STEIM residency/ botch/ joe
In mid-July I’ll be traveling to Amsterdam with composer/sound artist Joe Diebes to participate in a residency at STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music). Our work will explore the intersection of real-time signal processing technologies & vocal production, in preparation for Joe’s new sound-theater work that will premiere at HERE Arts Center in 2012.
6/21: first work session on Joe’s new piece [Botch]
[Botch] is a music driven live art piece for five vocalists and electronics about where humans belong in today’s digital world. Specifically, the work explores the behavioral gap between people and machines by asking: what’s in a mistake? A computer defines errors as null and invalid, but I’m interested in errors as the activity of wandering.
Back to the abandoned bank vaults under 14 Wall Street. This is where we built Red Fly and Tinder, courtesy of LMCC. The room where the 2nd Movement of Red Fly came to life (I call it The November Room because we there in November 08), is now Joe’s semi-permanent studio. I like it there.
I’ve worked with Joe on several recent projects, including his performance installation i/o co-created with Phil Soltanoff (Theatre Garonne, Toulouse), and the first draft of his micro-tonal opera Hypatia (libretto by Mac Wellman).
He also played guitar on several of my songs. Here’s one of them, sung by Chris Lee:
@1 year ago
