Proxemia
+ Rahul Nair
+ Visuals by Thomas Sanchez Lengeling

$5
RSVP at www.proxemiasound.net

http://proxemia.bandcamp.com/track/electric-streams-of-wind-sampler

Proxemia will present an experimental re-imagining of Electric Streams of Wind as a 4.1-channel audiovisual performance. The project will be available as a handmade CD/booklet for purchase at the event.

Electric Streams of Wind is an environmental sound art project by composer, artist, and designer José Rivera, aka Proxemia. Exploring the development of radar technology for military and weather research, this piece first existed as a week-long site-specific 8.1-channel audio installation at the MIT Green Building in 2017.

Both a meditation on grounding and a mapping of architectural atmospheres, the installation captured audio recordings from the roof’s weather station and transmitted them to the 1st floor loggia in real-time. Now reworked for a limited edition CD, Electric Streams of Wind brings attention to and seeks to disrupt the ambience of every day brought about by constant information flows, automation, sensors, and energy systems.

This program is supported in part by a grant from Cambridge Arts Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

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Rahul Nair is a musician and composer based in Somerville, MA. Drawing from post-Cagean traditions of experimental music, his work relates self-control and social control, confinement and freedom, and composition and improvisation. He studied composition under Marti Epstein at Berklee College of Music and is an M.F.A. candidate in Music/Sound at Bard College.

Thomas Sanchez Lengeling is a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab in the Opera of the Future Group. His research derives from his ambition to create seamless interactions between people and digital information, by giving extra perception and awareness using color and sound. This is possible by enhancing human communication and perception through the augmentation of human senses using technology. Also, his visual work ranges from organically propagated systems to self-rhythm visual art. He also works with different technologies and mediums such as light, colorimetry, hyperspectral cameras, sensors, radio frequencies, creative coding platforms, electronics, etc. He teaches workshops creative coding, color perception, new media art, and physics for science outreach programs. Furthermore, his creative work and interactive installations have been commissioned by festivals in Germany, Mexico, Italy, and Portugal. Learn more about his work at http://codigogenerativo.com.