ACFNY SUPPORTED | CONCERT | MOMENTUM NYCEMF
The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival 2014 (NYCEMF) presents Momentum NYCEMF by Se-Lien Chuang and Andreas Weixler. Fragments of memories (produced both by human beings and by computer) generate a synthesis of sounds and visuals. The sounds of live instruments serve as interface in an audiovisually interactive concert that merges a sophisticated instrumental sound and realtime computing in an amazing improvisation. While visual images and processes are being generated during the concert, a multi channel granular synthesis, spectral delays and virtuoso chances fit together minute tonal particles that make up the instrumental sounds into a constantly changing acoustic stream made up of different pitches, durations and positions in the electro-acoustic space. The musical and visual components interact and reciprocally influence each other in order to blend into a unique, synaesthetic, improvisational work of art.
PROGRAM
Carl Bettendorf, Souvenir
Linda Antas, Iridescence
Matthew Sullivan, Armodafinil
Marie-Hélène Breault and Martin Bédard, Replica
Ling-Hsuan Feng, No Ease
David Mendoza, Ghosts of Fukushima
intermission
Timothy Polashek, Echoes of Steel
Oren Boneh, Eclipse
Miriam Montanaña Barea, Fear the Piano
Nicolai Worsaae, Du hast gesagt
S. Chuang/A. Weixler, Momentum NYCEMF
Momentum NYCEMF | audiovisual interactive improvisation for violin and bass recorder
Adrianna Mateo, violin
Se-Lien
Chuang, bass recorder, interactive visuals
Andreas Weixler, multi-channel audio processing
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Se-Lien Chuang | Composer, pianist and media artist, 1965 born in Taiwan, since 1991 residence in Austria.The artistic emphasis ranges from contemporary instrumental composition/improvisation, computer music, electronic sound processing up to audiovisual interactivity. Numerous international representation of compositions in Europe, Asia, North- and South America: Salzburger Festspiele, ICMC Perth/Ljubljana/Huddersfield/NYC/Belfast/ Copenhagen, NYCEMF NYC, SICMF Seoul, NIME New York, ISEA Singapore/Nagoya, IAMAS Japan, Ars Electronica Linz, SONORITIES Festival Belfast, among others.
Andreas Weixler | Born 1963 in Graz, Austria, is a composer for contemporary instrumental composition,
computer music and audiovisual realtime processes. Contemporary composition diploma with Beat Furrer at the University of Arts in Graz. Performances at NYCEMF 2012, ICMC 2007-13, NIME 2007 New York, ISEA (2002,2008) among others. Currently associate university professor at Bruckner-University Linz, Austria and a lecturer at InterfaceCulture of the University of Arts in Linz.
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ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival will take place June 2—8, 2014 at the Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It is dedicated to showcasing the best electroacoustic music and video art from all over the world in New York City, through a multi-day festival. The festival will include electroacoustic music recorded alone in up to eight channels, works involving live electronics, works combining musical instruments or voices with recorded or live electronics, video and multimedia works, and audio and video installations.
More than 200 composers from around the world will be presented, representing the full international range of electroacoustic music, including works by Monty Adkins (UK), Andreas Bergsland (Norway), Joao Pedro Oliveira (Portugal), Maurice Wright (USA), Takayuki Rai (Japan/Germany), Kenneth Gaburo (USA), Clarence Barlow (India/USA), George Brunner (USA), Paul Koonce (USA) and James Dashow (USA/Italy).
Performers include Francesco Prode, pianist (Italy), Mari Kimura, violinist (Japan/USA), Madeleine Shapiro, cellist (USA) and Esther Lamneck, clarinetist (USA).
>> For more information, please visit: https://www.nycemf.org
VENUE
Playhouse | Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)
New York, NY 10002
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