NYC Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit

03/25/2025

Join us for the 10th annual New York City Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit (https://eis.nyc)!

NYC EIS is an annual concert series featuring music by artists focused on the integration of music improvisation and real-time interactive computer systems.

This year's show will take place on Friday, April 25, 7:00 PM EST, at New York City College of Technology's Voorhees Theater, 186 Jay Street in Brooklyn.

The concert is free and open to the public, with a suggested donation of $10 to the City Tech Foundation. Make your donation in-person on the day of the show or online at https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/nyceis. To gain admittance to the show, please bring a photo ID.

CONCERT PROGRAM:

Kerry Hagan, Miller Puckette, and John Bowers, "The HPB Trio" (live electronics)
Adam James Wilson, "The Third Man" (fretless electric guitar and live electronics)
Lauren Sarah Hayes, "The Accusations That Are Confessions" (hybrid analog/digital live electronics)
Nikki D'Agostino and Kevin Patton, "A Bird Escaped From the Snare of Its Fowler" (tenor saxophone and live electronics)
Seth Davis and Jeff Kaiser, "Duo Cataclysma" (trumpet, guitar, and live electronics)

An annual concert series featuring music by artists focused on the integration of music improvisation and real-time interactive computer systems.

04/14/2024

Join us for the 9th annual New York City Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit (https://eis.nyc)!

This year's show will take place on Friday, May 3rd, 7:00 PM EST, at New York City College of Technology's Voorhees Theater, 186 Jay Street in Brooklyn. We will also be live-streaming on YouTube at https://youtube.com/live/d5I5KNiCsX4.

CONCERT PROGRAM:

Alice Teyssier, Michael Weyandt, and Bradley Scott Rosen: The Atelier (voices and electronics)
Adam James Wilson: Interlude II (guitar and electronics)
Freida Abtan and Kyle Motl: Untitled (double bass and electronics)
Dafna Naphtali : Untitled (voice and electronics)
Performances will be followed by an artist panel discussion, moderated by Kevin Patton.

If you are coming to the in-person event, please bring a photo ID to gain admittance. The concert is free with a suggested donation to the City Tech Foundation, which helps us keep the show running. Donate at the door or here: http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/nyceis.

03/29/2023

Join us for the 8th annual New York City Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit (https://eis.nyc)!
This year's show will take place on Friday, March 31, 7:00 PM EST, at New York City College of Technology's Voorhees Theater, 186 Jay Street in Brooklyn. We will also be live-streaming on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSHd9hG5RLg.
CONCERT PROGRAM:
Levy Lorenzo: Solo Electronics
Sophie Tassignon: Night on the Cold Plain (voice and electronics)
Adam James Wilson: Interlude I (well-tempered guitar and electronics)
Nikki D'Agostino and Christian Lee: Savini Psoas (saxophone, theremin, EWI, voice, guitar, and various analog synthesizers and electronics)
Performances will be followed by an artist panel discussion, moderated by Kevin Patton.
Important COVID notification: to gain admittance, please bring a photo ID and a photo of your CDC card certifying your COVID vaccination.

04/29/2022

Join us tonight at 7:00pm EST for the 7th annual New York City Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit! The concert will be streamed live from New York City College of Technology's Voorhees Theater, at https://youtu.be/GW3jTiimeJw. If you enjoy the show, please show your support by donating here: http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/entgift. See http://eis.nyc for more information.

CONCERT PROGRAM:

Elias Jarzombek and Marcel Wang : Pendular (amplified and processed hanging objects)

Kevin Patton and Paul Tynan : Cast Down Thither (trumpet and live electronics)

Jean-François Charles and Ramin Roshandel : Jamshid Jam (Persian setār and live electronics)

Sahada Buckley and Sydney Doemel : Girls with Hands (violin, amplified sewing machine, live electronics)

Max Horwich, Ashley Jane Lewis, Katya Rozanova, and Emily Saltz : Bread Symphony: A cross-species collaboration for material and spiritual nourishment (environmental sensors, amplified sourdough starter, live vocals, and live bread-making)

Performances will be followed by an artist panel discussion, moderated by Kevin Patton and Adam James Wilson.

04/06/2022

Join us for the 7th annual New York City Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit! The concert will take place on Friday, April 29, 7:00 PM EST, at New York City College of Technology's Voorhees Theater, 186 Jay Street in Brooklyn. Please note that you must register with Cleared4 prior to April 22 to get access to the venue. See instructions on http://eis.nyc. The concert will also be live-streamed on YouTube at https://youtu.be/GW3jTiimeJw.

CONCERT PROGRAM:

Elias Jarzombek and Marcel Wang : Pendular (amplified and processed hanging objects)

Kevin Patton and Paul Tynan : Cast Down Thither (trumpet and live electronics)

Jean-François Charles and Ramin Roshandel : Jamshid Jam (Persian setār and live electronics)

Sahada Buckley and Sydney Doemel : Girls with Hands (violin, amplified sewing machine, live electronics)

Max Horwich, Ashley Jane Lewis, Katya Rozanova, and Emily Saltz : Bread Symphony: A cross-species collaboration for material and spiritual nourishment (environmental sensors, amplified sourdough starter, live vocals, and live bread-making)

Performances will be followed by an artist panel discussion, moderated by Kevin Patton and Adam James Wilson.

03/15/2021

Join us online for the 6th annual New York City Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit! The concert will be streamed on YouTube Friday, March 19, starting at 7:00pm. The link will be available on https://eis.nyc on March 17.

CONCERT PROGRAM:

Juan Parra Cancino, Chris Chafe, and Jonathan Impett : Three States of Wax 2 (guitar, celletto, trumpet, and electronics)

John Bowers, Adam Pultz Melbye, and Paul Stapleton : Three-Body Problem ("Feedback-Actuated Augmented Bass," "Volatile Assemblage" DIY metal resonator, modular synths, field recordings, feedback, zither, and real-time signal processing)

Alexa Dexa : Bewitch Yourself (electroacoustic toy opera)

Lyn Goeringer, Akiko Hatakeyama, Lauren Sarah Hayes, Kristina Warren, and Cecilia Wu : Can you hear me? (DIY software and hardware instruments)

Ria Rajan, Margaret Schedel, Sophia Sun, and Sofy Yuditskaya : Summoning 0.00-10.00 and Vexation Complaint 21.00-31.00 (DIY theremin-like instruments, bass, guitars, drums, vocals, "Synthetic Erudition Assist Lattice" AI agents, and visuals simulating seal vision sourced from live webcams at Monterey Bay Aquarium and the California Acedemy of Sciences)

Artist panel discussion, moderated by Kevin Patton and Adam James Wilson

03/03/2020

We had an amazing weekend of performances from our 2020 artists. We'll post audio and video soon. In the meantime, here's a time-lapse video of the stage area from Saturday, courtesy of John Huntington, our live sound supervisor.

This is "EIS 2020 Day 2 February 29, 2020" by John Huntington on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

02/29/2020

Darina Žurková and Riccardo Marogna preparing for tonight's show.

02/03/2020

We have an amazing two nights of genre-agnostic concerts happening on Feb. 28 and 29 in Brooklyn, featuring computer musicians working with artists from jazz, metal, and classical traditions. See https://eis.nyc for details. Concert program below.

CONCERT 1: Friday, February 28, 2020, 7:00 PM

Arto Artinian, Jeff Kaiser, Killick Hinds, and Adam James Wilson of Goosemotor +2 (augmented trumpet, fretless electric guitars, Haken Continuum, and Skronkbot, a semi-autonomous software improvisation agent)

Gordon Beeferman and Dafna Naphtali of the Gordon Beeferman / Dafna Naphtali Duo (smartphone-controlled audio manipulation of voice, organ, toy piano, and other acoustic devices)

Hans Tammen : Sonic Flotsam (resonant objects and live interactive processing)

Léa Boudreau : this performance is no longer available due to [...] (circuit-bent electronic sounds composed with Pure Data)

CONCERT 2: Saturday, February 29, 2020, 7:00 PM

Juan Parra Cancino and Jonathan Impett : Three states of wax (guitar and trumpet interacting with/through the authors' Timbre Networks and Artificial Life for music software)

Aaron Campbell and Christopher Diaz : Opiyelguabirán (cello-accented real-time vocal processing)

Nikki D'Agostino and Kevin Patton : Cast Down Thither (tenor saxophone, processed through BrundleFly modular DSP software)

Eric Lyon and Alan Weinstein : The Man with the Golden Arm (cello and computer-structured improvisation)

Riccardo Marogna and Darina Žurková : DINGEN (live analysis and stochastic processing of small percussion instruments)

Artist panel discussion, moderated by Adam James Wilson