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AKOUSMA at Empac<\/a><\/h2>\n

Friday October 7, 8:00 PM – Studio 2<\/p>\n

EMPAC is located at the corner of 8th Street and College Avenue, in Troy, NY.<\/a><\/p>\n

Presenting international works across the spectrum of electronic music, this concert highlights selections from this year\u2019s eighth annual AKOUSMA festival in Montr\u00e9al. Pierre-Yves Mac\u00e9 (France), France Jobin (Canada), Horacio Vaggione (France\/Argentina), and Louis Dufort (Canada) will be interpreting their works live over a 16-speaker system surrounding the audience.<\/p>\n

AKOUSMA<\/a> is produced by R\u00e9seaux, a composer-run organization dedicated to presenting and commissioning electroacoustic music since 1991. Montr\u00e9al is the North American hub for electronic music, offering a wide range of festivals spanning dance music, acoustics research, and everything in between.<\/p>\n

Curator: Micah Silver<\/p>\n

Bios:France Jobin<\/strong>, aka i8u<\/strong>, is a Montr\u00e9al-based sound\/installation\/web artist and curator. Jobin’s audio art can be qualified as \u201csound-sculpture,\u201d and her installation\/web art incorporates both musical and visual elements.<\/p>\n

France Jobin has created solo recordings for ROOM40, NVO, and Bake\/Staalplaat, among others, and has had many collaborations, including with Goem, Martin T\u00e9treault, David Kristian, and Tomas Phillips.<\/p>\n

She has participated in web work\/installations in Qu\u00e9bec and Toronto, and in various music and new technology festivals in Canada, Europe, and the United States, including Silophone, MUTEK, Le Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, Ver Uit de Maat, send + receive, Les Digitales, Club Transmediale, velak, Shut up and Listen!, ISEA2010 RUHR, and immersound, as well as a soundtrack with Bubblyfish for the film Swordswoman of Huangjiang (Huangjiang Nuxia), presented at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.<\/p>\n

Her latest endeavor, immersound, is a concert event\/philosophy that proposes to create a dedicated listening environment by focusing on the physical comfort of the audience through a specifically designed space. The premise is to explore new perceptions and experiences of the listening process by pushing the notion of \u201cimmersion\u201d to its possible limits. The first immersound was produced in February 2011 at the OBORO gallery in Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n

Jobin’s work continues to evolve as technologies enable her to create in new environments.<\/p>\n

Montr\u00e9al composer Louis Dufort’s<\/strong> music ranges from a cathartic form of expressionism to a focus on the inner structure of sound matter.<\/p>\n

Dufort developed his style through electroacoustic music, and then turned his attention to mixed music and multimedia art, and has worked with a wide range of organizations, including the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de musique contemporaine du Qu\u00e9bec (SMCQ), the Ensemble contemporain de Montr\u00e9al (ECM), the Quasar saxophone quartet and Bozzini string quartet, the Ensemble de fl\u00fbtes Aliz\u00e9, R\u00e9seaux, the Quebec Association for Creation and Research in Electroacoustics (ACREQ), and Chants Libres, for which he wrote the music for the 2005 opera, L\u2019Archange<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2007, Dufort was commissioned by Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Radio\u2010Canada (SRC) and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to make a video and acousmatic remix of Glenn Gould’s recordings for the pianist 75th birthday.<\/p>\n

In 2001, Dufort received a mention from Prix Ars Electronica (Austria); in 2005, he was invited to work at the Zentrum f\u00fcr Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Germany, and in 2007, he was a guest of Recombinant Media Labs (RML) in San Francisco. He has worked with choreographer Marie Chouinard since1996, and their collaborations have been regularly acclaimed, including Body_Remix<\/em>, which premiered at the Venice Biennial in 2005.<\/p>\n

Dufort teaches at Montr\u00e9al’s Music Conservatory. He was named artistic director of R\u00e9seaux in 2010, and he begins his first season with a concert at EMPAC.<\/p>\n

Pierre-Yves Mac\u00e9<\/strong> is a French musician whose musical practice encompasses improvisation on machines, a background in piano and classical percussion, jazz-rock\/prog-rock bands, dance accompaniments, and an interest in literature and musicology. He received his PhD in musicology in 2009, which explored phonography and the \u201csound document\u201d in contemporary music. His first recording, Faux-Jumeaux<\/em>, was released on John Zorn\u2019s Tzadik label in 2002. Subsequently, he released Circulations (Sub Rosa, 2005), and Crash_Test II (Tensional Integrity) (Orkh\u00eastra, 2006) for a string quartet. He has held residencies at CalArts in Los Angeles, CNMAT in Berkeley (2004), and GRM in Paris (2006, 2008). Mac\u00e9 has performed in the Octobre Festival in Normandie, MIMI, Villette Sonique, Brocoli, Transnum\u00e9riques, and Pr\u00e9sences \u00e9lectronique. His artistic collaborations include projects with ON (Sylvain Chauveau & Steven Hess), That Summer, Louisville, artist Hippolyte Hentgen, and writers Mathieu Larnaudie, Philippe Vasset, and Christophe Fiat. He is also a member of the Encyclop\u00e9die de la parole, a speech encyclopedia crew whose goal is to constitute a compositional plan through which different forms of recorded speeches may be compared.<\/p>\n

Horacio Vaggione<\/strong> is an Argentinian-born electroacoustic and musique concr\u00e8te<\/em> composer who specializes in micromontage, granular synthesis, and microsound, and whose pieces often are for performer and computer\u2010generated tape. He studied composition at the National University in C\u00f3rdoba and the University of Illinois, where he first gained exposure and access to computers.<\/p>\n

Vaggione visited every electronic studio in Europe during the 1970s. From 1969 to 1973 he lived in Madrid, Spain, where he was part of the ALEA group. He also co\u2010founded an electronic studio and music and computer projects at the Autonomous University of Madrid with Luis de Pablo. In 1978, he moved to France, where he still resides, and begin work at GMEB in Bourges, INA\u2010GRM and IRCAM in Paris, where his music moved from synthesized and sampled loops (as in La Maquina de Cantar<\/em>, produced on an IBM computer) toward micromontage. Since 1994, he has been a professor of music at the University of Paris VIII, where he organized the Centre de recherche Informatique et Cr\u00e9ation Musicale (CICM).<\/p>\n

About EMPAC<\/h2>\n

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) opened its doors in 2008 and was hailed by the New York Times as a \u201ctechnological pleasure dome for the mind and senses\u2026 dedicated to the marriage of art and science as it has never been done before.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals from around the world and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the global stage.<\/p>\n

EMPAC\u2019s building<\/a> is a showcase work of architecture and a unique technological facility that boasts unrivaled presentation and production capabilities for art and science spanning the physical and virtual worlds and the spaces in between.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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