multi-channel sound installations at Roulette: Douglas Henderson

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2/17: Douglas Henderson


Saturday, February 17th
Douglas Henderson

Composer/performer/sound artist Douglas Henderson presents an evening of multichannel sound works. Pieces include "Giving up the Ghost (2004)", a layering of recordings of 200 cups of coffee made in a dying espresso machine, which finally exploded after leaving behind this collection of sonic testimonials. The piece displays Henderson's interest in morphogenesis, that moment of transformation at which recorded sounds escape from their context, crossing from quotidian recognizability … to becoming something entirely new to the world.

Henderson also will perform a series of spatialized multichannel sound sculptures, sparked by architect-composer Iannis Xenakis's exploration of the concept of "the unimaginable". In these works compositional rules are drawn from the methods used to construct shapes and vectors in space. The piece is developed according to a kind of sonic holography, and the composition's progression through time follows a physical model akin to the construction of a house. Each of these pieces employs dozens – sometimes hundreds – of layered recordings, exposing images and textures unheard in the original incarnation of the sound. It is a music made to be seen in the mind's eye, and to be felt in the ear. This piece was constructed with the support of Harvestworks's Artist in Residence Program.

Douglas Henderson has been composing, performing and making installations in New York City and internationally for more than 20 years. Collaborators include Jude Tallichet, Guy Yarden, Zeena Parkins, David Henderson and Kristin Lucas, to mention a few. He currently is focused on sound installations, both sound-producing objects and multi-channel immersive sound sculptures. He has shown in galleries from New York to Helsinki to Seoul, including vertexList, Art in General, G.A.S. and the Whitney Museum. He has composed electro acoustic music for dozens of dance works by choreographers such as Jeremy Nelson, Mia Lawrence, Jennifer Monson, Wildadance Copenhagen and Phoenix Dance Theatre UK, and has toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe performing original work. Recent awards include a 2005 Rockefeller Foundation MAP Award, a 2006 Harvestworks A.i.R. and a 2007 DAAD residency in Berlin. For more information, visit www.DouglasHenderson.org.


ROULETTE IS THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE OUR MOVE INTO OUR NEW HOME: 20 GREENE STREET in SOHO. With this new space, Roulette will be expanding activities to include over 100 concerts, sound installations, longer runs of music theater and other large productions such as the "Avant Jazz – Still Moving" festival and the annual "Festival of Mixology". For our expanded events calendar go to: http://www.roulette.org/