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"The Land of Plenty"

THE LAND OF PLENTY: a collaborative performance effort by performer/video- artist Deke Weaver and performer/composer Chris Peck that will include multiple video projections, dancing sandhill cranes, Greek hurdlers, ordering Chinese food with a headset, a passionate re-enactment of A Discussion of Form, and a meditation on the Great Plains.

Deke Weaver: My award winning original performance work has been presented in Wales, Scotland, Seattle, L.A., Philadelphia, Dallas, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Wyoming, Colorado, New England, California, and throughout the Southwest. In New York my work has been presented at Dixon Place, HERE, PS 122, The Moth, Tonic, Galapagos and other venues. A resident at Yaddo and Ucross, a four- time fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and three-time recipient of NEA regional grants in film/video making my video work has screened and broadcast in film/ video festivals and on public television stations in Russia, Brazil, Australia, Europe and the United States (PBS, Channel 4/U.K., MOMA, The New York Video Festival, The Berlin Video Festival, MOMA/NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art, LA; many others). Commissions, fellowships, and grants from the City of San Francisco, the State of New York, the National Endowment for the Arts, the University of Illinois and other public and private foundations have supported my work. I teach in the School of Art + Design's New Media Department at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). www.dekeweaver.com

Chris Peck is a Michigan-born, Brooklyn-based composer investigating the peculiarities of listening and perception through a diverse practice that includes works for large untrained groups, interdisciplinary performance collaborations, and improvisation with the computer. His frequent work with dance has included scores for RoseAnne Spradlin, Eleanor Bauer, John Jasperse, David Dorfman, Jeanine Durning, Ming Yang/Dance Forum Taipei, Abby Yager, and others. Ongoing projects include Listening Music for the Age of Crystal Moon Cone, a series of ambient electroacoustic performances and recordings with Stephen Rush and Jon Moniaci, Brooklyn Adult Recorder Choir, directed with choreographer Beth Gill, the Live Sh-- performance series curated with Chase Granoff, live electronic music for The Intensity Police Are Working My Last Gay Nerve with video artist Charles Atlas, Manpack Variant, an electronics duo with Jaime Fennelly, and electric guitar accompaniment for the diary entries of Asubtout's Eleanor Hullihan and Katy Pyle. Visit intermittentmusic.com for more info.

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Composers Aaron Siegel and Chris Peck share an interest in methodical, process-based compositions that unfold over an extended period of time. Both artists work with unconventional acoustic sound sources, including plastic recorders, undisciplined singing, resonant metals and ceramic bowls. The two new works presented this evening are the result of their collaborative effort to deal with a large ensemble of performers from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds, including untrained musicians and self-described "non-artists."

Aaron Siegel is a Brooklyn-based composer and percussionist. His most recent concert of new works was a collaboration with composer Sabrina Schroeder at the Chocolate Factory in Long Island City in May 2006. He is currently at work on a new composition for the chamber ensemble Till by Turning that will be presented in a series of concerts in March 2007. A forthcoming recording of recent works entitled Every Morning, A History will be released in February 2006 on Peacock Recordings. Check out: http://www.aaronsiegel.net

Chris Peck is a Michigan-born, Brooklyn-based composer primarily concerned with listening, field recording, live performance and improvisation with the computer, collaboration with visual and dance artists and organizing large ensembles. He makes music with Manpack Variant (with Jaime Fennelly) and x2764 the band and directs the Brooklyn Adult Recorder Choir, a thirty-member acoustic noise ensemble, with choreographer Beth Gill. His collaborative work includes commissioned scores for choreographers John Jasperse, David Dorfman and Ming Yang/Dance Forum Taipei, installations with Fritz Welch and The Intensity Police Are Working My Last Gay Nerve with video artist Charles Atlas. Check out: http://www.intermittentmusic.com