Sound + Science 2.0
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.
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |