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String Orchestra of Brooklyn: String Theories III: Meditations: Music by Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, Tony Conrad, and Zach Layton

What: Meditative works for strings using drones and improvisation woven together into an evening-length sound installation.
When: Friday, March 30, 2018, 8pm
Where: Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, 2/3/4/5/A/C/G/D/M/N/R/B/Q trains & the LIRR
Cost: $20 Online $25 Doors
Info: www.roulette.org // (917) 267-0368

Brooklyn, NY —  The final evening of the String Orchestra of Brooklyn‘s String Theories Festival features meditative works for string orchestra using drones, masses of sound, improvisation, and time-based structures woven together into an evening-length sound installation.

Founded in 2007, the String Orchestra of Brooklyn has become an integral part of New York City’s vibrant and diverse musical landscape, bringing together creative instrumentalists, composers, and like-minded organizations and ensembles to collaborate on adventurous musical projects and present them to the public at an affordable price.

Program:
Tony Conrad – Empire *
Pauline Oliveros – Tuning Meditations and 70 Chords for Terry
John Cage – Twenty Three
Zach Layton – Stridulations *

* String Orchestra of Brooklyn commission

Optics 0:1 Combinations (Night 3)

What: Optics 0:1: Combinations examines the modalities of creation, production, and performance involving video-based technologies.
When: Thursday, November 9, 2017, 8:00pm
Where: Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, 2/3/4/5/A/C/G/D/M/N/R/B/Q trains & the LIRR
Cost: $25/20 Online $20/15 Doors
Info: www.roulette.org / (917) 267-0368
Tickets: General Admission $20, Members/Students/Seniors $15, $25/20 Tickets at the door

Brooklyn, NY – Victoria Keddie’s multimedia festival, Optics, returns to Roulette for three evenings in November. This year’s edition, Optics 0:1 Combinations, examines modalities of creation, production, and performance involving video-based technologies, focusing on combinations of multimedia within the context of a live performance. Areas of focus include multi-channel video camera recording processes and live production, choreography of space and movement, and photographic sound. In addition to unique programming each night, the festival will include an ongoing media installation of “Pattern Language” by Peter Burr as well as video programs curated by Enrico Camporesi (Centre Pompidou, Paris), Kolbein Holgi & Rebecca Moran (Reykjavik), and Mark Pilkington (Quietus Press / Strange Attractor, London).

Thursday’s programming includes —

  • Zach Layton with Victoria Keddie, Elisa Sanitago, Felicia Ballos present “Transduction,” new work for electronic video and sound controlled camera system and movement.
  • Tatiana Kronberg and Meg Clixby perform new work that presents the darkened chamber of the performance space as a metaphor for the unconscious brain activity of electrochemical waves.

Victoria Keddie is an artist working within cross disciplines of sound, video, installation, and performance as well as electronic sound, video composition, and choreography. Of interest are the fluctuations of electromagnetic activity, stereoscopic image and dimensional spaces, satellite debris and collision, image and sound synchronicity and collapse, time sensitivity, and the body in relation to the machine. Keddie is the co-director of E.S.P. TV, a nomadic TV studio that hybridizes technologies to realize synthetic environments and deconstruct the televisual for live performance. In January 2018, Keddie will launch “Satellite Studio” in Garlock, CA, using a 10 ft C band satellite dish receiver to track LEO space debris for sonic compositions.