SF Intl Arts Festival: ROVATE 2009: "Fissures, Futures"
Jewish Community & Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA
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SF Intl Arts Festival: ROVATE 2009: "Fissures, Futures"
Rovate 2009: Fissures, Futures is an ambitious music project by a team of composer-musicians and the media-film artist Lillevan who will contribute his digital animation to create visual music.  The project is a continuation of Rova's recent foray into employing the visual arts as either an inspiration for, or an actual tool in, the creation of musical structures.  For additional inspiration, the lead artists of Fissures, Futures will use American-philosopher Buckminster Fullers ideas on flexible structure as inspiration for the structures we create for Fissures, Futures, erecting an artistic framework of our own that will inform the entire creative process for the pieces in the live performances.
The lead composer for each piece will imagine and create flexible and performance-specific systems or structures, within which the musicians will interact in real time with each other and with the computer-generated images, resulting in films determined, in part, by these sounds.  These composed structures for improvisation will include notation for musicians, verbal instructions for all participants, and visual cueing to take place spontaneously, the cues directly influencing both the sound and the visual components of each piece.  Each structure, as well as each film created onstage, will result in a unique and non-repeatable performance-experience.
Featuring the Berlin-based digital animation of media-artist Lillevan, Fissures, Futures structured improvisations will be performed by Rova, the saxophone quartet, along with a group of internationally-known musicians including analog-electronics artist Thomas Lehn (Koln, Germany); violist Charlotte Hug (Zurich, Switzerland); bassist Lisle Ellis (Vancouver, NYC); cellist Joan Jeanrenaud (San Francisco), violinist Carla Kihlstedt (Oakland), percussionist Kjell Nordeson (Sweden), and Lillevan (Berlin, Germany). Lillevans work embraces improvisation in its approach to digital animation, combining moving film, found historic film stills, and digitally manipulated color design.  Fissures, Futures offers the additional artistic challenge of real-time interaction between sound and visual artist during performance.

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Jewish Community & Cultural Center
3200 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94118
United States
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