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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
