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

Wolfgang Gil performs a stereo version of his work Broken Continuum at the XXI Subtropics Biennial in Miami, Florida.

Saturday, March 12th. 8:00 p.m.
inkub8 studio
2021 NW 1st Place, Miami, Fl 33127

http://subtropics.org/

POINT PLAY curated by Nisi Jacobs:
Octophonic Installations by Michael J. Schumacher, Richard Garet, Adam Kendall, Wolfgang Gil

POINT PLAY invites four artists (Schumacher, Garet, Kendall, and Gil) to compose individual works through an interaction with Wolfgang Gil’s ROctoR (Real-time Octophonic Router), a new custom software instrument designed for multi-channel sound diffusion. Enabling the creation of 8-channel soundscape compositions based on prerecorded or live sound, ROctor allows the ability to dynamically assign sounds to a selected set of speakers, and transition seamlessly to subsequent configurations, simulating the sensation of physical movement in space. In Schumacher’s work Sledge, for example, the composer spatializes sounds from sources such as

“films, including The Exorcist, The Sentinel, The Dungeonmaster and The Birds / Arp, EMS and Buchla synthesizers /
poet Bruce Andrews imitating the sounds of another of the composer’s installations / workers hanging a theatrical curtain / a wooden toy car / a skipping CD / stones tossed into a lake / the composer playing guitar / a Ferrari.”

The cycle of sound works from the four artists plays each Saturday of December on the 8-channel ROctoR system in the Gallery room at Diapason for extended immersive listening.

Richard Garet’s Rupture: Material Landscape consists of a single video channel, presenting a moving image piece originating from treated and processed 16mm film. Accompanying the moving image presentation Garet prepared an aleatoric sonic system based on sounds recorded from processed and modified audiocassette tapes. Garet invited Wolfgang Gil, a programmer and sound artist, to execute the aleatoric system with Max/MSP and Gil’s custom-made software Roctor. Gil will distribute Garet’s sonic material throughout the overhead multichannel audio system during the presentation of the footage. Garet also invited, as a special guest, interdisciplinary artist Bonnie Jones to contribute to the piece with live text and voices, which Wolfgang Gil will also be spatializing throughout the overhead multichannel sound system.