ARTALK w/ TAEYOON CHOI MAY 30 2012 / 9PM
Join CultureHub's live in studio / telematic ARTALK with Taeyoon Choi. Taeyoon is a new media and performance artist. He earned his B.F.A. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago...>
CultureHub and La MaMa Present Monday Nights at La MaMa
Featuring: Manu Delago (Björk’s percussionist and Hang player), Graduale Nobili (Björk Choir), Peter Gordon, Kit Fitzgerald and special guests.
February 27 / 7:30 PM
At La MaMa E.T.C / First Floor Theatre
74A East 4th, NYC
Tickets: $15
Box Office: 212.475.7710
Online Tickets: www.lamama.org
A mix of La MaMa veterans and newcomers performed together in celebration of La MaMa’s 50th Season.
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CultureHub Live-Wired and Catherine Filloux / LUZ : A Play Reading
In Collaboration with Teatro Abril, Guatemala City
February 23rd / 7PM
CultureHub 47 Great Jones St / 3rd Floor.
From the garbage dump in Guatemala City, to the tent cities in Haiti, to the toxic ponds where birds expire, all search for hope in the unlikeliest, in-between places. LUZ is a large-scale work, panoramic in its view of its subject and people, poetic and surreal, tender and violent, but, ultimately, clear-eyed and hopeful. This Live-Wired session was shared with actors both in New York and in Guatemala City.
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CultureHub Live-Wired and Contact Theatre (Manchester, UK) / AudioVisual Meditations
February 18th / 5PM
CultureHub / 47 Great Jones St / 3rd Floor.
AudioVisual Meditations is a networked performance series where musicians and visualists from multiple locations improvise over distance. Featuring: Neel Murgai (Sitar, Daf) with visuals by Joshue Ott (superDraw)in collaboration Baba Israel and special guests from Contact Theatre, Manchester UK.
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CultureHub Live-Wired / Tze Chun, Daniel Iglesia, Ursula Kwong-Brown
December 15 / 8.30 PM
Tze Chun, Daniel Iglesia and Ursula Kwong-Brown presented a performance of the multi-media piece Phase Vidcoder, and a performance by Datalore. The pieces were followed by a discussion of the work open to questions from the audience.
Phase Vidcoder is an audio-video collaboration between choreographer Tze Chun and composer Daniel Iglesia. This multi-media performance piece incorporates live video, layers of projected images, and the use of delay replay, simultaneous recording and playback to investigate movement's relationship to time and space.
Datalore is a duo consisting of Game Boy sound synthesis, vocoder, guitar, toy keyboard, and drum pad. It's robo-circuits are controlled by Daniel Iglesia and Ursula Kwong-Brown.
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CultureHub Live-Wired and Contact Theatre / Digital Dialogues
December 14 / 2.30PM EST
CultureHub teamed up with Contact Theatre in Manchester, UK to present staged readings of new works in process.
Verbally Challenged is a regular script-writing competition held at Contact Theatre / Manchester, UK. In collaboration with CultureHub, Digital Dialogues was special version where both sides were connected via telepresence technology. The writers followed a set brief and two teams of performers and directors came together through the virtual space.
Plays:
New York:
Manchester - Manhattan (Alexander James Aginian); Rubbing Eyes and Rings (Aditi N. Kini)
Manchester:
We Share the Same Skies (Stephen Myott); Love and the Wet Bed (Nicole May)
Directors: Baba Israel and Billy Clark
Technicians: Jason Crouch, Lee Grey, Lawrence Reekie, Jesse Ricke
Comperes: Dominic Berry and Catherine Filloux
Production Assistant: Lizzy Tait
Actors: Sarah Amankwah, David Judge, Daniel Pinheiro, Charlotte Brathwaite
After each of the four performances, an informal Q&A session took place where the audience challenged the writers with questions and discuss the pieces they have just seen. In the end the audience decided that the ultimate cash prize was for Manchester writer Stephen Myott with the play 'We Share the Same Skies'!
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CultureHub Live-Wired / Distance Dances 
December 1 / 9PM EST
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CultureHub Live Wired Series / Banaras Soul Music
November 5/ 8PM
47 Great Jones St. / 3rd Floor
New York / New York 10012
Artists:
Two of the best known North Indian classical musicians of Banaras stopped through NYC on their Banaras Soul Music Tour. It was a great opportunity to hear traditional North Indian classical music by two of its finest exponents. Ravindra Goswami is rare among sitarist in that he performs the ancient drupad style. This duo has been performing together for over 20 years and have a deep connection to each other and the music, performing in a very traditional manner.
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CultureHub Live-Wired Series / Mande Symphony
Musicians:
Volker Goetze - Composer, Producer
Ablaye Cissoko - Voice and African-harp
Carolin Pook - violin
Filip Pogady - violin
Andi Hemmenway - viola
Brian Sanders - cello
Richie Barshay - drums
Jonathan Singer – marimba
Visualist:
Joshue Ott - superDraw
The MANDE SYMPHONY, an interactive multimedia performance for voice, African harp (kora), string quartet, film and superDraw, tells the legendary story of a Mande griot, Kimintang Cissoko, from the time he prayed that he could help alleviate the suffering of the Mande people; through his encounters with African spirits and genies that ultimately led him to create the very first kora - Africa's lute-harp.
Mandinka is a tonal language, which is ideal for musical adaption. The tonal sound provides a base for a notated, rhythmic sound that provokes improvisational passages from the orchestra.
During the performance, sampled speech and music are sent to a computer where a computer artist modulates their effect on stunning visuals from West Africa - all in real- time. With superDraw, visualist Joshue Ott creates a carefully crafted dialectic between the aural and visual experience and the artistic intention is to evoke some sense of the powerful African spirit underlying the Kimintang story in a way that makes it accessible and powerful to a Western audience.
Mande Symphony was commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts and was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Sponsorship was provided by the New York Foundation for the Arts.
To watch the recorded live feed please click on the link below.
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CultureHub Live-Wired Series / AUDIO VISUAL MEDITATIONS
September 25 / 9PM
47 Great Jones Street/3rd Floor
New York / New York 10012
On 9.25.11, Master musicians in both New York City and South Korea performed togethether via telepresence, sharing compositions and fusing disparate traditions. The performance was followed by a Q & A, linking artists and audiences in both locations.
Musicians:
NEW YORK / Steve Gorn (Bansuri), Yukio Tsuji (Guitar, Percussion), Kang Eun-il (Haegum)
KOREA / Ralph Samuelson (Shakuhachi), Kim Young-dong (DaeGeum)
Dancer:
KOREA / Park Sook-ja
This event session was made possible by the Seoul Insititute of the Arts and shared via telepresence with a live audience in Korea. To watch the recorded live feeds please click on the links below.
CultureHub / New York Feed
SeoulArts / Korea Feed
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CultureHub Live-Wired Series / MANDE SYMPHONY / 10.13.2011
Musicians:
Volker Goetze - Composer, Producer
Ablaye Cissoko - Voice and African-harp
Carolin Pook - violin
Filip Pogady - violin
Andi Hemmenway - viola
Brian Sanders - cello
Richie Barshay - drums
Jonathan Singer – marimba
Visualist:
Joshue Ott - superDraw
The MANDE SYMPHONY, an interactive multimedia performance for voice, African harp (kora), string quartet, film and superDraw, tells the legendary story of a Mande griot, Kimintang Cissoko, from the time he prayed that he could help alleviate the suffering of the Mande people; through his encounters with African spirits and genies that ultimately led him to create the very first kora - Africa's lute-harp.
Mandinka is a tonal language, which is ideal for musical adaption. The tonal sound provides a base for a notated, rhythmic sound that provokes improvisational passages from the orchestra.
During the performance, sampled speech and music are sent to a computer where a computer artist modulates their effect on stunning visuals from West Africa - all in real- time. With superDraw, visualist Joshue Ott creates a carefully crafted dialectic between the aural and visual experience and the artistic intention is to evoke some sense of the powerful African spirit underlying the Kimintang story in a way that makes it accessible and powerful to a Western audience.
Mande Symphony was commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts and was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Sponsorship was provided by the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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