Sound + Science 2.0

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Sound + Science 2.0

Symposium
2 May 2019 - 10:00am to 3 May 2019 - 6:00pm

The UCLA Art | Sci Center + Lab proudly announces the Sound + Science Symposium 2.0 - a decade after the first gathering in March, 2009 (Sound + Science 1.0). Join us to in a 2-day symposium with sound artists, scientists and humanists exploring all kinds of vibrations, audible and inaudible. This extraordinary event will bring together leading figures to discuss the applications and implications of such research in relation to questions of culture, politics, history, environment, art, and music.

The symposium will take place on May 2nd and 3rd from 10am-6pm at the California NanoSystems Institute Auditorium at UCLA. The symposium is free and open to the public.

http://artsci.ucla.edu/sound/

Sound + Science 2.0 is a two day gathering of sound artists and scientists on May 2 and 3. Organized and moderated by Victoria Vesna, director of UCLA Art Sci center.

Day 1 will will feature the Artsmesh networked performance by Ken Fields connecting UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara, New Mexico (Andrea Polli), Canada (Joel Ong) and Harvestworks, NY (Gil Kuno). This will be followed by the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) with short talks by the symposium participants.

Day 2 will start with talks, demos and mini-performances by sound artists -- ­­­Bill Fontana, Carol Parkinson, Paul Geluso, Ted Byrnes, Jocelyn Ho, musicologist Nina Eidsheim, nanoscientist James Gimzewski and physicist Seth Putterman. Additionally, Design Media Arts students Dillon and Ivana Dam will be performing and conducting short hands-on workshops and Noise Aquarium will be installed for the audiences to experience.


Thursday, May 2nd, 2019

CNSI Performance Space

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2:00pm–5:00pm Artsmesh Network Music Performance and Discussion:
Ken Fields (UCSB) connecting UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara (graduate students Ken and Rodney Duplessis), Canada (Joel Ong) and Harvestworks, NY (Gil Kuno).
5:00pm–7:00pm Dillon Bastan
DIY experimental electroacoustic instrument performance/sculpture
7:00pm–9:00pm Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous
Carol Parkinson, Bill Fontana, Paul Geluso





Friday, May 3rd, 2019

CNSI Auditorium
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10:00am–10:30am Opening: Vibrations Matter

Victoria Vesna

UCLA

Art|Sci Center
10:30am–11:15am Keynote: Acoustic Visions

Bill Fontana

Composer

Media Artist
11:45am–12:00pm Driven by Sound: Harvestworks!

Carol Parkinson

Harvestworks

Digital Media Art
12:00pm–12:30pm The Evolution of the Immersive Sound Experiences:
From Caves to XR

Paul Geluso

NYU

Music
12:30pm–1:00pm Lunch

1:00pm–2:00pm Microscope as a Musical Instrument
Using an optical microscope as an Audiovisual instrument, Ivana Dama will give a unique improvisational performance.

Ivana Dama

UCLA

DMA
2:00pm–2:30pm Sounds of Quantum Entanglement

James Gimzewski

UCLA

Chemistry/CNSI
2:30pm–3:15pm Let There Be Light; and Sound

Seth Putterman

UCLA

Physics
3:00pm–3:15pm Break

3:15pm–3:45pm In Search of Light:
Wadada Leo Smith’s “Creation” in Sound, Symbol, and Breath

Nina Eidsheim

UCLA

Music
3:45pm–4:15pm Sound as Extruded Form
 

Sarah Brady

UCLA

DMA
4:15pm-5:00pm Sheng- mobile phones as musical instruments

Jocelyn Ho

UCLA

Performance Studies
5:00pm-6:00pm Material Improvisation

Ted Byrnes

Musician