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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: BIAI & Mike Ladd Premiere New Work at National Cent
 er for Afro-American Artists\nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/d
 etail/441654425/BIAI_Mike_Ladd_Premiere_New_Work_at_National_Center_for_Af
 roAmerican_Artists\nEvent Date Begin: 2012-11-14\nEvent Date End: 2012-11-
 14\n\nThe Berklee Interdisciplinary Art Institute (BIAI)\, providing innov
 ative experiences for students to extend their music beyond traditional bo
 undaries\, and Mike Ladd &ndash\; MC\, producer\, poet\, and educator &nda
 sh\; will present an original work created from Ladd's week-long residency
  at Berklee. The BIAI and Ladd will perform November 14\, 6:00 p.m. at the
  National Center for Afro-American Artists\, 300 Walnut Avenue\, Roxbury. 
  This is a free event. For additional information\, visit www.ncaaa.org\, 
 or call (617) 442-8614.\n\nStudents and Ladd will engage in discourse on u
 sing music or sound design to create a new cutting-edge work based on his 
 latest project\, Satchmokovich\, a forthcoming graphic novel. Students wil
 l use the latest technologies to remix\, recompose\, and create sound desi
 gn\, melding sonic impressions of Louis &ldquo\;Sachmo&rdquo\; Armstrong\,
  Dmitri Shostakovich\, and early 20th century Russian futurism. Students f
 rom the School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, who are part of the BIAI\, wil
 l produce a live video remix of the comic for the piece. The students are 
 also in dialog with Edmund Barry Gaither\, Director of the National Center
  for African American Artists\, to learn how major venues for contemporary
  art in Boston have fostered new works across disciplines. \n\nThe Berklee
  students are Donald Kaufman\, Trev Wignall\, Garrett Frierson\, Andrew Ik
 enberry\, Jason Lim\, Zhe Zai\, TJ Usiyan and Berklee Alumni Pierce Warnec
 ke. The SMFA students are Luis Mej&iacute\;a\, Toshiki Yashiro\, Yuta Kana
 i.\nBoston native Ladd has written and produced 11 critically acclaimed al
 bums\, including 2011's Kids & Animals. Inspired by the sounds of Funkadel
 ic\, Charles Stepney\, The Bad Brains\, Brian Wilson\, Kraftwerk\, Bollywo
 od\, The Jungle Brothers and Divine Styler\, Ladd exists at the heart of p
 rogressive black music\, while also influencing the indie music scene. He'
 s collaborated with Company Flow\, Saul Williams\, MURS\, Terranova\,\, Ca
 nnibal Ox\, Roots Manuva\, DJ Spooky\, Arto Lindsay\, Yo La Tengo\, Antipo
 p Consortium\, and many others. In America\, Europe\, and Asia\, cult foll
 owings have developed from extensive touring in those regions. Now living 
 in France\, he's been working with high school kids in the Parisian banlie
 ues teaching a class on Black American literature and music. Ladd recently
  collaborated with jazz musician Vijay Iyer on the music/word/video piece 
 Holding It Down: the Veterans' Dreams Project\, which debuted in September
  at the Harlem Stage\, in New York.\n\nThe Berklee Interdisciplinary Art I
 nstitute (BIAI)\, under the direction of interdisciplinary arts composer a
 nd saxophonist Neil Leonard\, provides innovative learning experiences for
  musicians to extend their work beyond the conventions of traditional musi
 cal practice. Emphasis is placed on students' original composition\, sound
  design\, and musical performance for collaborative interdisciplinary work
 . Students in the program collaborate with artists across disciplines\, in
 cluding dance\, theater\, video/sculpture installation\, experimental perf
 ormance\, robotics\, virtual reality\, and other emerging genres. Students
  emerge with new work for new audiences\, leveraging new digital tools and
  professional relationships across the globe.
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SUMMARY:BIAI & Mike Ladd Premiere New Work at National Center for Afro-Amer
 ican Artists
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