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Diapason Gallery for Sound
Presents


Zeena Parkins and Douglas Henderson
Polyconic Projections

and

Dmitri Subochev

Saturdays June 3, 10, 17 and 24  6pm - Midnight


Diapason Gallery for Sound
www.diapasongallery.org
1026 Sixth Avenue, # 2S New York
(between 38th & 39th Street)
subway: F, N, R, W, Q, 1, 2, 3 to 42nd Street
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Notes on the work:

Henderson and Parkins have worked together in various contexts for  
many years, from improvising to instrument construction. Polyconic  
Projections is their first collaborative composition project. The  
original sound material was composed by Parkins for a dance piece by  
choreographer Jennifer Lacey, and was then reworked as a stand alone  
audio CD, $shot, engineered by Henderson. The palette is of contrary  
geometries, receding planes and recursive staircases of sound. A  
double exposure of controlled, crystalline synthesis over the  
gestural immediacy of fluttering plastic, paper, chirping sytrofoam  
and creaking leather. Intimacy amplified into threat. The sound is  
continually tipped and refocused. Parkins handed over the original  
tracks to Henderson for a dedicated Diapason remix, to take maximum  
advantage of the 10 channel speaker system, the elongated  
architecture, and the free time-sense of the gallery. Moving a piece  
into multi-dimensional space from stereo requires alterations not  
unlike those attempted by map makers, who must find ways to represent  
an oblate sphere on flat paper (whence the title). In this case the  
flat is made spherical, flat stereo sound turned into full 3-D, and  
put into a gallery context (where people wander in and out as they  
please) rather than a concert music one, with attendant changes in  
durations, centers, and structural trajectories.

In late 2004, Dmitri Subochev came to work at Diapason for two weeks  
on an exchange program with Moscow's Theremin Centre. Dmitri's work  
is composed almost entirely from recordings he made while visiting  
New York. The work was shown at Diapason in December of that year and  
repeated this month for those of you who might not have had a chance  
last time.



About the composesr:

Zeena Parkins, composer, improviser, sound artist, well known as a  
pioneer of the electric harp, has also extended the language of the  
acoustic harp.
Zeena makes scores for film, video, theater and dance. She is  
especially interested in exploring unpredictable orchestrations, live  
processing of acoustic instruments and installations combining  
multiple speakers with live players. Other collaborators include Ikue  
Mori, Bjork, Matmos, filmmakers Cynthia Madansky and Jennifer Reeves  
and choreographers John Japserse, Jennifer Lacey and Emmanuelle Vo- 
Dinh. More information at www.zeenaparkins.com


Sound artist/composer Douglas Henderson has been showing, composing,  
and performing in New York City and internationally for more than 20  
years with works in galleries from the Whitney Museum in New York to  
Muu Gallery in Helsinki to SICMF in Seoul South Korea. His primary  
focus is on multi-channel electroacoustic compositions and  
installations, with a growing body of sound-producing sculptures and  
the occasional musical score. He studied with Paul Lansky, J.K.  
Randall and Elie Yarden and received his PhD in music composition  
from Princeton University. He recently chaired the Sonic Arts  
Department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and  
shared in the 2005 Mercury Prize for his mixing work on Antony and  
the Johnsons' I am a bird Now. His work can be heard on Resonance  
magazine's Sound Art Supplement CD, as well as on Cabinet Magazine's  
#7 Syntax Error CD. More information at www.douglashenderson.org.

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