Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)

Here is some much deserved praise for Ephraim Asili’s debut feature film, The Inheritance! Click the link in our bio to see more news and reviews of the incredible EMPAC-Commissed film! ... #EMPAC #RPI #Rensselaer #ExperimentalMediaandPerformingArtsCenter #RensselaerPolytechnicInstitute #contemporaryart #EphraimAsili #TheInheritance See more

TODAY at 12PM (EST)! Join us for our final In Depth lunch hour conversation via Zoom with EMPAC-commissioned composer Miya Masaoka, facilitated by Curator of music Dr. Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti. Click the link in our bio to register! This conversation is free and open to the public! ... Miya Masaoka is a composer, sound artist and musician based in New York City. Classically trained, her work operates at the intersection of spatialized sound, frequency and perception, performance, social and historical references. Whether recording inside physical objects or the human body, within architecturally resonant spaces or outdoor resonant canyons, American composer Miya Masaoka creates incongruencies that feed the paradox of the contemporary condition. Her new solo work for Wave Field Synthesis Array and solo performer will connect the artistic practices of notated composition, alternative personas, and hybrid acoustic-electronic performance on Japanese traditional string instruments such as the koto and ichigenkin. #EMPAC #RPI #EMPACSpring2021 #ExperimentalMediaandPerformingArtsCenter #RensselaerPolytechnicInstitute #contemporaryart #troyny #enjoytroy #Rensselaer #Talk #AnneLeilehuaLanzilotti #BoraYoon #LesleyFlanigan #MiyaMasaoka #Music #Sound See more

Join us tomorrow for a conversation with Annie Saunders, Wild Up, their collaborators, and EMPAC curator Ashley Ferro-Murray as they discuss the making of a new work titled . empac.rpi.edu #EMPAC #ExperimentalMediaandPerformingArtsCenter #Rensselaer #RPI #RensselaerPolytechnicInstitute #contemporaryart #newmusic #performance #dance #theater #dance #sound #AnnieSaunders #WildUp

Join us on Thursday, December 3, 2020, for a conversation with artists Annie Saunders & Wild Up who will discuss the making of their work, Rest, a commissioned project that will premiere January 2021. Theater maker Annie Saunders collaborates with theater/pop/new music band Wild Up and composer Emma O’Halloran on a new work called Rest. The work engages an audience with simple guidance on how to interact with each other and the performance space. Overall, Rest interrogat...es sensory overwhelm, sensory deprivation, hallucinations and the nature of consciousness. The audience experience is inspired by the idea that our perception of reality depends on agreements and disagreements with other people. Light and sound are central to the staging of Rest. These elements help to sculpt a performance environment that includes moments of near-silence, music, and field recordings from a diverse set of conversations. Materials include conversations with consciousness experts, people sharing their early sense memories, and reflections on our relationships to our smartphones. The work provides a visceral opportunity to feel and consider what ‘rest’ means to us in the modern world. The artistic collaborators are in remote residence this fall to develop an EMPAC-commissioned online iteration of Rest. The commission will provide the artists an opportunity to explore their archive of material. The outcome is unknown, but the process of building and experiencing this online work will provide a look inside immersive, multidisciplinary theatrical practices. #EMPAC #ExperimentalMediaandPerformingArtsCenter #Rensselaer #RPI #RensselaerPolytechnicInstitute #contemporaryart #newmusic #performance #dance #theater #dance #sound See more

TODAY! Seth Parker Woods in conversation with Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti. Link on website / enter meeting code. @iffogred @njoachim @mutationfactor @tremblap #cello #zoom

Tomorrow! THURSDAY! @sethparkerwoods in conversation with @annezilotti. Link on website / enter meeting code. @iffogred @njoachim @mutationfactor @tremblap #cello #zoom

In Depth: Seth Parker Woods (@sethparkerwoods) A talk with music curator Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti (@annezilotti) Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 3PM ZOOM link in bio!... Panels by Jacob Lawrence, part of the visual world of Wood’s Difficult Grace program he’ll be sharing. Read more about this series on @themuseumofmodernart’s website: https://www.moma.org//exhibiti/2015/onewayticket/panel/58/ . . . #newmusic #contemporarymusic #cello #zoom #zoomtalk @iffogred @mutationfactor @njoachim @tremblap

THURSDAY! @sethparkerwoods in conversation with @annezilotti. Link on website / enter meeting code.