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ImproTech Paris-New York 2012
ImproTech Paris-New York 2012 : Improvisation & Technology May 16-18 The ImproTech Paris – NYC 2012 workshop is dedicated to the exploration of the links between musical improvisation and digital technologies. Gathering researchers and artists from both research & creation scenes, it favors the idea of using digital intelligence as a source of continuous and sophisticated creation, in a complex interaction with live musicians, as opposed to mere decorative digital effects. Distributed over 3 sites (Roulette, NYU, Columbia) the event combines concerts, presentations, demos and workshops and features such great artists as Roscoe Mitchell, Steve Coleman, George Lewis, Geri Allen, Bernard Lubat, Margaret Lancaster, Steve Lehman, Vijay Iyer, Mari Kimura, Esther Lamneck, Raphael Imbert, Lori Freedman, Brice Martin, Laurent Mariusse, Sylvain Roux, Les Emeudroïdes and many others The event will take place in New York City in 2012, during the 3d week of May (16th-18th) and will consist of conferences, demos, workshops, and performances. An opening concert will take place at Roulette on May 16 evening. More information / Plus d’information : |
Ghost in the Instrument
Ghost in the Instrument A festival exploring trends in music for instrumentalists and computers from Boulez to the next generation. Featuring lectures, music & dance performances, installations, workshops and demos by musicians, composers and artists from Columbia and around the world. All FREE! |
“Just Trial and Error” post-screening conversation
RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART presents “Just Trial and Error” at BRAINWAVE Artist Douglas Irving Repetto and cognitive scientist Scott Barry Kaufman have a conversation on consciousness following a screening of “Just Trial and Error” Now in its fifth year, Brainwave brings people from diverse walks of life together to engage with neuroscientists in one-on-one conversations in order to better understand the workings of our minds. In this new film, filmmaker Alex Gabbay invites sculptor Antony Gormley, eminent neuroscientists Brian Butterworth and Beau Lotto, and internet entrepreneur Twain Luu – who has made study of the ‘global brain’– to explore consciousness, its meaning and how it affects their area of work. Wednesday, February 22 at 7pm 150 WEST 17TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY |
Daniel Iglesia @ Teachers College
Composer, performer, programmer, and CMC Alum Daniel Iglesia (www.danieliglesia.com) will give a talk on his work with art and technology. He will present some recent works, and discuss his past curricula (teaching at Columbia, Pratt, and Princeton, where he co-led the Princeton Laptop Orchestra) and his views on programming as an artistic skill and foundation of an art curriculum. Teachers College, Gottseman Library, 305 Russell Hall |
Christopher Trapani Curates INTERVAL 5.3
BEAUBOURG TO BROOKLYN: ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC MUSIC FROM PARIS Composer CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI curates a March 8th performance as part of MATA’s INTERVAL concert series, joining such esteemed former curators as SO Percussion, Mario Diaz de Leon, Jennifer Walshe, and Zach Layton. Held at 8:00 p.m. at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, the concert will feature six works for solo instruments plus live electronics by composers from four continents—all of whom crossed paths while working at IRCAM in Paris during the last five years. Three soloists will interact with live electronics in real time, with the computer sending transformed sounds and samples to a spatialized speaker setup —four speakers in the corners of Issue Project Room’s stellar new venue—so that the sound literally envelops the audience. Australian composer Paul Clift’s Boundary Markers journeys inside the timbre of a bass clarinet. Andrea Agostini from Bologna, Italy encircles a solo baritone sax with a massive canvas of shifting textures in Gli atorni che s’accendevano e radiavano. From Colombia, Juan Camilo Hernandez Sanchez experiments with live transformation of intricate extended techniques for saxophone in Introspecciones Móviles. Irish composer Ann Cleare’s I am not a clockmaker either is a frenzied, kinetic pastiche for accordion and recorded sounds. New York native Aaron Einbond explores the rich but unstable low multiphonics of a bass clarinet in Temper, while Recession by New Orleans-born composer Christopher Trapani creates a mobile and kaleidoscopic world of changing colors from retuned and spatialized accordion samples. The three featured soloists are virtuoso players, renowned for their interpretations of contemporary repertoire: clarinetist Carol McGonnell, saxophonist Ryan Muncy, and accordionist Bill Schimmel. Five of the six pieces on the program will be receiving their American premieres at this performance. For more info, please visit http://www.matafestival.org MATA INTERVAL 5.3 |
Ensemble Pamplemousse: Birds of a Feather
Over the past 10 years, Ensemble Pamplemousse has created a unique and focused sound world. And like We’re thrilled to be premiering a work that we commissioned from the delectable Juraj Kojs; alongside stupendous recent works by Marek Poliks, Matthew Shlomowitz, Mauricio Rodriguez, Ray Evanoff, and James Weeks. Some of these works resulted from a call for works, and some were pieces that just tickled us pink and we had to share them with you. All are wonderful in their own unique, strange, and beautiful way. Friday February 17, 2012 |
Manuel De Landa lecture
THE CENTER OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND THE COMPUTER MUSIC CENTER PRESENT: “SIMULATIONS IN MUSIC” AN OPEN LECTURE BY MANUEL DE LANDA Thursday, February 9th 2012 |
Bryan Jacobs @ The Stone
Bryan Jacobs at the Stone Bryan Jacobs plays four of his own compositions for electric guitar and electronics. Wed., January 25th, 10PM || $5 |
American Idols – an installation by Sam Pluta for 4 electric guitars and many televisions
February 9 – February 11 AC Institute Special Event: Friday, February 10 at 8pm Architeuthis Walks on Land Sonic Overload |
Ensemble Pamplemousse: RAANNA JEDAKU on Carrier Records
Ensemble Pamplemousse is releasing RAANNA JEDAKU on Carrier Records. This double album is a collection of works by the members of Pamplemousse: Rama Gottfried, Andrew Greenwald, Natacha Diels, Jessie Marino, David Broome, and Kiku Enomoto. On December 17, join us for a celebratory concert including performances by Pygmy Jerboa (Maria Stankova and Ivan Naranjo), R WE WHO WE R (Philip White and Ted Hearne), Bryan Jacobs, DJing by Carson Hall, and a special preview of Ensemble Pamplemousse’s upcoming concerts in 2012. Sponsored by GuS (Grown-up Soda) and the Brooklyn Brewery. Admission includes a free CD! Saturday December 17, 8pm http://www.ensemblepamplemousse.org |
CMC profiled in The Record
Nick Obourn wrote a very nice profile of the CMC in this week’s The Record. Here’s an online version, with slideshow: |
SUNDAY NIGHT SOUND PARTY VISUNDAY NIGHT SOUND PARTY VI Sunday, December 11 8PM 9PM 10PM |
Qubit presents: HammerOn/PullOff
Qubit presents what promises to be an eclectic, yet exciting evening of composers playing their own works for electric guitar. Featuring prominent NYC composers such as Geof Holbrook, Bryan Jacobs and Christopher Trapani, as well as two San Diego super stars, flying in especially for the concert: Clint McCallum and Miller Puckette! 33 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, NY 8pm $10 |
Tom Blancarte, Louise D.E. Jensen, Damon HolzbornTom Blancarte, Louise D.E. Jensen, Damon Holzborn |
QUBIT presents: Election Day
QUBIT presents: Election Day Noise Occupation Heather Frasch ///////////////////////////////////////////////////// Noise Occupation is Alec Hall, electric violin & electronics, and Aaron Einbond, electronics. Both with backgrounds as score-based composers, we have come together to develop new contexts for quotidian noise and field recordings in an improvised setting and to develop generative strategies for real-time musical structures. With influences ranging from Berlin’s Echtzeitmusik scene (Andrea Neumann), to environmental sound (Francisco Lopéz), to sound installation (Peter Ablinger), we hope to create a dialogue between real-time experimentation and its feedback (literal and figurative), bringing insight to new score-based works, as well as developing new models of audience-performer-environment interaction. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////// Heather Frasch is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music. Also, she performs frequently as an improviser and experimental flutist, and creates sound installations. Her music has been performed at various festivals such as: The Moscow Autumn Festival, SICMF in Korea, Electroacoustic Listening Room Project, 60×60 project, NYCEMF, SEAMUS, ICMC, Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival, SF Tape Music Festival, among others. She received the George Ladd Prix de Paris in 2008, and Nicol De Lorenzo Prize in Composition in 2010 and 2008. She attended the IRCAM Cursus where she worked with Yan Maresz. She attended the Acanthes Music Festival with Peter Etvos, Akademie Schloss Solitude with Chaya Czernowin and Mark Andre, Wellesely Composer Conference with Mario Davidovsky, and Aspen Music Festival. She has collaborated with and had her music performed by the Surplus Ensemble, Ensemble Sound Gear, and sfSound Group. Heather is a Phd candidate at University of California Berkeley/CNMAT. She holds degrees from Temple University, CNR de Lyon, and University of California, Berkeley. Her principal teachers include: Franck Bedrossian, Edmund Campion, David Wessel, Myra Melford and Erik Ulman. Currently, she resides in Berlin, Germany working as a freelance composer. |
New Release from PGT
On-line release of Wood Lake, work from PGT (featuring Brad Garton and Terry Pender from the CMC with Gregory Taylor of Cycling ’74). Visit Stasisfield.com to download. |
George Lewis and Wet Ink Ensemble / Morton Subotnick and Tony Martin
George Lewis and Wet Ink Ensemble / Presented by Interpretations @Roulette Program: George Lewis – Les Exercices Spirituels (2010) -intermission- Morton Subotnick and Tony Martin |
Max/MSP Expo ’74 “Columbia Night”
Where: CMC (3rd floor Prentis Hall) |
Adán & Repetto @ Extended Play: SONiC Festival
Victor Adán and Douglas Repetto are proud to present their collaborative performance project “Tractus” for chamber ensemble and giant ink dripping machines. Please join us at Miller Theatre on Sunday, October 16th, for the premier performance featuring Talea Ensemble and ink drippers Meaghan Bates, Noelle Bodick, Tali Hinkis, and Nathan Ng Catlin. “Tractus” is a Meet the Composer Commission. Info & pics: http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas/strange_things +++++++ Extended Play: SONiC Festival Sunday, October 16, 2011 Public Transportation http://www.millertheatre.com/Events/EventDetails.aspx?nid=1474 PROGRAM 12:00-3:00 Talea Ensemble JACK Quartet The New York Virtuoso Singers |
Natacha Diels: Uncanny Valley
Uncanny Valley, a monodrama by Natacha Diels, explores the region where robotic human replicas begin to emulate human characteristics too closely, causing revulsion in observers. The monodrama investigates this sometimes-uncomfortable line between automaton and human through the legend of Francine, Descartes’ mechanical daughter. The story pursues the discovery, revulsion, and eventual destruction of this mechanical being; and explores the conflict between machine and human through the interwoven dialogues of Francine and narrator. In addition to the music I wrote, there are also 4 interludes composed by the Bryan Jacobs, Dave Broome, Jessie Marino, and Andrew Greenwald; live video executed by Dan Iglesia; a moment of animation by Kakyoung Lee; narration by George Lewis; text by Dominique Ahkong; all performed by Pamplemousse- Kiku Enomoto, Jessie Marino, Dave Broome- plus Andrew Roitstein, Michael Caterisano, and Matt Donello; conducted by Ted Hearne, starring Maria Stankova. This project was conceived as a fulfillment of the EAC program at Issue Project Room. Admission is free! Uncanny Valley: a monodrama |
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