free103point9 is pleased to present an afternoon and evening of outdoor experimental sound performance at Wave Farm in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains. Internationally recognized artists Matthew Burtner, Nicolas Collins, and Scanner will each map and respond to the local environs—both physical and ephemeral. The performances will take place on a meadow. Audience members are encouraged to bring blankets; picnic provisions will be available on site. Matthew Burtner
The work of composer and sound artist Matthew Burtner explores environmental systems (ecoacoustics), technological embodiment, and extended polyrhythmic and noise-based musical systems. His instrumental and computer music is performed widely and he tours regularly with the metasaxophone, an augmented computer instrument of his own creation. A native of Alaska, he currently teaches composition and computer music at the University of Virginia, where he is associate director of the VCCM Computer Music Center. Burtner’s Studies for Radio Transceiver question the nature of the radio medium and the role it plays in forming the content of a musical system.

Nicolas Collins
New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins studied with Alvin Lucier and worked for many years with David Tudor. "The first guy to take a computer onto a bar stage" (in the words of George Lewis), Collins combines cutting edge and trailing spine technologies into performances that explore found sound material, acoustic phenomena and musical interaction. His 1985 Devil's Music (one of the first compositions to make use of live sampling) grabbed fragments of radio broadcasts, ham transmissions and cell phone conversations and wove them live into a post-disco, pre-mashup homage to John Cage's Imaginary Landscape No. 4.

Former Artistic Director of STEIM (Amsterdam) and a DAAD Composer-in-Residence in Berlin, Collins teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is editor-in-chief of Leonardo Music Journal. His book, "Handmade Electronic Music - the Art of Hardware Hacking", will be published by Routledge in 2006.

Scanner
From British artist Scanner’s (Robin Rimbaud) early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed contacts emerge, his explorations traverse the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways. Scanner has performed and created works internationally including SFMOMA USA, Hayward Gallery London, Pompidou Centre Paris, Kunsthalle Vienna, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Tate Modern London and the Royal Opera House London.

ALSO FEATURED


AURICLE by MICHELLE ROSENBERG

Michelle Rosenberg has developed a series of works that identify different ways of listening. Auricle is a mobile parabolic sound reflector. This Auricle (pictured above), was first installed in Socrates Sculpture Park in 2005. It amplified lower frequencies such as traffic sounds best to listeners standing in the focus point of the curve with adjustable plastic semi-spheres that include openings for ear placement. At Wave Farm, Auricle will amplify voices, leaves rustling in the wind, and other Spectral Garden activities. www.michellerosenberg.com


Spectral Garden is made possible, in part, by the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and with public funds from the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by the Greene County Council on the Arts.


Wave Farm Summer Events 2006