=== [inter:face] creative collaborations in arts, science and technology === === A showcase of new work from Digital Summer === === NEWS RELEASE === IT'S A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT FROM HERE TO THE TREMBLING STARS by THE PULSAR PROJECT. Live performance with web cast. This Friday and Saturday (13 & 14 October) at 8pm, celestial sounds will fill the dome of Manchester's Triangle during It's A Beautiful Night From Here To The Trembling Stars by The Pulsar Project. This free live performance of Keith Johnson's new work for electro-acoustic chamber orchestra is accompanied by video visuals from Sarah Carne, and can also be heard and seen over the web in a geographically specific web cast - go to http://www.digitalsummer.org/interface/interface_fla.htm?content=pulsar.htm for downloads and plug in's. The piece charts the transit of a pulsar - the rotating remnant of an exploded star - across the night sky. Observed only by radio telescopes, time and distance mean a pulsar is seen in the past - a memory of a former star. From this idea, The Pulsar Project explore memory, collective experience and the effects of time. String, wind, brass and percussion will play alongside a recorded electronic score which contains sounds derived from the radio waves emitted by a pulsar. Using techniques of astronomical photography, the video work will create its imaginary passing in the sky. Envisaged as an event of great beauty, the personal and emotional responses of spectators will be captured. The Triangle, Manchester's new upmarket shopping enclave, will host the live site-specific performance and video installation/projection. Additionally a webcast will fuse this with on-line audio files and visuals specific to a time and place along the pulsar's imagined transit. Downloading these files alongside the main performance creates new versions with their own time frames and memories. The Pulsar Project are composer Keith Johnson and artist Sarah Carne. Keith Johnson's Lookout, commissioned for Manchester's ISCM Festival 98, was heard on the redundant 12th floor of an office building. The London Sinfonietta commissioned Honesty and Sabotage, and Don't Say A Word was broadcast on French Radio. Sarah Carne has exhibited with Salford City Art Gallery and Mid Pennine Arts. She has a Year of The Artist Residency on Burnley's buses. The web cast is designed by Dave Lawrence. If you're close to Manchester, check out the live gig - if not then listen in to the web cast. [Friday 13 - Saturday 14 October/8pm/FREE] [The Triangle (opposite M&S), Manchester] [www.digitalsummer.org/interface] [Info: 0161 950 3925] Ed. Press and Marketing [inter:face]
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