Commissioned Works/Special Projects is our program offering financial and administrative assistance to individual artists. We act as a fiscal agent for those artists applying for grants from federal and state programs and private foundations. Through this program we help develop collaborative projects between artists and assist with the presentation of… Continue reading
Mari Kimura presented two world premieres at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, as a part of the New York Philharmonic CONTACT! New Music Series. The program consists of Kimura’s audio/visual chamber ensemble entitled Tying the Wind, and a work by composer Michael Harrison entitled Harmonic Constellations. In addition, this concert would… Continue reading
This Birdsong Mimic Workshop introduces attendees to the overall structure for building and connecting interactive mobile apps, using the Ketai and Cassette Libraries, via a web server to automatically generate realtime kinetic events in an interactive installation anywhere in the world via Processing and Arduino. This investigation in ubiquitous computing,… Continue reading
Harvestworks presents Ghost Voices, featuring composers Annie Gosfield and Shelley Hirsch. Co-Presented by the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and National Sawdust Several programs of pure electroacoustic works for live electronics, including computer processing and laptop orchestras; works combining live instruments or voices with fixed media or live electronics;… Continue reading
Shelley Hirsch and Joke Lanz Book-Bark-Tree-Skin-Line- Stage 1 is a structured improvisation with collaborator/ turntablist, electronic musician Joke Lanz and a query into the process of creating Hirsch’s Harvestworks AIR Project and new choral work commissioned by NYSCA which will be presented in 2017. The work is a musing on the… Continue reading
This is a stripped down workshop presentation/rehearsal of the work in progress of 3by3by3 a collaborative project between Rhys Chatham, Raphaele Shirley and GH Hovagimyan. The work is an interactive immersive performance. Rhys Chatham plays solo or with a combo in his signature minimalist style. Rapahele Shirley creates site specific… Continue reading
After earning his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Paul Geluso completed a Masters of Music in Music Technology at NYU Steinhardt’s acclaimed graduate program. Later and as the chief audio engineer at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts for more than 10 years, he was immersed into the audio art scene,… Continue reading
“Methods Of Expansion And Contraction” is a 16-channel sound installation that spacializes sounds in a circular fashion to explore juxtapositions of timbre, rhythm, dynamics and pitch. You are encouraged to walk around the wheel, for some sounds even small movements will create difference tones. The work presents numerous short sounds,… Continue reading
Dancing Windows is an interactive video installation that engages its audiences on several different levels. It was created in partnership with Harvestworks. Workshops, on July 2nd [register], and 9th 3 – 5 pm [register] **BRING YOUR CELLPHONE TO THE WORKSHOP!!** ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Please install Phone App before the workshop, if you get a chance.… Continue reading
After premiering Bird Song Diamond in the 2015 New York Electronic Art Festival, Victoria Vesna spent a few months in Japan as artist in residence where she had an opportunity to further develop this work in the largest virtual reality space in the world. In parallel, she worked with top… Continue reading
