Curated by Amy McIntosh
RESONANT is a meeting of performance, installation, and new media innovation. Featuring the work of emerging artists operating out of McMaster University, RESONANT explores the boundaries of media, experimentation, and representation within sound, video, and beyond.
From the live manipulation of computer code to digital manipulation of live instruments and voice, interactive video displays, and multi-projector installations, the exhibition serves as a bold statement for the hybrid aesthetic of new media art in Hamilton. RESONANT captures, more than anything, the astounding rate of change of a digital culture continuously redefining itself. This culture systematically pulls multiple medias together demonstrating the limitless potential of these artistic, technological accomplishments. The featured artists have cultivated these ideals through a new media language and transformation of technological function.
In short, artists aim to reinvent and project our world and ourselves: a new sound, a new vision, a new experience is what new media art entails. The media IS the message. This exhibition expresses the fact that our world is new, digital, and divergent within our contemporary times.
The official release of the Cybernetic Orchestra’s first album – the culmination of three years work on live coding, gestural control, network art and experimental sound performance. The CD – esp.beat – will be distributed during Art Crawl for FREE! Intrigued? Check out videos of performances posted under News at http://esp.mcmaster.ca.
7:00 PM- 8:00 PM
AMY MCINTOSH – Installation
Facilitating Natures Form, 2012, a multichannel video installation by Amy McIntosh with sonic accompaniment by Aaron Hutchinson.
Curator Amy McIntosh is a new media artist and recent McMaster University graduate with a Combined Honours B.A. in Studio Art and Multimedia. She also leads the Youth Media Initiative of the Factory Media Centre.
8:00 PM – 8:30 PM
ESCHATON – Live Performance
Musicians Aaron Hutchinson and Connor Bennett, a duo based out of Hamilton, Ontario perform and create live electronic manipulations of saxophone and programmed beats.
8:30 PM – 9:30 PM
MiND – Video Series & Live Performance
MiND is a collaborative group of graduate students of the Communication and New Media program at McMaster University. Formed during the course, Sound as Art and Research, this creative ensemble features videomusique and live coding of audio and video. Group members include: Ian Jarvis, Dwayne Ali, Meaghan Niewland and Nicolas Hesler under the guidance of Dr. David Ogborn.
Works:
Five Actions is a five part series of collaboration in sound and visuals. Each member of MiND individually composed a unique composition and visualization in an action research process to form this work. Through this creative process, each individual made original sound recordings, created a composition based on sounds provided by all members and then produced a visualization of an alternate members composition.
MiND Live is a live performance featuring live coding with projected Jitter visuals, live vocals using Chuck, and live digital audio using multi-channel SuperCollider.
9:30 PM – 11:00 PM
THE CYBERNETIC ORCHESTRA Electronic music improvisation with live programming
The Cybernetic Orchestra is McMaster Universitys laptop orchestra, an innovative electronic music ensemble that improvises with live programming in front of the audience. Directed by Multimedia Faculty member Dr. David Ogborn, the orchestra has performed in Hamilton, Montral and Toronto at TEDx conferences, at new music festivals, and myriad other events, alongside a growing roster of artistic friends and collaborators.
Cybernetic Orchestra Members
DIRECTED BY DR. DAVID OGBORN
Alyssa Lai Ben Muñoz Ian Jarvis
Abdulrahman Khodr Elise Milani Andrew O’Connor
Aaron Hutchinson Kyle Park Charles Morton
Dima Matar Amy McIntosh Ned Currie
Steven Ghobril Ying Shan Tanya Goncalves
Kearon Roy Taylor Nicolas Hesler
Follow Me Around, 2012, by Andrew OConnor
Andrew O’Connor is a new media artist from Hamilton, Ontario. Andrew is a recent McMaster University graduate with a Combined Honours B.A. in Studio Art and Multimedia. His thesis project, entitled ‘Follow Me Around’ is an audiovisual composition that encompasses interactive video and sonic accompaniment performed by the Cybernetic Orchestra.
In The Midst, 2012, by Ian Jarvis
Ian Jarvis is a Sound Artist from Toronto who is currently researching the role of technology in contemporary music creation, particularly in lap top ensembles. In The Midst explores the laptop and coding in collaborative music making, and the boundary between sound and music.
Piblokto, 2012, by Aaron Hutchinson, Connor Bennet, and Kearon Roy Taylor
Developed by Aaron Hutchinson and Kearon Roy Taylor, Piblokto makes reference to a condition of madness experienced by certain people living in the Arctic circle. Manifesting in forms from muttering to uncontrolled wild behaviour, saxophone woozes and winds as voices and visions arise, building as the metric rhythm bubbles and scrapes to dizzying tempo. The piece is arranged around Hutchinson’s live chat conducting of his own programmed instruments and live-coded rhythmic elements, with Connor Bennet accompanying the Orchestra on tenor saxophone.