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RPM's Remixed is a telematic, transdisciplinary performance based on remixing Alvin Lucier's RPM's score – integrating dance, video and sound improvisation between artists in New York, Tampa, and San Jose.
Alvin Lucier, a well-known composer of music and sound installations that explore natural phenomena and resonance, is renowned for making spaces "sing." This piece explores the possibilities of using one of his scores to make a virtual space "sing" by using improvisational techniques as well as the natural feedback and delay created by streaming. |
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Themes exploring isolation, intersection, and madness reverberate through images, body and sound. Dancers and sound artists in San Jose, Tampa, and New York collaborate while realtime processing of the video images is driven partially by the performers’ movements. Motion analysis is sent over the network to trigger aspects of video manipulation, further blurring the lines of authorship and contributing to the impromptu chemistry.
Lucier’s original “RPM’s” score was a tongue-in-cheek take on creating sound based on depressing and releasing the accelerator of an Aston Martin engine. The score itself is a series of nonsensical curvatures and dashes – nonsensical, that is, until a personal interpretation of each written gesture is applied.
Taking this a step further, the cast of RPM’s Remixed deconstructs the score, into dance gestures, violin strokes, guitar riffs, and sound and video mashing. The challenge is not only to collaborate within one’s own medium but to improvise successfully between mediums and within a virtual space. Can the magic of improvisation reach across the ether? Join us and see...
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RPM's Remixed, which premiered August 2005, was invited to perform as part of the ISEA 2006 Festival and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, which was held concurrently August 7-13, 2006 in San Jose, California. |
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ISEA 2006 Festival/ZeroOne: Parkside Hall, San Jose, CA; Tampa, FL; New York, NY |
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10 august 2006, thursday |
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7:00-8:00pm PST / 10:00-11:00pm EST |
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Collaborators (bios):
New York , NY
Vedat Emre Balik: sound artist
Josephine Dorado: concept/direction/video processing*
with interactive programming by Ben Robison, Andrew Papadeas
Los Angeles , CA
Laura Escude: sound artist*
Tampa, FL
Rachel Bishop: dancer
Brevard, NC
Elizabeth Haselwood: dancer*
* For the performance at ISEA, a modified version was produced, in which some of the artists (notated by an asterisk) performed in the physical space in San Jose, CA. |
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