Share – free open audio & video jam – featured guests Benn DeMole w/ Catriona
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Tonight’s featured guests:
Ben DeMole [audio] w/ Catriona [video art] - New York City is the final location on an eight month creative journey that has included Japan, Spain, and Turkey. Benn DeMole now brings his improvised melodic ambient noise to Share. He creates using tenor saxophone, didgeridoo, and voice with FX and looping pedals. He will be accompanied by Catriona on live video art.
Some downloadables of his music are at: http://www.pool.org.au/users/benn_demole
and more info can be found at: http://www.myspace.com/benndemole
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=643
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Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
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http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free open audio & video jam – featured guest Mihail Torich
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Tonight’s featured guest -
Mihail Torich
http://share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=639
Mihail Torich, russian VJ and media artist, is proudly presenting his new VJ-research of the intimate international identity, mixing documentary and studio shots made in the US, Europe and Russia – dreams, signs and thoughts, extracted, combined and transformed.
Shooting music videos and playing live VJ for many years, he carefully collects unique footage from all over the world, producing his own animation and studio add-ons.
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=642
http://torich.net
http://myspace.com/_a5
http://youtube.com/mtorich
http://vimeo.com/
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Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free open audio & video jam – featured guests WALK-PASA-BOUGE & Pink Twins
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Tonight’s featured guests -
- WALK – PASA – BOUGE is visually designed to expand and refract literary texts, weaving disparate sources and forms into a seamless theatrical whole between all performers. The show is partly improvised, fusing electronic music with visuals created using both traditional techniques and digital technologies. Using highly unique and unusual setups, the visual artists may be following the music or creating a separate line of parallel play with the aerialist, to be viewed by the multi-tasking mind of the 21st century viewer.
Artists:
Laia Cabrera (visual artist and independent film-maker from Spain, based in New York)
Maite San Juan (aerial artist and actress from Barcelona, based in Brussels)
Isabelle Duverger (photographer and designer from Paris based in NY)
Brice Malahude ( musician and sound designer from Paris, based in Brussels)WALK-PASA-BOUGE:
http://share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=641
- Pink Twins
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the Pink Twins”
Pink Twins is a duo of visual artists and electronic musicians, brothers Juha and Vesa Vehviläinen, based in Helsinki, Finland. Active as Pink Twins since 1997, Pink Twins have shown their works in exhibitions and festivals on all continents and performed audiovisual live shows through Europe, Americas, Asia and Australia.
Pink Twins’ videos work on the crossing of visual art and music. Their computer-treated imagery focus on human perception, its functionality and limits. Pink Twins build a tissue of connections between their sound work and their visual work, attempting to intimately join mundane fragments usually disjoint. They work from fragments of images, sounds and sensations which our daily life is subjected to and break them down into small particles to reunite them once again in audacious chaotic constructions.
For their live performances Pink Twins incorporate live electronic music and a live mix of video works. The music of Pink Twins is based on improvised live sound processing of concrete and electronic sounds, noises and musical elements. The mix of live sound and video projections creates a hyperactive, constantly changing and extremely detailed experience of time and space.
http://www.pinktwins.com
http://share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=637
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – all night free open audio & video jam
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=628
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Memorial For Suzanne Fiol
Dear friends,
Please join us as we honor the extraordinary life and work of our beloved Suzanne Fiol.
Sunday, November 15
4-7pm
Memorial Service at St. Ann’s
157 Montague Street in Brooklyn
7pm
“Suzanne Fiol Day” Proclamation by the Borough President’s Office
Parade from St. Ann’s to ISSUE
8pm
Memorial Concert at ISSUE Project Room
At the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street in Brooklyn
Please note that the Memorial Service will start promptly at 4pm. The service and concert are not ticketed events. No reservations are required and there is no admission fee. If you would like to let us know whether you plan to attend, or if you would like to receive updates on this event, please click here.
To make a contribution in honor of Suzanne, please click here.
Yutaka Makino
Yutaka Makino is an artist and researcher currently based in Los Angeles. He seeks to amalgamate the historic precedents of computational composition and science, involving research in non-standard sound synthesis, spatial perception, acoustics, collective behavior, complex dynamical systems and emergence. His works range from sculpture to sound works including computer music compositions and spatial sound installations, which utilize spatial projection processes such as Wave Field Synthesis.
His works have been recognized/performed at numerous festivals and competitions internationally. He has been awarded the Prix Ton Bruynèl 2007 and the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm 2010. He was in residence at the MacDowell Colony, Visby International Center for Composers, TU Berlin Electronic Music Studio and STEIM.
With the turntablist Takuro Mizuta Lippit alias dj sniff of STEIM, he frequently performs as Audile.
In 2009, he founded an independent computer music label, Strukto
Zero Film Festival
Zero Film Festival - Focusing on a niche in the independent film community which has been under appreciated and ignored, Zero Film Festival is dedicated to screening self financed films from filmmakers all over the world.
In the age where the majority of festivals are Hollywood marketing campaigns, and even “indie” and “underground” festivals screen financed films, we are here to offer something different. We recognize authentically independent films and filmmakers who take risks and fight the odds to see their visions through.
The Zero Film Festival is the first festival EXCLUSIVE to self-financed filmmakers, providing a platform to screen their bold and innovative films in Los Angeles AND New York City.
In 2009 ZFF added our 1st annual West Coast Tour – screening selected 2008 films in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Hollywood and Orange County. 2010 will see the expansion into our 1st annual North American Tour alongside screenings in Europe and South America.
7:00 pm | Conflict Nations Program
Multi Disciplinary Art on
Afghanistan Experiences:
Sahar Muradi
Zohra Saed
Skateistan
Rethink Afghanistan
http://rethinkafghanistan.com/
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Zohra Saed will read a short piece about her friend Farhad, who went back to Afghanistan to rebuild and was involved in the oil pipeline and who was killed in a suspicious plane crash off the coast of Karachi, Pakistan. It’s very painful but an important story to tell.
Zohra Saed was born in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. She spent her childhood first in Amman, Jordan and later in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia before her father brought his family to Brooklyn. She is a poet, academic, and editor.
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Sahar Muradi
saharmuradi@yahoo.com
“I will be reading from memoirs about my family, as well as excerpts from diaries I kept while living and working in Afghanistan from 2003-2005. “
Littoral Series: New York Tyrant with Phillip Stearns
ISSUE’s Littoral Series began in 2006 and is a monthly event, curated by Tony Antoniadis, which pairs fresh and compelling writers with innovative contemporary musicians, sound, and video artists to deepen the artist and audience experience of the works.
The New York Tyrant is a tri-quarterly literary magazine based in Hell’s Kitchen, focusing on the immediacy of the short story. The pieces, coming from voices both new and seasoned, are concise, evocative, often humorous, and sometimes surreal. We believe in the power and urgency of the story and its ability to describe and illuminate the interior and exterior landscape. We believe in the power of narrative and its ability to make life more astonishingly alive. Joining ISSUE for Littoral will be Eric Hintze and Eugene Marten.
Erich Hintze lives with his wife, a dog, and a one-eyed cat in a rowhouse in Washington DC.
Eugene Marten lives in Harlem and tries to get one thing right. He is also the author of the novels In The Blind (Turtle Point), Waste (Ellipsis), and the forthcoming Firework (Tyrant Books).
Phillip Stearns (AKA Pixel Form) is a practitioner of sound and visual arts; music composer and performer; electronics sculptor and installation artist. He is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts music composition department where he studied with David Rosenboom, Hans W. Koch, Michael Pisaro, Mark Trayle, Sarah Roberts, Tom Leeser, and Andy Kopra. Central to his practice are the use of custom electronics, hand-craft, hardware hacking techniques, media technologies, procedural processes, organic and natural gardening, and seed saving. He views technology as a site for exploring contemporary society, cultural tendencies, and the horizons of violence, politics, information, noise, control, proximity, parity, subversion, corruption, interconnectedness and interrelatedness. Pursuing organic and natural agricultural practices and ecological design are a way of addressing the harmful impacts of the widespread proliferation of modern technologies and mediating the damages resulting from their wanton consumption and disposal. Characteristic of his work is judicial use of materials, restraint, simplicity, a careful balance between conceptual depth and playfulness. He has presented, performed, lectured, exhibited, led workshops, and screened works at various festivals, conferences, residencies, museums and institutions around the US and Northern Europe including the Experimental TV Center, NIME, Filmer La Musique, STEIM, Darmstadt, Torrance Art Museum, Machine Project, Telic, Optica film festival, ISIM conference, GLAMFA exhibition, Spark festival, Bent festival, Soundwalk, Chaos Communications Camp, Cal Arts, SFSU, UCSD, UC Davis, and Mills College.
ISSUE’s Littoral Series is supported, in part, by The Casement Fund and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
Cornelius Dufallo
“…Mr. Dufallo demonstrated the rich sound he produces on an unmodified fiddle. But his playing is no less alluring on the electric violin…he showed how much amplification can expand the instrument’s palette. Far from robbing the violin of its beauty, electronics add textural elements and gradations of timbre that the acoustic instrument cannot approximate.” – Allan Kozinn, NY Times
Heralded by The New York Times as one of the “new faces of new music” in 1999, Cornelius Dufallo has since established himself as a constant innovator at the forefront of the American contemporary music scene. Currently he is director of the creative music ensemble Ne(x)tworks, and a member of the world-renowned amplified string quartet known as ETHEL. His ongoing commitment to cutting edge musical ingenuity has produced fascinating collaborations with many of today’s most compelling performers and composers.
This season Dufallo has crafted a new trajectory with the release of Dream Streets, a solo CD of his own music for electric violin on the Innova label. Time Out New York hails Dream Streets as “a beautiful, evocative disc of electroacoustic soundscapes…all [of which] serve as apt reminders of this vital artist’s considerable gifts.” Upcoming projects featuring music from Dream Streets include: solo appearances in New York, Buffalo, and San Francisco; a collaboration with choreographer Stacy Spence at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; and Journaling, a new series of concerts in which Dufallo documents his own work with extraordinary living composers while tracking various paths in twenty-first century music. Journaling (part one), taking place at The Stone in New York, also presents world premieres by Anna Clyne and Corey Dargel, as well as recent works by Alexandra Gardner, Annie Gosfield, and Huang Ruo. Dufallo’s upcoming recordings include discs of new music by John King and Neil Rolnick.
For this concert, Dufallo will be performing music from Dream Streets.
Winsome Brown with David Soldier and Sheryl Moller
Winsome Brown at Issue Project Room
“Monologues in Stereo”
Including
Hit the Body Alarm
By Samuel Corso
Performed by Winsome Brown
With music written & performed by Dave Soldier
Miss Furr & Miss Skeene
By Gertrude Stein
Performed by Winsome Brown & Sheryl Moller
Winsome Brown—filmmaker, performer, writer, director—most recently wrote and directed “The Violinist” (2009, 44 min), a 16 mm silent experimental narrative with an opulent score by Dave Soldier. It was her second collaboration with noted avant-garde filmmaker Jennifer Reeves, who was director of photography for the film. She is currently developing the live Performance Concert of Soldier’s music for performance across the US and internationally. As a film actor, Winsome has performed in “Heights” (Merchant Ivory, dir. Chris Terrio) for which the Seattle Weekly awarded her a two-minute Oscar, the B-movie “Nightfall” with David Carradine, “Shadows Choose Their Horrors” (2005, dir. Jennifer Reeves, New York Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival) which she also co-wrote, “On-Line” (2001, Sundance, Berlin Film Festival) and more. As a theatre actor, Winsome most recently won an Obie award for her performance in Heather Woodbury’s “Tale of 2Cities: An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks,” (2007) at the UCLA Live festival in LA and PS 122 in New York. Selected stage credits: “Taking Sides” (Odyssey Theatre, LA), “Welcome to Winsomeland” (Tamarind Theatre, LA). American Living Room Series (HERE), Blueprint Series (Ontological-Hysteric Theatre). Her series of one-woman shows, “Fits & Starts” played in New York, Los Angeles, and Hyderabad, India. Winsome’s writing has been published in Elle India, The Outrider (Toronto), Gothtober.com, Boiler Magazine, City Magazine, and more. She is a founding member of the international theatre ensemble Hopballehus. Winsome attended the University of Toronto Schools (Toronto) and Harvard College (Cambridge, MA) where she graduated with a degree in English. She serves on the board of the Church Street School for Music & Art in Tribeca. She is in the process of completing her first novel.
Dave Soldier (Music) lives two lives: as neuroscientist and as composer, violinist, guitarist, and producer. He founded the seminal punk chamber group the Soldier String Quartet in 1985, pioneering the use of amplified instruments and a repertoire that erased boundaries between classical and popular music, and now leads the Andalusian band the Spinozas and the Delta punk group the Kropotkins. He founded the first orchestra for animals, the Thai Elephant Orchestra of Lampang, in 2000. Recordings and scores of many of his works written for classically trained players are available from Mulatta Records (mulatta.org). He has recorded almost 100 albums as a composer, leader, arranger, and/or musician. As Dave Sulzer (his real name) he is professor in the Neurology and Psychiatry departments at Columbia University, as well as head of a neuroscience laboratory.
Sheryl Moller has completed two films in the last year, Everything Must Go and Profile. She appeared recently with the Unofficial New York Yale Cabaret in Most Happy. With director Michael Bergman she starred in the film La Primavera. She has worked on various projects with Andre Gregory and has worked with the Work Center of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. As a founding member of Water Theatre Company she appeared in many productions, including the critically acclaimed Pilgrims written by Elizabeth Gilbert, directed by Shira Piven, and produced by Mike Nichols.
Rachel Bernsen
Choreographer Rachel Bernsen is interested in presenting dances within an experimental, surrealistic narrative context that still explores her basic motivations for moving her body. She investigates movement from an emotional and physical standpoint, and in making choices she is activating personal history, perceived style, and her emotional and often subconscious connections to one way of moving over another. Bernsen often uses music as a means of inquiry to foster a deeper connection to her own impulses and responses.
At Issue Project Room Bernsen will present two movement and sound collaborations; an excerpt of the quartet Unicorns Were Horses II, a concept album masquerading as a performance; and a new solo Glimmer Glint Glisten, exploring luminosity as a form of truth.
The evening’s collaborators include: Lindsey Bauer, Taylor Ho Bynum, Anne Rhodes, Carl Testa, and Matthew Welch.
Rachel Bernsen
Rachel Bernsen is an independent dance artist based in New York City and New Haven, CT. In NYC her work has been shown at Dance Theater Workshop as a 2005/06 Fresh Tracks artist-in-residence, Danspace Project DraftWork series, the 2008 Movement Research Spring Festival Somewhere Out There, Issue Project Room, Body Blend and Brink at Dixon Place, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Chashama, Deitch Projects, and The Chocolate Factory. She is the recipient of a 2007 NEA Honorary Fellowship from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
Bernsen has collaborated extensively with composer/performer Taylor Ho Bynum. Their work has been shown at The Free Music Festival in Antwerp, Belgium, and in Cologne and Berlin, Germany. In NYC they’ve performed at various venues including Dixon Place, Chashama, Chez Bushwick, and the Cornelia Street Café. She also collaborates with other musicians and artists including vocalist Anne Rhodes and bassist/composer Carl Testa, and composer and bagpipes player Matt Welch. From 2002 to 2006 she performed and toured with the performance art group and recording artists Fischerspooner. She has also performed with RoseAnne Spradlin, Juliette Mapp, Sam Kim, Risa Jaroslow, Urban Bush Women, and Minneapolis based dance artists Morgan Thorson, Wynne Fricke, and Leah Nelson.
Bernsen is also a certified Alexander Technique teacher. She is a volunteer faculty member at the American Center for the Alexander Technique (ACAT); teaches the Technique to dancers at Movement Research; and has a private practice in New York and New Haven. She currently serves on the board of the American Society for Alexander Teachers (AmSAT). In 2007-2008 Bernsen was an editor and managing editor of the Movement Research Performance Journal. She holds an MFA in Dance from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts and a BA in English Literature from Macalester College.
www.rachelbernsen.com
Lindsey Bauer is a dance artist and educator, living in New Haven, Connecticut. She is a co-founder of Elm City Dance Collective, a nonprofit organization, which aims to provide access and opportunity for dance artists in New Haven. Lindsey holds an MFA in performance and choreography from Arizona State University (2007). Her work has been presented throughout CT and across the US.
Taylor Ho Bynum is a performer on cornet and various brass instruments, composer, bandleader, and interdisciplinary collaborator with artists in dance, film, and theater. Bynum is committed to the further exploration of the extensions of composition and improvisation pioneered by 20th century masters like Ellington, Ives, and the AACM, but with a third millennial flavor and a trickster sensibility. He presently leads his Trio, his Sextet, the chamber ensemble SpiderMonkey Strings, and the little big band Positive Catastrophe, and has developed a body of solo music for cornet and duo work with dancer/choreographer Rachel Bernsen. In addition to leading his own groups, Bynum regularly performs with some of the most innovative figures in creative music, such as Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, and Bill Dixon, and has ongoing collaborations with such artists as Bill Lowe, Jason Kao Hwang, and Joe Morris. His work with Anthony Braxton spans over ten years and ranges from duo to orchestra, with recent tours throughout Europe and North America and over a dozen recordings; their collaborative CD Duets (Wesleyan) 2002 received wide critical acclaim. Other recent recordings as a leader include Other Stories (Three Suites) with SpiderMonkey Strings, True Events with drummer Tomas Fujiwara, and two albums with his Sextet and Trio: The Middle Picture and Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths.
Anne Rhodes (b. 1976) grew up in Portland, Maine, where she began studying voice at the age of 16. She holds a B.M. in Voice Performance from Boston University’s School for the arts and an M.A. in Music Performance from Wesleyan University, where she focused on experimental music, improvisation and collaborating with composers, studying with Anthony Braxton, Neely Bruce, Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila, B. Balasubrahmaniyan, and Jay Hoggard. She has performed with Connecticut Opera, Yale Opera, Portland Opera Repertory Theatre, the Crane School of Music Opera Ensemble, the Boston University Chamber Choir, the New England Conservatory Continuing Education Opera Studio, MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players, the Anthony Braxton Large Ensemble, the FLUX Quartet, New Haven Improvisers Collective, and the hip-hop duo Mirror Boiyz, and has premiered works by composers including Anthony Braxton, Neil Leonard, Taylor Ho Bynum, Mikael Karlsson, and Alvin Lucier. Anne currently studies voice with Elizabeth Saunders. As a day job, she serves as Research Archivist for Yale University’s Oral History of American Music.
Carl Testa is a composer, bassist, bass clarinetist, and electronicist who has been composing and performing creative music since 2000. He is best known as one of the members of multi-instrumentalist/composer Anthony Braxton’s Sextet, Septet and 12+1tet. He is featured on the 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 box set on Firehouse 12 records, on 12+1tet (Victoriaville) 2007 on Victo Records, as well as the Quartet (GTM) 2006 box set on Important Records. His debut recording as a leader, Uncertainty, was released in Fall 2008. Testa is a native of Chicago and currently lives in New Haven, CT where he runs the Uncertainty Music Series, which presents monthly concerts of original music. Go to http://carltesta.net for more information.
Regarded as “a composer possessed of both rich imagination and the skill to bring his fancies to life” by Time Out New York, composer and bagpipe virtuoso Matthew Welch (b.1976) holds two degrees in Music Composition, a BFA from Simon Fraser University (1999), and an MA from Wesleyan University (2001), having studied with noted composers such as Barry Truax, Rodney Sharman, Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton. Since moving to New York City in 2001 he has worked with a host of other artists such as John Zorn, Julia Wolfe, Zeena Parkins, and Ikue Mori. The eclectic breadth of his interests in Scottish bagpipe music, Balinese gamelan, minimalism, improvisation and rock converge in compositional amalgams ranging from traditional-like bagpipe tunes to electronic pieces, improvisation strategies and fully notated works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, orchestra and non-western instruments. Since 2002, Welch has been running and composing for his own eclectic ensemble, Blarvuster, whose repertoire the New York Times has claimed as “border-busting music; originial and catchy.” Welch has recorded for the Tzadik, Mode, Cantaloupe, Leo, Porter, Muud, Avian, Newsonic, and Parallactic record labels.
Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Danielle de Picciotto
Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Danielle de Picciotto
present ”The Ship Of Fools” (an audio /visual performance)
The Ship of Fools
An audio/visual performance by Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke
Based on the novel by Sebastian Brant (1458)
„The medieval novel “The Ship of Fools„ which is based on the image of a ship filled with fools, seafaring through the oceans of life, is a metaphor not only depicting the foolhardiness of mankind – the detailed descriptions of the different fools within the ship describe current character traits as well as ancient ones.
The timelessness of this story appealed to Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke, inspiring them to compose a show based on eleven fools described in the book, presenting the seduction of follies, their downfall and hidden assets by means of music and projected visuals.
The artists De Picciotto/ Hacke are known for being unconventional – ever involved in discovering new ways of presenting avant-garde ideas or interaction among cultures and generations. With the performance „The Ship Of Fools” it was their objective to explicate the novel by Sebastian Brant in a very contemporary spirit – emphasizing that medieval themes are astonishingly up to date politically, religiously and sociologically – mirroring them in different cultural traditions to highlight their international relevance with oriental rhythms, American sideshow and country themes, south pacific tiki aspects or Berlin electronic underground statements. The interaction among text, music and video represents a „state – of – the – art” approach to classic literature, traditional and electronic music, art and film.
Deep bass lines, scraping metal, melancholic autoharps, violent guitar riffs, bizarre sound recordings, electronic break beats, long forgotten tango tunes entwined with Hacke´s magnificent singing and Danielle’s mystic lyrics are illuminated by intricate projections depicting illustrated scenes of fools debauchery, burlesque dance clips and colorful tiki animations (all drawings and filming by Danielle de Picciotto). The artists present a magical world –a dreamlike mirror of the one we are all living in –this live performance is charged with laconic humor and fantasy inviting us to not only be seduced by its follies but also be conscious of its possible downfall.
Alexander Hacke - founding member and bass player of German cult band “Einstürzende Neubauten”, main figure in Fatih Akins latest movie “Crossing the Bridge –the sound of Istanbul”, and Film composer of movies has been collaborating with the American artist Danielle de Picciotto since 2001, together initiating performances such as “Mountains of Madness” based on HP Lovecraft stories (inviting the Tiger Lillies to participate), “Bada Bing” a performance series which ran for a year, presenting their own new music and visuals and hot Berlin bands, “The History of Electricity” an electronic performance depicting electricity in its most unusual and abstract form, and “Sanctuary” a road record Alexander composed on a trip through the US with Danielle filming the journey. Besides drawing, painting and directing music videos / documentaries, Danielle de Picciotto was singer in the band “Space Cowboys”, founded the “Ocean Club” together with Gudrun Gut and was co-founder of the Love Parade in Berlin.
Nate Wooley/C. Spencer Yeh/Chris Corsano
Nate Wooley/C. Spencer Yeh/Chris Corsano
The second installation of Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain project features two musicians who, like Wooley, have found themselves somehow straddling the worlds of free improvisation and noise. All three are known for their solo work as well as being respected members of collectives and working steadily in improvisation’s secretarial pool. Tonight’s show at New York’s Issue Project Room features the three of them working as an improvising unit, as well as the premiere and recording of Wooley’s new work with tape which extends the work recently released on Important Records (Seven Storey Mountain with David Grubbs and Paul Lytton).
Nate Wooley was born in 1974 in a small fishing town in Northwest Oregon. He began playing trumpet professionally at age 12 with his father’s big band on the Oregon and Washington Coast circuit. After a short stop in Denver, Colorado, where he studied and performed with Ron Miles, Fred Hess, Art Lande, and underground luminary, Jack Wright, he moved to Jersey City in 2001. While maintaining a strong tie to the traditional grounding of jazz music, Nate is very involved with exploding the concept of what the trumpet is physically capable of, evoking “…surrealistic environments from sounds not meant to come from the horn” (Shaun Brady of the Philadelphia City Paper). His solo recording, “wrong shape to be a storyteller” on Creative Sources Recordings, has taken a critical spot next to such incredible solo trumpet documents as Greg Kelley’s “trumpet” and Axel Dorner’s “trumpet”. Besides his own projects, Nate is in demand as a collaborator in New York, performing and recording with such phenomenal and varied musicians as Anthony Braxton, Joe Morris, Paul Lytton, Fred Frith, Marilyn Crispell, Graveyards, Double Leopards, John Butcher, Alessandro Bosetti, Tony Malaby, Randy Peterson, and many others. Bill Shoemaker calls Nate, “…one of those rare players who seemingly pop up from nowhere, fully formed and confidently indicating the future of his instrument in contemporary music”, and Dave Douglas says “Nate is the most interesting and unique trumpet player I’ve heard in the last decade….and that is without hyperbole”
C. Spencer Yeh was born in Taipei, Taiwan 1975, moved to the US in 1980; studied radio/television/film at Northwestern University, and is now based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Yeh is active both as a solo and collaborative artist, as well as with his primary project, Burning
Star Core. As an improviser, Yeh is focused on developing a personal vocabulary using violin, voice, and electronics. As a sound artist/composer, Yeh works with all aspects available surrounding a work, aurally and physically, as elements key to the cumulative
experience. He is concerned not only with the sensual aspects of ’sound organization,’ but the gestural qualities as well. Yeh has
collaborated with a deep and ever-growing list of artists and groups, including Tony Conrad, New Humans with Vito Acconci, Evan Parker,
Thurston Moore, Amy Granat with Jutta Koether, Okkyung Lee, Justin Lieberman, John Wiese, Don Dietrich and Ben Hall (as The New
Monuments), Prurient, and Jandek. He has performed at festivals and venues such as Sonar, FIMAV at Victoriaville, Frieze Arts Fair, No Fun Fest, High Zero, the 24 Hour Drone People at Fylkingen, The Kitchen, ZKM Karlsruhe, and has also exhibited visual art, sound, and video works internationally.
Chris Corsano is a multi-faceted drummer; a list of his collaborations attests to that fact. He’s recorded and gigged with, among others, Paul Flaherty, Michael Flower, Björk, Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore, Evan Parker, Nels Cline, Jessica Rylan, Jandek, Six Organs of Admittance, Sunburned Hand Of Man, Okkyung Lee, MV&EE, Keiji Haino, Vampire Belt, Joe McPhee, Christina Carter and Heather Leigh Murray.
First captivated by free improvised music in the mid ’90s after witnessing performances by TEST, William Parker, Cecil Taylor and others, Corsano began a long-standing high-energy partnership with Paul Flaherty in 1998. Moving from western Massachusetts to Manchester, England in 2005 and then Edinburgh, Scotland a year later, Corsano focused on developing an expanded solo percussion music of his own, incorporating sax reeds, violin strings and bows, pot lids, adhesive tape and other household devices into his drumkit. In February 2006 he released his first solo recording, The Young Cricketer. In 2007 and ’08 he was the drummer on Björk’s Volta world tour. With a move back to Massachusetts, 2009 heralds a return to his own projects, most notably his duo with Michael Flower and solo work, now revamped to include synthesizers and contact mics in addition to his drum kit and home-made acoustic instruments.
Ma La Pert (Jennifer Walshe + Tony Conrad)
Ma la Pert is the duo of Jennifer Walshe and Tony Conrad. They use voice, violins, viola, bass, autoharps, autotune, keyboard, shells, broken plastic, words, parts of words, stories, chanting, jigs, screaming, shouting, broken drum skins, bells, green furry outfits,breastplates, wire, bird call, and old lady dresses.
Walshe and Conrad first began working together after they ran from service as household slaves of King Pepy I at the end of Old Kingdom Egypt. They were subsequently monks in Carolingean Gaul during the period roughly 820 to 850, Venetian courtesans at Pope Eugene’s court during the mid 15th century, and prisoners on Reunion Island in 1738, where Walshe tried to secure Conrad’s escape using “remote viewing” techniques. The unfortunate outcome of the latter incident resulted in Conrad’s work as a medicine man in Australia in the 19th century, where in 1834, trying to quell a cattle riot, they both accidentally ingested leprosy vectors and subsequently lost three legs and two arms between them.
Darmstadt “Essential Repertoire” Festival (Peter Zummo, David van Tieghem, Ned Sublette, Jill Kroesen, Peter Gordon & the Love of Life Orchestra)
love of life orchestra 1977
DARMSTADT: “Classics of the Avant Garde” presents its second annual
ESSENTIAL REPERTOIRE festival
This year’s festival celebrates the 30th anniversary of the seminal New Music New York concerts curated by Rhys Chatham and held at The Kitchen (then on Broome Street), which put the still-burgeoning Downtown Scene – at the crossroads of minimalism, interdisciplinary performance, and various strains of post-punk – under a mainstream spotlight and redefined the presentation of experimental music.
DARMSTADT’s cross-section of composers involved in the original festival includes “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Connie Beckley, David van Tieghem, Jill Kroesen, Jon Gibson, Ned Sublette, Peter Gordon, Peter Zummo, Petr Kotik, Phill Niblock, and a performance of Meredith Monk’s Dolmen Music by the M6. Invited composers have been asked to present compositions of theirs from the 1970s, if not the actual pieces presented at the original Kitchen concerts. The festival will be held from December 3 through 5 at ISSUE Project Room. All concerts begin at 8pm. Tickets will be $20 at the door/$15 advance (available online at http://www.issueprojectroom.org or for cash purchase at Other Music.)
Saturday, December 5 at 8pm
Peter Zummo – “Minesweeper” (1979), “With Ease She Darts These Bees and Sees” (1979), “Blinded By the Sun” (1979); Performed by the composer with Bill Ruyle (percussion), Mustafa Ahmed (percussion), and Stephanie Woodard (reading)
David van Tieghem – Excerpt from “A Man and His Toys” (c. 1979); Peformed by the composer
Ned Sublette – Songs TBA; Performed by the composer and guests
Jill Kroesen – Songs TBA; Performed by the composer and the Love of Life Orchestra
Peter Gordon – “Macho Music” (1973), “Extended Niceties” (1976); Performed by the Love of Life Orchestra
With The Love of Life Orchestra (LOLO)
Peter Gordon, saxophone and keyboards; Peter Zummo, trombone; Max Gordon, trumpet; Martha Mooke, electric viola; Ned Sublette, Randy Gun, Zach Layton, guitar; Elio Villafranca, piano; Yunior Terry, bass; Mustafa Ahmed, congas and percussion; Bill Ruyle, mallets and percussion; David Van Tieghem, drums; Jill Kroesen, Nick Hallett, Daisy Press, Rachel Henry, vocals
For more information on Peter Zummo, visit: http://www.kalvos.org/zummope.html
For more information on David van Tieghem, visit: http://www.vantieghem.com/
For more information on Jill Kroesen, visit: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:3ifwxqw5ld6e
For more information on Ned Sublette, visit: http://afrocubaweb.com/nedsublette.htm
For more information on Peter Gordon, visit: myspace.com/pglolo
Darmstadt “Essential Repertoire” Festival (Meredith Monk/M6, Jon Gibson, Phill Niblock)
DARMSTADT: “Classics of the Avant Garde” presents its second annual ESSENTIAL REPERTOIRE festival
This year’s festival celebrates the 30th anniversary of the seminal New Music New York concerts curated by Rhys Chatham and held at The Kitchen (then on Mercer Street), which put the still-burgeoning Downtown Scene – at the crossroads of minimalism, interdisciplinary performance, and various strains of post-punk – under a mainstream spotlight and redefined the presentation of experimental music.
DARMSTADT’s cross-section of composers involved in the original festival includes “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Connie Beckley, David van Tieghem, Jill Kroesen, Jon Gibson, Ned Sublette, Peter Gordon, Peter Zummo, Petr Kotik, Phill Niblock, and a performance of Meredith Monk’s Dolmen Music by the M6. Invited composers have been asked to present compositions of theirs from the 1970s, if not the actual pieces presented at the original Kitchen concerts. The festival will be held from December 3 through 5 at ISSUE Project Room. All concerts begin at 8pm. Tickets will be $20 at the door/$15 advance (available online at http://www.issueprojectroom.org or for cash purchase at Other Music.)
Friday, December 4 at 8pm
Meredith Monk – Dolmen Music (1979); Performed by the M6: Meredith Monk Music Third Generation
Jon Gibson – Criss Cross (1979) and other works; Performed by the composer
Phill Niblock – “Four Arthurs” (1978) superimposed with “Two Octaves and a Fifth” (1975); performed by the composer with Leslie Ross (bassoon) and Christa Robinson (oboe)
For more information on Meredith Monk, visit: http://www.meredithmonk.org/monk/index.html
For more information on the M6: Meredith Monk Music Third Generation, visit: http://www.m6ensemble.com/
For more information on Jon Gibson, visit: http://www.jongibson.net/Bio.html
For more information on Phill Niblock, visit: http://www.phillniblock.com/biography_photos_images.html
On January 25, ISSUE Project Room will inaugurate its new space at 110 Livingston with Gaudeamus Muziekweek, a four-day festival celebrating groundbreaking and challenging new music by emerging composers from around the world. Working in partnership ...
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