Surround:Visual - A Multimedia/Dance Performance with Live Music

Tonight in Buffalo a true multimedia event is taking place over at Babeville. You can check out the Facebook page for all the info, but here is the quick rundown if you don't already know what's up.

Photo originally from Artvoice.com

Surround:Visual a Multimedia/Dance Performance with Live Music will feature a total of 25 performers across 3 mediums: dance, video, and music. The performers will present a collaboration that is intended to, from the sound of it, engulf the audience in a sensory overload experience. The audience is in the middle, enclosed by a circle of video projections and surround-sound audio. Dancers will then roam in between the screen and the audience.

There will be two 50-minute improvisational performances.The show is free, but a donation is encouraged.

List of performers:

Dancers: Erin Bahn, Beth Elkins, Nancy Hughes, Angela Lopez, Leanne Rinelli, Bonnie Jean Taylor, and Elyssa Bourke.

Video artists: Cory Gath, Courtney Grim, Carl Lee, Tammy McGovern, Brian Milbrand and Vince Mistretta

Musicians: Jim Abramson, Kathleen Ashwill, Steve Baczkowski, Michael Basinski, Gabe Beam, Kevin Obrien Cain, Jenece Gerber, Mike Kimaid, Keir Neuringer, KG Price and T. Andrew Trump 

Check out this video of the group rehearsing for tonight's show:

Both performances are supported in part with funds from the Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds which are supported by The New York State Council on the Arts and the Strategic Opportunity Stipends Program through New York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts. The project also received a generous donation of steel from ALP Steel Corp.

Reactionary Ensemble Blog:

http://reactionaryensemble.blogspot.com/

Presented by Beyond/In WNY:

http://beyondinwny.org/

THE EVENT IS A BENEFIT FOR HALLWALLS !!!!!

Kickstarter for Surrounded:Visual Show

The upcoming Surrounded:Visual event set to take place at Babeville on Wednesday, December 8 needs help raising funds. The Reactionary Ensemble and nimbus dance group are hoping to raise $2,500 in order to meet their needed funding for the event.

Right now they are at $210.

Head over to their Kickstarter page for more details on the event (which sounds fucking awesome, by the way) and what you can get by donating anywhere from $10-$500. Donations as low as $1 can be made as well.

The money will go toward the materials needed for the the screen used in the performance, costumes for the dancers, ultrasonic range sensors and stipends for the artists involved in the project.

Monday, December 6 is the deadline for raising the funds. 

Reactionary Ensemble's Surround:Audio Tonight at the Burchfield-Penny Art Center

Interesting FREE event going down tonight at the Burchfield-Penny Art Center.  Audio/visual improvisationalists the Reactionary Ensemble will perform using a hacked Wii remote and Wacom tablet to control audio and video in a venue fitted with surround-sound capability.  

The event will feature musicians Gabe Beam, Kevin O'brien Cain, Jamie Currie, Michael Kimiad, T. Andrew Trump along with KG Price manning the live Wii-mote Room Conduction.

The event's Facebook page says to prepare for the combination of "sound & visuals into a synæsthetic montage that challenges the audience to forge unfamiliar connections and make new correlations — opening a boundless world of unprompted connections existing as a vodoun-esque fabrication of dream-like imaginations."

In other words, hallucinogenic experiences will be provided with cover charge. Oh wait...its FREE!  

Head down to the Burchfield Penny Art Center (1300 Elmwood Ave) at 7 pm.  

And if you take any pictures tonight, upload them to The Soundscape Flickr Group for everyone else to see.