Festival M.A.R.S.
Music & Arts ReSound (M.A.R.S.) is a festival based on interdisciplinary cooperation between different forms of contemporary music, applied arts, philosophy, contemporary science and technology, with the target of creating platforms for internationally established musicians and artists of all kinds to promote their work and open new perspectives on seeing music through cross-artistic pairings. In its second year, Festival M.A.R.S. will be heading to three major cities around the world (Berlin, Los Angeles, and Shanghai).
As science seeks to better our understanding of the world, music and art allow us to express how our rapidly evolving reality affects us as humans. This is the mission of M.A.R.S.: To explore this new vision by combining science and technology with the expression of music and art.
Tickets Here: https://festivalmarsla.brownpapertickets.com/
Location: The Vortex
2341 East Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90021
OCT. 5 FESTIVAL OPENING: TELEPORMARTIAN
(Door opens at 7pm. Show starts at 8pm)
With MARS Collective and ThisPlay
Four commissioned composers: Genoel Lilienstern, Katharina Rosenberger, Ying Wang and Wen Liu.
TeleporMartian is constructing a new world through the latest techniques of 3D hologram projections, video mapping, virtual reality, and interactive projections with performers, granting spectators access to a one of a kind virtual space. And what exactly does this new world mean to us? It creates a unique program by commissioning four internationally emerged composers. This new world is the result of a pioneering collaboration between composers and technologists, expanding the possibilities of artistic expression and technical innovation.
Program:
Genoel Lilienstern : Big Picture (2018) for Soprano, Ensemble, Electronics and 3D Hologram Projections (World Premiere)
Ying Wang : Black Hole Big Bang (2018) for Soprano, Ensemble, Electronics, 3D Hologram Projections and Video Mapping (World Premiere)
Wen Liu : The Echo of Entropy (2018) for Soprano, Ensemble, Electronics, 3D Hologram Projections and Video Mapping (World Premiere)
Katharina Rosenberger: In the Dream that I Dreamed, You Awoke (2018) for Soprano, Ensemble, Electronics, 3D Hologram Projections (World Premiere)
OCT. 6 MULTIVERSE (PART I)
(Door opens at 7pm. Show starts at 8pm)
With JESSE GILBERT and MIGUEL ATWOOD-FERGUSON
Post-Show by DJ Jesse Blake
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-Fergusons original compositions for acoustic viola and electric violin, all fed in real-time to Gilberts 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.
OCT. 7 MULTIVERSE (PART II)
(Door opens at 7pm. Show starts at 8pm)
With JESSE GILBERT and QUARTETTO FANTASTICO
Chris Woods violin
Paul Cartwright violin
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson viola
Peter Jacobson cello
Post-Show by DJ Jesse Blake
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.
OCT. 7 MULTIVERSE FINALE
(Door opens at 7pm. Show starts at 8pm)
With AMY KAPS and KORDUROY
www.amykaps.com
My art, my world, my life is multi-faceted. I break it down and put it back together. Color. Space. Time. Emotion. Thought. Elements are re-imagined to create a new whole.
The Biggest Band YouVe Probably Never Heard Of!
Korduroy is a progressive-soul act but refuses to fit into that simply titled box. With 15 rotating members, which includes two trumpeters, two guitarists and two percussionists, its easy to see how they defy one single genre and produce their own groove music.
Festival MARS 2018 is fiscally sponsored by Fulcrum Arts 501(c)3.