Opening this Saturday at Block (Second Saturday, Oct 11th, 6pm – 9pm), Somnium Redux, a multimedia collaborative installation by Rachel Clarke with music composition and sound design by M. Azevedo. 

Regular gallery Hours:  Sundays, Oct. 12, 19, & 26, 1pm to 6pm – and by appointment.

Somnium Redux is part of an ongoing project that began in March 2008 in which Clarke collected dream narratives from numerous participants.  This installation presents a visual interpretation of these narratives in an interactive environment.

Clarke is Associate Professor of Electronic Art in the Art Department of California State University, Sacramento.  She is also currently Vice-President of the CAA New Media Caucus and Editor-in-Chief of the online journal, media-N, a national journal of digital and media arts (http://www.newmediacaucus.org/journal.php).  Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.

M. Azevedo has more than 25 years experience in audio engineering and electronic music, testing Beta hardware and software, writing hardware and software reviews, and producing tutorials on audio production, sound design and synthesizer programming.  Since 1995, he has been internationally recognized for operating the primary, worldwide resource for information and sounds for several vintage synthesizers.