For its 5th anniversary celebration CT::SWaM is proud to be presenting collaborations, compositions and cookies! A special spatial sound session will be held and for the occasion we’ll be setting up a 12.3 channel sound system in the main room. The program includes a variety of short solo pieces, a control-suspending Modular Collaboration, simultaneities and in between sounds from the archive.

May 25 2017
7p
Knockdown Center
52-19 Flushing Ave
Queens, NY 11378
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Solo pieces:
Claude Edwards – spatialized field recordings and interviews
Merche Blasco – EEMF:
Shelley Hirsch – ToHuWaBoHu
David Linton – 9/11/15
Cecilia Lopez – From Versiones Arruinadas: Los Boredoms, La Manoseada
Matthew Ostrowski – Shiver and Cleave
Kamron Saniee – Turbulent Flow: spatial synthesis piece for solo performer and 3x4ch loudspeaker system

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A Modular Collaboration:
3 groups of performers over a 3 x 4.1 channel sound system:
Gus Callahan, Michael Clemow, Seth Cluett, Richard Garet, Wolfgang Gil, Jenn Grossman, Victoria Keddie, Patti Kilroy, Daniel Neumann and Bruce Tovsky

During two workshop days a multi-channel piece based on sonic exchange between individual performers will be developed. The architecture of the piece is such that none of the participants has direct control over the output. Any original output, structural or sonic, must be passed through at least one other performer. There won’t be any direct individual expression. Each performer switches between >GENERATE<, >CAPTURE< and >PASS<. The sound system will consist of a total of 12 speakers, yet divided into 3 smaller sub-(quad-)systems.

Composers: Jaime Esteve, Miguel A. García, Gregorio Jiménez, Andrés Lewin-Richter, Pedro Linde, Reyes Oteo, Stefano Scarani

Performer: Sarah Goldfeather (violin)
Talk: Ferrer-Molina (President of AMEE) and Daniel Neumann (Director of CT::SWaM)

Saturday, March 18, 2017
8pm

Roulette Intermedium
509 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
USA
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CT::SWaM is presenting an overview of recent works by composers from the Spanish Association for Electroacoustic Music. The evening will feature multi-channel acousmatic pieces and a piece for violin – played by Sarah Goldfeather – and electronics.
Program:

“SATZ3” (2004), Jaime Esteve
“Niños rata” (2015), Miguel A. García
“RSF” (2014), Andrés Lewin-Richter
“Rosa de los Vientos” (2011), Reyes Oteo
“Etude de Sons” (2009), Gregorio Jiménez

Sarah Goldfeather, Ferrer-Molina – violin & live electronics

“Rondó Prometeo” (2016), Pedro Linde
“One Step of Fire” (1998, reviewed in 2016), Stefano Scarani

AMEE (www.amee.es) is Spain’s official national association for electroacoustic music and sound art, founded in 1987 to represent and promote these experimental forms of art in its broadest definition (included are acousmatic, computer and tape music, soundscape, performance, video, environmental, space and conceptual sound art, and other experimental modes of cultural production). The aims of AMEE are to foster a broad, diverse and inclusive community of electroacoustic artists and develop the collaboration and interchange of artists working within different fields, to produce projects, events, seminars and exhibitions of the sonic art fields. AMEE operates with Spanish and international cultural and educational organizations.

CT::SWaM presents an evening featuring the Spatial Music Collective, based in Dublin. Composers included in this programm will be::

Linda Buckley (live)
Jonathan Nangle
Brian Bridges
Enda Bates
Ian McDonnell

The evening will open with Pauline Oliveros‘s text score and listening meditation, the “Inner-Outer Sound Matrix“. Participants include: Merche Blasco, Julia Santoli, Anastasia Clarke, Jeremy Slater, Matthew Gantt, Michael Hammond, Tom Montagliano, Mahin Salman, Chris Penalosa. Conducted by Jenn Grossman.

7p doors
7:30p start
Spectrum
121 Ludlow St, 2nd Fl
New York, New York 10002

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The Spatial Music Collective is a group of like-minded Dublin-based composers working in the field of spatial contemporary music. Since 2006 they have presented numerous performances of new musical works with a dynamic and novel spatial component, incorporating both electronic and acoustic forces. The collective seeks to foster an awareness of contemporary and experimental music through the creation of new work, developing themed concerts in collaboration with ensembles, and through the programming of works by established international figures. It further promotes awareness of the medium through free public workshops on the aesthetics and practice of spatial music.

https://spatialmc.net/
https://ctswam.org/
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Presentations: Experiments: Studies: Concerts: Workshops: and: Exchange:

For two weeks Fridman Gallery was turned into a Temporary multi-channel sound studio. Work sessions led to 5 public evening events:

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August 25 – September 6 2016

Fridman Gallery
287 Spring St
NY NY

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EVENTS

All events 7:30pm doors, 8pm program::

FRIDAY 8/26 – Opening
Richard Garet:: RED-Splice, 2016, sonic construction for 8 channels
Wolfgang Gil:: generative installation
Jay Hines:: improvised modular synth performance, utilizing cv panning and spatialization

MONDAY 8/29
Josefin Lindebrink:: Hyperakusi II, composition for 8 loudspeakers
Hyperakusi II plays on hypothetical spaces and alterations to temporal and spatial relationships
Michael J. Schumacher:: Fridman Space, 8 channel generative composition with improvisational elements
Fridman Space is a generative composition with improvisational elements
Talk:: The evening will close with a conversation between the artists and organizer Daniel Neumann

WEDNESDAY 8/31 – An evening focused on low-frequency spatialization
Stephen Schaum:: 5 compositions for 8 speakers and 4 subwoofers
Daniel Neumann:: Next To Nothing, 8.4 live performance

SATURDAY 9/3
Dafna Naphtali:: Audio Chandelier – 8 channel live electronics
In this piece individual grains of nearly static sound are dispersed to 8 speakers throughout the gallery and altered as granular synthesis illuminates and refracts moments in time.
The performance will be followed by a talk about the artist’s practice.
Mike Amacio:: Field Manipulations
Field Manipulations features 8-channel field recordings, RF interference, and manipulated field recordings from various environments.
Ian Epps:: improvisations in ambisonic positive feedback and sympathetic resonance

TUESDAY 9/6 – Closing
Matthew Ostrowski:: Grand Abacus, 8-channel fixed media composition, a three-part exploration of sounds in space, as static and traveling entities, based on the notion of the idea of the asymmetrical field; with introduction and talk
Jenn Grossman:: Circumstantial Infiltration, 8-channel composition
Lybes Dimem (Lukas Rehm):: KZEJHRAV, 8-channel fixed media composition
Matthew D. Gantt:: Isomorphs, 8-channel composition using source material from ‘functional’ media, including commonly used ringtones, alarms, and a variety of western cultural signifiers (arena-rock guitar, auto-tune sludge, etc), which is analyzed, processed and re-mapped both compositionally and spatially
Kamron Saniee:: Room on Wire, spatial synthesis improvisation, instrumentalizing the real acoustics of rapid harmonic motion when combined with spatialized delay
Scott Murakami:: Walking In Circles, 8-channel installation

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CT::SWaM and Neu West Berlin present::

Maria Chavez (US) – solo turntable
Jeff Donaldson (DE/US) – audio-visual live glitch
Andrew Lafkas (DE/US) – double bass / Daniel Neumann (US/DE) – electronics / Bruno Palazzo (BRA) – electronics

The evening will conclude with a quintet in which all the artists will be performing together.

Sunday, July 3rd 2016
8pm

Neu West Berlin
Yorkstr. 86

CT::SWaM presented a selected program of multi-channel releases and live performances from the Swiss-based label [ ] leerraum

multi-channel live-set:

Colliding Fields (CH)
Richard Garet (USA)
Zimoun (CH)

multi-channel presentation:

Yuzo Kako (JP) – fora
Janiv Oron (CH) – an other variation for rotary speakers
D’Incise (CH) – stephan thut vier 1-12
Elías Merino (ESP) – initial suppressions

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Harvestworks in association with Knockdown Center and CT::SWaM presented two audio-visual multi-channel performance works that were commissioned and produced by the Harvestworks Artist-in-Residence Program.

The evening featured All the more my thoughts multiply, a new work by Jane Rigler and Elizabeth Hoffman with video by Anna Weisling and The Audio Visual Matrix by diNMachine (Michael Schumacher and Nisi Jacobs).

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KAMRON SANIEE:
Live multichannel performance for >6ch radial speaker system.

DORON SADJA ::
: The Gentle Caress of a Stone Wall

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The second collaboration between CT::SWaM and Neu West Berlin!

CT::SWaM [Contemporary Temporary:: Sound Works and Music] will now be intermittently presenting compositions and experiments for audible space at Neu West Berlin.

Monday, March 14 2016
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Neu West Berlin
Yorckstr 85, 10965 Berlin

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MARCIA BASSETT & STEPHEN CONOVER
INTUITION & REASON (for 8 channels)

JORDAN TOPIEL PAUL & GAO JIAFENG
80, 30

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Cantina Royal
58 N 3rd St.
Brooklyn, New York 11249

Doors at 7p
(with a CT::SWaM Walk-in-installation)
Performances at 8p

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