Two Separate 91勛圖窪蹋厙 CMDC Performance Opportunities Liven Up December

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VANCOUVER, Wash. The 2010 Creative Media and Digital Culture Artist in Residence Ethan Rose, along with students from the CMDC program at Washington State University Vancouver, are launching a week-long photo/sound installation in downtown Vancouver Dec. 3-12 and site-specific vocal performances featuring 30 members of the Flash Choir and iPods at City Hall in Portland, Ore on Dec. 4-5. Both events are free and open to the public.

P梭硃釵勳紳眶 is a photo/sound installation featuring a series of images and flat-panel speakers that explores the intersection of voice, spatial acoustics and technology. The recorded sounds and photographs are situated according to the acoustic qualities of the gallery to draw attention to the physically employed methods of spatial/vocal transformation. This highly experimental exhibit of sound art will be the first of its kind in Vancouver.

The installation opens on First Friday, 5:30 8 p.m. Dec. 3 at 605 Main St. in Vancouver, Wash. The show will run 11 a.m. 5 p.m. Dec. 4, 5, 10, 11 and 12. CMDC students will be working as docents in the gallery to talk about the work and answer questions.

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Between Rooms and Voices is a site-specific vocal performance featuring 30 members of the Flash Choir. Synchronized iPods will provide each performer with a set of distinct instructions that guide their vocalizations and movements throughout the rooms, stairwells and alcoves of City Hall in Portland. The iPods function as the fulcrum between recorded sound and physical performance, facilitating the acoustic blend of voice and architecture into unified moments of sonic transformation.

Performances will be at 2 and 3:30 p.m. each day on Dec 4 and 5 in Portland City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Ave. Tickets are free and can be reserved in advance. For more information visit

Ethan Rose joined The Creative Media & Digital Culture program in fall 2010 as the programs fourth artist in residence. His work reflects an interest in old technologies, new sounds and the restless exploration of musical form. Over the past 10 years Rose has released recordings, scored films, performed internationally, created sound installations and worked with a variety of collaborators. Drawing from his interests in musique concrete, chance operations and American minimalism, Rose creates shifting sound environments that merge the old with the new.

The Creative Media and Digital Technology program at Washington State University Vancouver integrates critical thinking, creativity and computing skills with course work in the arts, humanities and social sciences to offer a broad-based, interdisciplinary degree that prepares students for a culturally diverse, technologically complex 21st century.

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