[spectre] SYNDROME SESSIONS 1.2: CONTROL at FACT, Liverpool, UK, 25th JUNE, 7.30pm

[nathan jones]

*An event proposing four new systems of control *




*for music and performanceSYNDROME SESSIONS 1.2: CONTROL**at FACT
25th JUNE, 7.30pm*

TICKETS : http://fact.co.uk/syndrome-13-control


featuring
ERIK BUNGER / LAWRENCE LEK / JOEL EATON / MARCO DONNARUMMA
plus new work by Mercy and Hive

Building on the core commissions and multi-media performances of the
Syndrome programme, and preparing us for coming month's explorations of
interaction design Mercy and Hive present vital approaches and ideas around
control and sensation in The Box at FACT.  This event brings together four
arts practitioners who propose new ideas for the exertion and slippages of
control in relation to arts performance - taking place acrossbrain waves,
musculature, and virtual and divine space.



The event features four short works which work across performance and
lecture formats, each of which aim to extend our notions of control in
relation to contemporary media.


*Joel Eaton FLEX *
Eton presents his Brain-Computer Music Interface (BCMI) which allows him to
play live electronic music with his thoughts. For Syndrome the relation of
thought and musical output will be problematised and played out before the
audience, as Eton resets the parameters for his control device before the
performance. The performance therefore is composed of a learning journey
which the audience chart through the changing degrees of frustration,
concentration and joy on the artists' face, and the coming together of the
intended musical composition.

*Marco Donnarumma XTH SENSE*
Donnarumma explores the dimensions of the human body in relation to real,
virtual and cultural spaces. For Syndrome he presents and demonstrates his
unique technology, 'Xth Sense', which allows for a human's muscle tissue to
be played as an instrument, providing the visceral counterpart to Joel
Eton's explorations of the readability of cognition.

*Lawrence Lek DEGREES OF FREEDOM*
With this presentation/performance and game-world walk-through, Lek takes
the 'Degrees of Freedom' (the constraints enforced on a body in a virtual
space), as his starting point to explore the primal experience of utopian
visions through prototyping and simulation.

*Erik Bunger THE EMPIRE NEVER ENDED*
This work starts with a transcription-score of a man speaking in tongues on
a recording from 1948. He is believed to be in a state of trance and his
vocalizations haven’t been recognized as belonging to any known human
language. As performance, the piece is played live by a violinist, along
with a playback of the original recording. The piece operates at the
intersection where complete control and complete lack of control coincide.
To perform the piece a musician will have to summon all precision and all
concentration. At the same time he/she will have to put these very same
abilities in the hands of a power beyond any human control. A power we know
nothing about.





NOTES



*Syndrome* is a major multi-media *events* *programme* which launched on
Saturday April 26th at 24 Kitchen Street. Devised by Mercy working
alongside HIVE, and funded by Arts Council England and Liverpool City
Council’s, the SYNDROME will include artist residencies from artists
including Holly Herndon, live acts including Pharmakon and Caroline
Bergvall, a series of events and talks at institutional partner FACT, and
range of commissions taking sensational media artworks into the public
realm.



The first event, *SYNDROME Session 1.0,* offered an illustrative mix of the
project’s intention to explore the points where audiovisual art, theatre
and spoken word performance meet.  The second, 1.1, included two public
realm commissions, using face and movement recognition to connect humans to
database and glitch visual material.



You can see documentation of the first event here:
https://vimeo.com/95267250
And behind the scenes process of all works here:
http://www.mercyonline.co.uk/who-we-are/what-we-are-up-to/article/syndrome-first-outcomes



More information below, and on the project holding page http://syn-dro.me

on facebook https://www.facebook.com/syndromeliverpool

and twitter @syn_dro_me


*Upcoming SYNDROME events*


**July 25th @ 24 Kitchen Street
SYNDROME Session 2.0
Apatt
Antonio Roberts and Rachel Sweeney
Special guests TBA


**August 21st @ 24 Kitchen StreetSYNDROME Session 2.1
S J Fowler performs a brand new interactive AV room devised by Jamie
Gledhill and Stefan Kazassoglou **September 5th / 6th @ 24 Kitchen
StreetSYNDROME
Session 2.2 & 2.3
Holly Herndon with Mat Dryhurst – KAIRO
Live set and newly commissioned work.

contact nathan at mercyonline.co.uk for details or to join mail list
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