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<p class="MsoNormal">All are invited! The experimental music theater work ONTOPOIESIS asks, What connects us to our world and shapes our experience of it? How do we in turn shape the world?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">EMPAC at RPI in Troy invites Capital District Theater audiences to experience the world premiere of ONTOPOIESIS by Rama Gottfried & Yarn/Wire on Friday, May 2 at 7PM. Presented in the EMPAC Theater on the campus of RPI.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Through a sonically and visually rich staged production of musical characters and landscapes, ONTOPOIESIS expresses life as a self-organizing, self-creating phenomenon. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Composer Rama Gottfried, with production designer Anna Paniccia and experimental music piano and percussion quartet Yarn/Wire, explores new forms of music, experimental theater, and sculpture in this commissioned new artwork that ties us
deeply to our surroundings.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Join us to experience the world of multifarious sounds in ONTOPOIESIS: bowed piano strings form clouds of fuzzy distortion; hyper-detailed, granularly-synthesized caterpillar feet; digital lightning storms and open-air ambisonic field recordings.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Connect with your senses as micro and macro sounds combine to form a vibrant, emergent theatrical ecosystem of sound.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">EMPAC SPRING 2025 </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">World Premiere! </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ONTOPOIESIS </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rama Gottfried & Yarn/Wire</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Experimental Music Theater </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Friday, May 2 at 7PM</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tickets: $20 general / $15 seniors, students / No added fees</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">More Info & Buy Tickets</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">empac.rpi.edu</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Program runs 90 minutes.<br>
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Questions? Call EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921<br>
9AM–5PM Monday–Friday<br>
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EMPAC at Rensselaer<br>
50 8th Street<br>
Troy, NY 12180</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On the campus of RPI</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kathryn TeBordo | Sr. Manager, Communications and Grants</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)<br>
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 110 8th Street | Troy, NY 12180-3590 </p>
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