EVENTS

UW Music: Contemporary Group | Composition Faculty Showcase

The UW Contemporary Group presents works by School of Music composers Joël-François Durand, Huck Hodge, Richard Karpen, Juan Pampin, and Diane Thome. Program selections include Durand’s “Le Tombeau de Rameau” for flute, viola and harp; Hodge’s “Apparent Motion” for two pianos and two percussions and “Efflux” for clarinet and violin; Karpen’s “Life Study #4” for computer-realized sound; Pampin’s “Nada” for viola and electronics, and Thome’s “FireRhythm, Flowing,” for piano.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
7:30 p.m.
Meany Hall for the Performing Arts

$10 all tickets.
206-543-4880
www.music.washington.edu

Metaphors for Dead Pianos | An interactive sound sculpture by Hugo Solis

January 29 - April 2, 2010

Artist Talk: February 19, 2010, 7:00 p.m.

Metaphors for Dead Pianos (Metáforas para Pianos Muertos) is a set of interactive sonic sculptures built by dismembering acoustic pianos that previous owners have thrown away. The poetical goal is to revive the instruments using a contemporary sonic perspective. The pianos are extended with custom electronic circuits, custom software, microcontrollers, sensors, motors, and solenoids.

Using the sensors, a small computer registers and analyzes audience behaviors, generating the materials that the piano bodies reproduce with the solenoids and motors. The result is a modulation between audience interaction and the spectral analysis of the “Well Tempered Clavier” by J. S. Bach.

Metaphors for Dead Pianos III uses one grand piano and one suspended grand piano frame. The characteristic of this third version is the confrontation between two objects of different visual and acoustic properties.

Jack Straw Productions gratefully acknowledges The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts and The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, PONCHO, ArtsFund, and individual contributors for their support of Jack Straw Artist Programs.

This work is also sponsored in part by the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington (DXARTS) and a grant of the program Jóvenes Creadores by the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes from Mexico.

eunsu kang at wing luke museum

featured artists: Robert Hodgin | Eunsu Kang | Heidi Kumao | Horatio Law | Brent Watanabe

curated by lele Barnett

on display December 18, 2009–June 19, 2010

GEORGE TSUTAKAWA ART GALERY at the Wing Luke Asian Museum

In Cultural Transcendence, five Asian Pacific Islander American artists exhibit works that focus on
a step forward from traditional to new media: materials expanding beyond their inherent meanings.
Their conceptual themes peer into history but do not dwell on a negative past—inequality,
discrimination, and alienation; instead they search the present and envision a better tomorrow.
Cultural Transcendence explores the importance of technology in our modern experience and
technology’s influence on contemporary installation art.

sponsored by 4Culture, ArtsFund, KUOW, Marguerite Casey Foundation, Seattle Foundation,
Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Washington State Arts Commission.

special thanks to 911 Media Arts Center, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, University of Washington

Faculty Dance Concert Features Collaboration with DXARTS Doctoral Student

This year's Faculty Dance Concert features choreography by faculty and guest artists.

Associate Professor Jennifer Salk explores the often twisted and delicate nature of tenderness as she works with students in collaboration with digital and experimental artist Maja Petric, PhD student in Digital Art and Experimental Media. Drawing on the rhythms of mambo, salsa, and cha cha cha, Assistant Professor Juliet McMains’ work highlights the hybridity of Latin jazz. Assistant Professor Jürg Koch has a pulsing group piece with tight timing, contrasting speed, and moments lasting from the blink of an eye to some suspended in time. Guest choreographer Francisco Gella’s (BA ’96) Nocturne Studies uses Frederic Chopin’s rich and beautiful piano compositions as the inspiration for this work exploring issues of love, loneliness and friendship. The Secret of Life, choreographed by Louis Gervais (MFA ’09), takes the audience on a journey as it explores the connection between earthly life lessons and spiritual flight. Rhonda Cinotto (MFA '07) and MFA candidate Elizabeth Lentz will also present their duet, It's the Feel of the Thing, which explores the lighter side of grieving. The concert also includes a restaging of Brahms Waltzes, choreographed by Charles Weidman in the early 1960's, as an homage to his longtime partner and co-director of the Humphrey-Weidman Company, Doris Humphrey. This classic work from the modern dance canon is characterized by its beautiful and clear form and utilizes movements and variations from Humphrey's technique and some of her best-known choreography.

Performances are at 7:30 PM Thursday, December 3 through Saturday, December 5. The Sunday, December 6 performance is a 2:00 PM. All performances take place in the Meany Studio Theatre on the University of Washington campus. (Please be aware that there is a Husky football game on Saturday, December 5 that may make parking and traffic difficult.)

Tickets ($18, $16, $10) can be purchased at the UW Arts Ticket Office, 4001 University Way NE, www.meany.org, 206.543.4880. To request disability accommodations, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at 206.543.6450 (voice), 206.543.6452 (TTY), 206.685.7264 (FAX) or dso@u.washington.edu. University of Washington Dance Program online: http://depts.washington.edu/uwdance/ I would like you to be our guest at the 2009 Faculty Dance Concert. The concert features choreography by faculty and guest artists performed by undergraduate students in a showcase of the broad range of styles at home in the UW Dance Program.

dis/continuity | Concert at The Chapel

dis/continuity
Live electronics and solo voice with
Yutaka Makino, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan

Date and time: Tuesday, December 1st 2009 at 8.30pm
Location: Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center
http://waywardmusic.blogspot.com/
Address: 4649 Sunnyside Ave. Seattle, WA
Tickets: $5 - $15 sliding scale donation at the door

Program

Sequenza III by Luciano Berio, for solo voice

Fantasia On A Single Number by Stelios Manousakis, for digital feedback with live electronics

Our Lady Of Late inspired by and excerpts from Our Lady of Late (1972) by Meredith Monk, for voice and wineglass

The Blackest Flux, by Yutaka Makino for live electronics

Program Notes

Luciano Berio
Sequenza III – for female voice
Stephanie Pan: voice

In Sequenza III the emphasis is placed on the sound symbolism of vocal gestures, on the ‘shadows of meaning’ that accompany them, on the associations and conflicts to which they give rise. Because of this, Sequenza III can also be seen as a study in musical dramaturgy whose prime concern is, in a certain sense, the relationship between the interpreter and her own voice. [L.B.]


Stelios Manousakis
Fantasia On A Single Number – for digital feedback with live electronics

Fantasia On A Single Number is an open composition that takes its final form through live performance. The piece is composed for a live-electronics instrument, designed as a complex dynamical sonic system which the performer guides into states of equilibrium, oscillation, chaotic behavior, noise and silence. It is based on digital feedback, set in motion by a single number which draws from the guts of the machine an intense and compelling stream of bursts, turbulence, drones and resonances. No other sound sources are used but real-time manipulation of the number's path within a synthetic space, thus revealing its emergent beauty as it populates a constantly shifting digital universe.


Our Lady Of Late: improvisations inspired by and excerpts from Our Lady of Late (1972) by Meredith Monk – for voice and wineglass
Stephanie Pan: voice and wineglass

Our Lady of Late is a study on the use of the voice as a pure and primal expressive instrument that communicates in a direct, visceral level, stripped of the layers and conventions established by cultural and societal norms.
The performance incorporates both improvisations inspired by and excerpts from the 16-movement piece by Meredith Monk of the same name, written in 1972.


Yutaka Makino
The Blackest Flux – for live electronics

The Blackest Flux is an experiment toward abstraction of space/body. By using acoustic and psychoacoustic phenomena, it causes disorientation and a series of physical movements of sound masses over space.

sounds at the brink of (in)stability - dxarts performances at seattle art museum

DXARTS presents:
Sounds at the brink of (in)stability

at the SAM Remix event

WHEN:
November 6 2009

WHERE:
Seattle Art Museum, in the Arnold Board Room

ABOUT:
Resonating with Alexander Calder's mobiles currently exhibited at the SAM, Stelios Manousakis and Nicolás Varchausky will be presenting and performing their own sonic dynamic systems during the coming SAM Remix night: two balancing acts between states of equilibrium, oscillation, chaotic behavior and noise. Both systems are based on feedback with no other sounds sources but the sound of the systems themselves manipulated in real-time.

Instead of using atmospheric forces to set the system in motion, as is the case for Calder's mobiles, Manousakis fabricates a virtual, synthetic atmosphere inside the computer, pulling out from the guts of the machine an intense and compelling stream of bursts, turbulence and silence; the beauty of a single inaudible number emerging and exploding as it populates digital dynamic spaces.

Varchausky on the other hand creates fields of resonance and shifting currents of air pressure in the exhibition space using his body as an antenna to interact with a hybrid system, a Speaker Performing Kiosk. Speakers and microphones become the actual sound sources, while the room, the computer and the actions of the performer modulate them; acoustic and digital data are entwined, unbalancing the sound flux into a feedback choir.

Alternating performances are scheduled for 9:15, 9:45, 10:15, 10.45. In between, the systems will be let loose, lingering on and developing a life of their own.


ENTRANCE
Members: $5
Adults: $10
Students: $8
Seniors: $8
First 100 guests: free

dxarts autumn concert | an evening of tape and computer music

Event:

Tape and computer music presented by the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media
(DXARTS), University of Washington with Barry Truax as guest composer.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 7:30PM

Location:
Meany Hall for the Performing Arts, UW Campus

Tickets:
$10 general, $5 student / senior
Advance purchase: http://www.meany.org/tickets/ or 206.543.4880

Program:
Barry Truax, “ Riverrun” and “Chalice Well”
Luciano Berio, “Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)”
Richard Karpen, “Pour La Terre”
Joshua Parmenter, “Risonanza”

Bios:

Barry Truax is a Professor in both the School of Communication and the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University where he teaches courses in acoustic communication and electroacoustic music. He has worked with the World Soundscape Project, editing its Handbook for Acoustic Ecology, and has published a book Acoustic Communication dealing with all aspects of sound and technology.

As a composer, Truax is best known for his work with the PODX computer music system which he has used for tape solo works and those which combine tape with live performers or computer graphics. A selection of these pieces may be heard on the recording Sequence of Earlier Heaven, and the Compact Discs Digital Soundscapes, Pacific Rim, Song of Songs, Inside, Islands, and Twin Souls, all on the Cambridge Street Records label, as well as the double CD of the opera Powers of Two and the latest CD, Spirit Journies. In 1991 his work, Riverrun, was awarded the Magisterium at the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges, France, a category open only to electroacoustic composers of 20 or more years experience. He is also the recipient of one of the 1999 Awards for Teaching Excellence at Simon Fraser University. Barry is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre and a founding member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community and the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.

Luciano Berio (b Oneglia, 1925; d Rome, 27 May 2003). Italian composer. At a relatively early stage in his career, he succeeded in transcending the closed world of the European avant garde to address a wider public. The vivid, gestural idiom that he developed in the 1960s, and the creative consequences that he drew from other, often extra-musical aspects of the culture around him, established for him a world-wide reputation that sustained his subsequent exploration of a wide, and sometimes challenging, arc of musical resources. Of formidable creative energy, he proved one of the most prolific composers of the later 20th century. (by David Osmond-Smith)

Richard Karpen is one of the leading international figures in Computer Music. He is known not only for his pioneering compositions, but also for developing computer applications for composition, live/interactive performance and sound design. Karpen is Founding Director of the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington and also currently serves as Director of the School of Music where he is Professor of Music Composition and Theory. He has been the recipient of many awards, grants and prizes including those from the National Endowment for the Arts, the ASCAP Foundation, the Bourges Contest in France, and the Luigi Russolo Foundation in Italy. Fellowships and grants for work outside of the U.S. include a Fulbright to Italy, a residency at IRCAM in France, and a Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship to the United Kingdom. He received his doctorate in composition from Stanford University, where he also worked at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

Karpen is a native of New York, where he studied composition with Charles Dodge, Gheorghe Costinescu, and Morton Subotnick. Karpen's works are widely performed in the U.S. and internationally. While he is primarily known for his work in electronic media, Karpen has also composed symphonic and chamber works for a wide variety of ensembles. Furthermore, he has composed works for many leading international solists such as soprano Judith Bettina, violist Garth Knox, trombonist Stuart Dempster, flutists Laura Chislett and Jos Zwaanenberg, and oboist Alex Klein. Along with numerous concert and radio performances, his works have been set to dance by groups such as the Royal Danish Ballet and the Guandong Dance Company of China. Karpen's compositions have been recorded on a variety of labels including Wergo, Centaur, Neuma, Le Chant du Monde, and DIFFUSION i MeDIA.

Joshua Parmenter completed his D.M.A. in Composition at the University of Washington in 2005, where he studied with Prof. Richard Karpen. He received his Master of Music in Composition in 2002 from the University of Washington. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied with Edwin Dugger and Jorge Liderman. He is currently a Research Artist at the University of Washington at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media.

Parmenter's music has been performed throughout the Americas and Europe. He specializes in both acoustic and electro-acoustic music, especially music that combines performers with real-time electronics. An important part of his research has been in the development of real-time synthesis software as part of the SuperCollider open source project. He also uses the CSound and Common Music synthesis programs. Currently, his research is focused on extending the real-time analysis and performance tools in the SuperCollider programming language, as well as a suite of Ambisonic Unit Generators for sound spatialization.

Stelarc at the Henry Art Gallery

Cadavers can be preserved forever with plastination whilst comatose bodies can be sustained indefinitely on life-support systems. Cryogenically suspended bodies await reanimation at some imagined future date. Donated ova are now fertilized by sperm that were once frozen. The dead, the near-dead, the un-dead and the yet to be born now exist simultaneously. These phenomena and others have brought us, in the mind of the artist Stelarc, to the age of the Cadaver, the Comatose and the Chimera, a newly-dawned epoch that will be the subject of this lecture.

In a career spanning four decades, Stelarc has made art by employing medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics, Virtual Reality systems, the Internet and biotechnology to explore alternate, intimate and involuntary interfaces with the body. He has performed with a third hand, a stomach sculpture, and _Exoskeleton, a 6-legged walking robot. Currently he is surgically constructing an extra ear on his arm, which will become internet enabled.

Thursday, October 8, 2009, 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Henry Auditorium
FREE: Henry Members / 911 Members / UW Students, Staff, and Faculty
$5 General Admission

Stelarc is a 911 Media Arts-supported artist in residence at UW’s Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) October 6-13.

Support for Stelarc’s Seattle visit is provided by 911 Media Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, DXARTS and the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, the Henry Art Gallery, 4 Culture, and the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs of the City of Seattle.

DXARTS Concert at the Warsaw Autumn 2009 52nd International Festival of Contemporary Music

Ewa Trębacz, Richard Karpen, Juan Pampin, Joshua Parmenter electronic media and ambisonic sound projection
Robert Sowa integration of visual spaces/lighting

Live performances by:
percussion group of academy of music in kraków
Anna Niedźwiedź soprano
Josiah Boothby horn
Stefan Östersjö guitar

Program:
Ewa Trębacz "Errai"
Richard Karpen "Strand Lines"
Joshua Parmenter "risonanza"
Juan Pampin "On Space"

http://www.warszawska-jesien.art.pl/09/en.html#/program/events/19_09/1257207676/

2009 BFA Graduation Program

Friends and family are invited to join the DXARTS class of 2009 in celebration of the culmination of their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

The program will include comments by Director Shawn Brixey, Assistant Professor James Coupe, two undergraduate students as well as presentation of the graduates.

Light refreshments to follow.

The BFA exhibition will be available for viewing before and after the program.

2009 DXARTS BFA Thesis Exhibition | Opening

The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media is pleased to present a unique exhibition by graduating BFA students. Pieces included in the exhibition explore themes of memory, fractured temporality, perception, and the intersection of phenomena and materiality. Works of light, sound, immersive installations, and experimental film transform the space, fusing contemporary artistic practice with emerging technologies toward the creation of new experimental art forms.

The exhibition marks the students' completion of the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with DXARTS, a production-based fine arts program that focuses on the advancement of contemporary art through new and experimental technology.

The Oddfellows building, located in the heart of Fremont, is a distinct and one-time-only exhibition space that lends itself to site-specific artworks and custom installations, reflecting and embodying the ambitious and experimental nature of the artworks and artists. This week-long exhibition will be on view at the Oddfellows Building in Fremont June 11th –17th, 2009.

Hours:
Weekedays: Noon - 7 p.m.
Weekends: 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Students presenting work:
Alexis Eggertsen . Cale Schupman . Mollie Fabric . Andrew Franks . Daren Keck
Anna Czoski . Amber Rosario Manuguid . Daphne Chu . Erik Parr
Michael McCrea . Toby McKes . Mi-Jong Jang . Ryan Irilli . Allison Urban

Admission: Free

WEBSITE: HERE

DXARTS Video Screening

DXARTS SCREENING
Saturday, May 30, 2 PM
Henry Auditorium
Henry Members, current students, staff and faculty FREE

DXARTS presents a special screening of video shorts created by students in the course "Experiments in Digital Video: The Architecture of Time." These works are final projects from this intensive, year-long sequence that explores the ideas and methods from the beginnings of the moving image up to contemporary digital cinema and video art. These emerging filmmakers have honed their skills in all areas of the production process including cinematography, sound, and lighting to non-linear editing, compositing, and effects presented in a diverse array of short features. This program contains a short series of 3D (stereoscopic) experiments as well as mini-narrative featurettes.

DXARTS Spring Concert

Live Digital Music performances featuring clarinetist Matt Ingalls and Surround Sound Works celebrating composer Jonathan Harvey's 70th anniversary, presented by the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS), University of Washington.

Program:

Joanthan Harvey, "Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco" and "Ritual Melodies" for multichannel tape.

Denis Smalley, "Clarinet Threads", for clarinet and tape.

Steve Reich, "Reed Phase", for clarinet and tape

Matt Ingalls, "CrusT", for clarinet and electronics and "Improvisation for Solo Clarinet"

Tickets: $10 general, $5 student / senior
Advance purchase: HERE or 206.543.4880

An evening of new music with electronics and video

An evening of new music with electronics and video by Joshua Parmenter, Don Craig, Stelios Manousakis and Stephanie Pan.

Monday, April 27th at 8pm

Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center

4649 Sunnyside Ave.

Seattle, WA

$5 - $15 sliding scale donation at the door.

Program:

“Theta (IV-Ritardando)” for viola and real-time electronics by Joshua Parmenter*

Melia Watras - viola

“Symphony of Visual Music” for computer realized sound and visuals by Donald Craig*

Improvisation-based compositions by Stelios Manousakis, performed by Stephanie Pan and Stelios Manousakis.

DXARTS Concert at the Chapel Performance Space

Concert at The Chapel Performance Space
Electronic and electroacoustic music by DXARTS composers Donald Graig, Wyatt Fletcher, Stelios Manousakis, Doug Niemela, and Hugo Solis

Good Shepherd Center

4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle, WA
Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 8:00 pm
5-15 dollars donation

Donald Craig

Assonaglyph - for quadraphonic tape

[2001]

Stelios Manousakis

Do Digital Monkeys Inhabit Virtual Trees? - for stereo tape

[2006]

Stelios Manousakis

Undercover Harpsichord Agents Terrorize The Court - for stereo tape

[2006]

Wyatt Fletcher

Wrought - for quadraphonic tape

[2004]

Hugo Solis

Improvisation - for piano and electronics

[2009]

Doug Niemela

Kolme - for quadraphonic tape

[2006]


Doug Niemela

Theonity - for quadraphonic tape

[2005]