SofiArt

The Op on Screen Interactive Festival

Four events of two generations of women artists/composers and collaborators

New York Public Library – Hamilton Fish Park
415 E Houston St.@ Avenue D
FREE

Sofia Paraskeva: Rainbow Resonance – Thursday, October 15 at 6PM

Rainbow Resonance is a computer vision installation that generates colors and musical sounds of the equivalent sound frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum, according to the motion of the participator.  The audience is encouraged to participate in a playful performance that engages the body to produce colorful images and sound resonances through simple movements.

Sofia Paraskeva: Rainbow Resonance

Lesley Flanigan: Voices for Speakers – Saturday, October 17 at 2PM

Voices for Speakers uses vocalizations and feedback technology to create an interactive sound environment.  This performance of Lesley’s work will include some new sounds using the dynamic voices of sopranos Sarah Moulton and Pamela Stein along with the video artistry of Luke DuBois.

Lesley Flanigan, Sarah Moulton and Pamela Stein in performance

Sofia Paraskeva and Elodie Lauten: The Trickster – Thursday, October 22 at 6PM

The Trickster is a collaborative sound and interactive installation with choreography by Khoi Bao Le and visuals by Sofia Paraskeva.  This performance is an offshoot from Lauten’s new work The Two-Cents Opera, involving interactivity between movement, music, and image projections triggered by dance and wearable components.

Khoi Bao Le performing in The Trickster

Arleen Schloss and Emma Zakarevicius: Echolations – Saturday, October 24 at 2PM

Echolations, a performance-sound environment for electronically processed voices.  Arleen Schloss & Emma Zakarevicius will present a collaborative performance piece for voices and electronic echolations investigating the primitive desire with alphabetic sanskrit vocal sounds and digital techno-poetics (signs) as a mode of communication and connection.

Arleen Schloss & Emma Zakarevicius performing Echolations

About the Artists

Sofia Paraskeva, Lesley Flanigan and Emma Zakarevicius are active emerging artists whose work has been presented in the US and internationally. Also featured is a young emerging choreographer from Viet Nam, Khoi Bao Le. Arleen Schloss is a performance art pioneer, video artist and founder of the A’s Salon in the late 1970, which became one of the most influential places in the Downtown art and music scenes. Elodie Lauten is a leading multimedia artist and music technology educator with credits at the New York City Opera, Lincoln Center and the Whitney Museum, recently featured at the Theater for the New City and the Women Forward exhibition praised by Mayor Bloomberg in Williamsburg.

The Op on Screen Festival is presented by Lower East Side Performing Arts, with support from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Fund for Creative Communities  for the third consecutive year.  It is  free and open to the public.

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