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CultureHub Live-Wired Series Presents / Mande Symphony

Culturehub SeoulArts/La MaMa

Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 8:00 PM (EDT)

New York, NY

CultureHub Live-Wired Series Presents / Mande Symphony

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CultureHub Live-Wired Series Presents / MANDE SYMPHONY

 

Musicians:

Volker Goetze - Composer, Producer

Ablaye Cissoko - Voice and African-harp

Carolin Pook - violin

Filip Pogady - violin

Andrea Hemmenway - viola

Brian Sanders - cello

Richie Barshay - drums

Jonathan Singer – marimba

 

Visualist:

Joshue Ott - superDraw

 

October 13 / 8PM

47 Great Jones Street/3rd Floor

New York/New York 10012

 

The MANDE SYMPHONY, an interactive multimedia performance for voice, African harp (kora), string quartet, film and superDraw, tells the legendary story of a Mande griot, Kimintang Cissoko, from the time he prayed that he could help alleviate the suffering of the Mande people; through his encounters with African spirits and genies that ultimately led him to create the very first kora - Africa's lute-harp.

 

Mandinka is a tonal language, which is ideal for musical adaption. The tonal sound provides a base for a notated, rhythmic sound that provokes improvisational passages from the orchestra.

 

During the performance, sampled speech and music are sent to a computer where a computer artist modulates their effect on stunning visuals from West Africa - all in real- time. With superDraw, visualist Joshue Ott creates a carefully crafted dialectic between the aural and visual experience and the artistic intention is to evoke some sense of the powerful African spirit underlying the Kimintang story in a way that makes it accessible and powerful to a Western audience.

 

The event will be LIVE-STREAMED online.

 

Mande Symphony was commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts and is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Sponsorship was provided by the New York Foundation for the Arts.

 

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Culturehub
47 Great Jones St. 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10012

Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 8:00 PM (EDT)


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Culturehub SeoulArts/La MaMa

Culturehub was born out of the desire to further develop the long-standing relationship between the Seoul Institute of the Arts in Korea and La MaMa e.t.c. in New York. At the core, Culturehub values cross-cultural, artistic collaboration and it is our belief that artists, working in all mediums, must continue to experiment with new and developing technologies.

Currently, Culturehub consists of two Telepresence Studios. These mirrored spaces, link the two organizations through the use of digital technology and virtual space. Our goal is to create an international hub for artists, scholars, innovators and students. Through our collaborative projects, we hope to develop a method of exchange, which can be duplicated on a global scale, bridging the gap between art, technology and science; as well as further broadening the ability for artists and audiences to interact with one another over distance. 

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