The workshop will be focused on teaching attendees how to use Ableton Connection Kit with software such as Max and Arduino to make creative projects that incorporate elements like motors, lights, and sound. Participants will learn how to connect, control, and monitor these elements in their projects. Additionally, attendees will also… Continue reading
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
With featured artist Ivana Dama, a multi-media artist whose work explores the connection between sound, memory, and experience via audiovisual installation, robotics, music performance, and more. February 3rd, 2024 at 10:00am PST // 1:00pm EST ONLINE: Register Here COLOR, LIGHT, MOTION is an online series featuring media artists, scholars and educators in… Continue reading
The Harvestworks New Works is pleased to announce our 2024 recipients. The recipients are commissioned to create a new work in the Harvestworks TEAM (Technology, Engineering, Art and Music) Lab. The applications were reviewed by Seth Cluett, Composer, Director of the Computer Music Center and Assistant Director of the Sound… Continue reading
In this workshop, we will talk through various approaches to making a “signal chain” from ideas to audiences to archives. Starting from an up-close demonstration of Bob’s setup for performances, we will discuss his approach to multidimensional sound using his core working tools of the matrix mixer, microphones / contact… Continue reading
Guggenheim award-winning composer/violinist, educator/entrepreneur Mari Kimura will give talk about her work and the evolution of the of MUGIC®, a WIFI motion sensor designed for musicians, performers, dancers and beyond. Mari will demonstrate how MUGIC® works in many situations, as well as perform works she wrote using MUGIC®. The commercial… Continue reading
Harvestworks is pleased to announce the 2024 Technology Immersion Program (TIP) for these Artists who have a passion for learning the tools of digital media but do not have the research, training and equipment necessary to produce artworks in this medium. Artist were selected by Carol Parkinson, Executive Director, Harvestworks and Heidi… Continue reading
A collaborative installation by Bob Bielecki and David Behrman created for Harvestworks’ summer venue on Governors Island. This site-specific work brings together the composer and pioneer of new music David Behrman and the creative sound technologist and inventor Bob Bielecki. June 30 – Aug 20, 2023 Open to the Public… Continue reading
Rheostat Rotary Rack is the second instrument of Women’s Labor, a feminist-activist project that repurposes domestic tools to become new musical instruments, to interrogate gender inequality in housework division. Itis based on a mid-20th century umbrella-style rotary dryer embedded with a rotary encoder and potentiometers, performed by hanging clothing on… Continue reading
Rhythmic music software is usually based on the Euclidean plane; as in Western music notation, there is a single grid in which time flows from left to right and there is only one metronome/clock that works as a “conductor”. On the other hand, the “brain” of this robotic sculpture is… Continue reading
