SATURDAY July 7th
All performances approximately 30 minutes long, located outdoors, on the Plaza, near the fountain, unless otherwise noted.
10-12pm
Rhythmic Memory Machine
Presented by ARTLAB, the Rhythmic Memory Machine is a beat-making device composed of selected unconventional objects that evoke a meaningful childhood memory to produce musical cadences. Objects used to create the machine will be chosen by 10 – 15 ARTLAB teens as a method to share their impactful memories with visitors.
12pm
Improvisations
Creative improvised music and movement involving a small ensemble of local/regional improvisers.
Layne Garrett - guitar, percussion
Aquiles Holladay - movement
Amanda Huron - drums
Shay Turner - movement
1pm
Music and Memory
Selections performed by musicians from the National Symphony Orchestra.
2pm
(Dis)Connected
Errant Movement: (Dis)connected is a five part modern dance work that looks at technology and its effects on the maps our lives follow - turns, stops, positives and negatives. Four of the sections feature music of sounds of iPhone and Microsoft systems. The fifth section is an improvised around audience-participation. The audience is asked to text the dancers via phone numbers posted around the space, and the dancers react and improvise based on pre-determined rules but ultimately in response to the frequency and content of the texts.
3pm
Date Paintings
Julie Moon with David Schulman and Sam McCormally: A reflection on the painting series by artist On Kawara, Date Paintings, this performance mixes live and pre-recorded evocative sounds. A sonic prose poem emerges - a reflection of Moon's childhood travels between the U.S. and South Korea, her "country of origin."
SUNDAY July 8
All performances approximately 30 minutes long, located outdoors, on the Plaza, near the fountain, unless otherwise noted.
11am
Story time
Meet by The Drummer sculpture, by Barry Flanagan, located in the sunken sculpture garden just off the National Mall, for a hands-on, interactive, sonic, story adventure. Kid and little kid friendly! Story time explores contemporary art through stories and movement. Museum staff will read aloud a book, introduce children to an artist in the collection, and lead a hands-on activity. Nursing moms welcome. Stroller parking is available in the Hirshhorn lobby.
11am
Date Paintings
Julie Moon with David Schulman and Sam McCormally. A reflection on the painting series by artist On Kawara, Date Paintings, this performance mixes live and pre-recorded evocative sounds. A sonic prose poem emerges - a reflection of Moon's childhood travels between the U.S. and South Korea, her "country of origin." Immediately followed by Odd Parlour from David Schulman.
12pm
Reef Recall
Reef Recall, part of the Ocean Memory Project. This is a collaborative performance between cellist Heather Spence and the ocean acoustics and species she studies. With advanced degrees in both marine biology and behavioral neuroscience this composition plays on cross-disciplinary themes of marine health, noise pollution and communication.
1pm
Global Folksongs
Artists from across oceans pass the mic to perform individual folk songs, ballads and other works originating from their communities near and far. Co-presented by DC Listening Lounge and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Featuring Manas Achyra (Bengal India) Mery Musinyan (Armenia),
Alidé Sans (Catalonia).
2pm
(Dis)Connected
Errant Movement: (Dis)connected is a five part modern dance work that looks at technology and its effects on the maps our lives follow - turns, stops, positives and negatives. Four of the sections feature music of sounds of iPhone and Microsoft systems. The fifth section is an improvised around audience-participation. The audience is asked to text the dancers via phone numbers posted around the space, and the dancers react and improvise based on pre-determined rules but ultimately in response to the frequency and content of the texts.
3pm
Peace Resonance: Hiroshima/Wendover
Alan Nakagawa
Created and performed by Japanese-American artist Alan Nakagawa, Peace Resonance is a participatory, multi-speaker audio presentation that links history, immigration, resilience and time. Nakagawa uses sound art as a means to explore how we hear, sound in relation to memory and the tactility of sound, as well as to grapple with his own personal history and connections to sound and place. Peace Resonance is the second in a series of works created by Nakagawa to connect multi-point audio recordings of interior spaces to explore the history and connectivity of place through sound. In this performance, Nakagawa links the Hiroshima Atomic Dome with the Wendover Hanger in an attempt to explore time, space, and sound in relation to these locations and his personal connection to them through his family history. This project received Federal support from the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific
American Center.
Performance will be held in the (Ring Auditorium)
All performances approximately 30 minutes long, located outdoors, on the Plaza, near the fountain, unless otherwise noted.
10-12pm
Rhythmic Memory Machine
Presented by ARTLAB, the Rhythmic Memory Machine is a beat-making device composed of selected unconventional objects that evoke a meaningful childhood memory to produce musical cadences. Objects used to create the machine will be chosen by 10 – 15 ARTLAB teens as a method to share their impactful memories with visitors.
12pm
Improvisations
Creative improvised music and movement involving a small ensemble of local/regional improvisers.
Layne Garrett - guitar, percussion
Aquiles Holladay - movement
Amanda Huron - drums
Shay Turner - movement
1pm
Music and Memory
Selections performed by musicians from the National Symphony Orchestra.
2pm
(Dis)Connected
Errant Movement: (Dis)connected is a five part modern dance work that looks at technology and its effects on the maps our lives follow - turns, stops, positives and negatives. Four of the sections feature music of sounds of iPhone and Microsoft systems. The fifth section is an improvised around audience-participation. The audience is asked to text the dancers via phone numbers posted around the space, and the dancers react and improvise based on pre-determined rules but ultimately in response to the frequency and content of the texts.
3pm
Date Paintings
Julie Moon with David Schulman and Sam McCormally: A reflection on the painting series by artist On Kawara, Date Paintings, this performance mixes live and pre-recorded evocative sounds. A sonic prose poem emerges - a reflection of Moon's childhood travels between the U.S. and South Korea, her "country of origin."
SUNDAY July 8
All performances approximately 30 minutes long, located outdoors, on the Plaza, near the fountain, unless otherwise noted.
11am
Story time
Meet by The Drummer sculpture, by Barry Flanagan, located in the sunken sculpture garden just off the National Mall, for a hands-on, interactive, sonic, story adventure. Kid and little kid friendly! Story time explores contemporary art through stories and movement. Museum staff will read aloud a book, introduce children to an artist in the collection, and lead a hands-on activity. Nursing moms welcome. Stroller parking is available in the Hirshhorn lobby.
11am
Date Paintings
Julie Moon with David Schulman and Sam McCormally. A reflection on the painting series by artist On Kawara, Date Paintings, this performance mixes live and pre-recorded evocative sounds. A sonic prose poem emerges - a reflection of Moon's childhood travels between the U.S. and South Korea, her "country of origin." Immediately followed by Odd Parlour from David Schulman.
12pm
Reef Recall
Reef Recall, part of the Ocean Memory Project. This is a collaborative performance between cellist Heather Spence and the ocean acoustics and species she studies. With advanced degrees in both marine biology and behavioral neuroscience this composition plays on cross-disciplinary themes of marine health, noise pollution and communication.
1pm
Global Folksongs
Artists from across oceans pass the mic to perform individual folk songs, ballads and other works originating from their communities near and far. Co-presented by DC Listening Lounge and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Featuring Manas Achyra (Bengal India) Mery Musinyan (Armenia),
Alidé Sans (Catalonia).
2pm
(Dis)Connected
Errant Movement: (Dis)connected is a five part modern dance work that looks at technology and its effects on the maps our lives follow - turns, stops, positives and negatives. Four of the sections feature music of sounds of iPhone and Microsoft systems. The fifth section is an improvised around audience-participation. The audience is asked to text the dancers via phone numbers posted around the space, and the dancers react and improvise based on pre-determined rules but ultimately in response to the frequency and content of the texts.
3pm
Peace Resonance: Hiroshima/Wendover
Alan Nakagawa
Created and performed by Japanese-American artist Alan Nakagawa, Peace Resonance is a participatory, multi-speaker audio presentation that links history, immigration, resilience and time. Nakagawa uses sound art as a means to explore how we hear, sound in relation to memory and the tactility of sound, as well as to grapple with his own personal history and connections to sound and place. Peace Resonance is the second in a series of works created by Nakagawa to connect multi-point audio recordings of interior spaces to explore the history and connectivity of place through sound. In this performance, Nakagawa links the Hiroshima Atomic Dome with the Wendover Hanger in an attempt to explore time, space, and sound in relation to these locations and his personal connection to them through his family history. This project received Federal support from the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific
American Center.
Performance will be held in the (Ring Auditorium)
