AN AUDIO-VISUAL EXPERIENCE
about us
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DILATE ENSEMBLE is an audio-visual collective featuring:
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Carole Kim (S. California): visual arts/installations
Gloria Damijan (Austria): multi-instrumentalist
Scott L. Miller (Minnesota): electronics
Luisa Muhr (New York/Austria): voice
Jon Raskin (N. California): sax/reeds/percussion+
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our history:
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Seeking to find ways to still connect with other performers during a pandemic, the members of Dilate Ensemble met while participating in the NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble led by Sarah Weaver. As a satellite to this ensemble we dove into an exploration of how we might be able to engage in audio/visual improvisation online.
Installation artist Carole Kim and founder of Dilate Ensemble has compressed her work in video installation to fit beneath her kitchen table. This intimate live "venue" provides an illusionistic physical space that readily accommodates a convergence of online live presence.
The four musicians of the ensemble, Gloria Damijan, Scott L. Miller, Luisa Muhr and Jon Raskin, work with Kim’s live visuals in a form of an interactive improvisation-based dialogue, as never quite seen before.
We collaboratively develop our work, which involves a shared visual element delivered over Zoom. We use Netty-McNetface to mix the audio in Scott L. Miller's studio, where he individually processed the various audio tracks in Kyma, which is then monitored by the ensemble in Netty. We use Netty/Zoom/OBS to produce a live a-v work that is streamed to YouTube/Facebook/Zoom as preferred by the venue.
By embracing the latent nature of telematic performance, the ensemble has developed an artistic practice that is idiomatic to the venue of networked audio-visual art.
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excerpts of our work:
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our guests & collaborators:
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Paul Chavez (S. California): guitar, electronics
Shinichi Iove-Koga (Switzerland): dance
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upcoming projects
Dilate Ensemble is happy to announce the premiere of a piece for piano and fixed media commissioned by New Arts Collaboration 2024, performed by Ting Luo.
Ting Luo Piano Concert
Presented by New Arts Collaboration 2024
Friday, October 4 at 8 pm
Old First Concerts
1751 Sacramento Street in San Francisco. Easily accessible by bus lines 47/49 Van Ness or 1 Sacramento/Clay. The California Street Cable Car line ends one block from our location.
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Join us for an evening of groundbreaking music and multimedia art presented by New Arts Collaboration. This concert showcases the world premieres of The Reef, Points Becoming, Toy Phantasy, Choose, and Converse, each bringing a unique blend of sound and visuals. These pieces delve into themes ranging from the fragility of marine ecosystems to the dynamic processes of transformation and imagination.
Featuring compositions by composers Maria Kallionpää, Mark Winges, Vera Ivanova, Aries Mond, the audio/visual group Dilate Ensemble, and video arts by artists including Andre Veloux, Anne Stagg, Jody Zellen, the event promises to be an inspiring fusion of artistic disciplines. Experience the synergy of music, technology, and visual art in a setting that pushes the boundaries of contemporary performance.
Ting Luo
Ting Luo, pianist, and director of New Arts Collaboration. Ting has curated a multimedia music and art project New Arts Collaboration since 2020. She actively collaborates with artists from multiple disciplines including visual artists, composers, and sound artists. Works by NAC have been featured in The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art’s Digital Shorts Film Festival, New Music Gathering Conference/Festival, and are programmed in Old First Concert Series, The Center of New Music, Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium, etc. She performed her original piano compositions as well as solo and ensemble works by classical composers and living composers in prestigious events including The 2022 Bethany Arts Community Multidisciplinary Residency and Dragon’s Egg Presents at University Settlement in New York, Hot Air Music Festival in San Francisco, the Contemporary Art Music Project Festival - CAMPGround22 in Tampa, NowNet Arts Conference 2022 in Stanford, etc. LTingarts.com
our biographies
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Carole Kim is a media artist with a focus on video projection for multimedia installation, performance and photography. She has a very hands-on, tactile approach to the materials she works with, pushing the moving image to take on optical, spatial and dimensional form. Her work has been presented in a wide range of contexts including experimental music, theater, art, dance and site-specific installation. She is grateful for an ever-expanding community of collaborators across disciplines energized by a process of exploration in the moment. www.carole.kim
Gloria Damijan studied piano and music pedagogy at Music University Vienna with a focus on contemporary music and free improvisation. She has studied with Manon-Lìu Winter, Burkhard Stangl, Franz Hautzinger and Ian Pace and collaborated with Stefan Fraunberger, Vinzenz Schwab, Klaus Filip, Arnold 'Noid' Haberl, Christine Schörkhuber and Ye Hui. Working together with composers Tamara Friebel, Margareta Ferek-Petric, Veronika Mayer,Matthias Kranebitter. Damijan has performed in Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck, Berlin, Barcelona, Lisboa, Porto, Oslo, Hamburg and is a member of the Viennese Improvisers-Network snim. gloriadamijan.wixsite.com/website
Minnesota composer and electronic musician Scott L. Miller is described as a creator of ‘high adventure avant garde music of the best sort’ (Classical-Modern Music Review). Best known for his electroacoustic chamber music and ecosystemic performance pieces, his music is characterized by collaborative approaches to composition, exploring performer/computer improvisation, and re-imagining ancient compositional processes through the lens of 21st century technology. He is a Professor of Music at St. Cloud State University and Director of Recordings for the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S. (SEAMUS).
Luisa Muhr is a multi-lingual, multi- and interdisciplinary performer, improvisor, director, installation artist, sound artist, and theater maker, originally from Vienna (Austria), lives and works in New York, and is at home in the experimental/avant-garde. As a performer she specializes in performance, vocal, movement, installation, sound, and theater arts. Amongst many projects and commissions she is currently developing an opera with six-times Grammy winner Arturo O’Farrill, and has been commissioned by the Austrian Cultural Forum NY and Roulette Intermedium to create two new interdisciplinary installation pieces. www.luisamuhr.com
Jon Raskin has been a member of Rova Saxophone Quartet for the last 43 years exploring the relationship of improvisation and composition, developing and honing the language of ensemble music and researching linguistic possibilities of the saxophone. He has performed and/ or recorded with Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith, Sam Rivers, Tim Berne, Phillip Johnston, Leo Smith, Frank Gratkowsi, Phillip Greenlief and Henry Kaiser. www.jonraskin.com