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Brain Avatar Concert & Resonance Experiment November 1st - 9PM Musicians in Hang Zhou, Bangkok, Durban, Brussels, New York, and Braunschweig will each begin a solo concert, transmitting the music real-time to each city. During the concerts, brain activities of each musician will be recorded by the "Brain Avatar" which, created by Martin Schoene, is the first analogue visualization of real-time brain activity. The brainwaves, in their direct form as sound are projected as resonance in water and light. Emerging shapes and processes allow for visualization of mental states and movement of thought. Tonights performers will be Mario Diaz de Leon, Doron Sadja, and Zeljko McMullen. November 2nd - 7PM FREE In the second part of this world concert, the musicians will play together in realtime. Their brainwaves are connected - a "Global Avatar" is composed from six solo Avatars.
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| November 3rd | |||
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Joan La Barbara New excerpts from "Shimmer", an opera in-progress, composed and performed by Joan La Barbara. Featuring video by Kurt Ralske Live taping for Roulette TV JOAN LA BARBARA's career as a composer/performer/sound artist has been devoted to exploring the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument, going far beyond traditional boundaries, creating works for multiple voices, chamber ensembles, music theater, orchestra and interactive technology. As an acknowledged pioneer in the field of contemporary classical music and soundart, she developed a unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques, including multiphonics (the simultaneous sounding of two or more pitches), circular singing, ululation and glottal clicks that have become her "signature" sounds.
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| November 4th | |||
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Blue Gene Tyranny Time-Transposing Pianist Live taping for Roulette TV "Blue" Gene Tyranny, composer and pianist of avant garde music, has toured extensively in solo and group concerts throughout the U.S., Europe, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. He also played in teenage rock bands and for a gospel church. He has composed over fifty works for electronic, instrumental and vocal ensembles, over thirty film and video soundtracks, and fifty scores for dance and theatre productions. He has performed on many albums and performed with such diverse performer-composers as Robert Ashley, Peter Gordon, Laurie Andersen, John Cage, Leroy Jenkins, David Behrman, Brenda Hutchinson, Jon Gibson, William Duckworth (The Cathedral Band), Phil Perkins, Ben Manley, Carla Bley, Iggy Pop, Lise Vachon and many others. He has published articles including the 20th Century Avant-Garde section of the recent All-Music Guide (Miller-Freeman, 1993, 1995, 1997).
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| November 5th | |||
Adam Rudolph/Organic Orchestra (Also November 19th and 26th) Composer and Artistic Director Adam Rudolph has constructed music using innovative and experimental means without the use of western music notation. Rudolph will conduct the woodwind players through music/letter grids, language themes, Indian Ragas and song forms to create the moods, movement and sonic gestures. Go: Organic Orchestra is an ensemble (with both Los Angeles and New York based groups) and a conducting/performance concept that can be taught and peformed anywhere. The musicians listed below will be appearing in performance with Go: Organic Orchestra on one or all of the Monday evening concerts. Additional musicians will be performing: the exact line-up and instrumentation will be determined the night of the performance. Graham Haynes. Martin Loyato, Stephen Haynes – Trumpet and Cornet
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| November 8th | |||
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Interpretations: Maria de Alvear / Gavin Bryars (8pm) Eve Egoyan, Piano This evening marks the release of two new recordings on the Mode Records label, Asking for piano solo by Maria de Alvear and The Marvelous Aphorisms of Gavin Bryars: The Early Years, a collection of early experimental works by Gavin Bryars. The acclaimed Toronto-based pianist Eve Egoyan, for whom Asking was written, will perform the work in its entirety, and an ensemble led by the Berlin-based duo of Seth Josel (electric guitar) and Ulrich Krieger (saxophones) will perform selections from the Bryars CD.
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An Evening of Microtonal Music With Christine Perea and Matt Marks8:00pm Curated by composer Julie Harting, this evening is the first concert in a two-concert mini-series of microtonal music that explores the question: What is microtonal music? A simple definition is music that uses pitches outside the 12 equal-note division of the octave found on the piano. Or, as Charles Ives said, music that uses "the notes between the cracks" of the piano. Today, the many varieties of microtonal music include quartertones, natural harmonics, just intonation, electroacoustic music, pitch-bending and spectral music. This two-concert series surveys this vast range of contemporary microtonal music. In tonight's concert, Christine Perea and Matt Marks perform the music of György Ligeti, Giacinto Scelsi, Julie Harting, George Brunner, Ned McGowan and Matt Marks. Brunner will be on hand to "perform" at the computer for his interactive piece for flute and computer entitled The Last Flash of Light Before the Beginning . Soprano Mellisa Hughes and members of Alarm Will Sound and the Jack Quartet will join Marks in a performance of Scelsi's rarely heard Khoom . Christine Perea (flutes) specializes in New Music, particularly electro-acoustic, avant-garde repertoire and free improvisation. In a recent review in the New Music Connoisseur , John de Clef Piñeiro described her performance as "sensitively executed" and "beautifully performed." She performs extensively in the New York area presenting contemporary repertoire at Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie, Alice Tully Hall, the Knitting Factory, the Flux Factory, Tonic and Galapagos. Matt Marks (horn/composer) has been a significant presence in the New York City contemporary and experimental music scene since his debut in 2002 performing the New York premiere of Ligeti's Hamburg Concerto for solo horn at Miller Theater. Last season Marks made his solo horn debut at Carnegie Hall performing Stefan Freund's Paper Trail. As a composer Matt has performed original music at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and clubs throughout New York City. Julie Harting (composer), DMA Columbia University, has been composing music since the early 1980s. Her body of compositions is diverse, demonstrating ample skill and talent in a comprehensive array of musical forms that include orchestral pieces, string quartets, songs, solo pieces and various chamber ensemble pieces. She has curated concerts at Cornelia Street Café, Poet's House, South Oxford Space and other venues. Her works have been performed throughout New York City.
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| November 10th | |||
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Ellen Fisher 3-6pm TIME'S UP......Scenes 1-12 Ellen Fisher performs a 3 hour dance / installation work with 12 fifteen minute music segments chosen by various artists. These artists include: Dick Connette- musician/ composer Fisher will dance for 3 hours using simple props, costumes and visual projections, supported by individually chosen music / sound segments for this project. These combined elements will enhance and contribute to Fisher's unique performance style. The audience is free to come and go within the 3 hour dance/ installation or perhaps stay and experience the enduring transformative powers of music and dance. Ellen Fisher is a performance artist whose work combines gestural actions with visual components such as film, shadow play, objects and puppets. She began performing with Meredith Monk/The House in the ‘70’s, in such works as “The Plateau Series” and “Recent Ruins,” and more recently has appeared in “mercy” and “impermanence.” Fisher’s performance work is informed by ethnographic research in trance dance and rituals of South Asia, particularly Sri Lanka. Since 1981, she has toured solo work throughout Europe and the U.S., also directing large ensemble work reinterpreting myths and legends. Her film work, including documentaries, has been included in festivals throughout the world. She has received funding through the NEA, Art Matters Inc., Jerome Foundation, NYFA and the Asian Cultural Council, winning a 2004 Humanities Fellowship and a 2005 Travel Grant. Fisher continues to teach and collaborate with artists on community intergenerational and intercultural projects, both domestically and internationally.
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| November 11th | |||
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Wayne Horvitz w/ Gravitas Quartet Wayne Horvitz (piano), Peggy Lee (cello), Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon), Ron Miles (trumpet) Bringing together four uniquely defined voices of new-music, jazz, and improvised composition, Gravitas Quartet explores the depths of texture, sonority, rhythm, and esnsemble fluidity available to masters with a broad palette. All individually haled as forerunners of modern music - each journeying from their vast musical backgrounds to redefine the sonic landscape. Gravitas Quartet has recorded and released its first CD, Way Out East Songlines (June 2006) Wayne Horvitz is a composer, pianist and electronic musician who has performed extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. He is the leader of Zony Mash, Pigpen, The Four plus One Ensemble and co-founder of the New York Composers Orchestra. He has performed and collaborated with Bill Frisell, Butch Morris, John Zorn, Robin Holcomb, Fred Frith, Julian Priester, Philip Wilson, Michael Shrieve and Carla Bley among others. He has been commissioned by the NEA, Meet The Composer, Kronos String Quartet, Seattle Chamber Players, Mary Flagler, BAM, Earshot Jazz, and others. Collaborations with choreographers include work with Paul Taylor with the White Oak Dance Project, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and Crispin Spaeth. Film work includes music and sound design for 3 PBS specials and Gus Van Sandt's Psycho. He is the year 2001 recipient of the Artist Trust Fellowship (Seattle) and the 2002 recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation MAP Grant. Since moving to Vancouver in 1989, Toronto born cellist Peggy Lee has become a major voice in the creative music community. Current projects include her own sextet, the Peggy Lee Band, Ron Samworth's Talking Pictures, the Tony Wilson Sextet, New Orchestra Workshop, Dave Douglas's Mountain Passagess and the new music ensemble Standing Wave. Peggy's work has been documented on 3 cds with the Peggy Lee Band (Spool Records) and on many other recordings including a duo with Carlos Zingaro (Hatology), a trio with Michael Moore and Dylan van der Schyff (Spool), another trio with vand der Schyff and pianisst John Wolf Brennan (Leo), and a quartet with Dave Douglas, Louis Sclavis, and Dylan van der Schyff (Premonition). Sarah Schoenbeck , bassoonist, is dedicate to expanding the sound and role of the bassoon in the worlds of contemporary notated and improvised music. The Wire magazine places her in the "tiny club of bassoon pioneers" at work in contemporary music today. Sara has performed with Yusef Lateef, Anthony Braxton, Leo Smith, Miya Masaoka, Gino Robair, Fred Frith, John Butcher, Mark Dresser, Pauline Oliveros, and Nels Cline among many others. She is currently a member of Vinny Golia's Large Orchestra. Sara has performed in jazz orchestras backing Stevie Wonder, Diane Reeves and under the baton of Quincy Jones. She has recorded for television and Major motion pictures, including the Matrix Trilogy, Dahmer and Spanglish, and has performed throughout North America and Europe at a variety of major festivals. Denver trumpeter Ron Miles' resume includes time with Bill Frisell, Don Bryon, the Ellington Orchestra, and Fred Hess' Boulder Creative Music Ensemble. Besides being solicited all over the world for his unique sound, Ron is a staple of the Denver jazz scene and his recent releases as band leader show off his skills as a composer and arranger as well as a "phenomenally gifted trumpeter" (Bill Milkowski). Ron Miles was widely recognized as a musical director and arranger with the release of Ginger Baker's Coward of the County (Atlantic 1999). His compositions anchor that record and highlight the varied influences from which Ron draws inspiration. Hailed as an inventive composer and gifted trumpeter on his solo releases, Ron cruised through the 1990s with a series of well received releases on Gramamvision (My Cruel Heart, Woman's Day) and Capri (Witness, Ron Miles Trio). |
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Irene Schweitzer Irène Schweizer's interest in music was particularly sparked by the dancebands she heard in her father's restaurant and by the opportunity to investigate the various instruments that had been left lying around. From around the age of twelve she began to experiment with early jazz styles on the piano and then at fourteen started to play the drums. Three years later she was beginning to move to 'modern jazz' and in 1960 the group that she was in entered an amateur festival in Zurich. In 1961/62 she worked as an au pair in England and also took piano lessons, particularly with the blind pianist Eddie Thompson from who she learned styles from stride to bebop. At this time she was playing hard bop and soul jazz similar to the music of Horace Silver. On her return to Switzerland, she formed a trio with drummer Mani Neumeier and Uli Trepte and, through the exposure at the African Jazz Cafe in Zurich to South African players such as Dollar Brand, Louis Moholo, Johnny Dyani and others, and listening to free jazz - particularly Ornette Coleman's Free jazz - the music gradually took on a new twist. As she told Hale (1997), 'In 1966 we were invited to the Frankfurt Jazz Festival and we started to get known outside Switzerland. We also started to hear musicians like Peter Kowald, and Peter Brötzmann and the sounds of Berlin's Total Music Meeting. After a while we got tired of playing changes and rhythm. One day when we were rehearsing, something changed. We didn't really know how it happened; we just left all these systems behind'. Gustafsson (n.d.) reports that from around the same time Schweizer had been very influenced by Cecil Taylor but that once she heard him live, in 1966, she seriously considered giving up the piano as there was nowhere left to go. Instead, she combined this disappointment with her knowledge of jazz styles and particularly her search for her own creativity, her own style, into a music that developed in a very individual way. As the only woman around at the time she also felt, on occasions, pushed to play more aggressively than she otherwise might have done. From 1968 to 1970 she formed a trio with Pierre Favre and Peter Kowald and after a time Evan Parker joined to make it a quartet. Her performances as a solo pianist began with an appearance at the Willisau Jazz Festival in 1976, and by this time she had also formed her long-standing partnership with Rudiger Carl begun in 1973 and continuing, through a variety of guises, to the present day. Over the years, Irène Schweizer has seemed particularly attracted to perform with percussionists and, on record, there are duos with Han Bennink, Andrew Cyrille, Pierre Favre, Louis Moholo, Mani Neumeier, and Günter Sommer. In the late 1970s Schweizer joined the Feminist Improvising Group whose members already included Lindsay Cooper, Maggie Nichols and Sally Potter. In 1983 FIG evolved into the European Women's Improvising Group: 'The name Feminist Improvising Group was chosen because we were all so involved in the women's movement, but in the '80s people began to criticise the name and say it was too political... So we renamed it to make it more international and open. The initials EWIG mean eternal in German' (Hale, 1997). Arising from this an intermittently performing group, Les Diaboliques with Joelle Leandre and Maggie Nichols was formed in the early 1990s. Schweizer was a founding member of the Taktlos Festival and one of the organisers of the Canaille festivals (see, for example, Canaille and Canaille 91). She is also one of the partners in Intakt Records.
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Interpretations: 40+ year Celebration of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College (8pm) Works by Robert Ashley, Maggi Payne, John Bischoff, James Fei, David Behrman, Chris Brown and Pauline Oliveros. The Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College in Oakland, California was established in 1966 when the San Francisco Tape Center moved there. Since then, for over forty years, the CCM has been an oasis for experimental music in the U.S., and has strongly influenced the history of electronic music. This concert celebrates this legacy with performances of new music by four composers who work there now, and three who have worked there in the past.
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Jin Hi Kim Digital Buddha Conceived by Jin Hi Kim
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Cyrus Pireh - Roulette Children's Concert Composer, performer, and instructor, Cyrus Pireh will give a children's concert November 17th at Cyrus Pireh was born in 1981 in Hoffman Estates, IL. Sensitive to sound from a young age, he Cyrus Pireh records music and creates electronics for 4GRE http://4GRE.ORG
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Anna Clyne ELEMENTARY ELECTRICITY Four world premieres by Anna Clyne with performances by Electric Kompany, ETHEL, janus trio, The Curly Wurlies and live visuals by Joshue Ott/Superdraw. Roulette Emerging Artist Commission London-born Anna Clyne is a composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music. Her work, which includes collaborative projects with cutting-edge choreographers, film-makers, visual artists and musicians, has been commissioned and performed throughout the US and internationally. Recent honors include commissions from Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Roulette/Jerome Foundation, awards from ASCAP and SEAMUS, performances by the American Composers Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra and a residency with the Los Angeles-based Hysterica Dance Company. Anna Clyne holds a first-class Bachelor of Music degree with honors from Edinburgh University and a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music. She currently resides in New York. Tonights program includes:
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Marco Cappelli w/ Eclipse String Quartet BOCCHERINI'S WORST NIGHTMARE Sara Parkins, Sarah Thornblade - violins Eclipse quartet and Marco Cappelli met a year go, starting a collaboration
with the goal to expand the sound of a quintessential classical
combination, string quartet and guitar. Starting from the root of the classical repertoire (Boccherini's Quintets),
they work together commissioning and premiering works of contemporary
composers, opening the quintet sound to the use of amplified sound and
electronic. Tonight's program, being entirely acoustic, shows new works by Elliott
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| November 19th | |||
Adam Rudolph/Organic Orchestra (Also November 6th and 26th) See November 6th for Description.
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Adam Rudolph/Organic Orchestra (Also November 6th and 19th) See November 6th for Description.
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Sawako Kato ishi ~ listening stone This work is commissioned by Roulette with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation. Sawako is a sound sculptor and timeline-based artist who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. Once through the processor named Sawako, fragments in everyday life float in space vividly with a digital yet organic texture. Her unique world has been called “post romantic sound” by Boston’s Weekly Dig.
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Jacques Bekaert Jenny Lin, piano Born in Belgium in May 1940, Jacques Bekaert is well known as both a composer and a journalist. As a journalist he covered American politics, before moving to Southeast Asia in 1979. He worked for the BBC, le Monde, and wrote a weekly column for The Bangkok Post (1983-1993). Some of these columns have been published in two volumes under the title "Cambodian Diary". Since 1993 he has worked as a diplomat, posted in Cambodia. As a composer, Bekaert studied with Henri Pousseur and worked or performed with the Sonic Arts Union, John Cage, the Merce Cunningham Dance Co, George Lewis, Rae Imamura, Transition (with Takehisa Kosugi) and Tom Buckner. He has composed the music for two short films by Akiko Iimura. Several of his compositions have been published by Lovely Music. His photographic and graphic works have been exhibited in the USA, Vietnam and Belgium .
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