Performances
Audio Ballerinas
Benoit Maubrey/ Audio Gruppe
The Audio Ballerinas (2010) use light sensors that enable them to produce sounds through the interaction of a dancers movements and the surrounding light.
Into the Trees
Zoë Keating and Robert Hodgin
Composition for the ears meets composition for the eyes in an organic, evolving world of sight and sound.
KarmetiK Collective: Symbiotic Robotic/Human Ensemble
Ajay Kapur and Curtis Bahn
KarmetiK brings together Indian Classical music with robotics, artificial intelligence, sonic mosaics and electronica.
Midnight Concert Series
Three midnight concerts by contemporary sound artists will take place on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night at midnight inside one of San Jose’s historic venues, Trinity Cathedral.
Possible landscape (for Donald Judd)
Steve Roden
Possible Landscape (for Donald Judd) is created using field recordings gathered in Marfa, TX; as well as live acoustic objects, electronic objects and instruments, voice, and electronic processing.
Requiem for fossil fuels
O+A
Requiem for fossil fuels, written and performed by O+A with four singers and an 8-channel “Orchestra of Cities”, is a unique setting of the Requiem Mass offered to a world struggling to reconcile its utter dependence on fossil fuels with the coming end of oil, coal, and peat.
A Season in Hell
Randall Packer
Created by Randall Packer, A Season in Hell (2010) is a historical portrait of political and social turmoil in the post-9/11 era, a hallucinatory spectacle of America as a vision of Hell.
Stephen Vitiello with guest, Molly Berg
Stephen Vitiello
The performance will draw on materials from the duo’s CD, The Gorilla Variations as well as new material related to Vitiello’s trip to Fort McMurray, Canada in search of the elusive Aurora Borealis.
untitled composition for piano, field recordings, sine waves
Olivia Block
Using the grand piano as both as a musical instrument, and as a resonating chamber for sounds, Olivia will perform a solo composition using the piano, small portable speakers, mallets, and other small objects as “preparations.”
