Opening: October 14 2017
Very pleased to have a new piece, "striking re-semblance", commissioned by the Smithsonian for their Freer and Sackler Galleries
A new composition realized using recordings of 2,500 year old Chinese bronze bells
Part of Resound: Ancient Bells of China
featuring reactive visuals created by Elysha Poirier
Very pleased to have a new piece, "striking re-semblance", commissioned by the Smithsonian for their Freer and Sackler Galleries
A new composition realized using recordings of 2,500 year old Chinese bronze bells
Part of Resound: Ancient Bells of China
featuring reactive visuals created by Elysha Poirier
July 16-21
DEEP LISTENING IN NATURE
"We invite you to join us for a four day (five nights) retreat with guided Deep Listening exercises, as well as the practices of acoustic ecology. Activities will unfold in the rich natural landscape of Pointe Navarre, Gaspé. Delicious meals from our organic, permaculture farm will be provided with vegetarian and vegan options. This is a unique « ear cleaning » experience for musicians and non-musicians alike in a pristine natural environment. Our special guest leader is Doug Van Nort"
Pointe Navarre, Gaspé, QC
DEEP LISTENING IN NATURE
"We invite you to join us for a four day (five nights) retreat with guided Deep Listening exercises, as well as the practices of acoustic ecology. Activities will unfold in the rich natural landscape of Pointe Navarre, Gaspé. Delicious meals from our organic, permaculture farm will be provided with vegetarian and vegan options. This is a unique « ear cleaning » experience for musicians and non-musicians alike in a pristine natural environment. Our special guest leader is Doug Van Nort"
Pointe Navarre, Gaspé, QC
June 29th @ 8:00pm UK / 3:00pm Canada
New piece @ the 2017 International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO)
Intersubjective Soundings (for MYO armbands, Soundpainting Conducting and Telematic Ensemble)
Doug Van Nort (Soundpainting, MYO-based Transformation) - Deptford Town Hall, Goldsmiths, London, UK
with
Electro-Acoustic Orchestra - DisPerSion Lab, Toronto
EAO For this performance is:
Dave Bandi (guitar), Chris Cerpnjak (cymbals, glockenspiel) , Glen Hall (saxophone), Ian Jarvis (catRT+supercollider) , Ian Macchiusi (Moog mother), Mackenzie Perrault (guitar), Danny Sheahan (keys, samples), Fae Sirois (violin), Lauren Wilson (flute)
New piece @ the 2017 International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO)
Intersubjective Soundings (for MYO armbands, Soundpainting Conducting and Telematic Ensemble)
Doug Van Nort (Soundpainting, MYO-based Transformation) - Deptford Town Hall, Goldsmiths, London, UK
with
Electro-Acoustic Orchestra - DisPerSion Lab, Toronto
EAO For this performance is:
Dave Bandi (guitar), Chris Cerpnjak (cymbals, glockenspiel) , Glen Hall (saxophone), Ian Jarvis (catRT+supercollider) , Ian Macchiusi (Moog mother), Mackenzie Perrault (guitar), Danny Sheahan (keys, samples), Fae Sirois (violin), Lauren Wilson (flute)
June 3rd @ 4:00pm
Talk: Tuning Presents/Turing Presence
part of "improvisation and listening: a series of events in memory of pauline oliveros"
La Vitrola
4602 Boul St-Laurent
Montréal
Talk: Tuning Presents/Turing Presence
part of "improvisation and listening: a series of events in memory of pauline oliveros"
La Vitrola
4602 Boul St-Laurent
Montréal
June 1st @ 5:00pm
exhibition launch for Still Listening
87 Commissioned Scores in Honor of Pauline Oliveros
featuring my piece "The Turing Meditation"
Marvin Duchow Music Library
527 sherbrooke st west
Montréal
exhibition launch for Still Listening
87 Commissioned Scores in Honor of Pauline Oliveros
featuring my piece "The Turing Meditation"
Marvin Duchow Music Library
527 sherbrooke st west
Montréal
June 1st @ 3:45pm
Anne Bourne (cello, voice) /Elysha Poirier (water/light projections)/ Doug Van Nort (greis/electronics)
Tanna Schulich Hall
527 Sherbrooke st west
Montréal
Anne Bourne (cello, voice) /Elysha Poirier (water/light projections)/ Doug Van Nort (greis/electronics)
Tanna Schulich Hall
527 Sherbrooke st west
Montréal
May - October 2017
Genetically Sonified Organisms
an Environmental Sonic Installation by Doug Van Nort
Description:
This piece creates an evolving interplay, in sound, between various agents that include humans and non-humans, both computational and biological. The physical GSO artifacts are a set of solar-powered 'creatures', designed to interact with one another and the larger sonic field in which they are immersed. The means of communication begins as a call/response from a set of simple tones/noises that introduce this new species into the sonic environment. Each creature will respond to sounds that are similar to their known vocabulary, evolving their call over the course of months based on the difference found between their own lexicon of calls and those that they hear around them. These artifacts, though, are merely vessels: rather than meditating on the technological objects themselves, through this piece I invite you to listen to this new sonic presence as it is woven into the fabric of an existing, dynamic and diverse acoustic ecology. Many thanks to Kieran Maraj of the DisPerSion Lab for designing the solar Raspberry Pi and enclosure prototypes.
May 13th Opening, featuring Listening Workshop by Van Nort
Soundwork @ Fieldwork
Maberley, ON
Genetically Sonified Organisms
an Environmental Sonic Installation by Doug Van Nort
Description:
This piece creates an evolving interplay, in sound, between various agents that include humans and non-humans, both computational and biological. The physical GSO artifacts are a set of solar-powered 'creatures', designed to interact with one another and the larger sonic field in which they are immersed. The means of communication begins as a call/response from a set of simple tones/noises that introduce this new species into the sonic environment. Each creature will respond to sounds that are similar to their known vocabulary, evolving their call over the course of months based on the difference found between their own lexicon of calls and those that they hear around them. These artifacts, though, are merely vessels: rather than meditating on the technological objects themselves, through this piece I invite you to listen to this new sonic presence as it is woven into the fabric of an existing, dynamic and diverse acoustic ecology. Many thanks to Kieran Maraj of the DisPerSion Lab for designing the solar Raspberry Pi and enclosure prototypes.
May 13th Opening, featuring Listening Workshop by Van Nort
Soundwork @ Fieldwork
Maberley, ON
May 5th @ 7:30pm / May 6th @ 1:30pm
Origin8: An exploration in movement, light and sound
Created for the the National Ballet School of Canada's quadrennial event, Assemblée Internationale
Movement and muscle tension from 21 dancers drive interactive music and visuals.
Featuring dancers from 21 different countries, coming to Toronto for AI17.
Choreography: Shaun Amyot
Interactive Music Composition: Doug Van Nort
Interactive Visuals: Don Sinclair
Origin8: An exploration in movement, light and sound
Created for the the National Ballet School of Canada's quadrennial event, Assemblée Internationale
Movement and muscle tension from 21 dancers drive interactive music and visuals.
Featuring dancers from 21 different countries, coming to Toronto for AI17.
Choreography: Shaun Amyot
Interactive Music Composition: Doug Van Nort
Interactive Visuals: Don Sinclair
April 12th, 7:30-9:00pm
DisPerSion Lab members take their Electroacoustic Music to Buffalo!
Collaborative Electro-Acoustic Music Series: Concert II
The second edition of the Collaborative Electroacoustic Music Concert Series will bring together faculty and student composers from the School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design of York University, Toronto (CA) and the program in Digital Music from SUNY Buffalo State.
The concert will feature fixed media works by Evan Courtin, Ian Jarvis, Ian Macchiusi and Doug Van Nort, as well as live music performances by Michael Palumbo, Ethan Hayden and Tomás Henriques.
The Collaborative Electroacoustic Music Concert Series is hosted once a year, during the spring semester, by the program in Digital Music at Buffalo State. The series aims to foster inter-institution artistic partnerships around the subject of composition and performance of contemporary electronic music. Besides a concert, the collaboration includes parallel activities of pedagogical and research nature on electronic music theory and practice, discussed in lectures and/or workshops.
Special thanks to Tomás Henriques for this invitation.
DisPerSion Lab members take their Electroacoustic Music to Buffalo!
Collaborative Electro-Acoustic Music Series: Concert II
The second edition of the Collaborative Electroacoustic Music Concert Series will bring together faculty and student composers from the School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design of York University, Toronto (CA) and the program in Digital Music from SUNY Buffalo State.
The concert will feature fixed media works by Evan Courtin, Ian Jarvis, Ian Macchiusi and Doug Van Nort, as well as live music performances by Michael Palumbo, Ethan Hayden and Tomás Henriques.
The Collaborative Electroacoustic Music Concert Series is hosted once a year, during the spring semester, by the program in Digital Music at Buffalo State. The series aims to foster inter-institution artistic partnerships around the subject of composition and performance of contemporary electronic music. Besides a concert, the collaboration includes parallel activities of pedagogical and research nature on electronic music theory and practice, discussed in lectures and/or workshops.
Special thanks to Tomás Henriques for this invitation.
March 23, 24, 8:00 and 9:00pm, March 25, 1:30 and 2:30pm
Elemental Agency
Doug Van Nort: conception, direction, system composition, void state sound/interaction design
Vanessa Boutin, Holly Buckridge, Shaelynn Lobbezoo, Joshua Murphy, Paige Sayles, Marie-Victoria de Vera: emergent and collective choreography, dance
Yirui Fu: spotlight visual/behaviour design
Akeem Glasgow: kinect tracking and mapping to visuals
Rory Hoy: earth state sound/interaction design
Ian Jarvis: fire state sound/interaction design
Kieran Maraj: water, wind states sound/interaction design
Michael Palumbo: mobile audience interaction,network architecture programming
Mingxin Zhang: spotlight visual/behaviour design
Elemental Agency is a piece concerned with an emergent gestural language that manifests across movement, sound and light. Rather than sound/light articulating movement, or movement driving media, the approach builds outward from gestural metaphors as a point of shared intersection for these phenomena. The work draws upon the metaphorical constructs of Japanese Godai and Indian Vaastu Shastra theories of five elements: earth, water, wind, fire and void/space. Working with conceptual metaphors drawn from these traditions, constraints are provided to the dancers of embodying a given element as a collective – a texture of movement, rather than a singular human entity, that manifests the non-human agency of a given element. Motivations related to world, body, motion, emotion and enaction are given: earth as stubbornness and resistance to change, wind as expansive, elusive and compassionate, fire as energetic and forceful, etc. Using machine learning methods, the sonic interaction designers seek to capture moments of gestural expression and fuse this with sounds that similarly embody a given elemental quality/profile. Negotiation between art forms leads to a collective choreography and sound design that emerges from the embodiment of the nonhuman elements and the mediation of the machine agents. Visual projection functions as both lighting and enhancement of embodied experience in space, rather than screen-oriented media experience. Spotlights both enhance elemental qualities as well as embodying behaviours that align with the constraints of the element metaphors: rigid tracking of movement within earth state, amorphous following within water state, tendency towards consumption in fire state, etc.
Studio A, Accolade East
York University
Toronto, ON
Elemental Agency
Doug Van Nort: conception, direction, system composition, void state sound/interaction design
Vanessa Boutin, Holly Buckridge, Shaelynn Lobbezoo, Joshua Murphy, Paige Sayles, Marie-Victoria de Vera: emergent and collective choreography, dance
Yirui Fu: spotlight visual/behaviour design
Akeem Glasgow: kinect tracking and mapping to visuals
Rory Hoy: earth state sound/interaction design
Ian Jarvis: fire state sound/interaction design
Kieran Maraj: water, wind states sound/interaction design
Michael Palumbo: mobile audience interaction,network architecture programming
Mingxin Zhang: spotlight visual/behaviour design
Elemental Agency is a piece concerned with an emergent gestural language that manifests across movement, sound and light. Rather than sound/light articulating movement, or movement driving media, the approach builds outward from gestural metaphors as a point of shared intersection for these phenomena. The work draws upon the metaphorical constructs of Japanese Godai and Indian Vaastu Shastra theories of five elements: earth, water, wind, fire and void/space. Working with conceptual metaphors drawn from these traditions, constraints are provided to the dancers of embodying a given element as a collective – a texture of movement, rather than a singular human entity, that manifests the non-human agency of a given element. Motivations related to world, body, motion, emotion and enaction are given: earth as stubbornness and resistance to change, wind as expansive, elusive and compassionate, fire as energetic and forceful, etc. Using machine learning methods, the sonic interaction designers seek to capture moments of gestural expression and fuse this with sounds that similarly embody a given elemental quality/profile. Negotiation between art forms leads to a collective choreography and sound design that emerges from the embodiment of the nonhuman elements and the mediation of the machine agents. Visual projection functions as both lighting and enhancement of embodied experience in space, rather than screen-oriented media experience. Spotlights both enhance elemental qualities as well as embodying behaviours that align with the constraints of the element metaphors: rigid tracking of movement within earth state, amorphous following within water state, tendency towards consumption in fire state, etc.
Studio A, Accolade East
York University
Toronto, ON
Saturday, February 25th 2017
7:00-9:00pm
Electro-Acoustic Improvisation Summit
Presented by the Entertainment Technology department of the New York City College of Technology (CUNY City Tech)
Concert featuring:
Thomas Ciufo and Curtis Bahn, Sonic Constructions (hybird acoustic/electronic instruments)
Nick Demopoulos, Archeon Eon ("Smomid" and "Pyramidi" invented electronic instruments)
Adam James Wilson, Skronkbot (fretless electric guitar and automatic improvisation system)
Doug Van Nort, Solo Improvisation with GREIS (surface controllers and GREIS improvisation system)
Jeff Kaiser, ZEITNOT (Bb trumpet, quartertone trumpet, flugelhorn, interactive audio software)
Panel discussion to follow performance, with the framing question:
"For centuries notions of musicality have centered on the execution of the musical performer and the performer's ability to imbue an instrument with 'spirit' while demonstrating virtuosity (Kramer). Where is the end of your instrument? Do you see music-making agency within the computational systems you perform with? Does your machine/software/instruments ever surprise you?"
7:00-9:00pm
Electro-Acoustic Improvisation Summit
Presented by the Entertainment Technology department of the New York City College of Technology (CUNY City Tech)
Concert featuring:
Thomas Ciufo and Curtis Bahn, Sonic Constructions (hybird acoustic/electronic instruments)
Nick Demopoulos, Archeon Eon ("Smomid" and "Pyramidi" invented electronic instruments)
Adam James Wilson, Skronkbot (fretless electric guitar and automatic improvisation system)
Doug Van Nort, Solo Improvisation with GREIS (surface controllers and GREIS improvisation system)
Jeff Kaiser, ZEITNOT (Bb trumpet, quartertone trumpet, flugelhorn, interactive audio software)
Panel discussion to follow performance, with the framing question:
"For centuries notions of musicality have centered on the execution of the musical performer and the performer's ability to imbue an instrument with 'spirit' while demonstrating virtuosity (Kramer). Where is the end of your instrument? Do you see music-making agency within the computational systems you perform with? Does your machine/software/instruments ever surprise you?"
Saturday, February 18th 2017
8:30-10:30pm
Improvised Electro-Acoustic Quintet featuring:
Viv Corringham (vocals), Glen Hall (sax/flutes, catRT), John Oswald (saxophone), Doug Van Nort (greis/electronics), Mia Zabelka (violin, pedals)
Tranzac Club
292 Brunswick Ave.
8:30-10:30pm
Improvised Electro-Acoustic Quintet featuring:
Viv Corringham (vocals), Glen Hall (sax/flutes, catRT), John Oswald (saxophone), Doug Van Nort (greis/electronics), Mia Zabelka (violin, pedals)
Tranzac Club
292 Brunswick Ave.
Thursday, February 16th, 2017
4:00-6:00 pm local time in Toronto
8:30-11 pm local time in Berlin
FREE
Sensorium Centre and DisPerSion Lab, in Partnership with New Adventures in Sound Art's Deep Wireless Festival, Present:
Tele-Conduction
by Doug Van Nort, Thomas Gerwin, Sarah Weaver and Glen Hall
Toronto: DisPerSion Lab, Room 334, Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts, York University
Berlin: Exploratorium Berlin, Mehringdamm 55, 10961 Kreuzberg (Sarottihoefe, Entrance C)
Audio Broadcast via naisa radio: http://www.naisa.ca/naisa-radio
Video Broadcast via: http://live.dispersionlab.org
This event features performances occurring across two continents, and overlapping through a telematic connection. The Toronto performance serves as the culmination of a sister event happening at the Exploratorium Berlin. The concert opens with guest artist Thomas Gerwin, who will conduct from the Exploratorium Berlin with a structured improvisation entitled “EAOIU” written for and featuring the Electro-Acoustic Orchestra (EAO), performing at the DisPerSion Lab in Toronto along with his Berlin ensemble.
Following that performance, the collective cross-atlantic ensemble will continue performing newly-commissioned pieces by New York-based guest artist Sarah Weaver and EAO director Doug Van Nort, before finishing with a local performance of a new work by EAO member and active Toronto improviser Glen Hall.
4:00-6:00 pm local time in Toronto
8:30-11 pm local time in Berlin
FREE
Sensorium Centre and DisPerSion Lab, in Partnership with New Adventures in Sound Art's Deep Wireless Festival, Present:
Tele-Conduction
by Doug Van Nort, Thomas Gerwin, Sarah Weaver and Glen Hall
Toronto: DisPerSion Lab, Room 334, Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts, York University
Berlin: Exploratorium Berlin, Mehringdamm 55, 10961 Kreuzberg (Sarottihoefe, Entrance C)
Audio Broadcast via naisa radio: http://www.naisa.ca/naisa-radio
Video Broadcast via: http://live.dispersionlab.org
This event features performances occurring across two continents, and overlapping through a telematic connection. The Toronto performance serves as the culmination of a sister event happening at the Exploratorium Berlin. The concert opens with guest artist Thomas Gerwin, who will conduct from the Exploratorium Berlin with a structured improvisation entitled “EAOIU” written for and featuring the Electro-Acoustic Orchestra (EAO), performing at the DisPerSion Lab in Toronto along with his Berlin ensemble.
Following that performance, the collective cross-atlantic ensemble will continue performing newly-commissioned pieces by New York-based guest artist Sarah Weaver and EAO director Doug Van Nort, before finishing with a local performance of a new work by EAO member and active Toronto improviser Glen Hall.
November 26th @ 8:00pm
Games In Sound, a Performance
Game creation like most media arts is a trans-disciplinary practice. This performance will cross many artistic and stylistic boundaries to reveal the many overlaps with other art forms and genres. Performing will be Dispersion Lab, Luis Hernandez and Andrew Shenkman. This performance is part of a weekend-long Soundhackers meetup that also includes artist panels in the afternoon of Saturday November 26
Performances are co-curated for this meetup event with Daniele Hopkins of Electric Perfume.
I. Myo Improv by Dispersion Lab
Doug Van Nort, the Canada Research Chair at York University and distinguished electroacoustic sound artist, has started the Dispersion Lab, which is a studio and a live ensemble comprised of graduate and undergraduate students as well as artists from the local community. They explore telematic performance, improvisation, laptop performance and gestural conducting among their prolific artistic activities. Include in this performance are Ian Jarvis and Michael Palumbo.
II. EngineBaroque by Luis Hernandez
EngineBaroque is a live electro-acoustic performance. Luis controls a custom-made 3d environment --a digital extrapolation of Kurt Schwitter's Merzbau, imbued with locative sounds. As he navigates this artificial architecture, he samples sounds in the environment, manipulating them in real-time with tape machines and samplers, creating a live electro-acoustic space located somewhere between the physical and digital world.
III. Hypergame by Andrew Shenkman
Prepare your body for the game-story-musical event of a lifetime! Inspired by tabletop RPGs, improv comedy and rock & roll, Hypergame Storytime: The Musical invites the audience to take their rightful place as the star of an intergalactic, time travelling, life afirming odyssey about the power of the human spirit and butts probably, whatever, just trust us. What is it? What isn’t it! It’s all your favourite activities and interests smushed together with healthy dose of awkwardness, imagination and friendship.
Electric Perfume
805 Danforth Avenue, Toronto
Games In Sound, a Performance
Game creation like most media arts is a trans-disciplinary practice. This performance will cross many artistic and stylistic boundaries to reveal the many overlaps with other art forms and genres. Performing will be Dispersion Lab, Luis Hernandez and Andrew Shenkman. This performance is part of a weekend-long Soundhackers meetup that also includes artist panels in the afternoon of Saturday November 26
Performances are co-curated for this meetup event with Daniele Hopkins of Electric Perfume.
I. Myo Improv by Dispersion Lab
Doug Van Nort, the Canada Research Chair at York University and distinguished electroacoustic sound artist, has started the Dispersion Lab, which is a studio and a live ensemble comprised of graduate and undergraduate students as well as artists from the local community. They explore telematic performance, improvisation, laptop performance and gestural conducting among their prolific artistic activities. Include in this performance are Ian Jarvis and Michael Palumbo.
II. EngineBaroque by Luis Hernandez
EngineBaroque is a live electro-acoustic performance. Luis controls a custom-made 3d environment --a digital extrapolation of Kurt Schwitter's Merzbau, imbued with locative sounds. As he navigates this artificial architecture, he samples sounds in the environment, manipulating them in real-time with tape machines and samplers, creating a live electro-acoustic space located somewhere between the physical and digital world.
III. Hypergame by Andrew Shenkman
Prepare your body for the game-story-musical event of a lifetime! Inspired by tabletop RPGs, improv comedy and rock & roll, Hypergame Storytime: The Musical invites the audience to take their rightful place as the star of an intergalactic, time travelling, life afirming odyssey about the power of the human spirit and butts probably, whatever, just trust us. What is it? What isn’t it! It’s all your favourite activities and interests smushed together with healthy dose of awkwardness, imagination and friendship.
Electric Perfume
805 Danforth Avenue, Toronto
Tuesday November 22nd @ 5:00-7:00pm
John Driscoll, founding member of Composers Inside Electronics
Electro-Acoustic Orchestra
Program:
Electro-Acoustic Orchestra (dir. Doug Van Nort) - Conducted Improvisation
Performers: Chris Anderson-Lundy, Robert Appleton, David Bandi, Aaron Corbett, Carlos De Leon, Marcello Fiorini, Glen Hall, Ian Macchiusi, Sabatino Muccilli, Mark McGugan, William Osmon, Mackenzie Perrault, Liz Petzold, Ted Phillips, Danny Sheahan, Fae Sirois and Lauren Wilson.
Impulsions – Phil Edelstein (2015)
Performer: John Driscoll
Speaking in Tongues – John Driscoll (2012)
Performers: John Driscoll, Doug Van Nort
Microphone – David Tudor (1970)
Performer: John Driscoll
DisPerSion Lab
334 Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts
York University
John Driscoll, founding member of Composers Inside Electronics
Electro-Acoustic Orchestra
Program:
Electro-Acoustic Orchestra (dir. Doug Van Nort) - Conducted Improvisation
Performers: Chris Anderson-Lundy, Robert Appleton, David Bandi, Aaron Corbett, Carlos De Leon, Marcello Fiorini, Glen Hall, Ian Macchiusi, Sabatino Muccilli, Mark McGugan, William Osmon, Mackenzie Perrault, Liz Petzold, Ted Phillips, Danny Sheahan, Fae Sirois and Lauren Wilson.
Impulsions – Phil Edelstein (2015)
Performer: John Driscoll
Speaking in Tongues – John Driscoll (2012)
Performers: John Driscoll, Doug Van Nort
Microphone – David Tudor (1970)
Performer: John Driscoll
DisPerSion Lab
334 Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts
York University
Wednesday November 2nd
10:00pm
Tranzac Club
292 Brunswick Ave., Toronto
416 Creative Improvisers Festival Presents
Electro-Acoustic Orchestra (dir. Doug Van Nort), feat. Chris Anderson-Lundy, Robert Appleton, David Bandi, Aaron Corbett, Marcello Fiorini, Glen Hall, Mackenzie Perrault, Ted Philips, Danny Sheahan, Fae Sirois and Lauren Wilson
10:00pm
Tranzac Club
292 Brunswick Ave., Toronto
416 Creative Improvisers Festival Presents
Electro-Acoustic Orchestra (dir. Doug Van Nort), feat. Chris Anderson-Lundy, Robert Appleton, David Bandi, Aaron Corbett, Marcello Fiorini, Glen Hall, Mackenzie Perrault, Ted Philips, Danny Sheahan, Fae Sirois and Lauren Wilson
October 14th @ 8:00
Quartet Improvisation Featuring:
Pauline Oliveros (v-accordion), Ione (spoken word), Anne Bourne (cello), Doug Van Nort (electronics)
X-Avant XI Festival
Music Gallery
197 John St, Toronto
Quartet Improvisation Featuring:
Pauline Oliveros (v-accordion), Ione (spoken word), Anne Bourne (cello), Doug Van Nort (electronics)
X-Avant XI Festival
Music Gallery
197 John St, Toronto
September 3rd @ 7:15pm
Intersections
Yonge-Dundas Square
1 Dundas St E., Toronto
"Saxophonist & composer Kyle Brenders bring his large format electro acoustic ensemble out for another run after their jaw dropping set at this years Somewhere There Festival. Featuring a real who’s who line up of Toronto’s avant whatever scene, including Ben Grossman (hurdy gurdy,electronics), Germain Liu (percussion), Peter Lutek (clarinet, electronics), Karen Ng (alto sax), Cheldon Paterson (turntables), Nicole Rampersaud (trumpet), Nick Storring (cello, electronics), Brandon Valdivia (drums), Doug Van Nort (electronics), and Brenders himself (saxophones). Kyle weaves this group through humble melodic phases amidst unsettling drones, minimalist distortion & electronic noise. Diving deep into a murky swamp like environment of low hums and buzzing electronics like flies..."
Intersections
Yonge-Dundas Square
1 Dundas St E., Toronto
"Saxophonist & composer Kyle Brenders bring his large format electro acoustic ensemble out for another run after their jaw dropping set at this years Somewhere There Festival. Featuring a real who’s who line up of Toronto’s avant whatever scene, including Ben Grossman (hurdy gurdy,electronics), Germain Liu (percussion), Peter Lutek (clarinet, electronics), Karen Ng (alto sax), Cheldon Paterson (turntables), Nicole Rampersaud (trumpet), Nick Storring (cello, electronics), Brandon Valdivia (drums), Doug Van Nort (electronics), and Brenders himself (saxophones). Kyle weaves this group through humble melodic phases amidst unsettling drones, minimalist distortion & electronic noise. Diving deep into a murky swamp like environment of low hums and buzzing electronics like flies..."
May 19th @ 7:30pm
Tout Croche ++ York Electro-Acoustic Orchestra
DisPerSion Lab
Montreal-based Tout Croche is Stephen Harvey & Dominic Thibault. A haven of post-genre sonic experimentation and music making that marvels at noise from beautiful ambience to digital distortion.
This performance is a stop on Tout Croche's Quebec-Ontario tour, and also features a performance of EAO's soundpainting-based piece, recently played at ISIM.
Tout Croche ++ York Electro-Acoustic Orchestra
DisPerSion Lab
Montreal-based Tout Croche is Stephen Harvey & Dominic Thibault. A haven of post-genre sonic experimentation and music making that marvels at noise from beautiful ambience to digital distortion.
This performance is a stop on Tout Croche's Quebec-Ontario tour, and also features a performance of EAO's soundpainting-based piece, recently played at ISIM.
May 12th @ 2:00pm
York Electro-Acoustic Orchestra at the 2016 International Society of Improvised Music (ISIM) Festival and Conference
The EAO performs an hour-long set at ISIM. This will be a structured improvisation featuring soundpainting-based conducting by Van Nort.
Wilfrid Laurier University
75 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON
York Electro-Acoustic Orchestra at the 2016 International Society of Improvised Music (ISIM) Festival and Conference
The EAO performs an hour-long set at ISIM. This will be a structured improvisation featuring soundpainting-based conducting by Van Nort.
Wilfrid Laurier University
75 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON
March 29th @ 6:00pm
Partly structured and partly improvised, Uncanny: A Telematic nO(t)pera will link musicians and their audiences across one virtual and five actual locations in Palo Alto/CA, Troy/NY and York University’s Keele campus.
The event is orchestrated by Canada Research Chair in Digital Performance Doug Van Nort, a professor in Digital Media and Theatre who contributes live electronic music to the collaboration.
The performances will be streamed in real time, allowing the musicians to listen and improvise with each other. Video of the performers will also be live-streamed and projected onto materials within Van Nort’s DIStributed PERformance and Sensorial immersION (DisPerSion) Lab, room 334 in the Joan and Martin Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts.
Joining creative and technological forces for the performance is a team of pioneering artist/researchers.
Performers from Stanford (California), RPI (New York) and York Student Projects Gallery will be projected onto materials within the DisPerSion Lab, forming an uncanny trace of their bodily presence, embedded on a blended “stage” with a live electronics performer. Public activity from the Accolade West hallway, leading up to the Student Projects gallery, will be mapped into visual and sonic art and projected within DisPerSion Lab, creating a texturized double of the activity just outside the Gallery site of performance. The website http://www.dispersionlab.org/live-stream will provide another realization of the performance, allowing audience to chat, interact via twitter, and alter the outcome by conducting the musicians during one section of the piece. The York-based audience is invited to wander between the differing performative realities of the public spaces, the virtual online platform, the live performance within the gallery, and the live performance within DisPerSion lab.
featuring performances by:
Anne Bourne (cello) - York Special Projects Gallery, York University Toronto, ON
Chris Chafe (celletto) - CCRMA, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Pauline Oliveros (V-Accordion), Jonas Braasch (Soprano Saxophone) - CRAIVE Lab, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Doug Van Nort (electronics) - DisPerSion Lab, York University, Toronto, ON
featuring Digital Media art and design work by:
Gale Cabiles - promotional video and graphics
Kevin Feliciano - audio networking and DisPerSion Lab sound engineering
Akeem Glasgow - public, interactive sonic instrument
Radi Hilaneh - video processing and in-York networking
Justin Hsieh - Gallery design and layout
Raechel Kula - DisPerSion Lab projection surfaces and visual design
Rory Hoy - network mapping design
Candy Hua - interactive lighting control, DisPerSion Lab
Tony Liu - remote conducting of performance sites
Sam Noto - visual streaming to virtual performance site
Sarah Siddiqui - website audio remixing/streaming
Keren Xu - promotional video and graphics
Yirui Fu- network lighting control, sound-to-light mapping, DisPerSion Lab
Mingxin Zhang - lighting effects, DisPerSion Lab
Cary Zheng - video networking between sites, documentation
Keke Zhou - public, interactive visual instrument
Partly structured and partly improvised, Uncanny: A Telematic nO(t)pera will link musicians and their audiences across one virtual and five actual locations in Palo Alto/CA, Troy/NY and York University’s Keele campus.
The event is orchestrated by Canada Research Chair in Digital Performance Doug Van Nort, a professor in Digital Media and Theatre who contributes live electronic music to the collaboration.
The performances will be streamed in real time, allowing the musicians to listen and improvise with each other. Video of the performers will also be live-streamed and projected onto materials within Van Nort’s DIStributed PERformance and Sensorial immersION (DisPerSion) Lab, room 334 in the Joan and Martin Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts.
Joining creative and technological forces for the performance is a team of pioneering artist/researchers.
Performers from Stanford (California), RPI (New York) and York Student Projects Gallery will be projected onto materials within the DisPerSion Lab, forming an uncanny trace of their bodily presence, embedded on a blended “stage” with a live electronics performer. Public activity from the Accolade West hallway, leading up to the Student Projects gallery, will be mapped into visual and sonic art and projected within DisPerSion Lab, creating a texturized double of the activity just outside the Gallery site of performance. The website http://www.dispersionlab.org/live-stream will provide another realization of the performance, allowing audience to chat, interact via twitter, and alter the outcome by conducting the musicians during one section of the piece. The York-based audience is invited to wander between the differing performative realities of the public spaces, the virtual online platform, the live performance within the gallery, and the live performance within DisPerSion lab.
featuring performances by:
Anne Bourne (cello) - York Special Projects Gallery, York University Toronto, ON
Chris Chafe (celletto) - CCRMA, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Pauline Oliveros (V-Accordion), Jonas Braasch (Soprano Saxophone) - CRAIVE Lab, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Doug Van Nort (electronics) - DisPerSion Lab, York University, Toronto, ON
featuring Digital Media art and design work by:
Gale Cabiles - promotional video and graphics
Kevin Feliciano - audio networking and DisPerSion Lab sound engineering
Akeem Glasgow - public, interactive sonic instrument
Radi Hilaneh - video processing and in-York networking
Justin Hsieh - Gallery design and layout
Raechel Kula - DisPerSion Lab projection surfaces and visual design
Rory Hoy - network mapping design
Candy Hua - interactive lighting control, DisPerSion Lab
Tony Liu - remote conducting of performance sites
Sam Noto - visual streaming to virtual performance site
Sarah Siddiqui - website audio remixing/streaming
Keren Xu - promotional video and graphics
Yirui Fu- network lighting control, sound-to-light mapping, DisPerSion Lab
Mingxin Zhang - lighting effects, DisPerSion Lab
Cary Zheng - video networking between sites, documentation
Keke Zhou - public, interactive visual instrument
February 20th @ 8:00pm
SLM Ensemble: TransForm
An Evening of Experimental Music Works
Jane Ira Bloom, soprano saxophone
David Morales Boroff, violin
Min Xiao-Fen, pipa
Ned Rothenberg, alto saxophone, bass clarinet
David Taylor, bass trombone
Denman Maroney, piano
Mark Helias, bass
Gerry Hemingway, drumset
Sam Pluta, computer, electronics
Doug Van Nort, computer, electronics, sonifications
Sarah Weaver, conductor, composer
Leonard Nimoy Thalia
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
New York, NY
SLM Ensemble: TransForm
An Evening of Experimental Music Works
Jane Ira Bloom, soprano saxophone
David Morales Boroff, violin
Min Xiao-Fen, pipa
Ned Rothenberg, alto saxophone, bass clarinet
David Taylor, bass trombone
Denman Maroney, piano
Mark Helias, bass
Gerry Hemingway, drumset
Sam Pluta, computer, electronics
Doug Van Nort, computer, electronics, sonifications
Sarah Weaver, conductor, composer
Leonard Nimoy Thalia
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
New York, NY
February 9th @ 3:30 – 5:30 pm
STAPLR DisPerSion
William Denton
(York University Libraries)
Doug Van Nort
(School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design)
and the
Students of DATT 3200 Performing Telepresence
Re-imagine the real-time streams emanating from, to and about York University Libraries in their physical and virtual homes.
Featuring:
STAPLR - William Denton’s sonification of YUL reference desks
(listen remotely at staplr.org)
and
Sound, Light and Text Instruments - created by Van Nort and students, that react to YUL reference data and to Twitter feeds
(@yorkulibraries, @FrostLibrary, @Bronfmanlibrary, @ScottLibrary, @SteacieLibrary, @dispersion_lab)
Performed between all branches of York University Libraries (Bronfman, Maps, Scott, SMIL, Steacie) and the DisPerSion Lab by DATT students,
using Twitter as their interface.
Experience the immersive version at the DisPerSion Lab (334 Centre for Fine Arts),
Watch/Listen/tweet to the virtual feed (video, audio, Twitter) at
www.dispersionlab.org
Participate and help perform the piece by tweeting @dispersion_lab
STAPLR DisPerSion
William Denton
(York University Libraries)
Doug Van Nort
(School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design)
and the
Students of DATT 3200 Performing Telepresence
Re-imagine the real-time streams emanating from, to and about York University Libraries in their physical and virtual homes.
Featuring:
STAPLR - William Denton’s sonification of YUL reference desks
(listen remotely at staplr.org)
and
Sound, Light and Text Instruments - created by Van Nort and students, that react to YUL reference data and to Twitter feeds
(@yorkulibraries, @FrostLibrary, @Bronfmanlibrary, @ScottLibrary, @SteacieLibrary, @dispersion_lab)
Performed between all branches of York University Libraries (Bronfman, Maps, Scott, SMIL, Steacie) and the DisPerSion Lab by DATT students,
using Twitter as their interface.
Experience the immersive version at the DisPerSion Lab (334 Centre for Fine Arts),
Watch/Listen/tweet to the virtual feed (video, audio, Twitter) at
www.dispersionlab.org
Participate and help perform the piece by tweeting @dispersion_lab
December 10th @ 8:00pm
Electro-Acoustic Orchestra ++ Anne Bourne/Rick Sacks/Doug Van Nort
Set 1: York EAO
Set 2: Bourne/Sacks/Van Nort trio
...morphs into
Set 3: EAO + trio improv set
The York Electro-Acoustic Orchestra (dir. Doug Van Nort) is an ensemble comprised of a mixture of acoustic and electronic performers. It is an emergent sonic organism that evolves through collective attention to all facets of sound, and improvisational practice. Based at York University, the YEAO performs a range of pieces by its members, invited guest artists and from the experimental music repertoire. Current members are David Bandi, Christopher Cerpnjak, Carlos De Leon, Peter
Ellman, Rory Hoy, Ian Jarvis, Alexander Laurie, Kieran Maraj, Caleb Martin, Mark Mcgugan and Michael Palumbo.
Array Space
155 Walnut Street, Toronto, ON
TICKETS: $8
Electro-Acoustic Orchestra ++ Anne Bourne/Rick Sacks/Doug Van Nort
Set 1: York EAO
Set 2: Bourne/Sacks/Van Nort trio
...morphs into
Set 3: EAO + trio improv set
The York Electro-Acoustic Orchestra (dir. Doug Van Nort) is an ensemble comprised of a mixture of acoustic and electronic performers. It is an emergent sonic organism that evolves through collective attention to all facets of sound, and improvisational practice. Based at York University, the YEAO performs a range of pieces by its members, invited guest artists and from the experimental music repertoire. Current members are David Bandi, Christopher Cerpnjak, Carlos De Leon, Peter
Ellman, Rory Hoy, Ian Jarvis, Alexander Laurie, Kieran Maraj, Caleb Martin, Mark Mcgugan and Michael Palumbo.
Array Space
155 Walnut Street, Toronto, ON
TICKETS: $8
December 7th + 8th @ 8:00pm
Electric Messiah
A stripped down, surround-sound, electo-improv Messiah for Today’s Toronto
Is it possible to become re-sensitized to this ubiquitous musical masterpiece by taking it apart and putting it back together again? Stripping Handel’s music back down to its barest essentials, Electric Messiah enables four singers, accompanied by guitar and electronics, to explore a selection of the work’s most popular movements through the lens of their own unique styles and cultural backgrounds.
Staged in the intimate, cabaret-style undergound of Toronto’s iconic Drake Hotel, in collaboration with curator Kyle Brenders, dramaturg Ashlie Corcoran and lighting designer Patrick Lavender, Soundstreams’ Electric Messiah will reconnect you to the music of the holiday season in a way that is surprising, fresh, and above all, FUN.
Featured artists:
Christine Duncan, vocals
Carla Huhtanen, vocals
Gabriel Dharmoo, vocals
Jeremy Dutcher, vocals
John Gzowski, guitar
Doug Van Nort, electronics
Electroacoustic Orchestra of York University
TICKETS: $15 in advance or $20 at the door. Available online soundstreams.ca/electric-messiah
Electric Messiah
A stripped down, surround-sound, electo-improv Messiah for Today’s Toronto
Is it possible to become re-sensitized to this ubiquitous musical masterpiece by taking it apart and putting it back together again? Stripping Handel’s music back down to its barest essentials, Electric Messiah enables four singers, accompanied by guitar and electronics, to explore a selection of the work’s most popular movements through the lens of their own unique styles and cultural backgrounds.
Staged in the intimate, cabaret-style undergound of Toronto’s iconic Drake Hotel, in collaboration with curator Kyle Brenders, dramaturg Ashlie Corcoran and lighting designer Patrick Lavender, Soundstreams’ Electric Messiah will reconnect you to the music of the holiday season in a way that is surprising, fresh, and above all, FUN.
Featured artists:
Christine Duncan, vocals
Carla Huhtanen, vocals
Gabriel Dharmoo, vocals
Jeremy Dutcher, vocals
John Gzowski, guitar
Doug Van Nort, electronics
Electroacoustic Orchestra of York University
TICKETS: $15 in advance or $20 at the door. Available online soundstreams.ca/electric-messiah
November 12th @ 1:30-2:30pm
York Electroacoustic Orchestra in concert
featuring guest composer Margaret Schedel
An emergent sonic organism that evolves through collective attention to all facets of sound, and improvisational practice. Based at York University, the YEAO (dir. Doug Van Nort) performs a range of pieces by its members, invited guest artists and from the experimental music repertoire. Current members are David Bandi, Christopher Cerpnjak, Carlos De Leon, Peter Ellman, Rory Hoy, Ian Jarvis, Alexander Laurie, Kieran Maraj, Caleb Martin, Mark Mcgugan and Michael Palumbo.
Tribute Communities Recital Hall
Accolade East Building
York University
York Electroacoustic Orchestra in concert
featuring guest composer Margaret Schedel
An emergent sonic organism that evolves through collective attention to all facets of sound, and improvisational practice. Based at York University, the YEAO (dir. Doug Van Nort) performs a range of pieces by its members, invited guest artists and from the experimental music repertoire. Current members are David Bandi, Christopher Cerpnjak, Carlos De Leon, Peter Ellman, Rory Hoy, Ian Jarvis, Alexander Laurie, Kieran Maraj, Caleb Martin, Mark Mcgugan and Michael Palumbo.
Tribute Communities Recital Hall
Accolade East Building
York University
November 6th, 11:00pm
Solo Improvisation (voice, electronics)
416 Toronto Creative Improvisers Festival
Tranzac Club
292 Brunswick Ave
Toronto, ON
Solo Improvisation (voice, electronics)
416 Toronto Creative Improvisers Festival
Tranzac Club
292 Brunswick Ave
Toronto, ON
October 23rd, 2015, 3:00-5:00pm
Giving a talk entitled
"DisPerSion of/and Creativity"
at
Propriomedia Lecture Series
Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD)
McCaul St, Toronto, ON
Giving a talk entitled
"DisPerSion of/and Creativity"
at
Propriomedia Lecture Series
Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD)
McCaul St, Toronto, ON
October 2015
Announcing the DisPerSion Lab!
Inaugural Meeting:
Come and find out who/what we are and how you might become involved, now or in the future.
Lab Director Doug Van Nort will give a brief 15-30 minute overview of research interests and lab focus. Discussion and meet/greet will follow.
When:
October 13th, 5:00pm
+ every following Tuesday at 5:00pm unless otherwise noted on website/door
Inaugural Play Session
Weekly play sessions in a variety of media, drawing heavily on improvisation and experimentation. A time to develop a practice, test ideas, etc.
Come by and play!
When:
October 15th, 5:00pm
+ every following Thursday at 5:00pm unless otherwise noted on website/door
Where:
DisPerSion Lab
Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts room 334, York University, Toronto, ON
Announcing the DisPerSion Lab!
Inaugural Meeting:
Come and find out who/what we are and how you might become involved, now or in the future.
Lab Director Doug Van Nort will give a brief 15-30 minute overview of research interests and lab focus. Discussion and meet/greet will follow.
When:
October 13th, 5:00pm
+ every following Tuesday at 5:00pm unless otherwise noted on website/door
Inaugural Play Session
Weekly play sessions in a variety of media, drawing heavily on improvisation and experimentation. A time to develop a practice, test ideas, etc.
Come by and play!
When:
October 15th, 5:00pm
+ every following Thursday at 5:00pm unless otherwise noted on website/door
Where:
DisPerSion Lab
Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts room 334, York University, Toronto, ON
September 26th, 10:30pm
Solo Improvisation (voice, electronics)
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)
Library Mall Stage (Outdoor Venue)
University of North Texas
Denton, TX
Solo Improvisation (voice, electronics)
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)
Library Mall Stage (Outdoor Venue)
University of North Texas
Denton, TX
August 17th, 8pm
Françoise Houle (clarinet) / Doug Van Nort (FILTER system)
part of a (sold out!) concert of Musical Metacreation at ISEA
program:
Daryl Jahnke / Arne Eigenfeldt
François Houle / Doug Van Nort
François Houle / Ollie Bown
Lisa Cay Miller / Michael Young
Lisa Cay Miller / Shelly Knotts
Lisa Cay Miller / François Houle / George Lewis
Studio T
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
SFU Woodwards
Vancouver, BC
Françoise Houle (clarinet) / Doug Van Nort (FILTER system)
part of a (sold out!) concert of Musical Metacreation at ISEA
program:
Daryl Jahnke / Arne Eigenfeldt
François Houle / Doug Van Nort
François Houle / Ollie Bown
Lisa Cay Miller / Michael Young
Lisa Cay Miller / Shelly Knotts
Lisa Cay Miller / François Houle / George Lewis
Studio T
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
SFU Woodwards
Vancouver, BC
August 15th
Presenting paper
"[radical] signals from life: from muscle sensing to embodied machine listening/learning within a large-scale performance piece"
at the 2nd International Workshop on Movement and Computing (MOCO)
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC
Presenting paper
"[radical] signals from life: from muscle sensing to embodied machine listening/learning within a large-scale performance piece"
at the 2nd International Workshop on Movement and Computing (MOCO)
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC
August 14-18th
New multi-channel sound piece "Palimpsestic"
Part of the artistic program for the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA)
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
SFU Woodwards
Vancouver, BC
New multi-channel sound piece "Palimpsestic"
Part of the artistic program for the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA)
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
SFU Woodwards
Vancouver, BC
May 27th
Presenting seminar on electronic performance practice, for
Young Composer's Workshop
Array Space
155 Walnut Street, Toronto, ON
Presenting seminar on electronic performance practice, for
Young Composer's Workshop
Array Space
155 Walnut Street, Toronto, ON
May 23, 8:00pm
Premiere of new piece "a dispersion of elements"
for electronics and mobile audience interaction
I will also give a presentation on the work during the afternoon symposium
TransX Symposium on Transmission Arts
the Wychwood Theatre
601 Christie St, #176
Toronto
Premiere of new piece "a dispersion of elements"
for electronics and mobile audience interaction
I will also give a presentation on the work during the afternoon symposium
TransX Symposium on Transmission Arts
the Wychwood Theatre
601 Christie St, #176
Toronto
May 18-20th
Three Day Seminar on Evolutionary Digital Art Creation
Hochschule Ansbach
Ansbach, DE
Three Day Seminar on Evolutionary Digital Art Creation
Hochschule Ansbach
Ansbach, DE
May 5th, 8:00pm
Improvised performance (electronics) with Anne Bourne (cello) and Rick Sacks (percussion)
The Array Space
155 Walnut Street, Toronto, ON
Improvised performance (electronics) with Anne Bourne (cello) and Rick Sacks (percussion)
The Array Space
155 Walnut Street, Toronto, ON
April 17th, 6:30pm
Datt Laptop Yorkestar
an emergent sonic organism;
an ensemble of laptop performers weaving rhythmic patterns and sonic textures, via control signals shared over a local wifi network.
Peter MacKendrick Community Gallery
Wychwood Barns, Suite 177, Toronto, ON
Datt Laptop Yorkestar
an emergent sonic organism;
an ensemble of laptop performers weaving rhythmic patterns and sonic textures, via control signals shared over a local wifi network.
Peter MacKendrick Community Gallery
Wychwood Barns, Suite 177, Toronto, ON
March 26th, 7:30pm
Game of Drones
telematic performance featuring the students of my course "Designing Interactive Performances" and the Concordia Laptop orchestra (CLOrk)
Room 334 Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts, York University, Toronto / 1450 Guy St., MB Building 8th Floor, Concordia University, Montreal
Game of Drones
telematic performance featuring the students of my course "Designing Interactive Performances" and the Concordia Laptop orchestra (CLOrk)
Room 334 Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts, York University, Toronto / 1450 Guy St., MB Building 8th Floor, Concordia University, Montreal
March 10th, 4-5:30pm
**This event has been postponed due to the York U. CUPE Strike**
Lecture: "Improvisation and the Noise of the World"
This talk will present a speculative meditation on the often-overlooked intelligences carried through the sonic medium. This includes the coded structures found within the noise of the world, the elasticity of the temporal sense, and how improvisation as an embodied listening/sounding practice serves as powerful means of engagement with these realities. Caution: audience engagement with listening and/or sounding may ensue.
Part of the Sensorium Lecture Series
Transmedia Lab
Accolade West 103
York University, Toronto
**This event has been postponed due to the York U. CUPE Strike**
Lecture: "Improvisation and the Noise of the World"
This talk will present a speculative meditation on the often-overlooked intelligences carried through the sonic medium. This includes the coded structures found within the noise of the world, the elasticity of the temporal sense, and how improvisation as an embodied listening/sounding practice serves as powerful means of engagement with these realities. Caution: audience engagement with listening and/or sounding may ensue.
Part of the Sensorium Lecture Series
Transmedia Lab
Accolade West 103
York University, Toronto
January 30/31, 7:30pm PST
Telematic Concert, linking:
Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts, York University
"Universal Synchrony Music" Volume 3
Sarah Weaver (composer), Doug Van Nort (director of electronic music, sonification and visualization)
The overall structure is composed by Weaver.
The electronic music is composed by Van Nort: data from NASA's Kepler mission is improvised/sonified/visualized by he and his team of Digital Media students at York University.
Performers:
Stanford: Dylan Hunn (percussion), Kitty Shi (piano)
York: Doug Van Nort (electronics/sonification), Rick Demeester (electronics/sonification), Rory Hoy (electronics/sonification), Rose Zhou (live visuals), Akeem Glasgow (live visuals), Christina Kan (live visuals), Tony Nguyen (live visuals)
York Team:
Data Structuring and Sonification: Rick Demeester, Rory Hoy
Visualization: Anas Ashraf, Erica Ferkul, Akeem Glasgow, Christina Kan, Dylan Reymer, Justin Hsieh, Rose Zhou
Networking and Streaming: Kayla MacDonald, Sam Noto, Tony Nguyen
Stanford Streaming and Media System:
Chris Chafe, Eoin Callery, Constantin Basica
Telematic Concert, linking:
Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts, York University
"Universal Synchrony Music" Volume 3
Sarah Weaver (composer), Doug Van Nort (director of electronic music, sonification and visualization)
The overall structure is composed by Weaver.
The electronic music is composed by Van Nort: data from NASA's Kepler mission is improvised/sonified/visualized by he and his team of Digital Media students at York University.
Performers:
Stanford: Dylan Hunn (percussion), Kitty Shi (piano)
York: Doug Van Nort (electronics/sonification), Rick Demeester (electronics/sonification), Rory Hoy (electronics/sonification), Rose Zhou (live visuals), Akeem Glasgow (live visuals), Christina Kan (live visuals), Tony Nguyen (live visuals)
York Team:
Data Structuring and Sonification: Rick Demeester, Rory Hoy
Visualization: Anas Ashraf, Erica Ferkul, Akeem Glasgow, Christina Kan, Dylan Reymer, Justin Hsieh, Rose Zhou
Networking and Streaming: Kayla MacDonald, Sam Noto, Tony Nguyen
Stanford Streaming and Media System:
Chris Chafe, Eoin Callery, Constantin Basica
December 2014
I am pleased to have curated the 2014 Computer Music Journal 'Sound and Video Anthology'.
The title/theme is "Distributed Composition and Musical Metacreation".
Really happy with the disparate works represented here - check them out!
Track list:
Part A – Distributed Composition
1) Chris Chafe – Polartides
2) Pedro Rebelo - Netrooms
3) The HUB - Multiple Issues
4) CLOrk - Dancing with Laptops
5) Bill Hsu/Chris Burns - Xenoglossia/Leishmania
Part B – Musical Metacreation
1) Paul Hession - drums, Isambard Khroustaliov - software
2) The Indifference Engine versus Paul Hession (software by Arne Eigenfeldt)
3) Paul Hession - drums, Doug Van Nort - FILTER System
4) Finn Peters - saxophone, Ollie Bown - software
5) Finn Peters - saxophone, Nick Collins - FinnSystem
6) Finn Peters - sax, Shlomo Dubnov and Greg Surges - software
7) piano_prosthesis - Michael Young - piano, software
8) Finn Peters /Paul Hession /The Matthew Yee-King Simulator
I am pleased to have curated the 2014 Computer Music Journal 'Sound and Video Anthology'.
The title/theme is "Distributed Composition and Musical Metacreation".
Really happy with the disparate works represented here - check them out!
Track list:
Part A – Distributed Composition
1) Chris Chafe – Polartides
2) Pedro Rebelo - Netrooms
3) The HUB - Multiple Issues
4) CLOrk - Dancing with Laptops
5) Bill Hsu/Chris Burns - Xenoglossia/Leishmania
Part B – Musical Metacreation
1) Paul Hession - drums, Isambard Khroustaliov - software
2) The Indifference Engine versus Paul Hession (software by Arne Eigenfeldt)
3) Paul Hession - drums, Doug Van Nort - FILTER System
4) Finn Peters - saxophone, Ollie Bown - software
5) Finn Peters - saxophone, Nick Collins - FinnSystem
6) Finn Peters - sax, Shlomo Dubnov and Greg Surges - software
7) piano_prosthesis - Michael Young - piano, software
8) Finn Peters /Paul Hession /The Matthew Yee-King Simulator
November 2014
I'm pleased to have a piece on the new Leonardo Music Journal music compilation!
For those that remember my elevator piece 'Constellate', this track is based on source materials
from that installation, as well as recordings made inside the elevator.
I'm pleased to have a piece on the new Leonardo Music Journal music compilation!
For those that remember my elevator piece 'Constellate', this track is based on source materials
from that installation, as well as recordings made inside the elevator.
November 8th
I am giving a talk at the conference "Tuning Speculation II: Auralneirics and imaginary networked futures"
I am giving a talk at the conference "Tuning Speculation II: Auralneirics and imaginary networked futures"
October 2014
New track on a compilation of remixes for Russian artist Bookwar!
Available for download or streaming from Attenuation Circuit
New track on a compilation of remixes for Russian artist Bookwar!
Available for download or streaming from Attenuation Circuit
October 4th
Giving a talk at CogMIR 2014 entitled "On the modeling of behavior in machine improvisation"
Giving a talk at CogMIR 2014 entitled "On the modeling of behavior in machine improvisation"
September 2014
New article published in the Computer Music Journal:
Doug Van Nort, Marcelo Wanderley and Philippe Depalle, "Mapping Control Structures for Sound Synthesis: Functional and Topological Perspectives", Computer Music Journal, 38(3): 6-22, 2014.
My diagrams even grace the cover.
New article published in the Computer Music Journal:
Doug Van Nort, Marcelo Wanderley and Philippe Depalle, "Mapping Control Structures for Sound Synthesis: Functional and Topological Perspectives", Computer Music Journal, 38(3): 6-22, 2014.
My diagrams even grace the cover.
September 2014
New release on Striking Mechanism! A document of a live improvised performance with the American Space Quintet.
New release on Striking Mechanism! A document of a live improvised performance with the American Space Quintet.
September 2014
My piece Outer appears in a new Italian film, il giovane favoloso, a "luminously beautiful biopic of the celebrated eighteenth-century Italian poet, essayist and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi". If you are in Toronto, you can listen for it at the Toronto International Film Festival!
The film is also a nominee for a Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival.
My piece Outer appears in a new Italian film, il giovane favoloso, a "luminously beautiful biopic of the celebrated eighteenth-century Italian poet, essayist and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi". If you are in Toronto, you can listen for it at the Toronto International Film Festival!
The film is also a nominee for a Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival.
August 2014
Triple Point (Oliveros/Van Nort/Braasch) releases a new 3-CD box set on the Pogus label!
The album "phase/transitions" spans five years of electro/acoustic improvisations, with recordings excerpted/mixed/mastered by Van Nort.
Special guests on select tracks are Chris Chafe and the FILTER system.
David Whalen provides the beautiful artwork: digital paintings created with his custom Jamboxx controller, translating head and breath motion into expressive artworks.
Triple Point (Oliveros/Van Nort/Braasch) releases a new 3-CD box set on the Pogus label!
The album "phase/transitions" spans five years of electro/acoustic improvisations, with recordings excerpted/mixed/mastered by Van Nort.
Special guests on select tracks are Chris Chafe and the FILTER system.
David Whalen provides the beautiful artwork: digital paintings created with his custom Jamboxx controller, translating head and breath motion into expressive artworks.
July 13th, 5:30pm
Human/Machine Quintet
Pauline Oliveros, Doug Van Nort, David Arner, Jane Rigler, FILTER
Part of the "First Festival: a Festival of Premiere Performances"
at Deep Listening Art/Science, the 2nd International Conference on Deep Listening
Studio 2, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Troy, NY
Human/Machine Quintet
Pauline Oliveros, Doug Van Nort, David Arner, Jane Rigler, FILTER
Part of the "First Festival: a Festival of Premiere Performances"
at Deep Listening Art/Science, the 2nd International Conference on Deep Listening
Studio 2, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Troy, NY
July 2nd
Presenting work "A Material Computation Perspective on Audio Mosaicing and Gestural Conditioning"
undertaken in collaboration with Navid Navab and Sha Xin Wei
International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
Goldsmiths, University of London
Presenting work "A Material Computation Perspective on Audio Mosaicing and Gestural Conditioning"
undertaken in collaboration with Navid Navab and Sha Xin Wei
International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
Goldsmiths, University of London
July 2014
I am pleased to announce that I have joined the faculty in the School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design at York University in Toronto!
I am pleased to announce that I have joined the faculty in the School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design at York University in Toronto!
June 29th, 7:30pm
Improvised Duo, FILTER and percussionist Paul Hession
Part of 'Musical Metacreation'
@
Cafe OTO
18-22 Ashwin St
Dalston, London
"A concert of software autonomy in music, free improvising algorithms, generative systems and new interfaces for musically metacreative expression.
Featuring software compositions by Shlomo Dubnov, Nick Collins, Michael Young, Arne Eigenfeldt, Matt Yee-King, Oliver Bown, Doug Van Nort and more, and performances by the musicians Finn Peters (flute,sax) and Paul Hession (drums)."
Improvised Duo, FILTER and percussionist Paul Hession
Part of 'Musical Metacreation'
@
Cafe OTO
18-22 Ashwin St
Dalston, London
"A concert of software autonomy in music, free improvising algorithms, generative systems and new interfaces for musically metacreative expression.
Featuring software compositions by Shlomo Dubnov, Nick Collins, Michael Young, Arne Eigenfeldt, Matt Yee-King, Oliver Bown, Doug Van Nort and more, and performances by the musicians Finn Peters (flute,sax) and Paul Hession (drums)."
June 21st, 5:00-10:00pm
Improvisational Sculpting of Live Sonic Streams, Emanating from Beneath the East River
part of
SOUND EVENT: an evening of site-specific sound performances at Socrates Sculpture Park
Socrates Sculpture Park
32-01 Vernon Blvd, Long Island City, NY
"Long Island City, NY–In conjunction with Socrates Sculpture Park’s annual celebration of the Summer Solstice, Socrates Sculpture Park collaborates with Norte Maar to present SOUND EVENT an evening of site-specific sound performances at Socrates Sculpture Park. For this event which will encompass the entire park, noted sound artists will create unique sound platforms through traditional instrumentation, amplification of objects, juxtaposition of voices, and experimental electronic sound."
Improvisational Sculpting of Live Sonic Streams, Emanating from Beneath the East River
part of
SOUND EVENT: an evening of site-specific sound performances at Socrates Sculpture Park
Socrates Sculpture Park
32-01 Vernon Blvd, Long Island City, NY
"Long Island City, NY–In conjunction with Socrates Sculpture Park’s annual celebration of the Summer Solstice, Socrates Sculpture Park collaborates with Norte Maar to present SOUND EVENT an evening of site-specific sound performances at Socrates Sculpture Park. For this event which will encompass the entire park, noted sound artists will create unique sound platforms through traditional instrumentation, amplification of objects, juxtaposition of voices, and experimental electronic sound."
June 14th, 8:15pm
Electroacoustic Improvisation (electronics, voice)
solo and in duo with Alessandra Eramo
Quiet Cue
Flughafenstr. 38
D-12053 Berlin
Electroacoustic Improvisation (electronics, voice)
solo and in duo with Alessandra Eramo
Quiet Cue
Flughafenstr. 38
D-12053 Berlin
June 13th, 5:00pm
Giving a talk entitled "Approaches to Distributed Agency and Shared Musical Meaning in Electroacoustic Improvisation"
at Electroacoustic Music Studies 2014
Universität der Künste Berlin
Einsteinufer 43-53
10587 Berlin
Giving a talk entitled "Approaches to Distributed Agency and Shared Musical Meaning in Electroacoustic Improvisation"
at Electroacoustic Music Studies 2014
Universität der Künste Berlin
Einsteinufer 43-53
10587 Berlin
June 11th, 7:00pm
Improvisation (electronics, voice)
in performance with Xupstar
Liebig12
Liebigstrasse 12
10247 Berlin
Improvisation (electronics, voice)
in performance with Xupstar
Liebig12
Liebigstrasse 12
10247 Berlin
June 9th, 8:00pm
Solo Improvisation (electronics, voice)
in conjunction with opening of new sound installation by Milan Guštar
Skolska28
v ul. Školské 28, P–1
ve dvoře – vstup průchodem
Prague, CZ
Solo Improvisation (electronics, voice)
in conjunction with opening of new sound installation by Milan Guštar
Skolska28
v ul. Školské 28, P–1
ve dvoře – vstup průchodem
Prague, CZ
June 1st - 5th
Ansbach University of Applied Science
I will be a visiting professor teaching an intensive summer course in Digital Arts, taking my recent process-based approach to collective creation; for this Bavarian excursion I will branch out into the visual digital arts in addition to working with sound.
Ansbach University of Applied Science
I will be a visiting professor teaching an intensive summer course in Digital Arts, taking my recent process-based approach to collective creation; for this Bavarian excursion I will branch out into the visual digital arts in addition to working with sound.
May 15th, 12:30pm
Movements of Thought - In collaboration with Usine C and the Senselab
Movements of Thought considers ways of moving and thinking through embodied experience, and of thought itself as a mobile interplay across disciplines. What is a moving thought? How may it open bodies to modes of lived abstraction, becoming more-or-less human, comprising images, material entities, and affective compositions? What techniques may be drawn from diverse practices in physical movement, and how may these be assembled in discussion with scholars and practitioners from other fields? Working alongside Knots of Thought, this assembly of thinking-together invites participants to consider what may be at stake for performing an ecology of practices in the movements of thought.
This event focus on Sound Art practices - through deep listening, gesture bending, and the sonic affordances of found / everyday objects.
The activators for the session will be :
Doug Van Nort
Navid Navab
Juliana Keller
Movements of Thought - In collaboration with Usine C and the Senselab
Movements of Thought considers ways of moving and thinking through embodied experience, and of thought itself as a mobile interplay across disciplines. What is a moving thought? How may it open bodies to modes of lived abstraction, becoming more-or-less human, comprising images, material entities, and affective compositions? What techniques may be drawn from diverse practices in physical movement, and how may these be assembled in discussion with scholars and practitioners from other fields? Working alongside Knots of Thought, this assembly of thinking-together invites participants to consider what may be at stake for performing an ecology of practices in the movements of thought.
This event focus on Sound Art practices - through deep listening, gesture bending, and the sonic affordances of found / everyday objects.
The activators for the session will be :
Doug Van Nort
Navid Navab
Juliana Keller
May 11th, 3:30pm
NOÏSUNDAÉÈ #18
Improvised duo of Doug Van Nort (electonics) + Preston Beebe (percussion)
la Plante
Montreal, Qc
NOÏSUNDAÉÈ #18
Improvised duo of Doug Van Nort (electonics) + Preston Beebe (percussion)
la Plante
Montreal, Qc
April 26th, 9:00pm
Judy Dunaway (balloons) + Doug Van Nort (greis/electronics, voice)
le Cagibi
5490 St. Laurent
Montreal, QC
Judy Dunaway (balloons) + Doug Van Nort (greis/electronics, voice)
le Cagibi
5490 St. Laurent
Montreal, QC
April 23rd + 24th, 5:00pm
Orbital Resonance
A Research-Creation project in collaboration with Margaret Westby, Nikolaos Chandolias and Anne Goldenberg
"Orbital Resonance is an exploration into internal physiological states of the body, outwardly displaced in light and in sound to create an immersive sensual environment. The performers improvise with sound and movement through breathe, voice, and bodily sensors. The larger environment merges the interactions between various elements (audience, performers, light, sound, architecture, sensors) into a unified, existential orbit. The material produced in real-time resonates back into the space. The traces create their own life, interacting upon themselves for new configurations and interpretations to arise among the spectators. "
Hexagram Black Box
S3 Level, EV Building
1515 St. Catherine, Montreal, QC
Orbital Resonance
A Research-Creation project in collaboration with Margaret Westby, Nikolaos Chandolias and Anne Goldenberg
"Orbital Resonance is an exploration into internal physiological states of the body, outwardly displaced in light and in sound to create an immersive sensual environment. The performers improvise with sound and movement through breathe, voice, and bodily sensors. The larger environment merges the interactions between various elements (audience, performers, light, sound, architecture, sensors) into a unified, existential orbit. The material produced in real-time resonates back into the space. The traces create their own life, interacting upon themselves for new configurations and interpretations to arise among the spectators. "
Hexagram Black Box
S3 Level, EV Building
1515 St. Catherine, Montreal, QC
April 6th, 7:00pm
Universal Synchrony Music, Volume 2
Ray Anderson (trombone), Robert Dick (flute), Miya Masaoka (Koto), Doug Van Nort (electronics/sonified NASA data), Sarah Weaver (composer/conductor) , Min Xiao-Fen (pipa).
Joined telematically by sonification trio of Alex Chechile, Cathleen Grado and Shu Yu Lin from CCRMA/Stanford.
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
100 Nicolls Road
Stony Brook, NY
Universal Synchrony Music, Volume 2
Ray Anderson (trombone), Robert Dick (flute), Miya Masaoka (Koto), Doug Van Nort (electronics/sonified NASA data), Sarah Weaver (composer/conductor) , Min Xiao-Fen (pipa).
Joined telematically by sonification trio of Alex Chechile, Cathleen Grado and Shu Yu Lin from CCRMA/Stanford.
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
100 Nicolls Road
Stony Brook, NY
April 1st, 2:00pm EST
Quartetto Telematico
Four-site Telematic Performance Featuring:
Pauline Oliveros (Birmingham, UK)
Chris Chafe (CCRMA, Stanford)
Doug Van Nort (Hexagram Black Box, Montreal)
Jonas Braasch (CCC center, EMPAC)
Part of Frontiers Festival, produced by Third Ear.
The Montreal site will feature 16-channel overhead/under-feet immersive sound and will be followed by a local performance by Van Nort + Guests
Quartetto Telematico
Four-site Telematic Performance Featuring:
Pauline Oliveros (Birmingham, UK)
Chris Chafe (CCRMA, Stanford)
Doug Van Nort (Hexagram Black Box, Montreal)
Jonas Braasch (CCC center, EMPAC)
Part of Frontiers Festival, produced by Third Ear.
The Montreal site will feature 16-channel overhead/under-feet immersive sound and will be followed by a local performance by Van Nort + Guests
March 29th, 4:00pm/7:00pm
Merging Artificial Intelligence and Free Improvisation with Triple Point (Pauline Oliveros, Doug van Nort, and Jonas Braasch)
4:00pm - Lecture/Demo
7:00pm - Performance
Triple Point (Oliveros/Van Nort/Braasch) as a trio, and as quartet with FILTER
Eyebeam
540 W 21st St.
New York, NY
Merging Artificial Intelligence and Free Improvisation with Triple Point (Pauline Oliveros, Doug van Nort, and Jonas Braasch)
4:00pm - Lecture/Demo
7:00pm - Performance
Triple Point (Oliveros/Van Nort/Braasch) as a trio, and as quartet with FILTER
Eyebeam
540 W 21st St.
New York, NY
March 27th, 7:30pm
Topological Improvisations, Volume 2: Transmissions and Resonance
A set of improvised sonic explorations, transmission to/from the boundaries of the space.
Meditations on the continuity and connectedness of resonance.
avec
Julien Ottavi, Erin Sexton, Doug Van Nort
Topological Media Lab
EV Building, 7th floor, room 725
1515 St. Catherine St
Montreal, QC
Topological Improvisations, Volume 2: Transmissions and Resonance
A set of improvised sonic explorations, transmission to/from the boundaries of the space.
Meditations on the continuity and connectedness of resonance.
avec
Julien Ottavi, Erin Sexton, Doug Van Nort
Topological Media Lab
EV Building, 7th floor, room 725
1515 St. Catherine St
Montreal, QC
February 21st/22nd
Performing at Xfest 2014
in new ensemble configurations with:
Brendan Landis / Andy Crespo / Michael F Dailey Jr (21st)
Jenn Gelineau / Al Margolis , Robert Pepper / Andy Goulet / Neil Young Cloaca (22nd)
Gateway City Arts
92 Race Street, Holyoke MA
Performing at Xfest 2014
in new ensemble configurations with:
Brendan Landis / Andy Crespo / Michael F Dailey Jr (21st)
Jenn Gelineau / Al Margolis , Robert Pepper / Andy Goulet / Neil Young Cloaca (22nd)
Gateway City Arts
92 Race Street, Holyoke MA
February 20th, 7:30pm
Topological Improvisations, volume 1
The first in a new series that I am curating,
Presenting improvisations across media that explore modes of continuity, connectedness and differing boundary conditions,
between players and with the space itself
A/V quartet + 1
featuring solo/duo/quartet/quintet configurations drawn from
Doug Van Nort (voice, electronics) / If, Bwana (electronics, objects) / Katherine Liberovskaya (live video) /
Eric Letourneau (synths, gamelan) / Akunniq (the dog)
Topological Media Lab
EV Building, 7th floor, room 725
1515 St. Catherine St
Montreal, QC
Free and open to the public
Topological Improvisations, volume 1
The first in a new series that I am curating,
Presenting improvisations across media that explore modes of continuity, connectedness and differing boundary conditions,
between players and with the space itself
A/V quartet + 1
featuring solo/duo/quartet/quintet configurations drawn from
Doug Van Nort (voice, electronics) / If, Bwana (electronics, objects) / Katherine Liberovskaya (live video) /
Eric Letourneau (synths, gamelan) / Akunniq (the dog)
Topological Media Lab
EV Building, 7th floor, room 725
1515 St. Catherine St
Montreal, QC
Free and open to the public
February 13th
Performing new works for/with CLOrk, Bradyworks and Concordia Contemporary Ensemble
MB 8.245
1450 Guy street, 8th floor
Montreal, QC
Free and open to the public
Performing new works for/with CLOrk, Bradyworks and Concordia Contemporary Ensemble
MB 8.245
1450 Guy street, 8th floor
Montreal, QC
Free and open to the public
February 8th, 8:00 pm
Doug Van Nort (electronics, voice) solo improvisation
(also on bill: Bats from Pogo, Orlando Cela, Samolis/Comstock Duo)
Opensound
Third Life Studio
33 Union Square, Somerville, Mass
$8
Doug Van Nort (electronics, voice) solo improvisation
(also on bill: Bats from Pogo, Orlando Cela, Samolis/Comstock Duo)
Opensound
Third Life Studio
33 Union Square, Somerville, Mass
$8
December 22nd, 8:30pm
Doug Van Nort (electronics, voice) + Émilie Mouchous (voice, synthesizers) + Alexandre St-Onge (electronics, instruments)
Casa Del Popolo
4873 boul. St-Laurent
Montreal, QC
Doug Van Nort (electronics, voice) + Émilie Mouchous (voice, synthesizers) + Alexandre St-Onge (electronics, instruments)
Casa Del Popolo
4873 boul. St-Laurent
Montreal, QC
December 16th
New article published in the Journal of New Music Research:
Doug Van Nort, Pauline Oliveros, Jonas Braasch, "Electro/Acoustic Improvisation and Deeply Listening Machines"
New article published in the Journal of New Music Research:
Doug Van Nort, Pauline Oliveros, Jonas Braasch, "Electro/Acoustic Improvisation and Deeply Listening Machines"
November 19th
I am giving a Talk at Hexagram entitled "Listening, Improvisation and Machine Mediation."
In this hour I will present an overview of several pieces developed over the past five years. The selected projects illustrate a trajectory of works that bridge between immersive electroacoustic compositions/installations and my digitally-mediated improvisation practice. The talk will cover both solo and collaborative projects that direct attention towards reshaping the sonic environment while exploring themes such as distributed modes of listening and collective co-creation.
Hexagram Resource Centre EV 11.705
Concordia University, Montréal
November 14th
Invited presentation for Georgina Born's McGill University seminar on "The Socio-Cultural Study of Music", in conjunction with Navid Navab. I look forward to engaging the seminar on the topic of mediation and materiality in digital electroacoustic music performance.
November 13th
Very excited to be participating in, and helping to shape, a meal/lecture event in total darkness. Part of the Physical Lectures series, which "seeks to fold the articulation of both physical knowledge and theory into a cohesive physical-intellectual experience." Organized by the Department of Contemporary Dance at Concordia in conjunction with the Departments of Studio Arts, Music and Theater,
November 8th
Invited Presentation for the Research Conversation Series, which "aims to create a space where faculty and graduate students from all disciplines and programs can exchange information, ideas, and training expertise on research at Concordia."
I will share the hour with Dr. Owen Chapman from Communication Studies, and we will discuss the topic of "performing research creation".
October 23rd
Improvised performance with Prof. Dr. Cornelius Pöpel. A duo of electronics and viola in the 8-channel black box of the Matralab.
Matralab
EV Building
1515 Ste Catherine West 4th floor
Space is very limited, so please contact me to RSVP for this event.
October
Tom Erbe has posted recordings of his excellent realization of Cage's Williams Mix. I was among the 20 artists who contributed sounds to this ambitious project.
September 19th, 3:30 - 4:30pm
Improvised lecture/performance with Pauline Oliveros.
Part of Time Forms: Temporalities of Aesthetic Experience.
"'Time Forms: Temporalities of Aesthetic Experience' is a four-day major research-creation workshop that explores the 'when' of art today, held at McGill University and the Phi Centre in Montreal from September 18-21, 2013, curated by Eric Lewis (Philosophy), Stephen McAdams (Music Research) and Alanna Thain (English and World Cinemas) of McGill University. Bringing together scholars, artists, curators and the public, this event will investigate art events that intimately involve a temporal dimension, in order to explore different concepts, kinds and components of temporality in the experiencing of art."
In this hour, Pauline and I will explore different modes of the "aesthetic experience of time." This will include improvisation via our instruments (v-accordion and greis/electronics) - as we have often done - as well as via words, text, lecture and perhaps audience engagement.
Music Media Room (MMR)
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media Technology (CIRMMT)
527 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, Quebec
August 17
Presentation at the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium with Adam Tindale, on our project "Oscillating Oscillators" - waveform modulation as a means of sound synthesis.
August 1
Beginning a tenure as a Banting Research Fellow at Concordia University in Montreal, as an affiliate of Hexagram and the Topological Media Lab.
July 12th - 14th
Deep Listening: Art/Science
The First International Conference on Deep Listening
As Conference Director, this has been one of my major projects thus far in 2013! An international conference devoted to the science and art of listening, featuring lectures, workshops, performances, roundtables, spontaneous happenings. Keynotes are Pauline Oliveros (founder of Deep Listening) and Seth Horowitz (auditory neuroscientist, author of author of "The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind"). Many other distinguished speakers will be featured, including a special "golden ear award" given to Cornell's Katy Payne, pioneer in discovering Elephant infrasonic communication.
I am also performing a new piece at the Conference.
Registration is still open!
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Troy, NY
July 9th - 11th, 10am - 6pm
Conducting a workshop entitled Sound Sculpting and Deep Listening Through Electronics.
"In this workshop, participants engage in Deep Listening practice, in conjunction with collaborative creation exercises that utilize analog and digital electronics. The goal is to enhance listening and creativity through a mixture of bodywork, breathing/sounding/listening exercises, as well as the use of electronics as a medium for the collective listening and sounding experiences. The workshop thus leverages Van Nort's unique take on Deep Listening practice that is informed by his life as a practitioner of electroacoustic composition/improvisation and sound-focused art/research."
A limited number of slots are still available, so register today!
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Studio Beta
Troy, NY
July 1st
I am pleased to announce that I am now an Assistant Editor for the Computer Music Journal!
June 29th, 8:00pm
Solo (greis/electronics) and ensemble performance with Jonathan Chen, Eric Leonardson and Jefferson Pitcher and If, Bwana. A sonic mass of violins, guitars, homemade digital electronics and experimental acoustic instruments....
Spotty Dog Books and Ales
440 Warren St.
Hudson, NY
May 28th-June 27th
Teaching the summer course "Deep Listening and the Science/Technology of Sound/Music" at RPI.
Students learn about sound and music, engage in body work, improvisation and collaborative creation exercises, resulting in a final sonic installation created by the group.
June 9th, 8:00pm
Electroacoustic improvised trio performance along with Eric Leonardson and If, Bwana
My Place Pizza
322 Main St, Poughkeepsie, NY.
(yes, a pizza place and experimental music venue does exist...)
May 23rd, 8:00pm
Solo Performance (greis/electronics)
(also on the bill: Jed Speare/Ed Osborn duo, Liz Tonne solo)
Studio Soto
10 Channel Center St
Boston, MA
May 3rd/4th
[radical] signs of life
"[radical] is a multi-disciplinary, interactive dance performance. Through improvisational dance, the piece externalizes the inner working of the mind's non-hierarchical distribution of thought. Music is generated from dancers' muscles & blood flow via biophysical sensors that capture soundwaves from the performers' muscular tissue. This corporeal data triggers complex neural patterns to be projected onto screens. As the audience interacts w/ the images, they enter into dialogue with the dancers."
I am very excited to be working on a this large scale performance project. For my part, I will be composing/performing original music and developing interactive sound instruments for the dancers to play, based on the amazing Xth sense technology.
Directed by Heidi Boisvert and in collaboration with Marco Donnarumma, Pauline Jennings, Raven Kwok, Allen Hahn and Amy Neilson.
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Studio 2
Troy, NY
April 7th, 7:00pm EDT
Creating and performing on custom-made software instruments for sonification of live streams of NASA data, from the Kepler Mission.
Part of Sarah Weaver's Universal Synchrony telematic project, featuring:
Jane Ira Bloom (sax), Min Xiao Feng (pipa), Ray Anderson (trombone), Matt Wilson (drums) Doug Van Nort (electronics) and Sarah Weaver (composer/conductor) in New York, Mark Dresser (bass), Michael Dessen (trumpet), Myra Melford (piano), Nicole Mitchell (flute) in San Diego.
In the context of Virtual Tour: A Reduced Carbon Footprint Concert Series
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
Consortium for Digital Arts, Culture, and Technology (cDACT)
SUNY Stony Brook
April 1st
Deadline for Submissions:
I am the Conference Director, and so please feel free to contact me with any questions that you may have. I will also be conducting a five-day, pre-conference workshop at EMPAC entitled "Sound Sculpting and Deep Listening Through Electronics". Spaces are still available for this event - register today!
March 30th, 8:00pm
Pauline Oliveros, Doug Van Nort, David Arner and FILTER
A world premiere! Expect a range from lush walls of sound to delicate electro/acoustic interplay throughout the course of the evening....
"This electroacoustic improvising quartet features three humans (piano, accordion synthesizer, greis/electronics) and one machine (electronics) which reacts to its partners, transforming their sound in a musical dialogue. This set will feature each of the three possible human-machine duos, followed by the full quartet."
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
General Admission: $15
Members/Students/Seniors: $10
March 22nd, 8:00pm
Solo (greis/electronics) and ensemble performance with Jonathan Chen, Eric Leonardson and Jefferson Pitcher. A mass of violins, guitars, homemade digital electronics and experimental acoustic instruments....
Flywheel
43 Main st.
Easthampton, MA
February 18th, 7:00pm
Presentation of new piece Discursive/Dispersive for networked digital ensemble. I will conduct piece telematically from the CCC at EMPAC in Troy, NY, with performers from the MICE ensemble located at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Part of zerospace: an interdisciplinary initiative on distance and interaction
February 17th, 9:30pm
The Toneburst Laptop Ensemble of Wesleyan University will perform my piece ToneGO at SHARE NYC.
"The Toneburst Laptop Ensemble is the newest laptop ensemble formed at Wesleyan University, which performs new pieces created for the ensemble, as well as the reinterpretation of historical works using live electronics. This performance at SHARE represents the first time the group will perform some of its repertoire publicly, and will feature works by Wil Smith, Doug Van Nort, and others!"
@The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, Ground Flr
Brooklyn, NY 11215
January 17th, 8:00pm EST
Participation in the conference Net-Music 2013: The Internet as Creative Resource in Music
I appear in the first hour of the second day of the conference as follows:
- My telematic-related collaborations with Pauline Oliveros these past 10 years will be discussed as part of her keynote address
- Following this, my FILTER system will perform a duo with Chris Chafe (Stanford, Palo Alto, CA) over the network
- Next Triple Point (EMPAC, Troy, NY) will play with Chris Chafe, a return of our "Quartetto Telematico"
- Finally, we will be joined by the Ang Mo Faux ensemble from Singapore, for a performance of John Cage's FOUR6
January 4th, 7:30pm
Improvised ensemble performance: Doug Van Nort (greis/electronics) in concert with Jane Rigler (flute), Glen Whitehead (trumpet/electronics), Jay Baker (bass), Janet Feder (guitar), David Mead (bass clarinet).
The Modbo Art Gallery
17 C. East Bijou and 17 B. East Bijou
Colorado Springs, Colorado
7pm
December 14th, 9:00pm
Trio performance with If, Bwana and Katherine Liberovskaya (live video)
Part of The Twenty-third Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (or A)
Phill Niblock, curator
Experimental Intermedia
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor
NY
December 1st, 8:00pm
Duo performance with If, Bwana
(also on bill: wicked rot, Jake Maginski, belltonesuicide/parashi, silent isle)
Flywheel
43 Main st.
Easthampton, MA
November 27th, 8:00pm
Performing with the Tintinnabulate Harmonica Band
Upstate Artists Guild
247 Lark St.
Albany, NY
$5
November 15th, 3:00pm/7:00pm
**Cancelled: This event has been postponed due to the impact of Hurricane Sandy. Please help Eyebeam in its recovery if you can**
Strange Umbrella #1
3:00pm: A lecture/demo by Pauline Oliveros, Doug Van Nort and Jonas Braasch on our respective work with intelligent interactive systems and improvisation.
7:00pm: Triple Point (Oliveros, Van Nort, Braasch) perform with FILTER, an artificially intuitive software agent that listens and responds to the performing musicians, transforming the trio into a quartet.
Eyebeam Art+Technology Center
540 W. 21st St
New York, NY
Demo: Free | Concert: $15
November 13th, 1:00pm
Presenting a demo with my FILTER system at the opening of the Center for Cognition, Communication and Culture at RPI.
EMPAC
Troy, NY
November 3rd, 5:00pm
Pauline Oliveros and Doug Van Nort perform with FILTER, an artificially intuitive software agent that listens and responds to the performing musicians, transforming the duo into a trio.
Part of Ione's "Marathon of Dreamers" event
Mount Tremper Arts
647 Old State Route 28
Mount Tremper, NY
October 26th, 8:00pm
Duo performance with If, Bwana
(also on bill: readings by Gracie Leavitt, David James Miller and visual art by Terry Zacuto)
Part of the YES! Poetry and Performance Series
Albany Social Justice Center
33 Central Ave.
Albany, NY
October 11th, 6:00-9:30pm
Sound Sculpting, Resonance and Everyday Materials: A workshop with Doug Van Nort
A hands-on workshop inspired by the sound sculpture Constellate, the latest installation in the Tang Museum's Elevator Music series. Participants will construct a constellation of sounding speaker-objects through manual creation using simple analog electronics and digital manipulation of sound recordings.
**The workshop spaces are currently filled - though the museum is taking names for the waiting list.**
Tang Museum
Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY
October 5th, 9:30pm
Performing (as ASQ3) with Jonathan Chen, Joseph Clayton Mills
Super Coda Music Series
Spectrum
121 Ludlow St., Second Floor
New York, NY
$5-20, sliding scale
October 3rd
New Article published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Doug Van Nort, Jonas Braasch, and Pauline Oliveros, "Sound texture recognition through dynamical systems modeling of empirical mode decomposition", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Volume 132, Issue 4, pp. 2734-2744 (2012).
October 2nd, 8:00pm
Composers Inside Electronics
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
General Admission: $15
Members/Students/Seniors: $10
An evening of electro-acoustic compositions from the members of CIE, performed by the group.
Performing will be John Driscoll, Tom Hamilton and Doug Van Nort.
Featuring:
Tongues of Fire - John Driscoll
Gold Standard - Tom Hamilton
On-to-genesis - Doug Van Nort
On-to-genesis is an immersive and interactive multi-channel piece in which the performers co-evolve and weave a sonic tapestry, while an evolutionary algorithm selects grains of sound and sculpts the micro-structure of the piece. This will be the world-premiere.
about CIE:
Composers Inside Electronics was formed in 1973 with David Tudor and is known for its pioneering use of original live electronics for both performance and installations, including David Tudor's Rainforest project. The current members include founders John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein along with Tom Hamilton, Matt Rogalsky, and Doug Van Nort, and also includes guest performers.
September 28th, 5pm
Improntogenesis
Arts Center of the Capital Region
265 River Street
Troy, NY
For a new digital ensemble piece entitled 'On-to-genesis' (to be premiered the following week at Roulette in Brooklyn), Van Nort has developed a new software instrument that genetically evolves and mutates sonic materials. For Wired Kingdom he will present an improvised performance using this new instrument: a sneak preview of this new work.
September 24th, 8:00pm
An evening of solos and a trio, with tape maestros Rinus van Alebeek and Al Margolis
Spotty Dog Books and Ales
440 Warren St.
Hudson, NY
September 23rd, 8:00pm
"Night of the TapeUnSpool": An evening of Cassette-heavy performances
(also on the bill: Rinus van Alebeek, G. Lucas Crane)
For my part I will be capturing sounds via digital "tape": a solo improvisation with greis/electronics
51 3rd St.
Troy, NY
September 7th, 7:00pm
New Museum Presents:
Pauline Oliveros, Doug Van Nort and FILTER
Pauline Oliveros and Doug Van Nort perform with FILTER, an artificially intuitive software agent that listens and responds to the performing musicians, transforming the duo into a trio.
Part of the "Ghosts in the Machine" exhibition, which "surveys the constantly shifting relationship between humans, machines, and art."
New Museum
235 Bowery St., NYC
$15
August 31st, 8:00pm
Trio Performance with Jonathan Chen, Jefferson Pitcher
(also on the bill: Jason Lescalleet)
Albany Sonic Arts Collective
Upstate Artists Guild
247 Lark St.
Albany, NY
$5
August 29th, 8:00pm
Solo Performance (greis/electronics)
(also on the bill: Carver Audain, Caroline Park, Jason Sloan)
Studio Soto
10 Channel Center St
Boston, MA
August 23rd, 8:00pm
Ensemble performance with Al Margolis (violin), James Ilgenfritz (bass), Lisa B Kelley (voice) and Laura Biagi (voice)
The Stone
Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC
$10
August 19th, 8:00pm
Doug Van Nort (greis/electronics)
Solo Performance: a night of compositions and improvisations
The Stone
Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC
$10
July 22nd, 3:00pm
Hearing Pictures Performance Event
A collaborative musical performance using paintings from the current "Hearing Pictures" gallery show as a visual score/guide.
With Matthew Carefully, Elky and Matt Weston. Curated by Megan Hyde.
Tang Museum
Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY
Free and open to all
July 8th, 2:00pm
Duo Performance with Alessandra Eramo
Live from Studio Beta
EMPAC, Troy, NY
Viewable online via ustream.tv
June 9th, 12:30pm
Artist Talk: Constellate and Related Tales
Part of Saratoga Arts Fest
The artist discusses his approach to transforming the elevator body and inner space into a sonic sculpture, focusing on compositional process and the material interplay between physical and sonic objects.
Payne Room and Elevator Site
Tang Museum
Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY
June 9th - October 14th
Elevator Music 21: Constellate
This site-specific piece for the Tang elevator includes minimal ambient lighting and sculptural speaker-objects that are custom-built for the installation by the artist, turning the elevator itself into a resonant sound-producing body for which he has created an original composition. Listeners are guided through sonic territories that span from incidental sounds to highly immersive soundscapes.
Open Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 12-5pm
Tang Museum
Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY
May 26th, 4:00 pm
On-Air Solo Performance and Discussion
WNUR - 89.3 FM
Chicago, IL
May 21st, 1:00pm
Presentation of work "Mapping to Musical Actions in the FILTER System"
New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2012 Conference
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
May 12th, 8:00pm
Solo Performance @
Aviary Gallery
Jamaica Plain/Boston, MA
$10
(also on the bill: Matt Azevedo, Mike Bullock)
May 2nd, 1:30pm
EMPAC Lobby, 7th Floor
Doug Van Nort presents..
Genetic Orchestra #8: Deep Listening Genetic Orchestra 2012
A co-creation with the students of the Deep Listening Class
viewable online, live or via archive at Ustream.tv
For three weeks, the students of the Deep Listening class have been mutating and breeding a shared pool of sounds using an evolutionary process. The sound qualities embedded within the resultant sound pool are used by Van Nort in order to create a structured piece. For this eighth composition in the series, the students will use new instrumentation that combines syncopated rhythms with stretched layers of drones.
This brings to life a sonic tapestry that results from the collective decisions of the group - thus is born the Deep Listening Genetic Orchestra 2012....ready to take over the EMPAC lobby!
(public domain image)
Special thanks to Pauline Oliveros and Heidi Boisvert for assistance in making this event possible.
April 28, 2012
Performance with Al Margolis (aka If, Bwana)
Spotty Dog Books and Ales
(also on the bill: Not the Wind, Not the Flag and Silent Isle)
8pm
440 Warren St.
Hudson, NY
April 24, 2012
Premiere of new Composition 'Disorderly/Orderly' for Supercollider Ensemble and Circuit-Bent Casio
Synopsis:
The Disorderly world of a cracked Casio keyboard supercollides with the pure Order of an ensemble of laptops, playing sequences of modulated sine tones. The audience controls rhythm, tempo, mode and deviation while text chatting with the performers.
Part of the "Stretched Boundaries" concert event, featuring the Tintinnabulte ensemble (which I co-advise) with special guests David Whalen and Christine Sun Kim.
Arts Center of the Capital Region
265 River Street
Troy, NY
7:30pm
April 11, 2012
Performance with Al Margolis (aka If, Bwana)
Uncertainty Music Series Festival
(also on the bill: Liz Albee)
9pm
Elm Bar
372 Elm St
New Haven, CT
March 30-31, 2012
Performance with, and Presentation of, Artificially-Intelligent Improvisation Systems Research
Synopsis:
In performance with myself (GREIS) and Jonas Braasch, My FILTER system will be guided by logic-based reasoning - developed in the context of our CAIRA project. This "composed" version of the system will improvise with recordings of Pauline Oliveros playing accordion. In essence the system will fill the role (as best possible of course...) of Pauline's presence in our Triple Point trio. We also have a paper in the Saturday session.
Part of the conference: Music Mind and Invention: Creativity at the Intersection of Music and Computation.
Also featured on the Friday evening concert will be Marvin Minsky, Noam Elkies, Tod Machover and Sideband.
Mayo Concert Hall
The College of New Jersey
Ewing, NJ
March 5, 2012
Invited Presentation: World Premiere of new piece c'n'ear
A Composition Mini-Festival, Honoring Crane's 125th Anniversary
Snell Theatre, Crane School of Music
Potsdam, NY
February 26, 2012
Triple Point: Pauline Oliveros (V-Accordion), Doug Van Nort (GREIS/electronics) and Jonas Braasch (Soprano Sax)
The Stone
Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC
10PM
$10
February 24, 2012
Composers Inside Electronics (John Driscoll / Doug Van Nort)
Cage Transmitted: Evening 2
Sponsored by Norte Maar and E.A.T.
7pm
New York Center for Arts & Media Studies
44 West 28th Street, 7th floor
A collaborative evening of electro-acoustic performance featuring ultrasonic instruments and resonant objects.
February 21, 2012
Doug van Nort, Al Margolis (laptops) Katherine Liberovskaya (live video)
The Stone
Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC
10PM
$10
February 19, 2012
Doug Van Nort solo performance
2012 International Society of Improvised Music (ISIM) Festival/Conference
William Paterson University
Wayne, NJ
1pm
February 9, 2012
Carver Audain + Rise Set Twilight (Mike Bullock, Linda Aubry Bullock) + Doug Van Nort
Arts Center of the Capital Region
265 River Street
Troy, NY
7:30pm
$5
An evening of sonic and visual explorations from experimental artists hailing from the 'four corners' of the region: Boston, Montréal, New York and Troy. Expect acousmatic tapestries, un-cinema for the ears and for the eyes, digital treatments and analog pulsations, lowercase sounds, crafted sheets of noise, drones and sonic meditations.
For my part, I will be presenting an immersive, spatialized improvisational piece with GREIS.
Februrary 8, 2012
Mixed Signals
Casa del Popolo
4873 Boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC
with:
Carver Audain, André Éric Létourneau, Katherine Liberovskaya and Doug Van Nort
An evening of intermedia collaborations and solo presentations that incorporate live video, acousmatic preparations and digital/analog manipulations.
info and tickets
January 29, 2012
Kathy Kennedy+Doug Van Nort
&
Lan Tung+Michel F. Côté+Charity Chan
@ Gallerie AB (BELGO)
372 St. Catherine O. #313
Montréal QC
20h
8$
Through the initiative of Kathy Kennedy of Coeur Maha, Le Caribou Sonore will be collaborating to present an evening of improvised music at Gallerie AB in Montréal's beloved BELGO building. Kathy Kennedy will be performing a duo set with Doug Van Nort, currently a resident of Troy NY, where he frequently works and collaborates with Deep Listening founder Pauline Oliveros. Doug is an experimental musician and researcher whose work is dedicated to creating immersive and visceral sonic experiences through composition, free improvisation and electro-acoustic sound production.
LCS is glad to host visiting musician Lan Tung (erhu) from Vancouver, who will be performing with Montréal musicians Michel F. Côté and Charity Chan. Lan will be in Montréal performing as a soloist with the Orchestre Metropolitain in Montréal and Trois-Rivières at the end of January. Described by La Scena as a "musical polymath", Lan is the driving force behind the JUNO nominated Orchid Ensemble, as well as being a prolific soloist, performer, improviser and composer.
Come share in this exciting concert of great improvisers from far and wide...Warming music for snowy times.
January 27, 2012
DVNT and Dolly Do Birmingham UK
7:30pm GMT
Network Music Festival
The Edge, 79-81 Cheapside, Deritend, Birmngham, UK
For their presentation at the Network Music Festival, Dolly Ferret (aka Dorothea Ferrette aka Judy Dunaway) and DVNT (aka Doug Van Nort) will create a sound feedback loop between two live streaming systems, and visually express their respective network angles of the loop. Dolly will be located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and DVNT will be located in Troy, New York, USA. The piece will be presented live via two projected browsers at the festival, and will also be available worldwide via URLs that will be announced on the festival page closer to the performance date.
January 24, 2012
Re:Sonance of Mahler's Song of the Earth
Tuesday January 24, 2012
7:30pm
Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 11 East 52nd Street, New York NY
Tickets
Min Xiao-Fen, voice/pipa
Yoon Sun Choi, voice
Franz Hackl, trumpet, Guest, Manhattan New Music Project
Bruce Williamson, woodwinds, Guest, Manhattan New Music Project
Dave Taylor, bass trombone, Ensemble Member and Manhattan New Music Project
Mark Helias, bass
Gerry Hemingway, percussion
Doug Van Nort, laptop
Sarah Weaver, composer/conductor
A double quartet electroacoustic piece influenced by Gustav Mahler's seminal composition Song of the Earth (1909). The music includes polyphony, heterophony, nodality, swing, cultural diversity, and live streams of environmental sound from geographically diverse locations via the internet.
This concert is part of a new series curated by Dave Taylor, presented by the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Manhattan New Music Project: "The Emancipation of Re:Sonance - Five Austrian Masters Revisited", which focuses on five of Austria's most famous composers and the re-interpretation, re-imagination, and re-arrangement of some of their greatest works. The title of the series plays on Arnold Schönberg's concept of the "Emancipation of Dissonance".
http://www.acfny.org/event/sarah-weaver-mahlers-song-of-the-earth/
November 11, 2011
New release on Zeromoon from project with Al Margolis.
November 3rd
the American Space Quartet:
Doug Van Nort (electronics), Phillip Schulze (electronics), Andrew Raffo Dewar (saxophone), and Jonathan Chen (violin)
Reception: Phillip Stearns Subliminal Machines 6pm
Music: 9pm
RABBITHOLE
33 WASHINGTON STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11201
September 25th
The Albany Sonic Arts Collective and the Arts Center of the Capital Region co-present
Doug Van Nort / Al Margolis duo and Mysterybear (Dave Seidel)
Sunday 9/25 @ 2pm
The Arts Center of the Capital Region
265 River Street
Troy NY
$5 suggested donation
The duo of Al Margolis ( If, Bwana) and Doug Van Nort utilizes two distinct approaches to manipulating sampled material, grabbing one another's sound on the fly and forming an endless feedback loop of re-imagined sonic identities. The result is a rich palette of sound informed by classic electronic composition, minimalist drone works, and modern noise music. "Structure to chaos, drone to acoustic collages..."
September 24th
performing in: Judy Dunaway's Radiophonic adventure
a free103point9 Transmission Art Event
9/24, 4-6pm
WGXC 90.7 fm and http://www.wgxc.org
TWO hours of transmission art for WGXC, featuring live performances by area artists and live telematic collaborations. Saxophonist Chris Kelsey will present the U.S. premiere of Judy Dunaway's composition "On The Air" for saxophone, balloon samples and radio static. Additionally, electronic musician Doug Van Nort of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will collaborate with Dunaway in improvisations of processed live signals. Improvising vocalists Jill Burton of Gainesville, Florida and Richard Curtis of Huntsville, Alabama will participate via phone presenting special Hudson-area-based texts. (Kelsey, Van Nort, Burton and Curtis have worked with Dunaway in the past year in various telematic collaborations transmitted over Blogtalkradio.com.) Dunaway will also incorporate snippets of her previous works involving radio, phones and internet sound, including Duo for Radio Stations (1992) and Sex Workers Internet Radio Library (2006-2008).
September 10th
Gallery One Eleven at the Shirt Factory
77 Cornell St,Kingston, NY
Performance with Patrick Monte at opening of the Brooklyn-Kingston Exchange Project curated by Meir Gal. Structured improvisation using text->speech synthesis, Van Nort on electronics, Monte on guitar/processing.
June 15th, 2:30pm
The Cell, 338 W 23rd St, NYC
Performing and taking part in a roundtable at the Electroacoustic Music Studies conference in a special cross-abilities event curated by Pauline Oliveros. Alongside Clara Tomasz, Julia Alsarraf, Matt Azevedo, Deborah Egloff, Jonas Braasch, Ellen Waterman and Larry Polansky. Live visuals by Dave Whalen and drum performance by students from Abilities First, directed by Leaf Miller with Jackie Heyen.
June 1st, 9:00pm (local time)
Betong
Oslo, NO
Presentation of Distributed Composition #1, a telematic composition for three humans and one improvising machine, at New Interfaces for Musical Expression, also known as NIME. I will be joined remotely by Pauline Oliveros and Jonas Braasch from CCRMA and RPI, respectively. Triple Point joins forces with an intelligent system that determines when we play while spatializing and transforming our sounds in the concert hall.
May 4th, 3:00pm
Doug Van Nort presents..
Genetic Orchestra #6: Deep Listening Genetic Orchestra 2011
A co-creation with the students of the Deep Listening Class
viewable live or via archive Ustream.tv
For the past three weeks, the students of the Deep Listening class have been mutating and breeding a shared pool of sounds using an evolutionary process. The sound qualities embedded within the resultant sound pool are used by Van Nort in order to create a structured piece. Using a custom software instrument to stretch, shift, loop and transform the evolved material, the players improvise within the confines of the score. This brings to life a sonic tapestry that results from the collective decisions of the group - thus is born the Deep Listening Genetic Orchestra 2011!
(public domain image)
Special thanks to Pauline Oliveros and Alejandro Borsani for assistance in making this event possible.
April 24th, 8:00pm
Issue Project Room
232 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY
Quartet for the end of Space - CD Release party and performance!
Please join us for this very special release party and concert that promises to span a vast sonic terrain, challenging listener and performer alike through a seamless blend of Deep Listening and Absolute Noise, moving between ever-fluid improvisation and carefully controlled sound manipulation.
Presentation of electroacoustic works from the CD as well as full quartet improvisation! More info here.
April 2011
NEW RELEASE ON POGUS
First release of this new composition/improvisation collaborative project with Pauline Oliveros, Francisco Lopez and Jonas Braasch. Available from Pogus or purchase directly from me.
April 16, 2011
Performing in a duo with Al Margolis, as well as joining forces with Rjyan Kidwell and Andrew Bernstein for a quartet improvisation at the Red Room in Baltimore.
March 31, 2011
Performing in cross-abilities concert Stretched Boundaries with Tintinnabulate student ensemble and guest artists, including Clara Tomasz, Christine Sun Kim and David Whalen.
March 30, 2011
Presentation of collaborative research into audio-haptic sensory substitution, 4pm in the EMPAC Theatre, RPI campus.
Dec 2010
RPI press release on our group's research was published to several online sources.
Dec 11th, 8pm
Third Life Studios, Somerville, MA
Solo improvisation with GREIS/Electronics as part of the Opensound series. Also on the bill are the Bullock/Rawlings duo, Abram Taber and a realization of Cage's Ryoanji.
Nov 10th, 7pm
West Hall, RPI, Troy, NY
Performing in an ensemble piece by Miya Masaoka, with Tintinnabulate and Soundwire (from CCRMA). Also on the bill is Miya playing solo and in duo with Chris Chafe. Part of the iEAR Presents series.
Oct 29th, 5-7pm
51 3rd St. Compound
Troy, NY
Channeling belial, asmodeus, loki and other lesser demons and tricksters through vocal incantation and more modern forms of inverted evp, in advance of All Hollow's Eve. In conjunction with Sam Sowyrda (of Living Things and Dan Deacon Ensemble).
Oct 13th, 7:30pm
West Hall, RPI, Troy, NY
Performing with tintinnabulate ensemble and glass player Miguel Frasconi for the iEAR presents series, West Hall Auditorium, RPI.
Sept 17th, 8pm
Deep Listening Institute
Kingston, NY
An evening of psycho-electro-acoustics and free improvisation featuring Pauline Oliveros, Francisco Lopez, Doug Van Nort and Jonas Braasch
Please join us for a very special evening that promises to span a vast sonic terrain, challenging listener and performer alike through a seamless blend of Deep Listening and Absolute Noise, moving between ever-fluid improvisation and carefully controlled sound manipulation.
This quartet convened for two improvisational sessions between February and May of this year, with Lopez sitting in on a Triple Point recording session and bringing his finely crafted sonic objects-as-instruments, further spanning the electro-acoustic divide that has become Triple Point's calling, with their blending virtual accordion, greis sound transformation system and soprano saxophone. These sessions have since become raw material for the individual artists to construct new visions of this shared sonic body - personal reflections culled from a collective tapestry.
This concert will feature these new personalized interpretations, presented with an expansive 16 channel sound system at the one and only Deep Listening Institute. Moving back from the personal to the collective, this will be followed by the world premiere of the new quartet in full improvisatory mode! Fragments from this crafted past will blend with reactions to the moment, sonic gestures being shared between players and sculpted within this unique space.
NOT to be missed!!
Sept 14-16th
EMPAC Studio 1, 10am -5pm
Blindfield sonic installation
This piece is the result of a collaboration between students of the Production, Installation and Performance course - co-taught by Michael Oatman of Architecture and Doug Van Nort of the Arts dept. - and sound artist Francisco Lopez. One hundred beautifully-constructed translucent fabric+wood panels will be hung in order to create a dense forest wherein materials and light playfully interact. From within this structure will emanate a highly distributed field of sound, with Lopez constructing a new work for this built visual/acoustic environment.
Sept 8th
EMPAC Theatre, 5:30pm
Performing at EMPAC, remotely for the Guelph Jazz Festival:
Featured together in a telematic performance accordion legend Pauline Oliveros performs live in Guelph (ON, Canada) with Anne Bourne (cello), Guelph's own Ben Grossman (hurdy gurdy) and Jesse Stewart (percussion). They will be connected to two other sites, where they will be joined by Ricardo Arias on balloon (in Bogota, Colombia), by Jonas Braasch on soprano sax, Doug Van Nort on greis/electronics and Curtis Bahn on dilruba/electronics (Troy, NY).
Following at EMPAC is a local performance of containment and dispersence by Curtis Bahn, Jonas Braasch, Doug Van Nort and Blair Neal (live video).
July 14, 2010, 8:00pm
s/p(l)ace:
Jane Ira Bloom, soprano saxophone, Ned Rothenberg, alto saxophone, Dave Taylor, bass trombone, Kenta Nagai, shamisen, Jin Hi Kim, electric komungo, Doug Van Nort, greis/electronics, Gerry Hemingway, percussion, Sarah Weaver, composer/conductor
The Stone
Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC
$10
June 1-5, 2010
My short piece "espereptic #2" will be played as part of the 60x60 Sanguine Mix , during the ICMC conference in NYC and at Stony Brook University. As is common with the 60x60 project, be on the lookout for this mix to be played many more times in the near future, at various venues worldwide.
June 3, 2010
Awarded the 2010 Journal of New Music Research "Best Paper Award" for the 2010 ICMC conference! The paper is entitled
Doug Van Nort, Pauline Oliveros and Jonas Braasch, Developing Systems for Improvisation based on Listening, in Proc. of the 2010 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2010), New York, NY, June 1-5, 2010.
May 8, 2010
Performing with tintinnabulate at the Lotus Studio in NYC. The class did a very fine job of concert planning -- come check it out!
May 1, 2010
I will be performing a duo with Ben Miller at the Albany Sonic Arts Collective in Albany, NY. Multiphonic guitars, sonic tapestries and spectro-temporal transformations - should be quite fun! Please come out and say hi.
April 24th, 2010
I'm performing with Triple Point at the Red Room in Baltimore. Also on the bill are Mike Bullock and Joe Reinsel.
April 23, 2010
I'm presenting a paper entitled "Extending the acoustic ensemble through spectral and temporal transformations in real-time" at the Joint Acoustical Society of America Meeting and Noise-Con 2010, Baltimore, Maryland.
March 27, 2010
In advance of the highly-anticipated Schuman award concert (see below), our trio Triple Point was featured on WNYC's culture page. An example of what you might hear on March 27th!
March 27, 2010
The Columbia University School of Arts has honored Pauline Oliveros with the prestigious William Schuman Award. I cannot begin to express how exceptionally deserving this is! I also cannot begin to express how honored I am to be performing in the associated concert that will take place at the Miller Theatre. This includes a quartet piece for Triple Point and the interactive Agent-performer that I've been working on at RPI, as well as taking part in DroneIponia, which is a beautiful meditation that blends performers with iPhone synthesizers. More info is available here.
February 1-5, 2010
Week-long workshop at RPI/EMPAC with special guest Francisco Lopez. This is part of an ongoing collaboration with Francisco, myself, Michael Oatman, and students in Architecture and the Arts to design a new work that will be performed with Francisco at EMPAC in the fall. The project is made possible through an initiative by alumni and noted acoustician Chris Jaffe, and should produce something quite interesting. More on this as it develops....
January 8, 2010
At long last I have had my day, and successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Modular and Adaptive Control of Sound Processing". This work combines sound analysis/synthesis, sonic gesture analysis grounded in electroacoustic music theory, design and theory of mapping strategies for digital music performance, perceptual studies and adaptive control systems in order to present a unified approach to computer-based performance and instrument design.
December 10, 2009
The Composition and Improvisation seminar that I co-teach with Pauline Oliveros and Jonas Braasch will be streaming their end-of-semester performance from West Hall, RPI Arts Dept.
Update: the performance was recorded and is now archived for viewing here, at the tintinnabulate ustream site.
November 12, 2009
I will be performing an intonarumori in a piece by Pauline Oliveros, along with the Magik Magik Orchestra and Luciano Chessa, conductor of the ensemble.
This takes place at Town Hall, and is part of the "Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners" concert, produced by Performa and directed by Chessa, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Italian Futurism. More info on this entire project is at Performa's blog.
With Blixa Bargeld, John Butcher, Luciano Chessa, Joan La Barbara, Nick Hallett, Pauline Oliveros, Mike Patton, Anat Pick, Elliott Sharp, Ulrich Krieger, Jennifer Walshe with Tony Conrad, Ghostigital with Skuli Sverrison, Finboggi Petursson, and Casper Electronics
8pm
123 West 43rd Street
(between 6th Avenue & Broadway)
Tickets: $30 Orchestra / $25 Balcony / $20 Performa Members
November 8, 2009
Doug Van Nort will present a work in progress, Memetic Orchestra #2, at the Flea Theatre's "Music with a View" series. Discussion to follow the event.
An exploration in textural transformation and timbral sustain, this piece extracts audio qualities from each player to provide a form within which players articulate subtle inflections, their timbres merging to form a sometimes sparse, sometimes dense collage of each sound's internal matter.
Performers for this 15-20 minute piece include
Van Nort, harmonica
NF Chase, Bowed Music Stand
Jonathan Chen, Violin
Cristyn Magnus, Melodica
Al Margolis, Clarinet and Toys
Jefferson Pitcher, Electric Guitar
full lineup and theme:
"Instruments of Your Dreams"
Phyllis Chen
Judy Dunaway
Doug Van Nort
Elan Vytal (aka DJ Scientific)
Guest Moderator: Ralph Farris
where:
Flea Theatre
NYC, Tribeca, 41 White Street (between Broadway & Church Streets)
some compact info here.
October 23, 2009
A free demo/concert with Pauline Oliveros and Jonas Braasch to explain some of the interactive/machine improvisation technologies that we have been developing in the context of our trio. Takes place at Harvestworks, 7PM, 596 Broadway, Suite 602.
October 18, 2009
Triple Point
Roulette
20 Greene St.
Manhattan, NY
(w/ Lucky Dragons, Joker Nies, Deutsch/Bode, Moritz Wettstein)
$20
Performing set of improvised music with Triple Point at Roulette for the New York Electronic Arts Festival. More information and press available here.
October, 2009
A chance-based score that I wrote for sound walk, recording devices and amplified objects is now available in the new collection Deep Listening Anthology. The piece is called 300 Murray St., and was written for a sound walk to the studio of Montreal artist and drummer John Heward. When we arrived, I found that we were given a slightly wrong address and that 300 Murray did in fact not exist...
October 3, 2009
Improvised laptop duo performance with Al Margolis aka If, Bwana at the Festival of Firsts, Valley Falls, NY. This has been a very satisfying collaboration - in its nascent stages thus far - where Al and I sample each other's material on the fly. He using Live, me on my greis system. My favorite collaboration with a Live-er - completely different than 'sequence and select'!
Late September, 2009
Triple Point/Dempster album "Sound Shadows" now available at the iTunes music store for a mere $5.94!
August 17-21, 2009
I will be showing an installation entitled "Sonic Tapestry" at the 2009 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC). It is a piece composed for the interactive fabric Tapestry created in collaboration between the IDMIL and TML labs.
August 3, 2009
New Album: Sound Shadows by Triple Point (Oliveros/Braasch/Van Nort) and Stuart Dempster now available on Deep Listening!
July 22, 2009
Performing as a member of Quartetto Telematico (Pauline Oliveros, Chris Chafe, Jonas Braasch, myself) at Casa da Musica in Porto, Portugal. Here is the full concert lineup:
* "Cigar Smoke", Robert Rowe
* "Latent Sea", Quartetto Telematico
* "Salvage (Guiyu Blues)", Nicolas Collins - For seven performers reanimating dead circuitry
* "Disparate Bodies", Pedro Rebelo - Multi-site Network Performance
* Evan Parker/Frank Perry - Networked Duo
May 16, 2009
Performing in piece by Pauline Oliveros tele-presently as part of Sonorities festival, SARC, Belfast. I will be processing distant iPhone/drone players and instrumentalists. Players: Pedro Rebelo - iPHONE/piano :: Franziska Schroeder - soprano saxophone :: Gascia Ouzounian - violin :: Manuela Meier - accordion :: Justin Yang - saxophone :: Pauline Oliveros - iPHONE/bandoneon :: Doug Van Nort (Troy NY) - laptop :: Chris Chafe (Banff. Alberta) - iPHONE/celleto :: Spatialization and mix by Chris Corrigan. More info on this really interesting piece for iPhone here.
April 2009
Posted the video from premiere of my piece Memetic Orchestra #1: NEMO on Youtube. It was performed with Triple Point at the NYCEMF festival on April 3rd. Here is part 2/2
April 18, 2009
BIG DEEP Event at the Kitchen, featuring Deep Listening Band, Roscoe Mitchell, DJ Olive and more! I won't be performing here - just running some video streaming and tech - but I wanted to bring some attention to this great event and important fundraiser for the very worthy Deep Listening Institute.
April 2009
Small excerpt from Tintinnabulate and Avatar Orchestra Metaverse concert (November 08 @ EMPAC) now on Youtube.
April 3, 2009
Triple Point will perform a piece that I have written for us entitled NEMO (for Triple Point) at the NYCEMF festival at Elebash Hall in New York at 7:45pm on friday April 3rd. NEMO stands for the NycEmf Memetic Orchestra, and is the first piece in a series that explores sonic gestures (memes) driving evolutionary processes.
March 12, 2009
An evening of improvised music with Triple Point (Pauline Oliveros - digital accordion, Doug Van Nort - granular feedback system and objects, Jonas Braasch - soprano saxophone) at the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York.
March 3, 2009
Telematic Performance with Triple Point (Pauline Oliveros, Jonas Braasch, myself) at RPI and Chris Chafe at the Banff New Media Center, with audience at CCRMA, Stanford University. We will play a piece by composer Rocco di Pietro.
February 26, 2009
Telematic Performance of Alvin Lucier's Quasimodo the Great Lover, with Mark Dresser's class at UCSD and Tintinnabulate at RPI. I am working with the RPI group to create various spaces in our local environment connected via JackTrip - from large reverberant rooms driven by boomboxes to small milk jugs driven by audio transducers - that will interact with local and remote performers. As a player, I will mix/route/equalize these spaces and help to shape the sound. The performance will be streamed via ustream.
UPDATE: The performance was great and streamed well, if a bit pixelated. Here is the video:
Free TV : Ustream
I'm the guy in the red shirt, mixing the sound into different spaces at RPI: guitar body, transducer/milk bottle, large room with boombox/mic, narrow hallway and finally guitar amp pointed at piano strings with pickup. I'm also responsible for the good as well as the bad feedback! It was a joy to help direct and make this piece happen -- there are some very nice moments in this 45 minutes.
February 6, 2009
Performance of my piece Genetic Orchestra #3: FleaGO, at the The Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Miami, Fl. Performers included myself and Tintinnabulate (Cristyn Magnus, Shane Myrbeck, Luke Noonan and David Rhoderick) tele-present over Internet2 from RPI in Troy, NY and the Florida Laptop and Electronic Arts (FLEA) Ensemble, directed by Paula Matthusen, in Miami.
December 11, 2008
Network Performance over internet2 with Chris Chafe in Banff, Pedro Rebelo/Franziska Schroeder/Alain Renaud at SARC and Pauline Oliveros/Doug Van Nort/Jonas Braasch at RPI. Audience at SARC and online.
November 20, 2008
Performing (greis) along with Tintinnabulate ensemble and the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse at EMPAC.
Oct 11, 2008
New Oliveros/Van Nort duo premiering at the Dream Festival in Kingston!
October 3-5 2008
Piece on iearPIX DVD, which was featured at EMPAC opening as part of Pioneers of Experimental Media event showcasing work from iEAR faculty and alumni.
Summer 2008
Oh so busy writing dissertation.....
March/April 2008
Designed Interactive Sound Piece for fabric-based instrument. Part of larger remedios terrarium environment in Concordia's FOFA Gallery
January 2008
Video Now Online from Telematic Circle Performance at ICAD 2007!
(above: rehearsal picture with Pauline Oliveros and Jeff Pitcher)
December 14 2007
Presentation/performance of my new network laptop ensemble DLGO, or the Deep Listening Genetic Orchestra, at the International Society of Improvised Music (ISIM) Conference at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Members of DLGO currently include Al Margolis, Andrew Causey, Doug Van Nort, Gayle Young, Katharina von Rutte, Kim McCarthy, Pauline Oliveros, Rami Gabriel, Tom Bickley and Zevin Polzin.
October/November 2007
Accidentally deleted some news from here.
September 2007
Performance---> deep.listening.session @ [sat], also playing are o.blaat (NYC), Martijn Tellinga / BOCA RATON (Netherlands), Mike Hansen (Toronto), Martin Tétreault (Montreal), Nathan McNinch (Montreal), and tobias.dj (Montreal). The show will feature 8.1 surround sound listening with centralized+circular audience seating in SAT's main hall. For my part, i promise to take you to unforseen lands and hopefully induce sonic hallucinations....
July 2007
Am working with dancers in various responsive media environments. My interest/work here is to capture qualities of their movement using statistical signal processing techniques and map this into interesting and immersive sound worlds. In conjunction with the Topological Media Lab @ Concordia.
Oliveros/Van Nort/Braasch/Tintinnabulate/SoundWire @ ICAD, June 26 @ 6pm :: Improvisation with Pauline Oliveros (accordion), Jonas Braasch (soprano sax) and the Tintinnabulate (varying numbers and musicians) and SoundWire (Juan Pablo Caceres and Chris Chafe) ensembles who will play remotely from RPI, Stanford and Korea. I'll be processing their many streams separately and using this as my material for performance (i.e. I'll be playing "electronics" or "laptop"). Also the sounds will be spatialized and the remote sound will simultaneously be presented binaurally (binaurally mic-ed on the remote side) over a bunch of headphones. Should be fun!
I am also presenting a piece for headphones @ ICAD 2007.
June 2007
My new piece/ensemble Deep Listening Convergence Genetic Orchestra (DLC-GO!) performed at the LifeBridge Sanctuary in High Falls, NY on June 10, 2007. 11 laptops weaving sounds from a pool of co-created genetic material. Performers/Sound Breeders were Tom Bickley, Monique Buzzarte, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Al Margolis, Kim McCarthy, Kristin Norderval, Pauline Oliveros, Zevin Polzin, Roberto Rodriguez, Doug Van Nort and Katharina von Rutte. The sound was fantastic, and the entire event got great press including here and in the Wire Magazine.
May 2007
New Piece on Hum Compilation! :: I have a new piece on the Hum Remix cd on le-son 666. Composers formed a new work from the same five-minute recording of group humming. The project was conceived and carried out by sound artist Kathy Kennedy. Lots of beautiful works, with contributions from Austici, Magali Babin, Bryce Beverlin II, Kim Cascone, Thanos Chrysakis, i8U, Kathy Kennedy+David Gutnick, Francisco Lopez, Steve Mcleod, Jonas Olesen, Helene Prevost, Meg Schedel, Doug Van Nort.
I presented my ongoing work on control strategies for laptop music performance at NIME 07, NYC, June 9 2007.
Performance with Tara Rodgers (aka Analog Tara) and Javier Arciniegas at the Society for Art and Technology in Montreal, May 17 2007, part of the ctrl:Technology, Art, Society event. Thanks to all who came out and gave a warm reception!
Earlier
This is ancient history by now, I suppose...