[dance-tech] [NYC] Friday: Skateboarding with Robots and more
- From: Eric Singer <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dance-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:20 -0400
April ReSiDeNt Show
This Friday, May 2nd
Featuring new works by Dafna Naphtali, Andrew Schneider and Simon Morris
This month's show features Simon Morris on his newly constructed
SensorSkate, a skateboard custom-wired with sensors and programmed to
control the LEMUR robots. Dafna Naphtali has been brewing up a
soundstorm of dynamically controlled algorithmic improvisation and
live audio processing, using Wiimotes and vocal cues to trigger and
manipulate the bots. Andrew Schneider will be doing musical theater,
presenting a dance number and interfacing his movements with the
robots via custom-built wearable controllers. This promises to be an
exotic, entertaining evening.
ReSiDeNt @ LEMUR: New Works, New Instruments, New Artists
Friday, May 2nd
8 pm - 11 pm
$5 at the door
Dafna Naphtali is a sound-artist and improviser-composer from an
eclectic musical background. As singer/guitarist/electronic-musician
she performs and composes using custom sound processing of voice and
other instruments. Besides her composing and improvised projects, she
co-leads the digital chamber punk ensemble What is it Like to be a
Bat? with Kitty Brazelton (http://www.whatbat.org) and has
collaborated/performed with Lukas Ligeti, David First, Joshua Fried,
Ras Moshe, Alexander Waterman, Kathleen Supové and Hans Tammen, among
others and done sound design and programming for Jin Hi Kim, Shelley
Hirsch, Pamela Z, Phoebe Legere, Fred Frith, Jim Staley, Henry
Threadgill, Steve Coleman, Chico Freeman and others. Dafna can be
heard with Mechanique(s) on a forthcoming release on In-situ, and was
featured vocalist on José Halac's CD "Dance of 1000 Heads" (Tellus),
as well as on her acclaimed release with What is it Like to be a Bat?
on Tzadik/Oracles.
is a multimedia designer and performer whose work investigates
human/technological interdependence. He is the co-founder and
Associate Artistic Director of the Chicago-based theatre company,
BigPictureGroup. His solo performance work has been seen at P.S.122,
Monkeytown, The Prelude Festival, and The Tank. His multimedia
devices have been featured in Art Review, Wired, TimeOut NY, Maker
Faire, SIGGRAPH, Dorkbot, the Telfair Art Museum, and at the Center
Pompidou in Paris. His Solar Bikini has been featured internationally
and is slated to be featured in the next Sports Illustrated swimsuit
edition. His latest projects include Experimental Devices for
Performance (.com) and Acting Stranger (.com). Andrew Holds a Masters
Degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU. He is currently
working with The Wooster Group. (http://andrewjs.com)
Born in New York City, Simon Morris (US/France) is a new media artist
exploring urban landscapes, new musical interfaces and skateboarding.
Investigating new forms of musical expression, his work examines
technology and its role as a socially engaged art practice. He has
conducted live performances at Eyebeam, NYC, the Article Biennale
2006 in Stavanger, Norway, the KiasmaMuseum in Helsinki, Finland and
the Barker Theatre in Turku, Finland.
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