The Japanese noise-rock band Boredoms continue their tradition of free-ranging aural play with a performance whose centerpiece is a circle of nine drummers performing in-the-round in EMPAC's Concert Hall. Together they generate a densely-layered, body-shaking field of percussion that’s at once propulsive and meditative. With Atlanta’s “ambient punk” Deerhunter.

Photo: Boredoms suspended in the round this Friday!

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The eight mesmerizing short films of Jean Painlevé in The Sounds of Science screening are at once a mix of surrealist-influenced shorts and serious science documentaries accompanied by a hypnotic and dreamy score by rock band Yo La Tengo.

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EXHIBITION+CONCERT+SCREENING
Slow Wave: Seeing Sleep
September 25-27, 2009
$15 / $10 / $5

A three-day festival of installations, film, music and scientific experiment devoted to the methods for giving form to the elusive, and at times, ineffable enigma of sleep.

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EMPAC 2009-2010 presentations, residencies and commissions are supported by grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts’ Regional Touring Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding provided by the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation;) and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the The Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support for artist commissions.