Sound art is an artistic discipline that engages with acoustics, psychoacoustics, electronics, noise music, audiomedia, found or environmental sound, explorations of the human body, sculpture, film or video and an ever-expanding set of subjects that are part of the current discourse of contemporary art. This event launches a new issue of Informes del Observatorio / Observatorio Reports. It focuses on the links between the United States and Spanish speaking countries in the field of sound art and experimental music.
This work will be presented by its three authors, musicologists and Spanish sound artists, Ferrer-Molina, Isaac Diego García and Miguel Álvarez-Fernández. Also, the event will feature the special collaboration of Jaime Oliver, Peruvian sound artist and professor of composition at New York University (NYU), who will present a performance of his creative work with MANO, one of his computer musical instruments. The piece called "9gardens" was commissioned by and composed at the Institute for Music and Acoustics at ZKM in 2012. MANO uses video cameras to analyze the gestures of hands and uses this information to perform computer music works. The event will be presided by Kay Shelemay, Professor of the Harvard Department of Music.
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