Wolfgang Gil (CV) is a New York-based Venezuelan sound artist who creates sonic environments through the use of computer-generated sound and multichannel speaker systems. Gil’s aesthetic emphasizes the idea of a sonic environment and its physical correlation to sound, architecture, and audience. More specifically, he is interested in the transformation of sound as a direct consequence of architecture, as well as how audience members transform the sound by their physical presence inside the sonic environment (more…)

246 Frost Street Brooklyn, NY 11211
UNTITLED – (for light and sound)
May 4th – 8PM at TheFireHouse — $10

Richard Kamerman: Visuals
Gill Arno: Audio

Richard Garet: Visuals
Wolfgang Gil: Audio

TheFireHouse will present on May 4th at 8PM two collaborative audiovisual sets drawing attention to experimentation and extended techniques to both moving image and sound. This event will include in a performance setting 4 artists whose work range within approaches such as improvisation, composition, installation, film and video screenings, and interdisciplinary methods that challenge both artistic practice and audience’s reception.

246 Frost Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211

http://www.thefirehousespace.org/

thefirehousespace@gmail.com

RODDY SCHROCK // WOLFGANG GIL // MICHAEL CLEMOW & RUI PEREIRA // JACKSON MOORE
Sunday, Apr. 29 – 7:30 PM – $8
SHEA STADIUM BROOKLYN

20 Meadow St.Brooklyn, NY 11206
(L train to Grand St.)

CODE highlights performing artists whose work involves programming computers. From austere, textural compositions to tightly coupled audio visual experiences, CODE will leave you “tumbling down a rabbit hole” of sound. Documentation of this performance will include multi-channel audio, twitter posts with the hashtag #AbattoirCode, and a Github repository for each artist.

more info: http://abattoirprojects.com/pressreleases/CODE_Press_Release.pdf

mit / with: Gill Arno (NY), Daniel Fischer (L), Patrick Franke (L), Wolfgang Gil (NY), Kenneth Kirschner (NY), CFM (L), Daniel Neumann (NY), Keiko Uenishi (NY) and Chris Weinheimer (L)

The gallery hours of ASPN in Leipzig, Germany, will be shifted to Eastern Standard Time.
There will be a parallel event between Cielo, a night club in New York City and ASPN gallery. Over the course of 6 hours an audio stream will be established between the two locations.

In NYC, the performers listed above will use microphones placed inside Cielo – a night club, which is usually closed at this hour – and produce a mix of room sounds and processed sounds, which is streamed to Leipzig. The narrative will be centered around an empty, unused night club.

The performers in Leipzig (listed above) will simultaneously be mixing and processing their microphones, which are installed inside ASPN. The mix from Leipzig gets sent back to NYC and will be played through Cielo’s sound system. Feedback occurs because the microphones in each location, will also partly pick up the sounds from the other location playing through the speakers.

All performers will play in rotation over the course of 6 hours and an audience can witness the trans-atlantic dialogue at both locations, during this time period.

Cielo Club
18 Little West 12th St
New York, NY 10014
USA

http://www.cieloclub.com/

ASPN
Spinnereistr. 7
04179 Leipzig
Germany

http://www.aspngalerie.de/

Featuring Gill Arno, Patrick Franke, Richard Garet, Wolfgang Gil, Andrew Lafkas, David Moscovich, Daniel Neumann, Ben Owen, Chris Weinheimer, and others.

The group will explore collaborative strategies of composing and performing sound and visuals based on the idea of modular organization. Pieces are developed in non-hierarchical and decentralized forms where collaborators interact as equals. The modular structure is reflected less on the technical level but primarily on the level of collaborative formulation of ideas and its execution.

More info

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/214702

Diaphanspectrum represents a collective effort to explore the mind’s ability to interpret different sensorial stimuli as one, resulting in a unified multi-sensorial experience. Employing distinct mediums indistinctly, this sculptural installation includes computer generated, multichannel sound components as well as generative video. Beams of light shoot through a complex of fiberglass structures, creating a series of reflected projections, organically transformed through their display. While viewing this work, visitors will experience a synesthetical state- their sensory perceptions melting into one another, immersing them in the sculpture’s audiovisual output.

http://www.bringtolightnyc.org/

22 Recordings: In Circular Symmetry is a work of indeterminacy created by Richard Garet and Wolfgang Gil using Gil’s ROctoR (Real-time Octophonic Router). For this piece, Garet proposed and initial model to randomly reproduce 22 recordings he composed through different processes. This model was extended and refined through a process of collaboration between both artists. Finally, Gil translated the model into a MAX/MSP application that in conjunction with Richard’s sonic material and Gil’s ROctoR conformed the piece.

To play the piece ROctoR selects each audio file randomly. Within the duration of the selected track a segment, that is the 10% of the total duration of the track, is played back. A series of panning presets consisting of shapes such as a triangle, a square, a circle, and a line were created and assigned randomly to each sound. During the play back of each audio file the duration of the audio file is divided by the amount of parts of the panning shape and that determines the form of the panning movement. Additionally each panning preset was designed to keep changing position randomly.

The material for this work consists of utilizing, as a source, the sound from eleven audiocassettes tapes. These tapes were submitted to processes of deterioration such as data corruption, erasing, magnetic interference, and tape feedback. The sound that resulted from these processes were played back at various speeds and methods, and then digitally recorded. Each recording from the tapes was cut and spliced digitally by making editorial decisions and erasing the non-desired sections of the recordings. As a conclusion Garet arrived to a final number of 22 audio files. All audio files are different in duration and content.

As a conclusion an extensive number of possible configurations of structure, form, material, and movement will emerge from real-time process, creating not only a listening environment but also awareness of location, physical movement, and a surrounding sensorial experience. 22 Recordings: In Circular Symmetry will play indefinitely once it is initiated. However, to fit the program of the exhibition the work was prepared to play for 17’ at the time. However, even when it isn’t playing it will continue to run, changing configuration, until RoctoR initiates it again after the other three works have conclude their playback.

The result of a yearlong shared investigation between sound artist Wolfgang Gil and video artist Justin Riley, Reactive Homeostasis, generates interactive conversations through technology. Together the artists are developing an audio-visual system where both mediums are interconnected in a continuous feedback loop. This constant state of feedback between mediums imprints a chaotic character into the system, which becomes a third agent operating on its own; a digital Frankenstein monster. Searching for a stable equilibrium, Gil and Riley attempt to control the ratio of tension and release throughout their multi-media dialogue in order to keep the ‘monster’ within the desired boundaries while improvising an exchange of computer-generated sound and generative video immersing the audience in an environment of organic transforming projections and multichannel sound. Ultimately, the performance will push the boundaries of collaboration between human and machine, through a synthesis of audio and visuals.

Sunday, May 8 at 6:30pm and 7pm
FREE
Harvestworks – www.harvestworks.org
596 Broadway, #602 | New York, NY 10012 | Phone: 212-431-1130

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