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Laurie Spiegel: A Harmonic Algorithm presented by Seth Cluett: 22 Boerum Installation
IMPORTANT EVENT INFORMATION:
Audience members may enter 22 Boerum by appointment only, made through online registration on Brown Paper Tickets. Appointments must be scheduled at least 24 hours in advance of any appointment slot, and contact information including name, email and phone number must be provided.
No more than 5 visitors will be allowed on site at any time. Chairs will be set in the theater space with a minimum of 6 feet of space in each direction to ensure social distance measures among visitors. RSVPs are non-transferable.
When you arrive, you will be asked to remain outside following social distancing protocols. Doors will open ten minutes prior to your appointment time and we ask that you arrive promptly. Each attendee will be individually checked in and masks will be required to be worn at all times. Masks may not be removed while on site. Hand sanitizer and Personal Protective Equipment will be made available. The installation does not require any physical interaction and we ask visitors to refrain from touching installed equipment. ISSUE will conduct cleanings before and after each appointment.
Please note that there will be no restroom access at 22 Boerum during your visit.
By attending your appointment, you confirm that you: have not experienced a fever of 100.4 degrees F or greater, a new cough, or shortness of breath within the 10 days preceding your appointment time, you have not gotten a positive result from a COVID-19 test that tested saliva or used a nose or throat swab (not a blood test) within the 10 days preceding your appointment time, and to the best of your knowledge, in the 14 days preceding your appointment time, you have not been in close contact (within 6 feet for at least 10 minutes) with anyone while they had COVID-19. You confirm that you have not traveled to or from any of the states on New Yorks most current list of states requiring a 14-day quarantine following travel within 14 days preceding your appointment time. You agree to hold ISSUE harmless should you receive a positive COVID-19 test subsequent to attendance of your appointment at ISSUE and you will make best efforts to inform ISSUE in order to assist the organization with any contact tracing efforts.
ISSUE may also cancel access to the installation and retains the right to refuse entry to any person who does not follow appropriate guidelines or shows symptoms of COVID-19.
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Thursday, September 10th, ISSUE streams a 360 degree video presentation of electronic music pioneer Laurie Spiegels piece A Harmonic Algorithm 2011 coordinated in collaboration with composer and artist Seth Cluett. A work first created through a computer algorithm coded by Spiegel, the piece is spatialized at ISSUEs 22 Boerum theater by Cluett, Artist-in-Residence at NOKIA Bell Labs. Working in dialogue with Spiegel on the multi-channel loudspeaker array at Bell Labs, Seth Cluett has created a new diffusion of the work that will take advantage of the unique acoustics of 22 Boerum Place.
Over the coming month, ISSUEs 22 Boerum will have limited accessibility specifically to host the installation of Laurie Spiegel's A Harmonic Algorithm 2011, coordinated by Seth Cluett. The spatialized self-playing presentation will run on the hour, each hour between: Wednesday 4pm - 7pm and Saturday 12pm to 4pm starting this week (8/8) through the beginning of September (9/10).
The installation will only be accessible to ticket buyers from the 3/28 Laurie Spiegel: A Harmonic Algorithm postponed presentation, current ISSUE Members & those who Join during our Summer Campaign. While we are excited to welcome you, the safety of visitors and staff is of utmost importance. Stringent safety protocols will be in place and in accordance with New York States reopening guidelines we require all to wear a mask and practice social distancing. We will accommodate a maximum of 5 visitors per session. 22 Boerum will remain closed to the general public and there will be no walk-ups.
Laurie Spiegels A Harmonic Algorithm 2011 is the third incarnation of a series of algorithms that Spiegel first coded on her Apple II computer around 1980. In her program notes for the piece, Spiegel notes, At Bell Labs, it had occurred to me [...] that if a composer creates individual pieces of music that at the end of his/her life there will only be a finite number of musical works by that composer. If instead of composing individual finite length works, a composer could encode in computer software their personal compositional methods, preferences, processes and ways of making musical decisions, and somehow their aesthetic sensibility too, then they could go on composing and generating new music long after the biological human had ceased to exist.
She continues, In figuring out this particular logic, I spent a lot of time studying the harmonic progressions in Bach's Chorales, on which I based this software. I had happened upon a wonderful used book, "The Contrapuntal Harmonic Technique of the 18th Century" (Allen Irvine McHose, 1947) that was extremely helpful to me while figuring out the logic I coded into these algorithms. (A compositional algorithm is basically just a set of rules, a description in an artificial computer language of a process of decision-making, a sort of a written score that embodies a procedure for composing, except that instead of humans playing from that score, a machine does.)
Composer Laurie Spiegel's music draws on her classical training, pre-classical lute, and folk guitar and banjo roots; however, she is also a computer programmer, software designer, visual and video artist, and a published theorist. She is known for her pioneering work with several early electronic and computer music systems, focusing largely on interactive software that uses algorithmic logic to supplement and extend human abilities, and on the aesthetics of musical structure and cognitive process. Spiegel's visual workscomputer graphics, video, drawings, and photographyhave been exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Japan. She has directed computer and electronic music studios and taught composition at Cooper Union and at New York University, where she founded its first computer music studio. Her realization of Johannes Kepler's Harmony of the Planets was sent into space as the opening cut of the Voyager Spacecraft's record Sounds of Earth (1977). Spiegel's recorded works have been available on 1750 Arch, Capriccio, Philo, Unseen Worlds, and other labels. Her computer software for music, such as Music MouseAn Intelligent Instrument (1986), has been published for Amiga, Atari, and Macintosh computers. Spiegel has received fellowships and grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, ASCAP, and the Experimental Television Lab at WNET, among others. She is a freelance composer for film, dance, and other media, as well as a writer, software developer, visual artist, and a consultant in computer music, audio software design, and in other areas of information technology. Spiegel's studies include an A.B. from Shimer College and an M.A. from Brooklyn College, and additional studies at Oxford and Juilliard.
Seth Cluett is a composer and visual artist who creates work that explores everyday actions at extreme magnification, examines minutae by amplifying impossible tasks, and tries to understand the working of memory in forms that rethink the role of the senses in an increasingly technologized society. Ranging from photography and drawing to installation, concert music, and critical writing, his subtleseductive, immersive (Artforum) sound work has been characterized as rigorously focused and full of detail (e/i) and dramatic, powerful, and at one with nature (The Wire). The recipient of grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Fund and Meet the Composer, his work has been presented internationally at venues such as The Whitney Museum, MoMA/PS1, Moving Image Art Fair, CONTEXT Art Miami, GRM, and STEIM. His concert work has been commissioned by ensembles ranging from the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and the International Contemporary Ensemble to So Percussion, Catch Guitar Quartet, and Clogs and is documented on Line, Sedimental, Notice, and Winds Measure recordings. Cluett is the Assistant Director of the Computer Music Center and Sound Art Program at Columbia University and is Artist-in-Residence with Experiments in Art and Technology at Nokia Bell Labs where he maintains a studio and is active in research on virtual and augmented reality acoustics and multi-sensory communication. More information: http://www.sethcluett.com
RSVPs are non-transferable.
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LocationISSUE Project Room (View)
22 Boerum Place
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States
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