Join us for our 2022-23 season fundraiser event featuring works of animated music notation composed by Ryan Ross Smith and Daniel McKemie.
"Animated Notation is a kind of dynamic scoring" ... that uses video animation to create time-based graphic notation, with specific musical interpretations. "Animated notation can offer composers the ability to create complex music that is quite easily read and realized by performers of all levels." These scores will be projected in the space for the performers to interpret and the audience to appreciate.
Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be available.
Recommended tax deductible donation of $20-35 or donate what you can. Any amount is appreciated! No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Ryan Ross Smith is a composer, performer, sound designer, engineer and educator currently based in New York. Smith has performed throughout the US, Europe and UK, including performances at MoMA and PS1 [NYC] and Le Centre Pompidou [Paris, FR], has had his music performed throughout North America, Iceland, Denmark, Australia and the UK, has presented his work and research at conferences including NIME, ISEA, ICLI, ICLC, SMF, ACMC and TENOR, and has lectured at various colleges and universities. As a sound designer/engineer, Smith has produced work for ESPN (30 for 30 Podcast), Meadowlark, ABC (David Blaine's "Drowned Alive"), Kassen Brothers Production, Voltage Control Records, and WNYC's Studio360. In the academic world, Smith is known for his work with Animated Notation, and his Ph.D. research website is archived at animatednotation.com. Current & recent projects include Duets [a series of remotely-produced duets with musical friends from around the globe], Lines and Patterns [musique concrete disguised as ambient music], Green Dome [with Zeena Parkins and Ryan Sawyer], Ross Farwell [IDM/Breakbeat] and Sequential Switch [daily modular synthesizer project (2019)]. Smith is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at the State University of New York at Broome.
http://ryanrosssmith.com
Daniel McKemie is a composer, researcher, and percussionist based in New York City. He focuses on utilizing the internet and browser technology to realize a more accessible platform for multimedia art. His current work includes realizing historical instruments, musical tools, and audio processing units in the browser; and finding new ways of remote collaboration through WebRTC, WebSockets, and shared networks. His music has been performed in Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia; and his research on computer music and web-based audio/composition techniques have been presented or published internationally in conferences as part of the Korean Electro-acoustic Music Society, the Australasian Computer Music Association, the International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, the Society of Electro-acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), among others.
Daniel also develops new ways of interfacing handmade circuitry, modular synthesizers, and embedded systems to various softwares both new and old. This recent work has allowed for complex, interactive performance environments to emerge, in which software generates compositional processes and actions in the form of analog signals sent to the hardware, and software that can analyze said signals from the hardware to determine musical behaviors.
https://www.danielmckemie.com