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May 23, 2006
J.Walt Adamczyk Performance throughout the summer
J.Walt to perform live animation with music in Pasadena throughout the summer
Pasadena, CA -- J.Walt presents Spontaneous Fantasia, a program of new live animation performances with live music at the Neighborhood Church in Pasadena on the following Fridays at 8:30pm: June 2, June 30, July 21, and September 1.
J.Walt's Spontaneous Fantasia is a new performing art form which utilizes high-tech interactive 3D animation techniques developed for video games, simulation, and virtual reality. Animation artist J.Walt Adamczyk has designed and programmed works of computer animation in which he draws fantastic, ethereal imagery with musical accompaniment live before an audience. The art form combines elements of painting, music, dance, animation, video art, sculpture, and architecture.
“It’s great to be exploring new possibilities with this form,” says J.Walt. “With my compositions, I get to incorporate so much that interests me: the joys of gestural drawing, of music, of three-dimensional forms, movement, and of exploring ways of using computer technology.” J.Walt adds that each of his compositions involves improvisation. “All of the pieces have a certain structure and a certain theme, but each piece allows me room to be expressive and try new things. Every time, the show is different.”
J.Walt will perform his live animated illustrations of music by Bach, Satie, Chopin, and Saint-Saens, played by pianist Karenn Chutjian and cellist Abby Scoville. J.Walt will also perform his spiritual Nocturnes and his other-worldly journey to an alternate world Autocosm: Gardens of Thuban.
J.Walt has performed parts of this show at SIGGRAPH 2005, DUX05, USC, the Pasadena Conservatory of Music, the Los Angeles County Fair, and elsewhere. This is the first time that he is performing these works together. “There are a lot of ideas here. Some of the pieces are what some people would call ‘visual music’, and others explore a theme and variations of visual form,” says J.Walt. “I’m also working with poet Beverly Lafontaine to perform one of her poems that I’ve illustrated.”
J.Walt is an interactive designer, filmmaker, graphic artist, and composer. He has been at the forefront of interactive art and computer performance, expanding the uses of computer animation into uncharted territories. He is an award-winning pioneer of computer-generated puppetry, having created many digital puppets over the years. In March of this year, he won a Technical Academy Award for his development of a real-time pre-visualization system.
Admission to Spontaneous Fantasia is $15 and $8 for kids under 12. Neighborhood Church, Ross Chapel, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91103 For more information, visit:
http://www.johnadamczyk.com/
http://www.spontaneousfantasia.com/
or call (626) 398-3608
Posted by doox at May 23, 2006 1:45 AM
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