MASARY in Residence
Monday, September 23–Sunday, September 29
MASARY Studios is a collective of transdisciplinary artists who create site-specific artworks in the public realm that deploys new media materials to compose compelling, unexpected stories.
Their practice is often based in light, sound and the development and implementation of new technologies at architectural scale. The Studio continues to innovate and develop novel methods of media production in their practice incorporating spatial audio, artificial intelligence, data-driven light sculptures and beyond.
This is an Audio Memory
| Monday, September 23 | 4–5:30 p.m. & 8–9 p.m. |
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| Tuesday, September 24 | 4–6 p.m. |
| Wednesday, September 25 | 10 a.m.–1 p.m. |
The Chapel Lab, Glavin Family Chapel (times subject to change)
FREE and open to BOW students, faculty and staff only.
At the center of this week-long residency is a new method of media performance and installation. The Glavin Family Chapel will be transformed into The Chapel Lab: a participatory media performance lab inviting the Babson community to learn and contribute sound to the headline performance by MASARY on Wednesday evening of the residency. The sound and visual work produced through this experimental audio analysis process will generate a durational “audio memory” which will be displayed at architectural scale on the exterior walls of the Glavin Chapel from Thursday through Sunday evening.
Students, staff and faculty from Babson, Olin and Wellesley are invited to join the artists in the creative process, exploring how sound might produce visual languages directly. This lab environment welcomes speakers, musicians, poets and more to experience a real time audio-analysis to video system. This custom hardware/software system is designed to analyze audio on many levels (spectral, musical, etc.) at extremely low-latency and deliver this real-time data to digital video animation software. Thus, speakers, musicians, and others can produce sound and see it incorporated into large-scale projected video environments almost instantly. Those interested in further engagement are welcome to return to The Chapel Lab to join the performance in real-time on Wednesday evening.
Live Performance and Installation Debut
| Wednesday, September 25 | 7–9 p.m. |
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Glavin Family Chapel
FREE and open to the public.
Building on residency-prepared audio and visual languages, the live performance will be led by MASARY and feature guests from the BOW community and Babson archival audio recordings. Atmospheric soundscapes blend towards contemporary electro-acoustic production as an invitation to jam in this novel audio-visual landscape. Real time video projections in the chapel on specialty screens will immerse attendees in a hybrid media environment. This durational performance installation will remain open, loose and inviting throughout the evening. There is no prescribed formal start or end, chaptering or shape—rather all will be discovered together, in real time.
Visual Installation on View
| Wednesday, September 25 | 7–10:30 p.m. |
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| Thursday, September 26 – Sunday, September 29 | 7–11 p.m. |
Glavin Family Chapel
FREE and open to the public.
The audio driven video elements produced through The Chapel Lab sessions and live performance will be captured and live-streamed at architectural scale nightly on the Glavin Family Chapel façade, without sound, proposing an audio memory of this unique collaboration for the community to consider.
Directed and Performed by: Ryan Edwards and Odie DeSmith
Production and Lighting Design: Sam Okerstrom-Lang
Project Management: Grace Fo
Student Performers: Riyan Palanpur, Semaj Cormier, and Reece Gardner
Co-Founder and Principal: Sam Okerstrom-Lang
Co-Founder and Principal: Ryan Edwards
Operations Director: Grace Fo
Principal and Technical Director: Jeremy Stewart, PhD
Design Director: Caleb Hawkins
Technical Manager: Odie DeSmith
Technical Assistant: Vincent Zhu
Business Manager: Nick Medvescek
Photography/Videography: Aram Boghosian
Director, BabsonARTS: Leslie Chiu
Assistant Director: Natalie Lynch
Technical Director: Mark Lorenzo
Marketing: Heather Darrow
Administrative Coordinator: Alex Brand
This is an Audio Memory Project Manager: Seághan McKay
Photography/Videography: Maggie Hall and Kyle Soule
Theater Technicians: Jere Babst, Richard Barrows, Anton Downing, Ruben Lewis, Brian Masters, Andy Ping, Kenneth Porter, Andrew Thain, and Marvin Walker
Audience Services Managers: Alex Brand, Natalie Lynch, and Kristen Mazzocchi
Audience Services Staff: Nayla Ariwibowo, Alexy Berson, Sujing Chen, Miranda Crawford, Julio Martins da Costa, Jimena Hernandez, Cat Mills, Ayushman Rai, Victoria Salim, Isabella Sam, and Jessica You
Additional Audio support by McCoy Audio
Additional A/V support by High Output, Inc.
Special Thanks: Denicia Ratley, Kayla Grady and the Office of Belonging and Inclusion, Emily Miles, Caitlin Capozzi, Andy Moutinho, Steve Tolley, James McLaughlin, Erin Carcia, Derek Keene, Kevin Richardson, Kyle Kekic, Jack McCarthy, Mary Gale, Sean Stewart, Kallan Lock-Durken, Ava Mullin Milica Gallucci, Amelia Zaki, Cheryl Robock, Kerry Salerno, and Danielle Perry
Residency made possible with support of the Sorenson Visiting Artists Fund, the Stearns Memorial Film Society Fund, and the ongoing generosity of Rick and Sandy Sorenson.
For questions or more information, including schedules changes due to inclement weather, please call the BabsonARTS Box Office at 781-239-5880.