EMPAC’s Spring 2018 season has a bunch of great programming worth looking forward to.
Music events include a 24-voice ensemble, an evening-length piece scored for 12 strings, a spatial audio seminar, and the Wave Field Synthesis Workshop.
There’s also a bunch of great talks, lectures, dance performances worth checking out. Dig into the calendar and see what sounds interesting to you.
Tsuga will begin it’s 30 day run, starting tonight at 6pm. The shop will be operating out of the Flower Scout space at 137 2nd Street in Troy.
TSUGA opens for one month (and one month only) on this night, and we’ll have wine and snacks and music to celebrate.
Come hang out and take a gander at the array of local, handmade, wholesome products you could grab for yourself or for someone you love.
Trust me, it’ll be cozy, pretty, and nice-smelling in this little temporary shop. Come on out!
More info on the Facebook event. If you can’t make the grand opening, be sure to visit before Christmas eve!
On Friday, Hieroglyphic Being will be performing at EMPAC. Hieroglyphic Being is known for his out of this world, experimental, house music.
From EMPAC’s event listing:
You find a vinyl record out in the desert, faded and with no markings. Upon returning home, you place it on the turntable and are enveloped by distorted, raw, rhythmic pulsations. The sound gives you a glimpse into another world, another way of existing. It works its way inside of you, and you begin to subtly move.
This is the sound of Hieroglyphic Being.
The kind folks at EMPAC have given me a pair of tickets to give away to a lucky KAB reader! You can enter the giveaway below. If you are not the contest type, tickets are currently on sale directly from EMPAC.
EMPAC has recently announced their upcoming season, and as usual, there’s a lot of great stuff coming up.
A few music events I’m excited to check out are Hieroglyphic Being on September 8, Actress and Toxe on October 20, and Laura Luna on November 17.
Also, the HoloLens demo and talk looks really interesting, and My Paradoxical Knives, Laure Prouvost’s new performance, and AFTER by Andrew Schneider all sound very interesting.
Check out the schedule, see what you find interesting and go check it out!
Incredible electronic music producer Elysia Crampton is performing this Friday, May 26 at EMPAC. The wonderful folks at EMPAC have given me a pair of tickets to give away to a lucky reader. You can read their event description, enter the giveaway, and check out some of Elysia Crampton’s music below, as well as read reviews of Demon City from Pitchfork and Resident Advisor.
From EMPAC:
A force within Latinx culture and the rising genderqueer electronic aesthetic (alongside Arca, Lotic, Rabit, etc.), Elysia Crampton has described her style as “severo,” a word suggestive of the raw textures and violent juxtapositions she creates with source material ranging from American pop to cumbia, hip-hop, ratchet, and South American metal. A descendent of the Aymara people indigenous to Bolivia, Crampton made waves with last year’s Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City. A sister piece to the theatrical production Dissolution of the Sovereign: A Timeslide into the Future, the album was written in the style of an epic poem, taking inspiration from the story of the Aymara revolutionary Bartolina Sisa, whose severed limbs were paraded through the Andes after her execution at the hands of Spanish colonists.