Saturday, February 27, 2016

Concert for 100 iPhones

























Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 7:30 PM

Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute presents
Concert for 100 iPhones
Berklee College of Music
David Friend Recital Hall
921 Boylston Street
Boston, MA, 02115

Be a performer in a smartphone concert! Interact with artists on stage and experience the debut of a new style of live performance! Experience musical and technological innovations created by Portuguese artists working with Berklee student luminaries. Audience performs new interactive works using the a.bel application running on iOS devices (iPhones/iPads).

The concert begins with a rehearsal with audience participation and concludes with a performance of compositions by BIAI students and composers:Carlos Guedes  (NYU Abu Dhabi),  Rui Penha, (INESC-TEC Porto), Nikhil Singh, Blake Adelman, Sakura Tsuruta, Landy Gao, Peder Barratt-Due, Ian Duclos, Lee Gilboa, Jonathan Koh, Neil Leonard (Artistic Director, BIAI). Performances by Gilberto Bernardes (saxophones), Neil Leonrd (saxophone), Nikhil Singh (electric guitar), Ryan Fedak (vibes) and Gregory McRae (snare) and the public on their iPhones.

Download the a.bel app prior to the concert here: http://a.bel.inesctec.pt/index_en.html

This concert is produced in collaboration with the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC-TEC) and University of Porto, Portugal.

Carlos Guedes has a multifaceted activity in composition and sound design, counting numerous commissioned projects for dance, theatrical performance, film and interactive installations besides conventional concert music. His creative work has been presented mostly in Europe and the United States in several shapes and forms. He holds a PhD (2005) and MA (1996) in composition from NYU and a BM (1993) from ESMAE (Porto, Portugal). He lived for three years in the Netherlands where he attended the Institute of Sonology in the Hague between 2001 and 2002. Carlos Guedes is currently Associate Arts Professor of Music and Head of Music Program at New York University Abu Dhabi. www.carlosguedes.org

Composer and performer of live electroacoustic music, Rui Penha was born in Porto, in 1981. He completed his PhD in Music (Composition) at the University of Aveiro, where he worked under João Pedro Oliveira. His music is regularly recorded and played in festivals and concert halls around Europe and North America, by musicians such as Arditti Quartet, Peter Evans, Remix Ensemble or the Gulbenkian Orchestra. He was a funder and curator of Digitópia (Casa da Música) and has a deep interest on music technology. His recent production includes interfaces for musical expression, sound spatialization software, interactive installations, musical robots, autonomous improvisers and educational software. He taught at several Portuguese Institutions (DeCA - UA, ESMAE - IPP, ESART - IPCB, ULP), and is currently an assistant professor at FEUP and researcher at INESC TEC. More info at http://ruipenha.pt.

Gilberto Bernardes has a multifaceted activity as a saxophonist, new media artist, and researcher in sound and music computing. Bernardes holds a PhD in digital media from the University of Porto (under the auspices of the University of Texas at Austin), a Master of Music from the Conservatory of Amsterdam, a Bachelor of Music from the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, and a Degree in saxophone and chamber music from the ENM d'Issy-les-Moulineaux (Paris, France). He is a frequent presence in highly reputed music festivals and concert venues as soloist or integrated in chamber music groups. Since 2007, he has developed a research activity in generative music systems through different projects, including in its most current position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Sound and Music Computing Group—INESC Technology and Science. Addditionaly, Bernardes is an Invited Associate Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco and Asisstant at Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo do Porto.

Friday, February 19, 2016

Carlos Casas' Avalanche

























Saturday, February 20, 2016 - 7:30PM
Carlos Casas' Avalanche
(featuring Neil Leonard and students from the Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute)
With special surprise guest
Berklee College of Music
Electronic Production and Design Recital Hall
22 Fenway, Room 112
Boston MA, 02215
Admission: Free

Avalanche is an audiovisual performance merging landscape, soundscape, and contemporary music. Introducing Hichigh, one of the world’s highest inhabited villages, located in the Pamir mountain range in Tajikistan also known as the roof of the world. Avalanche is also an encounter with the archaic, a dialog with the overlaying of traditions and rituals within the periphery of our modern world.

For this occasion Avalanche features the collaboration with the The Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute; Sakura Tsuruta, Blake Adelman, Peder Barratt-Due, Ian Duclos, Landy Gao, Lee Gilboa, Jonathan Koh, Nikhil Singh, and Neil Leonard its director.

Carlos Casas (Barcelona 1974) Filmmaker and visual artist, his work is a cross between documentary film, cinema, and contemporary visual and sound arts. His last three films have been awarded in festivals around the world from Torino, Madrid, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City and some of his video works have been presented in collective and personal exhibitions.In 2001 he started a trilogy of work dedicated to the most extreme environments on the planet, Patagonia, Aral sea, and Siberia. In 2009 he began his ongoing project Avalanche about one of the worlds highest inhabitated villages. He is currently working on a film about a cemetery of elephants on the borders between India and Nepal. http://www.carloscasas.net/

Berklee College of Music
Electronic Production and Design Recital Hall
22 Fenway, Room 112
Boston MA, 02215
Admission: Free