MUSIC AND ART CONVERGE AT THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ MUSEUM

Sound Collage is an interdisciplinary event celebrating the intersection of visual art and music through a mixture of live performances, illuminated installations, digital sculpture and dance.

Rooted in New Orleans’ long tradition of creative collaboration, the festival transforms the Jazz Museum grounds into a space for artists to showcase their work in new and interesting ways, playing off each other and experimenting with form.

SOUND COLLAGE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

EVENT SCHEDULE

2:30 PM: UNIVERSAL HEART CHORDS: A CONVERSATION — Exploring the musical world of paintings by Frederick J. Brown (3rd Floor Performance Venue)

4:00 PM: INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP AND PERFORMANCE WITH THE VIRTUAL KREWE OF VAPORWAVE (Education Center in the Riverside Courtyard)

6:00 PM: MARCUS BROWN: PAINT MUSIC

7:30 PM: HERLIN RILEY QUARTET

9:00 PM: INTERNATIONAL REBEL BABEL ENSEMBLE PRESENTS “JAZZ FOR PEACE” FEATURING:

Łukasz L.U.C. Rostkowski, Herlin Riley, Khris Royal, HOT 8 Brass Band, Keiko Komaki, DJ Qbert, DJ Decks, The New Generation Jazz Band

FEATURED ARTISTS

>>> MAIN STAGE PERFORMANCE AT 6:00PM
A native of New Orleans, Marcus Brown is a sculptor, painter, inventor, musician, and educator. Brown holds a M.Ed. from Portland State University and BFA from Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) in Missouri. His work is expansive and includes international exhibits and performances in New York City, Berlin, Germany, South Korea, Krakow, Poland, and at the Venice Biennale in Italy.
Paint Music is an interactive exhibit combining the works of New Orleans artist/musician Marcus Brown and Polish artist/musician Dr. Marek Batorski. Brown performs with his self-invented data and sound producing brushes and canvases.The exhibit features Brown’s sound paintings in mixed reality format that allows users to create their own interactive experience. Paint Music also includes jazz paintings by Polish artist Dr. Batorski, a well known Polish musician and artist.
>>> MAIN STAGE PERFORMANCE AT 7:00PM
Derek Brueckner is a visual artist who works and teaches in Winnipeg, Canada. Social Improvisations is a performance piece intended to open up a space to think about representations of embodiment at the threshold of where the digital and material worlds meet within an unscripted and live improvised performance. The work explores joining the isolated forms of practice, production, performance, participation and audience. This project considers the ways the body is represented, including the ways that movement, sound, orations, raiment, and context all transform the body and thus our ability to know it and reproduce it within a visual language.
>>> MAIN STAGE PERFORMANCE AT 7:300PM
Herlin Riley was born on February 15, 1957, in New Orleans, Louisiana.. Mr. Riley studied trumpet throughout high school and two years of college., later concentrating his attention on drums. Mr. Riley was a member of Ahmad Jamal's group from 1984 through 1987. He has recorded with Marcus Roberts, Dr. John, Harry Connick, Jr., George Benson, Benny Wallace, Mark Whitfield, among others. In the spring of 1988, he joined Wynton Marsalis' touring and recording group, which he performed with through its disbanding in late 1994. He also performed on the first Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra United States tour in the fall of 1992, performing the music of Duke Ellington. Herlin Riley is a regularly featured musician at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
>>> MAIN STAGE PERFORMANCE AT 9:00PM
Rebel Babel Ensemble is an international orchestra building cultural bridges between nations, communities and genres of music. Within a few years, it connected over 11,000 musicians from over a dozen countries, fulfilling the dreams of many young musicians, giving them the opportunity to perform with professionals on the stages of the largest festivals.
Polish composer, rapper, conductor and producer Łukasz L.U.C. Rostkowski travels around the world inviting local groups and big bands to play together for peace, dialog and tolerance.
The Sound Collage performance will be a tribute to peace and freedom. Jazz compositions in hip-hop arrangements and vice versa. Songs about peace and freedom in jazz interpretations. This unique concert doubles as an an official announcement of DIALOG 3 -- the joint album release of Rebel Babel Ensemble and Gallatin Street Records, the New Orleans Jazz Museum's record label. DIALOG 3 is set for release in 2023.
The concert will connect students and professionals as well as jazz musicians and DJs, including: Herlin Riley, Khris Royal, HOT 8 Brass Band, Keiko Komaki, DJ Qbert, DJ Decks, and the New Generation Brass Band
>>> BARRACKS STREET COURTYARD
Generic Art Solutions (G.A.S.) is a collaborative project of artists Tony Campbell and Matt Vis, who met in New York in 2000. G.A.S. was conceived in New York but practiced in New Orleans for over two decades now. As artists they connected because of their shared interest in collaborative practices and work rooted in performance.
Campbell received a MA RCA in Fine Art Printmaking from The Royal College of Art in London and Matt Vis is a MFA graduate of the University of New Orleans. Campbell and Vis are founding members of Good Children Gallery in New Orleans. Campbell is the Trish Hollis endowed professor at the University of New Orleans and the director of the U.N.O. St Claude gallery.
Currently Generic Art Solutions are exhibiting the solo expo at The New Orleans Jazz Museum, Face Value: the Illusions of Power and Money. Their first solo Museum show was Déjà Vu All Over Again at the New Orleans Museum of Art. They have had 13 solo shows to date; In Fort Worth, TX, at And X gallery in 2013; at Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, FL in 2013 &2017, Cross McKenzie Gallery in Washington, DC in 2014 and at the Arcadia Center for the Arts in Lafayette, LA in 2012. Notable group show include Fútbol: The Beautiful Game at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA in 2014 and then in 2018 The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) FL, both curated by Franklin Sirmans the Director at PAMM. In 2011 Prospect founder and curator Dan Cameron included G.A.S. in Double Crescent at C24 gallery in New York, NY. In Poland G.A.S. have shown - In God We Trust at Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw in 2013 followed by Crime in Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow a year later.
Generic Art Solutions was invited by the Rauschenberg Foundation to the Rauschenberg Residency, the sixth in an on going series of month long residencies, G.A.S.’s work can be found in the Rauschenberg Residency’s collection.
>>> PHONOFOLIUM: LOUIS PRIMA GALLERY (2ND FLOOR)
>>> SYNERGIES: DECATUR STREET COURTYARD
Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancxt are two artists who work together as a duo under the name Scenocosme. They develop the concept of interactivity in their artworks by using multiple kinds of expression: art, technology, sounds and architecture.
They mix art and digital technology in order to find substances of dreams, poetries, sensitivities and delicacies. They also explore invisible relationships with our environment: they can feel energetic variations of living beings. They design interactive artworks, and choreographic collective performances, in which spectators share extraordinary sensory experiences.
Interactive and digital art, installation, design, music and architecture are all combined in the projects realized by Scenocosme.
>>> EDUCATION CENTER
A New Orleans-based composer and performer of acoustic and electronic music, Stephen Montalvo has played solo concerts and with quartets, quintets and orchestras locally and throughout the United States. His audiovisual installations have been exhibited by the Arts Council of New Orleans, Krewe du Vieux and Krewe Bourbon, Tulane University, and the Virtual Krewe of Vaporware. Inspired by social, cultural, ecological and political issues, Montalvo’s work explores resonance and the interplay of disparate and harmonic sounds and images.
>>> PHONOFOLIUM: LOUIS PRIMA GALLERY (2ND FLOOR)
Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere are interdisciplinary artists whose practice spans over twenty years of projects that actuate music and sound, radio, dissent, and the cultural complexities of the public sphere. The artists have produced works in video installation, lyric writing, performance, and photography. Their research interests lie in the intersection between music, civic action, and historical moments that resonate through distinct musical instrumentation and sonorous traditions.
Nevarez and Tevere have exhibited and screened their work at The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, Creative Time, New Museum, and Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York; Manifesta 8/Spain; Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico; Casino Luxembourg, LU; Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway; Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, and elsewhere. The first US survey of their work was presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 2016.
Their fellowships and grants include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital fellowship, an Art Matters grant, an NEA Project Grant, and a Franklin Furnace Performance Art fellowship. Both Nevarez and Tevere were Studio Fellows at The Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program, artists-in-residence at the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn; Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California; Artpace, San Antonio, Texas; Marble House Project, Vermont; and Antenna Gallery, New Orleans.
>>> RIVERSIDE COURTYARD
The Virtual Krewe of Vaporwave (VKV) are the inventors of Online Mardi Gras (2016). Widely beloved for their large and often arcane audiovisual installations, VKV was recently honored with a plaque at the iconic Mardi Gras Fountain, marking the first major addition to the fountain since 2005.
"We Made an AI Listen to 1000 Hours of Contemporary Music and Then We Asked It How It Was Feeling” is a performance of seven bespoke electronic instruments. Featured instruments include a laser harp, a sideways laser harp, and a custom modified Beams by Flo™, which says right on the box that it's "the Future of Interactive Music." All instruments are geolocked and multituned for perfect compatibility; mathematically, the piece cannot fail.
Following the performance of the piece, VKV members will demonstrate each instrument, shine a light onto the creation process, and answer questions.
Then we will choose some of YOU to perform the piece. Could YOU be the "YOU" that we are talking about? (Yes.)
Thank you for your time and consideration.
The VIrtual Krewe of Vaporwave (VKV)