Transmissions
Wednesday, December 14, 2005, 8:00pm.
Admission is $10.
Location: The Tank; 217 East 42nd Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues;
Subways: 4/5/6/7/S to Grand Central
Jonathan Mitchell is interested in exploring how sound elements which are often thought of as separate - speech, music, sound effects, ambiance - can all be combined in a unified, cohesive way. His radio documentary City X and his concert piece Vinyl are examples of the ways in which Jonathan doesn’t separate how he deals with sound, whether writing in an “informational” genre, like journalism, or one more traditionally thought of as being “artistic,” like music.
Kaleidoscope, by Jascha Narveson, uses live, improvised instrumental performance as found sound. The computer functions like a delay unit (which records bits of sound and plays them back later), except with a longer memory and without any of the predictability. Sound is chopped up into phrases, stored in memory, and played back in different ways at different times. These regurgitated snippets in turn affect how the performer proceeds with her improvisation.
Transonic Arts is an arts-presenting organization dedicated to crossing the boundaries between different subgenres of contemporary music, sound art, and any other sound-based artistic endeavor we can get our hands on. We aim to bring both the artists we present and our audience along with us as we challenge them to find common ground and to explore the important differences that give each artist his or her creative voice.