Saxtronics: A concert of New Works for Saxophone and Interactive Electronics



Featuring Dennis Shafter, saxophones

New works by:
Zach Alteman, Mark Cetilia, Akiko Hatakeyama,
Stephan Moore, Caroline Park, Parker Silzer,
and Kristina Wolfe.

Friday, December 16 at 8pm / Free
Grant Recital Hall / Behind the Orwig Music Bldg
on the corner of Hope St. & Young Orchard Ave.

Second Sight


Saturday | 12.17.11 | 8pm | Free
New works by Caroline Park and Mark Cetilia.

Grant Recital Hall
Behind the Music building
Hope + Young Orchard

Patchwerk V2
New music from students of MUSC1210 - Introduction to Real Time Systems.
Thursday 12/15 - 7pm
Grant Recital Hall

Liver Country - MEME Ensemble
(possibly pronounced 'Live'r Country) happens Monday at 9pm in the Granoff Center.

Liver Country is the final project by this semester's MEME ensemble, an 18 person assemblage of dancers, musicians, writers, scientists and undecideds interested in experimental performance. Liver Country is the result of an intense group creative process and we are excited to perform the results of our experiments with you.


Patchwerk V2
New music from students of MUSC1210 - Introduction to Real Time Systems.
Thursday 12/15 - 7pm
Grant Recital Hall

Five Point Wonderbread
Surround sound audio and video works by students in Musc1250 - Sound Design

Sunday 12/11/11 4pm
Granoff Center, Martinos Auditorium
Free

Night: Multimedia Concert

Saturday December 10.  8pm
Granoff Center, Studio 1

"Night" is a final concert from the course, Digital Performance, featuring multimedia interactive performances. The works explore myth, fantasy, reality, and various pasts. Within these themes, night is presented and re-presented in various ways, from childhood explorations and fears of the dark, to the mythic metaphor of darkness as death and the "undiscovered country."

New works by Akiko Hatakeyama, Lisa Iaboni, and Kristina Wolfe—with a special guest performance by Zach Alterman.
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NATIVE PLANTS
A song cycle and sound installation in four parts by Caleb Townsend.
Like weeds  stubbornly sprouting through the cracks in the sidewalk, rhythm and melody grow out of a variety of urban sounds from the crowded subway to the wildlife preserve in Jamaica Bay. The work is in surround sound format, bringing an immersive slice of New York to Providence.
Friday 12/2 8:30 and 10pm
Saturday 12/3 4:30
Sunday 12/4 4:30, 8:30 ans 10pm
Granoff Center - Cooper Studio
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blevin blectum: Beast 6 is a new 
MixedMediaMultiMonsterMusicMonstrosity for:
light, sound, shadow, story, voice, text, monster
based on M John Harrison's short 
story 'the Lamia and Lord Cromis'
with DJ intro/outro courtesy 
of: nano not hologram. 
Dec. 2, The Salon. 57 Eddy St. Providence.
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acoustic + live electronics 
maarten stragier, michael unterman,
+ nonce
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Spectra: A Concert of New Music by MEME students in Music 2230: Composing for Real-Time Systems


Tuesday 10/25/2011 | 8pm | Free

New work by: Zach Alterman, Mark Cetilia, Akiko Hatakeyama, Stephan Moore, Caroline Park, Parker Silzer, and Kristina Wolfe

Featuring performances by: Laura Cetilia, Zach Alterman, Stephan Moore, Parker Silzer, Kristina Wolfe, and Butch Rovan

Grant Recital Hall
Behind the Orwig Music Building on the corner of Hope Street + Young Orchard Avenue
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Merce Cunningham : Minievent @ Brown


Choreography by Merce Cunningham
Danced by Brown students, led by
former MCDC dancer Daniel Squire.
Costumes designed by RISD Apparel students
Set pieces by Brown student Cecilia Salama
Live improvised score by Caroline Park,
Peter Bussigel, and Tim Rovinelli, led by
former MCDC sound designer Stephan Moore.

10/14 @ 8pm, 10/15 @ 8pm, 10/16 @ 2pm

Ashamu Dance Studio / 77 Waterman St.
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Ashamu Dance Studio is attached to the East end of Lyman Hall just down the hill from Leeds Theatre. The studio has an accessible entrance that faces Lincoln Field with a walkway that wraps around the building, traveling behind it and along the campus greenhouse to connect with Waterman Street.

Working in Context: Scope, Scale, and Space in Providence


Ellen Driscoll / Marcel Lussier
Holly Ewald / Drake Patten
Betsey Biggs
Carol Bebelle / Dorothy Jungels / Elmo-Terry Morgan / Nehessaiu deGannes

Saturday, October 15th · 10:00AM - 9:00PM
Various locations throughout Providence

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Palimpsestic


Valise
Time Ghost
Work / Death
Mark Cetilia
Beeman Glow
Geoff Mullen

Sat, October 15, 8:00pm / $5 suggested donation
R.K. PROJECTS / 891 North Main St. / Providence

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RISD Museum After Dark: College Night


Ruthy Moonshine and the Ruckus Boys
Celadour
Screening: RISD Student Films
Hands-On Art
The Locked Room
Work in Process: Etching
Work in Process: Jewelry
Art Shots: Frameworks: Seeing Outside the Box
Poets Jess X Chen
Ramsey Jeremie
Tim Natividad
Jacob Richman / Kirsten Volness / Josh Lantzy
Bevin Kelley
Laurie Simmons
Ashe / Rushton / Gosain / Dubi / LaCount
Wolinsky / Leach / Chad / McGleughlin / Spencer / von Reyn
Kathryn Howley

Thursday, October 13: 7-10pm. Free w/ college ID.
RISD Museum / 224 Benefit Street / Providence

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Anxiety of Influence

A multimedia and dance dissertation performance
presented by
Robbie Byron, MEME PhD Candidate
Saturday, September 17
Granoff Center - Studio 1
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Sonic Afterimage


Caroline Park, electronics
Mark Cetilia, analogue modular+electronics
Laura Cetilia, cello+electronics

Saturday, September 17, 7:30pm - 10:30pm / Free
R.K. PROJECTS / 60 Orange Street / Providence

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Mercy Brown and the Devil’s Footprint


Friday, September 16, 2011, 8:00pm / Free
S. Main St. Park (between S. Water and College) / Providence

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Pixilerations 2011

Starts September 22
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Congratulations Grads!













Congrats to Lyn, Brian and Kevin for receiving their doctorates!
Jordan and Bevin for receiving their masters!
And to Indy, Henry, Dylan, Ben, Sabrina and Zick for receiving their bachelors!

Sonic Psychogeographies: Final Exhibit and Reception
Friday, May 13 · 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts

Indoor and outdoor installations exploring sound and place!

Free

Songwriting Concert
A final concert performed by the students in MUSIC 450: Songs and Songwriting.
Saturday, May 14. 8pm
Grant Hall
Free

21 Bits and Pieces
New audio works from Music 1200: The Recording Studio as Compositional Tool

Wednesday May 11, 2011
Martinos Auditorium
Granoff Center
free

Art Tec 

Festival of Art and Technology

Brown University’s program in Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments (MEME), in conjunction with the Department of Modern Culture and Media (MCM), invite you to the first ART TEC Festival of Art and Technology in the new Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. The entire building will be alive with performances, interactive installations and an opening night concert. All events are free and open to the public.

Thursday, May 5 at 8pm in the Granoff Center Auditorium

Performances by Luke DeBois, Betsey Biggs and Mark Cetilla

Details

Saturday, May 7 from 6pm-midnight throughout the Granoff Center

Interactive Installations and Performances throughout the building

Details

Performance/Lecture with Helga Davis

Wednesday, April 20, 7:30pm
Granoff Center, Auditorium
154 Angell Street, Providence

Interdisciplinary artist Helga Davis will be lecturing and performing at Brown as a part of the Solid Senders series. The series brings together composers and performers of new music/performance in conversation with the Brown community. Helga is a New York based artist whose inter-disciplinary work includes collaborations with composers and choreographers. Recently, she performed at the Soho Rep in Jomama Jones: Radiate, written by Daniel Alexander Jones and directed by Kym Moore

Iberia :: A Memory of Light and Sound

MEME senior thesis installation by Dylan Nelson

Wednesday April 13-15: 12-6pm
Wednesday April 20-22: 12-5pm
Cogut Center
172 Meeting St. Providence

An installation artwork that stages an encounter between poems composed by Jews and Muslims (kings, wanderers, viziers, philosophers) living in 11th century Iberia.

My work sequences images and videos to the rhythms of a shared poetic verse style, called a Muwashshah. Images blend and merge and are revealed through human interaction.

The full experience of the work relies on interaction with an'other' person but feel welcome to come alone as well; ideally, then, you will encounter a stranger and learn to work together.

love_me

A one person play by Ben Nicholson.

M.E.M.E./Literary Arts dual honers thesis

April 15. 8pm

Grant Auditoriun

Free!

MEME Masters Thesis Show! Bevin Kelley/Jordan Bartee

Fri, April 16, 8pm
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
154 Angell St. Providence

8pm--Bevin Kelley/Blevin Blectum presents:
"SOLAR RATTLE - Entombed Zero : Incinerating Zero - ElectronicMusicMultimedia Environment/Performance in Six Areas" in collaboration with Nicole Halmi, Ben Nicholson, Rachel Jendrejewski, Mark Baumer, Ric Royer, Butch Rovan, and Alex Dupuis.

9:30--Jordan Bartee presents:
DIGIMANCY
An Object-Oriented Improvisation by Jordan Bartee
With Special Guest Christopher Novello

love_me

A one person play by Ben Nicholson.
M.E.M.E./Literary Arts dual honers thesis

Friday April 15. 8pm

Grant Auditorium (behing Orwig Music building)
Hope + Young Orchard St. Providence

The Music of George Lewis
A concert of new music for instruments and electronics

Friday, April 8, 8PM
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Martinos Auditorium
154 Angell Street

featuring the U.S. premiere of
"Les Exercices Spirituels"
for chamber ensemble and spatialized electronic sounds

and "Interactive Trio"
for trombone, two pianos, and interactive music system

presented by the Depts of Music and Africana Studies

“Lectures to be Sung” a performance by Robert Ashley

Thurs, April 14, 7:30 PM
Granoff Center, Martinos Auditorium
154 Angell Street, Providence

Distinguished composer/librettist/singer Robert Ashley will perform scenes from two of his operas, "Concrete" and "Atalanta (Acts of God)." Robert Ashley has an international reputation for his work in new forms of opera; his recorded works are acknowledged classics of language in a musical setting, known for their original style and their distinctly American subject matter and use of language. His music has been described as "nothing less than the first American opera.
Free

Rinde Eckert

Weds 3/9, 7:30pm
Grant Hall
behind Orwig Music Building,
1 Young Orchard St

Rinde Eckert, composer, performer, and director, will be lecturing and performing at Brown as a part of the Solid Senders series. The series brings together composers and performers of new music/performance in conversation with the Brown community.

"Improvisation as a way of life" Symposium

Please join us this coming Friday, February 25, in the Cogut Center for the Humanities for the symposium curated by George E. Lewis, CAC Fitt Artist-in-Residence.

details HERE

Carl Hancock Rux performs Poesia Negra

Wednesday, February 23, 7:30pm.
Granoff Creative Arts Center
Angell St. (btwn Brown and Thayer)

Channeling the work of Luis Pales Matos, Nicoles Guillen, and the literary tradition that created a synthesis between personal memory, dreams, political struggles and music, Poesia Negra is an intimate performance work (two people) that blends storytelling, poetic reveries, and a trenchant critical analysis on American mythologies and controversies new and old. Rux’s stripped-down staging sets up a psychological lec/dem oratory and gives spirited disquisitions on an eclectic lineup of cultural game-changers from James Baldwin, Archie Shepp and Billie Holiday, Breyten Breytenbach, Albert Einstein, and filmmakers Shirley Clarke and Pier Paolo Pasolini, in order to investigate post post modernism. race and personal identity.

Faculty Triennial Exhibition 
continues through February 11 at the David Winston Bell Gallery in List Art Center.

The exhibit features the work of 24 faculty artist from five departments including work by MEME faculty Todd Winkler, Butch Rovan and Betsey Biggs, and associated faculty Ed Osborne (professor of art).

exhibit web site

MEME at SEAMUS

Several memer's will be presenting work at this year's SEAMUS conference (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) in Miami, January 20-22:

Butch Rovan and Lucky Leone will be performing Slim Jim Choker
Peter Bussigel will be screening A440 in the video concert.
Jim Moses' soundscape composition Westminster Street will be featured in the listening room.

Slim Jim Choker and Westminster Street were both premiered in Providence this fall at the Pixilerations festival.