Electronic Music in Chelsea

Electronic Music in Chelsea


The hoarder can’t leave home currently while not encountering the AutoTuned pipes of 1 pop star or another. however whereas AutoTune’s vocal result could seem like simply the newest pop craze, historians of electronic music suggests its distinguished antecedents, in, say, superman Presley’s slapback echo, Peter Frampton’s speak box, or the vocoder utilized by Laurie Anderson in her unlikely 1981 pop hit, “O Superman.”
Ms. Anderson has solely concentrated her explorations of electronic sound within the years since, and this weekend is that the keeper of the third installment of Synth Nights, associate “intergenerational electronic music series” at the room in Chelsea.

Friday night’s bill options Ebe Oke, associate American-born, London-based transmission artist; Fig, a couple consisting of Yuka C. Honda of the late, nice cluster Cibo Matto on sampler and keyboards, and therefore the Wilco instrumentalist Nels Cline on stringed instrument and flute; and therefore the musician and improviser Brian Marsella, whose work bridges jazz, classical, world and pop. Tickets ar $15.

Also at the room, and shutting on Saturday, is “Maniac Shadows,” a video installation by the Belgian movie maker Chantal Akerman work the character of medium time, domestic area and female consciousness, territory Ms. Akerman has been mapping since “Jeanne Dielman, twenty three Quai du Commerce, 1080 capital of Belgium,” her 1975 classic of avant-garde cinema. Admission is free.

(Synth Nights, weekday at 8; “Maniac Shadows,” weekday from hour to six p.m., and Saturday from eleven a.m. to 6 p.m.; 512 West nineteenth Street, Chelsea; 212-255-5793; thekitchen.org.)

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A Francophone sensibility invades the Lower side this weekend within the style of the Cutlog Art truthful. when four seasons in Paris, the the big apple version can started back up the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center, wherever dozens of galleries and curators, representing cities from port to Antwerp to city, can gift art, installations, performances and talks.

Thursday through Sunday nights, from eight to hour, a projected-image series referred to as Free Parking can run in an exceedingly automobile parking space next to the middle, that includes film, video and slide shows on massive out of doors screens.

Admission for every day is $15; $12 for college students and adults sixty five and over; a pass for multiple days is offered for a cost-effective $25. Admission to the out of doors image series is free.

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