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CASA
Friday September 10 7pm.
C.A.S.A is an association where students and other interested persons come together to express their thoughts and concerns about Cambodia; her culture, tradition, and language. Although C.A.S.A’s origin is a state’s university and is a student organization, anyone who is interested is more than welcome to be part of.
C.A.S.A’s purpose is “to promote Khmer culture, tradition, and language. Also, the organization hopes to encourage open forum for discussion of Cambodia’s Arts, History, and her People. Additionally, members will strive extensively to integrade their knowledge of Kampuchea with the western society while seeking to further understand the roots of their ancestry.”
Appalachia Rising: Stories from the Mountain
Saturday September 11 7pm, $5-10 donation suggested.
Featuring the work of local photographer Rana Xavier
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Squinch Owl [NY, MA]
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Avi Jacob [Boston MA]
Mountaintop removal mining does not only level peaks, poison air and water, and fill valleys– it also destroys communities and cultures. Appalachians have chronicled the history of their mountains and the fight against strip mining through visual art, song and writing for generations. As activists from other places have come to stand in solidarity with the people of the mountains, they too have produced creative works about the issue.
Join us today, and stand in solidarity with the people of our Appalachian Mountain Communities, who won’t stand idly by as their land, water, and health are blasted and poisoned away.
All proceeds go to Appalachia Rising the largest ever gathering of those opposed to mountain top removal happening September 25-27 in Washington DC.
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Workshop: Field Recording
Sunday September 19 11am-3pm, absolutely free.
Lead by Rick Breault, NE Phonographers Union. Starts with a sound walk in downtown Lowell. Check this post or calendar for exact location …
Field recording, sometimes also referred as phonography is the term used for any recording produced outside of a recording studio.
Field recordings can be either of two varieties. Field recording of natural sounds, also called phonography (a term chosen to illustrate its similarities to photography), was originally employed as a documentary adjunct to research work in the field and foley work for film. With the availability of high-quality portable recording equipment, it has subsequently become an evocative art in itself. Both processed and natural phonographic recordings (such as the Environments series) are available.
The New England Phonographers Union is a fluid congregation of sound artists and recordists who work with untreated and unprocessed recordings of the rich and varied sounds around them. Through the exploration and documentation of urban and rural public spaces, sound objects and events, the Union captures auditory phenomena otherwise lost, and reinterprets the particularity of individual places as a newly idealized sonic environment. Within a focused listening environment, the members present their recordings, both as collaborative improvisations and in composed frameworks.
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Landscape as Process
September 21 - October 9, Tuesday - Saturday 12noon - 5pm
On view during Lowell Open Studios September 25 - 26
detail from Throng by Stephen Mishol
Reception: Thursday September 30 6pm
Panel: Wednesday October 6 7pm
New drawings, paintings and digital prints by UMass Lowell Painting Professor Stephen Mishol, and an installation made in collaboration with the Plastics Engineering Department.
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Sound Thinking
Making music with MIT’s Scratch, an Ichiboard and sensors. Jeremy and Nicole making music with MIT’s Scratch, an Ichiboard and sensors! Check out a video from our Spring 2010 Sound Thinking course.
Performed and composed by Jeremy Murray and Nicole Dwyer at the Spring 2010 Sound Thinking Exhibition at the 119 Gallery in Lowell, MA. (with special help from Kevin Webb as “conductive human.”
http://www.performamatics.org/
http://scratch.mit.edu/
Artbotics: The Presence of Absence
Saturday June 12 6-9pm
Taila Galloway, Aung Khine Min, Kelianna Panos, Priya Patel, Rutva Patel, Christian Pinero, Thavaleak Prum, Nick Ven.
Artbotics presents it’s latest after school high school program’s creation, The Presence of Absence. This one-night-only installation at the 119 Gallery is comprised of individual robotic pieces that manipulate fabric by pulling, twisting, and rotating, creating a surreal and dreamy landscape. Each piece was programmed and built by a high school student participating in the program using a Super Cricket microcontroller.
Taking a much higher stance than previous projects, this installation deals with the contrasts and relationships between color, space, movement, and matter. The only colors present are slightly varying shades of white, moving slowly throughout the space and around the viewer. Flat fabric becomes three dimensional through these movements, and there lies the heart of each piece. Materializing the immateriality of movement and white noise.
Instructors: Adan Norton, Diana Coluntino
The Artbotics program is a collaboration between University of Massachusetts Lowell and The Revolving Museum. It is funded in part with a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts.
a|symmetrical love
Wednesday May 19 - Tuesday June 8 12noon - 5pm
Reception Saturday May 22 3-6pm
Nicole Ratos Enerson lives and works outside of Boston, MA. Her artwork explores the condition of the body, as well as the art object, as peculiar “things” that hold meaning issuing from, but above and beyond, their physicality. She received her MFA from at Cornell University, and is an adjunct professor of art University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She was recently included in shows at the Mills Gallery in Boston, the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, and Gallery 119 in Lowell. Read more …
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Sound Thinking 91.212 Student Compositions
Thursday April 29 8pm, donations appreciated.
Bossa de Computadora - Peter Mendola & Craig Robertson
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The Inspiration of Nibs - Bonnie Surowiec
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Have you ever noticed … - Andy Bass
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Flashdrive MassaKre - Kaye Kling
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The Incredible Fantastic Fab - Nicole Dwyer & Jeremy Murray
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Now for Something Completely Different - Stuart Huntington
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Revolutionary Sound Thinking - Joey Banh
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Sin Nombre - Darwin Dubon
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Hans - Dayna Brown
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Surrealistic Coffee Table - Jim Murray
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Bring Your Own Blues - Kevin Webb
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Sound Game - Falicia Wyman
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Mash Up - Justin Lindahl
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Time to Pretend - Jenna Hoy
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Wind Chime Effect - Kenneth Budka
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Interaction No. 1 - Josh Ragucci
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Spooky Techno - Daniel Sagner
UMass Lowell Dept of Music, produced by Alex Ruthmann.
What is sound? How do we capture it, manipulate it, and harness it in the digital world? The field for multimedia applications is expanding, creating new challenges for artists, technologists, and educators as well as consumers.
This course explores the intersection of the arts with technology through the art and science of digital audio. The specific applications to be examined are chosen based on their abilities to promote creative expression and exploration. We also consider the underlying code that allows these programs to run and function.
This course uses a learner-centered approach that emphasizes project-based experiences. It provides students with multiple opportunities to explore, create, and solve problems with music technology. The concept of collaboration is integral to this course. As the workforce moves to a more collaborative structure, it is important that students learn to work in groups with others who may not share their skill sets and levels of expertise, and that they gain experience in problem-solving the myriad issues that arise when using technology.
Prof Jessie Heines, Computer Science, and Prof Alex Ruthmann, Music.
Supported in part by National Science Foundation and UMass Lowell.
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Field Recording Workshop with Rick Breault
Sunday April 18 11am-3pm, $10 workshop fee.
This isn’t about recording bird calls to use for a nature documentary. This workshop is about making field recordings for use in sound art. We will listen to finished works that use field recordings, discuss sound as art, and go on a local field trip to make recordings.. We will capture and edit sound to produce a finished work.
Bring your audio recorders (cell-phone, mp3 player/recorder, cassette recorder, etc), microphones, laptops, and editing software if you have them. Don’t worry if you don’t have these items, we will share equipment if needed. You already have the most important equipment - your ears!
Only $10 and you walk away with a finished piece! To register send email to artguy[at]119gallery[dot]org
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XFest 2010: Improvised sound, visuals and movement.
Friday-Sunday February 26-28, FREE!
Seth Bailin, Forbes Graham, Kit Demos, Matt Plummer, Claire Elizabeth Barratt, Shayna Dulberger
The format of the festival is simple and challenging: 15 visiting artists and 70 local artists perform. On Friday and Saturday evening there are 10 half-hour sets that include one visiting artist and three local artists. Performers include musicians, and visual and movement artists. Every set is an improvisation; the artists are playing together for the first time.
Print out your own schedule as a .pdf or for all the info … Read more …
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