OPENSIGNAL Festival
Friday, May 16 + Saturday, May 17
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
154 Angell St., Providence RI

opensignal concludes its colloquium and concert series with a 2-day festival on Friday, May 16th and Saturday, May 17th at Brown University’s Granoff Center for Creative Arts. There will be 17 performances by Brown current students/alumni and from local artists, 3 talks, and a large-scale sound installation featuring the work of over 80 composers, sound artists, and musicians from all over the world. Visiting guest artists Blectum from Blechdom, Maria Chavez, and Tara Rodgers will perform and give talks.

See full schedule here.
Facebook link here.

Ghost Clinic - (Narrative and Immersion 2014)
New works by: Dan Putnam / Diane Zhou / Henry MacConnel / Jinku Kim / Luke Moldof / Perry Rosenberg / Vivian Charlesworth / Will Allen-Dupraw / Will Peterson

Tuesday May 13, 2014 | 6-9pm
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts | Studio 1
Brown University | 154 Angell St. Providence, RI 02906

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a concert of new music for new instruments featuring custom-made electronic instruments designed by students in Music 2220: Designing and Playing Alternate Controllers.

Wednesday, May 14, 8pm Granoff Center for the Arts, Studio 1

Performances by...
Lizzy Callas, Jeff Fan, Bridget Ferrill, Ryan Glassman, Nate Harris, Celine Katzman, Jinku Kim, David Lee, Luke Moldof, Ben Moreno Ortiz, Nick Newhouse.

Free and open to the public

Narrative and Immersion Final Class Concert
Tuesday may 13, 2014 6pm-9pm
Granoff Center - Studio 1

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MEME Ensemble Final Concert
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 8pm
Granoff Center - Studio 1


Systems for Play Final Performance
Saturday May 10, 2014 8pm
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Distortion as Expression
a talk by Alex Case
Tuesday May 6. 11am. Grant
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Brown Noise
'Recording Studio as Compositional Tool' Final Concert.
Thursday May1, 8pm.
Martinos Auditorium - Granoff Center.
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CANCELED ---- OPENSIGNAL PRESENTS: TARA RODGERS
FRIDAY APRIL 11 2014

5PM :: ARTIST TALK
Archiving Electronic Music Cultures: Process, Pedagogies, and Politics

Tara Rodgers will speak on her research of the history of synthesizers, as well as introduce a new digital archiving project. Rodgers will discuss reframing the electronic music canons by addressing the questions of gender and race in the history of synthesized sound, emphasizing on how gendered and racialized metaphors inflect audio-technical language and representation.

*reception to follow*

8PM :: PERFORMANCE
w/ Betsey Biggs
+ Caroline Park + Asha Tamirisa duo

free + open to all
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center
154 Angell Street, Providence RI