Concert, Wednesday August 29
Caroline Park, Doug Van Nort, Carver Audain, and Jason Sloan
10 Channel Center St. 8pm
$10 suggested donation
also:
on view during the concert and on 8/31 from 5-7pm: Strange Attractor:
Experiments in a quinary landscape and other fields, an exhibition of
artists from Ireland and regional guests
Caroline
Park is a composer, musician, and artist working in experimental/new
media art via performance and installation. She performs solo on laptop,
or with BUMPR, a quartet with laptopists/multi-instrumentalists Peter
Bussigel, Stephan Moore, and Timothy Rovinelli.
Caroline has
performed at the RISD Museum, AS220 (Providence), 295 Douglass Street
(Brooklyn), 16 Beaver (NYC), Boston Center for the Arts, Goethe
Institut-Boston, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts (St. Louis),
Ambassador Auditorium (Los Angeles), as part of R.K. Projects
(Providence), ((audience))'s Sound Off (NYC), Non-Event (Boston),
Together: New England Electronic Music Festival, Musicacoustica Beijing,
SICPP: Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (Boston),
Boston Microtonal Society, and Boston CyberArts. Caroline has shared
the stage with artists such as Evidence, Dollshot, and Arnold Dreyblatt,
and has worked with ensembles and performers Callithumpian Consort,
Sound Icon, Los Angeles Children's Chorus, cellist Laura Cetilia, and
pianists Stephen Drury and Yukiko Takagi.
A Los Angeles
native, Caroline received degrees at the New England Conservatory and is
currently a graduate student in the MEME program at Brown University.
Her work has been presented in the U.S., U.K., and in China. Solo
releases can be found on cassette, CD, and in digital formats via
Private Chronology, Bathetic Records, VisceralMediaRecords, Boomkat, and
Pure Potentiality Records. Caroline lives and works in Providence, RI.
More info a www.blanksound.org.
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Carver
Audain (b 1981) composes music in the Acousmatic tradition, which, as
defined by French composer and theorist Pierre Schaefer, refers to "a
sound that one hears without seeing the causes behind it."
Materially,
he produces audio using digital signal processing and editing
techniques on a variety of environmental and instrumental recordings. He
is a self taught pianist, his recent works continue to explore harmonic
structures utilizing the "slow change music' method. In a live setting,
he arranges and manipulates this material into situation-specific
compositions. Sonically, he produces an array of slowly shifting sound
fields that merge and transform within their physical surroundings. http://www.carveraudain.com
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Doug
Van Nort explores electroacoustic composition and improvisation through
a radical sculpting of sound materials, discovered through attentive
listening to the world. He is fascinated with the limits of noise, tone,
texture, gesture, deep listening, immersion, machines that improvise,
density, sparsity, loudness, softness. Van Nort regularly performs solo,
in the trio Triple Point with Pauline Oliveros and Jonas Braasch, in a
duo with Al Margolis (If, Bwana) with the Composers Inside Electronics
and recently has collaborated with a wide array of artists such as
Francisco López, Judy Dunaway, Alessandra Eramo, Ben Miller, Carver
Audain, in Sarah Weaver-led ensembles featuring Gerry Hemingway, Mark
Helias and Dave Taylor, Katherine Liberovskaya, Jonathan Chen, Mike
Bullock, Jefferson Pitcher and many others. He has enjoyed performing in
recent years at venues such as the Stone, Issue Project Room, the
Miller Theatre, Town Hall and Roulette in New York, Casa da Musica in
Porto, Betong in Oslo, sharing the stage with Marvin Minsky at a concert
in New Jersey, at the Red Room in Baltimore and Casa del Popolo in
Montreal, to name a few. His music appears on several labels including
Deep Listening, Pogus and Zeromoon. http://www.dvntsea.com
Jason
Sloan is an electronic musician, composer, sound and new media artist
working from Baltimore, Md. His work explores aspects of immateriality
and its connection in memory, systems and the virtual world. Through his
performances, sound installations, videos transmission art works and
sound recordings, he examines the need for transcendence beyond the body
through a vehicle of visual and aural stimulation. With this dialog,
Sloan feels an urgency to evoke a collective experience between the
viewer, listener and artist that can bridge the gap between the physical
and non-physical world. The focus of this transcendence is not to
conform to any current trends or systems, but to take a non-dogmatic
approach of artistic and intellectual inquiry that explores the basic
human need for some type of spiritual alignment or wholeness.
In
2001 Sloan co-founded Slo.Bor Media with sound artist & web
designer Matt Borghi as a vehicle for their individual releases and a
platform for other artists. SLO.BOR Media is primarily a record label,
but focuses on a variety of media and forms of distribution. SLO.BOR
Media is also quite concerned with packaging, design, new media, sound
and conceptual art.
Sloan
received his BFA from Edinboro University in 1996 and his MFA from
Towson University in 1999. In addition to being the recipient of
multiple Maryland State Arts Council's Individual Artist Awards, Sloan's
performances, installations, net.art and video works have been
exhibited internationally including Berlin, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Kiev,
Nagoya, Saint-Petersburg, Toulouse Lisbon and Vienna. In addition to
releasing over a dozen studio albums and E.P.'s over the last decade on
various record labels, Sloan has played live all over the US, Canada and
Europe including the influential Live Constructions radio program at
Columbia University, STEIM in Amsterdam and Philadelphia's The
Gatherings concert series, one of the country's oldest continuing
ambient and electronic music series.
Sloan
is a Professor teaching full-time in the Interaction Design and Art
[IDA] department along with being the founder and program coordinator
for the soundArt concentration at the Maryland Institute College of Art
in Baltimore, Maryland.
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