4, 11, 18, 25
Electroacoustic music in all its different guises has a relatively long history in Colombia. It is not surprising, then, that over half of the artists in Vociferous have developed their work, to a greater or lesser degree, within the electroacoustic music tradition: they are Mauricio Bejarano, Juan Reyes, Roberto García, Catalina Peralta, Julián Jaramillo, Daniel Prieto, Ana Maria romano, and Fabián Torres. Alba Fernanda Triana is a composer who, having studied composition and electroacustic music is now focusing her work on Interactive computer installations with specially designed and constructed sculptural interfaces. Carlos Gómez and Beatríz Eugenia Díaz are both trained as musicians and artists and for many years have experimented at the intersection of the two disciplines. Pedro Gómez-Egaña has an interest in improvisation, video and performance art. After studying composition and electroacoustic music, for the past 24 years Ricardo Arias has primarily been devoted to experimental improvised music using unconventional instruments. Carlos Bonil, Jaidy Díaz, Adriana García, Jaime Rojas, Juan Sebastián Suanca, Leonel Vásquez, and Icaro Zorbar are all visual artists with a marked interest in sound and are part of the first generation of Colombian artists that could be labeled “sound artists.”

Diapason is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the city council, the Phaedrus Foundation, Kirk Radke, and by generous individuals. Diapason is a 501(c)3 organization.
Vociferous: Sound Works by 21 Contemporary Colombian Artists is supported in part by the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.

Fri Jul 30, 2010 00:00 - Fri Jul 30, 2010

Due to power failures in the building, we have to postpone this Friday's performance of the Modular Workshop.

New date TBA; stay tuned!

Gil Houldcroft Jacobs Moscovich Neumann Yadao _ Made Space

Wolfgang Gil, Real-time OCTOphonic Router (ROCTOR, custom software)
Travis Houldcroft, laptop
Nisi Jacobs, video RGBA to sound converter
David Moscovich, microphone, fiction, vocalization
Daniel Neumann, microphones, mixing board, 4-channel PA
Tamara Yadao, generational speech synthesis

We are happy to invite you to the presentation of the results of the first time running 5-day intensive workshop in Modular Collaboration. The six participants are working together to create individual sound works under an overall theme that will culminate in the live performance this Friday, in which all the works are presented simultaneously as part of a larger piece utilizing the full capacity of Diapason’s special multi-channel sound systems. Starting from thinking about the differences between places and spaces participants are working on digital color space, text as a place, the narrow border between stable and unstable conditions, re-spatialization, speech synthesis, and on transient extraction as a form of de-/re-contextualizing.*


Diapason

882 Third Avenue (between 32nd and 33rd Street)
10th Floor
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Info: 718.499.5070 | www.diapasongallery.org

Subway: D, N, R to 36th Street/4th Avenue

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