The fifth event of the DARK CIRCUITS FESTIVAL is: Parkins / Ostrowski, Vortex, and the littleBits Quartet at Spectrum
Admission: $10

1) Andrea Parkins & Matthew Ostrowski
2) Vortex (Satoshi Takeishi & Shoko Nagai)
3) littleBits Quartet (Paul Rothman, Geof Lipman, Ed Bear and Sean Schumer )

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
The duo of Andrea PARKINS and Matthew OSTROWSKI engages with amplified manipulated quotidian objects, exploring the liminal space between the virtual and phenomenological worlds. VORTEX (Satoshi Takeishi & Shoko Nagai) extract, magnify and modify the past, they make “passing of time” a visual experience. With the LITTLEBITS QUARTET, four members of the littleBits engineering team – Paul Rothman, Geof Lipman, Ed Bear and Sean Schumer – will take to the stage for an improvised performance. Using only Synth Kits as their sound sources, they will create, dismantle, and recreate new instruments during the live performance.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

From June 14 through 23, 2014, Hans Tammen’s DARK CIRCUITS FESTIVAL features performers who work in contemporary electronic music practices such as circuit bending, no-input mixers, laptops, turntablism, analogue circuitry, network sniffers, live coding and soldering, plus other instruments we may have never heard of yet.

The festival highlight will be the performance of APHERESIS on June 22 at EYEBEAM: a large multi-movement piece by Hans Tammen for 14 laptop and electronics performers. APHERESIS was commissioned by Harvestworks with funds from The Multi-Arts Production Fund. The MAP Fund is a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundatio n. This work is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and Wave Farm Fiscal Sponsorship. littleBits Electronics supports MakeMusicNY and the Dark Circuits Festival by providing their LittleBits x Korg Synth Kits. Eventide supports MakeMusicNY and the Dark Circuits Festival by providing their Eventide H9 Stompboxes.

Special thanks to Emilio Vavarella, Digital Media Strategist and Photographer of the festival: http://emiliovavarella.com/ - and to Wayne Ashley for his invaluable contributions to the concept: http://futureperfectproductions.org

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