[NewMusic] Fwd: jamie allen - SF visit

[matt ingalls]

On Feb 5, 2007, at 12:51 AM, jamie allen wrote:

> hi there!
>
> i'm a experimental sound/performance artist in NYC and am going to  
> be around San Francisco from March 15th-19th and was wondering if  
> there might be some little show i could take part in or workshop i  
> could give?  i'd really love to get together with some experimental  
> musicians, noise artists or improvisers in the area, as well as  
> interactive artists or similar.  i teach a class at NYU called "new  
> interfaces for musical expression"  (http://itp.nyu.edu/nime/) and  
> am always on the lookout for associations/guests/performers to be a  
> part of the community surrounding the class.  i run a few  
> performance nights around NYC, including one at the LEMURplex in  
> Brooklyn called "tranzducer" (http://www.tranzducer.com), as well.
>
> i'm particularly interested in ideas surrounding 'interfaces' and  
> musical control structures.  from a performance perspective, i have  
> a piece of live audio-circuit construction called "Circuit Music"  
> i've been growing i thought might be "appropriate":  http:// 
> heavyside.net/jamie/works/circuit-music/.  having built many  
> 'musical interfaces' in the past, i've come to revel in the rawness  
> of circuit construction itself as a real-time compositional  
> framework.  it also has an aspect of David Tudor-like improvisation  
> involved with it, as it's difficult at times to make conscientious  
> decisions about the direction a given decision will take you, i.e.:  
> ultimately improvised.
>
> in any case, links to my work and other activities are below - let  
> me know if anything appropriate comes to mind!
>
> cheers!
> jamie allen
>
> jamie at heavyside.net
> http://heavyside.net/
>
>