Margaret Schedel, WeiWei Jin, and Terry Dame

Teaches at Harvestworks | Digital Media Arts Center

Margaret Schedel and Weiwei Jin are two leading composers/multimedia artists working on a new singerless opera – “The Self” – that takes the psychoactive drug Ayahuasca as a dominant thread. In a unique glimpse into the work-in-progress of this multimedia installation opera, we will hear the sonifications of rat brain scan data, explore how Schedel/Jin are animating paintings and see how they are creating interactive lighting through gestural control.

Terry Dame is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and unique instrument creator who performs on her original sensor-driven controller instruments: The Horn of Plenty Sounds and The Parisian Hammer. Fabricated from mainly recycled objects, these wonderful interactive sound sculptures utilize light, motion, proximity and force sensors to trigger custom-made samples. For the Salon, Dame will create for us an interactive improvisation on her unusual instruments involving herself and the environmental elements of our iconic venue.