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ArtSounds is back February 9, 2010, 7:30 p.m., Epperson Auditorium, Kansas City Art Institute, with Shift, a collaboration between Dan Thomas and Brett Reif that includes appropriated video, improvised sound, and the voice.  As we experience our world, our perceptions shift to gather and process information.  This event will highlight the relationship between this shift in perception.  Music, often improvised, will react to the voice and language, which will react to moving images.  The audience will be placed in the midst of this interplay.

Initiated by faculty from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance and the Kansas City Art Institute, ArtSounds explores cross-media expression through creative concert making.  Co-directors Mara Gibson and Paul Rudy set the stage for concert events outside the box and inside the mind’s eye and the eye’s ear.

Faculty partners from each institution work as conspirators from vision and sound to produce provocative events that explore media and music, demonstrating how art sounds and music sees. In ArtSounds performances, vision informs hearing and hearing guides sight in this essential dialogue at the messy intersections of human experience.

ArtSounds performances are free and open to the public on the second Tuesday of the month, 7:30 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium, Vanderslice Hall on the Kansas City Art Institute campus, 4415 Warwick Blvd.
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