09/24/2009  to  10/11/2009   
RISD Sol Koffler Gallery and 5 Traverse Gallery

Pixilerations [v.6]
The Great Disruption

New Media installations, concerts and video screenings!

Now in its sixth year, Pixilerations returns to showcase the work of an international array of cutting-edge new-media artists, animating Providence with interactive gallery installations, surround-sound electronic media concerts, experimental nightclub jams, special guest artist talks and video art screenings.

Gallery Exhibit Dates and Locations:

September 24 - October 11
RISD's Sol Koffler Gallery (daily, 12-8)
169 Weybosset St. (Downtown Providence)

5 Traverse Gallery (Wed-Sunday, 12-6)
5 Traverse St. (Fox Point, Providence)

PHOTO: Pixilerations [v.5] installation view of "Entanglement Witness", by Todd Winkler and Cindy Cummings. Photo by Frank Mullin

Opening Reception Thurs. 9/24, 6-8pm

09/25/2009  to  09/26/2009   8pm
URI Shepard Auditorium - 80 Washington St.

Pixilerations [v.6]
Pixilerated Concerts I & II

Two nights of groundbreaking electronic and interactive performances!

Pixilerated: Concert Performance I
Friday, September 25, 8pm, FREE
Featuring:
Todd Winkler, Matthew Peters Warne, Peter Bussigel, Alexander Dupuis, Lucky Leone, Alex Kruckman, Ed Osborn, and Kirsten Volness.

Pixilerated: Concert Performance II
Saturday, September 26, 8pm, FREE
Featuring:
elements | response (Halsey Burgund, Peter Bailey, Francois DeCosterd), Jing Wang, Shane Turner, Christie Lee Gibson and Arvid Tomayko-Peters, and David Bithell.

10/02/2009   8pm
RISD Auditorium - 17 Canal Walk

Pauline Oliveros
Deep Listening®

Tracking the Wild Molecule...an evening with Pauline Oliveros

For four decades, internationally acclaimed composer, performer and humanitarian Pauline Oliveros has profoundly influenced American and electronic music through her groundbreaking work. Synthesizing improvisation, meditation, myth and ritual, Oliveros' "Deep Listening" performance takes us on a journey to explore the mysterious spaces between notes.

Photo by Heroku Ikeda

Evening JumpStart pre-show performance, 7:15pm

10/02/2009   10pm
tazza caffe

Pixilerations [v.6]
Club PIXIL

Celebrate the Pixilerations new media showcase with a night of electronic performance from the world of DJ culture, where innovation and festivity are one.

Featuring:
Joshua Fried, East of Borneo, Freida Abtan
envyCODE (Butch Rovan, Kevin Patton, Chapman Welch
Humanbeast and Modest Machine (Arvid Tomayko-Peters, Josh Marshall, Steve Schwartz, Alex Dupuis, Alex Kruckman).

10/03/2009   8pm
RISD Auditorium - 17 Canal Walk

Dean & Britta: "13 Most Beautiful"
Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests

Indie-pop darlings Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips bring their dream-pop sensibility to Andy Warhol's "Screen Tests," rarely seen silent film portraits of fixtures of the 1960s New York art scene, including Lou Reed, Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Dennis Hopper, and more. Rediscover Warhol's masterworks in this multimedia performance featuring large scale video projections and live music by Dean & Britta and their band.

Evening JumpStart pre-show performance, 7:15pm

10/03/2009   1pm
RISD Tap Room - 226 Benefit St. (Upstairs at Memorial Hall)

Pauline Oliveros
Artist-Up-Close

Deep Listening® Workshop
1-5pm

Join internationally acclaimed composer, performer, and humanitarian Pauline Oliveros for an exclusive, 4-hour Deep Listening® workshop exploring the intersection of improvisation, meditation, myth and ritual.

WORKSHOP IS LIMITED TO 50 PARTICIPANTS

For reservations email: annette@first-works.org

10/07/2009   9:30pm
Cable Car Cinema - 204 South Main St.

Pixilerations [v.6]
Pixilerated: Video Art

With special guest: Leslie Thornton

Hosted by Magic Lantern Cinema
Featuring:
Ron Diorio, Gerard Freixes Ribera, A. Bill Miller, Rafael Attias, Lisa Young, Cristiano Berti, Peter A. Bussigel, Patrick Bergeron, Henry Gwiazda, David Muth, Lucky Leone, and Harvey Goldman with Ken Ueno.

And: "You Are My Sunshine", a one night installation by Raphael Diluzio. Across from the Cable Car Cinema from dusk to midnight.

10/09/2009  to  10/10/2009   8pm
Beneficent Church - 300 Weybosset St.

Steve Jobe and Chris Turner
Chamber Music for Diverse Ensembles

Two of Rhode Island's most original composers, Steve Jobe and Chris Turner, collaborate to premiere a unique musical program. Jobe's setting of song texts by poet Robert Graves are played on a sound-sculpture of exquisite glass bells; Turner has assembled a 30-member strong community-based ensemble to create a sonic landscape of expressive power.

10/16/2009  to  11/06/2009   
Brown University Cogut Center for the Humanities - 172 Meeting St.

Let us imagine a straight line

An interactive installation by Butch Rovan, featuring dancer Ami Shulman.

Explore the meaning of movement and the limits of perception through multiple stagings of the body in time and space. This interactive installation combines documents of 19th-century science and 20th-century phenomenology with the very real and present gestures of a 21st-century dancer, producing a contrapuntal study that allows one to experience movement in relation to bodies of knowledge - and knowledge of bodies - both past and present.

Opening Reception 10/16, 5-7pm

10/17/2009   2pm
RISD Auditorium - 17 Canal Walk

Yellow Bird Indian Dancers

Experience the rich cultural legacy of American First Nations! These award-winning Native American dancers perform a repertoire rich in authentic Apache, Southwest and Northern Plains traditions for an experience to be shared with the whole family. Native sign language and flute music animate the beautiful Apache Rainbow Dance and the dynamic Hoop Dance, featuring exceptional performers ranging in age from preschool to adult, including the 2008 World Champion Teen Hoop Dancer.

10/24/2009   8pm
RISD Auditorium - 17 Canal Walk

HORSE
Velocity

Taiwan's first all male dance company captures the changing aesthetics of today with explosive energy. Based on their observations of male bodies in the urban landscape, the award-winning HORSE has created a feast of dances set to music by composers ranging from Mozart and Bach to John Cage and Michael Gordon. Synthesizing elements of experimental theater, drama and mime, the playful vignettes of "Velocity" explore how the frenetic nature of contemporary society pulls people and things apart.

Pre-show JumpStart 7:25pm

10/30/2009   8pm
RISD Auditorium - 17 Canal Walk

Devil Music Ensemble
Nosferatu

Just in time for Halloween, the Devil Music Ensemble will perform their original score, set live to Dracula's silent film debut "Nosferatu", directed by F.W. Murnau in 1922. Versatile and genre spanning, the ensemble explores different sonic territory with every new project they undertake, composing and performing original scores to silent classics of the silver screen.

11/14/2009   8pm
Providence Performing Arts Center - 220 Weybosset St.

Cirque Mechanics
Birdhouse Factory

The incomparable Cirque Mechanics fly, climb and contort their way through rotating gears, trampoline walls and aerial hoops. Headlining FirstWorks Festival 2009, this international troupe of veterans from Cirque du Soleil, Pickle Family Circus and Moscow Circus transform PPAC into a wondrous Birdhouse Factory, complete with uniformed unicyclists and acrobatic assembly lines. Inspired by the masterful industrial murals of Diego Rivera, the outrageous illustrations of cartoonist Rube Goldberg, and the gentle political slapstick of Charlie Chaplin, these literally off-the-wall performers delight audiences of all ages with inspired fun.

Rhode Island Premiere!

11/15/2009   3pm
Beneficent Church - 300 Weybosset St.

Providence Singers
and Boston Modern Orchestra Project

NEW WORLD RHYTHM: AMERICAN MASTERWORKS FOR CHORUS AND PERCUSSION

The 100-voice Providence Singers season opener features masterworks expressly written for chorus and percussion. Highlighted by a world premiere by Grammy-nominated composer Tarik O'Regan, the program includes the New England premiere of Lou Harrison's epic "La Koro Sutro" (The Heart Sutra), featuring an American gamelan ensemble, a double-chorus work by Rhode Island-raised Nico Muhly, and works by American Masters Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Presented in collaboration with Boston Modern Orchestra Project.