"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.

Digital Performance 1/2 Show!
Tues Dec 14, 9PM @ Fulton Hall (next to Grant)

Come see two final pieces from students of Digital Performance at this short and sweet event Tuesday night.
-MEME student Michael Norris and MFA director Kristan Seemel present a multimedia interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s work PLAY, a dystopian tale of a love triangle from beyond the grave featuring actors from the Brown/Trinity Consortium.
-MEME student and local Doom Metal magnate Indrayudh Shome performs a gesture-based hypnotic noise piece that is sure to bring you below, beneath and beyond.
Refreshments will be served!

Video from this fall's Pixilerations concerts:

We are working on getting the concert video on line. The first few are posted here.

Lots of MEME Concerts!:

Real Time Systems Concert
Saturday, December 11, 8:00 PM. Grant


Sound Design Concert

"Sonic Scenography and Sculptures of Sound"
(aka "Macho Nacho")
Sunday, December 12, 8:00 PM. Fulton (next to grant)

Chamber Music Video Concert 
Monday, December 13, 2010 12:00 PM. Grant

Digital Performance Events
Tuesday, December 14. Fulton
Thursday December 9 - Details TBA

Details, directions and other events:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Music/events/