The tenth of the DARK CIRCUITS FESTIVAL is:CT-SWaM at Eyebeam: The Last Picnic (Goodbye Chelsea)

Suggested Donation: $10

The evening will feature a unique ensemble piece by Andrew Lafkas with Marcia Basset, Barry Weisblat, Leif Sundstrom, Rick Brown, Patrick Holmes, Tucker Dulin, Che Chen, Karen Waltuch, Kenny Wang, Andrew Lafkas, Gill Arno, Wolfgang Gil, Daniel Neumann and Ben Owen.

Other solo performers include: Mario de Vega, Hans Tammen, Maria Chavez, Matthew Ostrowski, Dafna Naptali, Radio Wonderland, Carver Audain and many more .
Please bring food and blankets if you can. We’ll provide some blankets and drinks for sure.
And let us know, if you also want to give a tribute yourself: closed.mail.info@gmail.com

Details
Andrew Lafkas: (still untitled, sorry.) ::
This new piece was composed specifically for this group of musicians to perform at Eyebeam. Like other ensemble works I organize this piece uses predetermined elements to facilitate group intuition. Through the rehearsal process I have started feeling these written elements functioning more and more as possibility generators illustrating the ability of parameters to both limit and expand simultaneously.

Marcia Basset – electric guitar
Barry Weisblat – electronics
Leif Sundstrom – cymbal
Rick Brown – cymbal
Patrick Holmes – clarinet
Tucker Dulin – trombone
Che Chen – violin, bass recorder
Karen Waltuch – viola
Kenny Wang – viola
Andrew Lafkas – bass
Gill Arno – microphone/recording device
Wolfgang Gil – microphone/recording device
Daniel Neumann – microphone/recording device
Ben Owen – microphone/recording device

CT-SWaM (Contemporary Temporary Sound Works And Music) is Eyebeam’s late night concert series curated by Eyebeam Alumni Daniel Neumann, happening intermittently in Eyebeam’s Main Space. The series focuses on contemporary sound experiments, electro-acoustic multi-channel performance, social-sonic relations, improvisation, lowercase artistic presence, and topology – study of place/space with a spatial concept that goes beyond linear, geometrical understandings of space.

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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