Ann Liv Young presents Cinderella
Photo by Michael A. Guerrero
Ann Liv Young’s Cinderella is a reinterpretation of the classic fairy tale, inspired by versions as disparate as Disney’s and the macabre Grimm brothers’. It is a one-woman show starring Sherry, Young’s southern wildcat alter ego. Sherry, playing all characters, confronts personality extremes of kindness, helplessness, and wickedness in conjunction with the stereotype she deals with most directly in her own life, the aggressive woman. We watch as Sherry and these storybook characters tackle decisions together and learn from one another. What unlikely similarities will we find? Why does one tend to prefer the demure Cinderella over the bold and assertive Sherry? Ultimately, Sherry critiques male authorship which created one-dimensional female characters (Cinderella, the Fairy Godmother, the wicked Stepmother and Stepsisters) in ways which were pleasing to men. Our version of Cinderella pleases no one.
Ann Liv Young was born on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and has been creating performance work for over eight years. She is one of the youngest artists to be presented at major venues in New York City and Europe, such as P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Brooklyn Museum, The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 122, Judson Church, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Flea Theater, Laban Centre London, Impulstanz, Springdance, The Arches, Tanz Im August, City of Women, Théâtre de la Bastille, Kampnagel, Brute-Wien, Gender Bender and Inkonst, among others. A 2003 graduate of Hollins University’s prestigious dance program, Young has also studied at Laban Centre London. She was featured in Michael Blackwood’s documentary New York Dance: States of Performance (2010). Ann Liv performed “Sherry” in “Girl Monster Orchestra” presented by Chicks on Speed in Switzerland and Sweden in March 2010. She’s reinterpreted the stories of Snow White (2006–2008), George and Martha Washington (in The Bagwell in Me [2008–2009]), and, now, Cinderella.
Ann Liv Young presents Cinderella
Ann Liv Young’s Cinderella is a reinterpretation of the classic fairy tale, inspired by versions as disparate as Disney’s and the macabre Grimm brothers’. It is a one-woman show starring Sherry, Young’s southern wildcat alter ego. Sherry, playing all characters, confronts personality extremes of kindness, helplessness, and wickedness in conjunction with the stereotype she deals with most directly in her own life, the aggressive woman. We watch as Sherry and these storybook characters tackle decisions together and learn from one another. What unlikely similarities will we find? Why does one tend to prefer the demure Cinderella over the bold and assertive Sherry? Ultimately, Sherry critiques male authorship which created one-dimensional female characters (Cinderella, the Fairy Godmother, the wicked Stepmother and Stepsisters) in ways which were pleasing to men. Our version of Cinderella pleases no one.
Photo by Michael A. Guerrero
Ann Liv Young was born on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and has been creating performance work for over eight years. She is one of the youngest artists to be presented at major venues in New York City and Europe, such as P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Brooklyn Museum, The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 122, Judson Church, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Flea Theater, Laban Centre London, Impulstanz, Springdance, The Arches, Tanz Im August, City of Women, Théâtre de la Bastille, Kampnagel, Brute-Wien, Gender Bender and Inkonst, among others. A 2003 graduate of Hollins University’s prestigious dance program, Young has also studied at Laban Centre London. She was featured in Michael Blackwood’s documentary New York Dance: States of Performance (2010). Ann Liv performed “Sherry” in “Girl Monster Orchestra” presented by Chicks on Speed in Switzerland and Sweden in March 2010. She’s reinterpreted the stories of Snow White (2006–2008), George and Martha Washington (in The Bagwell in Me [2008–2009]), and, now, Cinderella.
Alessandro Bosetti & Asimina Chremos + Bryan Eubanks, Birgit Ulher & Forbes Graham + Jack Wright
Alessandro Bosetti – voice, electronics, compositions.
Asimina Chremos – dance
For the first time astonishing chicago dancer Chremos will be meeting Bosetti’s speech loop compositions. Based on speech rhythms and prosodic profiles those pieces develop over longer durations and feature extremely rhythmical although never regular structures. Materials are all derived from speech and prosody and from Bosetti’s unconventional writing. There is evidence that this is highly danceable irregular music. You cant count language on a regular beat, it flows, kicks and shakes in your head when you learn those tunes. Still, in the practice of this music the body has already started moving, restless, thoughtful, precise. An highly awaited meeting.
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Bryan Eubanks – electronics
Birgit Ulher – trumpet
Forbes Graham – trumpet, electronics
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Asimina Chremos – dance
Jack Wright – saxes
Artist bios:
Alessandro Bosetti was born in Milan, Italy in 1973. He is a composer and multidisciplinary artist working on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication, producing text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published recordings. In his work he moves across the line between sound anthropology and composition, often including translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Field research and interviews build the basis for abstract compositions, along with electro-acoustic and acoustic collages, relational strategies, trained and untrained instrumental practices, vocal explorations and digital manipulations. Recent text sound projects include African Feedback (Errant Bodies press), the interactive speaking machine “MaskMirror” (STEIM, Kunstradio.at a.o. ) and his own ensemble Trophies with guitar player Kenta Nagai, vocalist Christian Kesten, and drummers Morten J.Olsen and Ches Smith. Alessandro Bosetti has been touring extensively in europe, USA and Asia and lives in Berlin (Germany).
Solo dancer Asimina Chremos has been described as “nearly ecstatic in her virtuosic athleticism” (Signal to Noise Magazine) and her improvisations as “relentlessly exciting to the eye” (Windy City Times). Her daily dance vlog, CircadianDancer, may be seen on YouTube. She also maintains duo projects microgig, with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and Echo Den, with vocalist Carol Genetti. http://www.asiminachremos.com/
After teaching at Temple University in the 1960s and leaving academia in the early 1970s to engage in radical politics and community organizing, by the late 1970s Jack Wright directed his energies into music. He is one of a very small group of musicians in North America that has played improvised music exclusively since the 1970s. Through years of near constant touring, often performing for audiences in cities and towns where improvised music had never before been heard, he came to be regarded as something of an underground legend. He has deliberately eschewed the conventions and socio-aesthetic limitations of musical careerism to pursue his own vision. Although his de-professionalized approach sets him apart from most musicians at his level of accomplishment, his art has always grown, expanded, and synthesized new information. He is unquestionably an original and virtuosic saxophonist, a master improviser who is deeply lyrical, with humor never far away. Today Wright tours frequently in Europe and North America (and in Japan in 2006), making new musical and human connections, bringing European musicians to the U.S. and bringing musicians everywhere together. His inspiration has provided crucial impetus to hundreds of musicians and has even motivated several people to establish music venues in order to present him and other improvisers (e.g. Baltimore’s High Zero festival). His vast list of collaborators includes some “name” luminaries (William Parker, Axel Dorner, Michel Doneda, Andrea Neumann, Denman Maroney, Bhob Rainey to name a few) but more significant are the many obscure greats he has played with. He has made over 40 recordings (many published on his own Spring Garden label), performed in over 20 countries, and written extensively and insightfully about music and society for journals such as Improjazz (France) and Signal to Noise (US), as well as his own website. http://www.springgardenmusic.com/
Born 1961 in Nuremberg, Birgit Ulher studied the visual arts, which still have an important influence on her music. Since moving to Hamburg in 1982 she has been involved in free improvisation and experimental music. Since then she has “established a distinguished grammar of sounds beyond the open trumpet” (jazzdimensions.de). She performs solo, with dancers, working ensembles, and one-time collaborations with musicians from around the world. She has been organising the festival of improvised music Real Time Music Meeting for over ten years. http://www.birgit-ulher.de/
Forbes Graham is a composer, trumpet player, and electronic musician currently based in the Boston area. he has appeared on over 30 recordings, including studio appearances on such labels as Metal Blade, Tzadik, and Troubleman. Forbes has performed and recorded with a very diverse group of artists, including Erase Errata, Steve lantner, Daughters, Raqib Hassan, Jim Hobbs, The One Am Radio, and Luther Gray. His composition “Variations on the Fibonacci Sequence” was commissioned by the Greenwall Foundation and world premiered at the 2007 Festival of New Trumpet. Forbes has also written music for the new music/rock ensemble Normal Love. He has appeared at numerous festivals including High Zero and The Wire’s Adventures in Modern Music. His work incorporates many genres including drum n’bass, jazz, contemporary classical, noise, and hip-hop. http://www.polyrhythmatics.net/
Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977, Pasco, WA.) is focused on collaborative improvisation, solo musical projects, and sound installations. He has performed his work in live settings across the US, Europe, Japan, and Korea. Originally a saxophonist, his work has expanded to include computer music and instruments of his own design that incorporate open-circuits, samplers, and other electronics. For the past few years he has been working closely with Andrew Lafkas in a variety of settings: realizing ensemble music, performance/installations, a trio with drummer Todd Capp, and an ongoing electro-acoustic duo. He became musically active in the late 90′s in Portland, Oregon as a performer and organizer and worked extensively with Joe Foster, Jean-Paul Jenkins, Leif Sundstrom, Doug Theriault, GOD, Super Unity, and many others. Since 2005 he has lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY.www.rasbliutto.net/bryaneubanks
Jason Lescalleet + Sean Meehan + Pauline Monin
Please note: Doors @ 8:30 show starts at 9
Jason Lescalleet + Sean Meehan
Sean Meehan became musically active in the late 80′s at the amica bunker series for improvised music which was then housed at the Anarchist Switchboard and later ABC No Rio in New York City. Meehan primarily plays the snare drum in a manner that eschews the instrument’s tradition.The New York Times has called him “the Frankie Lymon of the snare drum.” He will be returning to Issue Project Room February 20 to perform his drumkit duo with Matt Heyner.
Jason Lescalleet + Pauline Monin
Jason Lescalleet (Berwick, Maine) and Pauline Monin (Lyon, France) are exploring the relationships between the way that sound impacts space and how the body can interpret this for visual stimuli. Jason will be premiering two new compositions of electro-acoustic music this evening, one of which will be accompanied by Pauline Monin’s extended techniques in body movement.
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.
POETRY TO THE INFINITIVE POWER(S)
Join us for an evening in celebration of ISSUE Project Room featuring dozens of literature’s finest poets followed by a bacchanalian celebration and performance by These Are Powers.
Proceeds will benefit ISSUE Project Room’s move to 110 Livingston.
At 7pm — The Way of the Word
Poetry Extravaganza curated by Bob Holman, Suzanne Fiol, and Kenneth Goldsmith
featuring the amazing poets:
Bob Holman
Ken Goldmith
Jonas Mekas
Anne Waldman
Judith Malina
Abiodoun Oyewole (of the Last Poets)
Hettie Jones
Jeff Wright
Esther K. Smith
Georgia Luna Faust
Michael Carter
Kathy Engel
Kimiko Hahn
Beau Sia
Holly Anderson
Max Blagg
Frank Lima
Betsey Andrews
Mike Topp
Steve Dalachinsky
Yuko Otumo
and the FLARF POETS:
Gary Sullivan
Sharon Mesmer
Drew Gardner
Katie Degentesh
Jordan Davis
Brandon Downing
Nada Gordon
At 9:00pm — These Are Powers Dance Party
Live performance by These Are Powers with debut screening of their new music video for “Candyman”, featuring the new single off of their forthcoming release with RVNG Intl. Filmed at ISSUE’s future home, the Beaux-Arts 110 Livingston, “Candyman” is a surrealist dinner party where every course served consists entirely of sugar and the guests overindulge in an alternately comedic and nightmarish story. Conceptualized by These Are Powers and director Joseph Krings, the video was produced by a team assembled by Knowmore resulting in a bizarre, fun and colorful video that makes a perfect companion piece to an already infectious song.
TAP’s live performance will feature live AV projections by SECRET PROJECT ROBOT and will be followed by DJ sets by Ryan Sawyer, and Matthew Radune and Jeremy Campbell. Opening the event, immediately after the way of the word, is the duo Lone Wolf and Cub (drummer Ryan Sawyer and trapeze artist Suzanne Rogalsky).
About the TAP Dance Party artists:
These Are Powers
These Are Powers take the familiar and channel it back from the future primitive. We are a language all our own. It is club beats played live, found sounds, pulses, blips, collage, oscillations, electronic watercolor, decay, regeneration and every vibration in between. Whatever it sounds like is not what you think. Look twice. These Are Powers hail from the dual ports of Brooklyn, NY and Chicago, IL.
We are Anna Barie (sings, electronics), Pat Noecker (prepared bass, sings), and Bill Salas (electroacoustic drums, sings). We create movement in freedom, infinity in possibility.
Secret Project Robot
http://www.secretprojectrobot.org/
Secret Project Robot: Art Experiment is a not for profit dedicated to the documentation and proliferation of contemporary art and current cultural trends in music, performance, dance, the party and social theory.
Lone Wolf and Cub
http://www.myspace.com/ryanlonewolfsawyer
Listen to Bob Holman perform his Spoken Word Poem “Walking Brooklyn Bridge” for the Urbana 10th Anniversary party at the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC Oct 2007
Share – all night free open audio & video jam – featured guests @ 10:30PM Chen + Yassin + Carey + Olsen
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 feature guest will play @ 10:30PM: The set will happen immediately following Issue Project Room’s ‘Jandek’ concert taking place at the (OA) Can Factory’s courtyard.
A rare meeting of the three from three points of the world:
Audrey Chen (cello/voice) Baltimore
Raed Yassin (acoustic bass) Beirut/Amsterdam
Jeff Carey (live electronics) Odenton
Morten J Olsen (percussion) Norway/Berlin
Audrey Chen (cello/voice)
http://myspace.com/audreychen
jeff carey (electronics)
http://jeffcarey.foundation-one.org
Raed Yassin (acoustic bass)
http://myspace.com/raedyassin
Morten J Olsen (percussion)
http://www.myspace.com/themoha
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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
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=600
Share – all night A/V open 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 11215
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=579
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
Stephan Moore and John King present Music of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
8:00 pre-concert talk regarding Music and Dance, the work of John Cage, David Tudor and the current musical practice of the MCDC
8:30 concert featuring Music for a MinEvent, Blues99, composed by John King, for two performers (commissioned by MCDC for the dance “CRWDSPCR”).
Stephan Moore is a composer, performer, audio artist, and sound designer in New York City. His creative work centers around the collection and use of real-world sound, the creation and perception of sonic environments, and technological manifestations of improvisation and interactivity. Many of his performances and installation artworks make use of large, multi-channel arrays of his Hemisphere speakers. He performs regularly with Scott Smallwood in the electronic duo Evidence, and with a variety of musicians, live-video artists, and dancers. He has created custom music software for a number of composers and artists, and has taught college-level courses in composition, sound art and electronic music at several schools. He is currently the Sound Engineer and Music Coordinator of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and one of its core musicians.
JOHN KING, composer and guitarist, has had his music presented in many major festivals, including the tba/Time-Based Arts Festival (Portland, OR); Fronteras Festival (London); Next Wave Festival (NY); Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival (Hamburg); Intermedium 1 Festival (Berlin); Creative Time’s “Music in the Anchorage” (NY); Warsaw Autumn and Bang On A Can (NY). Mr. King’s experimental opera, “La Belle Captive”, based on texts by Alain Robbe-Grillet, was premiered in Buenos Aires at the Centro Experimental de Teatro Colon in April 2003, receiving further performances in London and NYC.
He has had many working bands over the years, including ELECTRIC WORLD (with Abe Speller and Jean Chaine), VIBROVERB (with Nioka Workman and Michael Wimberly), and KING KORTETTE (Jonathan Kane, Nicki Parrott and Christopher McIntyre), all blues/funk/jazz based. He plays lead guitar with the avant-blues group Deep Blue Sea, led by French avant-noise guitarist Jean-Francois Pauvros and art rock drummer extraordinaire Jonathan Kane; and also performed with : William Parker’s “Little Huey Creative Orchestra”, Butch Morris’ “Conduction #115 E-Mission”; Guy Klucevsek’s “Ain’t Nothin’ But A Polka” band; and Rhys Chatham’s 6-guitar band.
His commissions and collaborations include those for the Kronos Quartet; Red {an orchestra}, Ethel; the Albany Symphony/”Dogs of Desire”, Bang On A Can All-Stars; Mannheim Ballet; the Royal Danish Ballet; New York City Ballet/Diamond Project, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballets de Monte Carlo; SüdWestRundfunk (Baden-Baden), Pennsylvania Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He has written music for the Clussgarten Theater in Ludwigsburg, Germany (Shakespeare’s “Tempest”, Goethe’s “Faust” and Hesse’s “Steppenwolf”) as well as Target Margin, in NYC and the Children’s Theater Company, in Mpls., MN.
He has received grants from the NEA/Music in Motion, New York State Council on the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Meet The Composer/Readers Digest Dance Commissioning Program, Minnesota Composers Forum, the Fund for US Artists at International Festivals, and New York Foundation for the Arts.
Mr. King curated the music for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s EVENTS at the Joyce Theater and at The Barbican Center in London. He was Music Curator at The Kitchen from 1999-2003 and is currently a co-director of the Music Committee at MCDC.
His radioplay “TORN/zerrisen” was commissioned by SüdWestRundfunk radio, Baden-Baden, Germany. His music can also be heard on HBO promoting the series “Deadwood”.
Share – Timo Daum (FUSS!) presents Ambientador & featured guest Christophe Devaux
what is share?
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 in New York City at the Issue Project Room (through December), from 8 to Midnight.
open jams and walk-in sets
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 —
>> 8:30PM: Timo Daum (FUSS!) presents Ambientador (A/V sequencer) at 20:30!
“Ambientador” is an audio-visual sequencer, based on the natural form to represent a loop: the circle. A rotating beam activates sounds and visuals represented by circular arcs. It allows to create audio-visuals with great ease and freedom. The metaphor of representing the sequencing allows users (artists) and spectators (audience) to follow the structure of the composition and the principle of playback during the creative process.
Ambientador is flash based, works online and offline, PC or MAC, and is free of charge. Feel free to download your Ambientador from our website http://www.fuss.cc .
showreel: www.fuss.cc/showreel/showreel.swf
>> 9:30PM: Christophe Devaux
I play guitar solo improvisations. The sound can be discribe as minimalist buitist forms improvisations. I made music since a long time now and I play in two bands : absinthe (provisoire) and sap(e). With this projects I made a lot of albums and gigs in France and others countries. I work for teatre and dance pieces too in France since 4-5 years.
my url : www.myspace.com/christophedevaux
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For more info please visit:
http://issueprojectroom.org/
http://share.dj
Matthew Welch
Matthew Welch
The music of Matthew Welch (b.1976) stems from a remarkably multi-faceted foundation. Matthew holds two university degrees in Experimental Music Composition, a BFA from Simon Fraser University (1999), and an MA form Wesleyan University (2001), studying with noted composers such as Barry Truax, Rodney Sharman, Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton. His compositions range from traditional-like bagpipe tunes to electronic pieces, improvisation strategies and fully notated works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles and orchestra. He has also taken part in a number of compositional collaborations with Indonesian Gamelan composer-performers in Bali and Java, performed in free improvisation contexts with numerable New York City improvisors, and played with art rockers in the Brooklyn underground. As a virtuoso of the Highland Bagpipe, he studied traditional music with Gold Medalist masters such as Colin MacLellan, Jack Lee, Angus MacLellan and Andrew Wright. Matthew also was a member of the four – time World Champion Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, winning with them in 1999 and 2001. As an ambassador for the instrument, Matthew has premiered a number of new compositions written for bagpipes by contemporary composers. This involvement with a more diverse musical context has led him into an expansion of his instrumental array to include alternative bagpipe configurations, accordion and various saxophones. Indonesian Gamelan percussion music, both Javanese and more recently, Balinese, have been another focus of Matthew’s, which he has pursued throughout his academic career, with the New York Indonesian Consulate gamelans, and in Bali. Matthew appears on Anthony Braxton’s 10 [Solo Bagpipe] Compositions, 2000, and a few compact discs of his own music, Ceol Nua (Leo 336, 2002) highlighting orchestral and chamber works, Hag at the Churn (Newsonic 33, 2003), a collection of electronic concoctions and Dream Tigers (on John Zorn’s Tzadik Records’ Composer Series 8015, 2005) a program of ecstatic chamber music featuring his critically acclaimed string quartet, Siubhal Turnlar. His compositions for Balinese Gamelan Semara Dana are featured in his multi-media collaboration with Ikue Mori known as Bhima Swarga (Tzadik DVD edition 3007, 2007). The eclectic breadth of his interests in Celtic music, gamelan, minimalism, improvisation and rock also converge in compositional amalgams for his New York based ensemble, Blarvuster. ……”The Brooklyn-based composer leaps vast geographical distances, imagining statistically implausible musical melting pots that sound utterly natural…a composer possessed of both rich imagination and the skill to bring his fancies to life” – TimeOut NY “some serious bagpipe wizardry…as far as I can tell, Matt Welch must be the Eddie Van Halen of the bagpipes.” – Pop Matters
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 ...
ISSUE is starting off the New Year with a change of scenery. That's right, Issue Project Room is moving out of our space at the Old American Can Factory and into 110 Livingston in Downtown Brooklyn. We've had a great run at the Can Factory,...
