E-Fest 2021: Electric Fields – Laetitia Sonami
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E-Fest 2021: Electric Fields – Laetitia Sonami

Événement virtuel
Du 28 octobre au 10 novembre 2021
Pour plus d'information à propos de cet événement, veuillez contacter Vancouver New Music à info@newmusic.org.

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VIDEO ON DEMAND

After purchasing your ticket, a unique link will be sent to you by email and can be used to access the performance between October 28 at 12AM PST and November 10 at 11:45PM PST on one device at the time of your choosing. 

By donation - tickets available until November 10 at 8PM PST

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E-fest 2021: Electric Fields - gestural sonic expansions

LAETITIA SONAMI
Magnetic Memories: Song of Tsar
World Premiere
(2021, 23 minutes)

Song of Tsar is a new work belonging to the Magnetic Memories cycle.

The cycle started in 2017 as an exploration of the Spring Spyre, the instrument Sonami built following the lady’s glove.

The focus in Song of Tsar is on the emptiness of the circle, which is crossed by three long springs. What comes out of this emptiness as its surface vibrates? The title refers to the Tsar Bell bell in Moscow, completed in 1735 and which has never been rung. The sound has since been “re-created” through analysis and synthesis. This led Sonami to imagine the sound of objects and places which were never sounded, or which were silenced.

Three thin springs are attached to spring reverb pick-ups on the metal wheel and generate audio signals when touched, rubbed or plucked. While not heard, the features extracted from these audio signals are sent to the Machine Learning software which controls the audio synthesis in real time.

Camera work: Dustin Schultz

Laetitia Sonami is a sound artist, performer and composer.

Sonami’s sound performances, live-­film collaborations and sound installations focus on issues of presence and participation.  Best known for her unique instrument, the elbow‐length lady’s glove, she currently performs with her latest instrument, the Spring Spyre, based on the application of neural networks to real-time audio synthesis. Sonami currently teaches at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College.

https://sonami.net

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For 2021 we set aside our traditional festival format for one more year in favour of a virtual gathering. In the past couple of years most of us have had to navigate adaptations, modifications, extensions to how we engage and interact with others in the world. Many of us have also likely spent a fair amount of time thinking about our relationship to these tools and technological mediations, and how they shape or reshape familiar boundaries – for ourselves as individuals and in our relationships. 

From October 28 to November 10 we invite you to take in five new, on-demand performance video pieces from seven artists who play with unique intersections of body and technology, exploring and transforming the blurred boundaries that define autonomy and creative agency.

On November 6 at 2PM PST we invite you to join Artistic Director Giorgio Magnanensi for an online roundtable discussion with the festival artists. Please visit https://newmusic.org/electric-fields/ for more info.

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VIDEO ON DEMAND

After purchasing your ticket, a unique link will be sent to you by email and can be used to access the performance between October 28 at 12AM PST and November 10 at 11:45PM PST on one device at the time of your choosing. 

By donation - tickets available until November 10 at 8PM PST

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E-fest 2021: Electric Fields - gestural sonic expansions

LAETITIA SONAMI
Magnetic Memories: Song of Tsar
World Premiere
(2021, 23 minutes)

Song of Tsar is a new work belonging to the Magnetic Memories cycle.

The cycle started in 2017 as an exploration of the Spring Spyre, the instrument Sonami built following the lady’s glove.

The focus in Song of Tsar is on the emptiness of the circle, which is crossed by three long springs. What comes out of this emptiness as its surface vibrates? The title refers to the Tsar Bell bell in Moscow, completed in 1735 and which has never been rung. The sound has since been “re-created” through analysis and synthesis. This led Sonami to imagine the sound of objects and places which were never sounded, or which were silenced.

Three thin springs are attached to spring reverb pick-ups on the metal wheel and generate audio signals when touched, rubbed or plucked. While not heard, the features extracted from these audio signals are sent to the Machine Learning software which controls the audio synthesis in real time.

Camera work: Dustin Schultz

Laetitia Sonami is a sound artist, performer and composer.

Sonami’s sound performances, live-­film collaborations and sound installations focus on issues of presence and participation.  Best known for her unique instrument, the elbow‐length lady’s glove, she currently performs with her latest instrument, the Spring Spyre, based on the application of neural networks to real-time audio synthesis. Sonami currently teaches at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College.

https://sonami.net

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For 2021 we set aside our traditional festival format for one more year in favour of a virtual gathering. In the past couple of years most of us have had to navigate adaptations, modifications, extensions to how we engage and interact with others in the world. Many of us have also likely spent a fair amount of time thinking about our relationship to these tools and technological mediations, and how they shape or reshape familiar boundaries – for ourselves as individuals and in our relationships. 

From October 28 to November 10 we invite you to take in five new, on-demand performance video pieces from seven artists who play with unique intersections of body and technology, exploring and transforming the blurred boundaries that define autonomy and creative agency.

On November 6 at 2PM PST we invite you to join Artistic Director Giorgio Magnanensi for an online roundtable discussion with the festival artists. Please visit https://newmusic.org/electric-fields/ for more info.

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Laetitia Sonami

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