2019
December 21st, 2019
5:30-7:00pm
Music to Play in the Dark #1
An immersive, spatial audio-haptic concert in total darkness for the Winter Solstice!
This concert will feature existing pieces by invited composer Darren Copeland and Doug Van Nort that are re-imagined for the 28.2 audio and 56-channel haptic floor of the DisPerSion Lab. It will also include a new piece by lab member Rory Hoy created for this event.
Copeland’s piece will feature a small amount of light in order to see his performative gesture-based spatializations sound. Van Nort’s piece, originally composed in 2012, will be the first full use of the haptic floor that he has created over the past few years. Hoy’s piece will be a new construction created in the space leading up to the event.
December 6th, 2019
5:30-7:30pm
Dispersion Relation #4: Doug Van Nort with the Electro-Acoustic Orchestra
Dispersion Relations
(or, dvnt and friends)
In this semi-regular series, every other Friday (+/- 1 week) in the Dispersion Lab, Doug Van Nort performs with curated and invited guests.
All are welcome to come and listen in this immersive sonic space.
The fourth event welcomes a special performance with the Electro-Acoustic Orchestra. Two pieces will explore new modes of composing for attentional strategies that blend Soundpainting conducting, cross-performer live processing, interactive spatialization and lighting.
November 15th, 2019
5:30-7:30pm
Dispersion Relation #3: Doug Van Nort with guests Brian Abbott and Lauren Wilson
Dispersion Relations
(or, dvnt and friends)
In this semi-regular series, every other Friday (+/- 1 week) in the Dispersion Lab, Doug Van Nort performs with curated and invited guests.
All are welcome to come and listen in this immersive sonic space.
The third event welcomes a pair of Dispersion Lab members who traverse electroacoustic and contemporary classical practices with focused and careful attention to the boundaries of sound, space, noise and silence.
November 9, 2019
The Array Space, 155 Walnut Ave
3pm | $30 or PWYW
Telematic #1 linking Arraymusic (Toronto) with NowNet Arts Conference (Stony Brook, New York)
Connected digitally across borders, Doug Van Nort presents his SSHRC Partnership Engage project with Arraymusic and cellist Anne Bourne in the first of three telematic concert events. Connecting with NowNet Arts Ensemble in New York (Sarah Weaver dir.), invited musicians at two sites join to explore senses of collective presence via the shared acoustics of a virtual performance space.
Note from Doug Van Nort: “This piece, Innerspace, is a structured improvisation wherein different virtual acoustic conditions/reverberations will envelop the two-location ensemble sound throughout, with dynamic changes over the course of the piece. Text-based structures of rolling duos/trios/quartets/whole group with varying shapes and qualities (e.g. conditions of noise, tone, pointillism, sustained sound, pitch ranges.) will help focus our inquiry into playing together in this shared real/virtual musical space.”
Array Space Performers:
Anne Bourne (cello)
Rick Sacks (percussion)
David Schotzko (percussion)
Doug Van Nort (greis/electronics)
Stony Brook Performers:
Ethan Cayko (percussion and electronics)
Taylor Long (percussion)
Kevin Kay (bass clarinet)
November 8th, 2019
5:30-7:30pm
Dispersion Relation #2: Doug Van Nort with guests Rory Hoy, Kieran Maraj, Danny Sheahan
Dispersion Relations
(or, dvnt and friends)
In this semi-regular series, every other Friday (+/- 1 week) in the Dispersion Lab, Doug Van Nort performs with curated and invited guests.
All are welcome to come and listen in this immersive sonic space.
The second event welcomes a trio of Dispersion Lab members who are pushing the envelopes of their improvised electroacoustic practice, taking this in new and interesting directions both in EAO and in their solo/ensemble projects.
April 18th, 2019
Electro-Acoustic Orchestra (dir. Doug Van Nort)
@
Toronto Media Arts Center
April 8th, 2019
DisPerSion Lab Open House/Vertical Studio-Lab Demos
Come to hear about and experience recent and in-progress lab projects
including the lab in it’s sound-responsive “listening room” state, our interactive lights, wearable haptics and the audio-haptic floor.
April 5th 2019
Doug Van Nort: “Soundpainting: More than Meets the Ear”
a presentation of the piece Intersubjective Soundings vol. 3, for the Electro-Acoustic Orchestra
featured performance of the of CBC-produced CRAM event
Vari Hall Rotunda, York University
January 27th, 2019
Doug Van Nort and the Electro-Acoustic Orchestra, with the Nilan Perrera Quartet
Synaptic Circus Series, Tranzac Club, Toronto
January-February 2019
Calling all sound/code artist-hackers!
What:
This is a call for sound artists, digital musicians and composers to participate in a distributed, pro-hacking and open-source electronic music composition and instrument design experiment under development and direction by Michael Palumbo and Dr. Doug Van Nort of the Distributed Performance and Sensorial Immersion (DisPerSion) Lab. This research-creation project will comprise brief phases of programming and hacking of software-based digital musical instruments, composing etudes, and engaging in short group improvisations. Improv sessions will be held in January and February 2019, culminating in at least one public performance (participation in the public portion is optional).
Please use the contact form in order to express interest in taking part.