Syntax: An Evening of Visual Music
Sat, Mar 11
|Dormouse Theatre
SYNTAX questions technological idealism in an age of ecological disruption and data-driven exploitation. The collaboration includes a series of eight animated, graphic scores designed to guide the two composers through a generative narrative of improvised sound.
Time & Location
Mar 11, 2023, 7:00 PM
Dormouse Theatre, 1030 Portage Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49001, USA
Guests
About The Event
After the performance the artists will discuss the techniques they used to compose the animated, generative, visual scores and invite questions from the audience.
Bio for John C.S. Keston:
John has appeared at the ISSTA conference in Ireland, Northern Spark, the Weisman Art Museum, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Walker Art Center, the Eyeo Festival, INST-INT, Echofluxx (Prague), and Moogfest. He has been commissioned by the Walker Art Center to compose music for Merce Cunningham dancers during the Common Time series, and PANIC BY PROXY in remote collaboration with Syrian artist and filmmaker Khaled Alwarea. He composed the music for Parking Ramp Project (2018) for choreographer and Guggenheim fellow Pramila Vasudevan. He has appeared on more than a dozen albums including five solo albums. His recent solo album, Parochial Dissonance (2020) is a series of pieces improvised within sets of rules applied to process, time, texture, and tonality.John C.S. Keston…
Tickets
Syntax Ticket
$10.00
+$0.25 ticket service fee
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