r a d i o q u a l i a LIVE remote performance zone:
8.3.01
[ - Live from Amsterdam, Netherlands - ]
r a d i o q u a l i a in collaboration with The Society for Old and New Media present
the a na tom y of wi.re mus ic
______ a performance by:
+ alastair galbraith
musician and artist, from dunedin new zealand
+ matt de genarro
musician and student of art and acoustics, from the usa
______ watch the archive of the performance
+ real player 8 or higher
rtsp archive
+ older real players
pnm archive
______ about the performance
date + time
08.03.01
1900 [ GMT ]
2000 [ Central European Time ]
1500 [ US Eastern Standard Time ]
2330 [ Indian Standard Time ]
0600 [ New Zealand Time - 09.03.01 ]
______ about wire music
the theatre anatomicum at de waag in amsterdam will be explored aurally through
a special performance, produced especially for the net. alastair galbraith
and matt de gennaro will find the resonant harmonics of the waag building
itself using long tension wires. this manifestation of 'wire music' is the
latest in a series of sound performances which make audible the resonances of
architectural locations, by stringing piano wires up and playing them with
rosined hands.
de gennaro first played wire music during the 1990's as a private indulgence in
his attic art studio. a personal friendship with galbraith blossomed into
collaboration when they played a wire music concert in 1998 at the 'chip
shop', a music venue that had previously been a fish 'n' chips joint. their
rehearsal and concert became their first CD, 'wire music', released by corpus hermeticum.
in july 1999, the duo took their music around new zealand, playing at the major
public art galleries, dunedin public art gallery, city gallery in wellington,
the robert mcdougall in christchurch, and artspace in auckland, among others.
de gennaro gave a brief lecture that positioned their work within the
multimedia endeavors of artists like harry bertoia. then they played the wires,
occasionally augmented by galbraith's violin and tape loops."
tomorrow's performamnce will be the first time wire music has been presented
live online.
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______ about de waag
de waag was built in 1488 as a citygate and is the oldest secular building of
amsterdam. in the centuries that followed, the building served successively as
a weighouse, guildhall, fire station, municipal archives and museum for jewish
history. the various guilds that were housed in the building left behind clear
traces of their occupation. in 1691 the guild of chirurgeons added an octagonal
domed tower. because of the similarities with a roman amphitheatre, this new
area, the anatomy room was called the Theatrum Anatomicum. it was here, in this
theatre that the first northern european public dissections took place.
rembrandt was a regular visitor and immortalised the practice of anatomy in his
painting 'the anatomy lesson of dr. tulp'.
today de waag is home to the media lab and presentation space of the society
for old and new media.
streaming services for this event kindly donated by xs4all
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