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About the Show
Multidisciplinary
Experience music in a new way. Join us for a spectacular showcase of sound and fire where multisensory artists perform new works designed to reveal the interconnectedness between music and the physical nature of sound.
Designed and built by Guerilla Science, the Fire Organ is the ultimate analog sound visualizer. Using any kind of sound input — from voices to acoustic instruments to electronics — the Fire Organ creates new ways of understanding and experiencing music by revealing the shape and motion of sound waves through a dance of flames.
Fire Organ Soundscapes presents new work by Ziemba, P. Spadine, and Levy Lorenzo, the culmination of months of work each artist has spent exploring the custom-built Fire Organ. Ziemba (aka René Kladzyk), known for her otherworldly songs, will sonically activate flames and fragrant scents in a thoroughly synesthetic performance. Spadine, leader of Ashcan Orchestra, works with a passel of literal bells and whistles as well as homemade electronics, developing new methods for flames to drive sounds while sounds in turn drive flames. Percussionist and electronics visionary Lorenzo explores provocative and new ways for humans to use their bodies to make sound, seeing its sonic effects reflected in the fire.
Guerilla Science is an international collective of creative science producers with a passion for merging science, art, and play. They are committed to connecting people with science in unexpected spaces, through unexpected ways, producing live experiences that entertain, inspire, challenge and amaze. Learn more about their mission at www.guerillascience.org.
About the Artists
Ziemba
Ziemba’s multisensory performances offer an alchemy that is both alien and familiar. The Brooklyn-based composer, perfumier, geographer, and vocalist builds oozy architectures for her songs using fragrance, costume, and only the most sincere theatrics. She recently founded Ardis Multiverse, a sonic fragrance imprint and artists alliance, and has spent the past year touring nationally and internationally in support of her debut album, “Hope is Never.” [website: www.theziemba.com]
P. Spadine
Composer, amateur engineer, scientific tourist, and pack rat P. Spadine spends the vast majority of his time guiding the Ashcan Orchestra thru it’s glorification rites praising the known universe and is incredibly grateful for the opportunities shared by D.I.Y. basements to respectable NYC institutions that have allowed Ashcan to share it’s menagerie since 2007. [website: http://ashcanorchestra.blogspot.com/]
Levy Lorenzo
Levy Lorenzo works at the intersection of music, art, and technology. On an international scale, his body of work spans custom electronics design, sound engineering, instrument building, installation art, free improvisation, and classical percussion. A core member of acclaimed the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), he fulfills multiple roles as live sound engineer, electronicist, and percussionist. [website: https://www.levylorenzo.com/]
