[spectre] News from the Daniel Langlois Foundation

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2007 Researchers in Residence  
   
The Foundation is pleased to announce the three 2007 recipients for residencies in Montreal:

Lizzie Muller (Sydney, Australia) and Caitlin Jones (New York, NY, United States) were selected for the Grants for Researchers in Residence program. The residencies will be conducted at the Foundation's Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D) in Montreal.

Vishal Rawlley, an artist from Mumbai (India), was selected for the Research and Experimentation Residencies in Montreal for Professional Artists from Emerging Countries or Regions. This residency is offered jointly by the Foundation and the Montreal based artist-run centre OBORO. Beginning in April 2007, the recipient will spend two months in Montreal conducting research and technical experimentation at OBORO's studios and laboratories:
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?NumPage=148 
   

9 Evenings Reconsidered at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery (Montreal)  
   
Through its financial support and the loan of artifacts from its collection, the Foundation has made possible the presentation in Montreal of the exhibition 9 Evenings Reconsidered: Art, Theatre, and Engineering, 1966.

Originally presented at the MIT List Visual Center (Cambridge, MA, U.S.) in 2006, 9 Evenings Reconsidered: Art, Theatre, and Engineering, 1966 will be featured at Concordia University's Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery from March 7 to April 21, 2007.

Organized by independent curator Catherine Morris, the exhibition will showcase extensive archival material associated with this event and offer various viewpoints of the 10 performances presented at the 69th Regiment Armory in 1966. The Foundation has loaned a number of objects and materials from its 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering fonds to the exhibition, including, among others, a sample of the factual footage produced by Alfons Schilling, stage props, technological components, and technical drawings by engineer Fred Waldhauer. 

Conferences and round table discussions will also be held during the 9 Evenings Reconsidered exhibition. An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.For more information, please consult the Web site of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery:
http://ellengallery.concordia.ca/ 

   
Video documentation of the 2006 Matinées-Conferences  
   
In 2006, the Foundation held two conferences in the Fellini Theatre of the Ex-Centris Complex, and video footage of these is now available online.

On May 27, 2006, Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist, and Nicolas Reeves, artist and designer, presented Voyageurs étonnés, chercheurs et créateurs au seuil de l'inconnu.

On October 28, 2006, Clarisse Bardiot, a 2005 researcher in residence at the Foundation, presented Les artistes et les ingénieurs dans 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, New York, 1966 :
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?NumPage=1983
   
    
Digitized documents in the 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering fonds  
   
Digitized versions of documents pertaining to the engineer Fred Waldhauer in the 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering fonds are accessible on the Foundation's CR+D web site. 

For 9 Evenings, Waldhauer created the Proportional Control System (P.C.S.) used by David Tudor in Bandoneon! (a combine). This interface was comprised of a plotting board, 16 receivers and an electronic pen to allow numerous components in the Armory to be remotely controlled. Notably, Tudor used the device to spatialize the sound tracks and adjust the volume from one speaker to another:
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?NumPage=566