Diapason - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for Diapason. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

  • poster for Paul Devens "Probe"

    Paul Devens "Probe"

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    • Media: Media Arts
    • 2011-03-05 - 2011-03-26

    The new sound-installation by the Dutch artist Paul Devens will be site specific in many aspects for the exhibition space of Diapason. Devens’ work often involves manipulations, transformations and adaptations...More »

  • poster for Jacob Kirkegaard "Sabulation"

    Jacob Kirkegaard "Sabulation"

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    • Media: Photography
    • 2011-02-05 - 2011-02-26

    "Nagaras" ("drum" or "kettle drum") is the title of a series of eight photographs shot on an expedition into the deserts of Oman in December 2008. The work explores a sonic phenomenon which only occurs...More »

  • poster for Ernst Karel and Helen Mirra "Swiss Mountain Transport Systems"

    Ernst Karel and Helen Mirra "Swiss Mountain Transport Systems"

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    • Media: Media Arts
    • 2011-01-08 - 2011-01-29

    Swiss mountain transport systems is a long form composition created specifically for Diapason’s eight-channel system, constructed of location recordings and percussion. The location recordings were...More »

  • poster for "Point Play, Diapason Archive (Jukebox)" Exhibition

    "Point Play, Diapason Archive (Jukebox)" Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting - Photography - Other - Installation - Video installation - Digital
    • 2010-12-04 - 2010-12-25

    Saturdays in December Diapason hosts two concurrent exhibitions: POINT PLAY, curated by Nisi Jacobs, showcases sound installations by Michael J. Schumacher, Richard Garet, Adam Kendall, and Wolfgang Gil....More »

  • poster for John Duncan "TAILINGS"

    John Duncan "TAILINGS"

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2010-11-06 - 2010-11-27

    Slow writhing in near-total darkness Intertwining drones from a church organ Movement and sound heavy, thick as oil Erotic and forbidden Produced by Michael J. Schumacher and Nisi Jacobs Assistant...More »

  • "Non-Cochlear Sound" Exhibition

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    • Media: Video installation
    • 2010-10-02 - 2010-10-23

    Sound, like everything else (maybe more than everything else), is a product of interaction: stick with skin, wheel with street, wind with grass. Logically, then, sound is also a product of the situations...More »

  • poster for "Vociferous: Sound Works by 21 Contemporary Colombian Artists" Exhibition

    "Vociferous: Sound Works by 21 Contemporary Colombian Artists" Exhibition

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    • Media: Installation - Media Arts
    • 2010-09-02 - 2010-09-25

    Curated by Colombian electroacoustic composer and improviser Ricardo Arias, Vociferous: Sound Works by 21 Contemporary Colombian Artists presents an overview of the current state of sound art in Colombia....More »

  • poster for "June  a sound and image installation" Exhibition

    "June a sound and image installation" Exhibition

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    • Media: Video installation - Media Arts
    • 2010-06-05 - 2010-06-26

    June is a new audio-visual installation by DRAW, the duo of Nisi Jacobs and Michael J. Schumacher. June uses 23 channels of sound and multiple video projections to create an environment of potential relations...More »

  • poster for "Slash: a sound and video installation" Exhibition

    "Slash: a sound and video installation" Exhibition

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    • Media: Video installation - Media Arts
    • 2010-05-01 - 2010-05-29

    Slash' is like the skin; it breathes, it gives and takes, it holds back and lets pass through, it is about the border between darkness and light, between sound and silence, between what we see and what...More »

  • "Untitled (for resonants)" and "Fadings" Performance Series

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    • Media: Performance Art
    • 2010-04-03 - 2010-04-24

    The two projects «Untitled (for resonants)» and «Fadings» jointly comprise the third and last act in a series of group shows that investigate the materiality of sound. In this series, each show takes up...More »

  • poster for Theo Burt "Colour Projections" & Roc Jiménez de Cisneros "Hands in the air, reach for the laser"

    Theo Burt "Colour Projections" & Roc Jiménez de Cisneros "Hands in the air, reach for the laser"

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    • Media: Video installation - Media Arts
    • 2010-03-06 - 2010-03-27

    Colour Projections is a computer-based audio and video work creating precise relationships between sound and geometry. Through a progression of geometric systems, rules are established and shapes are created,...More »

  • poster for "Daniel Teige's Xenakis interpretations" Exhibition

    "Daniel Teige's Xenakis interpretations" Exhibition

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    • Media: Architecture - Installation - Video installation - Media Arts
    • 2010-02-06 - 2010-02-27

    As part of the festival IANNIS XENAKIS: COMPOSER, ARCHITECT, VISIONARY organized by the Drawing Center and curated by Sharon Kanach and Carey Lovelace, Diapason will present an overview of Xenakis’s tape...More »

  • poster for Shawn Decker "Concrete"

    Shawn Decker "Concrete"

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    • Media: Installation - Digital
    • 2009-12-05 - 2009-12-12

    Concrete is a sound installation exploring the interplay of two species of sounds: real-time vibrations emitting from objects physically present in the space vs. the virtual sound produced with a mutli-channel...More »

  • poster for  Nicolas Collins "Tall Poppies"

    Nicolas Collins "Tall Poppies"

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    • Media: Video installation
    • 2009-11-07 - 2009-11-28

    In Tall Poppies contact mikes on the stems of sparklers pick up the whoosh of the burning magnesium and the subsequent ping and pop of the wire cores as they cool. Video projectors beam synchronized recordings...More »

  • "10ms perspectives on microsound" Exhibition

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    • Media: Installation - Art Talk - Performance Art
    • 2009-10-01 - 2009-10-31

    Diapason Gallery presents current perspectives on the idea of "microsound"- a technical term and also a musical genre - in honor of the 10th anniversary of the .microsound.org mailing list (founded by...More »

  • poster for "Quartet without Pyramid Scheme" Installation

    "Quartet without Pyramid Scheme" Installation

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2009-09-05 - 2009-09-26

    Quartet without Pyramid Scheme is a collaborative sound installation inhabiting the gallery and lounge spaces at Diapason. Its sound is the sum of a rotating collection of sound samples which loop continuously...More »

  • Novi-sad Sound Performance

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    • Media: Performance Art
    • 2009-06-16 - 2009-06-16

    Novi_sad's piece will be based on field recordings from Gotland, Sweden, the Amazon tropical rainforest, Brazil and vibrations from the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges in NY. The perfomance will take...More »

  • Anthea Caddy and Annette Krebs "Maps of Corners"

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    • Media: Installation - Performance Art
    • 2009-01-23 - 2009-01-23

    "Maps of Corners" is a site specific performance utilizing live instrumentation, electronics and amplification to explore how we engage and utilize both physical and electronic space in performance.More »

  • Matt Rogalsky "Memory Like Water"

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2009-01-03 - 2009-01-31

    "In Memory Like Water," which revisits the idea of water as a metaphor for memory, the voices of people recounting their earliest memories are used to shape the sounds of water in motion. In each of eight...More »

  • Rolf Julius "Music, under your Feet"

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    • Media: Installation - Video installation
    • 2008-11-22 - 2008-12-20

    "One should bend down more often to pick up the tones lying around everywhere. In Manhattan, I saw and heard the really huge and thick and loud tones, the brown and the violet, but also the little quiet...More »

  • Cecilia Castro and Sergei Tcherepnin "Two New Electro-Acoustic Works"

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    • Media: Installation - Performance Art
    • 2008-11-15 - 2008-11-15

    Diapason, gallery for sound, presents Two New Electro-Acoustic Works by Cecilia Castro and Sergei Tcherepnin, with performances by Kenny Wang, Gillian Rivers + Sergei Tcherepnin. More »

  • James June Schneider "1, 2, 3, Whiteout: The End of the Light Age"

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    • Media: Film - Performance Art
    • 2008-11-14 - 2008-11-14

    "1,2,3, Whiteout: The End of the Light Age" is a sound and image tone poem directed by James June Schneider. Film presentation by James June Schneider and sound artist Elmapi (2007, 16mm, French and...More »

  • Ian Nagoski Performance

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    • Media: Performance Art
    • 2008-11-12 - 2008-11-12

    Untitled Performance continues a decade-long series of performances involving superimposition of sounds. The sounds are continuous recordings of Arp synthesizer, voice, feedback circuits, processed commercial...More »

  • Esther Venrooy Exhibition

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    • Media: Digital
    • 2008-10-04 - 2008-10-25
  • Micah Silver "You and Me, Going"

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2008-06-14 - 2008-06-29

    You and Me, Going is the result of an imaginary unfolding -- of a near-archaeological process through my recent work: of unearthing artifacts, brushing them off, finding new resonances with old things,...More »

  • Patrick K.- H. "ScAS (ScotchAcoustic Session)"

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2008-06-14 - 2008-06-28

    ScAS (ScotchAcoustic Session) was started in 2004 as series of live-acousmatic pieces based on scotch-tape sounds, recorded and edited by various types. It is a generative composition, so-called work-in-progress....More »

  • Seth Cluett "doleros (audio tourism at ringing rocks)"

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    • Media: Digital
    • 2008-05-10 - 2008-05-31

    In rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania, just west of the Delaware River, there is a park with a rather peculiar feature. The Ringing Rocks Park is a mile long boulder field containing the largest Diabase...More »

  • poster for David Galbraith "IgOpre"

    David Galbraith "IgOpre"

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    • Media: Installation - Video installation
    • 2008-04-05 - 2008-04-26

    lgOpre (luh - GOP - ruh) is an audiovisual installation of multichannel sound and projected digital animation created with real-time software that links vintage grid pattern algorithms with vinyl record...More »

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