EVENT DESCRIPTION
Electric Streams of Wind is an environmental sound art project by composer, artist, and designer José Rivera, aka Proxemia. Exploring the development of radar technology for military and weather research, this piece first existed as a week-long site-specific 8.1-channel audio installation at the MIT Green Building in 2017.
Both a meditation on grounding and a mapping of architectural atmospheres, the installation captured audio recordings from the roof’s weather station and transmitted them to the 1st floor loggia in real-time. Now reworked for a limited edition CD, Electric Streams of Wind brings attention to and seeks to disrupt the ambience of every day brought about by constant information flows, automation, sensors, and energy systems.
José will present an experimental reimagining of the project as a 4-channel audiovisual performance. Electric Streams of Wind will also be available as a handmade CD/booklet for purchase at the event.
This program is supported in part by a grant from Cambridge Arts, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency. Complementary refreshments will be provided by MITArchA.
Listen to samples here on BandCamp.
INFORMATION
Date // Thursday January 16, 2020
Time // 7:30pm
Location // Industry Lab, 88 Norfolk Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Pricing // $5 students // $10 general admission
Tickets & RSVP at www.proxemiasound.net
BIOGRAPHY
José Rivera (aka Proxemia) is an architecturally-trained artist, composer, and designer investigating the intersections of aural and spatial experience. His practice is often expressed through electroacoustic music and experimental sound works, multi¬channel installation and performance, sound design for film, location recording, cartography, graphic and architectural design.
His works have been exhibited internationally, as well as at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Goethe-Institut Boston, ICA Boston (Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957), MIT’s MediaLab, Green Building and List Visual Art Center, Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, The Center for Visual and Performing Arts at UMass Dartmouth, and Le Laboratoire in Cambridge. Along with numerous collaborations, his fluid body of work also includes the design and construction of an open¬-air performance space for a youth dance and drumming group in rural Ghana.
He studied art and sound in MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology Program (SM 2017), and received a BS in Architecture and Environmental Design from Kent State University in 2011.