As a part of the New Music Miami Festival, I will be preparing and performing some interactive video/cg artwork to accompany “21st Century Music for Organ.”

Earlier this year I went up to Brooklyn to perform with my friend Wil, who is a composer and organist. I’ll be using some of the same pieces I developed for that show, and adding a few new ones.

The concert will be held January 21st, 2012, at 7:30pm at Florida International University’s Wertheim Performing Arts Center. I’d love to see you there! Tickets are $15 per person (less if you’re a student or faculty/staff) and can be ordered online or via phone: 305-348-0496.

Photos from our Summer 2011 trip to Lisbon and Coimbra in Portugal, including the Bridges Math Art Conference, and Granada in Spain, including the Alhambra.

Here’s an album of photos from my October 2011 trip to New York City, to perform in my friend’s spooky organ concert. I also visited Occupy Wall Street while I was there.

PechaKucha is a style of presentation consisting of 20 slides timed at 20 seconds each, for a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds. I gave a PechaKucha talk in Orlando, Florida at Blank Space Gallery on December 2nd, 2011. The title of my talk was “Chaos and Computation”, and I shared a bit about my artwork, artistic process, and the context behind my work.

I apologize for the bad quality of the video, but it’s better than nothing! Take a closer look at the slides:

At the end of October, I traveled to Brooklyn to collaborate with a friend of mine, Wil Smith, who is a composer and performer. Every year he puts on a spooky organ concert at First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, with a selection of classical and contemporary works. This year I had the opportunity to create some interpretive visuals for five of the organ works. We projected the real-time video right onto the organ and wall of the church for some really cool effects! Here are some clips to give you a better idea of what I’m talking about:

A Visual Interpretation of “Apparition de l’Eglise Eternal” by Olivier Messiaen

Real-time video projected on a church organ. Visual performance by myself (Nathan Selikoff,nathanselikoff.com); musical performance by Wil Smith (wilsmithmusic.com) as part of a “spooky” organ concert in Brooklyn, NY on October 28th, 2011. Made with Processing.

A Visual Interpretation of “Pari intervallo” by Arvo Part

Real-time video projected on a church organ. Visual performance by myself (Nathan Selikoff,nathanselikoff.com); musical performance by Wil Smith (wilsmithmusic.com) as part of a “spooky” organ concert in Brooklyn, NY on October 28th, 2011. Made with Quartz Composer, Photoshop.

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