Fün Night at Issue Project Room
The Computer Music Center at Columbia University and Issue Project Room present the first Fün Night of the season. The bill includes an eclectic mix of electronics and laptopery.
The Draftmasters is a media art duo formed by Víctor Adán and Jeff Snyder. Using custom-built software and hardware, The Draftmasters control antiquated pen plotters, originally intended for engineering and architectural drafting, to simultaneously create real-time drawings and sound.
While robot arms apply pigments on paper, the work of motors and solenoids inside the plotters is made audible using electromagnetic transducers.
As sounds collide, visual patterns emerge…
Daniel Iglesia writes for humans, computers, and broad interactions of the two.On Friday, Dan presents live his live 3-D audio-visual mashup that magically combines 3-D glasses, Prince, artificial cities, and intense sound destruction.
Damon Holzborn improvises on custom hardware and software. Stepping away from his duo work with Donkey and a recent collaboration with Sparks, Damon plays a solo set of live electronic improvisations.
Sam Pluta is a laptop artist who regularly plays both solo and ensemble sets. His groups include improv quintet Glissando Bin Laden, duo exclusiveOr, and the elusive Prince of Neckebeard. This Friday he presents his large-scale solo laptop work - data structures/monoliths ii (for chion) - a massive mashup of some 500 audio-visual clips from 20 films.
Originally the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, the CMC is the oldest center for Electroacoustic music in the United States. Following several years of experiments with electronic music composition at Columbia, the center was founded by Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990) and Otto Luening (1900-1996) with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1958. Ussachevsky served as director of the center from its inception until 1980, followed by Mario Davidovsky, who served as director from 1980 to 1994. Fred Lerdahl and Brad Garton became co-directors on the center in 1994; the center’s name was changed to the Columbia University Computer Music Center under the directorship of Brad Garton in 1996.