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Zata Omm visits matrabox

matradmin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:53:25 +0000

Zata Omm Dance Projects held its first research laboratory process exploring the relationship between new technology and live contemporary dance (Zata Omm Dance and Technology Research Laboratory) at the Matrabox from 6 to 15 of July 2010. The research was made possible by funding from The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation. Matralab research associate Navid Navab worked as a technological specialist for the project.

A statement from Zata Omm’s artistic director, William Yong:

“We are so gratified that we had this opportunity to explore some aspects of the amazing potential of new technology for interaction with live movement. Our objective was to establish a deep and unifying relationship that develops spontaneously between the movement and technology. In this research, we were using accelerometer motion sensors and infrared cameras to make interactive visuals and sounds initiated by movement from the human body.

Our initial theme was playing with ideas of ‘internal’ and ‘external’. How do we steer our focus and strength from inward to outward and vice versa? We looked at identity and the incarnation of our will power through the speed and dynamic of our own motion. It was an exploration to articulate this power in one’s mind. It is as if we could to bridge a dreamlike state and bring it forward into a reality – through technology, image, sound and movement. We were also able to use the layered screens to create a sense of depth and dimension for the visuals elements.

In the two-week exploration, we generated a willingness to seek a genuine harmony rather than being ruled by a technology or the restraints of its constructs. The six separate ‘worlds’ of possibilities we were able to explore and create seemed to flow so naturally from one realm to the next.”

Zata Omm Dance and Technology Research One:
Artistic Director and Choreographer: William Yong
Technological Specialists: Jerome Delapierre and Navid Navab
Technological Strategist: Elysha Poirier
Documenter: Jenn Hardy
Dancer: Pierre-Marc Ouellette

http://www.zataomm.org/

Carte blanche a Chantale Laplante

matradmin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:22:14 +0000

Composer Chantale Laplante presents an intriguing program of voice, clarinet, percussion, and electronic performances. The program will feature three pieces: Morton Feldman’s Bass Clarinet and Percussion , Magnus Lindberg’s Ablauf, and Chantale Laplante’s world premiere of Haiti, Haiti. Laplante’s piece was composed during her recent artist residency at matralab.

Emilie Laforest - Soprano

Lori Freedman - Clarinet

Eric Derr + Aiyun Huang - Percussion

Wednesday, August 25 19:30

Conservatoire de musique
4750 Henri-Julien (Métro Mont-Royal)
12$/7$ (students, artists, seniors)

Réflexions circulaires sur l’origine et la destination

matradmin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:25:25 +0000

Élise Lavoie and Manuela Milani will be performing composer Nicolas Gilbert’s piece ”Réflexions circulaires sur l’origine et la destination”, for two violins, at the chamber music festival Concerts aux Iles du Bic.

Sunday August15, 3pm, at the Chapelle Notre-Dame-des-Murailles (Saint-Fabien-sur-Mer)

Nicolas Gilbert will be attending the performance.

For further info: www.bicmusique.com

Nicolas Gilbert is a post-doc researcher at matralab.

The Idea of Home

matradmin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:21:59 +0000

Devora Neumark has been invited to participate in the upcoming symposium entitled “The Idea of Home” being organized for the beginning of November 2010 by Julie Kalman and Ruth Balint at The University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). In collaboration with Louise Lachapelle, Devora will present a performance lecture & convene a story-telling circle entitled “Making Home, Destroying House: Beauty and the Disquiet Space of Ethics”.

Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.

Performing aesthetics, performing politics

matradmin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:49:56 +0000

The inaugural issue of Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture has just been released. This journal will advance the study of the plethora of cultural texts on migration produced by an increasing number of cultural practitioners across the globe who tackle questions of culture in the context of migration. Free copies of many of the articles are available on-line (including Parvati Nair’s editorial and Devora Neumark’s “Performing aesthetics, performing politics: ‘The Jewish Home Beautiful’ and the reshaping of the Jewish exile narrative” - http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=173/

D.Andrew Stewart’s “The Power of One”

matradmin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:47:20 +0000

The Power of One: Performance Modes on the T-stick Digital Musical Instrument
Lecture-listening session with D. Andrew Stewart and launching of t-stick composition workshops at the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2010 (4 -7 August), in addition to t-stick performance at the Sound Travels Festival, on 6 August.
http://cec.concordia.ca/events/TES/2010/

Stewart will also perform in the Expansive Spirits Concert in Toronto (August 6, 8PM)
http://www.naisa.ca/soundtravels/Performances.html#STP03

A Matter of Life and Breath

matradmin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:11:30 +0000

A Matter of life and Breath - by Roger Sinha

Michal Seta is currently working with Roger Sinha on integrating wireless technologies in dance performances. In “A Matter of life and Breath” the dancers control various musical events with wiimotes (wii controllers). The piece will be shown at the Dancing on the Edge festival in Vancouver on July 15th and 17th, 2010 as well as at the Théâtre de Verdure at Parc Lafontaine in Montréal on July 28, 2010.

For more details about the performance in Vancouver:
http://www.dancingontheedge.org/onesheets/OneSheet_Sinha_MatterofLife_DOTE2010.pdf

For more details about the performance at Parc Lafontaine:
http://www.sinhadanse.com/calendar.html?date=2010-7-28

Michal Seta is a matralab research associate.

Performing Beauty, Practicing Home

matradmin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:03:29 +0000

Devora Neumark’s essay “Performing Beauty, Practicing Home: Collaborative Live Art and the Transformation of Displacement” will be featured in Part IV of Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change, which is scheduled for release in August 2010.

For further information about the book and to order copies, consult the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary (CAIP) Research Series blog:

http://creativeartpractice.blogspot.com/2010/07/creative-arts-in-interdisciplinary.html

Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.

Proof 17

matradmin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:18:45 +0000

A selection of work by Karen Zalamea is included in Proof 17, an exhibition of emerging Canadian talent in contemporary photography at Gallery 44 in Toronto.
The exhibition will be presented from July 9th to August 7th, 2010.

More info:
http://www.akimbo.ca/events/?id=19756&day=9&month=7&year=2010
www.gallery44.org

Performing Aesthetics, Performing Politics

matradmin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:11:11 +0000

Abstracts and ordering information for the inaugural issue of Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture are now online at: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=1835/.

Devora Neumark’s article Performing aesthetics, performing politics: The Jewish Home Beautiful and the re-shaping of the Jewish exile narrative is one of the seven texts featured.