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a transducer speaker

Reembodied Sound 2024

A festival and symposium of transducer-based music and sonic art

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE:

Friday: Saturday:
EMPAC—Troy, NY USA

Co-presented by the Rensselaer Department of Arts and the curatorial program EMPAC, Reembodied Sound 2024 brings together composers, sound artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, and audiences to investigate issues of aesthetics, ethnography, technical design, compositional techniques, and pedagogy. The symposium and festival of transducer-based music and sound art aims to share practical information, inspire artists with new tools and possibilities, and lay a foundation for scholarly discourse and technological investigation in this burgeoning field through presentations, sound art installations, and a final concert.

In simplest terms, a transducer is a device that converts one form of energy into another form. In the wake of composer John Cage’s work, everyday items, anything from household appliances to industrial detritus, became ripe for musical exploration. In 1973, Cage’s colleague and collaborator David Tudor created Rainforest IV, which used surface speakers—an electric transducer—to excite the sonic possibilities of such objects. 50 years later, music which utilizes speaker transducers has become more ubiquitous, able to unlock the musical potential of the world around us.

Main Image: Photo: Matthew Goodheart, 2017.

Presented By

EMPAC, Arts Department

Press Mention

Season

Production Credits

Symposium Chair: Matthew Goodheart
Symposium Co-Chairs: Kate Galloway & Rob Hamilton
 

Funding

Reembodied Sound 2024 is made possible with funding from the Rensselaer Department of Arts, the Vollmer Fries Lecture Series, the Rensselaer Union Kodosky Gift Fund, and EMPAC—the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center.

February 2–3, 2024

EMPAC, Arts Department

Music/Sound, Symposium
Reembodied Sound 2024 Symposium
February 2–3, 2024

EMPAC, Arts Department

Music/Sound, Installation
Rensselaer arts students with John Driscoll & Phil Edelstein
Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 7PM

EMPAC, Arts Department

Music/Sound
Reembodied Sound 2024
February 2–3, 2024

EMPAC, Arts Department

Music/Sound, Installation
Reembodied Sound 2024