In Situ - Festival For Electronic Music and Sound Art - 2019
A series of performances, installations, and talks exploring the boundaries of sound and music. Featuring local and national artists interested in experimental, conceptual, and unorthodox approaches to sound and its interrelation to time and space.
Schedule of Events
Wednesday, December 4, 6pm
Composition and Process: Mike Hodnick
Pancake House: 4553 S. 34th Ave, Minneapolis
Sound artist Mike Hodnick aka Kindohm will share his philosophical and opinionated approach to code-based music and the TidalCycles live coding environment.
Free to attend!
Thursday, December 5, 6pm
Panel Discussion: Listening to Space
Pancake House: 4553 S. 34th Ave, Minneapolis
A discussion examining the relationship between sound and space as it relates to contemporary music and sonic art practices.
Moderator: Christian Langheinrich
Panelists: Miriam Karraker, Scott Miller, Michael Legan, Sebastian Camens
Free to attend!
Thursday, December 5, 7:30pm
Augmented Creativity: William Fields
Pancake House: 4553 S. 34th Ave, Minneapolis
William Fields will show you how to transcend your habitual patterns and discover new creative possibilities through the use of parametric systems and tuned randomness.
William’s talk is for anyone interested in algorithmic composition, regardless of tools, including those in the fields of visual arts and design.
Free to attend!
Friday, December 6, 9pm
Performance: Pooch Karton, mote, Lynn Avery, and William Fields.
Moon Palace: 3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis
An evening of performances with multidisciplinary artist Pooch Karton, Miriam Karraker’s improvisational sound project mote, post-club music from Lynn Avery, and algorithmic composition from Pennsylvania based artist William Fields.
$10 - All Ages. Advance tickets available:
Saturday, December 7, 9pm
Performance: Justin Meyers, Kindohm, Jay Afrisando, and Sebastian Camens.
Moon Palace: 3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis
A second night of performances featuring Sympathy Ltd. founder and composer Justin Meyers, live coded electronic music from Kindohm, Indonesean composer and music-technology researcher Jay Afrisando, and “minimal maximalist” computer music from Dutch/Australian artist Sebastian Camens.
$10 - All Ages. Advance tickets available:
Sunday, December 8, 11am-7pm
Sound Installation: Michael Legan and Jaak Jensen “School of Fish”
Pancake House: 4553 S. 34th Ave, Minneapolis
“School of Fish” is an interactive sound installation activated by movement and inspired by a desire for aural democratization.
Free to attend!
$17 TWO NIGHT PASS
A two night pass for the Friday and Saturday performances is available in advance:
Artists
Jay Afrisando
Jay Afrisando is an Indonesian music composer and sonic artist. Currently, he is a PhD student in Music Composition at the University of Minnesota. He uses sound and other media to share awareness of human-nature-technology relationships and diverse hearing profiles which are communicated through a range of approaches: from musical composition to sound installation, from acoustic to electroacoustic, from fixed-media to improvisation, from implied to overt participatory-settings that invite audiences to the very making, and everything in-between.
His works have been presented at Aural Diversity Conference 2019 (UK), October Meeting 2019 (ID), Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2019 (KR), ICMC-NYCEMF 2019 (NY), Linux Audio Conference 2019 (CA), Disability Awareness Week 2019 (VA), Drone Not Drones 2019 (MN), Fifteen Minutes of Fame 2015: Alex Lubet (NY), Seattle Art Museum (WA), Montalvo Arts Center (CA), and National Gugak Center (KR). He was awarded the 2016 Minnesota Emerging Composer Award by the American Composers Forum, the 2016 Innovative Art Grant by Kelola Foundation, and the 2nd Prize composition winner of Prix Annelie de Man 2015. He participated in the OneBeat 2015 residency in the US and the 2014 International Fellowship in Study of Korean Music in South Korea. He is a co-author of “Basic Music Technology: An Introduction” published by Springer in 2018.
Justin Meyers
Justin Meyers is an experimental musician and visual artist residing in Minneapolis. His work spans the formats of video, sound, screen, & print, but maintains a strong minimal approach across all mediums while confronting the expectations shared amongst the performer and audience. Instruments and processes used in his sound work include commercial and home-built modular synthesizers, reel-to-reel tape machines, computer algorithms and arrangement, obfuscated natural sound events and field recordings. In an effort to create an outlet for his own work and like minded contemporaries he founded Sympathy Limited in 2014.
Select Discography:
“Struggle Artist” Shelter Press 2018
“Negative Space (1981–2014)” Sympathy Limited 2016
Kindohm
Kindohm is Mike Hodnick, a programmer and sound artist from Chaska, Minnesota, USA. Hodnick sequences sharp synthesis and percussion with stacks of TidalCycles pattern code, resulting in bruisingly complex and alluringly minimal live arrangements. He has performed his brand of coded electronic music internationally, appearing at the Algorithmic Art Assembly, Sound of Stockholm, Algomech Festival, and the International Conference on Live Coding. In 2014, he received the Minnesota Emerging Composer Award from the American Composers Forum. He has released music on the independent labels Nada and Conditional.
Lynn Avery
Lynn Avery is a producer creating dense, rapid ambient forests; echoing sounds of club, fantasy, and soundtrack.
https://soundcloud.com/truelynnavery
Michael Legan
Michael Legan (USA, born 1989) is a composer and sound artist based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His focus is on designing environments that excite awareness of space and that facilitate active listening as a means of investigating aural democratization. Often, his projects emphasize multisensory exploration by combining sound with the specific elements of human gesture and everyday movement. Scoring most often for film and live performance, Michael’s compositions have been featured at the Cleveland International Film Festival, Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Film Festival, PBS, Guthrie Theater, Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, and the screening room of the New York Public Library’s Performing Arts Branch. In 2019, his sound installations were exhibited at the Walker Art Center’s summer series of Sensory Friendly Sundays – a monthly event designed for people with sensory processing differences, autism spectrum disorders, and developmental disabilities. Michael holds a BA in Global Studies from the University of Minnesota.
Mote
Mote is the ongoing sound/performance practice of violist Miriam Karraker. Mote improvises alongside incidental sounds integral to each performance environment, and has performed on the shore of Lake Hiawatha, beneath moving sculpture, at Peavey Plaza, on dilapidated tennis courts, and elsewhere. Mote has previously worked with Cole Pulice, currently performs solo, and hopes to work with more collaborators in the future.
Pooch Karton
Pooch Karton is the nom de guerre of Christian Langheinrich, a multidisciplinary artist born in Chicago in 1970. Through recordings, performance and installation, Pooch Karton explores the multivalent nature of sound expressed through complexity, perception of randomness and order, and sound transformations. He has released work on Dream Disc, and Nada (which he co-runs), has composed music and sound for film and theater, and is currently working on a piece entitled “10,000 Fractal Shorelines.”
Scott L. Miller
Scott L. Miller is an American composer described as ‘a true force on the avant-ambient scene’ of ‘high adventure avant garde music of the best sort’ (Classical-Modern Music Review). Best known for his electroacoustic chamber music and ecosystemic performance pieces, his music is characterized by collaborative approaches to composition and the use of electronics, exploring performer/computer improvisation and re-imagining ancient compositional processes through the lens of 21st century technology. Inspired by the inner-workings of sound and the microscopic in the natural and mechanical worlds, his music is the product of hands-on experimentation and collaboration with musicians and performers from across the spectrum of styles. His recent work experiments with VR applications in live concerts, first realized in his composition Raba, created for Tallinn-based Ensemble U:.
Three time McKnight Composer Fellow, his work is frequently performed by soloists, ensembles, and at festivals throughout North America and Europe. Recordings of his music are available on New Focus Recordings, Innova, and other labels, many featuring his long-time collaborators, the new music ensemble Zeitgeist (and whose albums he produces). His music is published by the American Composers Alliance, Tetractys, and Jeanné. Raba (NFR198) is his most recent album, a collection of audio-visual music drawn from collaborations with six film and video artists. Miller is a Professor of Music at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, where he teaches composition, electroacoustic music and theory. He is Past-President (2014—18) of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S. (SEAMUS) and presently Director of SEAMUS Records.
www.facebook.com/scottlmillercomposer
www.bit.ly/scottlmilleryoutube
www.twitter.com/The_5th_Column
Sebastian Camens
Sebastian Camens is a Dutch/Australian Artist and Visual Designer based in Seattle. His sound leans into an oxymoronic minimal maximalism, utilising stochastic processes to construct brutal patterns of sound, inflating into the entire frequency range. Camens’ work often transforms sound into near-tangible objects, with implied physical properties of weight and texture.
William Fields
William Fields (b.1977) is an artist, musician, and composer from the Philadelphia area whose work explores algorithmic composition, improvisation, and audio-visual correspondence.
His music has been released on labels such as Conditional, New York Haunted, Audiobulb, and NOREMIXES. He has performed live throughout the United States and Canada. His work was selected and choreographed for dance as part of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC).
www.twitter.com/williamfieldsy
www.instagram.com/williamfieldsy