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16.05.2012 | Native Alien, public presentations: New York ...
10.05.2012 | Keynote speech at Conference for the CAMT: Ma...
30.03.2012 | "three myths of liberalism" @ Usine C: April ...
14.03.2012 | "feelings I'm too tired for" @ L'envers: Marc...
09.03.2012 | Native Alien Research Presentation - Dhruba G...
09.03.2012 | Sandeep gives a talk and presentation on "Rac...
09.03.2012 | Sandeep on Radio Canada - "La Tete Ailleurs":...
29.02.2012 | Racines éphémères exhibition at Grand Bibl...
29.02.2012 | "Rives & Dérives" - Symphonies Portuaire...
26.02.2012 | Emergency INDEX to be launched at The Kitchen...
22.02.2012 | "Rives & Dérives" - Symphonies Portuaire...
22.02.2012 | Collaborative Performance Art in Search of Be...
20.02.2012 | "Room Contour" @ matrabox: Feb 24-26, 2012
20.02.2012 | "Homes, Objects and Things"
30.01.2012 | Limits & Renewals premieres in Stuttgart:...
15.01.2012 | Sandeep @ Canadian New Music Forum 2012: Jan ...
15.01.2012 | matralab @ Western Front Vancouver: Jan 20, 2012
11.01.2012 | Ixos: Jan. 14, 2011 (NYC)
10.01.2012 | Once a Russian, Always a Jew: (Auto)biographi...
07.12.2011 | Wu Wei @ matralab Dec. 10-20
01.12.2011 | TRANSAT CONTAMINE #4: Dec. 3, 2011
24.11.2011 | Witchcraft @ DB Clarke: Nov. 30 - Dec. 4, 2011
16.11.2011 | Rohan de Saram @ matralab Nov. 18-25
16.11.2011 | "three myths of liberalism"
16.11.2011 | Adam Basanta @ Sound in Space Electroacoustic...
10.11.2011 | Sandeep Bhagwati @ Columbia - Nov 9, 2011
08.11.2011 | Alaap for Ashok @ McGill University - Nov 7, ...
01.11.2011 | Contour, for a hallway - Oct 20-23, 2011
07.10.2011 | DareDroid at the Carte Blanche exhibition at ...
29.09.2011 | Stereo Efficiency Cheer @ Scotiabank Nuit Bla...
28.09.2011 | Somatic Engagement: the politics and publics ...
23.09.2011 | Art POP - AND NO ONE WAS AROUND - September 2...
23.09.2011 | ALAAP FOR ASHOK (world premiere) - October 3,...
13.09.2011 | Électro à l'atelier - September 16, 2011
09.09.2011 | Research Assistant, Resident Videographer and...
02.09.2011 | "feelings I'm too tired for" wins 1st prize i...
24.08.2011 | WORK WORK WORK: The Art Marathon Festival
03.08.2011 | Plant(iPod)Installation at TransLife: Trienni...
19.06.2011 | Book Launch - Affirming Collaboration: Commun...
19.06.2011 | Adam Basanta: "object / field" - June 22, 2011
19.06.2011 | Adam Basanta: "Tracing Conceptual Structures ...
30.05.2011 | matralab Showcase: Tuesday, June 7, 9am-5pm
30.05.2011 | Sandeep Bhagwati Artist Talk: Thursday, June ...
23.05.2011 | AGIR / ART OF WOMEN IN PRISON, May 27 - June ...
06.05.2011 | Adam Basanta - Upcoming performances - May 2011
05.05.2011 | DareDroid at Elektra Festival in Montréal, M...
03.05.2011 | Amelia Cuni - Cosmopolitan Ragas - May 9, 2011
24.04.2011 | Video: Zata Omm @ matralab (July, 2010)
29.03.2011 | Miyagi Haikus
29.03.2011 | 手向け TAMUKE Offerings for Japan Offrande...
24.03.2011 | Adam Basanta @ CLIEC - March 26, 2011
08.03.2011 | Plant(iPod)Installation @ Estevan Gallery
08.03.2011 | Alien Lands Reviews on CetteVilleEtrange.org
07.03.2011 | A Matter of Life & Breath: March 9-12, 2011
17.02.2011 | matralab lecture series - Gyula Csapó - Febr...
08.02.2011 | Alien Lands (World Premiere) - February 18 & ...
27.01.2011 | Talk by composer Christopher Butterfield - "H...
20.01.2011 | D. Andrew Stewart, "Shake, rattle and roll : ...
12.01.2011 | Wired Women Salon 80: Caroline Gagné + Jane ...
11.01.2011 | The Jewish Home Beautiful – Revisited: Janu...
06.12.2010 | DareDroid at Roboexotica festival in Vienna
05.12.2010 | Paysages éphémères @ Darling Foundary, Dec...
01.12.2010 | Workshop Presentation, Baillie project Monday...
19.11.2010 | Matralab Researchers cited in this week's iss...
19.11.2010 | Figures d'un territoire: November 19, 2010
18.11.2010 | World premiere of "jaali" on November 18, 2010
18.11.2010 | Se taire at the Salon du livre de Montréal
18.11.2010 | Free online inaugural issue of Performing Eth...
15.11.2010 | The Performing Ethos journal launched on Nove...
11.11.2010 | A Matter of Life and Breath
02.11.2010 | "jaali" and master-classes
05.10.2010 | Bhagwati's "Atish-e-Zaban" to be performed Oct.7
30.09.2010 | "The Idea of Home" website now online
30.09.2010 | Composer Adam Basanta joins matralab
23.09.2010 | Jane Tingley in Vienna
17.09.2010 | Devora Neumark artist residency at UQAM
27.08.2010 | Zata Omm visits matrabox
23.08.2010 | Carte blanche a Chantale Laplante
12.08.2010 | Réflexions circulaires sur l'origine et la d...
05.08.2010 | The Idea of Home
28.07.2010 | Performing aesthetics, performing politics
28.07.2010 | D.Andrew Stewart's "The Power of One"
15.07.2010 | A Matter of Life and Breath
15.07.2010 | Performing Beauty, Practicing Home
09.07.2010 | Proof 17
09.07.2010 | Performing Aesthetics, Performing Politics
09.06.2010 | Michal Seta's [IR]Rationnel at Eurêka!2010
01.06.2010 | matralab at Congress this week
01.06.2010 | Ensemble Chorum to perform works by Bhagwati ...
01.06.2010 | Symphony of Sciene: Matralab in the press
27.05.2010 | NEXUS: World Premiere at Congress 2010
21.05.2010 | The Jewish Home Beautiful: Revisited
21.05.2010 | Devora Neumark: Hi-tech, lo-tech, no-tech?
21.05.2010 | Sophie Castonguay's "Involved"
20.05.2010 | La vie quotidienne
18.05.2010 | Unexplored Territories
18.05.2010 | Hi-Tech, Lo-Tech, No-Tech?
13.05.2010 | D. Andrew Stewart joins matralab
13.05.2010 | Sophie Castonguay
06.05.2010 | Nexus at Congress 2010
06.05.2010 | Elektra visits matralab
23.04.2010 | Surface [Étang]
23.04.2010 | La Cloche Fêlée
08.04.2010 | Choses étonnantes, La cloche fêlée, Jerusalem
21.03.2010 | La vie quotidienne, Sound Spatialization, Art...
12.03.2010 | Matramath, Are Forests Better Concert Halls?
05.03.2010 | Frayed Edges, Inukjuak, Choses Etonnantes
26.02.2010 | Juftar, Slaves, Witchcraft
08.02.2010 | IRCAM conference and Montreal concert
22.12.2009 | World and Canadian Premieres
22.12.2009 | Matra x-mas
10.11.2009 | Karen Zalamea - Solo Exhibition - Lignes Imag...
29.10.2009 | "Gesturing in a Realm of Shadows - Lamentatio...
21.10.2009 | Guy Livingston Lecture - Music and Time
03.07.2009 | The matralab is up and running!!
22.12.2008 | Final Touches - Launch to come
11.12.2008 | World Premieres Vienna & Amsterdam
28.05.2008 | New matralab coordinator
20.04.2008 | Conferences / April 2008
20.04.2008 | Hexagram Black Box May 13-15
18.03.2008 | DISTRIBUTED NARRATIVES part 3/Narrations dis...
07.03.2008 | DISTRIBUTED NARRATIVES part 2.
06.03.2008 | Interview with Sandeep Bhagwati
01.03.2008 | distributed narratives (1 thru 4) : a lecture...
29.02.2008 | Narrations distribuées: Stefan Römer PhD - ...
03.02.2008 | Interdisciplinary Art - Practices, Methods, C...
18.01.2008 | World Premiere: "Prinzessin Süssüsan"
18.01.2008 | Interdisciplinary Art - Practices, Methods, C...
13.01.2008 | Interdisciplinary Art - Practices, Methods, C...
13.01.2008 | How to find room LB 671-1
05.01.2008 | Interdisciplinary Art – Practices, Methods,...
16.11.2007 | Understanding the Unforseen - McGill Lecture
18.10.2007 | VINELAND STELAE Premiere
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Native Alien, public presentations: New York & Montreal
Native Alien will see its first public presentations this coming weeks. (see videos of previous musicians working on this project, such as Amelia Cuni, Rohan de Saram, Wu Wei, Dhruba Ghosh, Mike Svoboda and Vinny Golia on the Native Alien Webpage)
On May 18, a matralab team (Sandeep Bhagwati, Navid Navab and Julian Stein) will present a version of Native Alien for comprovising bass clarinet (Lori Freedman), 8 computer-improvisers and interactive scores at the IMPROTECH conference in New York. Sandeep will give a demo and talk about the project at around 3:30pm, and then they will do a performance at 8pm. Both will take place in Columbia University's Prentis Hall. More about this concert (and the entire highly exciting conference) here.
Only a few days later, on May 24, they will present another version of Native Alien, this time for Disklavier Grand Piano, immersive improvising environment and interactive scores, comprovised by David Rosenboom. The concert will happen in Montréal, as part of the opening concert of "Comprovisations - Improvisation Technologies for the Performing Arts" (May 24-27, 2012) at Concordia University Montréal. (for details see website here).
On May 18, a matralab team (Sandeep Bhagwati, Navid Navab and Julian Stein) will present a version of Native Alien for comprovising bass clarinet (Lori Freedman), 8 computer-improvisers and interactive scores at the IMPROTECH conference in New York. Sandeep will give a demo and talk about the project at around 3:30pm, and then they will do a performance at 8pm. Both will take place in Columbia University's Prentis Hall. More about this concert (and the entire highly exciting conference) here.
Only a few days later, on May 24, they will present another version of Native Alien, this time for Disklavier Grand Piano, immersive improvising environment and interactive scores, comprovised by David Rosenboom. The concert will happen in Montréal, as part of the opening concert of "Comprovisations - Improvisation Technologies for the Performing Arts" (May 24-27, 2012) at Concordia University Montréal. (for details see website here).
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 17h56 by max
Keynote speech at Conference for the CAMT: May 3, 2012
On May 3, 2012 Sandeep Bhagwati gave the keynote speech at the 38th annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Music Therapy (CAMT). His speech was titled "Musique en Forme de Pilule: Composition, comprovisation et musicothérapie".
From May 3-5, researchers in the field of Music Therapy presented on themes revolving around the Avant-Garde. For more information visit: http://www.musictherapy.ca/conference.htm.
From May 3-5, researchers in the field of Music Therapy presented on themes revolving around the Avant-Garde. For more information visit: http://www.musictherapy.ca/conference.htm.
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 17h56 by max
"three myths of liberalism" @ Usine C: April 5, 2012
Adam Basanta will be premiering a new electroacoustic work on April 5th.
"three myths of liberalism" is a large-scale (17:30 minutes, 12 channel surround sound) electroacoustic composition, in which three interrelated aspects of classical liberal ideology are sonically and metaphorically interrogated: the relationship between the individual and the collective, the relation of work to monetary gain, and the search for individual self-fulfillment.
The piece was commissioned by Codes d'accès, a Montreal-based new music organization, alongside a diverse program of new works which include electronic sound, live performance, and visual projection.
April 5th, 8pm, at Usine C (1345 Av. Lalonde, Montreal), $15/20.
https://www.facebook.com/events/394385980571904/
"three myths of liberalism" is a large-scale (17:30 minutes, 12 channel surround sound) electroacoustic composition, in which three interrelated aspects of classical liberal ideology are sonically and metaphorically interrogated: the relationship between the individual and the collective, the relation of work to monetary gain, and the search for individual self-fulfillment.
The piece was commissioned by Codes d'accès, a Montreal-based new music organization, alongside a diverse program of new works which include electronic sound, live performance, and visual projection.
April 5th, 8pm, at Usine C (1345 Av. Lalonde, Montreal), $15/20.
https://www.facebook.com/events/394385980571904/
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 15h35 by max
"feelings I'm too tired for" @ L'envers: March 16, 2012
Adam Basanta will be presenting "feelings I'm too tired for" for Bass Clarinet and electronics (perf. Krista Martynes) as part of a concert featuring works for solo instruments and live electronics.
this Friday, March 16 at L'envers (185 van Horne, second floor, Montreal).
Program:
Land of Marigold (Ellwood Epps + Josh Zubot)
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New music for Solo and Electronics by Adam Basanta, Charles Quevillon, Adam Kinner and Eric Powell.
Performed by the composers, and Krista Martynes (Bass Clarinet).
doors at 21h, music at 21h30.
$8 cover.
Adam Basanta is a masters student at matralab.
this Friday, March 16 at L'envers (185 van Horne, second floor, Montreal).
Program:
Land of Marigold (Ellwood Epps + Josh Zubot)
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New music for Solo and Electronics by Adam Basanta, Charles Quevillon, Adam Kinner and Eric Powell.
Performed by the composers, and Krista Martynes (Bass Clarinet).
doors at 21h, music at 21h30.
$8 cover.
Adam Basanta is a masters student at matralab.
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 17h55 by Max
Native Alien Research Presentation - Dhruba Ghosh: March 13, 2012
On Tuesday, March 13 from 12:30-1:30 pm, matralab invites all of you to yet another research presentation around Native Alien, the computer improvisation software we are currently developing. This time around, we have been working for 10 days with sarangi virtuoso and singer Dhruba Ghosh - and the results are quite wonderful already. This presentation will take place in the matrabox.
Web Links:
Native Alien
Dhruba Ghosh
matrabox
Web Links:
Native Alien
Dhruba Ghosh
matrabox
Posted on March 09, 2012 at 19h10 by Max
Sandeep gives a talk and presentation on "Racines Ephémères" @ the Centre d'Archives de Montreal: March 12, 2012
On Monday, March 12 at 5pm, Sandeep will give a talk (in French) about the genesis of his video installation "Racines Ephémères" (currently on view at the Grande Bibliothèque until April 1). Please note: this talk will not happen at the Grand Bibliothèque itself, but at the Centre d'Archives de Montreal, 535 Avenue Viger Est. During this talk Sandeep will also, for the first time, present a new fixed-media composition, conceived as an element of the video installation. This installation is part of the Montreal Lifestories Project and its great Rencontres Festival
Web Links:
"Racines Ephémères"
Centre d'Archives de Montreal
Montreal Lifestories Project
Web Links:
"Racines Ephémères"
Centre d'Archives de Montreal
Montreal Lifestories Project
Posted on March 09, 2012 at 19h05 by Max
Sandeep on Radio Canada - "La Tete Ailleurs": March 10, 2012
On Saturday March 10 at about 5:20pm, Sandeep will talk with host Jacques Bertrand about his intercultural music projects and musical life in Mumbai (Bombay), on the Radio Canada 1ere chaine radio show "La Tete Ailleurs" (in French).
Web Links:
"La Tete Ailleurs"
Web Links:
"La Tete Ailleurs"
Posted on March 09, 2012 at 19h00 by Max
Racines éphémères exhibition at Grand Bibliothèque: March 6-April 1, 2012
Racines éphémères will be exhibited at the Grand Bibliothèque from March 6th through the 1st of April, 2012
Racines éphémères va être exposé à la Grande Bibliothèque du 6 mars au 1er avril 2012
Racines éphémères is a theatrical Installation produced by the matralab that explores the involuntary and strange hybrid gestures made by Montréalers that have been displaced by war, genocide and other human rights violations, while they tell their life on camera.
Racines éphémères » est une installation-théâtrale de Matralab qui explore les étranges gestes hybrides et involontaires de Montréalais déplacés par la guerre, le génocide ou d’autres violations de leurs droits alors qu’ils racontent leur vie devant la caméra.
Racines éphémères va être exposé à la Grande Bibliothèque du 6 mars au 1er avril 2012
Racines éphémères is a theatrical Installation produced by the matralab that explores the involuntary and strange hybrid gestures made by Montréalers that have been displaced by war, genocide and other human rights violations, while they tell their life on camera.
Racines éphémères » est une installation-théâtrale de Matralab qui explore les étranges gestes hybrides et involontaires de Montréalais déplacés par la guerre, le génocide ou d’autres violations de leurs droits alors qu’ils racontent leur vie devant la caméra.
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 14h28 by Max
"Rives & Dérives" - Symphonies Portuaires: March 4, 2012
Sandeep Bhagwati has been commissioned to conceive and compose a "new harbour symphony" for this year's Symphonies Portuaires, an annual concert in the frozen Old Port of Montréal. He has been given the opportunity to use the sirens of all ships "stranded" in the port by winter ice, the bells of the churches and many other sound sources to create half-an-hour of musical elation to a walk along the frozen river, on a Sunday afternoon. For this event Bhagwati will be collaborating with the 30-voice women's choir Choeur Maha led by Kathy Kennedy on a composition called Rives & Dérives.
The concert will take place the follow Sunday March 4, 2012 outside the Musée Pointe-A-Caillières at 1:30pm.
Symphonies Portuaires 2012 - Rives & Dérives (concert ii)
Mar 04, 2012 @ 13h30
Musée Pointe-A-Caillières
For more information about the project click here and see the links below.
Web Links:
Rives & Dérives
Les Symphonies portuaires de Pointe-à-Callière
Musée Pointe-A-Caillières (directions)
The concert will take place the follow Sunday March 4, 2012 outside the Musée Pointe-A-Caillières at 1:30pm.
Symphonies Portuaires 2012 - Rives & Dérives (concert ii)
Mar 04, 2012 @ 13h30
Musée Pointe-A-Caillières
For more information about the project click here and see the links below.
Web Links:
Rives & Dérives
Les Symphonies portuaires de Pointe-à-Callière
Musée Pointe-A-Caillières (directions)
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 14h25 by Max
Emergency INDEX to be launched at The Kitchen (NYC) on March 20, 2012
Emergency INDEX is a new yearly publication documenting performance in the words of its creators. This first volume documents 249 performances of dance, poetry, protest, theater, music, therapy, scientific research, advertising, terrorism, and more in over 500 pages and includes a comprehensive index of terms. We will celebrate the book and its contributors with a performance-filled evening at The Kitchen on March 20, 2012 beginning at 19h00.
Two of the featured performances documented in this inaugural issue, published by the Ugly Duckling Presse, are The Jewish Home Beautiful - Revisited II (hosted at the Gelber Conference Centre) and Home Beautiful - Inviting the Ancestors (hosted at the matrabox). These live art events were initiated by Devora Neumark within the cycle of her research/creation project entitled Radical Beauty for Troubled Times: the (un)making of home.
Devora Neumark is PhD student at matralab.
Web Links:
Pre-launch discount (50% off with code: beeftongue)
Two of the featured performances documented in this inaugural issue, published by the Ugly Duckling Presse, are The Jewish Home Beautiful - Revisited II (hosted at the Gelber Conference Centre) and Home Beautiful - Inviting the Ancestors (hosted at the matrabox). These live art events were initiated by Devora Neumark within the cycle of her research/creation project entitled Radical Beauty for Troubled Times: the (un)making of home.
Devora Neumark is PhD student at matralab.
Web Links:
Pre-launch discount (50% off with code: beeftongue)
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 19h02 by Max
"Rives & Dérives" - Symphonies Portuaires: Feb 26, 2012
Sandeep Bhagwati has been commissioned to conceive and compose a "new harbour symphony" for this year's Symphonies Portuaires, an annual concert in the frozen Old Port of Montréal. He has been given the opportunity to use the sirens of all ships "stranded" in the port by winter ice, the bells of the churches and many other sound sources to create half-an-hour of musical elation to a walk along the frozen river, on a Sunday afternoon. For this event Bhagwati will be collaborating with the 30-voice women's choir Choeur Maha led by Kathy Kennedy on a composition called Rives & Dérives.
The concert will take place this Sunday Feb 26, 2012 outside the Musée Pointe-A-Caillières at 1:30pm.
Symphonies Portuaires 2012 - Rives & Dérives (concert i)
Feb 26, 2012 @ 13h30
Musée Pointe-A-Caillières
A second concert will take place the follow Sunday March 4, 2012 outside the Musée Pointe-A-Caillières at 1:30pm.
Symphonies Portuaires 2012 - Rives & Dérives (concert ii)
Mar 04, 2012 @ 13h30
Musée Pointe-A-Caillières
For more information about the project click here and see the links below.
Web Links:
Rives & Dérives
Les Symphonies portuaires de Pointe-à-Callière
Musée Pointe-A-Caillières (directions)
The concert will take place this Sunday Feb 26, 2012 outside the Musée Pointe-A-Caillières at 1:30pm.
Symphonies Portuaires 2012 - Rives & Dérives (concert i)
Feb 26, 2012 @ 13h30
Musée Pointe-A-Caillières
A second concert will take place the follow Sunday March 4, 2012 outside the Musée Pointe-A-Caillières at 1:30pm.
Symphonies Portuaires 2012 - Rives & Dérives (concert ii)
Mar 04, 2012 @ 13h30
Musée Pointe-A-Caillières
For more information about the project click here and see the links below.
Web Links:
Rives & Dérives
Les Symphonies portuaires de Pointe-à-Callière
Musée Pointe-A-Caillières (directions)
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 21h36 by Max
Collaborative Performance Art in Search of Beauty and Home
On March 28, 2012, Devora Neumark will be a guest presenter at the Culture and Community Researcher's Network (Melbourne). Using the series of community live art events she has convened over the past several years as case studies, her talk -- entitled Collaborative Performance Art in Search of Beauty and Home: Making a Case for Participatory Research and Co-creativity -- will focus on the relationship between the aesthetics, politics and ethics of co-emergent research/creation projects.
The Culture and Community Researchers’ Network is a partnership between the Cultural Development Network (CDN) and Victorian College of the Art and Music’s Centre for Cultural Partnerships PhD students. It brings together researchers from Victorian universities who are interested in cultural development, social change, creative methodologies, artistic intervention, and/or community research themes. It provides opportunities for presentation and discussion of new research in an informal and supportive collegial environment for students and by students.
Devora Neumark is PhD student at matralab.
Web Links:
http://www.culturaldevelopment.net.au/about/
The Culture and Community Researchers’ Network is a partnership between the Cultural Development Network (CDN) and Victorian College of the Art and Music’s Centre for Cultural Partnerships PhD students. It brings together researchers from Victorian universities who are interested in cultural development, social change, creative methodologies, artistic intervention, and/or community research themes. It provides opportunities for presentation and discussion of new research in an informal and supportive collegial environment for students and by students.
Devora Neumark is PhD student at matralab.
Web Links:
http://www.culturaldevelopment.net.au/about/
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 21h32 by Max
"Room Contour" @ matrabox: Feb 24-26, 2012
Adam Basanta will be in the matrabox this week presenting work-in-progress of an upcoming audiovisual installation, "Room Contour", for 12 light bulbs and 12 channel sound. Open viewing sessions will take place at the matralab Friday and Saturday 5-8pm, as well as Sunday noon-3pm.
The completed work will be presented at Eastern Bloc Gallery, Montreal QC on June 6-8.
Adam Basanta is a masters student at matralab.
Web Links:
http://vimeo.com/31472934
http://vimeo.com/26818113
The completed work will be presented at Eastern Bloc Gallery, Montreal QC on June 6-8.
Adam Basanta is a masters student at matralab.
Web Links:
http://vimeo.com/31472934
http://vimeo.com/26818113
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 14h25 by Max
"Homes, Objects and Things"
Devora Neumark will be traveling to Hobart in March to present her paper entitled "Drawn to Beauty" during a 2-day Housing Theory Symposium sponsored by the Housing and Community Research Centre of the University of Tasmania.
Drawing out the connections between home and beauty, this paper presents some key findings from Neumark's PhD research/creation and addresses the following questions: What role does beauty play in the complex process of making home anew in the aftermath of displacement? How do the stories we tell about home, influence our experiences of home?
In his letter of invitation, Keith Jacobs, Associate Dean of Research and Director of the Housing and Community Research Centre wrote: "There is a strong interest from researchers in the field of housing studies to engage with interdisciplinary scholars and artists."
Devora Neumark is PhD student at matralab.
Web Links:
http://www.utas.edu.au/sociology/HACRU/news.htm
Drawing out the connections between home and beauty, this paper presents some key findings from Neumark's PhD research/creation and addresses the following questions: What role does beauty play in the complex process of making home anew in the aftermath of displacement? How do the stories we tell about home, influence our experiences of home?
In his letter of invitation, Keith Jacobs, Associate Dean of Research and Director of the Housing and Community Research Centre wrote: "There is a strong interest from researchers in the field of housing studies to engage with interdisciplinary scholars and artists."
Devora Neumark is PhD student at matralab.
Web Links:
http://www.utas.edu.au/sociology/HACRU/news.htm
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 14h20 by Max
Limits & Renewals premieres in Stuttgart: Feb 10, 2012
The World premiere of Sandeep Bhagwati's monumental orchestra work “Limits & Renewals” will take place at the Eclat Festival Stuttgart on February 10, 2012.
"Limits & Renewals" is a cycle of three intertwined compositions: "Entrances", "Inscapes" and "Apparitions" - together about 45 minutes.
It is scored for large conventional orchestra with 6 madrigal singers. Texts by William Blake, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Wallace Stevens.
The world premiere will be performed by the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, by the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, conducted by Matthias Pintscher.
Web Links:
ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart 2012
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Matthias Pintscher
"Limits & Renewals" is a cycle of three intertwined compositions: "Entrances", "Inscapes" and "Apparitions" - together about 45 minutes.
It is scored for large conventional orchestra with 6 madrigal singers. Texts by William Blake, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Wallace Stevens.
The world premiere will be performed by the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, by the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, conducted by Matthias Pintscher.
Web Links:
ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart 2012
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Matthias Pintscher
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 16h31 by Max
Sandeep @ Canadian New Music Forum 2012: Jan 20, 2012
Sandeep Bhagwati will be speak at the Canadian New Music Forum - a major network organisation of the Canadian New Music Network (CNMN) at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver). Speakers will include Canadian and international music luminaries, composers, curators, musicians.
Web Links:
Canadian New Music Network (CNMN)
Web Links:
Canadian New Music Network (CNMN)
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 16h31 by Max
matralab @ Western Front Vancouver: Jan 20, 2012
matralab composers Sandeep Bhagwati and Navid Navab will be part of the Circle of Night project at the Western Front in Vancouver. There will be all-night performances including many other artists and musicians, such as Hildegard Westerkamp, Coat Cooke, Mei Fan, Cheryl l'Hirondelle and many others.
Each will present one of his own works and together they will use the Native Alien software system to create improvised duos between the computer and some of the performers.
Web Links:
The Western Front
Each will present one of his own works and together they will use the Native Alien software system to create improvised duos between the computer and some of the performers.
Web Links:
The Western Front
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 15h19 by Max
Ixos: Jan. 14, 2011 (NYC)
Adam Basanta will be travelling to New York City for the performance of "Ixos", an interdisciplinary collaboration between Montreal and NYC-based artists, in which Adam will be performing live sounds and supplying interactive light design.
Ixos is a concert organized by clarinetist and multi-media artist Krista Martynes. The performance (approximately 55' in duration) will incorporate movement direction by choreographer Kristin Hatleberg, sound art and light design by Adam Basanta and dance by Ms. Hatleberg and Janet Aisawa.
Ixos is a cyclical production, inspired loosely by bird songs (Ixos is a type of song bird) wherein the four artists envelope the improv-generated compositions of Giacinto Scelsi with their own sound and movement improvisation, including intensification of simple timbres and rhythmic exchanges.
"Ixos" will be performed at the CRS (123 4th Ave, 2nd FL, New York) on January 14th, at 8pm. Tickets are $15.
Adam Basanta is a masters student at matralab.
Ixos is a concert organized by clarinetist and multi-media artist Krista Martynes. The performance (approximately 55' in duration) will incorporate movement direction by choreographer Kristin Hatleberg, sound art and light design by Adam Basanta and dance by Ms. Hatleberg and Janet Aisawa.
Ixos is a cyclical production, inspired loosely by bird songs (Ixos is a type of song bird) wherein the four artists envelope the improv-generated compositions of Giacinto Scelsi with their own sound and movement improvisation, including intensification of simple timbres and rhythmic exchanges.
"Ixos" will be performed at the CRS (123 4th Ave, 2nd FL, New York) on January 14th, at 8pm. Tickets are $15.
Adam Basanta is a masters student at matralab.
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 17h14 by Max
Once a Russian, Always a Jew: (Auto)biographical Storytelling and the Legacy of Dislocation
Devora Neumark's latest writing has just been published:
"Once a Russian, Always a Jew: (Auto)biographical Storytelling and the Legacy of Dislocation"
Storytelling, Self, Society
Volume 8, Issue 1, 2012
ABSTRACT
Culled in part from nearly 20 hours of audio recordings of the author's father's experiences with displacement prior to, during, and after World War II, this paper explores some conditions that make it possible for people to feel at home in the aftermath of forced dislocation and the ways in which storytelling can help break the subsequent cycle of violence that can emerge from such an experience. The author's father's story is interspersed with her own narrative voice as well as a theoretical exploration of what is at stake for the storyteller and for those who bear witness to the stories told of experience at the nexus between memory and history.
Devora Neumark is a PhD student at matralab.
"Once a Russian, Always a Jew: (Auto)biographical Storytelling and the Legacy of Dislocation"
Storytelling, Self, Society
Volume 8, Issue 1, 2012
ABSTRACT
Culled in part from nearly 20 hours of audio recordings of the author's father's experiences with displacement prior to, during, and after World War II, this paper explores some conditions that make it possible for people to feel at home in the aftermath of forced dislocation and the ways in which storytelling can help break the subsequent cycle of violence that can emerge from such an experience. The author's father's story is interspersed with her own narrative voice as well as a theoretical exploration of what is at stake for the storyteller and for those who bear witness to the stories told of experience at the nexus between memory and history.
Devora Neumark is a PhD student at matralab.
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 15h58 by Max
Wu Wei @ matralab Dec. 10-20
Wu Wei will be collaborating on the Native Alien project with Sandeep Bhagwati.
Please come to the research presentation on Dec 19th from 5-7pm (17-19h) in the matrabox (EV 4.502). At this presentation, Wu Wei will also perform Sandeep Bhagwati's interactive score "Transience" together with Cléo Palacio-Quintin (flute), Elin Soderstrom (viola da gamba) and Michal Seta (guitar). Please RSVP at the address below.
NATIVE ALIEN is a long term research-creation project - the search for a software that can play in a musically inspiring way with a human music performer-improviser. We are developing this project in close dialogue with a research group on machine improvisation at the IRCAM Centre Pompidou in Paris (Gerard Assayag / Benjamin Levy). Over the past two years, the Native Alien team (Sandeep Bhagwati / Navid Navab) have developed advanced compositional, comprovisational and sonic software architectures that now are being tried, modified and improved upon in close practical collaboration with outstanding solo performers from many different music making traditions around the world. The end product, we hope, will be an immersive environment for live-composition, as well as a musically empathic software that can play in any style, with any adventurous musician.
Wu Wei is considered to be the world’s leading avant-garde sheng soloist - the sheng is a 4000-year old Chinese instrument, a mouth-organ. Taking Chinese art music as his point of departure, he approaches many other traditions with extraordinary musical creativity and vitality: for many years already, he has been a star in contemporary western art music, in improvised music, in jazz, in minimalist music, and other styles. While he performs on a conventional modern sheng with 37 pipes, he has decisively expanded the technical and sonic possibilities of his instrument. He has won many prestigious national and international competitions, awards and prizes both for traditional Chinese music and for his trans- and cross-traditional projects. He has worked with Nobel Laureate Günter Grass, and has performed than 140 world premières of contemporary compositions - among them 10 concertos for Sheng and orchestra - written for him by composers such as John Cage, Unsuk Chin, Toshio Hosokawa, Tan Dun, Guo Wenjing, Qu Xiaosong, and Sandeep Bhagwati. He has collaborated with dance companies all over the world, played with Atlas Ensemble, Ensemble Modern, Nieuw Ensemble, and many more, has appeared as a soloist with leading orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra etc., often at seminal festivals: Berliner Festspiele, Munich Biennale, the Donaueschinger Musiktage, Warsaw Autumn, Suntory Summer Festival, Gaudeamus Music Week, Holland Festival, Shanghai Electronic Music Festival, Musiques Marseille, San Francisco Art Festival etc. As a composer he has received numerous commissions, and has wowed audiences at jazz festivals worldwide, playing with the likes of Peter Kowald, Gunter Baby Sommer, Michael Riessler, Howard Levy, Ross Daly, Ferenc Snetberger, Tony Buck, Carlo Rizzo, Ramesh Shotham, Lequan Ninh, Pavel Fajt, Franz Hautzinger, Carl Ludwig Huebsch, Carl Stone, etc. His music has been released on numerous CDs.
Please come to the research presentation on Dec 19th from 5-7pm (17-19h) in the matrabox (EV 4.502). At this presentation, Wu Wei will also perform Sandeep Bhagwati's interactive score "Transience" together with Cléo Palacio-Quintin (flute), Elin Soderstrom (viola da gamba) and Michal Seta (guitar). Please RSVP at the address below.
NATIVE ALIEN is a long term research-creation project - the search for a software that can play in a musically inspiring way with a human music performer-improviser. We are developing this project in close dialogue with a research group on machine improvisation at the IRCAM Centre Pompidou in Paris (Gerard Assayag / Benjamin Levy). Over the past two years, the Native Alien team (Sandeep Bhagwati / Navid Navab) have developed advanced compositional, comprovisational and sonic software architectures that now are being tried, modified and improved upon in close practical collaboration with outstanding solo performers from many different music making traditions around the world. The end product, we hope, will be an immersive environment for live-composition, as well as a musically empathic software that can play in any style, with any adventurous musician.
Wu Wei is considered to be the world’s leading avant-garde sheng soloist - the sheng is a 4000-year old Chinese instrument, a mouth-organ. Taking Chinese art music as his point of departure, he approaches many other traditions with extraordinary musical creativity and vitality: for many years already, he has been a star in contemporary western art music, in improvised music, in jazz, in minimalist music, and other styles. While he performs on a conventional modern sheng with 37 pipes, he has decisively expanded the technical and sonic possibilities of his instrument. He has won many prestigious national and international competitions, awards and prizes both for traditional Chinese music and for his trans- and cross-traditional projects. He has worked with Nobel Laureate Günter Grass, and has performed than 140 world premières of contemporary compositions - among them 10 concertos for Sheng and orchestra - written for him by composers such as John Cage, Unsuk Chin, Toshio Hosokawa, Tan Dun, Guo Wenjing, Qu Xiaosong, and Sandeep Bhagwati. He has collaborated with dance companies all over the world, played with Atlas Ensemble, Ensemble Modern, Nieuw Ensemble, and many more, has appeared as a soloist with leading orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra etc., often at seminal festivals: Berliner Festspiele, Munich Biennale, the Donaueschinger Musiktage, Warsaw Autumn, Suntory Summer Festival, Gaudeamus Music Week, Holland Festival, Shanghai Electronic Music Festival, Musiques Marseille, San Francisco Art Festival etc. As a composer he has received numerous commissions, and has wowed audiences at jazz festivals worldwide, playing with the likes of Peter Kowald, Gunter Baby Sommer, Michael Riessler, Howard Levy, Ross Daly, Ferenc Snetberger, Tony Buck, Carlo Rizzo, Ramesh Shotham, Lequan Ninh, Pavel Fajt, Franz Hautzinger, Carl Ludwig Huebsch, Carl Stone, etc. His music has been released on numerous CDs.
Posted on December 07, 2011 at 18h01 by Max
TRANSAT CONTAMINE #4: Dec. 3, 2011
Dans le cadre du projet d'échanges croisés TRANSAT Contamine entre le Québec et la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, qui explorent les nouvelles formes de performance technologique, deux artistes de la Société des arts technologiques [SAT], réaliseront simultanément, samedi 3 décembre à 15 h, heure de Montréal et 21 h, heure montoise, une performance en téléprésence entre Montréal et Mons (Belgique) avec deux créatrices belges soutenues par Transcultures, Centre interdisciplinaire des cultures numériques et sonores.
Entrée gratuite de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique.
Michal Seta (compositeur et programmeur-chercheur à la SAT) et Laurence Moletta (compositrice et chanteuse -Transcultures) seront à Mons cette semaine, accueillis en résidence par l’Institut de recherche en art technologique, Numédiart et Transcultures.
Valérie Cordy (metteur en scène et artiste du réseau - Transcultures) et Alexandre Quessy, (directeur du développement logiciel [SAT] - images et textes réseau à Montréal) travailleront avec eux via le logiciel libre de téléprésence Scenic, développé par la SAT.
Cette performance de téléprésence intitulée Soupe transatlantique 2 .0 est la quatrième et dernière phase live du processus de recherche et de création TRANSAT Contamine, entamé en 2010, qui donnera lieu a une publication commune réalisée par la SAT et Transcultures au printemps 2012.
Pour information : http://www.sat.qc.ca/post.php?post_id=2243
Michal Seta is a research associate at matralab.
Entrée gratuite de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique.
Michal Seta (compositeur et programmeur-chercheur à la SAT) et Laurence Moletta (compositrice et chanteuse -Transcultures) seront à Mons cette semaine, accueillis en résidence par l’Institut de recherche en art technologique, Numédiart et Transcultures.
Valérie Cordy (metteur en scène et artiste du réseau - Transcultures) et Alexandre Quessy, (directeur du développement logiciel [SAT] - images et textes réseau à Montréal) travailleront avec eux via le logiciel libre de téléprésence Scenic, développé par la SAT.
Cette performance de téléprésence intitulée Soupe transatlantique 2 .0 est la quatrième et dernière phase live du processus de recherche et de création TRANSAT Contamine, entamé en 2010, qui donnera lieu a une publication commune réalisée par la SAT et Transcultures au printemps 2012.
Pour information : http://www.sat.qc.ca/post.php?post_id=2243
Michal Seta is a research associate at matralab.
Posted on December 01, 2011 at 16h50 by Max
Witchcraft @ DB Clarke: Nov. 30 - Dec. 4, 2011
Witchcraft revisits the history of witchcraft trials in Joanna Baillie's homeland, Scotland, through a conventicle of destitute female characters seeking power, love, and retribution in an elusive and illusory dark devil. The play explores mass hysteria and paranoia in witches and their accusers, in women and men, and examines how individuals struggle to navigate and negotiate in a culture of fear. The play is an important artistic and historical precursor for other dramatic representations of witchcraft, such as Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
The play is an important artistic and historical precursor for other dramatic representations of witchcraft, such as Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Co-directors Louis Patrick Leroux and Christina Iovita's staging brings Baillie's drama into the contemporary register, layering live performance with video projection and other multimedia elements as one way to negotiate the temporal and aesthetic distance of the play.
As an artist-in-residence, Louis Patrick Leroux utilized matralab's facilities over the past two years to realize the film aspects play.
When: Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 8 p.m.
Thursday, December 1, 8 p.m.
Friday, December 2, 8 p.m.
Saturday, December 3, 2 and 8 p.m.
Sunday, December 4, 2 p.m.
Where: D.B. Clarke Theatre, Henry F. Hall Building (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.), Sir George Williams Campus
Tickets, $10 regular admission, $5 for students and seniors, are available in person only at the D.B. Clarke Theatre, the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall and at the door. No reservations.
Louis Patrick Leroux is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
The play is an important artistic and historical precursor for other dramatic representations of witchcraft, such as Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Co-directors Louis Patrick Leroux and Christina Iovita's staging brings Baillie's drama into the contemporary register, layering live performance with video projection and other multimedia elements as one way to negotiate the temporal and aesthetic distance of the play.
As an artist-in-residence, Louis Patrick Leroux utilized matralab's facilities over the past two years to realize the film aspects play.
When: Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 8 p.m.
Thursday, December 1, 8 p.m.
Friday, December 2, 8 p.m.
Saturday, December 3, 2 and 8 p.m.
Sunday, December 4, 2 p.m.
Where: D.B. Clarke Theatre, Henry F. Hall Building (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.), Sir George Williams Campus
Tickets, $10 regular admission, $5 for students and seniors, are available in person only at the D.B. Clarke Theatre, the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall and at the door. No reservations.
Louis Patrick Leroux is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 02h02 by Max
Rohan de Saram @ matralab Nov. 18-25
Matralab is proud to welcome musician Rohan de Saram to Montreal to work on the Native Alien project with Sandeep Bhagwati.
Rohan will be working at the matralab/box (EV4.520 and 502) from November 18 to the 25th with the matralab team - Navid Navab and Julian Stein. You are welcome to attend a special research presentation on November 25th at noon in the box (EV4.502).
NATIVE ALIEN is a long term research-creation project - the search for a software that can play in a musically inspiring way with a human music performer-improviser. We are developing this project in close dialogue with a research group on machine improvisation at the IRCAM Centre Pompidou in Paris (Gerard Assayag / Benjamin Levy). Over the past two years, the Native Alien team (Sandeep Bhagwati / Navid Navab) have developed advanced compositional, comprovisational and sonic software architectures that now are being tried, modified and improved upon in close practical collaboration with outstanding solo performers from many different music making traditions around the world. The end product, we hope, will be an immersive environment for live-composition, as well as a musically empathic software that can play in any style, with any adventurous musician.
Rohan de Saram is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Rohan will be working at the matralab/box (EV4.520 and 502) from November 18 to the 25th with the matralab team - Navid Navab and Julian Stein. You are welcome to attend a special research presentation on November 25th at noon in the box (EV4.502).
NATIVE ALIEN is a long term research-creation project - the search for a software that can play in a musically inspiring way with a human music performer-improviser. We are developing this project in close dialogue with a research group on machine improvisation at the IRCAM Centre Pompidou in Paris (Gerard Assayag / Benjamin Levy). Over the past two years, the Native Alien team (Sandeep Bhagwati / Navid Navab) have developed advanced compositional, comprovisational and sonic software architectures that now are being tried, modified and improved upon in close practical collaboration with outstanding solo performers from many different music making traditions around the world. The end product, we hope, will be an immersive environment for live-composition, as well as a musically empathic software that can play in any style, with any adventurous musician.
Rohan de Saram is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 14h17 by Max
"three myths of liberalism"
Adam Basanta has been commissioned a new electroacoustic piece by Codes d'accès - a Montreal based new music society - for their 2011-2012 season. The work - entitled "three myths of liberalism" - will incorporate a loose narrative structure examining several tenants of classical Liberal ideology. It will be premiered at Usine C, Montreal, on April 5 and 6, 2012.
Adam Basanta is a masters student at matralab.
Adam Basanta is a masters student at matralab.
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 14h17 by Max
Adam Basanta @ Sound in Space Electroacoustic Music Interpretation Competition
Adam Basanta has been selected as a finalist in the Sound in Space Electroacoustic Music Interpretation Competition, taking place November 17-20 in Boston, MA. As a finalist, Adam will participate in sound diffusion workshops, festival concerts, and a spatialization competition utilizing Harvard's 32-speaker "Hydra" speaker orchestra. His participation is made possible through financial support by the Goethe-Institut, Boston.
For more information, visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/kue/aoi/enindex.htm
Adam Basanta is a masters student at matralab.
For more information, visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/kue/aoi/enindex.htm
Adam Basanta is a masters student at matralab.
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 14h17 by Max
Sandeep Bhagwati @ Columbia - Nov 9, 2011
By invitation of Columbia visiting professor Jean Baptiste Barrière, matralab director Sandeep Bhagwati gave a 2hr-talk at Columbia University New York about matralab as an institute for research-creation in performing arts. Amongst other aspects, he presented the genesis and conceptual framework of projects such as NEXUS, ALIEN LANDS and NATIVE ALIEN.
The talk was attended by many composition students as well as Columbia professors, such as George E. Lewis.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.
The talk was attended by many composition students as well as Columbia professors, such as George E. Lewis.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 17h49 by Max
Alaap for Ashok @ McGill University - Nov 7, 2011
Sandeep Bhagwati's recently premiered work "Alaap for Ashok" (see Oct 3) was performed by students of McGill University. Nicholas Chalk, double bass and Juan Sebastian Delgado, cello played their version of this comprovisational score as part of a concert on "Western Music inspired by Indian Music", a graduate course taught by Shawn Mativetsky. This concert was their course outcome.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.
Posted on November 08, 2011 at 17h48 by Max
Contour, for a hallway - Oct 20-23, 2011
Adam Basanta presented a new audiovisual installation, "Contour, for a hallway", from October 20-23 in the lobby of the Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver, BC, as part of Vancouver New Music's annual New Music Festival. The work - for 12 light bulbs and 12 channel sound - was commissioned by Vancouver New Music, and was prototyped at matralab.
For video and more information, visit http://vimeo.com/31472934
Adam Basanta is a masters student at matralab.
For video and more information, visit http://vimeo.com/31472934
Adam Basanta is a masters student at matralab.
Posted on November 01, 2011 at 13h58 by Max
DareDroid at the Carte Blanche exhibition at la Gaïté Lyrique in Paris, Oct 7, 2011
On Oct 7th, 2011, the Modern Nomads showed the DareDroid at the Carte Blanche exhibition at la Gaïté Lyrique in Paris. The show was co-curated by Lynn Hughes and Kokoromi and was part of Québec Numérique: Elektra + Arcadi Festival némo + Gaîté Lyrique.
http://www.arts-numeriques.info/daily-watch/2011/09/21/quebec-numerique-elektra-arcadi-festival-nemo-gaite-lyrique-06-au-09-oct-2011
Modern Nomads (MoNo), the creator of DareDroid - is a three-person international artist group.
· Marius Kintel is a hacker, tinkerer, and engineer based in
Vienna Austria.
· Jane Tingley is a Canadian artist in sculpture, responsive
installation, and sound.
· Anouk Wipprecht is a Dutch fashiontech designer of wearable
electronics and hydraulics.
Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.
http://www.arts-numeriques.info/daily-watch/2011/09/21/quebec-numerique-elektra-arcadi-festival-nemo-gaite-lyrique-06-au-09-oct-2011
Modern Nomads (MoNo), the creator of DareDroid - is a three-person international artist group.
· Marius Kintel is a hacker, tinkerer, and engineer based in
Vienna Austria.
· Jane Tingley is a Canadian artist in sculpture, responsive
installation, and sound.
· Anouk Wipprecht is a Dutch fashiontech designer of wearable
electronics and hydraulics.
Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.
Posted on October 07, 2011 at 15h29 by Max
Stereo Efficiency Cheer @ Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto
Karen Zalamea's performance-based video Stereo Efficiency Cheer will be shown at two outdoor locations in this year's Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in Toronto- a free, all-night contemporary art event.
The videos can be viewed on Yonge Street at 1 Richmond Street West and 1 Adelaide Street East, both in Zone C curated by Nicholas Brown.
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto
Saturday, October 1, 2011
From 6:59pm to sunrise
Karen Zalamea is a research assistant at matralab.
The videos can be viewed on Yonge Street at 1 Richmond Street West and 1 Adelaide Street East, both in Zone C curated by Nicholas Brown.
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto
Saturday, October 1, 2011
From 6:59pm to sunrise
Karen Zalamea is a research assistant at matralab.
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 01h00 by Max
Somatic Engagement: the politics and publics of embodiment
Somatic Engagement: the politics and publics of embodiment. Edited by community artist, scholar, and dancer Petra Kuppers (author of Disability Culture and Community Performance), the book opens with Arnieville, a Californian protest camp of disability, homelessness, and poverty activists. From there, a series of enactments welcome trespass and incursion in the name of survival.
- Amy Sara Carroll on the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a GPS phone that uses poetry to lead the disoriented and thirsty to water caches and safety sites in the US-Mexican borderlands.
- Devora Neumark on washing Tali Goodfriend’s hands in Lebanese olive oil outside the hotel where Colin Powell speaks to the Jewish National Fund, hands gliding over one another in the middle of an angry public protest.
- Christian Nagler on writing an experimental novel while conducting an oral history of agricultural labor practices and migration patterns at the site of the Panamerican Highway in El Salvador.
- Georgina Kleege on touch and blindness as she discusses Katherine Sherwood’s paintings of magic and the human brain, paintings that Sherwood began after her stroke ten years ago.
- Eleni Stecopoulos on the healing quest as research and the complexities of cultural appropriation.
- Amber DiPietra and Denise Leto on the collaborative connections of breath, body, pause, pain, and form.
Somatic Engagement is an exploration of how relation and support play out in breaths, steps, and touch.
128 pages; 12 color plates
For more information: http://www.chainarts.org/somatic%20engagement.htm
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
- Amy Sara Carroll on the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a GPS phone that uses poetry to lead the disoriented and thirsty to water caches and safety sites in the US-Mexican borderlands.
- Devora Neumark on washing Tali Goodfriend’s hands in Lebanese olive oil outside the hotel where Colin Powell speaks to the Jewish National Fund, hands gliding over one another in the middle of an angry public protest.
- Christian Nagler on writing an experimental novel while conducting an oral history of agricultural labor practices and migration patterns at the site of the Panamerican Highway in El Salvador.
- Georgina Kleege on touch and blindness as she discusses Katherine Sherwood’s paintings of magic and the human brain, paintings that Sherwood began after her stroke ten years ago.
- Eleni Stecopoulos on the healing quest as research and the complexities of cultural appropriation.
- Amber DiPietra and Denise Leto on the collaborative connections of breath, body, pause, pain, and form.
Somatic Engagement is an exploration of how relation and support play out in breaths, steps, and touch.
128 pages; 12 color plates
For more information: http://www.chainarts.org/somatic%20engagement.htm
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10h15 by Max
Art POP - AND NO ONE WAS AROUND - September 23, 2011
A group exhibition of new media works and experiences, Co-presented by Art POP and the Sociète des arts technologies (S.A.T.)
featuring matralab's Karen Zalamea, Julian Stein, Max Stein and other emerging artists working in interdisciplinary-media, sound installations, sculpture, performance, experiential installation, electronics + immersive technologies, video art, graphic arts + industrial design, motion design, and photography - to name a few.
Friday, September 23 - Sunday September 25
Saturday & Sunday: 11am – 5pm
Vernissage : September 23, 19h - 21h with dj set by AGOR !
http://popmontreal.com/en/art/events/and-no-one-was-around
Karen Zalamea, Julian Stein, and Max Stein are research assistants at matralab.
featuring matralab's Karen Zalamea, Julian Stein, Max Stein and other emerging artists working in interdisciplinary-media, sound installations, sculpture, performance, experiential installation, electronics + immersive technologies, video art, graphic arts + industrial design, motion design, and photography - to name a few.
Friday, September 23 - Sunday September 25
Saturday & Sunday: 11am – 5pm
Vernissage : September 23, 19h - 21h with dj set by AGOR !
http://popmontreal.com/en/art/events/and-no-one-was-around
Karen Zalamea, Julian Stein, and Max Stein are research assistants at matralab.
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 08h56 by Max
ALAAP FOR ASHOK (world premiere) - October 3, 2011
On Monday, Oct 3, Grammy- award winning Indian classical sarangi player Dhruba Ghosh and Ensemble Constantinople will premiere "Stele VI Alaap for Ashok", a work of memory Sandeep Bhagwati composed a month ago in response to the recent death of a long-time friend, artistic collaborator and mentor, eminent Indian musicologist and composer Ashok Ranade.
Ranade and Bhagwati were the co-composers of "Sangit Sambhav", a work for chamber orchestra that has been played around the world by leading new music ensembles.
"Alaap for Ashok" is a comprovisation for musicians well versed in Indian/Arabian ways of improvising.
It will be performed by DHRUBA GHOSH - sarangi, voice, KIYA TABASSIAN - setar, voice , ZIYA TABASSIAN - percussion, RAVI NAIMPALLY - tablas, PIERRE-YVES MARTEL - viole de gambe in the context of Constantinople's first concert of the season CHANTS DE L'AUBE (SONGS OF THE DAWN)
MONDAY October 3, 2011, 8 p.m.
Salle Pierre-Mercure [Centre Pierre-Péladeau]
300, boulevard de Maisonneuve Est,
Montréal Qc., H2X 3X6
Métro Berri-UQÀM
Tickets can be bought here.
Dhruba Ghosh will be artist-in-residence at matralab in April 2012.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.
Ranade and Bhagwati were the co-composers of "Sangit Sambhav", a work for chamber orchestra that has been played around the world by leading new music ensembles.
"Alaap for Ashok" is a comprovisation for musicians well versed in Indian/Arabian ways of improvising.
It will be performed by DHRUBA GHOSH - sarangi, voice, KIYA TABASSIAN - setar, voice , ZIYA TABASSIAN - percussion, RAVI NAIMPALLY - tablas, PIERRE-YVES MARTEL - viole de gambe in the context of Constantinople's first concert of the season CHANTS DE L'AUBE (SONGS OF THE DAWN)
MONDAY October 3, 2011, 8 p.m.
Salle Pierre-Mercure [Centre Pierre-Péladeau]
300, boulevard de Maisonneuve Est,
Montréal Qc., H2X 3X6
Métro Berri-UQÀM
Tickets can be bought here.
Dhruba Ghosh will be artist-in-residence at matralab in April 2012.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 08h55 by Max
Électro à l'atelier - September 16, 2011
Independent concert of electroacoustic music, featuring works by emerging composers Adam Basanta, Guillaume Campion, Guillaume Côté and Charles Quevillon
16 septembre 2011, 20h
Atelier Wilder & Davis
257, Rachel Est
Entrance is free.
Adam BASANTA - Écologie matérielle (2008) et a glass is not a glass (2010)
Guillaume CAMPION - Les derniers cris d'une brise (2010) et Neige cendre (2011)
Guillaume CÔTÉ - Homeostasis (2010), Étude pour instruments brisés et objets stochastiques (2010) et Gaza (2011)
Charles QUEVILLON - Au boute (2010)
Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.
16 septembre 2011, 20h
Atelier Wilder & Davis
257, Rachel Est
Entrance is free.
Adam BASANTA - Écologie matérielle (2008) et a glass is not a glass (2010)
Guillaume CAMPION - Les derniers cris d'une brise (2010) et Neige cendre (2011)
Guillaume CÔTÉ - Homeostasis (2010), Étude pour instruments brisés et objets stochastiques (2010) et Gaza (2011)
Charles QUEVILLON - Au boute (2010)
Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 10h48 by Max
Research Assistant, Resident Videographer and Video Editor at matralab
This is a job for a qualified documentary video artist / filmmaker with a strong affinity for documenting real-time artistic performance in inventive and new formats.
This position is open to currently enrolled students.
Tasks:
- Unobtrusively document research try-outs, rehearsals, discussions and performances at and around matralab projects.
- Edit the footage and produce documentary videos and promotional video clips. Working knowledge of FinalCut Pro, DVD Studio Pro and Compressor is an asset.
- Produce promotional and informational DVDs on matralab research.
- Occasionally participate in research projects as a video artist yourself.
Required qualifications:
- Professionally relevant experience in above tasks.
- Able to work precisely, quickly and efficiently, sometimes to tight deadlines.
- Artistic vision and openness to unconventional approaches to documentation.
Location/Equipment:
Matralab is equipped with basic video documentation equipment.
Additional and high-end video equipment can be accessed through Hexagram.
Time Requirements:
This job is ongoing, but the assistant will need to adapt to Prof. Bhagwati's schedule requirements that may include short-notice and weekend work (e.g. around deadlines).
- Short intense work sessions approx. once a month, otherwise low-key background work.
- Between 0-15hrs per week, depending on the research situation.
- If collaboration proves fruitful, the weekly time budget could be stabilized. All to be agreed upon individually on an ongoing basis.
Pay:
Depending on the applicants' qualification, engagement and efficiency of work.
Concordia rates for Graduate Research Assistants (ca. $17 incl.) will be applicable as a minimum during a try-out phase of 6 weeks.
Later rates to be discussed individually.
Please submit a letter of introduction, an up-to-date CV, and a sample of your video work on DVD in a package to:
matralab
EV 4.520
Deadline: Monday, September 26, 2011 by 5:00pm
Contact: Jane Tingley
This position is open to currently enrolled students.
Tasks:
- Unobtrusively document research try-outs, rehearsals, discussions and performances at and around matralab projects.
- Edit the footage and produce documentary videos and promotional video clips. Working knowledge of FinalCut Pro, DVD Studio Pro and Compressor is an asset.
- Produce promotional and informational DVDs on matralab research.
- Occasionally participate in research projects as a video artist yourself.
Required qualifications:
- Professionally relevant experience in above tasks.
- Able to work precisely, quickly and efficiently, sometimes to tight deadlines.
- Artistic vision and openness to unconventional approaches to documentation.
Location/Equipment:
Matralab is equipped with basic video documentation equipment.
Additional and high-end video equipment can be accessed through Hexagram.
Time Requirements:
This job is ongoing, but the assistant will need to adapt to Prof. Bhagwati's schedule requirements that may include short-notice and weekend work (e.g. around deadlines).
- Short intense work sessions approx. once a month, otherwise low-key background work.
- Between 0-15hrs per week, depending on the research situation.
- If collaboration proves fruitful, the weekly time budget could be stabilized. All to be agreed upon individually on an ongoing basis.
Pay:
Depending on the applicants' qualification, engagement and efficiency of work.
Concordia rates for Graduate Research Assistants (ca. $17 incl.) will be applicable as a minimum during a try-out phase of 6 weeks.
Later rates to be discussed individually.
Please submit a letter of introduction, an up-to-date CV, and a sample of your video work on DVD in a package to:
matralab
EV 4.520
Deadline: Monday, September 26, 2011 by 5:00pm
Contact: Jane Tingley
Posted on September 09, 2011 at 20h30 by Max
"feelings I'm too tired for" wins 1st prize in SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers 2011, Pierre Mercure category
Adam Basanta's "feelings I'm too tired for" won 1st prize in the 2011 edition of the SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers in the Pierre Mercure category (compositions for solo and duet with or without electronics).
The interactive composition for Bass Clarinet and electronics was created at matralab, and performed by Krista Martyns.
for more information on the award and fellow winners see SOCAN foundation's media centre at: http://socanfoundation.com/english/socan_foundation.html
Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.
The interactive composition for Bass Clarinet and electronics was created at matralab, and performed by Krista Martyns.
for more information on the award and fellow winners see SOCAN foundation's media centre at: http://socanfoundation.com/english/socan_foundation.html
Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.
Posted on September 02, 2011 at 22h02 by Max
WORK WORK WORK: The Art Marathon Festival
A selection of videos from Karen Zalamea's WORK WORK WORK series is exhibited in The Art Marathon Festival, an annual summer arts festival organized by Eastern Edge Gallery.
The week-long event features workshops, video screenings, a performance marathon, an evening of artist talks, as well as the 24 hour marathon of live art making with live music venues.
Participating artists include Andrea Carvalho, Donzelle (Roxanne Arsenault, Michelle Lacombe, Skye Maule-O'Brien), Natasha Kudashkina, Thesis Sahib (James Kirkpatrick) and Colette Urban.
The Art Marathon Festival
St. John's, Newfoundland
August 14 - 21, 2011
For more information about the festival: http://www.easternedge.ca/
Karen Zalamea is a research assistant at matralab.
The week-long event features workshops, video screenings, a performance marathon, an evening of artist talks, as well as the 24 hour marathon of live art making with live music venues.
Participating artists include Andrea Carvalho, Donzelle (Roxanne Arsenault, Michelle Lacombe, Skye Maule-O'Brien), Natasha Kudashkina, Thesis Sahib (James Kirkpatrick) and Colette Urban.
The Art Marathon Festival
St. John's, Newfoundland
August 14 - 21, 2011
For more information about the festival: http://www.easternedge.ca/
Karen Zalamea is a research assistant at matralab.
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 16h08 by Max
Plant(iPod)Installation at TransLife: Triennial for New Media Art
Jane Tingley's Plant(iPod)Installation is presently being exhibited at the TransLife: Triennial for New Media Art curated by Zhang Ga at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing.
The second edition of this triennial presents 53 works created by more than 80 artists from twenty countries. The exhibition will also display the work of several emerging artists in a large-scale installation designed by the cutting-edge Chinese architect Ma Yansong. This ambitious undertaking is unquestionably among the most significant media arts events of the year.
Organized around a three part theme, the artistic projects selected for TransLife invite one to reflect on ideas pertaining to life, on ethical questions arising in the field of genetics, on conditions which impact perception and sensory experience, as well as on the ecological solutions which are available to the human species in this era of great challenges.
For the TransLife exhibition, Groupe Molior is presenting three major installations created by Canadian artists: Knight of Infinite Resignation by Diane Landry, Plant (iPod) by Jane Tingley, and JND (Just Noticeable Difference) by Chris Salter in collaboration with Marije Baalman and Harry Smoak.
For more information about the exhibition:
http://mediartchina.org/overview
Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.
The second edition of this triennial presents 53 works created by more than 80 artists from twenty countries. The exhibition will also display the work of several emerging artists in a large-scale installation designed by the cutting-edge Chinese architect Ma Yansong. This ambitious undertaking is unquestionably among the most significant media arts events of the year.
Organized around a three part theme, the artistic projects selected for TransLife invite one to reflect on ideas pertaining to life, on ethical questions arising in the field of genetics, on conditions which impact perception and sensory experience, as well as on the ecological solutions which are available to the human species in this era of great challenges.
For the TransLife exhibition, Groupe Molior is presenting three major installations created by Canadian artists: Knight of Infinite Resignation by Diane Landry, Plant (iPod) by Jane Tingley, and JND (Just Noticeable Difference) by Chris Salter in collaboration with Marije Baalman and Harry Smoak.
For more information about the exhibition:
http://mediartchina.org/overview
Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.
Posted on August 03, 2011 at 09h54 by Max
Book Launch - Affirming Collaboration: Community and Humanist Activist Art in Qubec and Elsewhere -
Affirming Collaboration: Community and Humanist Activist Art in Québec and Elsewhere / Célébrer la collaboration : Art communautaire et art activiste humaniste au Québec et ailleurs will be launched in Montreal on Monday, June 27, 2011 at La Sala Rossa (4848 Boulevard Saint-Laurent). The event, which will run between 6:00-10:00 PM, is free and open to the public and will include performances by the La Maison La Virevolte choir, the Insurrection chaotique ensemble, and many others.
Affirming Collaboration / Célébrer la collaboration (764 pages + DVD) – co-published by Engrenage Noir / LEVIER, LUX Éditeur and Detselig Enterprises – is co-edited by Devora Neumark.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Affirming Collaboration / Célébrer la collaboration (764 pages + DVD) – co-published by Engrenage Noir / LEVIER, LUX Éditeur and Detselig Enterprises – is co-edited by Devora Neumark.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 15h28 by Max
Adam Basanta: "object / field" - June 22, 2011
At 7PM on June 22, 2011 Adam Basanta will present an experimental version of "object / field", a light and sound environment, as part of Data: Salon IX, Eastern Bloc, 7240 Clark, 2nd floor, Montreal, QC.
http://www.easternbloc.ca
Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.
http://www.easternbloc.ca
Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 15h26 by Max
Adam Basanta: "Tracing Conceptual Structures in Listener Response Studies"
On June 17, 2011 Adam Basanta presented a paper entitled "Tracing Conceptual Structures in Listener Response Studies", detailing methodology and analysis of a recent listener response study, at EMS2011, NYC.
http://www.ems-network.org/ems11/conference.html
Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.
http://www.ems-network.org/ems11/conference.html
Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 15h26 by Max
matralab Showcase: Tuesday, June 7, 9am-5pm
This past year has been exceptionally active and successful for matralab.
On June 7, artists and researchers who have worked at matralab over the past year will present and discuss their work in a day-long celebration of matralab activities.
Visitors are welcome. A detailed programme will be available on June 6 on this website.
All presentations will take place at matralab (click here for directions)
On June 7, artists and researchers who have worked at matralab over the past year will present and discuss their work in a day-long celebration of matralab activities.
Visitors are welcome. A detailed programme will be available on June 6 on this website.
All presentations will take place at matralab (click here for directions)
Posted on May 30, 2011 at 00h46 by Max
Sandeep Bhagwati Artist Talk: Thursday, June 2, 5pm-7pm
On June 2, matralab director Sandeep Bhagwati will give an artist talk about his work as a composer at the Cercle Carré Artists Cooperative located at 36 rue Queen in Montréal (near Fonderie Darling). The talk will be followed by discussions and a get-together.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.
Posted on May 30, 2011 at 00h46 by Max
AGIR / ART OF WOMEN IN PRISON, May 27 - June 16, 2011
AGIR / ART OF WOMEN IN PRISON
An exhibition of artworks created in women's detention facilities
May 27 - June 16, 2011
Free Admission
Eastern Bloc Gallery
7240, rue Clark, 2nd floor
Montreal (De Castelnau Metro)
Presented by the Societé Elizabeth Fry du Québec and Engrenage Noir / LEVIER
Spokespeople for the event: artists Carole Laure & Devora Neumark
http://www.expoagir.com/en_index.html
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
An exhibition of artworks created in women's detention facilities
May 27 - June 16, 2011
Free Admission
Eastern Bloc Gallery
7240, rue Clark, 2nd floor
Montreal (De Castelnau Metro)
Presented by the Societé Elizabeth Fry du Québec and Engrenage Noir / LEVIER
Spokespeople for the event: artists Carole Laure & Devora Neumark
http://www.expoagir.com/en_index.html
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
AGIR - Communique Français (pdf)
AGIR - English Press Release (pdf)
Posted on May 23, 2011 at 12h03 by Max
Adam Basanta - Upcoming performances - May 2011
Adam Basanta has several upcoming performances of his electroacoustic works:
- May 5th, 2011: "a glass is not a glass", South American premiere.
Fundacion Destellos' Cycle of Sonic Art. Hall of Cultural Space Los Gallegos of Mar del Plata, Argentine.
http://www.fundestellos.org/pageone.htm
- May 7th, 2011, 2pm: "montreal, part I", a rare presentation of an experimental soundscape work.
As part of NAISA's Deep Wireless festival event "Jane's Walk Soundscape Concert, a Translocal Performance". The NAISA Space #252, Toronto, ON.
http://www.naisa.ca/deepwireless/Performances.html
- May 27th, 2011. "a glass is not a glass", Mexican premiere, attended by the composer with travel assistance from The Canada Council for the Arts.
As part of JTTP2010 winners concert presentation. CMMAS, Morelia, Mexico.
Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.
- May 5th, 2011: "a glass is not a glass", South American premiere.
Fundacion Destellos' Cycle of Sonic Art. Hall of Cultural Space Los Gallegos of Mar del Plata, Argentine.
http://www.fundestellos.org/pageone.htm
- May 7th, 2011, 2pm: "montreal, part I", a rare presentation of an experimental soundscape work.
As part of NAISA's Deep Wireless festival event "Jane's Walk Soundscape Concert, a Translocal Performance". The NAISA Space #252, Toronto, ON.
http://www.naisa.ca/deepwireless/Performances.html
- May 27th, 2011. "a glass is not a glass", Mexican premiere, attended by the composer with travel assistance from The Canada Council for the Arts.
As part of JTTP2010 winners concert presentation. CMMAS, Morelia, Mexico.
Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.
Posted on May 06, 2011 at 01h21 by Max
DareDroid at Elektra Festival in Montréal, May 5-7, 2011
On May 5, 6, and 7, 2011, the Modern Nomads showed the DareDroid at Elektra Festival in Montréal, QC.
The DareDroid is a line of biomechanical dresses using medical technology, custom hardware and human behaviour to explore themes of intimacy and human-robotic social interaction. Each human model and robotic dress collaborate to offer willing players a ‘gift’ in exchange for a game of ‘Truth or Dare’. This robotic performance entices participants to playfully transgress their standards of behaviour in public spaces, and invert their social norms by publically revealing personal information.
Modern Nomads (MoNo), the creator of DareDroid - is a three-person international artist group.
· Marius Kintel is a hacker, tinkerer, and engineer based in
Vienna Austria.
· Jane Tingley is a Canadian artist in sculpture, responsive
installation, and sound.
· Anouk Wipprecht is a Dutch fashiontech designer of wearable
electronics and hydraulics.
Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.
The DareDroid is a line of biomechanical dresses using medical technology, custom hardware and human behaviour to explore themes of intimacy and human-robotic social interaction. Each human model and robotic dress collaborate to offer willing players a ‘gift’ in exchange for a game of ‘Truth or Dare’. This robotic performance entices participants to playfully transgress their standards of behaviour in public spaces, and invert their social norms by publically revealing personal information.
Modern Nomads (MoNo), the creator of DareDroid - is a three-person international artist group.
· Marius Kintel is a hacker, tinkerer, and engineer based in
Vienna Austria.
· Jane Tingley is a Canadian artist in sculpture, responsive
installation, and sound.
· Anouk Wipprecht is a Dutch fashiontech designer of wearable
electronics and hydraulics.
Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.
Posted on May 05, 2011 at 15h29 by Max
Amelia Cuni - Cosmopolitan Ragas - May 9, 2011
Amelia Cuni, an internationally acclaimed dhrupad singer, has been working with Sandeep and the matralab team on "Native Alien", a current research project that looks at the possibilities of Human/Computer Improvisation in a compositorial perspective - how can a performer/composer and an improvising computer system interact to produce musically interesting and meaningful comprovisations?
On Thursday May 9th, Amelia Cuni will speak about her own work between tradition and modernity in North Indian music. The talk will be from 3-5 pm in the Concordia Music Department (MB Building 8th floor, follow the signs).
Amelia Cuni will share her experiences and insights of a 30-year long journey between cultures.
As a young Italian lover of Indian music, she spent a decade in India to learn dhrupad singing and
kathak dance with some of the most respected exponents of the Hindustani tradition. During
the 90s, she started applying experimental procedures to dhrupad vocalism in a new music
context, while interacting with musicians and composers from various backgrounds (Terry
Riley, Maria de Alvear, Werner Durand, David Toop a.o.) She has presented her own artistic
projects in Europe, Asia and America and collaborates in the fields of early and new music,
electro-acoustic, chamber music, electronica, jazz, multimedia etc. She teaches Indian singing at
the Conservatory of Vicenza (Italy), lives in Berlin, Germany. Her interpretation of John Cage's
SOLO 58 (the microtonal ragas - SONG BOOKS, 1970) has been co-produced by several
European and American new music venues.
In her presentation, Amelia will introduce and demonstrate the main features of a traditional
dhrupad performance and some of her own raga-based compositions and collaborations as
well. Over the years, she has developed a teaching method rooted in the tradition while
addressing contemporary issues. In this session, she will offer the participants the opportunity to
experience directly a raga's unique personality within a system of oral transmission.
This talk is open to anyone (no RSVP). Bring friends.
We will stay on in the room afterwards for snacks and drinks and conversations with Amelia.
http://ameliacuni.de/
On Thursday May 9th, Amelia Cuni will speak about her own work between tradition and modernity in North Indian music. The talk will be from 3-5 pm in the Concordia Music Department (MB Building 8th floor, follow the signs).
Amelia Cuni will share her experiences and insights of a 30-year long journey between cultures.
As a young Italian lover of Indian music, she spent a decade in India to learn dhrupad singing and
kathak dance with some of the most respected exponents of the Hindustani tradition. During
the 90s, she started applying experimental procedures to dhrupad vocalism in a new music
context, while interacting with musicians and composers from various backgrounds (Terry
Riley, Maria de Alvear, Werner Durand, David Toop a.o.) She has presented her own artistic
projects in Europe, Asia and America and collaborates in the fields of early and new music,
electro-acoustic, chamber music, electronica, jazz, multimedia etc. She teaches Indian singing at
the Conservatory of Vicenza (Italy), lives in Berlin, Germany. Her interpretation of John Cage's
SOLO 58 (the microtonal ragas - SONG BOOKS, 1970) has been co-produced by several
European and American new music venues.
In her presentation, Amelia will introduce and demonstrate the main features of a traditional
dhrupad performance and some of her own raga-based compositions and collaborations as
well. Over the years, she has developed a teaching method rooted in the tradition while
addressing contemporary issues. In this session, she will offer the participants the opportunity to
experience directly a raga's unique personality within a system of oral transmission.
This talk is open to anyone (no RSVP). Bring friends.
We will stay on in the room afterwards for snacks and drinks and conversations with Amelia.
http://ameliacuni.de/
Posted on May 03, 2011 at 12h15 by Max
Video: Zata Omm @ matralab (July, 2010)
Last summer (July 6-15, 2010), Zata Omm Dance Projects, a contemporary dance company based in Toronto, visited the matrabox for a one-week residency. Zata Omm’s objective is to create new experiences in dance with choreographic works by artistic director William Yong, and their research explores the relationship between new technology and live contemporary dance (Zata Omm Dance and Technology Research Laboratory). matralab research associates Navid Navab and Jerome Delapierre worked as a technological specialists for the project.
The following video is an excerpt from their research at matralab last July.
Navid Navab and Jerome Delapierre are matralab research associates.
The following video is an excerpt from their research at matralab last July.
Navid Navab and Jerome Delapierre are matralab research associates.
Posted on April 24, 2011 at 17h38 by Max
Miyagi Haikus
Over the past weekend, matralab director Sandeep Bhagwati composed “17 Miyagi Haikus” in response to the disasters in Japan.
17 solo pieces, but - they can also be played unisono by many - or combined to form ensemble works. First performances on April 1 at the “TAMUKE - Offerings for Japan” Event (see http://matralab.hexagram.ca/tamuke/ ).
But if anyone is interested to play them at similar events in Montréal or elsewhere, just contact matralab@gmail.com and we will send you the PDF score.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab
17 solo pieces, but - they can also be played unisono by many - or combined to form ensemble works. First performances on April 1 at the “TAMUKE - Offerings for Japan” Event (see http://matralab.hexagram.ca/tamuke/ ).
But if anyone is interested to play them at similar events in Montréal or elsewhere, just contact matralab@gmail.com and we will send you the PDF score.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 22h41 by Sandeep
手向け TAMUKE Offerings for Japan Offrandes pour le Japon
matralab is currently leading the effort in collaboration with the Sociéte des Arts Technologiques (SAT) to organize an artistic vigil at the SAT on April 1 (this Friday) from 8pm to 3am.
Many Montreal artists, prominent and emerging, will be contributing performances and readings.Some of them have written new works for the occasion.
More info and a list of participants at http://matralab.hexagram.ca/tamuke/
And come and join the event.
Many Montreal artists, prominent and emerging, will be contributing performances and readings.Some of them have written new works for the occasion.
More info and a list of participants at http://matralab.hexagram.ca/tamuke/
And come and join the event.
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 15h14 by Sandeep
Adam Basanta @ CLIEC - March 26, 2011
Adam Basanta will be performing an improvisation for laptop, nintendo Wii and iPod touch at the Concordia Live and Interactive Electroacoustic Colloquium (CLIEC) 2011 - a one day colloquium focusing on issues surrounding the marriage between electroacoustics and the performing and media arts.
Saturday March 26th
19:30-21:30
Concordia Music Department
MB Building, 8th Floor
1450 Rue Guy
Montreal, QC H3H 0A1
more info: http://cliec2011.hexagram.ca/
Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.
Saturday March 26th
19:30-21:30
Concordia Music Department
MB Building, 8th Floor
1450 Rue Guy
Montreal, QC H3H 0A1
more info: http://cliec2011.hexagram.ca/
Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 23h10 by Max
Plant(iPod)Installation @ Estevan Gallery
Jane Tingley’s "Plant(iPod)Installation" opened in Estevan Gallery in Estevan, Saskatchewan on March 4th, 2011. The show will remain open until April 30, 2011.
For images of the installation go to janetingley.com > projects > Plant(iPod)Installation> image gallery. Or view them on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/janetingley/5510113927/in/set-72157622522788256/.
Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.
For images of the installation go to janetingley.com > projects > Plant(iPod)Installation> image gallery. Or view them on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/janetingley/5510113927/in/set-72157622522788256/.
Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.
Posted on March 08, 2011 at 21h45 by Max
Alien Lands Reviews on CetteVilleEtrange.org
The performance of Sandeep Bhagwati’s “Alien Lands” at the Festival Montreal Nouvelles Musiques has elicited elaborate written reactions.
Please read here (in French) the reviews and reports by Michel Gonneville and Patrick Saint Denis:
http://www.cettevilleetrange.org/?p=247
http://www.cettevilleetrange.org/?p=244
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.
Please read here (in French) the reviews and reports by Michel Gonneville and Patrick Saint Denis:
http://www.cettevilleetrange.org/?p=247
http://www.cettevilleetrange.org/?p=244
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.
Posted on March 08, 2011 at 00h56 by Max
A Matter of Life & Breath: March 9-12, 2011
Michal Seta has collaborated on the interactive aspects of this piece choreographed by Roger Sinha.
See official flyer at this link
SINHA DANSE / Roger Sinha
Agora de la danse
March 9-10-11 \ 8 PM + March 12 \ 4 PM
840, rue Cherrier E., Mtl · (514) 525-1500
Michal Seta is a research associate at matralab.
See official flyer at this link
SINHA DANSE / Roger Sinha
Agora de la danse
March 9-10-11 \ 8 PM + March 12 \ 4 PM
840, rue Cherrier E., Mtl · (514) 525-1500
Michal Seta is a research associate at matralab.
Posted on March 07, 2011 at 03h07 by Max
matralab lecture series - Gyula Csapó - February 22, 2011 @ 14h30
The second lecturer of the 2011 matralab lectures series is Gyula Csapó, who will present a lecture called The Role of Comprovisation in the Works of the Budapest New Music Studio (1975-1983) and Examples of Its Applications in Composition Instruction Today. It will take place in EV 4.520, located in 1515 Ste Catherine Ouest on February 22nd, 2011 at 2:30 pm (14h30).
This lecture will offer a fascinating insight into the structure and functioning of the Budapest New Music Studio, a world-famous formation of cutting-edge avant-garde musicians (Zoltán Jeney, László Vidovsky, László Sáry, Péter Eötvös, Barnabás Dukay, Gyula Csapó, Zsolt Serei, András Wilheim, under the mentorship and active participation of György Kurtág) in Hungary during the Socialist regime.
This lecture will offer a fascinating insight into the structure and functioning of the Budapest New Music Studio, a world-famous formation of cutting-edge avant-garde musicians (Zoltán Jeney, László Vidovsky, László Sáry, Péter Eötvös, Barnabás Dukay, Gyula Csapó, Zsolt Serei, András Wilheim, under the mentorship and active participation of György Kurtág) in Hungary during the Socialist regime.
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 01h17 by Max
Alien Lands (World Premiere) - February 18 & 19, 2011 @ 9pm
Sandeep Bhagwati au festival de Montréal Nouvelles Musiques
Bozzini String Quartet and Bye Bye Butterfly Percussion Quartet
http://www.festivalmnm.ca/en/2011/prog/concert/28109/
18 février et 19 février 2011 à 21hr 00 à l’Agora Hydro-Québec — Cœur des sciences — UQAM. 175 avenue du Président-Kennedy [metro Places-des-Arts]
In our high-speed world, all things at rest quietly defend their silent mysteries. Three compositions, three variations on the motionless: deeply layered musical explorations of how wonderfully subtle our sonic world is – if we stop to listen. A new sonic aesthetic of the monochrome, focused and rich – to Bhagwati, a lively market is a monochrome sound, as are cracking ice floes, screaming children, a scorching fire, an idling motor, a thousand bees, a house creaking at night… Alien Lands - 4 energetic patterns of silence and noise for 4 percussionists, monochrom - 4 increasingly intricate comprovisations for string quartet, and Nil Nisi Nive, a sonic tissue of melody and rhythm. Instruments embedded in live-generated soundscapes, in vibrant light spaces – and guided by sophisticated interactive computer scores: This evening is a journey into the world between our ears, moving through both the real space of the concert and our inner, imaginary space, from rage to meditation to dream - and back to the joy of ecstatic beats.
Sandeep Bhagwati (*1963) is a German composer and theatre maker of international renown. Since 2006, he directs matralab, a lab for interdisciplinary and intercultural research-creation at Concordia University, and currently is also director of the Hexagram Concordia Centre for Research Creation in Media Arts.
Bozzini String Quartet and Bye Bye Butterfly Percussion Quartet
http://www.festivalmnm.ca/en/2011/prog/concert/28109/
18 février et 19 février 2011 à 21hr 00 à l’Agora Hydro-Québec — Cœur des sciences — UQAM. 175 avenue du Président-Kennedy [metro Places-des-Arts]
In our high-speed world, all things at rest quietly defend their silent mysteries. Three compositions, three variations on the motionless: deeply layered musical explorations of how wonderfully subtle our sonic world is – if we stop to listen. A new sonic aesthetic of the monochrome, focused and rich – to Bhagwati, a lively market is a monochrome sound, as are cracking ice floes, screaming children, a scorching fire, an idling motor, a thousand bees, a house creaking at night… Alien Lands - 4 energetic patterns of silence and noise for 4 percussionists, monochrom - 4 increasingly intricate comprovisations for string quartet, and Nil Nisi Nive, a sonic tissue of melody and rhythm. Instruments embedded in live-generated soundscapes, in vibrant light spaces – and guided by sophisticated interactive computer scores: This evening is a journey into the world between our ears, moving through both the real space of the concert and our inner, imaginary space, from rage to meditation to dream - and back to the joy of ecstatic beats.
Sandeep Bhagwati (*1963) is a German composer and theatre maker of international renown. Since 2006, he directs matralab, a lab for interdisciplinary and intercultural research-creation at Concordia University, and currently is also director of the Hexagram Concordia Centre for Research Creation in Media Arts.
Posted on February 08, 2011 at 13h20 by Max
Talk by composer Christopher Butterfield - "How To Write Music"
The first lecturer of the 2011 matralab lectures series is Christopher Butterfield, who will talk about his recent work, including Bosquet, for 22 flutes and one cello, Stall, for two improvising sopranos, and Trip, for string quartet. This lecture will take place in MB 8.255, located in 1450 Guy on February 1st, 2011 at 2:30 pm (14h30).
Composer Christopher Butterfield lives in Victoria, British Columbia. His most recent works include Bosquet, a spatial work for 22 flutes and cello commissioned by Montreal's Ensemble Alizé; Stall, a site-specific work for public washrooms commissioned by vocal artists DB Boyko and Christine Duncan; Trip, a string quartet written for the Quatuor Bozzini; settings of Jacques Prévert's 1947 childrens' stories Contes pour enfants pas sages, Toronto's Continuum Ensemble; Madame Wu said, a projected three-day piece for piano trio; Triple Expansion for spatial orchestra, commissioned by the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra; and Les Paradis Perdus, music for voice and tape to accompany a choreography by Laurence Lemieux.
He has written an opera, Zurich 1916, for the Banff Festival in 1998; Convoy PQ17, a ballet score for chorus and orchestra (St. Petersburg, Russia in 2001), and many chamber works. In 1996/97 he performed Kurt Schwitters' sound poem Ursonata many times, on tour with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Europe and the U.S.
In 2007 Christopher Butterfield was a fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. His music has been played across Canada, as well as in Finland, Slovakia, and France, and is recorded on the Artifact and CBC labels. He studied composition in the 70's with Rudolf Komorous and Bülent Arel. He has taught composition at the University of Victoria since 1992.
Composer Christopher Butterfield lives in Victoria, British Columbia. His most recent works include Bosquet, a spatial work for 22 flutes and cello commissioned by Montreal's Ensemble Alizé; Stall, a site-specific work for public washrooms commissioned by vocal artists DB Boyko and Christine Duncan; Trip, a string quartet written for the Quatuor Bozzini; settings of Jacques Prévert's 1947 childrens' stories Contes pour enfants pas sages, Toronto's Continuum Ensemble; Madame Wu said, a projected three-day piece for piano trio; Triple Expansion for spatial orchestra, commissioned by the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra; and Les Paradis Perdus, music for voice and tape to accompany a choreography by Laurence Lemieux.
He has written an opera, Zurich 1916, for the Banff Festival in 1998; Convoy PQ17, a ballet score for chorus and orchestra (St. Petersburg, Russia in 2001), and many chamber works. In 1996/97 he performed Kurt Schwitters' sound poem Ursonata many times, on tour with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Europe and the U.S.
In 2007 Christopher Butterfield was a fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. His music has been played across Canada, as well as in Finland, Slovakia, and France, and is recorded on the Artifact and CBC labels. He studied composition in the 70's with Rudolf Komorous and Bülent Arel. He has taught composition at the University of Victoria since 1992.
Posted on January 27, 2011 at 16h18 by Max
D. Andrew Stewart, "Shake, rattle and roll : Or how to create music for digital musical instruments"
Performance-lecture at The Ghost in the Machine: Technologies, Performance, Publics with D. Andrew Stewart.
Wednesday, February 2, 6:15 pm
Tanna Schulich Hall, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
Montreal, Canada
The Ghost in the Machine: Technologies, Performance, Publics is a two-day conference (2 - 3 February) hosted by IPLAI, Improvisation, Community and Social Practice.
Many more events, lectures and discussions @
http://www.mcgill.ca/iplai/ghostmachine/
D. Andrew Stewart is a post-doc researcher at matralab.
http://dandrewstewart.ca/
Wednesday, February 2, 6:15 pm
Tanna Schulich Hall, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
Montreal, Canada
The Ghost in the Machine: Technologies, Performance, Publics is a two-day conference (2 - 3 February) hosted by IPLAI, Improvisation, Community and Social Practice.
Many more events, lectures and discussions @
http://www.mcgill.ca/iplai/ghostmachine/
D. Andrew Stewart is a post-doc researcher at matralab.
http://dandrewstewart.ca/
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 23h28 by Max
Wired Women Salon 80: Caroline Gagné + Jane Tingley
On Thursday, 13 January 2011 at 18h30, Studio XX will host an evening of presentations by media artists, Caroline Gagné and Jane Tingley, whose practices rooted in sound and video installation consider and manipulate natural elements of exterior environments.
Studio XX
4001 Berri (corner Duluth), Suite 201
Sherbrooke Metro
Thursday, January 13, 2011, 6:30 PM
For more information: 514.845.7934 // www.studioxx.org
Free admission for Studio XX members; $5.00 for non-members
Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be served.
Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.
Studio XX
4001 Berri (corner Duluth), Suite 201
Sherbrooke Metro
Thursday, January 13, 2011, 6:30 PM
For more information: 514.845.7934 // www.studioxx.org
Free admission for Studio XX members; $5.00 for non-members
Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be served.
Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 22h57 by Max
The Jewish Home Beautiful – Revisited: January 23, 2011
It would be wonderful if you could join us for the second in The Jewish Home Beautiful – Revisited series of community performance events, which will be held on January 23, 2011 to coincide with the holiday of Tu Bishvat – the Jewish annual celebration of the New Year for Trees.
Please mark the date, time and location in your calendars:
DATE:
Sunday, January 23, 2011
TIME:
13h30-14h00 Welcome and registration
14h00-16h00 The Jewish Home Beautiful – Revisited
LOCATION:
Gelber Conference Centre, 2 Cummings Square (on Cote-Ste-Catherine Road at the corner of Westbury)
RSVP: Devora Neumark: fireside@progression.net
The Jewish Home Beautiful – Revisited is part of a research/creation cycle called Radical Beauty for Troubled Times: The (Un)Making of Home.
This community performance like the first Jewish Home Beautiful – Revisited event (that took place on June 2, 2010 at Concordia University’s FOFA Gallery) is based in part on the original Jewish Home Beautiful script that was written in the 1930s by Betty D. Greenberg and Althea O. Silverman and performed ever since in Jewish congregations across North American. Unlike the original theatrical pageant, this upcoming event will unfold in dialogue with everyone present on the 23rd of January 2011.
At the heart of this conversation will be a reflection about our relationship – both physical and symbolic – to the orchards, groves and forests in Israel/Palestine. While we celebrate this New Year for Trees and mark the Middle-Eastern season wherein the earliest-blossoms emerge from their winter sleep to begin a new fruit-bearing cycle, let us also consider the choices made about which trees are being planted where and whose are being cut down.
Looking forward to your participation,
Devora Neumark in collaboration with (in alphabetical order): Andrew Harder, Vera Kisfalvi, Chantale Laplante, Lesley Levy, Diana Yaros, Sonia Zylberberg
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Please mark the date, time and location in your calendars:
DATE:
Sunday, January 23, 2011
TIME:
13h30-14h00 Welcome and registration
14h00-16h00 The Jewish Home Beautiful – Revisited
LOCATION:
Gelber Conference Centre, 2 Cummings Square (on Cote-Ste-Catherine Road at the corner of Westbury)
RSVP: Devora Neumark: fireside@progression.net
The Jewish Home Beautiful – Revisited is part of a research/creation cycle called Radical Beauty for Troubled Times: The (Un)Making of Home.
This community performance like the first Jewish Home Beautiful – Revisited event (that took place on June 2, 2010 at Concordia University’s FOFA Gallery) is based in part on the original Jewish Home Beautiful script that was written in the 1930s by Betty D. Greenberg and Althea O. Silverman and performed ever since in Jewish congregations across North American. Unlike the original theatrical pageant, this upcoming event will unfold in dialogue with everyone present on the 23rd of January 2011.
At the heart of this conversation will be a reflection about our relationship – both physical and symbolic – to the orchards, groves and forests in Israel/Palestine. While we celebrate this New Year for Trees and mark the Middle-Eastern season wherein the earliest-blossoms emerge from their winter sleep to begin a new fruit-bearing cycle, let us also consider the choices made about which trees are being planted where and whose are being cut down.
Looking forward to your participation,
Devora Neumark in collaboration with (in alphabetical order): Andrew Harder, Vera Kisfalvi, Chantale Laplante, Lesley Levy, Diana Yaros, Sonia Zylberberg
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on January 11, 2011 at 21h33 by Max
DareDroid at Roboexotica festival in Vienna
Jane Tingley went to Vienna, Austria to participate in the 12th annual Roboexotica festival organized by Shifz and Monochrom. There she collaborated with Anouk Wipprecht, and Marius Kintel to build the DareDroid. This robotic cocktail making cocktail dress was a hit and won the Conversation award at the Roboexotica awards on Sunday Dec 5th, 2010.
Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.
Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.
Posted on December 06, 2010 at 18h45 by Max
Paysages éphémères @ Darling Foundary, December 6-7, 2010
Adam Basanta will be participating in the interdisciplinary performance project "Paysages éphémères", an adaptation of Italo Calvino's book, Invisible Cities. Adam will provide sound design and live laptop performance elements to this project, which includes instrumental musicians, dance and interactive visuals.
Other performers include musicians: Jean-Félix Mailloux-Desjardins (contrabasse), Adam Kinner (tenor saxophone), Krista Martynes (bass clarinet), Solomiya Moroz (flute), Tony Spina (drums), Ingrid Wissink (violin), and dancers: Melusine de Maille, Melina Stinson, Marc-Genya St.Arnaud, Mellisha Dow and Miriah Brennan.
Performances will take place Monday and Tuesday December 6 - 7 2010, 8 PM at the Darling Foundry (745, Ottawa Street, Montréal).
Tickets at the door and by reservation by calling 514-963-7374: 15$ (regular) - 12$ (artists/cultural workers, students and seniors)
Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.
Other performers include musicians: Jean-Félix Mailloux-Desjardins (contrabasse), Adam Kinner (tenor saxophone), Krista Martynes (bass clarinet), Solomiya Moroz (flute), Tony Spina (drums), Ingrid Wissink (violin), and dancers: Melusine de Maille, Melina Stinson, Marc-Genya St.Arnaud, Mellisha Dow and Miriah Brennan.
Performances will take place Monday and Tuesday December 6 - 7 2010, 8 PM at the Darling Foundry (745, Ottawa Street, Montréal).
Tickets at the door and by reservation by calling 514-963-7374: 15$ (regular) - 12$ (artists/cultural workers, students and seniors)
Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.
Posted on December 05, 2010 at 21h18 by Max
Workshop Presentation, Baillie project Monday 6 December, 2010
On December 6, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. at matralab, a short demonstration will be given on some of the laboratory work which the research-creation component of the "Hypertext and Performance: A Resonance Response to Joanna Baillie's Witchcraft" project has been up to.
Under the direction of Cristina Iovita (PhD Humanities, Concordia) and the tutelage of Ursula Denzer-Neuerberg (faculty, Theatre), a group of Concordia actors have explored some of the gestural codes of performance in the Romantic period, as a vehicle for producing Baillie's Witchcraft. The objective isn't to stage a museum piece but rather to understand some of the theatrical assumptions behind Baillie's work.
The dramaturgical and scholarly research was spearheaded by Joanna Donehower (PhD Humanities, Concordia) with contributions from Anna Sigg (PhD, McGill) and Concordia English undergraduates Nina Drystek and Alessandra Ferreri.
Last year, the project explored the Scottish dialogue in this prose tragedy and focused on creating resonant responses to Baillie's work. This Fall's work will focus on the actor, on historic acting conventions and our embodied understanding of Ballie's play through work with contemporary actors.
The presentation starts at 11 a.m. at matralab. Please confirm your presence and, if you come, please arrive on time.
Further information on the next steps of the Baillie project will be provided, including production details for the final year of our three-year initiative.
Louis Patrick Leroux is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Under the direction of Cristina Iovita (PhD Humanities, Concordia) and the tutelage of Ursula Denzer-Neuerberg (faculty, Theatre), a group of Concordia actors have explored some of the gestural codes of performance in the Romantic period, as a vehicle for producing Baillie's Witchcraft. The objective isn't to stage a museum piece but rather to understand some of the theatrical assumptions behind Baillie's work.
The dramaturgical and scholarly research was spearheaded by Joanna Donehower (PhD Humanities, Concordia) with contributions from Anna Sigg (PhD, McGill) and Concordia English undergraduates Nina Drystek and Alessandra Ferreri.
Last year, the project explored the Scottish dialogue in this prose tragedy and focused on creating resonant responses to Baillie's work. This Fall's work will focus on the actor, on historic acting conventions and our embodied understanding of Ballie's play through work with contemporary actors.
The presentation starts at 11 a.m. at matralab. Please confirm your presence and, if you come, please arrive on time.
Further information on the next steps of the Baillie project will be provided, including production details for the final year of our three-year initiative.
Louis Patrick Leroux is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on December 01, 2010 at 15h09 by Max
Matralab Researchers cited in this week's issue of MacLeans
D. Andrew Stewart and Sandeep Bhagwati were cited in this week's issue of MacLeans. The article, entitled "No Ivy Here", features Concordia University as one of three underrated Canadian universities.
Read the article: No Ivy Here.
D. Andrew Stewart is a post-doc researcher at matralab.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.
Read the article: No Ivy Here.
D. Andrew Stewart is a post-doc researcher at matralab.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 19h13 by Max
Figures d'un territoire: November 19, 2010
As part of the HTMlles 2010 festival, Chantale Laplante will perform Figures d'un territoire: Pour cloches plaques traitées et sons métamorphosés on Friday, 19 November, 20h00 at Oboro.
entrée 10$ /5$ (students)
Chantale Laplante is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
entrée 10$ /5$ (students)
Chantale Laplante is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 03h36 by Max
World premiere of "jaali" on November 18, 2010
Sandeep Bhagwati's comprovisation work "jaali" will have its world premiere on Thursday, November 18th in Stuttgart.
It features the "Ensemble gelberklang", a sextet of renowned improvisers, as well as an ensemble of eleven 12th grade students from a local school.
Bhagwati will conduct the 15 minute work at the Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.
It features the "Ensemble gelberklang", a sextet of renowned improvisers, as well as an ensemble of eleven 12th grade students from a local school.
Bhagwati will conduct the 15 minute work at the Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 00h41 by Max
Se taire at the Salon du livre de Montréal
Louis Patrick Leroux's new book, Se taire, a play, will be launched at the Salon du livre de Montréal.
Leroux will be signing copies at Stand 422, Thursday 18 November 3-4 p.m. and 6 to 7 p.m. and on Saturday 20 November, 3 to 5 p.m.
The Salon du livre de Montréal held at the Place Bonaventure Convention Center.
Louis Patrick Leroux is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Leroux will be signing copies at Stand 422, Thursday 18 November 3-4 p.m. and 6 to 7 p.m. and on Saturday 20 November, 3 to 5 p.m.
The Salon du livre de Montréal held at the Place Bonaventure Convention Center.
Louis Patrick Leroux is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 00h25 by Max
Free online inaugural issue of Performing Ethos now available
Intellect has just released the inaugural issue of Performing Ethos. A free on-line version of the journal is available at: http://www.atypon-link.com/INT/toc/peet/1/1
As Carole-Anne Upton writes in her Editorial: "An ethical dimension is arguably both implicit and essential in any consideration of what it is that the theatre can do, and of how the theatre can function and be understood in relation to individuals and communities, real or imagined. This journal [...] strives to create a dynamic space in which ethical questions arising within the broad fields of theatre, drama and performance can be explicitly addressed, and in which ethical challenges and imperatives can be identified and explored, analysed, evaluated, contextualized, debated, challenged, revisited and perhaps even resolved."
Devora Neumark's article "Close Proximity" is included in this issue.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
As Carole-Anne Upton writes in her Editorial: "An ethical dimension is arguably both implicit and essential in any consideration of what it is that the theatre can do, and of how the theatre can function and be understood in relation to individuals and communities, real or imagined. This journal [...] strives to create a dynamic space in which ethical questions arising within the broad fields of theatre, drama and performance can be explicitly addressed, and in which ethical challenges and imperatives can be identified and explored, analysed, evaluated, contextualized, debated, challenged, revisited and perhaps even resolved."
Devora Neumark's article "Close Proximity" is included in this issue.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 00h16 by Max
The Performing Ethos journal launched on November 6, 2010
In conjunction with "The Author and the Audience" symposium at the University of Leeds, the first issue of Performing Ethos -- which "addresses ethical questions raised in contemporary theatre and live performance, both within the politically and aesthetically radical, and the mainstream" -- has been released.
Devora Neumark's "Close Proximity" is one of the featured articles in the inaugural issue (pp 69-83) and focuses on the possibility for artistic practice to effectively catalyse and support wellness.
Neumark's article explores resilience, the power of symbolic meaning-making and the scale of influence at the nexus of beauty and home relative to community performance.
For more information about the symposium and the journal please consult: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/weblog/view-Post,id=43654
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Devora Neumark's "Close Proximity" is one of the featured articles in the inaugural issue (pp 69-83) and focuses on the possibility for artistic practice to effectively catalyse and support wellness.
Neumark's article explores resilience, the power of symbolic meaning-making and the scale of influence at the nexus of beauty and home relative to community performance.
For more information about the symposium and the journal please consult: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/weblog/view-Post,id=43654
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 19h57 by Max
A Matter of Life and Breath
"With a hybrid vocabulary, the movements, words, sounds and technologies facilitate the creation of a poetic body, supported by interactive software. Each movement of the dancers then triggers sound fragments, making the dancers musicians as well as movers". -- excerpt from the promotional flyer.
Excerpts from the work-in-progress A Matter of Life and Breath by choreographer Roger Sinha will be presented in OFF CINARS' showcase. matralab's Michal Seta designed the software and collaborated with composer Bertrand Chénier on the interactive portions of the music.
http://www.sinhadanse.com/
The showcase takes place on November 17, 18, 19, 2010 at 12:30PM at Espace Saint-André, 1881, Saint-André #100 (Corner of Ontario).
Michal Seta is a matralab research associate.
Excerpts from the work-in-progress A Matter of Life and Breath by choreographer Roger Sinha will be presented in OFF CINARS' showcase. matralab's Michal Seta designed the software and collaborated with composer Bertrand Chénier on the interactive portions of the music.
http://www.sinhadanse.com/
The showcase takes place on November 17, 18, 19, 2010 at 12:30PM at Espace Saint-André, 1881, Saint-André #100 (Corner of Ontario).
Michal Seta is a matralab research associate.
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 20h42 by Max
"jaali" and master-classes
Sandeep Bhagwati's latest work "jaali" for sextet and screen ensemble will see its world premiere on Nov 18, 2010 at the Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Germany). The composer himself will conduct the "ensemble gelber klang" and a group of young music students who will play the screen. "jaali" is a Gujarati word and refers to the kind of ornamental stone screens used in Mughal architecture.
In "jaali, the screen ensemble is placed between the soloists and the audience. It plays a rigid, but airy framework of recurring rhythmicized melodies. The sextet of soloists have a very complex improvisation score that is grounded in the screen music, but also in a system of rapidly alternating soloists and imitating each other. Their music "wafts" through the screen, just as air and the reality of the world outside wafted through the people seated behind Mughal screens.
Around this world premiere, Bhagwati will also tour several German and Austrian music universities in Lübeck (Nov12/13), Graz (Nov 22/23) and Munich (Nov 24/25), giving lectures about his work and research as well as conduct master-classes for composition students.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab
In "jaali, the screen ensemble is placed between the soloists and the audience. It plays a rigid, but airy framework of recurring rhythmicized melodies. The sextet of soloists have a very complex improvisation score that is grounded in the screen music, but also in a system of rapidly alternating soloists and imitating each other. Their music "wafts" through the screen, just as air and the reality of the world outside wafted through the people seated behind Mughal screens.
Around this world premiere, Bhagwati will also tour several German and Austrian music universities in Lübeck (Nov12/13), Graz (Nov 22/23) and Munich (Nov 24/25), giving lectures about his work and research as well as conduct master-classes for composition students.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab
Posted on November 02, 2010 at 10h49 by Sandeep
Bhagwati's "Atish-e-Zaban" to be performed Oct.7
On Oct 7, Sandeep Bhagwati's evening-length voice sextet "Atish-e-Zaban" (2006) will be performed in a new version by the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart during the Zukunftsmusik Festival.
The event will be an after-work concert, with introductions and talks with singers and musicologist around the work, its singular comprovisational structure and its relationship to the future of work.
Oct 7, 5:30 pm, Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
Siemenstr. 11
70469 Stuttgart, Germany
http://www.zukunftsmusik-das-festival.de/programm-0710.html
The event will be an after-work concert, with introductions and talks with singers and musicologist around the work, its singular comprovisational structure and its relationship to the future of work.
Oct 7, 5:30 pm, Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
Siemenstr. 11
70469 Stuttgart, Germany
http://www.zukunftsmusik-das-festival.de/programm-0710.html
Posted on October 05, 2010 at 16h50 by matralab
"The Idea of Home" website now online
The “Idea of Home” website is now live at http://ioh.arts.unsw.edu.au/index.html.
Devora Neumark is pleased to acknowledge travel funding support to attend this international symposium hosted by the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). This financial support comes from the Concordia University Humanities PhD Program and her Doctoral Supervisor, Sandeep Bhagwati.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Devora Neumark is pleased to acknowledge travel funding support to attend this international symposium hosted by the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). This financial support comes from the Concordia University Humanities PhD Program and her Doctoral Supervisor, Sandeep Bhagwati.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on September 30, 2010 at 10h09 by matralab
Composer Adam Basanta joins matralab
Composer and sound artist Adam Basanta has joined matralab. He recently received several prizes and an invitation to perform at the Vancouver New Music Festival:
- "a glass is not a glass (mov I to VI)", Honourable Mention, 11th Electroacoustic Composition Competition Música Viva 2010, Portugal.
- "a glass is not a glass (mov I to XI)", 2nd prize, JTTP competition (CEC, Montreal Canada)
- Live audiovisual improv collaboration with Sammy Chien accepted for the Vancouver New Music Festival (http://newmusic.org/TFTE.htm).
Basanta will travel to Vancouver to perform on October 23. Link to the "demo reel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qct3bmz-p4I
- "a glass is not a glass (mov I to VI)", Honourable Mention, 11th Electroacoustic Composition Competition Música Viva 2010, Portugal.
- "a glass is not a glass (mov I to XI)", 2nd prize, JTTP competition (CEC, Montreal Canada)
- Live audiovisual improv collaboration with Sammy Chien accepted for the Vancouver New Music Festival (http://newmusic.org/TFTE.htm).
Basanta will travel to Vancouver to perform on October 23. Link to the "demo reel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qct3bmz-p4I
Posted on September 30, 2010 at 10h05 by matralab
Jane Tingley in Vienna
Jane Tingley participates in paraflows .10 - Festival of Digital Art and Culture. Body;trichobothria is exhibited at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna, Austria until October 10th, 2010 (www.paraflows.at).
She is also the Paraflows Artist-in-Residence at the MuseumQuarter with Quartier21 until October 31st, where she will be developing a new project. Artist Michal Seta will be coming to Vienna to collaborate on the sound component of the work.
Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.
She is also the Paraflows Artist-in-Residence at the MuseumQuarter with Quartier21 until October 31st, where she will be developing a new project. Artist Michal Seta will be coming to Vienna to collaborate on the sound component of the work.
Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 20h29 by matralab
Devora Neumark artist residency at UQAM
Devora Neumark has been invited as artist-in-residence within the context of Dr. Louise Lachapelle's 'Théorie de la création littéraire' course this semester at UQAM entitled HABITER LE CONTEMPORAIN.
Neumark's body of live art performance work, including "The Jewish Home Beautiful" - Revisited series, will be examined along with other material which troubles the concepts and experiences of dwelling/home/house and interrogates the creative process.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Neumark's body of live art performance work, including "The Jewish Home Beautiful" - Revisited series, will be examined along with other material which troubles the concepts and experiences of dwelling/home/house and interrogates the creative process.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 22h21 by matralab
Zata Omm visits matrabox
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/
Navid Navab is a matralab research associate.
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/
Navid Navab is a matralab research associate.
Posted on August 27, 2010 at 15h53 by matralab
Carte blanche a Chantale Laplante
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)
Chantale Laplante is an artist-in-residence 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)
Chantale Laplante is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on August 23, 2010 at 13h22 by matralab
Réflexions circulaires sur l'origine et la destination
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.
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.
Posted on August 12, 2010 at 16h25 by matralab
The Idea of Home
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.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on August 05, 2010 at 10h21 by matralab
Performing aesthetics, performing politics
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/
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
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/
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on July 28, 2010 at 11h49 by matralab
D.Andrew Stewart's "The Power of One"
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
D. Andrew Stewart is a post-doc researcher at matralab.
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
D. Andrew Stewart is a post-doc researcher at matralab.
Posted on July 28, 2010 at 11h47 by matralab
A Matter of Life and Breath
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.
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.
Posted on July 15, 2010 at 17h11 by matralab
Performing Beauty, Practicing Home
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.
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.
Posted on July 15, 2010 at 17h03 by matralab
Proof 17
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
Karen Zalamea is a matralab research assistant.
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
Karen Zalamea is a matralab research assistant.
Posted on July 09, 2010 at 09h18 by matralab
Performing Aesthetics, Performing Politics
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.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
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.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on July 09, 2010 at 09h11 by matralab
Michal Seta's [IR]Rationnel at Eurêka!2010
[IR]Rationnel, l'oeuvre audio-visuelle réactive de Michal Seta sera présentée les 11, 12 et 13 juin 2010 aux quais du vieux port de Montréal en face de Centre des sciences dans le cadre du festival Eurêka!2010. Veuillez consulter le communiqué de presse pour les plus amples détails:
http://www.molior.ca/communiques/comm-Eureka-MoliorEn.pdf
Michal Seta's audio-visual reactive work [IR]Rationnel will be presented on June 11, 12 and 13, 2010 during the festival Eureka!2010 on the quays in front the of the Science Center in Montréal's old port. For more details please consult the press release:
http://www.molior.ca/communiques/comm-Eureka-MoliorFr.pdf
Michal Seta is a matralab research associate.
http://www.molior.ca/communiques/comm-Eureka-MoliorEn.pdf
Michal Seta's audio-visual reactive work [IR]Rationnel will be presented on June 11, 12 and 13, 2010 during the festival Eureka!2010 on the quays in front the of the Science Center in Montréal's old port. For more details please consult the press release:
http://www.molior.ca/communiques/comm-Eureka-MoliorFr.pdf
Michal Seta is a matralab research associate.
Posted on June 09, 2010 at 13h52 by matralab
matralab at Congress this week
Two more performances of NEXUS:
As part of Concordia University’s series of Branché events, NEXUS is a comprovisational (composition+improvisation) journey that will interpret the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in a unique musical form.
Five musicians, each equipped with a laptop computer, loudspeaker, and “Follow Me” sign, wander on different paths through Concordia’s downtown campus. Connected and inspired via wireless network, the musicians improvise their takes on a complex score by Sandeep Bhagwati, reacting to place, space and pace. Like pied cyber-pipers, they perform intertwined music walks all over campus - until they finally unite all their listeners at a breathtaking location for a final musical ritual.
Performances:
June 1 & June 3
from 17h00 to 18h00
throughout Concordia University, SGW campus & gathering at the Cloud Deck, 3rd floor atrium of the MB building (1450 rue Guy).
Featuring:
Lori Freedman (bass clarinet)
Amy Horvey (trumpet)
Guy Pelletier (alto flute)
Jen Reimer (french horn)
Emily Shapiro (clarinet)
Michal Seta - Wireless technology
Gaïa Orain-Wark - Costumes
Navid Navab - Machine improvisation
www.concordia.ca/congress2010
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Sandeep Bhagwati showed two screenings and read one essay on the theatre production Lamentations at the conference of the Canadian Association of Theatre Research during Congress 2010.
For further details about Lamentations please visit http://matralab.hexagram.ca/matraprojects/lamentations
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Bhagwati will be moderating the Canada Research Chairs panel entitled Digital Media in Society at Congress on June 2, 2010, 13:00 to 15:00, Room MB 3-270 Concordia University.
http://experience.congress2010.ca/archives/473
For further information about the Digital Media in Society panel, please contact Michael Adams, Media Relations Advisor at the Canada Research Chairs Program: michael.adams@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca
As part of Concordia University’s series of Branché events, NEXUS is a comprovisational (composition+improvisation) journey that will interpret the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in a unique musical form.
Five musicians, each equipped with a laptop computer, loudspeaker, and “Follow Me” sign, wander on different paths through Concordia’s downtown campus. Connected and inspired via wireless network, the musicians improvise their takes on a complex score by Sandeep Bhagwati, reacting to place, space and pace. Like pied cyber-pipers, they perform intertwined music walks all over campus - until they finally unite all their listeners at a breathtaking location for a final musical ritual.
Performances:
June 1 & June 3
from 17h00 to 18h00
throughout Concordia University, SGW campus & gathering at the Cloud Deck, 3rd floor atrium of the MB building (1450 rue Guy).
Featuring:
Lori Freedman (bass clarinet)
Amy Horvey (trumpet)
Guy Pelletier (alto flute)
Jen Reimer (french horn)
Emily Shapiro (clarinet)
Michal Seta - Wireless technology
Gaïa Orain-Wark - Costumes
Navid Navab - Machine improvisation
www.concordia.ca/congress2010
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Sandeep Bhagwati showed two screenings and read one essay on the theatre production Lamentations at the conference of the Canadian Association of Theatre Research during Congress 2010.
For further details about Lamentations please visit http://matralab.hexagram.ca/matraprojects/lamentations
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Bhagwati will be moderating the Canada Research Chairs panel entitled Digital Media in Society at Congress on June 2, 2010, 13:00 to 15:00, Room MB 3-270 Concordia University.
http://experience.congress2010.ca/archives/473
For further information about the Digital Media in Society panel, please contact Michael Adams, Media Relations Advisor at the Canada Research Chairs Program: michael.adams@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca
Posted on June 01, 2010 at 10h36 by matralab
Ensemble Chorum to perform works by Bhagwati and Dharmoo
Emsemble Chorum will perform works by Sandeep Bhagwat and Gabriel Dharmoo this Thursday, June 3 @ 8PM at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal.
Sandeep Bhagwati's Sangit Sambhav (The Origin of Music) stemmed from a creative collaboration with Ashok Renade, an Indian ethnomusicologist. Renade had sent Bhagwati a mixtape of popular and ritual music of India and asked if he could set it for western orchestra.
Gabriel Dharmoo will perform his new composition Moondraal Moondru (for chamber orchestra) with Ensemble Chorum. Dharmoo will also sing and play on the cello various musical works learnt in India during his carnatic music studies in 2008.
PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS
About Moondraal Moondru: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nApBiDsgUVI
About the concert in general: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrMNfnConjw
About Sandeep Bhagwati's piece Sangit Sambhav: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NffO8vku8o
Thursday June 3rd, 2010 @ 8pm
Conservatoire de musique de Montréal (Concert Hall), 4750 ave. Henri-Julien (Montréal)
Tickets : $20 (regular) and $10 (30 and younger)
Online ticket sale (no extra fees): http://www.ensemblechorum.com/evenements.html
Sandeep Bhagwati's Sangit Sambhav (The Origin of Music) stemmed from a creative collaboration with Ashok Renade, an Indian ethnomusicologist. Renade had sent Bhagwati a mixtape of popular and ritual music of India and asked if he could set it for western orchestra.
Gabriel Dharmoo will perform his new composition Moondraal Moondru (for chamber orchestra) with Ensemble Chorum. Dharmoo will also sing and play on the cello various musical works learnt in India during his carnatic music studies in 2008.
PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS
About Moondraal Moondru: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nApBiDsgUVI
About the concert in general: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrMNfnConjw
About Sandeep Bhagwati's piece Sangit Sambhav: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NffO8vku8o
Thursday June 3rd, 2010 @ 8pm
Conservatoire de musique de Montréal (Concert Hall), 4750 ave. Henri-Julien (Montréal)
Tickets : $20 (regular) and $10 (30 and younger)
Online ticket sale (no extra fees): http://www.ensemblechorum.com/evenements.html
Posted on June 01, 2010 at 10h17 by matralab
Symphony of Sciene: Matralab in the press
matralab was recently featured in an article by InnovationCanada.ca. The article showcases Canadian universities at the forefront of multimedia research.
View the article here
View the article here
Posted on June 01, 2010 at 10h00 by matralab
NEXUS: World Premiere at Congress 2010
WIRELESS MUSIC IN PATHS AND PLACES
As part of Concordia University's series of Branché events, NEXUS is a comprovisational (composition+improvisation) journey that will interpret the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in a unique musical form.
Five musicians, each equipped with a laptop computer, loudspeaker, and "Follow Me" sign, wander on different paths through Concordia's downtown campus. Connected and inspired via wireless network, the musicians improvise their takes on a complex score by Sandeep Bhagwati, reacting to place, space and pace. Like pied cyber-pipers, they perform intertwined music walks all over campus - until they finally unite all their listeners at a breathtaking location for a final musical ritual.
Performances:
May 30, June 1 & June 3
from 17h00 to 18h00
throughout Concordia University, SGW campus & gathering at the Cloud Deck, 3rd floor atrium of the MB building (1450 rue Guy).
Featuring:
Lori Freedman (bass clarinet)
Amy Horvey (trumpet)
Guy Pelletier (alto flute)
Jen Reimer (french horn)
Emily Shapiro (clarinet)
Michal Seta - Wireless technology
Gaïa Orain-Wark - Costumes
Navid Navab - Machine improvisation
www.concordia.ca/congress2010
As part of Concordia University's series of Branché events, NEXUS is a comprovisational (composition+improvisation) journey that will interpret the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in a unique musical form.
Five musicians, each equipped with a laptop computer, loudspeaker, and "Follow Me" sign, wander on different paths through Concordia's downtown campus. Connected and inspired via wireless network, the musicians improvise their takes on a complex score by Sandeep Bhagwati, reacting to place, space and pace. Like pied cyber-pipers, they perform intertwined music walks all over campus - until they finally unite all their listeners at a breathtaking location for a final musical ritual.
Performances:
May 30, June 1 & June 3
from 17h00 to 18h00
throughout Concordia University, SGW campus & gathering at the Cloud Deck, 3rd floor atrium of the MB building (1450 rue Guy).
Featuring:
Lori Freedman (bass clarinet)
Amy Horvey (trumpet)
Guy Pelletier (alto flute)
Jen Reimer (french horn)
Emily Shapiro (clarinet)
Michal Seta - Wireless technology
Gaïa Orain-Wark - Costumes
Navid Navab - Machine improvisation
www.concordia.ca/congress2010
Posted on May 27, 2010 at 14h39 by matralab
The Jewish Home Beautiful: Revisited
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
19:30 – 21h00
FOFA Gallery
EV 1.715
"The Jewish Home Beautiful" – Revisited is an interactive live art event hosted by Devora Neumark at the FOFA Gallery in conjunction with Congress 2010. The event aims to invite critical reflection about how the deliberate engagement with beauty and home can on the one hand strengthen intracultural alliances, while on the other, perpetuate cycles of violence: in other words, how very often the affirmation of beauty and the settling at home of one population sets into motion homelessness for others. Specifically, “The Jewish Home Beautiful" – Revisited deliberately complexifies and intentionally problematizes the performance of a beautiful Jewish home in light of the Palestinian Diaspora created by Jews settling in the “Promised Land”. The gallery will be the site of a dialogue involving cheesecake, video projections and ritualized gestures. Audience participants will quite literally be invited to take a seat at the table.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
19:30 – 21h00
FOFA Gallery
EV 1.715
"The Jewish Home Beautiful" – Revisited is an interactive live art event hosted by Devora Neumark at the FOFA Gallery in conjunction with Congress 2010. The event aims to invite critical reflection about how the deliberate engagement with beauty and home can on the one hand strengthen intracultural alliances, while on the other, perpetuate cycles of violence: in other words, how very often the affirmation of beauty and the settling at home of one population sets into motion homelessness for others. Specifically, “The Jewish Home Beautiful" – Revisited deliberately complexifies and intentionally problematizes the performance of a beautiful Jewish home in light of the Palestinian Diaspora created by Jews settling in the “Promised Land”. The gallery will be the site of a dialogue involving cheesecake, video projections and ritualized gestures. Audience participants will quite literally be invited to take a seat at the table.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on May 21, 2010 at 17h48 by matralab
Devora Neumark: Hi-tech, lo-tech, no-tech?
Devora Neumark will be participating in the upcoming RAIQ conference Arts Interdisciplinaires: Hi-Tech, Lo-Tech, No-Tech? (May 28 and 29, 2010) at the MAI (www.raiq.ca). Her talk, which begins at 15h15 on Friday the 28th, is called The Jewish Home Beautiful: A Case Study in Interdisciplinarity.
Working with ‘The Jewish Home Beautiful’ community play as a critical case study, Devora will examine the ambivalent status of both beauty and home in identity politics. Her analysis will necessarily be interdisciplinary and intercultural as 'The Jewish Home Beautiful' – first written in the 1930s and performed on occasion by North American Jewish congregations ever since – was committed as much to the affirmation of beauty as to the affirmation of home and thus straddled the worlds of aesthetics, religion and politics; strengthening intracultural alliances amongst different Jewish communities, but resulting in a disastrous lingering impact on the non-Jewish people of Palestine.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Working with ‘The Jewish Home Beautiful’ community play as a critical case study, Devora will examine the ambivalent status of both beauty and home in identity politics. Her analysis will necessarily be interdisciplinary and intercultural as 'The Jewish Home Beautiful' – first written in the 1930s and performed on occasion by North American Jewish congregations ever since – was committed as much to the affirmation of beauty as to the affirmation of home and thus straddled the worlds of aesthetics, religion and politics; strengthening intracultural alliances amongst different Jewish communities, but resulting in a disastrous lingering impact on the non-Jewish people of Palestine.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on May 21, 2010 at 17h46 by matralab
Sophie Castonguay's "Involved"
Short performances with audience participation.
Programmed by Andrew Tay and Sasha Kleinplatz of Wants and Needs Dance.
Artistes : Sophie Castonguay, Leanne Dyer, Laurel Koop, Patrick Lloyd
Brennan / Kerwin Barrington, Isabel Mohn
Discipline : Danse / Performance
Date : 29 mai à 19h & 21h
Lieu : Studio 303
12$
Studio 303 : 372 Ste-Catherine O. 3e étage, 303
www.sophiecastonguay.ca
Programmed by Andrew Tay and Sasha Kleinplatz of Wants and Needs Dance.
Artistes : Sophie Castonguay, Leanne Dyer, Laurel Koop, Patrick Lloyd
Brennan / Kerwin Barrington, Isabel Mohn
Discipline : Danse / Performance
Date : 29 mai à 19h & 21h
Lieu : Studio 303
12$
Studio 303 : 372 Ste-Catherine O. 3e étage, 303
www.sophiecastonguay.ca
Posted on May 21, 2010 at 17h41 by matralab
La vie quotidienne
Composer Nicolas Gilbert's "La vie quotidienne", for saxophone quartet and electronics will have its radio premiere on Thursday May 20, 2010 on Radio-Canada's Espace Musique (100,7 FM Montreal), during the Soirée Classique (8 pm). The electronic component of the piece was realised at matralab.
Nicolas Gilbert is a post-doc researcher at matralab
Nicolas Gilbert is a post-doc researcher at matralab
Posted on May 20, 2010 at 16h06 by matralab
Unexplored Territories
Friday May 21 2010, 8 pm
territoires inexplorés @interstice
Interstice, 242 Young St. (Peel & Wellington), Montreal, $7
Electroacoustic and mixed works by Lou Bunk, Karlheinz Essl (Canadian premiere), Dai Fujikura, Thierry Gauthier, Olivier Girouard and D. Andrew Stewart.
Krista Martynes, clarinet; Solomiya Moroz, flute; Xenia Pestova, toy piano; D. Andrew Stewart, méta-instrument
territoires inexplorés @ interstice is a new series for contemporary music curated by Xenia Pestova and Solomiya Moroz, focusing on rarely performed or unexplored music of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together many musicians from diverse disciplines and promotes collaborations between various art forms and media.
(Artistic directors: Xenia Pestova and Solomiya Moroz)
D. Andrew Stewart is a new post-doc researcher at matralab.
territoires inexplorés @interstice
Interstice, 242 Young St. (Peel & Wellington), Montreal, $7
Electroacoustic and mixed works by Lou Bunk, Karlheinz Essl (Canadian premiere), Dai Fujikura, Thierry Gauthier, Olivier Girouard and D. Andrew Stewart.
Krista Martynes, clarinet; Solomiya Moroz, flute; Xenia Pestova, toy piano; D. Andrew Stewart, méta-instrument
territoires inexplorés @ interstice is a new series for contemporary music curated by Xenia Pestova and Solomiya Moroz, focusing on rarely performed or unexplored music of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together many musicians from diverse disciplines and promotes collaborations between various art forms and media.
(Artistic directors: Xenia Pestova and Solomiya Moroz)
D. Andrew Stewart is a new post-doc researcher at matralab.
Posted on May 18, 2010 at 11h56 by matralab
Hi-Tech, Lo-Tech, No-Tech?
Conference : Interdisciplinary Art : Hi-Tech, Lo-Tech, No-Tech ?
http://raiq.ca/en
Performance: Le devenir machine
Sophie Castonguay’s proposed work will allow
the audience to discover the various opinions of those attending the
conference. Sometimes wise, at times controversial, the “thoughts” that will
be put forward will address the question of technology’s place in art.
It is with great pleasure that the Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du
Québec, in association with the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) and ECLECTIK 2010, announces the first
edition of its annual conference, this year’s theme being: Arts interdisciplinaires: Hi-Tech, Lo-Tech, No-Tech?
The two-day conference will showcase the intersection of technologies being researched and practiced in the interdisciplinary arts, while exploring the ways in which artists embrace, appropriate, question, even dismiss “technology” – towards artistic ends. Artist talks, performances, round-table discussions, workshops, and installation will take place at the MAI, 3680 Jeanne-Mance in Montreal, on May 28th and 29th, 2010, starting at 9:30am on Friday morning. The installation will be on view as of May 26th at articule, 262 Fairmount West, Montreal.
Opening the program on Friday May 28th will be two talks: Natacha Clitandre (Montreal) discusses creative
transmission through mobile devices while Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman (Baltimore and Rochester, USA)
address the links between GPS technology and artistic creation. At 1:00pm the three artists offer practical
workshops and demonstrations related to their morning presentations. Later in the afternoon, a performative lecture by the Office for Archival Review (Montreal) on the subject of archival practices – based on the archives of conference participants – will be followed by Devora Neumark (Montreal), who uses the “The Jewish Home Beautiful” community play as starting point into a critical case study of interdisciplinarity. Following that, a presentation from Kelly Jaclynn Andres on non-verbal communication includes a practical demo in the form of a city bike-ride. At 5:30pm, program director Claude Schryer, and program officer Sue-Ellen Gerritsen, will be on hand to answer questions concerning recent changes to the Inter-Arts section at the Canada Council for the Arts.
Saturday May 29th will commence with a lecture by Doyon-Demers (Quebec), on the notion of the "un-
artist" and of an "undisciplinary" art. Following will be a performance by Sophie Castonguay (Montreal), who
creatively deconstructs our relationship to technology, then a round-table entitled Wetwares: When biology and art meet – moderated by Tagny Duff and bringing together Alison Lauder, Kelly Jaclynn Andres, Vanessa Rigaux, Claire Kenway and Antonia Hernandez (Montreal). In the afternoon a second panel discussion, The Territories of Technology: up to what point...and why? – gives the floor over to Anna Biró (Montreal), Lynne Heller (Toronto), Radwan Moumneh (Montreal) and karen elaine spencer (Montreal). The day will wrap up with a presentation by kondition pluriel (Montreal), reflecting on their ten years of interdisciplinary creations, and an excerpt of the performance AVATAR, by Freya Olafson (Winnipeg).
Sophie Castonguay will be collaborating with matralab research associate Matheiu Marcoux on a reseach project at the matrabox this summer.
http://raiq.ca/en
Performance: Le devenir machine
Sophie Castonguay’s proposed work will allow
the audience to discover the various opinions of those attending the
conference. Sometimes wise, at times controversial, the “thoughts” that will
be put forward will address the question of technology’s place in art.
It is with great pleasure that the Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du
Québec, in association with the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) and ECLECTIK 2010, announces the first
edition of its annual conference, this year’s theme being: Arts interdisciplinaires: Hi-Tech, Lo-Tech, No-Tech?
The two-day conference will showcase the intersection of technologies being researched and practiced in the interdisciplinary arts, while exploring the ways in which artists embrace, appropriate, question, even dismiss “technology” – towards artistic ends. Artist talks, performances, round-table discussions, workshops, and installation will take place at the MAI, 3680 Jeanne-Mance in Montreal, on May 28th and 29th, 2010, starting at 9:30am on Friday morning. The installation will be on view as of May 26th at articule, 262 Fairmount West, Montreal.
Opening the program on Friday May 28th will be two talks: Natacha Clitandre (Montreal) discusses creative
transmission through mobile devices while Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman (Baltimore and Rochester, USA)
address the links between GPS technology and artistic creation. At 1:00pm the three artists offer practical
workshops and demonstrations related to their morning presentations. Later in the afternoon, a performative lecture by the Office for Archival Review (Montreal) on the subject of archival practices – based on the archives of conference participants – will be followed by Devora Neumark (Montreal), who uses the “The Jewish Home Beautiful” community play as starting point into a critical case study of interdisciplinarity. Following that, a presentation from Kelly Jaclynn Andres on non-verbal communication includes a practical demo in the form of a city bike-ride. At 5:30pm, program director Claude Schryer, and program officer Sue-Ellen Gerritsen, will be on hand to answer questions concerning recent changes to the Inter-Arts section at the Canada Council for the Arts.
Saturday May 29th will commence with a lecture by Doyon-Demers (Quebec), on the notion of the "un-
artist" and of an "undisciplinary" art. Following will be a performance by Sophie Castonguay (Montreal), who
creatively deconstructs our relationship to technology, then a round-table entitled Wetwares: When biology and art meet – moderated by Tagny Duff and bringing together Alison Lauder, Kelly Jaclynn Andres, Vanessa Rigaux, Claire Kenway and Antonia Hernandez (Montreal). In the afternoon a second panel discussion, The Territories of Technology: up to what point...and why? – gives the floor over to Anna Biró (Montreal), Lynne Heller (Toronto), Radwan Moumneh (Montreal) and karen elaine spencer (Montreal). The day will wrap up with a presentation by kondition pluriel (Montreal), reflecting on their ten years of interdisciplinary creations, and an excerpt of the performance AVATAR, by Freya Olafson (Winnipeg).
Sophie Castonguay will be collaborating with matralab research associate Matheiu Marcoux on a reseach project at the matrabox this summer.
Posted on May 18, 2010 at 11h48 by matralab
D. Andrew Stewart joins matralab
matralab would like to welcome Postdoctoral student D. Andrew Stewart to our team.
Andrew has also received confirmation of funding from the FQRSC.
Andrew has also received confirmation of funding from the FQRSC.
Posted on May 13, 2010 at 00h14 by matralab
Sophie Castonguay
Artist Sophie Castonguay recently launched her website at http://www.sophiecastonguay.ca.
Sophie will be collaborating with sound artist Matheiu Marcoux on a reseach project at the matrabox this summer.
Mathieu Marcoux is a matralab research associate.
Sophie will be collaborating with sound artist Matheiu Marcoux on a reseach project at the matrabox this summer.
Mathieu Marcoux is a matralab research associate.
Posted on May 13, 2010 at 00h11 by matralab
Nexus at Congress 2010
The comprovisational journey Nexus will be performed at Congress 2010 being held at Concordia University from May 28 until June 4.
Through a dedicated wireless network being built for the project, four to six New Music Performance students - each with a belt-mounted speaker system - begin in different location throughout the building being used by Congress and will play and improvise their individual musical parts of a Bhagwati composition while "jamming" with the others through the network. As they move through Congress wearing "Follow Me" t-shirts, they will gather delegates and will come together for a performance.
More info on Congress 2010
Sandeep Bhagwati is the matralab director.
Through a dedicated wireless network being built for the project, four to six New Music Performance students - each with a belt-mounted speaker system - begin in different location throughout the building being used by Congress and will play and improvise their individual musical parts of a Bhagwati composition while "jamming" with the others through the network. As they move through Congress wearing "Follow Me" t-shirts, they will gather delegates and will come together for a performance.
More info on Congress 2010
Sandeep Bhagwati is the matralab director.
Posted on May 06, 2010 at 13h24 by matralab
Elektra visits matralab
Members of Elektra and CIAM, as well as international media arts festival curators will be visiting matralab on May 6 and 7, 2010.
Sandeep Bhagwati will briefly discuss his projects Nexus and Lamentations. Michal Seta will present [IR]Rationnel.
More info on Elektra
Sandeep Bhagwati is the matralab director.
Michal Seta is a matralab research associate.
Sandeep Bhagwati will briefly discuss his projects Nexus and Lamentations. Michal Seta will present [IR]Rationnel.
More info on Elektra
Sandeep Bhagwati is the matralab director.
Michal Seta is a matralab research associate.
Posted on May 06, 2010 at 13h15 by matralab
Surface [Étang]
Composer Chantale Laplante premiered her electroacoustic piece "Surface [Étang]" on April 21st, 2010 at Espace Senghor in Brussels. This event was part of the Musiques & Recherches series.
Chantale Laplante in an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Chantale Laplante in an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on April 23, 2010 at 13h46 by matralab
La Cloche Fêlée
Composer Farangis Nurulla will be premiering "La cloche fêlée II" for organ and percussion in Germany, Freiburg on the 27th of June. Farangis recently returned from Milan where she was premiering this piece.
Farangis Nurulla is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Farangis Nurulla is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on April 23, 2010 at 13h35 by matralab
Choses étonnantes, La cloche fêlée, Jerusalem
Choses étonnantes vues en rêve:
The Orchestre Métropolitain will be premiering composer Nicolas Gilbert's "Choses étonnantes vues en rêve" as part of a one-week tour : 12 avril, 20h, Salle Sylvain-Lelièvre du Collège Maisonneuve, Montréal 14 avril, 19h30, Église Notre-Dame-Des-Sept-Douleurs, Verdun 15 avril, 19h30, Théâtre Outremont, Montréal 16 avril, 20h, Auditorium, Pierrefonds Comprehensive High School, Pierrefonds The piece will also be webcasted by Radio-Canada here.
Nicolas Gilbert is a post-doctorate researcher at matralab.
Jerusalem:
Composer Chantale Laplante will be premiering Jerusalem on April 20 in Calgary. Jerusalem for tenor saxophone, piano, live electronics and tape to be performed by Jeremy Brown and Luciane Cardassi from Rubbing Stone ensemble New Works Calgary concert series, Calgary April 20 Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall
Chantale Laplante is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
The Orchestre Métropolitain will be premiering composer Nicolas Gilbert's "Choses étonnantes vues en rêve" as part of a one-week tour : 12 avril, 20h, Salle Sylvain-Lelièvre du Collège Maisonneuve, Montréal 14 avril, 19h30, Église Notre-Dame-Des-Sept-Douleurs, Verdun 15 avril, 19h30, Théâtre Outremont, Montréal 16 avril, 20h, Auditorium, Pierrefonds Comprehensive High School, Pierrefonds The piece will also be webcasted by Radio-Canada here.
Nicolas Gilbert is a post-doctorate researcher at matralab.
Jerusalem:
Composer Chantale Laplante will be premiering Jerusalem on April 20 in Calgary. Jerusalem for tenor saxophone, piano, live electronics and tape to be performed by Jeremy Brown and Luciane Cardassi from Rubbing Stone ensemble New Works Calgary concert series, Calgary April 20 Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall
Chantale Laplante is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on April 08, 2010 at 18h37 by matralab
La vie quotidienne, Sound Spatialization, Arts in One World
La vie quotidienne:
Composer Nicolas Gilbert's new work "La vie quotidienne" for saxophone quartet and electronics (realized at matralab) will be premiered by Quasar Quatuor de saxophones on March 31st and April 1st, 2010 at Espace Dell'Arte (40 Rue Jean-Talon Est, Montreal).
Nicolas Gilbert is a post-doctorate researcher at matralab.
Workshop on Sound Spatialization in Jamoma:
Wednesday, March 31 Matrabox, Concordia University. 1515 Sainte-Catherine West, room EV 4.502 12.15-1pm: Nils Peters presents an overview of spatialization techniques 1-1.30pm: Navid Navab discusses issues in controlling spatialization 2-6.30pm: workshop on Jamoma and spatialization Jamoma is an open-source project for structured programming in MaxMSP and Jitter (www.jamoma.org). Jamoma is based on modular principles that allow the reuse of functionalities whereas all parameters remain customizable to specific artistic needs. Participants are asked to bring a laptop (mac preferred) with Max5 installed and audio files for experimentation. If interested, please send a short description of what you wish to do in the workshop to nils.peters@mcgill.ca This event is free and open to the public. Nils Peters is a PhD researcher in Music Technology at McGill University and affiliated with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT). His work focuses on the perception and modeling of spatialized sounds. He studied electrical and audio engineering at the University for Music and Dramatic Arts and the University of Technology (Graz, Austria). He has worked as an audio engineer in the fields of recording, post-production and live electronics in Germany, Austria, France, and Canada. He is also a co-developer of Jamoma.
Navid Navab is a matralab research associate.
Arts in One World:
matralab will have a strong presence at the international annual "Arts in One World" conference that takes place at Brown University, Providence, RI from April 18-21, 2010. The theme this year is "Home: Composing the Rooted Local in the Rapid Global Environment" and both Sandeep Bhagwati and Devora Neumark will present two events each. Sandeep Bhagwati will give two public lectures about his artistic work. On Friday evening, he will talk about his work as a composer between different music cultures. On Saturday evening, he will present his theatre work Lamentations an exploration of displacement and migration through gestures and biblical texts. Devora Neumark will give a presentation on Narrative and Ritual in Perpetration and Survival on Sunday morning and conduct a workshops on story circles on Friday afternoon.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the matralab director.
Devora Neumark is a matralab PhD researcher.
Composer Nicolas Gilbert's new work "La vie quotidienne" for saxophone quartet and electronics (realized at matralab) will be premiered by Quasar Quatuor de saxophones on March 31st and April 1st, 2010 at Espace Dell'Arte (40 Rue Jean-Talon Est, Montreal).
Nicolas Gilbert is a post-doctorate researcher at matralab.
Workshop on Sound Spatialization in Jamoma:
Wednesday, March 31 Matrabox, Concordia University. 1515 Sainte-Catherine West, room EV 4.502 12.15-1pm: Nils Peters presents an overview of spatialization techniques 1-1.30pm: Navid Navab discusses issues in controlling spatialization 2-6.30pm: workshop on Jamoma and spatialization Jamoma is an open-source project for structured programming in MaxMSP and Jitter (www.jamoma.org). Jamoma is based on modular principles that allow the reuse of functionalities whereas all parameters remain customizable to specific artistic needs. Participants are asked to bring a laptop (mac preferred) with Max5 installed and audio files for experimentation. If interested, please send a short description of what you wish to do in the workshop to nils.peters@mcgill.ca This event is free and open to the public. Nils Peters is a PhD researcher in Music Technology at McGill University and affiliated with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT). His work focuses on the perception and modeling of spatialized sounds. He studied electrical and audio engineering at the University for Music and Dramatic Arts and the University of Technology (Graz, Austria). He has worked as an audio engineer in the fields of recording, post-production and live electronics in Germany, Austria, France, and Canada. He is also a co-developer of Jamoma.
Navid Navab is a matralab research associate.
Arts in One World:
matralab will have a strong presence at the international annual "Arts in One World" conference that takes place at Brown University, Providence, RI from April 18-21, 2010. The theme this year is "Home: Composing the Rooted Local in the Rapid Global Environment" and both Sandeep Bhagwati and Devora Neumark will present two events each. Sandeep Bhagwati will give two public lectures about his artistic work. On Friday evening, he will talk about his work as a composer between different music cultures. On Saturday evening, he will present his theatre work Lamentations an exploration of displacement and migration through gestures and biblical texts. Devora Neumark will give a presentation on Narrative and Ritual in Perpetration and Survival on Sunday morning and conduct a workshops on story circles on Friday afternoon.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the matralab director.
Devora Neumark is a matralab PhD researcher.
Posted on March 21, 2010 at 13h11 by matralab
Matramath, Are Forests Better Concert Halls?
Matramath
Electroacoustic music composer Mathieu Marcoux has created the blog Matramath which he will be updating on a regular basis. This site will be used to document his research projects at matralab.
Mathieu Marcoux is a matralab research associate.
Are Forests Better Concert Halls?
For two days, the renowned experimental filmmaker and interdisciplinary sound artist and publisher Uli Aumüller will show and discuss his work at Concordia. He is in Montreal as a member of the jury at the FIFA Festival for Films on Art.
At matralab, he will present his CDs "Séries Sonores", a fascinating collection of raw and unedited field recordings made by some of the most renowned sound artists of today. These often hour-long "reality soundworks" cover everything from a sunny cherry tree to Montréal bridges, from Transsylvanian dog packs to a Berlin nightingale song. For matralab, he has created an eight-channel walk-in installation with rotating 10 minute segments from these field recordings. Open on Wednesday March 17 from 10am to 5pm.
Uli Aumüller will also give two talks/screenings in the departments of cinema and music. In his presentations, he will touch on the current revival of experimental radio and experimental documentary film in Germany, on his approach to discursive documentations in both media, on filming old and new music, on nature and music - and on creating "image-tracks" to soundworks. He will engage the students in discussions on sound and moving image, and refer to many short examples from his films "Mon cinema pour l"oreille" (on the acoustic art of Francis Dhomont and Paul Lansky), "Thy Kiss of Divine Nature" (on medieval music) and others.
The complete versions of Aumüller's films will be screened this fall in a small filmusic festival that will celebrate the arrival of the Concordia music department at its downtown location in the MB building. March. 16th, 2010 at 8:30 pm FB.435, the Faubourg - 1250 Rue Guy, Montréal. SGW campus March. 17th, 2010 at 5:00 pm CC314, 7141 Sherbrooke West, Montréal Loyola campus March. 17th, 2010 at 5:00 pm Installation at the matralab - EV 4.502 1515 rue St. Catherine Ouest, Montréal.
Electroacoustic music composer Mathieu Marcoux has created the blog Matramath which he will be updating on a regular basis. This site will be used to document his research projects at matralab.
Mathieu Marcoux is a matralab research associate.
Are Forests Better Concert Halls?
For two days, the renowned experimental filmmaker and interdisciplinary sound artist and publisher Uli Aumüller will show and discuss his work at Concordia. He is in Montreal as a member of the jury at the FIFA Festival for Films on Art.
At matralab, he will present his CDs "Séries Sonores", a fascinating collection of raw and unedited field recordings made by some of the most renowned sound artists of today. These often hour-long "reality soundworks" cover everything from a sunny cherry tree to Montréal bridges, from Transsylvanian dog packs to a Berlin nightingale song. For matralab, he has created an eight-channel walk-in installation with rotating 10 minute segments from these field recordings. Open on Wednesday March 17 from 10am to 5pm.
Uli Aumüller will also give two talks/screenings in the departments of cinema and music. In his presentations, he will touch on the current revival of experimental radio and experimental documentary film in Germany, on his approach to discursive documentations in both media, on filming old and new music, on nature and music - and on creating "image-tracks" to soundworks. He will engage the students in discussions on sound and moving image, and refer to many short examples from his films "Mon cinema pour l"oreille" (on the acoustic art of Francis Dhomont and Paul Lansky), "Thy Kiss of Divine Nature" (on medieval music) and others.
The complete versions of Aumüller's films will be screened this fall in a small filmusic festival that will celebrate the arrival of the Concordia music department at its downtown location in the MB building. March. 16th, 2010 at 8:30 pm FB.435, the Faubourg - 1250 Rue Guy, Montréal. SGW campus March. 17th, 2010 at 5:00 pm CC314, 7141 Sherbrooke West, Montréal Loyola campus March. 17th, 2010 at 5:00 pm Installation at the matralab - EV 4.502 1515 rue St. Catherine Ouest, Montréal.
Posted on March 12, 2010 at 12h07 by matralab
Frayed Edges, Inukjuak, Choses Etonnantes
Around Frayed Edges
Jane Tingley's work will be featured in the upcoming group exhibition Around Frayed Edges at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery (Minden, Ontatio) from March 18 through May 29, 2010. Opening reception: March 19 at 4pm A narration spun through work that pushes the limits as to what an artist can do with fibre today. Similar to social misfits that sit on the outskirts of society, like mad inventors experimenting, and geniuses with universal knowledge, this exhibition encourages the far reaches of thought and imagination. Does society hang by a thread, will the Fates cut the cord, oh what a tangled web we weave…here is an opportunity to see work that follows a string into a world on the periphery. Curated by Laurie Carmount Artists: Marianne Kyryluk, Carl Stewart, Robin Ripley, Jean Farrell, Heidi Hudspith, David R. Harper, Jill Odegaard, Laura Trach, Liz Menard, Nadine Papp, Wendy O'Brien, Johanna Nousiainen, Fay Wilkinson, Audrey MacLean, Caitlin Erskine-Smith, Barbara Wisnoski, Erika DeFreitas, Carmella Karijo Rother, Suzen Green, Sandi Luck, Cynthia Jackson, Amanda McCavour, Ilona Staples, Karen Goetzinger, Catherine Vamvakas Lay, Karina Bergmans, Jane Tingley Agnes Jamieson Gallery 176 Bobcaygeon Road Minden, Ontario www.mindenculturalcentre.com
Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.
Lilira: Soundscapes of Inukjuak
Sound artist Nimalan Yoganathan has been commissioned by Resonance104.4FM Radio in the UK to produce the radio art piece Lilira: Soundscapes of Inukjuak. It was premiered this week on show framework:afield that is curated by Patrick McGinley and dedicated to field recording based compositions. Nimalan recently participated in an artist residency in Inukjuak, Nunavik during July and August 2009 (funded by Conseil des Arts et des lettres du quebec). He was studying and recording the sonic environment to gain insight into the richness of Inuit culture. This included both natural sounds such as the wind and huskies, as well as cultural sounds including carvers at work and throat singing. These field recordings serve as the compositional foundation for this piece. Nimalan also led weekly sound art workshops for youths between age 13 and 16, during which they were taught outdoor field recording techniques. Each youth was given their own digital recorder to document their sound walks around the community. Nimalan has included portions of their field recordings in this piece. The podcast of Lilira: Soundscapes of Inukjuak can be heard here Further details on the piece Nimalan Yoganathan is a matralab research assistant.
Choses étonnantes vues en rêve
Composer Nicolas Gilbert's new orchestral work Choses étonnantes vues en rêve is currently being profiled on a new Radio-Canada website. This work has been commissioned by the Orchestre Métropolitain. The web site contains interviews, photos and project details. It will be updated regularly until the work's premiere in mid-April and will allow the public to follow the rehearsals and general advance of this project. Nicolas will also frequently add blog entries to the site.
Nicolas Gilbert is a post-doc researcher at matralab.
Jane Tingley's work will be featured in the upcoming group exhibition Around Frayed Edges at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery (Minden, Ontatio) from March 18 through May 29, 2010. Opening reception: March 19 at 4pm A narration spun through work that pushes the limits as to what an artist can do with fibre today. Similar to social misfits that sit on the outskirts of society, like mad inventors experimenting, and geniuses with universal knowledge, this exhibition encourages the far reaches of thought and imagination. Does society hang by a thread, will the Fates cut the cord, oh what a tangled web we weave…here is an opportunity to see work that follows a string into a world on the periphery. Curated by Laurie Carmount Artists: Marianne Kyryluk, Carl Stewart, Robin Ripley, Jean Farrell, Heidi Hudspith, David R. Harper, Jill Odegaard, Laura Trach, Liz Menard, Nadine Papp, Wendy O'Brien, Johanna Nousiainen, Fay Wilkinson, Audrey MacLean, Caitlin Erskine-Smith, Barbara Wisnoski, Erika DeFreitas, Carmella Karijo Rother, Suzen Green, Sandi Luck, Cynthia Jackson, Amanda McCavour, Ilona Staples, Karen Goetzinger, Catherine Vamvakas Lay, Karina Bergmans, Jane Tingley Agnes Jamieson Gallery 176 Bobcaygeon Road Minden, Ontario www.mindenculturalcentre.com
Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.
Lilira: Soundscapes of Inukjuak
Sound artist Nimalan Yoganathan has been commissioned by Resonance104.4FM Radio in the UK to produce the radio art piece Lilira: Soundscapes of Inukjuak. It was premiered this week on show framework:afield that is curated by Patrick McGinley and dedicated to field recording based compositions. Nimalan recently participated in an artist residency in Inukjuak, Nunavik during July and August 2009 (funded by Conseil des Arts et des lettres du quebec). He was studying and recording the sonic environment to gain insight into the richness of Inuit culture. This included both natural sounds such as the wind and huskies, as well as cultural sounds including carvers at work and throat singing. These field recordings serve as the compositional foundation for this piece. Nimalan also led weekly sound art workshops for youths between age 13 and 16, during which they were taught outdoor field recording techniques. Each youth was given their own digital recorder to document their sound walks around the community. Nimalan has included portions of their field recordings in this piece. The podcast of Lilira: Soundscapes of Inukjuak can be heard here Further details on the piece Nimalan Yoganathan is a matralab research assistant.
Choses étonnantes vues en rêve
Composer Nicolas Gilbert's new orchestral work Choses étonnantes vues en rêve is currently being profiled on a new Radio-Canada website. This work has been commissioned by the Orchestre Métropolitain. The web site contains interviews, photos and project details. It will be updated regularly until the work's premiere in mid-April and will allow the public to follow the rehearsals and general advance of this project. Nicolas will also frequently add blog entries to the site.
Nicolas Gilbert is a post-doc researcher at matralab.
Posted on March 05, 2010 at 13h39 by matralab
Juftar, Slaves, Witchcraft
Juftar
Contemporary music composer/pianist Farangis Nurulla Khoja will be premiering Juftar in Montpellier, France on March 5, 2010. This work has been written for the National Symphony Orchestra of Montpellier.
Further info
Farangis Nurulla Khoja is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
How Many Slaves Do You Own?
Beginning at 18h00 on Friday March 12, 2010, Engrenage Noir / LEVIER – in collaboration with the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) – will present How Many Slaves Do You Own? Art and the economies of exploitation, past and present, a 3-day exploration of coercive economies operating locally and afar.
The event will take place at the MAI (3680 Rue Jeanne-Mance) with organized site visits to ‘Nigger Rock’, a historical gravesite in St. Armand, Quebec and Old Montreal.
Through a mixture of musical performances, theatre, dance and street art interventions, along with keynote talks and round-table discussions, we will examine the equation between consumer product consumption and exploitation, the impact of trans-Atlantic and Aboriginal slavery in Quebec, the plight of domestic, immigrant and migrant workers in Canada, the prison industrial complex in North America, and the international sex trade and trafficking of women and girls.
In preparation for this event Engrenage Noir / LEVIER commissioned new work from Jason Selman and Chimwemwe Miller; Moe Clark in collaboration with Andy Williams and Jenn Doan; Naila Keleta Mae in collaboration with Rebecca Foon and Pohanna Pyne Feinberg; Melissa Mollen Dupuis and Émilie Monnet; Éric Létourneau; Lynne Cooper; Reena Almoneda-Chang, Pascale Gagnon, Caroline Hudon and Meena Murugesan.
Louise Lachapelle and Devora Neumark will be co-facilitating the event.
A detailed schedule is available upon request.
For more information contact: combiendesclaves@engrenagenoir.ca
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Hypertext and Performance:
A Resonant Response to Joanna Baillie’s Witchcraft
is a three-year FQRSC-funded interdisciplinary theatre project that engages both English romantic literature specialists and contemporary theatre research-creation practitioners in studying, performing, and teaching Joanna Baillie’s gothic play, Witchcraft.
The research-creation component for 2009-2010 includes live performance of six multimedia theatre scenes to be performed during the Congress for Humanities at Concordia’s Hexagram Black Box this May and June 2010.
Three scenes from Joanna Baillie’s play will be interwoven with three contemporary responses to the play, commissioned from three playwrights, Lindsay Wilson (MA Playwriting, Concordia), Joanna Donehower (current MA Playwriting, Concordia), and Patrick Leroux (Artistic Director, Assistant Professor, Concordia). Three directors—Alison Darcy (professional director and actor), Cristina Iovita (professional director and PhD in Humanities student), and Patrick Leroux—are currently rehearsing as autonomous production units in Matralab’s Black Box
Patrick Leroux is a matralab researcher.
Cristina Iovita is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Contemporary music composer/pianist Farangis Nurulla Khoja will be premiering Juftar in Montpellier, France on March 5, 2010. This work has been written for the National Symphony Orchestra of Montpellier.
Further info
Farangis Nurulla Khoja is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
How Many Slaves Do You Own?
Beginning at 18h00 on Friday March 12, 2010, Engrenage Noir / LEVIER – in collaboration with the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) – will present How Many Slaves Do You Own? Art and the economies of exploitation, past and present, a 3-day exploration of coercive economies operating locally and afar.
The event will take place at the MAI (3680 Rue Jeanne-Mance) with organized site visits to ‘Nigger Rock’, a historical gravesite in St. Armand, Quebec and Old Montreal.
Through a mixture of musical performances, theatre, dance and street art interventions, along with keynote talks and round-table discussions, we will examine the equation between consumer product consumption and exploitation, the impact of trans-Atlantic and Aboriginal slavery in Quebec, the plight of domestic, immigrant and migrant workers in Canada, the prison industrial complex in North America, and the international sex trade and trafficking of women and girls.
In preparation for this event Engrenage Noir / LEVIER commissioned new work from Jason Selman and Chimwemwe Miller; Moe Clark in collaboration with Andy Williams and Jenn Doan; Naila Keleta Mae in collaboration with Rebecca Foon and Pohanna Pyne Feinberg; Melissa Mollen Dupuis and Émilie Monnet; Éric Létourneau; Lynne Cooper; Reena Almoneda-Chang, Pascale Gagnon, Caroline Hudon and Meena Murugesan.
Louise Lachapelle and Devora Neumark will be co-facilitating the event.
A detailed schedule is available upon request.
For more information contact: combiendesclaves@engrenagenoir.ca
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Hypertext and Performance:
A Resonant Response to Joanna Baillie’s Witchcraft
is a three-year FQRSC-funded interdisciplinary theatre project that engages both English romantic literature specialists and contemporary theatre research-creation practitioners in studying, performing, and teaching Joanna Baillie’s gothic play, Witchcraft.
The research-creation component for 2009-2010 includes live performance of six multimedia theatre scenes to be performed during the Congress for Humanities at Concordia’s Hexagram Black Box this May and June 2010.
Three scenes from Joanna Baillie’s play will be interwoven with three contemporary responses to the play, commissioned from three playwrights, Lindsay Wilson (MA Playwriting, Concordia), Joanna Donehower (current MA Playwriting, Concordia), and Patrick Leroux (Artistic Director, Assistant Professor, Concordia). Three directors—Alison Darcy (professional director and actor), Cristina Iovita (professional director and PhD in Humanities student), and Patrick Leroux—are currently rehearsing as autonomous production units in Matralab’s Black Box
Patrick Leroux is a matralab researcher.
Cristina Iovita is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Posted on February 26, 2010 at 23h11 by matralab
IRCAM conference and Montreal concert
Sandeep Bhagwati will be giving a talk on improvisation at IRCAM (Paris, France) on February 12, 2010 as part of the two-day conference Comment analyser l'improvisation?
Sandeep and Navid Navab will also lead workshops about the OMax programming environment from February 14 through February 17, 2010 at IRCAM. These workshops will be organized in the context of the FQRSC funded research/creation project Native Alien.
Sandeep's composition Invite will be performed on February 17, 2010 at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall (Montreal) as part of the event Trombone and Electronics with Haim Avitsur. Michal Seta will be diffusing a live eight-channel electroacoustic environment (using a program designed by Navid Navab), accompanied by New York based trombonist Haim Avitsur. (8pm, Free Admission)
Sandeep Bhagwati is the matralab director.
Michal Seta and Navid Navab are matralab research associates.
Sandeep and Navid Navab will also lead workshops about the OMax programming environment from February 14 through February 17, 2010 at IRCAM. These workshops will be organized in the context of the FQRSC funded research/creation project Native Alien.
Sandeep's composition Invite will be performed on February 17, 2010 at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall (Montreal) as part of the event Trombone and Electronics with Haim Avitsur. Michal Seta will be diffusing a live eight-channel electroacoustic environment (using a program designed by Navid Navab), accompanied by New York based trombonist Haim Avitsur. (8pm, Free Admission)
Sandeep Bhagwati is the matralab director.
Michal Seta and Navid Navab are matralab research associates.
Posted on February 08, 2010 at 15h12 by matralab
World and Canadian Premieres
Two concerts with premieres by Sandeep Bhagwati in January and February:
On January 7, 2010 in Halifax Bhagwati's "STELE III for James Tenney" in the version for string orchestra will have its Canadian premiere in the concert "New Music for a New Year" played by Symphony Nova Scotia and conducted/ comprovised by Bernhard Gueller, together with works by Armanini, Charke, Cram, Brady and Blais. This will be part of the annual Forum of the Canadian New Music Network.
On February 6, 2010 in Montreal, Xenia Pestova will play the World Premiere of Bhagwati's recently completed "Scardanelli Sonata in three movements" for piano solo.
On January 7, 2010 in Halifax Bhagwati's "STELE III for James Tenney" in the version for string orchestra will have its Canadian premiere in the concert "New Music for a New Year" played by Symphony Nova Scotia and conducted/ comprovised by Bernhard Gueller, together with works by Armanini, Charke, Cram, Brady and Blais. This will be part of the annual Forum of the Canadian New Music Network.
On February 6, 2010 in Montreal, Xenia Pestova will play the World Premiere of Bhagwati's recently completed "Scardanelli Sonata in three movements" for piano solo.
Posted on December 22, 2009 at 14h33 by Sandeep
Matra x-mas
The Christmas party was a success - thanks to all who attended!
Posted on December 22, 2009 at 13h22 by Jane
Karen Zalamea - Solo Exhibition - Lignes Imaginaires
Karen Zalamea vit et travaille à Montréal. En 2009, elle a complété une maîtrise en Beaux Arts à L’Université Concordia sous la supervision de Manon De Pauw. Elle est lauréate de plusieurs récompenses, dont le prix de la Fondation Sylvie et Simon Blais pour la relève en arts visuels. Ses travaux ont fait l’objet d’expositions au Canada, aux États-Unis, en Angleterre, en France et en Hollande.
Posted on November 10, 2009 at 14h52 by Jane
"Gesturing in a Realm of Shadows - Lamentations"
When: Nov 6 at 8:45pm
Where: Hexagram Black Box EV OS3.845
This piece is centered around the involuntary expressions of displacement. For this work, I research involuntary gestures made by "Montrealers displaced by War Genocide and Human Rights Abuses" who were interviewed by a large CURA project of the same name, led by oral historian Steven High. Can we find any traces of their experiences in their normal gestural repertoire ? We analysed 12 long lifestory interviews and excerpted gestures that are then transposed into a gestural theatre work.
"Gesturing/Lamentations" does not last long - around 25-30 min, followed by a short Q&A session with all participants. This show is by invitation only and part of the conference on Remembering War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations: Oral History, New Media and the Arts, Nov. 5 - 8 organized by the above-mentioned almost eponymous CURA project.
http://news.concordia.ca/events/015516.shtml
Where: Hexagram Black Box EV OS3.845
This piece is centered around the involuntary expressions of displacement. For this work, I research involuntary gestures made by "Montrealers displaced by War Genocide and Human Rights Abuses" who were interviewed by a large CURA project of the same name, led by oral historian Steven High. Can we find any traces of their experiences in their normal gestural repertoire ? We analysed 12 long lifestory interviews and excerpted gestures that are then transposed into a gestural theatre work.
"Gesturing/Lamentations" does not last long - around 25-30 min, followed by a short Q&A session with all participants. This show is by invitation only and part of the conference on Remembering War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations: Oral History, New Media and the Arts, Nov. 5 - 8 organized by the above-mentioned almost eponymous CURA project.
http://news.concordia.ca/events/015516.shtml
Posted on October 29, 2009 at 12h57 by Jane
Guy Livingston Lecture - Music and Time
Oct. 22nd, 2009 at 7:00 pm (19hr)
matralab EV 4.502, Concordia University
1515 Ste Catherines St West
Pianist Guy Livingston talks about music and time, from his perspective as creator of the sixty-seconds-for-piano project. Livingston will draw from his experiences over the last decade living in Paris and Amsterdam and commissioning works from hundreds of composers, as well as screening a selection of one-minute films produced in Holland.
Born in Tennessee, with degrees from Yale, NEC, and the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands, pianist Guy Livingston wowed critics and audiences with his successful “Don't Panic” CD. Sixty composers each wrote one minute for Livingston, and the CD was featured on NPR, in The New York Times , Le Monde , Sports Illustrated , and was praised by the Atlanta Constitution as the ‘party record of the year.' Livingston is based in Paris and Amsterdam and travels widely as a pianist and director. Concerto appearances have been with the Orchestre Nationale de France and the Chicago Symphony. Livingston has recorded two CDs of the music of George Antheil, and is producing a DVD with 60 musical clips by vanguard Dutch filmmakers.
matralab EV 4.502, Concordia University
1515 Ste Catherines St West
Pianist Guy Livingston talks about music and time, from his perspective as creator of the sixty-seconds-for-piano project. Livingston will draw from his experiences over the last decade living in Paris and Amsterdam and commissioning works from hundreds of composers, as well as screening a selection of one-minute films produced in Holland.
Born in Tennessee, with degrees from Yale, NEC, and the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands, pianist Guy Livingston wowed critics and audiences with his successful “Don't Panic” CD. Sixty composers each wrote one minute for Livingston, and the CD was featured on NPR, in The New York Times , Le Monde , Sports Illustrated , and was praised by the Atlanta Constitution as the ‘party record of the year.' Livingston is based in Paris and Amsterdam and travels widely as a pianist and director. Concerto appearances have been with the Orchestre Nationale de France and the Chicago Symphony. Livingston has recorded two CDs of the music of George Antheil, and is producing a DVD with 60 musical clips by vanguard Dutch filmmakers.
Posted on October 21, 2009 at 13h55 by Jane
The matralab is up and running!!
We had the official launch in February/March 2009. It was a successful series of events and performances that highlighted not only Wald/Forest - the collaborative work by Chris Zeigler, Sandeep Bhagwati, and Han Soo Cho, but also the work of the many artists involved with the lab.
We are now hosting residencies, events, and performances, please subscribe to our RSS feed (see icon below) to get updates as they happen.
We are now hosting residencies, events, and performances, please subscribe to our RSS feed (see icon below) to get updates as they happen.
Posted on July 03, 2009 at 01h46 by Sandeep
Final Touches - Launch to come
Most of our equipment has finally arrived - even if still in boxes...Mathieu Marcoux, technical manager of the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, currently also doubles as consultant at matralab. He has devised a technical ground plan and an equipment management system and now, together with matralab research assistants Michal Seta, Navid Navab and Ralph Denzer, he proceeds to move the lab into working mode. If everything goes well, all set-up and testing will be done by end of January. THEN: Look out for our great launch programme in late feb/early march when matralab will host talks, demos, concerts and intermedia shows by the Bozzini Quartet, Chris Ziegler, Roddy Ellias, the Canadian 60x60 project and many more.
Posted on December 22, 2008 at 17h20 by Sandeep
World Premieres Vienna & Amsterdam
Sandeep Bhagwati had two major premieres in Europe in November. He premiered Racines Ephémères, an evening-length work commissioned by the Essl Foundation at Wien Modern, the largest contemporary music festival in Europe. The piece features eight musicians wandering in three dimensions in a contemporary architectural space. He also acted as artistic director for Rasalila, an East West Music project, at the India Festival Amsterdam. That performance in the Concertgebouw was attended by a number of dignitaries including Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands who met with Bhagwati and the soloists afterwards in a private reception.
Posted on December 11, 2008 at 09h41 by Sandeep
New matralab coordinator
As of May 1, Jane Tingley is the new matralab coordinator.
She replaces Veronique Lefort who begins a new career in the movie industry.
Good luck, Veronique - and welcome, Jane !
She replaces Veronique Lefort who begins a new career in the movie industry.
Good luck, Veronique - and welcome, Jane !
Posted on May 28, 2008 at 16h12 by Sandeep
Conferences / April 2008
Between April 18 and April 29, matralab director Sandeep Bhagwati is attending three international workshops and panels.
From April 18- 20 Bhagwati is part of a small number of high-level researchers and composers worldwide to be invited to the annual edition of the "Music+Technology Incubator" -Workshop.
This workshop is a meeting where the future directions of music technology and the aesthetic question of computer music are adressed in 2 intense days of brainstorming and free discussions.
Invited by Stephen McAdams from CIRMMT (McGill), participants include composers Roger Reynolds, Rand Steiger (both UCSD), Hans Tutschku (Harvard), Trevor Wishart (Durham), Robert Normandeau (UdeM) and developers such as Miller Puckette (Max and pd), Jean Piche (TamTam), David Wessel (Berkeley) as well as number of graduate students, among the matralab Ph.D. research assistant D.Andrew Stewart
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From April 23-26 he will be on the music panel of the Goethe-Institute international and multidisciplinary conference on German national culture and its role in a changing and globalized world. Other panelists will include Wladimir Tarnopolski (Moscow Conservatoire), Jean Jeacques Nattiez (UdeM), Christian Kaden (Humboldt University Berlin), as well as Nike Wagner (Weimar) and renowned music journalists Claus Spahn and Wolfgang Fuhrmann.
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On April 28 and 29 he will speak at an international workshop "Creative Dissonances" at Heidelberg University, a workshop on the re-definition of intercultural musicology and inter-cultural composition.
Workshop members include Nimrod baranovitch (University of Haifa), Krishna Bisht (University of Delhi), Hermann Gottschewski (University of Tokio), Rachel Harris (SOAS London), Christian Utz (University of Arts Graz), Gert Matthias Wegner (University of Kathmandu / Free University Berlin) and many others.
From April 18- 20 Bhagwati is part of a small number of high-level researchers and composers worldwide to be invited to the annual edition of the "Music+Technology Incubator" -Workshop.
This workshop is a meeting where the future directions of music technology and the aesthetic question of computer music are adressed in 2 intense days of brainstorming and free discussions.
Invited by Stephen McAdams from CIRMMT (McGill), participants include composers Roger Reynolds, Rand Steiger (both UCSD), Hans Tutschku (Harvard), Trevor Wishart (Durham), Robert Normandeau (UdeM) and developers such as Miller Puckette (Max and pd), Jean Piche (TamTam), David Wessel (Berkeley) as well as number of graduate students, among the matralab Ph.D. research assistant D.Andrew Stewart
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From April 23-26 he will be on the music panel of the Goethe-Institute international and multidisciplinary conference on German national culture and its role in a changing and globalized world. Other panelists will include Wladimir Tarnopolski (Moscow Conservatoire), Jean Jeacques Nattiez (UdeM), Christian Kaden (Humboldt University Berlin), as well as Nike Wagner (Weimar) and renowned music journalists Claus Spahn and Wolfgang Fuhrmann.
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On April 28 and 29 he will speak at an international workshop "Creative Dissonances" at Heidelberg University, a workshop on the re-definition of intercultural musicology and inter-cultural composition.
Workshop members include Nimrod baranovitch (University of Haifa), Krishna Bisht (University of Delhi), Hermann Gottschewski (University of Tokio), Rachel Harris (SOAS London), Christian Utz (University of Arts Graz), Gert Matthias Wegner (University of Kathmandu / Free University Berlin) and many others.
Posted on April 20, 2008 at 23h37 by matralab
Hexagram Black Box May 13-15
Dear friends and students: Matralab will be in residence at the mythical Hexagram Black Box from May 5-16. The first week will be devoted to a theatre production of a new work by Patrick Leroux (more details). The second week will be devoted to ground-breaking work in Music. On May 13 evening (6-9pm) and on May 14 afternoon and evening (3-9pm) I will test and develop a new kind of spatial composition with wandering and partly improvising musicians (a composition I am writing for a festival in Vienna, Austria, November 2008) in the Hexagram Black box, together with musicians from the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne Montreal and their conductor Lorraine Vaillancourt. I would need help from some people for the following tasks:
- printing and photocopying the rehearsal material (May 12)
- setting up the black box (chairs, music stands, lights, floor labels, refreshments) (May 12-14)
- videographing and photographing the rehearsals (May 13-14)
- recording parts of the rehearsals (May 13/14)
- generally being around for listening and troubleshooting, as well as giving feedback to me (May 12-14)
On May 15, matralab in residence at the Hexagram Black Box will host the McGill Digital Composition Studios in a semi-public fashion (only for faculty and students of both universities). Ph.D. candidate and composer D. Andrew Stewart will show new digital instruments used in recent concerts of the Digital Orchestra at McGill and lecture about their design, use and demonstrate musical applications. Open Workshop with possibility of talkback and perhaps hands-on tryout. For this event, I need help to:
- spread the word
- design and put on posters in Music and elsewhere
- again set-up this event (chairs, tables, connectivity)
- video-document the event
Please tell contact us if you would be interested in doing some of the stuff described above. (You may leave a comment at the bottom of this post.) If you know a colleague (composer, musician) who would be interested to experience professional musicians working their way into a new composition, and/or the promise of the newest developments in musical interfaces, please tell them to contact me. Please note: No casual onlookers, everybody who wants to be in the room has to commit to some active help - and I need their student ID's for Security by May 5 latest. Yours cordially, Sandeep Bhagwati
- printing and photocopying the rehearsal material (May 12)
- setting up the black box (chairs, music stands, lights, floor labels, refreshments) (May 12-14)
- videographing and photographing the rehearsals (May 13-14)
- recording parts of the rehearsals (May 13/14)
- generally being around for listening and troubleshooting, as well as giving feedback to me (May 12-14)
On May 15, matralab in residence at the Hexagram Black Box will host the McGill Digital Composition Studios in a semi-public fashion (only for faculty and students of both universities). Ph.D. candidate and composer D. Andrew Stewart will show new digital instruments used in recent concerts of the Digital Orchestra at McGill and lecture about their design, use and demonstrate musical applications. Open Workshop with possibility of talkback and perhaps hands-on tryout. For this event, I need help to:
- spread the word
- design and put on posters in Music and elsewhere
- again set-up this event (chairs, tables, connectivity)
- video-document the event
Please tell contact us if you would be interested in doing some of the stuff described above. (You may leave a comment at the bottom of this post.) If you know a colleague (composer, musician) who would be interested to experience professional musicians working their way into a new composition, and/or the promise of the newest developments in musical interfaces, please tell them to contact me. Please note: No casual onlookers, everybody who wants to be in the room has to commit to some active help - and I need their student ID's for Security by May 5 latest. Yours cordially, Sandeep Bhagwati
Posted on April 20, 2008 at 21h01 by matralab
DISTRIBUTED NARRATIVES part 3/Narrations distribuées 3
matralab, CIAM and SAVAP present:
3.
Who: Chi-wang Yang –
What: artist’s presentation
When: march 27- 7:00 pm
Where: HEXAGRAM CONCORDIA
-EV-011-435, Concordia University, 1515 St. Catherine St. West, Montréal, Québec. H3G 2W1
Chi-wang Yang Theater Director and Digital Media Artist
“Inherent in our daily lives is the tactile experience of the world around us, which the body responds to with its own logic and honesty. Yet our perception of the world is increasingly mediatized, accelerated, flattened and fragmented by our interactions with technology. While such “distributed narratives” (to borrow a concept from computer science) can distance us from ourselves, they can also enable us to see with a perspective and intimacy not possible before.”
Chi-wang Yang is a theater director and digital media artist. Committed to physical performance and extra-disciplinary experimentation, his work fuses theatrical tradition with technology and heightened forms of representation through media. His work has been featured at REDCAT (Los Angeles), New York International Fringe Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe, Time-Based Arts Festival (Portland), and the Platform International Animation Festival. Recent projects include the world-premier staging of composer Sandeep Bhagwati’s Vineland Stelae, conceived as a theatrical concert at REDCAT, and co-directing a week of 365 Plays/365 Days Festival at the Public Theater. Chi-wang recently returned from co-directing a month-long video shoot in Cuba for a new theatrical production titled The Closest Farthest Away/Entrañable Lejanía. Conceived as a hybrid of cinema and theater, the project is being created collaboratively by a team of US and Cuban artists. Chi-wang received his MFA in Theater Directing and Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts. Other training includes the SITI Company with Anne Bogart, the Kitchen Summer Institute, and Brown University (BA). He is a founding member of Cloud Eye Control, a performance collective that integrates live theater, animation, and music. He is a recipient of the 2006 Princess Grace Award for Theater Directing.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.mediumtrue.com
http://www.cloudeyecontrol.com
http://www.projectporamor.com
3.
Who: Chi-wang Yang –
What: artist’s presentation
When: march 27- 7:00 pm
Where: HEXAGRAM CONCORDIA
-EV-011-435, Concordia University, 1515 St. Catherine St. West, Montréal, Québec. H3G 2W1
Chi-wang Yang Theater Director and Digital Media Artist
“Inherent in our daily lives is the tactile experience of the world around us, which the body responds to with its own logic and honesty. Yet our perception of the world is increasingly mediatized, accelerated, flattened and fragmented by our interactions with technology. While such “distributed narratives” (to borrow a concept from computer science) can distance us from ourselves, they can also enable us to see with a perspective and intimacy not possible before.”
Chi-wang Yang is a theater director and digital media artist. Committed to physical performance and extra-disciplinary experimentation, his work fuses theatrical tradition with technology and heightened forms of representation through media. His work has been featured at REDCAT (Los Angeles), New York International Fringe Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe, Time-Based Arts Festival (Portland), and the Platform International Animation Festival. Recent projects include the world-premier staging of composer Sandeep Bhagwati’s Vineland Stelae, conceived as a theatrical concert at REDCAT, and co-directing a week of 365 Plays/365 Days Festival at the Public Theater. Chi-wang recently returned from co-directing a month-long video shoot in Cuba for a new theatrical production titled The Closest Farthest Away/Entrañable Lejanía. Conceived as a hybrid of cinema and theater, the project is being created collaboratively by a team of US and Cuban artists. Chi-wang received his MFA in Theater Directing and Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts. Other training includes the SITI Company with Anne Bogart, the Kitchen Summer Institute, and Brown University (BA). He is a founding member of Cloud Eye Control, a performance collective that integrates live theater, animation, and music. He is a recipient of the 2006 Princess Grace Award for Theater Directing.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.mediumtrue.com
http://www.cloudeyecontrol.com
http://www.projectporamor.com
Posted on March 18, 2008 at 07h40 by Sandeep
DISTRIBUTED NARRATIVES part 2.
matralab, CIAM and SAVAP present:
DISTRIBUTED NARRATIVES parts I-4
Who: playwright and director *Louis Patrick Leroux
in discussion with Sandeep Bhagwati
*member Permutational Dramaturgies Group
(Sandeep Bhagwati/Jean-Claude Bustros/ Louis Patrick Leroux)
actors: François Bertrand-Prévost, Josianne DiCaire, Valérie Dumas
What: Dialogues fantasques pour causeurs éperdus
(Fantastical Dialogues for Smitten Conversationalists),
a series of nine improbable plays
When: march 11- 7:00 pm
Where: HEXAGRAM CONCORDIA
EV-011-705 Concordia University,
1515 St. Catherine St. West, Montréal, Québec. H3G 2W1
Leroux and three performers will present excerpts of "dialogues fantasques pour causeurs éperdus", a complex theatre text currently in development. The performances will be intermixed with discussion facilitated by Sandeep Bhagwati. Discussion with Sandeep Bhagwati will be in English, performance of text excerpts in French with one English text, questions and comments will be welcome in both languages.
Patrick Leroux, B.A. Hons (Ottawa, Theatre and French Literature), D.E.S.S. (HEC-Montreal, Arts Management); D.E.A. (Sorbonne nouvelle, Theatre). Doctorate ongoing at Sorbonne nouvelle, holds a cross-appointment in English and Études françaises. He has taught arts management at the University of Ottawa and playwriting at Summer Literary Seminars, Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia. He was playwright in residence at Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario in 1993-94, 2005-06 and 2006-07. He was a resident of the Leighton Artist Colony in Banff and of the CEAD International residency in Tadoussac. He is Artist in residence (Winter-Spring 2008) at Concordia’s Matralab.
Prior to academic life, he founded Ottawa’s Théâtre la Catapulte, which he managed during the 1990s, and worked as a producer, director, designer, and playwright. Over thirty of his plays, radio plays, and scripts have been staged or broadcast since 1992..
DISTRIBUTED NARRATIVES parts I-4
Who: playwright and director *Louis Patrick Leroux
in discussion with Sandeep Bhagwati
*member Permutational Dramaturgies Group
(Sandeep Bhagwati/Jean-Claude Bustros/ Louis Patrick Leroux)
actors: François Bertrand-Prévost, Josianne DiCaire, Valérie Dumas
What: Dialogues fantasques pour causeurs éperdus
(Fantastical Dialogues for Smitten Conversationalists),
a series of nine improbable plays
When: march 11- 7:00 pm
Where: HEXAGRAM CONCORDIA
EV-011-705 Concordia University,
1515 St. Catherine St. West, Montréal, Québec. H3G 2W1
Leroux and three performers will present excerpts of "dialogues fantasques pour causeurs éperdus", a complex theatre text currently in development. The performances will be intermixed with discussion facilitated by Sandeep Bhagwati. Discussion with Sandeep Bhagwati will be in English, performance of text excerpts in French with one English text, questions and comments will be welcome in both languages.
Patrick Leroux, B.A. Hons (Ottawa, Theatre and French Literature), D.E.S.S. (HEC-Montreal, Arts Management); D.E.A. (Sorbonne nouvelle, Theatre). Doctorate ongoing at Sorbonne nouvelle, holds a cross-appointment in English and Études françaises. He has taught arts management at the University of Ottawa and playwriting at Summer Literary Seminars, Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia. He was playwright in residence at Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario in 1993-94, 2005-06 and 2006-07. He was a resident of the Leighton Artist Colony in Banff and of the CEAD International residency in Tadoussac. He is Artist in residence (Winter-Spring 2008) at Concordia’s Matralab.
Prior to academic life, he founded Ottawa’s Théâtre la Catapulte, which he managed during the 1990s, and worked as a producer, director, designer, and playwright. Over thirty of his plays, radio plays, and scripts have been staged or broadcast since 1992..
Posted on March 07, 2008 at 15h06 by Sandeep
Interview with Sandeep Bhagwati
Posted on March 06, 2008 at 16h16 by matralab
distributed narratives (1 thru 4) : a lecture cycle produced by matralab
1.
Who:Dr Stefan Römer –
What: screening and presentation
CONCEPTUAL PARADISE: there is a place for sophistication http://www.conceptualparadise.com/english/index.htm
When: March 3rd- 7:00 pm
Where: HEXAGRAM CONCORDIA RESOURCE CENTRE
EV-011-705, Concordia University,
2. Who: playwright and director *Louis Patrick Leroux in discussion with Sandeep Bhagwati *member Permutational Dramaturgies Group
(Sandeep Bhagwati/Jean-Claude Bustros/ Louis Patrick Leroux)
actors: François Bertrand-Prévost, Josianne DiCaire, Valérie Dumas
What: Dialogues fantasques pour causeurs éperdus (Fantastical Dialogues for Smitten Conversationalists),
a series of nine improbable plays
When: March 11- 7:00 pm
Where: HEXAGRAM CONCORDIA
EV-011-705 Concordia University,
1515 St. Catherine St. West, Montréal, Québec. H3G 2W1
3. Who: Chi-wang Yang –
What: artist’s presentation
When: march 27- 7:00 pm
Where: HEXAGRAM CONCORDIA
EV-011-435, Concordia University 1515 St. Catherine St. West, Montréal, Québec. H3G 2W1
4. added attraction
Who: "S.Q.U.I.D = Some Quality Undertakings in Improvisation Design" What: outcome of the course “Structured Improvisation”
When: March 29 3-6pm
Where: room location TBA
Concordia University,
1515 St. Catherine St. West, Montréal, Québec. H3G 2W1
What: screening and presentation
CONCEPTUAL PARADISE: there is a place for sophistication http://www.conceptualparadise.com/english/index.htm
When: March 3rd- 7:00 pm
Where: HEXAGRAM CONCORDIA RESOURCE CENTRE
EV-011-705, Concordia University,
2. Who: playwright and director *Louis Patrick Leroux in discussion with Sandeep Bhagwati *member Permutational Dramaturgies Group
(Sandeep Bhagwati/Jean-Claude Bustros/ Louis Patrick Leroux)
actors: François Bertrand-Prévost, Josianne DiCaire, Valérie Dumas
What: Dialogues fantasques pour causeurs éperdus (Fantastical Dialogues for Smitten Conversationalists),
a series of nine improbable plays
When: March 11- 7:00 pm
Where: HEXAGRAM CONCORDIA
EV-011-705 Concordia University,
1515 St. Catherine St. West, Montréal, Québec. H3G 2W1
3. Who: Chi-wang Yang –
What: artist’s presentation
When: march 27- 7:00 pm
Where: HEXAGRAM CONCORDIA
EV-011-435, Concordia University 1515 St. Catherine St. West, Montréal, Québec. H3G 2W1
4. added attraction
Who: "S.Q.U.I.D = Some Quality Undertakings in Improvisation Design" What: outcome of the course “Structured Improvisation”
When: March 29 3-6pm
Where: room location TBA
Concordia University,
1515 St. Catherine St. West, Montréal, Québec. H3G 2W1
Posted on March 01, 2008 at 17h54 by Sandeep
Narrations distribuées: Stefan Römer PhD - Visionnement et présentation du documentaire
Narrations distribuées (1 à 4): Cycle de conférences organisé par le matralab avec l’appui du CIAM, du programme SAVAP (Studio Arts Visiting Artists program) ainsi que des départements de théâtre et d’études anglaises et du Bureau de la doyenne de la Faculté des beaux-arts de Concordia.
Qui? Stefan Römer. Ph. D.
Quoi? Visionnement et présentation du documentaire
CONCEPTUAL PARADISE: there is a place for sophistication
Quand? Le 3 mars à 19 heures
Où? HEXAGRAM CONCORDIA, EV-011-705, Université Concordia
Professeur en nouveaux médias à la Academy of Fine Arts de Munich, Stefan Roemer établit des liens conceptuels entre les pratiques et les théories de l’art. Ses œuvres ont fait l’objet de nombreuses expositions et ses essais ont été largement publiés. Fondateur du groupe militant interdisciplinaire FrischmacherInnen à Cologne en 1993, il a participé à la création et à l’organisation de l’exposition Messe 2ok de 1995 à Cologne, a reçu le Price for Art Critics du Arbeitskreis deutscher Kunstvereine en 2000 et est, depuis 2003, membre du comité de direction de kunstraum munich.
Publications : en 2001, sa thèse de doctorat Artistic Strategies of Fake – Critique of Original and Forgery et le livre illustré de photos Corporate Psycho Ambient; en 2003, le livre de photos et de textes Encounters with Germans; en 2005, le livre illustré de photos Temporary Architectures; en 2006, le manuel Berichte aus dem Conceptual Paradise/Reports from the Conceptual Paradise.
Pendant trois années de recherche cinématographique, l’artiste et auteur Stefan Römer a interviewé, avec son équipe, de nombreux artistes de renommée internationale. En suscitant un débat d’idées devant la caméra, il a su créer une manière cinématographique personnelle de réfléchir à la situation de l’art contemporain dans le monde. Son documentaire Conceptual Paradise: There Is a Place for Sophistication relate les discussions qui ont donné naissance au mouvement d’art conceptuel dans les années 1960 et abouti aux grands enjeux de l’art aujourd’hui. Les artistes y parlent de leurs pratiques et de l’évolution sociohistorique des différents mouvements d’art conceptuel. Ainsi, il ressort clairement qu’il n’y a pas de définition unique de l’art conceptuel puisqu’un engagement permanent définit sa complexité théorique et philosophique qui peut comprendre, par exemple, la question de savoir si l’art peut se passer de l’objet.
Ces interviews avec les artistes et théoriciens de l’art les plus intéressants de l’heure font ressortir le projet de l’art comme engagement politique et l’idéal qu’il représente. L’histoire de l’art est une histoire des luttes entourant les stratégies de représentation. Ce film-essai sur l’art conceptuel porte donc aussi sur l’art de la cinématographie.
Pour plus de renseignements, consulter le site : http://www.conceptualparadise.com/english/index.htm
Qui? Stefan Römer. Ph. D.
Quoi? Visionnement et présentation du documentaire
CONCEPTUAL PARADISE: there is a place for sophistication
Quand? Le 3 mars à 19 heures
Où? HEXAGRAM CONCORDIA, EV-011-705, Université Concordia
Professeur en nouveaux médias à la Academy of Fine Arts de Munich, Stefan Roemer établit des liens conceptuels entre les pratiques et les théories de l’art. Ses œuvres ont fait l’objet de nombreuses expositions et ses essais ont été largement publiés. Fondateur du groupe militant interdisciplinaire FrischmacherInnen à Cologne en 1993, il a participé à la création et à l’organisation de l’exposition Messe 2ok de 1995 à Cologne, a reçu le Price for Art Critics du Arbeitskreis deutscher Kunstvereine en 2000 et est, depuis 2003, membre du comité de direction de kunstraum munich.
Publications : en 2001, sa thèse de doctorat Artistic Strategies of Fake – Critique of Original and Forgery et le livre illustré de photos Corporate Psycho Ambient; en 2003, le livre de photos et de textes Encounters with Germans; en 2005, le livre illustré de photos Temporary Architectures; en 2006, le manuel Berichte aus dem Conceptual Paradise/Reports from the Conceptual Paradise.
Pendant trois années de recherche cinématographique, l’artiste et auteur Stefan Römer a interviewé, avec son équipe, de nombreux artistes de renommée internationale. En suscitant un débat d’idées devant la caméra, il a su créer une manière cinématographique personnelle de réfléchir à la situation de l’art contemporain dans le monde. Son documentaire Conceptual Paradise: There Is a Place for Sophistication relate les discussions qui ont donné naissance au mouvement d’art conceptuel dans les années 1960 et abouti aux grands enjeux de l’art aujourd’hui. Les artistes y parlent de leurs pratiques et de l’évolution sociohistorique des différents mouvements d’art conceptuel. Ainsi, il ressort clairement qu’il n’y a pas de définition unique de l’art conceptuel puisqu’un engagement permanent définit sa complexité théorique et philosophique qui peut comprendre, par exemple, la question de savoir si l’art peut se passer de l’objet.
Ces interviews avec les artistes et théoriciens de l’art les plus intéressants de l’heure font ressortir le projet de l’art comme engagement politique et l’idéal qu’il représente. L’histoire de l’art est une histoire des luttes entourant les stratégies de représentation. Ce film-essai sur l’art conceptuel porte donc aussi sur l’art de la cinématographie.
Pour plus de renseignements, consulter le site : http://www.conceptualparadise.com/english/index.htm
Posted on February 29, 2008 at 13h44 by matralab
Interdisciplinary Art - Practices, Methods, Categories IV
Thursday Feb 7, 5-10 pm. (Note the change of weekday from previous sessions.)
The discussion will take place in LB 671-1 (click here for directions)
Questions about Interdisciplinary Art in Individualist vs. Sociocultural Contexts
The one where we ask whether Interdisciplinary Art is just a fad or here to stay, and if yes - why the world needs it at all.
The discussion will take place in LB 671-1 (click here for directions)
Questions about Interdisciplinary Art in Individualist vs. Sociocultural Contexts
The one where we ask whether Interdisciplinary Art is just a fad or here to stay, and if yes - why the world needs it at all.
Posted on February 03, 2008 at 19h17 by matralab
World Premiere: "Prinzessin Süssüsan"
"Prinzessin Süssüsan" (Princess Süssüsan)
by Sandeep Bhagwati (Composition, Libretto) and Peter Truschner (Libretto)
Children's Opera in 19 scenes with Prologue and Epilogue
for 10 singers, three choirs and large orchestra
World Premiere: February 22, 2008 (plus 15 performances until June)
@
Opera Bonn
Am Boeselagerhof 1
53111 Bonn
Germany
+49-228-778000
theater@bonn.de
Musical Direction - Sibylle Wagner
Stage Direction - Mark Daniel Hirsch
Stage - Uta Heiseke
Costumes - Dieter Hauber
Synopsis:
Princess Süssüsan has no easy life. She cannot go anywhere without her stupid bodyguards Ratz and Fatz. And yet she often succeeds in giving them the slip. One day her father, the king, has had enough. He commands Süssüsan to stay at home until further notice. This is too hard a punishment - and for her there is only one solution - to sneak out of the castle.
Her life in freedom, though, does not last long. She is kidnapped by the evil bandit baron, Brumbubu, who demands a princely ransom – all the king's possessions ! But sly Süssüsan is not so easily subdued. She befriends her prison guard, Tigär, a talking tiger, a prisoner himself who also has a goose to cook with Brumbubu. Together they plan their escape – in the aftermath of a big bandit drunkfest, when all bandits have passed out. But they are spotted by Brumbubu who rouses his men and sets off in pursuit.
Meanwhile Süssüsan's Great-Aunt Purlupan mobilises the king and his hapless generals to take action. They march towards Brumbubu's stronghold and, while resting in a forest clearing, perceive Süssüsan and Tigär running towards them. Süssüsan convinces them that she is not threatened by the tiger, but rather by the bandits. Brumbubu menacingly appears on the scene, but without his men – in the preceding chase they have all drunkenly stormed against trees, fallen over roots and stones etc. He is arrested without much trouble, and the King proceeds to put everything in order.
But suddenly he is interrupted: Ratz and Fatz, the two slapstick bodyguards, have surfaced now and then during the action, always to hopelessly muddle the situation. Now they are still looking for the abducted princess, stumble onto the scene, and once more manage to create an avalanche of misunderstandings and chaotic tumult which ends the opera, inconclusively.
The Pro- and Epilogue are two songs by Süssüsan, with identical music and different text, that would allow to remember the entire opera as an elaborate daydream. Interspersed in the action are little canons and songs for the children and their parents in the audience.
by Sandeep Bhagwati (Composition, Libretto) and Peter Truschner (Libretto)
Children's Opera in 19 scenes with Prologue and Epilogue
for 10 singers, three choirs and large orchestra
World Premiere: February 22, 2008 (plus 15 performances until June)
@
Opera Bonn
Am Boeselagerhof 1
53111 Bonn
Germany
+49-228-778000
theater@bonn.de
Musical Direction - Sibylle Wagner
Stage Direction - Mark Daniel Hirsch
Stage - Uta Heiseke
Costumes - Dieter Hauber
Synopsis:
Princess Süssüsan has no easy life. She cannot go anywhere without her stupid bodyguards Ratz and Fatz. And yet she often succeeds in giving them the slip. One day her father, the king, has had enough. He commands Süssüsan to stay at home until further notice. This is too hard a punishment - and for her there is only one solution - to sneak out of the castle.
Her life in freedom, though, does not last long. She is kidnapped by the evil bandit baron, Brumbubu, who demands a princely ransom – all the king's possessions ! But sly Süssüsan is not so easily subdued. She befriends her prison guard, Tigär, a talking tiger, a prisoner himself who also has a goose to cook with Brumbubu. Together they plan their escape – in the aftermath of a big bandit drunkfest, when all bandits have passed out. But they are spotted by Brumbubu who rouses his men and sets off in pursuit.
Meanwhile Süssüsan's Great-Aunt Purlupan mobilises the king and his hapless generals to take action. They march towards Brumbubu's stronghold and, while resting in a forest clearing, perceive Süssüsan and Tigär running towards them. Süssüsan convinces them that she is not threatened by the tiger, but rather by the bandits. Brumbubu menacingly appears on the scene, but without his men – in the preceding chase they have all drunkenly stormed against trees, fallen over roots and stones etc. He is arrested without much trouble, and the King proceeds to put everything in order.
But suddenly he is interrupted: Ratz and Fatz, the two slapstick bodyguards, have surfaced now and then during the action, always to hopelessly muddle the situation. Now they are still looking for the abducted princess, stumble onto the scene, and once more manage to create an avalanche of misunderstandings and chaotic tumult which ends the opera, inconclusively.
The Pro- and Epilogue are two songs by Süssüsan, with identical music and different text, that would allow to remember the entire opera as an elaborate daydream. Interspersed in the action are little canons and songs for the children and their parents in the audience.
Posted on January 18, 2008 at 21h27 by matralab
Interdisciplinary Art - Practices, Methods, Categories III
You are invited to the third Workshop Discussion on Interdisciplinary Art, coordinated by Sandeep Bhagwati.
Tuesday January 22, 5pm - 10pm. LB 671-1 (click here for directions)
Questions about Technology, Poetics, Narrativity and Interdisciplinary Aesthetics
The one where we ask nasty questions about the why and wherefore of Interdisciplinarity in the world of Art.
Part I Lecture: A lecture about the poeto-aesthetical dimensions of Interdisciplinary Art.
Part II Discussion about issues such as:
Is there a difference between newmedia based interdisciplinarity and non-newmedia based approaches? If not, what about the newmedia hype? If yes, what are these differences? Or: What does Interdisciplinary Art accomplish aesthetically that is beyond the means of the mono-disciplinary? Or: Which stories do we tell interdisciplinarily?
The next workshop, “Questions about Interdisciplinary Art in Individualist vs. Sociocultural Contexts ” will be held Thursday Feb 7, 5-10 pm in LB 671-1. Subscribe to our RSS feed for updates.
Tuesday January 22, 5pm - 10pm. LB 671-1 (click here for directions)
Questions about Technology, Poetics, Narrativity and Interdisciplinary Aesthetics
The one where we ask nasty questions about the why and wherefore of Interdisciplinarity in the world of Art.
Part I Lecture: A lecture about the poeto-aesthetical dimensions of Interdisciplinary Art.
Part II Discussion about issues such as:
Is there a difference between newmedia based interdisciplinarity and non-newmedia based approaches? If not, what about the newmedia hype? If yes, what are these differences? Or: What does Interdisciplinary Art accomplish aesthetically that is beyond the means of the mono-disciplinary? Or: Which stories do we tell interdisciplinarily?
The next workshop, “Questions about Interdisciplinary Art in Individualist vs. Sociocultural Contexts ” will be held Thursday Feb 7, 5-10 pm in LB 671-1. Subscribe to our RSS feed for updates.
Posted on January 18, 2008 at 19h09 by matralab
Interdisciplinary Art - Practices, Methods, Categories II
You are invited to the second Workshop Discussion on Interdisciplinary Art. This is the second of four such workshops, coordinated by Sandeep Bhagwati.
Tuesday Jan 15, 5 -10 pm in LB 671-1 (click here for directions)
Questions around the Intermediality of Interdisciplinary Art
The one where we look at practical solutions, serendipity and the resistance of the medium in making and evaluating Interdisciplinary Art.
Part I Lectures: 2 interdisciplinary artists present their practice
Part II Discussions about issues such as:
Every artist has a „home“ discipline or culture that has conditioned their approach to artmaking - what happens in the application of this „tool set“ to another medium ? What are the hazards of intermedia work and how to counter them –
inefficiency of production, aesthetic misjudgements, suspicions of aesthetic shallowness ? Is there a real difference between intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches – or are both just about learning to work within another context“?
The next workshop, “Questions about Technology, Poetics, Narrativity and Interdisciplinary Aesthetics” will be held Tuesday Jan 22, 5 -10 pm in LB 671-1. Subscribe to our RSS feed for updates
Tuesday Jan 15, 5 -10 pm in LB 671-1 (click here for directions)
Questions around the Intermediality of Interdisciplinary Art
The one where we look at practical solutions, serendipity and the resistance of the medium in making and evaluating Interdisciplinary Art.
Part I Lectures: 2 interdisciplinary artists present their practice
Part II Discussions about issues such as:
Every artist has a „home“ discipline or culture that has conditioned their approach to artmaking - what happens in the application of this „tool set“ to another medium ? What are the hazards of intermedia work and how to counter them –
inefficiency of production, aesthetic misjudgements, suspicions of aesthetic shallowness ? Is there a real difference between intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches – or are both just about learning to work within another context“?
The next workshop, “Questions about Technology, Poetics, Narrativity and Interdisciplinary Aesthetics” will be held Tuesday Jan 22, 5 -10 pm in LB 671-1. Subscribe to our RSS feed for updates
Posted on January 13, 2008 at 13h29 by matralab
How to find room LB 671-1
LB 671-1 is in the Library Building of Concordia's downtown campus on de Maisonneuve and Mackay (across de Maisonneuve from the Hall Building).
671-1 is on the sixth floor. You must take the elevator from the ground floor, located outside the Campus Bookstore [However brave, the climber will be unsuccessful to tempt the stairs through the library to the sixth floor. These stairs are abruptly intersected with a glass wall. None shall pass this way.]
The elevator opens on the 6th: head straight, veering left, through the glass corridor that would be the continuation of the library stairs. Continue on straight, towards the "Sortie" sign.
At said "Sortie," you will turn down the corridor on your right. (This is the first possible corridor on the right.) At the water fountain on your left, you will turn left down a corridor. (This is the first possible corridor on the left.)
Directly ahead of you is a small, half flight of stairs ending at a "T" junction. Climb the stairs and turn right. The first room on your left is our destination: LB 671-1. The first door on the left may be locked, go ahead and try the second door.
671-1 is on the sixth floor. You must take the elevator from the ground floor, located outside the Campus Bookstore [However brave, the climber will be unsuccessful to tempt the stairs through the library to the sixth floor. These stairs are abruptly intersected with a glass wall. None shall pass this way.]
The elevator opens on the 6th: head straight, veering left, through the glass corridor that would be the continuation of the library stairs. Continue on straight, towards the "Sortie" sign.
At said "Sortie," you will turn down the corridor on your right. (This is the first possible corridor on the right.) At the water fountain on your left, you will turn left down a corridor. (This is the first possible corridor on the left.)
Directly ahead of you is a small, half flight of stairs ending at a "T" junction. Climb the stairs and turn right. The first room on your left is our destination: LB 671-1. The first door on the left may be locked, go ahead and try the second door.
Posted on January 13, 2008 at 13h14 by matralab
Interdisciplinary Art – Practices, Methods, Categories I
You are invited to a Workshop Discussion on Interdisciplinary Art – Practices, Methods, Categories. This is the first in a series of four, coordinated by Sandeep Bhagwati.
Tuesday Jan 8, 5-10 pm @ matralab Questions about Theoretical and Personal Interdisciplinarity in ArtThe one where we collect background info and identify the current streams of discourse here and now.
In three threads:
Thread I: An open forum for the discussion of burning questions and issues that each participant brings.
Thread II: a discussion of structural issues such as interdisciplinary mapping, interdisciplinarity in the process of making art vs. in the artistic result, and the importance of focal points („Rosetta Stones“) in interdisciplinarity.
Thread III: a sort of collective memory exercise on the discourse and socio-cultural setting around interdisciplinary art in Canada and Quebec (what were the issues, which were previous forum discussions, interdisciplinary organizations, groundbreaking/defining artists/artworks).
Homework: Each participant must bring along a reasoned list of artists, artworks and texts that in their
opinion best represent interdisciplinary art (max 10 items, all categories mixed).
The next workshop, "Questions around the Intermediality of Interdisciplinary Art" will be held Tuesday Jan 15, 5 -10 pm. Subscribe to our RSS feed for updates.
Tuesday Jan 8, 5-10 pm @ matralab Questions about Theoretical and Personal Interdisciplinarity in ArtThe one where we collect background info and identify the current streams of discourse here and now.
In three threads:
Thread I: An open forum for the discussion of burning questions and issues that each participant brings.
Thread II: a discussion of structural issues such as interdisciplinary mapping, interdisciplinarity in the process of making art vs. in the artistic result, and the importance of focal points („Rosetta Stones“) in interdisciplinarity.
Thread III: a sort of collective memory exercise on the discourse and socio-cultural setting around interdisciplinary art in Canada and Quebec (what were the issues, which were previous forum discussions, interdisciplinary organizations, groundbreaking/defining artists/artworks).
Homework: Each participant must bring along a reasoned list of artists, artworks and texts that in their
opinion best represent interdisciplinary art (max 10 items, all categories mixed).
The next workshop, "Questions around the Intermediality of Interdisciplinary Art" will be held Tuesday Jan 15, 5 -10 pm. Subscribe to our RSS feed for updates.
Posted on January 05, 2008 at 08h39 by matralab
Understanding the Unforseen - McGill Lecture
Sandeep will be speaking at the McGill Lunch and Learn Series this Wednesday November 21, 2007.
"Understanding the Unforseen: Composing for Improvising Orchestras and Multiperspectival Societies." "Comprendre l'imprévu: composer pour des orchestres d'improvisation et des societés à perspectives multiples."
It would be great to see you there!
12:30 - 13:30 | 21 Nov 2007 | 3463 Rue Peel | Room 201
"Understanding the Unforseen: Composing for Improvising Orchestras and Multiperspectival Societies." "Comprendre l'imprévu: composer pour des orchestres d'improvisation et des societés à perspectives multiples."
It would be great to see you there!
12:30 - 13:30 | 21 Nov 2007 | 3463 Rue Peel | Room 201
Posted on November 16, 2007 at 14h00 by matralab
VINELAND STELAE Premiere
We are proud to announce the world premiere of a new work by Sandeep Bhagwati: VINELAND STELAE. Performances will be held November 1, 2 & 3 at REDCAT Theatre, Los Angeles. (REDCAT is the multi-media space in the new Disney Hall built by Frank Gehry.)
VINELAND STELAE (based on his Lipogram poem "Inside a Native Land") is an evening length concerto grosso comprovisation for Trombone solo, 8 solo instruments, 8 groups of musicians and 8 channel live electronics, inscribed into a complex space (Design: Chi Wang Yang/Abra Brayman).
Performances will be led by Mike Svoboda, trombone.
Soloists:
Ashish Khan, Sarod
David Johnson, Marimba
Rachel Rudich, Shakuhachi
I Nyoman Wenten & Ensemble, Gamelan
Daniel Rosenboom, Trumpet
Alfred Ladzekpo & Ensemble, Ewe Drums
Vinny Golia, Woodwinds
Swapan Chaudhuri & Randy Gloss, Tabla & Tabla Tarang
Musicians are members of the New Century Players, of California EAR Unit and faculty & students of CalArts.
This work was commissioned by CalArts as part of Sandeep Bhagwati's 2007 residency.
VINELAND STELAE (based on his Lipogram poem "Inside a Native Land") is an evening length concerto grosso comprovisation for Trombone solo, 8 solo instruments, 8 groups of musicians and 8 channel live electronics, inscribed into a complex space (Design: Chi Wang Yang/Abra Brayman).
Performances will be led by Mike Svoboda, trombone.
Soloists:
Ashish Khan, Sarod
David Johnson, Marimba
Rachel Rudich, Shakuhachi
I Nyoman Wenten & Ensemble, Gamelan
Daniel Rosenboom, Trumpet
Alfred Ladzekpo & Ensemble, Ewe Drums
Vinny Golia, Woodwinds
Swapan Chaudhuri & Randy Gloss, Tabla & Tabla Tarang
Musicians are members of the New Century Players, of California EAR Unit and faculty & students of CalArts.
This work was commissioned by CalArts as part of Sandeep Bhagwati's 2007 residency.
Posted on October 18, 2007 at 14h40 by matralab
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