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- KO SOLO (Kate Olson)
The Human Sound: Breath and electronics in the digital age
(18 mins) (1) - Indicative of Drumming (Nickolai V. Zielinski)
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Macrosomic Baby
(20 mins) (2) - Seth Andrew Davis
An American Is A Complex Of Occasions
(20 mins) (4) - The Rebel Scum (Shawn Lawson and Ryan Ross Smith)
Function Def(dystopiakira)
(15 mins) (2) - (73 mins)
Kate Olson
KO SOLO
The Human Sound: Breath and electronics in the digital age
Alto flute and electronics
What is the role of the artist in the digital age? How do we keep connection with our humanity when we are siloed into digital communication more than communing face to face? Boredom and despair run rampant, even though we are more technologically connected across the globe than ever before. The Human Sound is a meditation on tone production and manipulation using electronics and visual projections as a bridge for human connection through performance/audience tuning.
Kate Olson is an improvising saxophonist and composer living in Seattle Washington. Her work is at the intersection of accessible and weird.
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Nickolai V. Zielinski
Indicative of Drumming
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Macrosomic Baby
for Electronic/Acoustic Sounds + Video
An ecstatic lullaby for a world that can’t stop refreshing itself
My work is about listening. I sift through the nostalgic pseudo-cultural junk pile of audio Americana and listen… Listen for ways to up-cycle the aural artifacts that catch my ear’s eye into electro-acoustic sound collages which tread the line between parody and pastiche, irony and sincerity, paradox and truth… out of which I hope to squeeze a tiny bit of meaning, self reflection, insight, fun and aesthetic pleasure.
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Seth Andrew Davis
An American Is A Complex Of Occasions
: concerto for electric guitar, electronics, & virtual improviser
An American Is A Complex Of Occasions is a piece for electric guitar, live electronics, and virtual improviser
Seth Andrew Davis is a performer, composer, improviser, technologist, scholar and educator from the Kansas City area. Davis is involved in the improvised music/free improvisation, experimental, and electronic music scenes in Kansas City. Davis’ music runs the gamut of compositions for orchestral and chamber ensembles, performances with free-jazz/free improvised music ensembles and large groups, solo performance, collaborations with dancers and video artists, and the design and collaboration of autonomous and interactive artificial life agents and 3D environments. Davis is a co-founder of Mother Brain Records. In 2021, Davis co-founded EMAS (Extemporaneous Music & Arts Society) along with Evan Verploegh. EMAS is an improvised music & arts collective based in Kansas City that is dedicated to advancing creative work in Kansas City. Davis currently is an adjunct instructor at the University of Central Missouri teaching Applied Music Technology and at the Kansas City Art Institute teaching music technology courses.
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Shawn Lawson and Ryan Ross Smith
The Rebel Scum
Function Def(dystopiakira)
Neo Tokyo, ca. 2019, 31 years after World War III, Akira awakens. This homage is an audiovisual, live-coded performance, remixing and re-envisioning the 1988 classic film created in the year of its setting, 2019 and reimagined now in 2022/2023 as the audiovisual work DEF FUNCTION(DYSTOPIAKIRA).
The authors use the code editor Jensaarai to collaboratively and simultaneously live-code TidalCycles and Python, each supported by SuperCollider and Touch Designer on the backend respectively. The authors often collaborate remotely due to their respective locations which is facilitated by Jensaarai. This enables the client-side rendering of both audio and visuals in order to retain high-quality representations of both elements.
Shawn Lawson is an artist and researcher creating the computational sublime. He performs under the pseudonym Obi-Wan Codenobi where he live-codes real-time computer graphics and neural nets with his open source software. Lawson has performed, exhibited, or screened in museums, galleries, festivals, and public space across five continents. Lawson has published in a wide range of international technical and arts conferences and journals. His work has been funded by national and international agencies. Lawson studied fine arts at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris and received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the Interim Director of the Media Immersive Experience (MIX) Center, Animation Program Co-Director, and Professor of Art at Arizona State University.
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