03/27 @ 8:00pm - Izzi Ramkissoon
Buy Tickets | Admission: $15 ($12 advance/$10 members)
Izzi Ramkissoon is an award-winning electronic multimedia composer, performer, and sound artist. His laptop and bass are the control center of his sound. As a composer his multimedia composition Sub-ter-ain Frequencies 5.1 won the prestigious 2007 Look & Listen Festival 1st place Composition Prize (NYC), and will be on tour throughout the U.S apart of the 29th Annual Black Maria Film + Video Festival 2010 visiting 65 museums, universities, and other institutions, his recent composition Domesticated Animalia was accepted as part of the The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) National Conference 2010 and the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF) 2010. A New York City native, Izzi plays the electric, acoustic double bass, synthesizer and laptop in multiple ensembles in the Tri-State area. He leads his own multimedia ensembles CrackCodez (2007) and The Electric Eel Multimedia Ensemble (2009) in NYC and collaborates as a composer/performer with the new music experimental group Kingdom of Jones and DJ Udachi in live sets.
He has performed as a bassist and experimental music artist in numerous venues including The Public Theater, The Stone, The Flea Theatre, The TANK, The Robert Miller Gallery, Monkey Town, Cornelia Street Café, Yippe Café Museum, Judson Church, Crash Mansion, Studio 54, CBGB’s, and Webster Hall as well as Penn State University, NYU, Bates College, Bard College, Ionian University (Greece), and more. Izzi has performed on the same bill with artist such as John Zorn, Flux Quartet, Ethel, QQQ, ICE (International Composers Ensemble), Daedalus Quartet, Paul Lansky, Robert Rowe, Cort Lippe, John Scofield, Vernon Reid, Craig “muMs” Grant, Annie Gosfield, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, LAByrinth Theater Company and So Percussion.
Izzi has studied electronic multimedia composition and sound design with Morton Subotnick, Robert Rowe, R. Luke Dubois and electronics with Saul Walker. His research interest includes interactive multimedia music performance and composition, sensor networks, wireless interface design, multi modal haptic feedback, and music cognition. His recent interactive projects include, the Beatnik, which is an interactive glove controller used for editing, pitch shifting, warping, glitching drum loops in a real-time performance setting and the Sensor S.O.C.K, which is a gesture based controller interface for multimedia dance performance. Izzi has earned degrees from the College of Staten Island majoring in both Electrical Engineering and Music. He is currently pursuing a Master’s in Music Technology at NYU and is planning to further his studies in Interactive Music.
Community Percussion Ensemble
For this event I would like to invite all of the audience members to bring a small piece of portable homemade percussion. This can be anything from a bottle to a small piece of PVC pipe. Your hands will also suffice. Nothing too big. There will be a short piece that you will get to use this object to create sound and be apart of the EEME community percussion ensemble.
Izzi Ramkissoon and his Electric Eel Multimedia Ensemble (1+)
Turntable – Marcel Blum
Flute – Sarah Carrier
Clarinet – Dan Padmos
Clarinet – Zara Acosta
Cello – Eric Cooper
Viola- Pedro Vizzarro Vallejos
Guitar – Amar Lal
Percussion – Jerrold Kavanagh
Percussion – Corey Bracken
Upright Bass – Sean Ormiston
Video – Alain Alfaro
Electric Bass and laptop – Izzi Ramkissoon
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