Diapason in December: Point Play, Diapason Archive (Jukebox)

[size=15]Point Play, Diapason Archive (Jukebox)
Opening December 4, 6pm
Installations run Saturdays, December 4, 11, 18, 25 2pm-8pm [/size]

Diapason, 882 Third Avenue, 10th Floor, Brooklyn, NY
http://www.diapasongallery.org

Saturdays in December Diapason hosts two concurrent exhibitions: POINT PLAY,
curated by Nisi Jacobs, showcases sound installations by Michael J. Schumacher,
Richard Garet, Adam Kendall, and Wolfgang Gil. The Diapason Archive (Jukebox)
features works by Stephen Vitiello, Marina Rosenfeld, Carl Stone, Leif Inge, and Micah Silver, among others.

POINT PLAY invites four artists (Schumacher, Garet, Kendall, and Gil) to compose
individual works through an interaction with Wolfgang Gilʼs ROctoR (Real-time
Octophonic Router), a new custom software instrument designed for multi-channel
sound diffusion. Enabling the creation of 8-channel soundscape compositions based on prerecorded or live sound, ROctor allows the ability to dynamically assign sounds to a selected set of speakers, and transition seamlessly to subsequent configurations, simulating the sensation of physical movement in space.

In Schumacherʼs work Sledge, for example, the composer spatializes sounds from sources such as “films, including The Exorcist, The Sentinel, The Dungeonmaster and The Birds / Arp, EMS and Buchla synthesizers / poet Bruce Andrews imitating the sounds of another of the composerʼs installations / workers hanging a theatrical curtain / a wooden toy car / a skipping CD / stones tossed into a lake / the composer playing guitar / a Ferrari.”

The cycle of sound works from the four artists plays each Saturday of December on the 8-channel ROctoR system in the Gallery room at Diapason for extended immersive listening.

DIAPASON ARCHIVE (JUKEBOX) showcases Diapasonʼs extensive archive of sound
work. Installed in the Lounge are multi-channel works by Marina Rosenfeld, Al Margolis, Zeena Parkins & Douglas Henderson, Carl Stone, Alessandro Bosetti, Patrick K. H., Bruce Andrews, Micah Silver, and Stephen Vitiello and Alam Licht, among others. Visitors choose a work to listen to, which is diffused through Diapason's custom 12 channel sound system.

DIAPASON is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the city council, the Phaedrus Foundation, Kirk
Radke, and by generous individuals. Diapason is a 501©3 organization.