NvB: Bored in Brno?: Weave at Chicago Calling

Weave at Chicago Calling

As usual, I know few to none of the people who read my blog can go to a performance in Chicago (or perhaps even have the interest to). However, in the interest of spreading the word, note this upcoming performance of the Weave Soundpainting Orchestra:

Live Internet Collaboration
In conjunction with the Chicago Calling Festival (Chicago, IL) and IEAR Series (Troy, NY)

Weave Soundpainting Orchestra (Chicago, IL)
Sarah Weaver, artistic director

and

Tintinnabulate (Troy, NY)
Pauline Oliveros, founder and director

At the Empty Bottle
1035 N. Western
Chicago, Illinois
October 25th at 7pm

admission is $10 (includes 5pm concert at Empty Bottle by Michael Zerang)

In the Chicago Calling Festival, Chicago-based artists will showcase performances and projects that involve collaborations with artists living in other locations-here in the U.S. and in other countries worldwide. For more info please visit www.chicagocalling.org.

Weave Soundpainting Orchestra (Chicago, IL) and Tintinnabulate (Troy, NY) collaborate via Internet as part of the Chicago Calling Festival at the Empty Bottle and the IEAR Series at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Using live audio and video streams, the two groups will improvise together in real time, first for Paula Matthusen's installation Filling Vessels, and second as an open multidisciplinary improvisation.

Weave Soundpainting Orchestra is a multidisciplinary performance ensemble based in Chicago, IL. Featuring musicians, actors, dancers, and visual art Soundpainted by Artistic Director Sarah Weaver, Weave is on the forefront of new genres in contemporary multidisciplinary performance. Soundpainting is the live composing sign language created by New York composer Walter Thompson for musicians, dancers, actors, poets, and visual artists working in the medium of structured improvisation. For more information on Weave, please visit www.weavesoundpainting.org.

Tintinnabulate is a multimedia ensemble founded and directed by Pauline Oliveros of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Fall of 2005. The mixed instrumental ensemble consists of graduate students and faculty. Tintinnabulate has performed at the RPI MFA show Fall 2005 and Spring 2006, at Eyebeam in New York City January 2006, the Children's Museum Renssealer Technology Park in the dome, and telepresence performances with Brown University, Arizona State University and Stanford University.

Weave Performers will include...

Justin Foster, flute
Marc Elzweig, bass clarinet
Laurie Lee Moses, baritone saxophone
Matt Field, guitar
Cynthia Simone, djembe
Christopher Bruce, percussion
Sarah Clark, actor
Jeremy Blair, dancer
Cindy Huston, dancer
Kristi Murray, dancer
Amanda Telischak, dancer

Tags: soundpainting, weave, concerts

Posted 06 October 2006 at 10:55.

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What is "Bored in Brno"? a) the best Czech movie of 2003, b) a blog about Brno (the Czech Republic's second largest city) and my adventures in and observations of south and east Moravia. I usually post about music, arts, culture, and stuff in Brno; or, I talk about whatever; or, I may bore you.

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