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Mike Rugnetta

Mike Rugnetta

Mike Rugnetta is a Composer, Programmer, Performer and Host of the PBS Idea Channel. He resides in Brooklyn, NY and makes his living as a composer for performance (theatre and dance) or video, a Freelance live and studio Mix engineer, and teaches Max/MSP and Protools to all manner of folks who might be interested.

Music

"The work I make generally centers on two ideas: complexity, and human relationships.

Not necessarily romantic relationships, though sometimes; it's more like how you and I relate to one another.

And how I relate to your best friend.

And how that relationship can influence our relationship.

There are these differently weighted points of control throughout our structure of sociality which are at once very easy to intuit - you certainly don't have to sit down and think about how you should be interacting with someone, do you?

  • but very complicated to spell out.

Nothing I make, though, is ever really about human relationships. I just use my perceptions and ideas about the way human relationships work to arrange the elements involved in any given piece. I think this is the secret to giving complex work a more approachable, more poetic personality. My interest in complexity is a direct result of my technology background. It's amazing to think that with all the information available to us... or even all the information we are unwillingly subject to on a 15 block walk through Manhattan.. we do not turn into person-mush. We are able to deal with huge amounts of complexity. But why? And How? Have we always been this way? Does the INTERNET have something to do with this? And so I try to make things which test the limits of our ability to process information, to make remote logical connections; trying to test and expand through performance what could be explained and codified by neurology. And so from there, many subjects are fair game. My pieces are about physical phenomena, pop stars, war, love, community. Francis Bacon. It's all legit, because after a while you start to realize that it's all connected in one way or another, anyway. Usually through Kevin Bacon."

Performences

  • 3rd Ward: Brooklyn, New York

  • 20 Greene: New York

  • The Center for Performance Research: New York

  • The Chocolate Factory Theater: New York

  • Columbia University: New York

  • Cybera 2013: Banff, AB

  • Dance New Amsterdam: New York

  • Danspace at St. Mark's Church: New York

  • FIT (The Open Video Conference): New York

  • Gaite Lyrique: Paris, France

  • Gene Frankel Theatre: New York

  • Governor's Island Building 110, LMCC: New York

  • HERE Arts Center: New York

  • Hackers on Planet Earth, 9: New York

  • IgniteNYC X (Web 2.0 Conference): New York

  • Judson Memorial Church: New York

  • The Kitchen: New York

  • Lincoln Center: New York

  • Mass MoCA: North Adams, MA

  • MIT (ROFLCon II): Cambridge, MA

  • Mt. Tremper Arts: Mt. Tremper, NY

  • New York University: New York

  • NXNEi 2014: Toronto, ON

  • Social Media Week Sao Paulo: Sao Paulo, Brazil

  • The Walker Center for the Arts: Minneapolis, MN

  • The Wexner Art Center: Columbus, OH

  • Wild Project Theater: New York

  • Weiden+Kennedy (ROFLCon Summit): Portland, OR

  • WOMAD: Adelaide, Australia

  • XOXO 2013: Portland, OR

  • Yale University: New Haven, CT

Panels

  • MIT (ROFLCon II): Cambridge, MA

  • Phoenix Comicon 2014: Pheonix, AZ

  • Playlist LIVE!

  • 2013: Orlando, FL

  • VidCon 2012: Anaheim, California

  • VidCon 2013: Anaheim, California

  • VidCon 2014: Anaheim, California

  • Web 2.0 Expo 2011: San Francisco

  • Weiden+Kennedy (ROFLCon Summit): Portland, OR

Guest lectures

  • College of Staten Island

  • Hunter College

  • New York University

  • SUNY Purchase

Shows

  • The Ailey-Citigroup Theater: New York

  • The Baryshnikov Art Center: New York

  • CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art: San Francisco, CA

  • The Chocolate Factory Theatre: Queens, NY

  • Dance New Amsterdam: New York

  • Danspace at St. Mark's Church: New York

  • HERE Arts Cetner: New York

  • Mass MoCA: North Adams, MA

Live mix engineering

  • The Bowery Ballroom

  • The Chocolate Factory

  • HERE Art Center

  • Le Poisson Rouge

  • Mass MoCA

  • Mercury Lounge

  • Public Assembly (formerly Galapagos)

  • Wild Project

  • The Workshop Theatre

References

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Citation Linkspeakerpedia.comSpeakerpedia
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Citation Linktwitter.comMike on twitter
Aug 21, 2017, 2:07 PM
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Citation Linkmikerugnetta.bandcamp.comMike on bandcamp
Aug 21, 2017, 2:09 PM
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Citation Linkflickr.comMike on flickr
Aug 21, 2017, 2:10 PM
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Citation Linksoundcloud.comMike on soundcloud
Aug 21, 2017, 2:11 PM
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Citation Linkmikerugnetta.tumblr.comMike on tumblr
Aug 21, 2017, 2:11 PM
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Citation Linkyoutube.comMike on YT
Aug 21, 2017, 2:12 PM
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Citation Linkvimeo.comMike on vimeo
Aug 21, 2017, 2:16 PM
[10]
Citation Linkwhatweknowsofar.comThe website of What We Know So Far
Aug 21, 2017, 2:18 PM
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Citation Linkinstagram.comMike on instagram
Aug 21, 2017, 2:19 PM
[12]
Citation Linkrheumatictangle.netMike's personal website
Aug 21, 2017, 2:51 PM