Navigating/Negotiating the Night at EMPAC Studio 1
Tuesday May 17, 7:30pm @ EMPAC Studio 1:
This Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 7:30pm will be the performance of “Navigating and Negotiating Sound Architectures of the Night”, a collaboration between visiting artist Bill Seaman (Duke) and students from the schools of Architecture, HASS, and Science.
This performance is a major evocative multi-media black box theater work which engages with the poetics of night through an interactive structure of 84 abstract architectural models. These models are explored over time through multiple sonic and architectural movements, through placement and spatial movement/displacement, as well architectural abstraction. A specially designed glass interface table enables participants from the audience to interact with the work and become part of the performance. A computational sensing system and specially authored computer code enables one to juxtapose projection-like texture maps of night-related imagery, forming large format virtual and architectural landscapes presented as 4 large scale projections in the space. The actions of the participants drive a 7 movement generative and interactive musical score and a series of 10 live audio improvisers add additional layers to the interactive musical score. Multiple architectonic sculptures become part of the “set” and poetic Texts related to the night theme are enfolded as part of the environment.
This interdisciplinary project is a collaboration of the School of Architecture’s PIP studio and a part of Art_X@Rensselaer. Funding and support provided by Chris ’49 and Marcia Paris Jaffe Program in Art, Music and Architecture.
This project was led by faculty Ted Kruger (ARCH), Pauline Oliveros (HASS), guest artist Bill Seaman (Duke), Jonas Braasch (ARCH), and Jim Hendler (COGSCI), assisted by Ute Besenecker, and Andrea Williams.
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