The electronic and electro-acoustical music of Neil Rolnick has been used for three videos so far, and more are in progress. Intricate rhythms and the pace of development gives the pieces a particularly good structure on which to base the videos works.

Venetian Red - The first in a series of videos on Venice, it's architecture, water, light, people and tourists.

Gate Beats, the first piece by Zev Robinson using Neil's music, is mainly comprised of shots of mid-town Manhattan, focusing on the sense of time and repetition in travelling and waiting.

Throughout the 1980s and '90s he was responsible for the development of the first integrated electronic arts graduate and undergraduate programs in the US, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's iEAR Studios, in Troy, NY.

Western Swing, performed by the string quartet Ethel, is used for the second video by Zev Robinson with dancers Alex Beech and Adam Rutherford at Laban , and co-produced by Phil Wood of 2ccfilm and artafterscience.

In both cases, the dancers were filmed without music, given a minimal set of instructions to set the scene, and improvised it entirely themselves.

Rerebong is the first video created by Zev Robinson using performers, the dancers Alex Beech, Arianne de vos Burchart, Esther Klinkers, and Kasia Olszkomusicat, filmed at Laban in London, using music by the same name by Neil Rolnick. The dance was entirely improvised and done without music, and then edited to the structure of ReRebong.

More information and the complete mp3 of Gate Beats and other pieces at www.neilrolnick.com

Neil Rolnick is one of the pioneers of the use of computers in live musical performance, doing gigs throughout the US, Europe, Japan and Brazil. His music appears on 11 CDs, and has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council and the Fulbright Foundation, among others.

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