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WhereabOuts music and space 30 Oct. 2007, 5 - 11PM
Three acts working in the field of music, art and installation, as well as Wesleyan composers and students, will explore different ways around the subject of space and music. With multiple locations around Wesleyan campus, the extended concert situation will free the audience by giving them the decision of when and how they will explore the pieces and installations. |
Time Scheduled Concerts music and space
Christian Jendreiko LOCATION: Memorial Chapel 7 – 9 PM TITLE: "(Wesleyan) Polyphony"
Germanartist Christian Jendreiko creates text-based sound performances that he refers to as “social sound sculptures.” Each performance is crafted for a specific environment. For this festival, Jendreiko will perform his new work “Wesleyan Polyphony“ with Wesleyan Students in the Memorial Chapel. Audience members are welcome to come and leave the performance freely. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– IFF (Institut für Feinmotorik) LOCATION: Usdan 9 – 10 PM
Southern German clicks'n'cuts veterans “Institut fuer Feinmotorik” is a group of four DJ's who perform simultaneously with standard DJ equipment minus the records. During their live performances, IFF build three dimensional micro surroundings that the needles of the record players pick up, creating a stumble-structured rhythmic music that is an interesting mixture of experimental and dance club sounds. organized by Brendan O'Connell ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– MSP VIII LOCATION: Andrus Field Football Stadium 10 – 10.30 PM
MSP (Meyer/Schulze/Purkrabek) explores ways of connecting sound and light by focusing their basic properties in waves traveling through space. The environment of the performance comprises a conceptual starting point and determines the goal of the performance. Depending on the concert configuration, the audience is confronted with extreme dynamics, contrasting sonic matter, darkness, and light spanning from 60w bulbs to dazzling, hot 6kw light-batteries.
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Ongoing Installations by Wesleyan Composers & Students music and space
Nate Ash-Morgan LOCATION: Wesleyan Post Office DESCRIPTION: A few loudspeakers inside the post office building provokes the listener to think about the complex process of how mail arrives to Wesleyan, and to consider the private yet public space of the mail boxes, with sound coming from the private area of the otherwise public space. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Andrew Aylward LOCATION: Multi-purpose room in basement of Usdan DESCRIPTION: Audio from the third Inuyasha movie (Swords of an Honorable Ruler - 1:38:35) is remixed using some SC patches that Joe Mariglio wrote using the film as a score. The entire piece will last 187 minutes and 10 seconds and run twice. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Jonno Boyer-Dry LOCATION: Travers Square/ Low Rise and High Rise Boarder TITLE: "Boarder HopScotch"
DESCRIPTION: Participants will download the sound for the installation to their ipod or at <<boarderhopscotch>>. Investigate the social dynamics of a complicated relationship between communities. Explore the overlap. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Lily Costner LOCATION: Between art studio north and art studio south in the CFA
DESCRIPTION: This installation involves original constructions of metal instruments that will be hanging from the tree at this location. The wind passing through this space powers the instruments which then resonate between the two concrete walls of the art studios. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Max Heath LOCATION: Music Studios stairwells TITLE: "Off the Rails" DESCRIPTION: "Off the Rails" is an open interactive installation/performance for willing participants based on listening. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Max Horwich LOCATION: The couches at the back of the main floor of Usdan TITLE: Rhymes with "Houston" DESCRIPTION: My sound installation is a documentation of student reaction to the new campus center. Students were asked to share their favorite and least favorite feature of the new facilities, which will play from speakers by the couches at the back of the main floor. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Hans Hsu LOCATION: Air conditioning unit on the side of the art library TITLE: "AC Vibrations"
DESCRIPTION: A string instrument will be played using the vibrations created by outdoor air conditioning units. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Alex King LOCATION: Multi-purpose room in the basement of Usdan.
DESCRIPTION: Maybe I could push your wife's idea to "play the television" a bit further by turning the channel at similar intervals but the changes could manifest themselves as alterationsor alternations in the organically made sound effects. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Woody Leslie LOCATION: The bottom floor of the glass hallway connecting North and South College TITLE: "300 Words"
DESCRIPTION: In two sets of speakers (one inside, one outside the hall), a ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Brian Parks LOCATION: unknown TITLE: "Halve a Pear"
DESCRIPTION: "Halve a Pear" is an undetectable performance by two anonymous people. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Hunter Pedersen LOCATION: Meditation Room, Basement Memorial Chapel TITLE: "Subtractive Reality" DESCRIPTION: This installation embodies many naturally occurring sounds, yet transitions between simulated environments in a manner that could ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Adam Tinkle LOCATION: Usdan First Floor, Bathroom Entrance TITLE: "Welcome"
DESCRIPTION: The installation "Welcome," will consist of voices welcoming those in the Usdan center into the men's and women's bathrooms on the first floor of Usdan. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Matt Valades LOCATION: Hallway between the Science Center and Hall-Atwater TITLE: "BIG DEAD SNAKES" DESCRIPTION: The Installation has seed pods. Lots. The project asks for some walking. But you would probably do that anyway. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– David Velarado LOCATION: The fountain outside the Davison Art Center TITLE: "Wish Fountain"
DESCRIPTION: A sound piece created using recordings of people making wishes will be looped on speakers, encouraging a prayerful, wishful interpretation. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Katherine Young LOCATION: Carillon at South College TITLE: "Density Peals"
DESCRIPTION: "Density Peals" is a three-part piece (in this version Part 1 is 30 minutes, Part 2 is 4 hours and 15 minutes, and Part 3 is 10 minutes) for a
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Credits music and space
curated: Phillip Schulze with help of Ron Kuivila, Brendan O'Connell, Sally Norris, Katherine Young, Aaron Siegel and many others... Most of the installation projects where developed in the seminar "Composition in the Arts" taught by Ron Kuivila at Wesleyan University poster design: Sascha Hahn
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