Berlin Week at Harvestworks: Live Multichannel Madness & Free Shows!
Fire up your sauerkraut! This week is Berlin week at Harvestworks, NYC’s non-profit digital arts center. The next two days will be marked by free shows with rare multi-channel live performances.
Harvestworks gets down with the works of Berlin composer CONrad Schnitzler.
Feast your eyes on the below, get away from your computer for a couple of hours, and amaze your ears (All shows at Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, #602, New York, NY 10012 , 212-431-1130, Subway: F/D/B/M Broadway/Lafayette, R Prince, 6 Bleeker):
Thursday, July 26, 7 PM — Alessandra Eramo: Lauter Spannung
Admission: FREE
Multi channel audiovisual installation for voice, face and field recordings, developed at Harvestworks in July 2012. Lauter in German language means “a lot of”. This term contains also the word Laut, which means “Sound”, but means also “Loud”. Spannung means “Tension”. Sounding Tension. Or Loud Tension. Or A Lot of Tension: you are free to interpret the title of this work as you prefer.
Friday, July 27, 4-7 PM In Memoriam CONrad Schnitzler — Live Cassette CONcert by Ken Montgomery
Sat/Sun, July 28/29 — Multichannel Sound Installation of Conrad Schnitzler’s Works
Admission: FREE
“Gen” Ken Montgomery will conduct multi-channel works by Berlin composer CONrad Schnitzler (1937-2011). Schnitzler, a pioneer of electronic music, worked with the spacial distribution of sounds beginning in the early 70s. After recording as a founding member of the groups Tangerine Dream and Kluster, his prolific solo output of single track music works became well known, but Schnitzler’s multi-channel works are rarely heard or performed.
Also, mark your calendar for…
August 13/14, 6-10 PM — Strange Attractor at Cage Transmitted, “A chance would be a fine thing, B chance would be an I Ching”: a four-hour durational live performance
Admission: Free
Strange Attractor, the dynamic multi-dimensional collaborative venture of five artists, will create an extended sound performance using experimentation with technology, combined media, text, chance operation, random structures and found objects. The artists will explore creative possibilities resulting in an experience that offers multiple points of entry for the audience. The Strange Attractor artists will be joined by guest electronic musician and media artist Stephen Vitiello for this performance.