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| MAY 1st, 8:30pm | |||
Anastasiya Osipova w/ TwistyCat Ed Bear, Baritone Saxophone For the past year and a half, Lea Bertucci and Ed Bear have been developing a performance piece based on Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Cello (Opus 23). A marked departure from Ravel's previous work, the piece carries the weight of the composer's experiences in World War I and is informed by Serialist compositional technique. They are adapting Ravel's composition in terms of structure and timbre for bass woodwinds, utilizing extended technique and electronics to abstract the form and melodic movement. The quality of the abstraction will be informed both by their own tastes as well as an attempt to understand the significance of the piece as a post-traumatic reaction to modern warfare. An integral part of this performance includes a collage of live projected images over constructed forms by Anastasiya Osipova. The imagery explored will draw the space and audience into the performance and make overt and oblique reference to the trauma and industrialization of war. The quality and content of the images will subtly illustrate the music's abstract and representational tension. Expanded projections using 35mm slides focus on the constitutive components of the cinematic experience. Multiple projectors are employed to create motion without obscuring the real process and technology used. The Bass Clarinet and Baritone Saxophone are acoustically married to each individual venue through electronic feedback. . Timbral explorations of each instrument occurring as improvised and composed harmonic structures are electronically abstracted. Because both the projections and sound are tied to the performance environment, the structure of the music intertwines with that of the projections. The creation of an immediate awareness of space aims to break the antiquated barriers between performance and audience and realize the innate human potential of sound and light as energy and information. Nastya Osipova - 'Cannibals starve in the white nights, such is the disaster: the night lacking darkness. Needle shines above revolving shadows. Hunger, desire: to employ whips and flashes.' Nastya O. hopes that the future is not too bright. She is an experimental projectionist and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Lea Bertucci is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn NY who works with photography, video and sound. She is a 2007 Tierney fellow and has received a degree in photography from Bard College. She has over a decade of classical and jazz training on various woodwind instruments and has in the past few years approached the Bass Clarinet with more experimental, electro-acoustic leanings. Visit www.twistycat.org for more info. Ed Bear is a musician, engineer and teacher working with found electronics, video, and collective improvisation. He has toured extensively in North America and Europe as a former member of the group Talibam!; performing at venues such as Issue Project Room, Free103Point9, Tonic, The Montreal Pop Festival, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Duke University. As an educator and artist, his workshops aim to technologically empower artists as both scientists and magicians and promote ecologically sound alternatives to modern electrical power systems and electronic devices. Visit www.twistycat.org for more info.
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| MAY 2nd, 8:30pm | |||
REUBEN RADDING - STRING QUARTET MUSIC Reuben Radding - contrabass, compositions |
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| MAY 3rd, 8:30pm | |||
Brown Wing Overdrive Chuck Bettis - electronics & vocals |
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| MAY 4th, 8:30pm | |||
Lenore Von Stein Lenore Von Stein (composition/direction/voice) is the artistic director of 1687, Inc. Von Stein has worked with be-bop, free jazz, classical, and electronic musicians and composers and uses techniques from these musical disciplines as well as methods and approaches developed in classical and modern theatre. Von Stein? works are made of improvised and composed music and lyrics and stories. They have also included visual art, e.g. film and painting. Von Stein began her artistic work as an actor/playwright doing non-musical scripted and improvised live performances and films before shifting her focus to the performance and composition of music. Von Stein?s non-musical theater credits include originating the role in Samuel Beckett's one-person piece The Expelled. Her work in music has followed a similar pattern of developing from performer to composer/performer. These collages include: The Festival of Secrets for the Victims of Violence (repression and violence) Pleasing the Boss: Baroque and New Music (politics on the job) Tolerating Ambition There is Racism but There is No such Thing as Race Recordings on the 1687 label: I Haven?t Been Able To Lie and Tell The Truth Art and Money Love is Dead Blind Love = Porno? Electro-Acoustic Ensemble at Brooklyn College Andrew Bolotowsky (flute) studied with Elaine Schaffer, William Kincaid, and Jean-Pierre Rampal. He has performed over 3,000 solo recitals and participated in countless chamber music and orchestral concerts, notably as soloist with the Soho Baroque Company, and the Amor Artis and Musica Sacra Orchestras. Mr. Bolotowsky co-directed the Criterion Series at the Guggenheim Museum and has recorded for Orion Recordings, Golden Age Records, Opus I, and Station Hill Records. He has performed with the Pan American, Westchester Philharmonic, and Brooklyn Philharmonic orchestras and has worked with Downtown Music Productions, Music Downtown, the American Festival of Microtonal Music, Muse (Colonial American Music), the Delbarton Baroque Ensemble, and New Amsterdam Baroque. Beth Griffith (soprano) Ms. Griffith has appeared with Sequentia, Musikfabrik, Ensemble 13, L'Art pour L'Art, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paris Nouvel Orchestra Philharmonique and has worked with composers John Cage, Morton Feldman, Mauricio Kagel and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Her one-hour, solo recording of Feldman's Three Voices was awarded the German Record Critics Prize. Bern Nix (guitar/composition) held one of the two guitar seats (from 1975 to 1987) in the original edition(s) of Ornette Coleman's band Prime Time. Nix's album as leader "Alarms and Excursions" on New World Records features Fred Hopkins and Newman Baker. "You always have to deal with the formal aspect of musicianship, but at the same time you can't let that get in the way of your imagination."
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| MAY 8th, 8:30pm | |||
Sylvie Courvoisier "LONELYVILLE" featuring Ikue Mori, Mark Feldman, Vincent Courtois, and Gerald Cleaver Composer/pianist, Sylvie Courvoisier was born and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland. She started to play piano at age of six initiated by her father, an amateur jazz pianist. She moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1998, where she currently resides. She has played and recorded with John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Tim Berne, Joey Baron,Mark Feldman, Tony Oxley, Yusef Lateef Dave Douglas, Joëlle Léandre, Herb Robertson, Butch Morris, Tom Rainey, Mark Dresser, Ellery Eskelin, Lotte Anker, Fred Frith, Michel Godard, Mark Nauseef among others. She has been commissioned to write music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. Her works include:” Concerto for electric guitar and chamber orchestra" ; "Balbutiements" for vocal quartet and soprano ;"Ocre de Barbarie", a musical performance for metronomes, automatons, barrel organ, piano, tuba, saxophone, violin and percussion. Commissions include the Vidy Theater of Lausanne, Pro Helvetia and Germany's Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival. Her debut recording "Sauvagerie Courtoise" on Unit Records was released in 1994. Her second recording ''Ocre" on Enja Records (Music for barrel organ, piano, tuba, bass and percussion) led to appearances on concert stages all over Europe. In the following years, Courvoisier released 6 CDs as a leader, and 10 CDs as a Co-leader, and more than 20 recordings as a side person or as a guest. Her latest releases as a leader are: "ABATON” with Mark Feldman and Erik Friedlander on ECM Records (2004), “LONELYVILLE” with her new quintet on Intakt Records (2007) and a solo piano album, SIGNS AND EPIGRAMS, on Tzadik Records (2007). Since 1995, she has been touring widely with her own groups and as a side person in USA, Canada and Europe including Jazz and New Music Festivals such as Berlin, Willisau, Donaueschingen, Banlieue Bleue, Saalfelden, Groningen, Visions NY, Nürnberg, Taktlos, London LMC, Bath Festival, Muenster and Victoriaville Festival, among others. Sylvie is currently the leader of her own quintet "Lonelyville" and the Trio Abaton. She is a member of “Mephista”, an improvising trio with Ikue Mori and Susie Ibarra; "Herb Robertson Quintet” with Tim Berne, Tom Rainey and Mark Dresser; in Trio along with Ellery Eskelin and Vincent Courtois : John Zorn’s Cobra. She also performs regularly in Duo with violinist Mark Feldman. Awards include Switzerland's 1996 Prix des jeunes créateurs and Zonta Club's 2000 Prix de la Création
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| MAY 9th, 8:30pm | |||
Ha-Yang Kim Cellist, composer and improviser Ha-Yang Kim was born in Seoul, Korea. Ha-Yang made her professional solo debut at age 16 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Hailed as "phenomenal" and playing with "brilliant technique full of energy, concentration, musicality and expression" (Mainpost, Germany), she performs new music as a soloist and with ensembles and artists in festivals and concert venues throughout the world. She is the founder of Odd Appetite, a cello-percussion duo which performs and commissions new contemporary works alongside original works and improvisations. Ms. Kim has developed a unique language of extended string techniques and has created her own music based on this work, as well as collaborating on new pieces from other composers. Her musical influences draw equally from a range of western classical music, American experimentalism, rock, jazz, and improvised music, to non-western musical sources from Bali, Korea and South Indian classical music (Karnatic). Her music has been performed in the US, Turkey, The Netherlands, Belgium, Korea, and Germany. In seeking new musical experiences, Ha-Yang has performed traditional and new Balinese music as a member of Gamelan Galak Tika, and has collaborated/ performed with many diverse musicians such as Evan Ziporyn, Cecil Taylor, John Zorn, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Lee Hyla, Louis Andriessen, Lukas Ligeti, Larry Polansky, and Stefan Poetzsch, with whom she has presented original compositions incorporating electronics, dance, theatre, and multi-media. Past performances include as soloist at Carnegie Hall, touring and playing at festivalsÊin the US, Europe, Cuba and Bali, Indonesia, performing at the Bang on a Can Marathon with both her duo and the All-Stars, composing for and performing at the Kwacheon International Theatre Festival in Seoul, Korea, a solo recital at the Hochschule fur Musik in Wurzburg, Germany, and broadcast recordings for the Bavarian Radio Network. Upcoming performances of her music include at festivals in St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia, Holland, Belgium and in the US. Ama, a CD of her own compositions, is released on Tzadik. Ms. Kim has also recorded for New World, Cold Blue, New Albion, Karnatic Lab and Bridge Records. She has received prizes and awards including a grant from Meet the Composer, Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Argosy Foundation, the Ruth Schwob Foundation, and The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Kim has been an artist-in-residence at Princeton University, Brown University, Harvard University, Dartmouth College, Bates College, Brandeis University and at the Walden School for Young Composers. Ha-Yang studied cello, improvisation, and microtonality at the New England Conservatory of Music, Karnatic music concepts at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and was on the faculty at Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire, USA. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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| MAY 10th, 8:30pm | |||
Erik Friedlander Cellist and composer Erik Friedlander will perform works from his always changing solo repertoire. In the past, in addition to his own music he has performed pieces by Carlos Santana, Eric Dolphy, Pink Floyd, and Arthur Blythe. This time he will focus on the music from the two solo cello CD's he released in 2007: Block Ice & Propane - inspired by American roots music and Friedlander's own history as a young guitar player, the album's thirteen tracks feature a kind of back porch pizzicato and rich evocative bowed landscapes; and Volac ten rich and romantic compositions from Zorn‚s challenging Book of Angels. The New Yorker said Block Ice was "A magnificent new solo album." (July 9, 2007) and Free Jazz blog called Volac, "..dignified, anxious, tormented, serene, superior, melancholy, .. it has it all.." "Erik Friedlander can do things with a cello that should have a reasonable listener fearing for her life" Cellist Erik Friedlander is a composer and an improviser, a classical musician and a jazzbo. As a longtime virtuosic veteran of NYC's downtown scene, he's not only backed John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, and Courtney Love, but has also recorded recorded 8 CDs as a leader. His compositional choices and dynamic improvising style have staked out new ground for his instrument. Whether it's solo playing or performing with one of his bands, Friedlander blends his vision of what the cello can be pushed to do, while maintaining a firm grasp on traditions, both improvising and classical.
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| MAY 11th, 8:30pm | |||
Jane Rigler "To Painting (a la pintura)" (2006-07) Jane Rigler, flute, electronics Jane Rigler, (flutist, improviser, composer, educator, producer) is known for her innovations in new flute performance, techniques and musical vocabulary. She is an active featured performer in contemporary music festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe as a soloist as well as within chamber ensembles. Besides premiering works written especially for her, Jane’s own compositions cover the gamut of simple solo acoustic pieces inspired by language, to complex interactive electronic works that pay homage to painting, poetry and dance. After receiving a B.M. degree (Northwestern University) and pursuing flute studies in various parts of Europe and North America, she received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees (UC San Diego) completing The Vocalization of the Flute, a manual demonstrating new and ancient methods of singing-while-playing the flute. Her expertise has led to performances in contemporary operas, experimental theater and dance events internationally. Her flute compositions are sought after by other flutists and have been performed world-wide, in Korea, Australia, France, Spain, and in concert halls and universities throughout the U.S. After living in Spain 9 years, Jane resides in New York and organizes events such as the Relay~NYC! at MoMA, and the Spontaneous Music Festivals. Her work has received support from: the Brooklyn Arts Council, Harvestworks, Meet the Composer, Art Omi and RPI’s Create@iEar Studios. As Technology Program Coordinator for the Manhattan New Music Project she works with the artist-programmer Zachary Seldess designing and developing the Music Cre8tor, a new interactive sensor-driven music composition program for the special needs population.
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| MAY 12th, 8:30pm | |||
Carl Maguire w/ Floriculture Carl Maguire, Oscar Noriega, Dan Weiss, Stephanie Griffen, John Hebert Carl Maguire grew up in Madison, Wisconsin where his early piano teachers included Jacquelyn Patricia, Ellsworth Snyder, and Joan Wildman. He continued on to the University of Wisconsin, studying improvisation with Roscoe Mitchell. Moving to New York in 1995, Carl engaged in a curriculum of liberal arts at Hunter College, Schenkerian analysis at Mannes, and post-tonal theory at CUNY Graduate Center. He studied piano with Fred Hersch, Marilyn Crispell, and Ursula Oppens, and of particular importance, composition with Mark Dresser. Carl performs on piano and Rhodes, with both traditional and less-traditional technique. He has performed or recorded with the Carter Thornton Assembly; Brett Sroka's Ergo; Tyshawn Sorey Quartet; The Wau Wau Sisters; Laura Andel Orchestra; Barbez; Ben Gerstein Collective; Momenta Quartet; and was a featured soloist in Butch Morris' New York Skyscraper. Since 2001, Carl has led Floriculture. The band's release on Between The Lines has been short-listed by several reviewers and hailed by Glenn Astarita as "one of the true modern jazz surprises of 2006." An Arizona native of Mexican origin, Oscar Noriega's first professional experience was peforming in Hermanos Jovel, a Ranechera group with his four brothers. After studying alto saxophone and bass clarinet at the University of Arizona and Arizona State, Oscar moved to Los Angeles, and then to Boston in 1990, where he played with the Duke Ellington Repetory Orchestra (conducted by Gunther Schuller), the Either/Orchestra, and the Jazz Composers Alliance. Oscar has lived in Brooklyn since 1992, where he has worked with artists like Lee Konitz, One Ring Zero, Slavic Soul Party, Jeff Parker, and Satoko Fuli among many others. He released the critically acclaimed Luciano's Dream on Omnitone Records in 2000. He also plays the drums and enjoys hosting, barbecuing and fine wine. Dan Weiss started playing drums at the age of 6. He attended Manhattan School of Music studying drums and composition. He has played with Lee Konitz, Kenny Werner, Village Vanguard Orchestra, Dave Binney, Ravi Coltrane, Wayne Krantz. He is a member of diverse ensembles around New York and has been touring the United States and Europe for the past 5 years regularly. He has been studying tabla for the past 5 years under the careful guidance of Pandit Samir Chatterjee. He has accompanied Ramesh Misra, Mandira Lahiri , Mitali Bhoumik, and Steve Gorn. Canadian violist Stephanie Griffin has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, and as a champion of Indonesian composer Tony Prabowo. She has worked closely with numerous other composers both as a soloist and with some of New York's premiere new music ensembles, including Continuum, Parnassus and the Argento Chamber Ensemble. With Argento she played Tristan Murail's seminal chamber work "Ethers" and Michael Lévinas' "Les lettres enlacées" for solo viola under the auspices of the International Festival of Spectral Music. Argento also featured her as a soloist in their performance of the first half of Gérard Grisey's monumental cycle "Les espaces acoustiques." Her quartet, Momenta, is in residency at Temple University. Stephanie has recorded for Siam Records, Aeon, Koch International, Arte Nova and Harmolodic. She holds a doctorate from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Samuel Rhodes. John Hebert moved to New York City from New Orleans in 1994, where he has become a highly in demand jazz bassist. He has worked with world class musicians Paul Bley, Lee Konitz, Blue Note recording artist Andrew Hill, ECM recording artist Kenny Wheeler, Dave Liebman, Grammy Winner Maria Schneider, Nasheet Waits, Grammy nominated Fred Hersch, John Abercrombie, Billy Hart, Blue Note recording artist Greg Osby, Tim Berne, Mat Maneri, Tony Malaby, Ralph Alessi, Ben Monder and many others. John continues to tour extensively in the USA, Europe and Canada performing in major jazz festivals and venues.
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| MAY 15th, 8pm | |||
Interpretations Tania Leon / Juho Laitinen Juho Laitinen Jean Sibelius: Theme and variations in d minor for solo cello (1887) Tania León “Cultural clash is at the core of her music, though in a dynamic sense, as in a good fight, a feisty confrontation.” — Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times Abanico, for violin and interactive computer Featuring: Airi Yoshioka, violin; Elizabeth Farnum, soprano; Adam Kent, piano; Diana Herold, marimba
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| MAY 16th, 8:30pm | |||
Jen Shyu "CRY OF THE NOMAD" Jen Shyu, composition, vocals, dance Themes of physical helplessness, spiritual displacement, isolation, and
forced love run through the lives of both ancient and recent ancestors which
merge in this ritual for voice, dance, and string ensemble. The piece
connects the characters of Shyu’s late Taiwanese grandfather born in 1914 Born and raised in Peoria, Illinois, from immigrant parents of East Timor and Taiwan, Jen Shyu is a New York-based vocalist, dancer, composer, and band leader. Having studied dance from age 6, piano from age 7, and violin from age 8, she performed as piano soloist at age 13 the Finale of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra and placed 6th at age 9 at the Stravinsky International Piano Competition. Jen studied opera at Stanford University (B.A. 2000), Oxford University, England, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and the Lake Placid Institute in NY. Having produced her debut album in the Bay Area in 2002, Jen has traveled to Taiwan twice since 2001 to research Taiwanese folk and aboriginal music, her second trip sponsored by the Asian Cultural Council. Her two trips to Cuba included studies of Afro-Cuban music and dance as well as Chinese-Cuban history. She studied dance in Brazil with Rosangela Silvestre and Vera Passos and worked with late poet Sekou Sundiata on his last work, “51st Dream State.” Jen is currently fostering her group Jade Tongue as well as composing for and performing with actress/performance artist Soomi Kim on her piece "Lee/gendary" inspired by Bruce Lee. She has also recorded and toured internationally with saxophonist Steve Coleman and Five Elements since 2003. Jennifer Choi has charted a career that breaks through the conventional boundaries of solo violin, chamber music, and the art of creative improvisation. The New York Times has described her as a player with"brilliance and command," and the Seattle Weekly applauded her performance with the words "intense, spectacularly virtuosic play." As a soloist, she has performed with orchestras across the US, and as a recitalist and chamber musician, she has performed in venues worldwide like the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Mozartsalle in Vienna, and the RAI National Radio in Rome. In 2000, she was ‘Winner’ of the Artist International Award, leading to a debut recital in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Rubin Kodheli, cellist and composer of Blues in Space has graduated from Mat Maneri is a composer, improviser and violin and viola player,
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| MAY 17th, 8:30pm | |||
TOTEM: Bruce Eisenbeil + Tom Blancarte + Andrew Drury Totem is a noise rock free improvisation trio that ventures from walls of sound to exploring microscopic sound worlds. With guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil, bassist Tom Blancarte and drummer Andrew Drury this trio makes music that is fresh, energetic and at the frontiers of understanding. TOTEM has been influenced by paradoxes and extremes, adverse circumstances and technology - both primitive and futuristic. Bruce Eisenbeil is a composer, improviser, and guitar instrumentalist who has dedicated his life to the advancement of modern guitar techniques through the growth and evolution of modern improvised music. He has seven CD's released and has performed throughout the USA, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Brasil, and at many festivals. Eisenbeil has performed, recorded and collaborated with some of the best musicians in the world. Although Eisenbeil was born in Chicago, he grew up in Plainfield, NJ which is where he began playing the guitar when he was 4 years old. He has been performing professionally since he was 15. Mostly self-taught, he studied with a few great teachers including Joe Pass, Howard Roberts, Joe Diorio, and Dennis Sandole (teacher of John Coltrane and Pat Martino). Eisenbeil has been living in New York City since 1995. Critics have compared him not only with guitarists such as Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt, Grant Green, Billy Bauer, Derek Bailey, Sarnie Garrett, Sonny Sharrock, Curtis Mayfield, John McLaughlin, Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck but also with saxophonists John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman and pianists McCoy Tyner and Cecil Taylor. His ensemble writing has been associated with that of Miles Davis, Don Cherry, Brian Ferneyhough, Sun Ra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Revolutionary Ensemble. Eisenbeil has collaborated with many fine musicians including: Cecil Taylor, David Murray, Milford Graves, Evan Parker, Ellery Eskelin, Andrew Cyrille, William Parker, Peter Evans, Nasheet Waits, Katsuyuki Itakura, Micheal Manring, Lisle Ellis, Karl Berger, Lukas Ligeti, Perry Robinson, Rob Brown, Lou Grassi, Nate Wooley, and many others. TOM BLANCARTE www.myspace.com/tomblancarte Blancarte is a bassist, improviser and composer living and working in New York City. He has performed his music across North America, Europe and Japan. His primary focus is on improvisational music and finding new roles for the bass in a variety of musical contexts. Andrew Drury (percussion/composer) grew up near Seattle (USA), studied with Dave Coleman and Ed Blackwell, and now works primarily in avant-jazz and free improvisation, with regular forays into other genres and media. He has performed in Europe and North America, made four CDs as a bandleader, and appeared on over 20 others. He has played and recorded with Michel Doneda, Mark Dresser, Jason Kao Hwang’s EDGE, Jihae, Eyvind Kang, Mazen Kerbaj, Myra Melford, Reuben Radding, the Rat Race Choir, Jane Rigler, John Tchicai, Nate Wooley, Jack Wright, and more. Drury has received 18 grants for his work (from the NEA, NYSCA, the Puffin Foundation, etc.), and has led over 800 junk percussion workshops in schools, prisons, Indian reservations, homeless shelters, rural villages in Nicaragua and Guatemala, a music academy in Sarajevo, and at the Columbia University School of Social Work. He recently released a solo CD, “Renditions” (Creative Sources), and Cadence will soon release his trio CD, “My Fingers Will Be Your Tears.” His newest projects include junk percussion workshops in Bosnia, a horn and drums quartet (with Peter Evans, Briggan Krauss, and Chris Speed), and a percussion quartet (with Jim Black, Mike Pride, and Michael Sarin). For more information visit www.myspace.com/andrewdrury and www.andrewdrury.com.
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| MAY 18th, 8:30pm | |||
Andrea Parkins Sound artist/composer and electro-multi-instrumentalist Andrea Parkins performs Ob-jest, the jettisoned, her new multi-channel audio work at Roulette on May 18, 2008. Parkins merges her accordion's analog electronics with treatments by “Goldberg,” a live sound -processing instrument designed to impose "structural" and gestural interventions on the artist's sonic materials: in this case, objects -- collected, invented, imagined, or implicated -- as they are set into motion and then ultimately come to stasis. The piece will also feature performances by bagpiper David Watson and cellist Alex Waterman, plus a possible guest. ANDREA PARKINS is a sound artist, composer and electro multi-instrumentalist who also makes and arranges objects and images. Known especially for her dynamic timberal explorations on the electronically-processed accordion and inventive use of generative sound processing, she creates a fractured, yet fluid sonic language as she releases awkward electronic disruptions, concretized sampling, and feedback into the rising flow of her electric accordion’s sonority. "Parkins always gives her bands such a distinctive flavor: she goes right past conventional squeezebox references and treats the thing like a no-input mixing board, generating sine waves, or a live miniature Morton Feldman generator, slowly stacking tones. " -- Signal to Noise "the big, varied, confidently conceived abstractions Parkins yanks from her squeezebox, laptop, effects devices and maybe piano — cloudy and cranky one minute, surgically sharp the next. ... She’s the kind of musician who can make a small group intergalactic… lose your head.” – LA Weekly
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| MAY 22nd, 8:30pm | |||
Tyshawn Sorey Ben Gerstein (trombone), Cory Smythe (piano), Christopher Tordini (bass), Tyshawn Sorey (trombone, percussion) Wu-Wei is a commissioned concert-length program for Roulette and is written for various TYSHAWN SOREY (born 8 July 1980) is becoming one of New York City's BEN GERSTEIN (born 7 November 1977) and raised in Santa Barbara, Bassist CHRISTOPHER TORDINI is rapidly becoming an in-demand bassist Pianist CORY SMYTHE (born 1977) is a graduate of the music schools at
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| MAY 23nd, 8:30pm | |||
Christopher Tignor Jerome Emerging Artist Commission Performing on violin and his own software instruments, Christopher Tignor’s Additional information and excerpts at www.slowsix.com
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Tanya Kalmanovitch & Myra Melford The duo of violist Tanya Kalmanovitch and pianist Myra Melford
came together by accident. Both were performing separately at the 2003
Guelph International Jazz Festival, but when circumstances prevented
Kalmanovitch’s quartet performance, the festival’s artistic director
Ajay Heble suggest a duet with Melford. Never having played together
before, they decided to improvise freely, using a few simple
frameworks discussed before they went on stage. An inspired concert A convergence of musical interests and a shared commitment to
close listening makes this a magically complementary pairing. Both
musicians turned to jazz and improvised music after studying Western
classical music. Kalmanovitch holds a degree from The Juilliard Melford studied classical music as a child and jazz as an
undergraduate, then moved to New York where she established herself as
a composer and bandleader with her trio, and bands such as The Same
River, Twice; Crush; and The Tent. As a composer, Melford has been Kalmanovitch and Melford also share interests in the music of India. Melford studied harmonium in northern India in 2000–01. In 2003– 4, Kalmanovitch studied South India’s Karnatic music in Chennai as part of her research for a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology. Melford and Kalmanovitch draw on their respective backgrounds to
create improvised duets with an entirely original vocabulary. Their
spontaneous compositions possess formal elegance infused with the
urgency of improvisation. Each piece builds from an initial idea,
reworked and extended with lyrical economy and intense focus. They
perform complex melodic counterpoint in one piece, then explore timbre
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| MAY 30th, 8:30pm | |||
Doron Sadja / Zeljko McMullen Two solo sets by longtime collaborators (Symbol) and Shinkoyo / ParisLondonWestNile founders Zeljko McMullen and Doron Sadja. McMullen uses samples of acoustic instruments and improvisations to compose dense walls of electronic sound, which are diffused in immersive multi-channel environments. Composer/photographer Sadja presents a new piece for recomposed instruments, including the flombone, floptar, clarisax, tromcorder, multiple speakers, and a tangled mess of analog feedback in a dense collage of light, color, smoke, and vibrations. . Shinkoyo (www.shinkoyo.com) is the ectoplasm connecting a diverse group of composers, artists, musicians, instrument makers, thinkers and healers exploring new syntheses of sound and art. Shinkoyo submits to no genres, but Ancient Futurism, Noise Age, True Age, and NeoConservative are terms to be discovered. Born in 2000 at the Oberlin Conservatory of music, Shinkoyo has spread its wings from California to New York, with its headquarters at the glamorous Paris London West Nile Performance/Gallery Space - Brooklyn's only NO-Profit, donations based center for experimental performance/art (www.shinkoyo.com/parislondon/). Doron Sadja is a sound/visual artist birthed in Los Angeles and decomposing in New York by way of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, London, and Berlin. Co-founder of Shinkoyo music and art collective, he currently lives in Williamsburg where he runs ParisLondonWestNile, an experimental performance space and gallery. He has released solo and collaborative work on 12k, Shinkoyo, and Atak records and has performed throughout the United States, canada, UK, Spain, and Germany. Doron creates overwhelming dark psychological collages, both visually and sonically, through electronic and acoustic multidisciplinary feedback, mutated instruments, multiple speaker arrangments, extreme frequencies, and dense splashes of color and texture. See www.doron.sadja.com for more. Zeljko McMullen : Born in February of 1980 / raised in Massillon, Ohio - moved to Chicago and then Oberlin, attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Studied orchestral and electronic composition, sound art/installation. Helped form the Shinkoyo art + music collective. Currently resides in Brooklyn, NY - studying towards MFA at Bard College. Primarily deals with walls of sound as imaginary architecture and moveable spaces. Active experimenter with both binaural perceptive beating and binaural spatial recordings. Participates regularly in the music + art group Symbol. Co-curates and runs Paris London New York West Nile music venue and gallery. paints, photographs, and is currently shooting his first feature film, which entails collaborations with Severiano Martinez, Tony Conrad, Maryanne Amacher, Jay King, Doron Sadja, Carly Ptak, and many more. Has received commissions from the Jerome Foundation, Roulette, Neumann/Sennheiser. Has performed and/or installed work in North America, Europe, and Asia. Has 7 solo and/or collaborative releases on Shinkoyo records. Has or does play music with Doron Sadja, Mario Diaz de Leon, MV Carbon, Justin Craun, Owen Cannon, Johnny Misheff, Lauren Luloff, Brooke Gillespie, Stefan Tcherepnin, and Lou Reed. SYMBOL (www.shinkoyo.com/symbol) is a collage of artists and musicians from NYC working together to create sublime and grotesque environments. Beginning as a duo of Doron Sadja and Zeljko McMullen in early 2005 - Symbol has expanded to include a revolving cast of participants including Mario Diaz de Leon, Johnny Misheff, Brooke Gillespie, Mv Carbon, Justin Craun; and visual artists Jay King, Severiano Martinez, Antoine Catala, and Lauren Luloff. Symbol has toured the US three times, performs regularly in and around NYC, and is known as the "house band" for Paris London New York West Nile, the Brooklyn experimental arts venue run by McMullen and Sadja. Their first album, Land Space Water Faith (released by Shinkoyo in early 2008) expressed Symbol's diverse musical educations ranging from orchestral chamber composition to sound installations from Maryanne Amacher to guitar/feedback tricks learned from Lou Reed and lastly psychedelic listening sessions of large amounts of Enya and Deep Forest.
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Zeena Parkins CANCELLED Concert will be rescheduled to the Fall 08 Season.
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