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2014-05-16T15:08:00.000-04:00

OPENSIGNAL Festival
Friday, May 16 + Saturday, May 17
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
154 Angell St., Providence RI

opensignal concludes its colloquium and concert series with a 2-day festival on Friday, May 16th and Saturday, May 17th at Brown University’s Granoff Center for Creative Arts. There will be 17 performances by Brown current students/alumni and from local artists, 3 talks, and a large-scale sound installation featuring the work of over 80 composers, sound artists, and musicians from all over the world. Visiting guest artists Blectum from Blechdom, Maria Chavez, and Tara Rodgers will perform and give talks.

See full schedule here.
Facebook link here.

2014-05-12T11:50:00.003-04:00

Ghost Clinic - (Narrative and Immersion 2014)
New works by: Dan Putnam / Diane Zhou / Henry MacConnel / Jinku Kim / Luke Moldof / Perry Rosenberg / Vivian Charlesworth / Will Allen-Dupraw / Will Peterson

Tuesday May 13, 2014 | 6-9pm
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts | Studio 1
Brown University | 154 Angell St. Providence, RI 02906

2014-05-12T09:41:00.001-04:00

loop()
a concert of new music for new instruments featuring custom-made electronic instruments designed by students in Music 2220: Designing and Playing Alternate Controllers.

Wednesday, May 14, 8pm Granoff Center for the Arts, Studio 1

Performances by...
Lizzy Callas, Jeff Fan, Bridget Ferrill, Ryan Glassman, Nate Harris, Celine Katzman, Jinku Kim, David Lee, Luke Moldof, Ben Moreno Ortiz, Nick Newhouse.

Free and open to the public

2014-05-08T12:56:00.003-04:00

Narrative and Immersion Final Class Concert
Tuesday may 13, 2014 6pm-9pm
Granoff Center - Studio 1

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MEME Ensemble Final Concert
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 8pm
Granoff Center - Studio 1

Systems for Play Final Performance
Saturday May 10, 2014 8pm
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2014-04-30T16:58:00.002-04:00

Distortion as Expression
a talk by Alex Case
Tuesday May 6. 11am. Grant
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2014-04-30T13:15:00.002-04:00

Brown Noise
'Recording Studio as Compositional Tool' Final Concert.
Thursday May1, 8pm.
Martinos Auditorium - Granoff Center.
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2014-04-07T16:00:00.001-04:00

CANCELED ---- OPENSIGNAL PRESENTS: TARA RODGERS
FRIDAY APRIL 11 2014

5PM :: ARTIST TALK
Archiving Electronic Music Cultures: Process, Pedagogies, and Politics

Tara Rodgers will speak on her research of the history of synthesizers, as well as introduce a new digital archiving project. Rodgers will discuss reframing the electronic music canons by addressing the questions of gender and race in the history of synthesized sound, emphasizing on how gendered and racialized metaphors inflect audio-technical language and representation.

*reception to follow*

8PM :: PERFORMANCE
w/ Betsey Biggs
+ Caroline Park + Asha Tamirisa duo

free + open to all
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center
154 Angell Street, Providence RI

2014-03-21T12:40:00.000-04:00

OPENSIGNAL PRESENTS:
LAETITIA SONAMI

Visiting artist - Brown University Department of Music

PERFORMANCE: THURS. MARCH 20, 8pm
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Arts
154 Angell St.
Program:
A Historical Moment on a line between A and B, Sonami (2008-12)
OCCAM IX, Eliane Radigue (2013)
Magnetic Memories in the Age of the Oracle, Sonami (2013) - excerpt

2014-02-03T17:13:00.002-05:00

http://cargocollective.com/opensignal

2013-12-16T09:00:00.000-05:00

1240F Final concert
Circuit Bending and Hacking as Musical and Artistic Expression
Monday 16 December 2013
Grant Recital Hall
Free

2013-12-09T10:00:00.000-05:00

Real-Time: The Shape of Sound to Come
Graduate Seminar Concert
December 14, 8pm. Grant.
Free

2013-12-06T10:30:00.000-05:00

Patchwerk v.4
MUSC1210 | Real-time Systems Final Concert
Grant Recital Hall
12/12/2013 7pm
Free

2013-12-06T08:47:00.000-05:00

MUSC1250: Sound Design Final Concert
Martinos Auditorium - Granoff Center
Weds. 12/11/13 8pm. Free.

2013-11-22T15:08:00.000-05:00

Bevin Blectum w / The Traveling Bubble Ensemble
Thursday 12/5 @ Granoff Center for the Arts / Brown University (live performance + artist talk)
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Saturday 12/7 @ Columbus Theatre / Providence, RI (official record release party) w / Blectum from Blechdom, Kevin Blechdom, The Traveling Bubble Ensemble, Kelley Polar DJ
http://blevinblectum.brownpapertickets.com/
http://www.columbustheatre.com/

2013-11-06T20:53:00.002-05:00

1240F midterm

This concert explores hardware hacking, circuit bending, and the creative applications of simple electronic circuits and simple audio systems. For this mid-term performance all forms of computer processing and most forms of professional audio processing are completely banned. Students may utilize analogue mixing desks, loudspeakers, and microphones to extend the creative possibility of their hand-built/modified creations, but that’s it, nothing else is allowed!

Grant - 8pm - Thursday November 7, 2013. Free!

Installations in Foyer:
Sara Khan
Tristan Rodman, and Zack Korol-Gold, Peter Bowden, Sam Friedman, and Marissa Goldman

Concert performances:
Lukas Bentel, Jeffery Fan, David Lee, and Henry MacConnel, Jose Guillermo Fernandez Liermann, Daniel Putnam, Jason Rabie, and Seth Thorn,
Claire Kwong, Woohun Joo, Jinku Kim, and Benjamin Moreno Ortiz, Luke Moldof

2013-10-24T20:03:00.003-04:00

DisplaceInteger:

In attempting to unpick the role of presence in technologically mediated temporal art forms, this concert explores a variety of approaches to live electronics, audiovisual composition, digital media, and extended/hybrid instruments.

Monday October 28, 2013. 8pm

Grant Auditorium

Free

Composing and Improvising with Real Time Systems

2013-10-21T13:44:00.003-04:00

Composing and Improvising with Real Time Systems
Wednesday, October 23, 2013. 8pm
Granoff Center - Studio 2
Free

2013-10-17T14:55:00.002-04:00

"Audio and Architecture: Unfolding Sound with SpaceMap, A Layout-Agnostic Approach to Multi-Channel Sound Design"

Colloquia - Steve Ellison

Ellison's talk will focus on a technique for sound panning he developed that has been embraced by Repertory and Broadway theaters, Spectacle Productions such as Cirque du Soleil and Dragone, and musicians including John Williams and Herbie Hancock. What are the challenges that sound designers and composers face when realizing multi-channel works in the real world, with the constraints of physical architecture, and how can they be overcome?

Steve Ellison is Applications Director, Digital Products for Meyer Sound Labs of Berkeley, CA. He joined Meyer Sound in 2005, when LCS Audio, the company he founded in 1992 was acquired.

Friday October 18, 1pm. Grant Auditorium

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Acoustics Workshop - Steve Ellison

Just what is an "optimal acoustic" ? Does this exist?

In this informal session, we will measure the room acoustics of Grant Recital Hall using Aurora running under Audacity (freely available) as well as Dirac (B&K, commercial software) using impulse response methods and compare the results. In the process we will de-mystify some commonly used acoustic measurements including reverb time measurements RT, T20, and EDT.

Friday October 18, 10:30am. Grant Auditorium

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2013-09-24T17:47:00.004-04:00

Brown/Wesleyan Multimedia Mini-Festival
September 27 at Brown, September 28 at Wesleyan

Brown's Multimedia and Electronic Music program (MEME) will host a concert of new works by graduate student composers working in experimental music at Wesleyan University on Friday, September 27th, in Grant Recital Hall. On the following day, Saturday, September 28th, MEME students will travel to Wesleyan to present a second concert of new works.

2013-09-03T05:44:00.001-04:00

New Course - New Faculty:

MUSC1240F is a new MEME course taught by our new visiting professor John Ferguson.
T/Th 1:00pm - 2:20pm.
Location: Steinert 101.
First meeting is Tuesday, September 10.

2013-05-23T16:30:00.001-04:00

Community Music Works concert featuring a new work by Bevin Kelly. June 1, 2013 - Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Avenue, Providence.

2013-05-08T10:29:00.000-04:00

Original music produced in MUSC1200:
"THE RECORDING STUDIO AS COMPOSITIONAL TOOL"
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
8pm
Granoff Center - Martinos Auditorium
free

2013-04-30T15:41:00.002-04:00

MEME ENSEMBLE CONCERT
THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013
GRANOFF CENTER - STUDIO ONE

2013-04-29T15:13:00.001-04:00

Ming Mecca: Voltage Controlled Videogame Console
Dissertation Project Showing by Jordan Bartee

Sunday, May 5th, 2013
1 pm - 8 pm
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Floor 2
Free and Open to the Public
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2013-03-03T16:20:00.000-05:00

BLIND | The world where I can't be
but you live in
Multimedia Thesis Concert by Akiko Hatakeyama

Thursday March 7, 2013
8 pm
Grant Recital Hall
Free admission
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