Extraterrestrial Sounds in New York City

NEW YORK. Next July 8, Tuesday, 2008, 7PM, the Brazilian composer Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta will perform SETI - a new concert at the celebrated Björn Ressle Contemporary Art Gallery in New York City. Emanuel Pimenta, who lives in Switzerland, composed SETI in 2002 exclusively using extraterrestrial sounds. The music score was totally created inside virtual environments. The performance will include the projection of a film by Pimenta based on images captured by NASA from the frontiers of the known Universe. SETI's world première happened in 2003, in Lausanne, Switzerland, at the local Experimental Art and Film Festival. The film at Björn Ressle's Art Gallery will be a world première. Mark Wiener and Marcia Grostein, both recognised artists living in New York will be responsible for the environment design. This concert is part of a five-year project by Emanuel Pimenta at Björn Ressle's Contemporary Art Gallery. With several cds and books published in diverse countries, Pimenta collaborated with John Cage between 1986 and 1992 and remains commissioned composer for Merce Cunningham since 1986. Admittance will be free.

More information:

www.asa-art.com/seti2008.html

Björn Ressle Gallery
16 East 79th Street
New York, NY 10075
Between Madison and Fifth Avenue
Second floor
phone: 212 - 744 2266
Mail@RessleArt.com

Directly with the composer:
Emanuel Pimenta
email: edmp@emanuelpimenta.net
phone: +351 919802813 or 212 4723626 (after the 4th of July)