PRESS
Three performances:
THURSDAY, MARCH 8
5:30 pmBest of IMS
Kilbourn Hall,
Eastman School of Music
26 Gibbs Street
Rochester, New York
This one-hour show presents selections from eleven years of
IMS festival programming and is part of the
Eastman Computer Music Center's
25th Anniversary Celebration Concert Series.
SUNDAY, APRIL 1
7:00 pmIngle Auditorium,
Student Alumni Union Building
Rochester Institute of Technology
1 Lomb Memorial Drive
Henrietta, New York
SUNDAY, APRIL 15
8:00 pmVisual Studies Workshop Auditorium,
31 Prince Street,
Rochester, New York
Tickets:
$6, students with ID free
Tickets are available one hour before showtime
at the performance venue.
IMS Web site:
www.imsfestival.org
For more information, contact:
Stephanie Maxwell, (585) 475-6127, sampph@rit.edu
About IMS:
(Please note: For a more detailed history of IMS, please refer to the ABOUT page on the IMS Web site.)
The ImageMovementSound festival began in March 1997 with a hybrid film exhibition/concert presented by the Eastman Computer Music Center and the RIT School of Film and Animation to a standing-room-only audience of 500 in Eastman's Kilbourn Hall. Showcasing innovative techniques in computer-generated and live acoustic musical production, experimental animation and live action filmmaking techniques, the show was repeated in September on the visiting artists series at Colgate University. In October 1997, the Department of Dance at SUNY Brockport jointed RIT and the Eastman School of Music as partners in co-producing an expanded, annual festival.
The enthusiasm generated from this artistic partnership led in 1999 to the development of an inter-campus multimedia collaborations course targeted at university students interested in creating innovative combinations of visual, musical and choreographic art forms.
In the eleven years since its inception, ImageMovementSound has continued to grow. In 2001, thirty two collaborating artists and more than forty performers and technicians contributed to the twelve works presented at the festival, including multiple projections of still and moving videographic imagery; live dance and musical performances; interactive abstract explorations of textured space; and a film noir in which music, rather than dialog, serves to carry the action and provide character development.
Similar diversity has characterized IMS productions of the past five years. Performances are now presented at two or three partnership sites each April, on a rotating basis, in order to break down geographic barriers hindering participation within various segments of the artistic and civic communities.