Ears.Eyes.Open Concert Series
Ears.Eyes.Open is an experimental music and performance art concert series that seeks to bring a diverse group of electronic musicians, and multimedia and performance artists from the Baltimore/Washington area to the Homewood campus. The various styles presented are representative of Baltimore's artistic mainstream, fringe art, and experimental music communities. Each of the four events in the series feature performance, interactive, and educational components.
Future Concerts:
Peabody Computer Music
Sunday, March 8th @ 1:30 PM in Mattin/Jones 101 (SDS Room) at Charles and 33rd
The Peabody Computer Music Department presents new innovative electoacoustic student compositions, as performed live by conservatory musicians.
Past Concerts:
THUS
Sunday, October 19th @ 3:00 PM in Mattin/Jones 101 (SDS Room) at Charles and 33rd
Instrument inventors John Berndt and Neil Feather perform together as THUS, a longstanding performance duo. The concert will be followed by a Q&A session with the instrument builders.
Neil Feather and John Berndt have collaborated since 1994 in this project using their unique, self-built instrumentation to develop their own idiom of otherworldly music. Like a civilization of two, like a cargo cult in reverse...
More details at neilfeather.org and johnberndt.org
Mask Mirror
Wednesday, September 17th @ 4:30pm in the SDS Room.
The DMC welcomes Alessandro Bosetti, sound artist and performer in this year's High Zero Festival, for a concert and presentation of Mask Mirror, a live sound-text performance.
Alessandro Bosetti, on Mask Mirror
A few months ago I wrote a note to myself :
"Try to create a mask that that doesn’t have anything to do with anything."
and kept wondering what that could mean until i started to imagine Mask/Mirror.
Mask/Mirror a sampler to process recordings of spoken language in real time.
The sampler follows both sound and meaning criteria in sorting, organizing and processing samples and in formulating utterances.
It is a software tool based on max/msp and a speech recognition software interacting with my own voice during performances. It's also a state of mind enabling expanded spoken and vocal improvisation, expanded communication and ecstasy.
It has been developed in collaboration with Harvestworks Digital Arts Center in New York and STEIM in Amsterdam.
Mask/Mirror has to do with virtually everything but at the same time it does not have anything special to do with anything special.
As well as being a blank mask I can put on my face - and my voice - it's also a mirror that let me browse and talk to my memory while I am watching into it.
All mirrors are masks and vice versa. Both are tools enabling identity.
"It is difficult not to treat Mask Mirror, with its randomized garble of words, as a willfully cryptic Oracle of Delphi reincarnated as an Apple laptop. While Bosetti had described the project as "about the aboutness of being about" what Noise got out all of this is that it's devilishly hard not to seek meaning even where it's clear none is forthcoming. Not until the program, in a moment of absurd hilarity, spit forth the word "hamburgers" did it all click: Mask Mirror is a tool for shearing all meaning from language. It's a liberation, of sorts, like the sound version of Rorschach tests: The mind is encouraged to wander freely and delight in words purely for their sound. In the information overload of contemporary times, Mask Mirror's playful rupturing of sense--its nonsense, in other words--is a welcome respite." Raven Baker - Noise/Citypaper
An Electro-Acoustic Afternoon (Click for video of the concert)
Sunday April 20th @ 3pm in the SDS room.
This year’s final concert of the DMC’s Ears Eyes Open concert series will feature new and innovative electronic music performed and written by Peabody Computer Music students. The concert will include works involving Peabody's fantastic performers, works for live, interactive electronics, and works for fixed media. It will also feature several of winning compositions of this year's prestigious Prix d'Ete prize.
Percussive Arts 11/30 (Click for pics and video of the concert)
Friday November 30th @ 8pm in the SDS Room
A Live-Mixing, VJing, Beatboxing, Mashup, and Dance Concert at the DMC featuring the DJ and VJ duo Dissident Display and the vocal percussionist Shodekeh. The event will be somewhere between an gallery and a dance party. The performance begins at 8 pm with JHU's own dance group the Eclectics followed by the martial arts performance group the JHU Capoeira. Headlining will be Dissident Display and Shodekeh. Closing the show will be mashup artist Ryan Decker. Fri 11/30, 8pm-11pm Mattin/Jones Rm 101 (SDS room) Free and open to the Homewood community and any Baltimore area college students.
http://www.myspace.com/shodekeh
http://www.dissidentdisplay.com/
For more about Ears.Eyes.Open, contact the DMC: 410-516-3817 http://digitalmedia.jhu.edu
Fringe Music Sun 9/23 (Click for pics and video of the concert)
Three local performers involved in this years High Zero festival will perform improvised electronic music, video art, circuit bending, and home made electronic instruments. Feel free to bring your instruments and ideas for a jam session after the initial performance.
Featuring Sam Burt, Dan Conrad, Peter B, and our own Matt Sterling.
