with Nina Isabelle & Brian McCorkle, 5 objects, piano, and percussion

Join us for an evening of sound works by Lisa Schonberg, and Nina Isabelle with Brian McCorkle.

Lisa Schonberg will be presenting a body of 4 new spatialized sound works that are the culmination of Old Growth Playback, which asks us how we can listen in the present to speculate about future old growth soundscapes and our role in them. This work began in the forests of Oregon at HJ Andrews Experimental Forest (HJA) in 2018, and has evolved in the urban ecosystems of Troy, New York. Lisa’s compositions focus on cryptic sounds beyond the limits of typical human hearing ability without the use of technology; so that through this focus, we might consider non-human listening positions and perspectives.

Nina and Brian’s performance combines improvisational piano with an experimental percussion process that uses five shapes (five-pointed star, square, triangle, line segment, and a single point) to determine patterns of action inspired by somatic memories encoded through dance training, skateboarding, and trampoline. The structure considers speaker placement, room dimensions, and materials as a way to demonstrate an intuitive interpretation of the psychoacoustic phenomena of apparent source width and attempts to conjure LEV, the entity of listener envelopment.

Nina Isabelle is an artist researching the hidden layers of Process Art. She makes art as inquiry into how sensory perception, memory, and motive inform the decision-making processes used to construct meaning in art and life.

Brian McCorkle is a composer, performer, and digital artist in Hurley, NY. He studied jazz piano with the late Geri Allen and performs regularly as a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist

Old Growth Playback is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts
with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State
Legislature through the Media Arts Assistance Fund, a regrant partnership of
NYSCA and Wave Farm. This work has also been supported by HJ Andrews Experimental Forest and The Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University, and is presented in partnership with The Sanctuary for Independent Media, NATURE Lab, Hudson Mohawk Magazine, and Publication Studio Hudson.

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