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EVENT

INVESTIGATE: no-input


Dates:
Sun Apr 29, 2012 18:00 - Sun Apr 29, 2012

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

A Harvestworks 35th Anniversary Event.

On Sunday, April 29, 2012, Harvestworks and Issue Project Room will co-produce an in-depth investigation into the phenomena of no-input, a style of sound art using internal mixer feedback to generate sound. An audio mixer with anything from basic EQ and sufficient outputs/channels provides a diverse palette for experimentation with feedback. Using multiple channels, different configurations of inputs/outputs and possibly external effects can further extend the range of obtainable timbres.

Presentations will feature no-input icon Toshimaru Nakamura who will be joined by sound artists Philip White, Bob Bellerue, Bonnie Jones and Phillip Stearns in a panel that will explore the limits of the sound-generating technique, it’s influence on the audience and how each artist has expanded their equipment to address stylistic concerns. The panel will be followed by a performance with special guest Gene Coleman where participants will exhibit the their idiosyncratic approaches to controlling an instrument that defies control.

Tickets are $15. Visit the website for more info on the artists.


EVENT

Mirrors: Designing Interactivity with Jitter


Dates:
Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:00 - Sat Mar 31, 2012

Location:
New York, New York
United States of America

Cost: Regular: $150, Members & Students (with ID): $135

Creating a dialog between person and artwork, user and computer, can be difficult, and what better way to dive into interactivity than through designing interactive mirrors. This class will utilize techniques found within Jitter to create user generated visual experiences with both traditional cameras and the Kinect. If you are looking to gain a better understanding of lower level image processing, this class is perfect for you. While we will be working with Max/MSP/Jitter, topics covered are applicable to other languages.

The class will discuss ways for users to "see" themselves within programs and artworks, whether it be through their image, movements, or sounds, in the hopes of generating engaging experiences. Topics covered will include the basic elements of video, image-matrix manipulations, motion and color detection, feedback, auditory control, and the Kinect camera. It is recommended that participants have a basic understanding of Max. While bringing a Kinect camera is recommended for following along, participants certainly can come without one and observe this later portion of the class.


EVENT

Welcome to Max 4 Live


Dates:
Sat Apr 07, 2012 12:00 - Sat Apr 07, 2012

Location:
New York, New York
United States of America

Cost: Regular: $150, Members & Students (with ID): $135

Max 4 Live allows you to access the power of Max's graphical programming language inside the popular digital audio workstation and live performance tool, Ableton Live. Live is used by DJ's and other musicians around the world because of it's focus on realtime creation and performance of music.This class will introduce the enormous possibilities this partnership opens up, including: creating radical realtime audio processing effects, using Max to control the Live environment through the Live API, creating custom musical interfaces to play an Ableton Live set, and generating visuals/VJing in the Live environment. We will explore using sensors, like microphones, cameras, and/or Arduinos, to allow automation of Live parameters.

Participants must have a working copy of both Max/MSP/Jitter (cycling74.com), as well as Ableton Live and Max for Live (ableton.com/downloads). A free demo is available for both Max and Ableton Live, which will include Max for Live. Note that if you are interested in doing live visuals within Max 4 Live, you must also own a full version of MaxMSP with Jitter in addition to Max 4 Live.


OPPORTUNITY

New Works Residency 2012/2013


Deadline:
Tue May 01, 2012 23:59

Location:
New York, New York
United States of America

Residencies run from Jul 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013

The Harvestworks New Works Program offers commissions of up to $5000 to make a new work in our Technology, Engineering, Art and Music (TEAM) lab. Each artist receives up to a $2000 artist fee with the balance of the award used for the TEAM lab activities. The artist works with a team comprised of Harvestworks’ Project Manager and consultants, technicians or instructors.

New works may include multiple channel audio or video installations, interactive performance systems, data visualization or projects involving hardware hacking, circuit bending or custom built interfaces, as well as projects that use the web. Up to 12 residencies will be selected (depending on project size and funding) along with up to five $1000 project scholarships. Priority will be given to the creative use of the Harvestworks' production facility and the innovative use of sound and/or picture. Emerging artists and artists of color are encouraged to apply.

Special Initiatives: The Jerome Foundation Creative Residency Program will support emerging artists residing in New York City and/or Minnesota. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts will support visual artists residencies.

Eligibility: The Artist in Residency (AIR) program is designed to assist individual working artists and their collaborators. Groups and ensembles are not eligible. Only new work proposals are accepted. Proposals that document an existing work are not eligible. Students who are currently enrolled in a university are not eligible. AIR recipients from the past 2 years are not eligible to apply this year. Applicants must reside in the U.S. Project

Presentation: Work produced in the program is premiered in the Harvestworks’ New York Electronic Art Festival or in our TEAM Presentation Lab. Residents are also featured on the Harvestworks website.

The New Works Residency Program is sponsored by the Jerome Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Edwards Foundation Arts Fund, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

2011 Residents: Angie Eng, Crystal Campbell, Haeyoung Kim, David Wightman, Phillip White, Rachel Morrison, Elizabeth Axtman, Mari Kimura, Susie Ibarra, Jimmy Joe Roche, Rebecca Warner and Laura Vitale. Educational scholarships were awarded to Heather Hart, Andrea DeFelice and David Antonio Cruz.

Application:
This is an online application, and the fee for using this service is $5. You will upload all text based information through a web interface. Provide us with a link to your video and audio worksamples. We suggest Vimeo for video (http://www.vimeo.com) and Soundcloud for audio (http://soundcloud.com), since both are free and allow you to upload your worksamples for private viewing only. If you make your worksamples "private", please do not forget to include your access codes in your application. To start your application, please visit this link: http://harvestworks.slideroom.com/

Questions:
Questions can be directed to Hans Tammen at 212.431.1130 ext. 2 or by email at hanst@harvestworks.org


EVENT

Tribute to Conrad Schnitzler


Dates:
Sat Mar 17, 2012 20:00 - Sat Mar 17, 2012

Location:
New York, New York
United States of America

In honor of Conrad Schnitzler, "Gen" Ken Montgomery will conduct 5.5.85, an 8-channel "Cassette CONcert" composed by Conrad Schnitzler. Cassette CONcert are boxed sets of cassettes that Schnitzler composed with the intent that others could perform and listen to his CONcerts without his presence. This was the first CONcert given to Montgomery by Conrad in 1985. Montgomery traveled extensively conducting this and other octophonic CONcerts by live mixing the cassettes through whatever speaker set-ups he could find on the fly.

Gen Ken will also share some stories and cassettes from Conrad. We welcome your own stories as well, as we remember one of the great composer/performers of the 20th century.

BIO:

Conrad Schnitzler made numerous contributions to electronic music and sound art. He studied sculpture with Joseph Beuys, before leaving Düsseldorf Kunstakademie (and leaving all of his sculptures in a grassy field!) to focusing on experiments with synthesizer and tape. In 1968, Schnitzler established the Zodiak Free Arts Lab in Kreuzberg, Berlin. He soon began working with Krautrock pioneers Tangerine Dream and Kluster.

In 1971, he began his solo musical career. His early recordings, Schwarz, Rot, and Blau were first published by Rene Block Gallery as multiples with handmade covers. In 1978, he released the album Con on the Egg Records label, and consequently released many albums of both synthesizer and tape-loop music. In 1986, Schnitzler founded the Generations Unlimited label and was involved in the founding of Ken Montgomery's seminal Generator Sound Art Gallery on New York's Lower East Side in 1989. Once a week he mailed a new 8-channel “Musik in the Dark” CONcert to New York, for Montgomery to perform.

After moving to Dallgow, a small village outside of Berlin. Schnitzler “discovered the 88-keys” and began producing works for keyboard and player piano. Schnitzler continued composing and recording until his untimely death in August 2011.

Ken Montgomery is a New York-based visual artist and "sound/composer" whose involvement in the cassette-culture and mail-art movements of the late seventies led to the creation, in 1989, of the first and arguably still the most important sound art gallery in New York City: Generator. Located first in the East Village and later in Chelsea, Generator's wide scope and novel approach toward audio art made it a vector-point for some of the most interesting and important artists from around the world. Ken was also the founder of A.T.M.O.T.W.— Art is Throwing Money Out The Window — and Generator Sound Art Inc., and he co-founded the seminal experimental labels Generations Unlimited and Pogus Productions. As a composer in the early eighties Ken was creating multi-channel sound works often performed in total darkness. More recently Ken has been focusing on visual art, collage, bookmaking, and international correspondence art. As The Minister of Lamination (a.k.a. Egnekn) he is the world's foremost practitioner of sonic Lamination Art. Montgomery has collaborated with a wide variety of artists including Conrad Schnitzler, Andrea Beeman, David Lee Myers (Arcane Device), Zoe Beloff, Michael Zodorozny, and Ishtvan Kantor (a.k.a. Monty Cantsin).

As a sound artist Ken Montgomery finds novel ways to work with sound. He has created an audio-only CD-ROM (Inner Eye / Outer Ear), a record label for experimental music (Generations Unlimited), the first sound art gallery in NYC (Generator), and a Ministry devoted to conducting one-on-one listening rituals (The Ministry of Lamination). Since 1985 he has been performing multi-channel sound concerts in intimate settings, often in total darkness. Montgomery began creating soundtracks for non-existent films in 1979 and distributed them on cassettes through what became known as the International Cassette Network. In composition and performance Montgomery has employed an ice crusher, an aquarium, a refrigerator, a hand massager and a laminator, to name a few.