Boston Immersive Music Festival
Exhibition Dates: September - October 2024
Outerspace Visual Communicator
Sound and vision, live and recorded music, and Outerspace Visual Communicator converge at Boston Immersive Music Festival
Greater Boston has no shortage of live-music events that seek to combine different musical eras, genres, live and recorded performance, and so on.
But an upcoming series of 21 live-music events, over 7 weekends from September 13 to October 26, at Boston Cyberarts its Jamaica Plain gallery raises the bar dramatically.
The Boston Immersive Music Festival brings together, in real time, 5 elements of a multi-media, multi-sensory experience (for audiences and performers alike). Each concert will draw from these components:
A live performance by some of the Boston area's most acclaimed artists in the jazz, classical, experimental, and folk traditions,
The Outerspace Visual Communicator, a keyboard-triggered instrument that harnesses the power of light to interpret sound,
Bill Sebastian, inventor of the OVC, "painting in real time" in response to live or recorded music,
The musical legacy of Sun Ra, the late great avant-garde composer who worked with Bill and inspired the OVC, as reimagined by today’s musicians, and
Audience reaction (through virtual-reality goggles and high-resolution projections) to music and light.
Opening night for the festival is Friday September 13. Tickets available on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/boston-immersive-music-festival-3596939
Students should use promo code Student on check out to get a $10 discount on tickets
Featured Artists:
Fri Sept 13
Called “one of the Boston music scene's most valuable players” by The Art Fuse, Julian Loida is a percussionist, composer, and producer.
Thurs Sept 19
liveVR w/ recorded Sun Ra
The OVC returns to Boston. Bill Sebastian, the inventor of the OVC will accompany the recorded music of Sun Ra with 3D video seen on headsets or in high-resolution projections.
Fri Sept 20
Albino Mbie is an award winning Musician, Guitarist, Singer, Composer, Sound and mixing engineer born in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, a country in southern Africa known for its rich musical and cultural heritage.
Sat Sept 21
Bierylo has performed throughout the United States as a member of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. As a solo electronic artist, he has performed with laptop computer and modular synthesizer in the US, Berlin, Shanghai, and Krakow including concerts with Grammy-nominated electronic musician BT and Terrance Blanchard.
Sun Sept 22
Transporter Double Bass night
Performances from the Boston Cyberarts/Transporter series responding to the work of Sun RA
Thurs Sept 26
liveVR w/ recorded Sun Ra
The OVC returns to Boston. Bill Sebastian, the inventor of the OVC will accompany the recorded music of Sun Ra with 3D video seen on headsets or in high-resolution projections.
Fri Sept 27
Timo Preece/Planetary Cymatic Resonance
Planetary Cymatic Resonance is a project based on tunings calculated from natural frequencies found in our universe like the movement of planets or the resonances of molecules. P-C-R's music is a synthesis between musical expression, scientific calculation, modern technology and ancient wisdom.
Sat Sept 28
Neil Leonard is a composer, saxophonist, and transdisciplinary artist. Leonard's work includes concerts for ensembles with live electronics, audio/visual installation, and multimedia performance. He maintains active collaborations in Canada, Cuba, China, Brazil, Burundi, Italy, Israel, Japan, Taiwan, and across the US
Thurs Oct 3
liveVR w/ recorded Sun Ra
The OVC returns to Boston. Bill Sebastian, the inventor of the OVC will accompany the recorded music of Sun Ra with 3D video seen on headsets or in high-resolution projections.
Fri Oct 4
The Porch Trio Quintet
The Porch Trio Quintet is the latest project of The Porch Trio: a guitar band that features the Trio plus Boston jazz veteran Eric Hofbauer, and young talent Gabe Boyarin on electric guitars. The band uses a microtonal tuning system between the instruments, which gives it a mesmerizing and dreamy sound, full of collective melodic and multi-rhythmic layerings.
Sun Oct 6
Seventh Sun takes us on a journey through the universe, exploring the beauty and struggles of life through his soulful and emotive saxophone playing.
Sat Oct 12
The band has busied itself with creating infective melody lines and harmony arrangements reminiscent of the British invasion overlaying bucolic American roots rock. Encompassing social commentary, story-telling, emotional revelation, and a touch of wry
Sun Oct 13
Mehrpouya is a multi-instrumentalist performer, proficient in the Clarinet, Kamancheh, and Hand Percussion. He stands out for his distinctive and innovative clarinet playing, encompassing fusion, jazz, world music, and specializing in Iranian folk and classical(Radif) music.
Thurs Oct 17
liveVR w/ recorded Sun Ra
The OVC returns to Boston. Bill Sebastian, the inventor of the OVC will accompany the recorded music of Sun Ra with 3D video seen on headsets or in high-resolution projections.
Fri Oct 18
A Tabla player, film and video game composer, audio engineer and producer from India. Currently studying at Berklee College of Music. Has studied the art of Tabla playing from a very young age under the guidance of my Guruji, Grammy nominated Pt Subhen Chatterjee. He has had the good fortune of performing and collaborating with multiple Grammy winning artists like Mike Block, Edward Perez, John Paterno, and Grammy nominated artists like the Berklee Indian Ensemble, Chrystylez Bacon, Patrice Rushen, etc.
Sun Oct 20
Joe LaRocca is one of America’s most sought-after woodwind players, earning a reputation among theaters around the country for his versatility as a multi-wind and multi-genre artist. With primary focus on flute, saxophone, clarinet, and double reeds, Joe’s expertise extends to include a wide assortment of ethnic and historical winds, bringing opportunities to explore more traditional orchestral and chamber performances, as well as new experimental works.
Thurs, Oct 24
Gershon founded Accurate Records, which has released albums by Morphine, Medeski Martin & Wood, the Alloy Orchestra, Ghost Train Orchestra, the Either/Orchestra, Dominique Eade, and Garrison Fewell. He has been a member of rock bands the Decoders (1980–82), the Sex Execs (1982–84), Hypnosonics (1986–1999), Orchestra Morphine (2000–present), and Bourbon Princess (2003–2008). He has worked as a studio musician and has performed in Boston.
Fri Oct 25
Sat Oct 26