Category: Events

Unfolding | Clusters: a music and visual media model of ALS pathophysiology at UCLA Art | Sci Center

Federico Visi, Giovanni Dothel, Duncan Williams

June 3rd, 5pm, UCLA Art | Sci Center, CNSI building, Room 5419  Info: (+1) 3102661557

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common of the five motor neuron diseases, it is characterized by progressive degeneration of the upper and lower motor neurons of the spinal cord.

This interdisciplinary project presents a way of employing music and immersive media in order to illustrate the biomolecular processes behind the progress of ALS and thus help raise awareness in the greater public.

This work is an international collaboration between the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, the Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Università di Bologna, Italy, and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research, Plymouth University, UK.

Supported by the Santander Postgraduate Internationalisation Scholarship.

Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) – Plymouth University – http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk

UCLA Art | Sci Center – http://artsci.ucla.edu

I’m co-leading CrAcK, a one-month exchange project with the Middle East organized by In_Ocula, a contemporary theatre company based in Faenza.

The project started on the 15th September when two artists from Beirut (Rabee Kiwan, painter and Ayman Nahle, video maker) arrived in Faenza to work with us on a live multimedia performance.

My role in it is to design the sound of the performance and to find ways of interaction across the different media involved.

This Saturday, 5th October, the results of the first three weeks of work will debut at MIC –  Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza with two shows, at 19.00 and 20.00.

Following that, In_Ocula will hold workshops for the students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and perform CrAcK once again there.

Check CrAcK’s FB page

I’ll be playing at Moog in Ravenna on Sunday 22/9/2013 for CHORDOPHONICA, a night dedicated to experimental guitar playing.

I will share the stage with two friends, Sharif Sehnaoui (pictured) and Luca Baldini.

See you there!

This weekend I’m going to present a new live set at WAM! Festival. My gig will be on Sunday night, h 23.

I’ll be there also with in_Ocula for Mind Bombing. Check out the program!

 

 

This weekend I’ll be attending the Wireless sensing for music, environments, and performance with Sense/Stage workshop at STEIM in Amsterdam.

Sense/Stage is a low cost, open source wireless sensor infrastructure for live performance and interactive, real-time environments.

STEIM is the STudio for Electro-Instrumental Music, an independent electronic music center unique in its dedication to live performance. The foundation’s artistic and technical departments support an international community of performers, musicians, and visual artists, to develop unique instruments for their work.

“Ricordo Isocrono” è una performance musicale e visiva pensata appositamente per uno degli spazi di Festival Frattale.

Un set di musica elettroacustica si intreccia ad immagini di un recente passato che trovano una nuova isocronia con l’atto performativo, nel qui e ora.
Le componenti visive, sonore e spaziali si sovrappongono, sostenute da una tela di rimandi narrativi e gestuali.

Mercoledì 29/5/2013. Ravenna, Vicolo Violino 20.

Inizio ore 20.30. Evento Facebook

Posti limitati, consigliata prenotazione.

Info e prenotazioni:
Cell. 33 18 18 36 36
lacrisalidedaria@katamail.com

I am flying to Beirut tomorrow with Cristina Ghinassi of In_Ocula to meet the artists involved in CrAcK, an exchange project and residency directed by In_Ocula. Learn more here.

I will also be doing a solo live set in Beirut, more info soon.

Can’t wait to be there.

This weekend I am with In_Ocula for the final part of MEME workshop.

The outcome will be shown on April 14th in Faenza at Teatro Masini along with the shows from the workshops directed by Menoventi and gruppo nanou.

More info here (ITA).

MEME unità contagiosa di evoluzione culturale, progetto formativo sulle arti sceniche, si conclude con un evento performativo che vedrà in scena i partecipanti dei tre laboratori di teatro, danza e performance, curati da Menoventi, gruppo nanou e In_Ocula. Tre corti, tre sguardi differenti, tre processi creativi e linguistici diversi che accompagnano chi agisce e chi guarda in una visione poliedrica delle possibilità dello stare in scena.

 

 

 

 

I am honoured to join Ronin on stage at Bronson on 26 March 2013 to play one song from their new 7 inches Twin Peaks.

It is one of my favourite Italian bands, highly recommended.

Balmorhea is going to play after them.

See you there.

On 22nd-24th March and 5th-7th April 2013 I will be joining in_Ocula for a performance and theatre workshop called RE-EXISTENCE, part of the workshop series MEME.

Learn more (ITA)…

MEME – unità contagiosa di evoluzione culturale – amplifica quest’anno la sua offerta formativa e si arricchisce di sguardi e contributi variegati alle arti performative, articolando il proprio percorso laboratoriale attraverso tre differenti proposte guidate da tre compagnie: Menoventi per il teatro, Nanou per la danza contemporanea e In_Ocula per la performance.
Tre sguardi differenti, tre processi creativi e linguistici diversi, pensati secondo una logica comune: accompagnare i partecipanti attraverso un iter multidisciplinare e pluriforme, che sappia far interagire e convivere le differenti proposte, senza tentare un’improbabile fusione ma rispettandone differenze e alterità e attingendo forza proprio dal confronto e dallo scambio comune.
In questo modo, ogni proposta seguirà la sua direzione e confluirà in un proprio risultato performativo, che sarà presentato al pubblico insieme agli altri due all’interno di un unico evento pubblico al termine di tutti i percorsi.
MEME conferma così la sua natura mutevole ed evolutiva e si affida per questo secondo anno alla direzione artistica della compagnia In_Ocula e della cooperativa E (di cui Menoventi e Gruppo Nanou fanno parte), rilanciando un nuovo invito rivolto a tutti coloro che hanno qualcosa da mettere in gioco.