Harvestworks and Thalamus Lab are collaborating on the creation of an album, involving you. We are aiming to reach new horizons in collaborative art. With this in mind, we have been curating the XSL, a free sound collection by several artists around the world. Next, we are launching an open call for audio works created out of the sounds included in it.

Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center presents visual artist, Brendan Fernandes, to show his multi-channel moving image work “(buli)” along with his recent video work, “Roll Out”. (buli) explores barriers and codes that language creates through the lens of ethnicity, using a Dadaist style of repetition and nonsensicality . “Roll Out” – Taking inspiration from the notion of stillness these abstract videos capturing the body in motion create a contemplative and ephemeral space.

The “Wiener Process” is a 24 hour computer music work initially developed as an antidote to Frank Rothkamm’s 2010 diagnosis of the brain processing disorder Tinnitus. Completed in 2014, the “Wiener Process” is a nod to the mathematician and philosopher, Norbert Wiener. This lecture aims to introduce the audience to the mind-boggling world of sound, time and uncertainty. Frank Rothkamm will reveal everything he knows about his “Wiener Process” including, but not limited to: who, when, where, why, how, and what.

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THIS DEADLINE HAS PASSED. The Harvestworks New Works Residency is a national program that offers American artists (US-residents) commissions of up to $5000 to make a new work in our Technology, Engineering, Art and Music (TEAM) lab. Each artist receives up to a $2000 artist fee with the balance of the award used for TEAM lab activities including research and development, sound and image production, programming and prototyping. The artist works with a team comprised of Harvestworks’ Project Manager and consultants, technicians or instructors. The proposed projects should explore new aesthetic premises and push the boundaries of conventional art forms and media.

Philip White has created a 7.1 mix of “20140704-15 A Night in Tunisia” from his new album on Infrequent Seams Documents. It is a piece about intuition and the recursive influences inherent in memory. I subject the recording to a a series of processes through which I derive musical information (harmonic, melodic, timbral, rhythmic, formal, etc). That information drives a set of voltage controlled amplifiers tied into a non-linear feedback system, influencing the behavior of the system and leaving a shadow of the original work.