SYNDROME SESSIONS 1.2: CONTROL at FACT, Liverpool, UK, 25th JUNE, 7.30pm
An event proposing four new systems of control
for music and performance
SYNDROME SESSIONS 1.2: CONTROL
at FACT 25th JUNE, 7.30pm
TICKETS : http://fact.co.uk/syndrome-13-control
featuring
ERIK BUNGER / LAWRENCE LEK / JOEL EATON / MARCO DONNARUMMA
plus new work by Mercy and Hive
Building on the core commissions and multi-media performances of the Syndrome programme, and preparing us for coming month's explorations of interaction design Mercy and Hive present vital approaches and ideas around control and sensation in The Box at FACT. This event brings together four arts practitioners who propose new ideas for the exertion and slippages of control in relation to arts performance - taking place acrossbrain waves, musculature, and virtual and divine space.
The event features four short works which work across performance and lecture formats, each of which aim to extend our notions of control in relation to contemporary media.
Joel Eaton FLEX
Eton presents his Brain-Computer Music Interface (BCMI) which allows him to play live electronic music with his thoughts. For Syndrome the relation of thought and musical output will be problematised and played out before the audience, as Eton resets the parameters for his control device before the performance. The performance therefore is composed of a learning journey which the audience chart through the changing degrees of frustration, concentration and joy on the artists' face, and the coming together of the intended musical composition.
Marco Donnarumma XTH SENSE
Donnarumma explores the dimensions of the human body in relation to real, virtual and cultural spaces. For Syndrome he presents and demonstrates his unique technology, 'Xth Sense', which allows for a human's muscle tissue to be played as an instrument, providing the visceral counterpart to Joel Eton's explorations of the readability of cognition.
Lawrence Lek DEGREES OF FREEDOM
With this presentation/performance and game-world walk-through, Lek takes the 'Degrees of Freedom' (the constraints enforced on a body in a virtual space), as his starting point to explore the primal experience of utopian visions through prototyping and simulation.
Erik Bunger THE EMPIRE NEVER ENDED
This work starts with a transcription-score of a man speaking in tongues on a recording from 1948. He is believed to be in a state of trance and his vocalizations haven’t been recognized as belonging to any known human language. As performance, the piece is played live by a violinist, along with a playback of the original recording. The piece operates at the intersection where complete control and complete lack of control coincide. To perform the piece a musician will have to summon all precision and all concentration. At the same time he/she will have to put these very same abilities in the hands of a power beyond any human control. A power we know nothing about.
Syndrome is a major multi-media events programme which launched on Saturday April 26th at 24 Kitchen Street. Devised by Mercy working alongside HIVE, and funded by Arts Council England and Liverpool City Council’s, the SYNDROME will include artist residencies from artists including Holly Herndon, live acts including Pharmakon and Caroline Bergvall, a series of events and talks at institutional partner FACT, and range of commissions taking sensational media artworks into the public realm.
The first event, SYNDROME Session 1.0, offered an illustrative mix of the project’s intention to explore the points where audiovisual art, theatre and spoken word performance meet. The second, 1.1, included two public realm commissions, using face and movement recognition to connect humans to database and glitch visual material.
You can see documentation of the first event here: https://vimeo.com/95267250
And behind the scenes process of all works here: http://www.mercyonline.co.uk/who-we-are/what-we-are-up-to/article/syndrome-first-outcomes
More information below, and on the project holding page http://syn-dro.me
on facebook https://www.facebook.com/syndromeliverpool
**July 25th @ 24 Kitchen Street
SYNDROME Session 2.0
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Antonio Roberts and Rachel Sweeney
Special guests TBA
**August 21st @ 24 Kitchen Street
SYNDROME Session 2.1
S J Fowler performs a brand new interactive AV room devised by Jamie Gledhill and Stefan Kazassoglou
**September 5th / 6th @ 24 Kitchen Street
SYNDROME Session 2.2 & 2.3
Holly Herndon with Mat Dryhurst – KAIRO
Live set and newly commissioned work.
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