Jesse Gilbert exploring transdisciplinary arts and culture
Mars Festival 2018
Jesse will create two immersive performances with Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Quartetto Fantastico for the Mars Festival, October 6th & 7th, 2018.
The Vortex
2341 East Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90021
With JESSE GILBERT and MIGUEL ATWOOD-FERGUSON
Atwood-Ferguson and Gilbert present an evening of music and image, featuring musical compositions and improvisations within an immersive performance environment defined by panoramic projections of audio-reactive visuals that surrounds both audience and performers. Building upon years of ongoing creative dialogue, the duet explores works from classical repertoire as well as Atwood-Ferguson’s original compositions for acoustic viola and electric violin, all fed in real-time to Gilbert’s visual instrument, SpectralGL, which transforms sound into dynamic visual landscapes that are mapped back onto the performance space. The resulting perceptual feedback loop is designed to bring the audience on a journey of discovery along with the artists, transforming their experience from that of passive listeners to co-creators of experience, elucidating the mystery and power of music and image to inspire and suggest new realities and possibilities.
(Door opens at 7pm. Show starts at 8pm)
The Vortex
2341 East Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90021
With JESSE GILBERT and QUARTETTO FANTASTICO
Chris Woods – violin
Paul Cartwright – violin
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – viola
Peter Jacobson – cello
Atwood-Ferguson and Gilbert are joined by the members of Quartetto Fantastico, widening the circle of musical exploration through the power of a modern string quartet playing at the highest level of improvisation and modern composition. The string quartet will perform inside a cube of light, with translucent projections on four sides that will explore the intuitive and emotional connections between the musicians through a mix of live camera and abstract animation composed in real-time with SpectralGL. This immersive installation will allow audience members to explore the performance from any angle, transcending the traditional proscenium arrangement to create a completely personalized sound and visual experience. As the inner performance space is unfolded and echoed through the overlapping media landscape, a multiverse of individual perspectives can be explored, each containing a kernel of the musical moment as it reverberates across space and time.
(Door opens at 7pm. Show starts at 8pm)
Festival Site: http://www.festivalmars.com/?event=m-a-r-s-los-angeles-2018