ICMC/25/Installation/Screening
ICMC 25 Film Screenings
- 2025-06-11 Wed
- Installations — Screenings — Bright Family Screening Room, Emerson College, 559 Washington St. — two identical screenings on Wednesday 11 June: 18:00 – 20:00 and 20:30 – 22:30
- 31 Resilience in Color: Sonic Portrayals of Women’s Resistance — Person/Zeynep Özcan ICMC/25/Installation/Screening/04 Resilience in Color
- Description: Audiovisual installation translating iconic images of women’s sociopolitical protest into formant-synthesis sound and RGB-driven visuals, scanning each pixel to build a chorus of resilience.
- Author bio: Experimental-music composer and University of Michigan professor exploring bio-inspired creativity, sonification, and large-scale interactive works.
- 21:14 there are five vertical sections in the top half of the screen, with red, blue, green, pink, yellow scenes of women's resistence. two scenes involve brutality, three involve protest that is not being . In the lower half, a highly contrasted, bit-reducted version gradually "downloads" as the piece continues.
- 21:15 sounds remind me of a casiotone keyboard from the 80's immitating a voice, appropriate.
- slowly moving blocks of red, blue, green, pink, yellow crawl from left to right slowly, like the early video game "snake"
- 21:20 a sound of beating on the door seven times
- little screeches perhaps signify struggle
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- 98 ludus vocalis — Person/Felipe Tovar Henao ICMC/25/Installation/Screening/06 ludus vocalis
- Description: 25-minute eight-channel video work re-imagining non-verbal vocalisations (laughing, crying, screaming, etc.) through AI-generated mouth imagery and curated sound corpora.
- Author bio: Colombian-American multimedia artist researching algorithmic creativity, machine learning, and immersive installations; composer fellow with American Composers Orchestra.
- 21:41 extremely fast, scattered chunks of videos and audio recordings of various sounds that come from the mouth. Germs, Laughs.
- It's very effervescent. Almost hard to take in, like pop rocks in soda inside the nose while going down a waterslide.
- the Sound/Speaker/Multichannel Sound/Spatial explosion is gross and delightful. Any kid would love this. At the same time, it's not trying to shock in such a way that wouldn't be appropriate for a child.
- There is an orgamic one, FYI parents ... but it's not graphic. It's kind of "fireworksy" and "auto-Tuney" - it's hard not to smile. The graphics here are not as literal as some. many times, it's graphical in a geometric way.
- The contrast between the different sections in terms of sonority, visual appearance, texture, etc. it's very #Creative and well-done.
- 201 The Right Not (To Be) — Person/Lee Gilboa ICMC/25/Installation/Screening/02 The Right Not To Be
- Description: Electroacoustic work built from testimonies of Israeli veterans (Breaking the Silence), manipulating speech artifacts to question identity and political morality.
- Author bio: Israeli composer-researcher at Berklee College of Music; investigates voice, testifying, and socio-political listening.
- 20:45 we start in the black. it's very 3d sound, a voice is talking about empathy, putting ourselves in the place of another person
- 20:46 the voices are coming in one by one and they are about how maps are invisible and not real
- "What you don't know about me"
- "I'm part of a regime ... I'm a policial person" ... "I can make sense of my life here, make sense of ..."
- "I don't know ... what you know about me"
- some synth interludes that are brief.
- The voices are rotating around. it's a rich tapestry
- Listenable. Rhythmic. Interesting that this was submitted to a film screening facility.
- Some quotes about Zionism, "homeland security aspect."
- why "the right not to be"
- "I saw a crack"
- The soundtrack is really fractured, but musically so.
- Some quotes about colonialism.
- "There is a victim and an oppressor."
- The noise blips are from all directions. In a way it sounds like a sewing machine. Sometimes the voices are radically melted.
- I appreciate the density - there is a space.
- It's a meditation.
- 483 Coming Together: Cityscapes — Arne Eigenfeldt ICMC/25/Installation/Screening/01 Coming Together Cityscape
- Description: Five-channel agents negotiate a database of 1,000+ urban audio-video clips, moving from chaotic granular noise to aligned timbral “city chords” while visuals converge.
- Author bio: Canadian composer focusing on generative systems and agent-based multimedia.
- 20:38 four corners - maybe five vertical segments
- some cities like Chefchaouen, Jerusalem, Berlin. Time slowed, edge detected between. The faces are blurred
- sound is quieter, ghosty
- 20:40 "alignment"
- 20:42 "extension"
- a field of swishing noise is getting louder, and some edge detection and bit distressing is taking over as the noise gets louder
- 20:45
- 642 pOPPING bUBBLES oN jUPITER — Person/Dave O Mahony ICMC/25/Installation/Screening/03 pOPPING bUBBLES oN jUPITER
- Description: Ableton/Max for Live visualiser triggers audio peaks driven by a VCVRack modular session, producing playful audiovisual “bubble pops.”
- Author bio: Irish electroacoustic composer with interests in modular synthesis and brainwave interaction; SEAMUS & ICMC regular.
- 782 A Dialogue, In Medias Res — Andrew Watts
- Description: Speech monologue sliced to syllables, reordered by quick-sort while video ages via AI and EbSynth; voice morphs into orchestra via Orchidea.
- Author bio: UCSB composer blending algorithmic processes, AI video, and orchestral writing; Stanford DMA.
- 823 Temporary structures — Matthew Schumaker - ICMC/25/Installation/Screening/05 Temporary structures
- Description: Piano-and-graphics duets where algorithmic lines in music drive shifting 3-D forms, inspired by parametric architecture; presented live and as video/Disklavier installation.
- Author bio: UC Santa Cruz professor combining computer-assisted composition with visual media.
- 21:33 unbelievably creative. Unique. I've never seen anything like it. I think the piano is algorithmically created, and somehow the MIDI used to trigger it must have influenced the visual processing.
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- 909 Miniscope Multimedia Project — Si Hyun Uhm
- Description: Real-time TouchDesigner and c74/max Max/MSP piece mapping calcium-imaging data (mouse hippocampus & RSC) to generative visuals and electronics, plus composed layers in LogicPro .
- Author bio: Korean composer-pianist and UCLA PhD fellow; integrates neuroscience data with multimedia art.