[Aug 31 to Oct 12] Luc Vitk: Water Vision (installation version)

Luc Vitk’s installation Water Vision is a multichannel piece for water, visitors, and six speakers. During the opening of the exhibition, the visitors will become part of the installation performance. They will interpret a number score which will then generate three hours of water music to be played in the installation space on non-performance days. There will be 3 performances with public during the exhibition – see schedule below.

Location: Harvestworks Art and Technology Progam Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island

Open to the public from 11 am to 5 pm Fri Sat and Sun

Date: Opening August 31, 2024 – Closing October 12, 2024.

Artist Opening Saturday August 31st from 2 – 4:30 pm with a PERFORMANCE at 2:45 of Water Vision by Luc Vitk

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:

Opening Performance is on Saturday August 31st at 2:45 pm.

Second Performance on Saturday September 28th at 2:45 pm

Third Performance on Saturday October 12, 2024 at 2:45 pm.

Luc Vitk’s participatory electroacoustic installation and performance work, Water Vision, involves people blowing through straws into water at specific points in a pre-composed score. Six microphones collect the water sounds, which are then processed and played back over six surrounding speakers. The piece moves beyond the confines of installation technology and the utilitarian nature of PA to become something more visible, participatory, and living, implying numerous possibilities for the reality of the water resource. Luc has collaborated on this piece with programmer, musician, and biologist William Kurtis Chang.

BIOGRAPHY

Luc Vitk is a composer, improviser, and performer (accordion, hichiriki, synthesizer, harmonica, voice, and dance) from the Czech Republic, living in New York. Their compositions focus on sonification, while in their improvisation practice, Luc works with the characteristics of discrete spaces through the interaction between sound and movement. In Luc’s recent work, they are interested in the social-political aspects of music in relation to everyday life and in reusing materials to build sonic costumes and instruments. Luc has been commissioned by the Roulette Intermedium, where they were a resident artist in 2018. They have organized the NYC Constellation Ensemble and the OPERA Ensemble. Their dissertation, *Compositional Techniques of Christian Wolff and Social Aspects in Music*, was published in 2021. Luc Vitk photo by William Kurtis Chang

William Kurtis Chang is a computational biologist, composer, improviser, and experimental musician native to Taipei, Taiwan, now living in New York City. He is interested in the interactions between intention and stochasticity. He performs with acoustic and electric guitars, an electric bass, and custom software.

Press Quotes

Album review in New York City Jazz Record by Tyran Grillo (June 2021)

“…the experience unfolds fractally: the closer one gets to an intriguing detail, the more one recognizes the supporting patterns that gave it context in the first place.”

Album review in The Wire by Chloe Lula (August 2021)
“Its frequencies move like a Shepard Tone, the contrabass’s rattling strokes falling in tune with the lead harmonic melody before drifting away from it again. The pitch seems to constantly ascend and descend without ever fluctuating from the root note.”

Live concert review in San Francisco Classical Voice by Lucy Caplan (April 2017)
“Luc Vitk’s sound-world might be described as music turned inside out. Through sounds both strange and unremarkable, they put the seams of music-making on full display. You hear the stuff in the nooks and crannies rather than the glossy facade.”

www.musicvitkovalucie.com

https://www.facebook.com/lucie.vitkova.35/

https://www.czechmusicquarterly.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CMQ-2.2021_1kapt..pdf

CMQ-2.2021_1kapt..pdf (czechmusicquarterly.com)