Kepler-37 on Strange Stage @Muchmore’s
January 27, 2017 || Muchmore’s || Brooklyn, NY
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January 2017 || Flowercat HQ || NYC
l’Artiste ordinaire welcomes Nicole Antebi Friday, April 28, 2017 8:00pm (doors open @ 7:30) @ NOMADLOFT – by invitation only //\\//\\ Prelude Nicole Antebi & Melissa Grey: Collaborations Gesture 1 on 2 Strings (2015) from Fifteen Minutes of Fame: Eva Ingolf, […]
l’Artiste ordinaire welcomes The Bowers–Fader Duo [ Jessica Bowers, mezzo-soprano; Oren Fader, guitar ] Friday, March 24, 2017 8:00pm (doors open @ 7:30) @ NOMADLOFT – by invitation only Program Photon Ecstasy (Kepler-19) [preview] music: l’Ao (after Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula) The Maldive […]
DP Leonis @ 2017 Florida International Toy Piano Festival
January 7, 2017 || Bloom Arts Center || Saint Petersburg, FL
Strange Stage, The Experimental Showcase January 27, 2017, 6:30 pm Muchmore’s 2 Havemeyer Street Brooklyn, NY 11211 l’Ao will be joined by artist Nicole Antebi for this sneak peek at Photon Ecstasy (Kepler–37), our new blindfolded benjolin synthesizer duet. […]
Kepler–37 is a performance for blindfolded performers who share a single benjolin synthesizer. The blindfolds force us to confront the inherently chaotic nature of the benjolin’s circuitry through active listening. Being unable to see either the settings of the knobs […]
November 11, 2016 || Eyeclopes || Fredricksburg, VA
October 28, 2016 || Flower Cat HQ || NYC
October 20, 2016 || Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts || University of Pennsylvania Libraries || Philadelphia, PA
October 14, 2016 || Flower Cat HQ || NYC
Clocktower Radio is streaming Soft Series concerts. We are thrilled by this collaboration and look forward to sharing our series with a wider audience. You can find the Soft Series archive on Clocktower at: clocktower.org/series/soft-series-concert
September 29, 2016 || Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts || University of Pennsylvania Libraries || Philadelphia, PA
On August 12, 2016, the Photon Ecstasy design team met to discuss plans for the interactive lighted costumes and the super-secret lighted trombone mute.
01.06.2017 Florida International Toy Piano Festival
2017 Florida International Toy Piano Festival January 6, 2017 Bloom Art Center 910 5th Avenue N. St. Petersburg, FL 33705 l’Ao will be joining Elizabeth A. Baker to perform our collaborative composition: Photon Ecstasy (DP Leonis b), for toy piano, […]
Kepler–19 was composed for mezzo-soprano Jessica Bowers. In the spirit of NASA’s Golden Record, which sent Earth-music on the Voyager missions, this music incorporates Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula into its droning textures. Star type: G-type main-sequence (similar to Sol) Alternate names: TYC 3134-1549-1, 2MASS […]
DP Leonis was composed for a performance with Elizabeth A Baker at the 2017 Florida International Toy Piano Festival. The performers improvise patterns based on rhythms that are rotations of the other performers’ rhythms. The ideas in this piece are […]
HD 7924 is the first installment in the Photon Ecstasy catalog. It is divided into three major sections, one for each of the exoplanets in the system. The sounds of HD 7924 include spoken text, original field recordings, live sound […]
width=”640″ height=”360″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen=”allowfullscreen”> Star type: Open Cluster Alternate names: Beehive Cluster, Praesepe (Latin for “manger”), M44, or Cr 189 Constellation: Cancer Right ascension: 08h 40.4m Declination: 19° 59′ Distance: 577 light years (177 parsecs) Planets: Pr0201b – hot Jupiter […]
Trombone Mute Designer (“culobucologist”) / Guitar Robert Kirkbride is Dean of Parsons School of Constructed Environments and Associate Professor of Architecture and Product Design. Dr. Kirkbride has been director of studio ‘patafisico for 25 years, and is also Spokesperson and […]
