Concerts

Programmed by Arthur Kreiger and Caroline Park
Music Technical Director, Jim McNeish

Performances, openings, exhibitions, concerts and community events are free, and open to the public. Paid registration required for full attendance at the daily paper sessions.

Friday, February 26

Multimedia Concert

Keith Kirchoff, Jason Malli, Rebecca Salzer, Dennis Miller, Caroline Park & Heidi Henderson, Butch Rovan and Alexander Dupuis & Kristin Hayter

featuring: Alexander Dupuis & Kristin Hayter (2016 Commissioned Artists)

APPARITION COIL examines the concept of Pareidolia, a phenomenon that occurs when the brain attempts to create significance where none exists. Patterns of great and small import arise from the chaos around us: figures in symmetrical blots of ink, spirit voices in radio noise, even a man in the surface of the moon. APPARITION COIL explores these effects through an improvised Pareidolic duet between sound and image, placing two performers in a shifting, abstract conversation. The sonic world originates with a live voice processed through electronics while the visuals are performed through custom video feedback software. The performers continually interpret and expand on their audiovisual interactions, delving into the emergent patterns and associations of these processes. This journey of reinterpretation and feedback births dream-logic juxtapositions, finding Rorschach’s blots pulsing behind black metal screams and cathedral choirs singing under psychedelic kaleidoscope windows.

Keith Kirchoff
@keithkirchoff Keith Kirchoff

Jason Malli
@jasonmalli Jason Malli

Rebecca Salzer
Rebecca Salzer Rebecca Salzer

Dennis Miller

Caroline Park & Heidi Henderson
Heidi Henderson @heidi_henderson

Butch Rovan
@butchrovan Butch Rovan

Alexander Dupuis & Kristin Hayter
@sandordupuis

8 p.m., Evans Hall

Saturday, February 27

Multimedia Concert

Jason Brogan, Maurice Wright, Thomas Rex Beverly, Akiko Hatakeyama, Andrea Wollensak, Bridget Baird, Judith Goldman, & Brett Terry, Arthur Kreiger, and ARCOS Dance Company (Eliot Gray Fisher, Erica Gionfriddo, Alexa Capareda and Felicia McBride)

featuring: ARCOS Dance Company (2016 Commissioned Artists)

ANNI is a transmedia artwork combining an interactive public installation, live performance, and online exhibit. The installation will collect audio via an artificially intelligent time capsule interface, which interacts with participants to tailor highly individualized responses about the nature of humanity. The audio recordings will then be mixed live into a multimedia dance performance as well as becoming accessible online, where viewers will be able remix it themselves. Simultaneously presenting a speculative science-fiction narrative and an experimental, mini-documentary about the community and moment in which it is performed, ANNI will explore questions of consciousness and control over the curation of information, the gulf between digital data and embodied human experience, and the value of intuition in identifying signal in the noise.

Jason Brogan
@jkbrogan @jkbrogan Jason Brogan jasonbrogan

Maurice Wright

Thomas Rex Beverly
@trexsounds Thomas Rex Beverly @trexsounds T-Rex Sound T-Rex Sound T-Rex Sound

Akiko Hatakeyama

Andrea Wollensak
Weir Farm

Bridget Baird

Judith Goldman

Brett Terry
Weir Farm

Arthur Kreiger

ARCOS Dance Company
@ARCOSDance ARCOS Dance @ARCOSDance

5 p.m., Evans Hall

Experimental Sound Show

Spark Maker Space, 86 Golden Street, New London

Curated by Caroline Park

This program features experimental musicians and performance artists exploring and redefining live composition in an intimate setting at Spark. In these performances, artists and audience members are in close proximity; the stage is unfixed. Volume ranges from extremely quiet to piercing tones and noise — the focused act of experiential listening morphs throughout the evening. All featured performers originate from or are based in New England, and come with a variety of artistic and technical backgrounds; each artist is identified and driven by a completely individual aesthetic and non-conforming narrative.

Cecilia Lopez
Cecilia Lopez Cecilia Lopez

Jinku Kim
@grayscale64

Asha Tamirisa
Asha Tamirisa Asha Tamirisa

Team Class: Drew Andre, Juan Flores, Chelsea Preston, Joey Mercado

8 p.m.