RSVP will open in March.
*Dear ones, please RSVP to help us maintain a safe capacity.
Donation based, pay at the door via Venmo or cash.
Entrance door closes at 7pm, please arrive before then.
Filming during the jam is not invited unless we have the whole group’s agreement. Please help hold space. Witness through being.
Brian Ellis is a creative coder, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. His artistic drive lies in using code to democratize creative expression. He founded the Brooklyn Motion Capture Dance Ensemble to explore this concept through the medium of dance, writes participatory chamber music to explore it through concert music settings, and develops open source tools to enable others to create similar work.
Brian maintains many performance practices, incorporating classical guitar, mountain dulcimer, live electronics, and no-input-mixing. He also built and maintains motion-into-midi.com, an open-source tool that lets anyone do motion capture with just their laptop.
As a composer, Brian writes chamber music that focuses on audience collaboration, often employing QR codes, cellphone orchestras, and movement-based reactivity, and has worked with Third Coast Percussion, Chromic Duo, Unheard-of Ensemble, Bergamot String Quartet, The Arm, Apply Triangle, the Subaerial Collective, the Playground Ensemble, and members of zFestival and SōSI. He has presented works with Lincoln Center, the NY Philharmonic, 21st Century Guitar Conference, ICMC, TURN UP, SEAMUS, MICC, SPLICE, NYU-ITP, NYCEMF, and ROCC.
Brian has degrees in Music and Computer Science from UT Austin, and has previously studied with Nina Young, Celil Refik Kaya, Russell Pinkston, David Coll, and Sky Macklay.