Above documentation from John Weisse of Colin Manning’s multifarious media array circa 2012.

SEASON FINALE!!   SUNDAY MAY 1st in the PNCA MEDIATHEQUE!

In the final Pacific Vortex venture for the Spring 2016 season, we are pleased to plunge you into a multi-channel miasma orchestrated by Ben Glas and Joseph Wells.  Here you will find a formidable constellation of quadrophonic arrays and computational creativity that activates, in new ways, the architecture of the Mediatheque and your own mind! Sine-waves accompanied by generative visual abstractions will segue, sojourn, soliloquy, or, in other ways, play perceptively on the audience’s sense-abilities.

Out of time, place and scale, this future-present foray will be followed by the polychromatic Pond Mind Pulp, a live artwork carried out by Colin Manning on his customized16mm projection systems.  An outgrowth of projection arts and ad-hoc animation trajectories cultivated in San Francisco’s vibrant 1990’s musical scene, Manning physically conjures a phantasmagoric environment  using celluloid selections that are dyed, inked, bleached, cut up and compiled on large reels.  These elaborate illuminations hybridized with handmade slide and overhead transparency projections and mixed by hand are improvisational and articulated without electronic expediencies.

Sunday April 3rd begins with Jeffrey Richardson and Lynn Bousquet elaborating videographically on real and imagined narratives embedded in a strip of old photographic negatives.  Coupled with the rhythm and noise of ABSV, these dead media revelations will be made audible as Musique concrète in Dub.

Then, field recordings and environmental samplings of Portland time and space will be abstracted via non-linear digital, analog and narrative processes as composer Mike Erwin and video artist Megan McKissack  criss-cross technology with nature, the stochastic with the stationary in a live audio-visual mix.

Sunday, February 7th, 7pm!  Pacific Vortex: Light and Sound Series begins! Featuring “This is Happening” - SUE-C & Shawn Trail - Live animated music - Pitched Percussion + Music Computer + Light + Color + Camera + Max/MSP/Jitter!

Plus! Kevin Noonan, advanced optical alchemist, taps into liquid light show techniques of yore, orchestrating a fleet of overheads and dyes, color wheels and oils with digital imaging assists.

The Pacific Vortex: Light and Sound Series will set down in the PNCA Mediatheque  beginning on Sunday, February 7th and will be returning every first sunday, through May in this first set of events.  Beginning at 7pm each month, this series is free and open to the public and will feature live cinema and mediated performances by local and regional, emerging and established artists in this community of practice.

For the audio-visually inclined and the vidsonically curious, this series offers an array of enticing event-scenes, a repertoire recalling so many great arts of light and shadow.  February 7th brings the live cinema of Sue-C, crafting handmade video with improvisational animation instruments with thumb piano and sampler processing by Shawn Trail.  In addition, the evening will include  the liquid light-play of Kevin Noonan.  

In March, Seattle's Eric Ostrowski visits Portland with a multi-projector performance comprised of 16 mm film loops, video feedback, violin and manipulation of optical soundtracks! Ostrowski will also screen his hallucinatory Avenue of the Dead, a hand-painted barrage offering “subconscious meltdown” amidst “the ruins of Teotihuacán.” On the eclectic electronic front, the evening will additionally include the aural gestures of sound artist Ayako Kataoka, mediated by oscilloscope and processed further by the circuit-bent video synths of DB Amorin.

Moving into April and May, Pacific Vortex welcomes Megan McKissack , Mike Erwin, Jay Morales and DaVideo Tape of Ancient Analog and other to be announced!  More details  soon! For now, please join us February 7th for the inaugural event of The Pacific Vortex Light and Sound Series.

Presented by the Video and Sound Department  and the Exhibitions Department @ PNCA : 511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR