Biographies and
Program Notes
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Perry
Cook
Daedalus String Quartet
Theresa
Ling
LMNOPF
David Lublin
Eric Lyon
Jaon Martin
1997 alien
productions was founded by media artists
Andrea SODOMKA (A), Martin BREINDL (A), Norbert MATH (I) and August BLACK (USA)
as an artist's network for theory and aesthetics of new technology and media.
They all - either separately or together or in co-operation with other artists
- have worked in the realms of technological art since 1985, Andrea Sodomka and
Martin Breindl work together since 1987. The range of their works includes
intermedia-performance and -installation, electronic music, net.art, radio art,
sound art, interactives, video, visual arts and artistic photography. They
realised projects on the occasion of many festivals, symposia, exhibitions and
concerts in
Anemone Dance Theater invites the audience to take a dive into the
bizarre and beautiful. Embracing an array of movement and performance styles,
Anemone displays influences from Japanese Butoh , Modern dance, Ballet,
Improvisation, and Yoga techniques. Anemone is nurtured by the power of
artistic collaboration, shifting rolls of creators, directors, and performers;
honoring each voice. By integrating artists from many mediums, the live
performances create unique visual and auditory experiences. Just as an anemone
becomes a home for inhabitants of the ocean's reef, we search for a symbiotic
relationship with the audience and share a fresh new approach to dance theater.
Jon Appleton's recent releases are "Appleton Syntonic
Menagerie 2" on phonomena audio arts & multiples (PAAM-010CD) and
"Wunderbra!" with Achim Treu on crippled dick hot wax! (cdhw 086).
Newton Armstrong works mostly with electronic instruments,
somewhere in between composition and improvisation.
Curtis Bahn is a composer, improviser and string-bass player who
specializes in live electronic performance using gestural controllers. He
received his Ph.D. in music composition from Princeton University. From
1986-1993 he was the Technical Director of the Center for Computer Music of the
City University of New York where he worked and studied with composer Charles
Dodge. He has taught at the Columbia University Computer Music Center (CMC),
NYU, Princeton and CUNY, and is currently Associate Professor of Computer Music
Composition/Performance and Director of the iEAR Studios at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute. Curtis is an active performer
on his sensor-extended string bass playing in venues ranging from small
alternative clubs and galleries to major international festivals. http://www.arts.rpi.edu/crb
Sara Baird is co-founder and director of ANEMONE DANCE THEATER.
Exploring the roles of choreographer, performer and teacher, she has based her
work in New York City for the past ten years. She toured through Bolivia with
the company DanceCompass, directed by Nicholas Rodriguez, and also performed
with The Butoh Rockettes, Neta Pulvermacher, Poppo & the GoGo Boys, and
Richard Move for the Guggenheim Museum, VH1, and the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
Sara teaches yoga at NYU, Dance Space Center, and the Sandra Cameron Dance
Studios. ANEMONE was presented by The Puffin Room in January 2003 in
collaboration with artist Miyoung Song. She is currently working towards a
Masters of Fine Arts degree in dance from the University of Wisconsin -
Milwaukee where she spends her summers. Her artistic intrigue and inquiry into
the Butoh dance form greatly informs her work and research.
Claire Benton is originally from Virginia. She moved to New York four years ago after
graduating from Hollins College. In New
York she has worked with the Nai- Ni Chen dance company, Nathan Trice/Rituals,
Jamie Philbert/Echoes, Elizabeth Haselwood and Theresa Ling. She is thrilled to
be performing with Miss Ling once again.
Betsey Biggs is a composer and media artist working with sound and
video to explore natural patterns and processes, and the balance between
structure and improvisation. She studied composition with Pauline Oliveros,
Fred Frith and Maggi Payne at Mills College and currently works with all of the
composition faculty as a second-year graduate composer at Princeton University.
Dániel Péter Biró GS, first started his musical studies at the
Bartók Conservatory in Budapest, Hungary. He later studied in Bern, Würzburg,
and Frankfurt where he studied with Bernhard Kontarsky and Hans Zender as a
Fulbright scholar. He has also worked with Michael Jarrell in Vienna. In 1995, he did folk music research at the
Academy of Science in Budapest. He received a DAAD research grant for study in
Israel in 1997 as well as a commission for an Elecroacoustic Opera from the
Neue Horizonte-Bern / Schlachthaus Theater in Bern, Switzerland in 1998. His
works have been performed at the Alte Oper-Frankfurt, at the Konzerthaus in
Vienna, at the Bartók Festival in Szombathely, Hungary and have been broadcast
on Swiss (DRS 2), Austrian (ORF), German (HR 2), and on Italian public radio
(RAI), and he has performed as a soloist with the Bern Symphony. In 1999 he was
awarded the Hungarian Government's Kodály Award for Hungarian Composers. His sound installation,
"Variations" was commissioned by the Villa Bernau in Wabern,
Switzerland. In November 2001 his piece,
"The Crossing (Daf)," based on a text by Franz Kafka, for guitar and
electronics, was performed as a commissioned piece of the Stuttgart opera. In
March of 2002 year he was an associate artist at the Atlantic Center of the
Arts under the musical direction of Steve Mackey. In 2003 he received a dissertation research grant
from the Princeton University Program in Judaic Studies. The first part of his
composition "Mishpatim" was recently performed by the Ensemble
SurPlus, which will perform the next part of this composition in March 2004.
Ben Boretz, Mary Roberts, and Tildy Bayar have just completed work
on Issue 5 of The Open Space Magazine (www.the-open-space.org).
Liubo Borissov received a doctorate in physics from Columbia
University, where he was also actively involved with the Computer Music Center.
His main interests lie in creating alloys between art, science and technology
and building bridges between diverse fields and media. He is currently a Vilar
Fellow in the performing arts at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at
NYU.
Composer paul botelho is currently a 3rd year graduate
student in Princeton University's Music Composition Program. His compositions
include many varied works that utilize extended and alternate tuning systems as
well as the interaction of new and old mediums. He holds a Bachelor of Fine
Arts in Contemporary Music Perfomance and Composition from the College of Santa
Fe and a Master of Arts in Electro-Acoustic Music from Dartmouth College.
1963 born in Vienna, Austria. Studied at the Academy of Applied
Arts, Vienna and at the University of Vienna. Since 2001 curator of Fluss - NÖ.
Fotoinitiative. 2001 - 2002 art director of Kunstradio Online. Various awards
and scholarships for visual arts.
Critics have consistently praised Maja Cerar as a
"magnificent violinist" with "breathtaking technique" and
"a completely natural musicality," an artist who "listens to her
inner self." International media enthusiastically cover her concerts,
Compact Disk releases, television appearances and radio recordings. Maja Cerar
has premiered and recorded numerous works written for and dedicated to her.
Since her debut in the Zurich Tonhalle in 1991 she has played as a soloist with
orchestras in Europe, given recitals with distinguished artists on
international tours (Paris, Rome, Washington, Chicago, New York) as well as at
festivals such as the Davos "Young Artist in Concert," the
Lockenhaus, and the Aspen Music Festival. Her repertoire ranges from the baroque
to the present and her stage experience, besides solo and chamber music,
includes performances with live electronics as well as theater and dance
productions. After her Matura from Literary Gymnasium in Zurich, Maja Cerar
graduated with honors from the Conservatory where she studied under Aida
Stucki-Piraccini. She also took master classes with Zakhar Bron, Franco Gulli,
Igor Oistrakh, and Igor Ozim. From 1995 to 2001 she polished her performance
further with Dorothy DeLay and Kurt Nikkanen in New York. Ms. Cerar has worked
with composers Beat Furrer, György Kurtág, Sebastian Currier, and John Zorn, as
well as many emerging New York composers. She received her Master of Arts and
Master of Philosophy degrees in Historical Musicology at Columbia University
where she is now a candidate for the Ph.D (Dissertation on Schubert's late
string quartets), teaches Music Humanities and serves on the editorial board of
Current Musicology. This fall Maja Cerar played John Zorn's violin concerto on
the opening evening of the World Music Days in Slovenia and the opening of the
season of the Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra in Ljubljana. At the same festival
she also performed a solo work by Douglas Geers with the Experimentalstudio der
Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftundg des Südwestrundfunks Freiburg. For more information
please visit www.majacerar.com.
Jaeho Chang studied musical composition at Seoul National
University in Korea and electroacoustic music at the Royal Conservatory in the
Hague, the Netherlands. He is a composer of electronic music, interactive
multimedia installation, and film music. He is currently teaching various
courses as a lecturer for the Music Technology Program at the Korean National
University of Arts (KNUA), and develops music and sound applications for
virtual environments in the Imaging Media Research Center at KIST (Korea
Institute of Science & Technology).
Irina Escalante was awarded her B.A. in Composition from the
Instituto Superior de Arte in Habana, Cuba where she studied with Roberto
Valera. She is currently a first- year graduate student in electro-acoustic
music at Dartmouth College.
Ted Coffey has worked with kids with disabilities, promoted bands
for an independent record label, and studied with a pantheon of composers and
other educators at Dartmouth College, Mills College and Princeton University.
He makes several different kinds of music, often combining human production of
sound with electronics and computer technology. He is currently an Andrew W.
Mellon Research Affiliate with the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy, a
Josephine de Kármán Fellow and an active member of the Saturnalian Croquet
League. His multi-media work, Music for Parabolic Speakers on Remote Controlled
Boats and Shakuhachi Quintet will premiere in Princeton and New York City in
2004.
Perry R. Cook attended the University of Missouri at Kansas City
Conservatory of Music from 1973 to 1977, studying voice and electronic
music. He worked as a sound engineer and
designer from 1976 - 1981. He received
the BA in music 1985, and the BS in Electrical Engineering in 1986 from
UMKC. He received a Masters and PhD in
Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1990.
He continued at Stanford as Technical Director of the Center for
Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, until joining the faculty of
Princeton University in 1996, where he is now Associate Professor of Computer
Science, with a joint appointment in Music.
He has published over 100 technical/music papers, and presented lectures
throughout the world on the acoustics of the voice and musical instrument
simulation, human perception of sound, and interactive devices for expressive
musical performance. Mr. Cook has
performed as a vocal soloist and as a computer musician throughout the world,
and has recorded Compact Disks on the Lyricord Early Music Series Record Label
with the vocal group Schola Discantus. He is the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim
Fellowship, to write a new book on the subject of Technology and the Voice.
Daedalus String Quartet
the Daedalus String Quartet
Min-Young Kim, violin
Kyu-Young Kim, violin
Jessica Thompson, viola
Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Philip Davidson is a Brooklyn-based graphics programmer and visual
artist. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Princeton University.
http://veldt.lobitlandscapes.com/
Kui Dong was born in Beijing, China and received B.A. and M.A.
degrees in theory and composition from the Central Conservatory of Music in
Beijing. In 1991 she moved to California, where she obtained a doctoral degree
in composition from Stanford University. Kui Dong's compositions span diverse
genres and styles and include ballet, orchestral and chamber works, chorus,
electro-acoustic music, film scores, and multi-media art. Among honors and
awards she has received were the 2001 ISCM Prize, 1999-2000 The Mary Flagler
Cary Charitable Trust, 1997-1998 Meet The Composer USA/Commissioning Program,
1999 Italy's Val Tidone International Music Competition, 1996 Austria's Prix
Ars Electronica (Honorary), 1995 ASCAP Award for Young Composers, and in 1994
she was awarded First Prize in the Alea III International Composition
Competition. Since 1997, Dong has been Associate Professor of Music at
Dartmouth College.
Sound artists Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood began performing
as the duo Evidence in 2001. Focusing on
the universe of real world sound, Evidence pours field recordings like water
into their compositional and improvisational process, resulting in music that
balances between tight organization and unregulated flow. Using recording equipment, laptops, and other
electronic devices, Evidence creates music that deals with gradual change,
improvised over time, sometimes atmospheric, sometimes pulsating, always
texturally striking and unique.
Resisting classification into a single genre, Evidence is equally at
home performing in experimental venues, clubs, galleries, planetariums, and
rooftops. Recent appearances include the
World Forum for Acoustic Ecology in Melbourne, the Mixology Festival at
Roulette in New York City, the MAXIS Festival in Sheffield, and a set of
concerts at Yale University.
James Fei (b. Taipei, Taiwan) moved to the US in 1992 to pursue a
degree in electrical engineering at Princeton, where he also studied music with
Steve Mackey and Paul Lansky. He subsequently received his MA in composition from
Wesleyan University, working with Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton. Works by
Fei have been performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Orchestra of the S.E.M.
Ensemble and Noord-Hollands Philharmonisch Orkest. Recordings of his works can
be found on Leo Records, CRI and Organized Sound. Fei performs on saxophones
and live electronics in his Alto Quartet, Maestros (electro-acoustic
collaboration with David Novak) and a duo with bassist Kato Hideki.
Brad Garton (b. 1957) is currently on the Music Faculty of
Columbia University, where he serves as Director of the Computer Music
Center. He received his BS in
Pharmacology from Purdue University in 1979, and returned to graduate school --
right here at Princeton University -- to ultimately receive a PhD in music
composition (studying primarily with Paul Lansky and Jim Randall). He has also taught at the Cincinnati
Conservatory of Music. These days he's
not quite sure what to do...
[a reflection absence small little motion have a in and is starved
so a a a amazing lonesome let you unseen] enough changes have left -
"say" it etc.
Greenlee is currently working towards a Ph. D. in Computer Music
and New Media at Brown University. His endeavors center on the theory and
development of computer-based, performance works that promote a mutually
influential relationship between machine and performer. Greenlee is an active
recording and performing artist, and has several releases in group and solo
contexts. For over a decade, he has been heavily influential in Providence's
music scene, recognized as a harbinger of "panic-rock". Best known
for his solo, electronic music performances under the moniker,
"Pleasurehorse", Greenlee also founded the performance-art,
rock-group, "Landed", and was a member of the like-minded outfit,
"Six Finger Satellite". Labels releasing Greenlee's work include Load
Records, Vermiform, History of the Future, Zod Records, and Hospital Productions.
A recipient of a 1996 National Endowment for the Arts
Choreographers Fellowship for his solo project, "The Goldberg
Variations," Mark Haim has been described by Anna Kisselgoff of the New
York Times as "...a choreographer's choreographer." His full evening solo project, "The
Goldberg Variations," has been performed at the American Dance Festival,
the Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, The John F. Kennedy Center and other
venues in the U.S., Europe and Asia. A
graduate of the Juilliard School, he was Artistic Director of Mark Haim &
Dancers from 1984-1987, and the Companhia de Danca de Lisboa from 1987-1990.
Mark has created new works for many dance companies in the US, Europe and Asia,
among them the Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballet Frankfurt, the Jose Limon Dance
Company, the Joffrey II Dancers, the Rotterdamse Dansgroep, the Silesian Dance
Theater, the Companhia de Danca de Lisboa, CoDanceCo, the TRANS Dance Co., and
Ballet Pacifica. He has restaged his works on companies such as The Joffrey
Ballet, the Bat-Dor Dance Company of Israel, Djazzex, and the Juilliard Dance
Ensemble. He has been on the faculties of the American Dance Festival and NYU-
Tisch School of the Arts, and guest faculty at Hollins University. He has also
taught at the NC School of the Arts, University of Illinois, Ohio University,
SMU, VCU, Cornell, JMU, and for schools and companies in Belgium, Holland,
Germany, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Latvia, Russia, Argentina, Chile and Japan.
He is a recipient of numerous grants, including a 1987 New York Foundation for
the Arts Choreographers Fellowship, a 1988 NEA Choreographers Fellowship, and
grants from the NPN Suitcase Fund and ArtsLink, Inc. In 2000, he was awarded
the Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limon Fellowship for Choreography. Mark is currently
the Artist-In-Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Tomie Hahn is a performer of shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute),
and of nihon buyo (Japanese traditional dance) holding the professional stage
name, Samie Tachibana. Tomie received her Ph.D. from Wesleyan University in
ethnomusicology. She taught at Tufts University for five years before joining
the Arts Department at Rensselaer. As a performance ethnologist Tomie's
research spans a wide range of topics including: Japanese traditional
performing arts, Monster Truck rallies, issues of identity and creative
expression of multiracial individuals, and relationships of technology and
culture; interactive dance/movement performance; and gestural control and
extended human/computer interface in the performing arts. Her book, Sensational
Knowledge-embodying culture through Japanese dance is forthcoming from Wesleyan
University Press. http://www.arts.rpi.edu/tomie
Bill is building instruments, composing music and suffering
through Max addiction at Dartmouth College. Using only syllogisms directly
derivable from the presuppositions of quantum mechanics, Bill has recently
proven that the art-vernacular dichotomy is hopelessly bankrupt, but has yet to
publish this work. He's also the founder of MAHARA (Musicians Against
Hierarchies And Ridiculous Acronyms), a potentially multi-person organization.
Paul Hogan is a composer, keyboardist, and electronic musician
working in New York City. He composes acoustic and electronic music for chamber
ensembles, dancers, sound installations, jazz groups, gamelan, children,
computers, and himself. He has studied with Mara Helmuth, Allen Otte, Fred
Lerdahl, and Jonathan Kramer. Paul has composed for and collaborated with the
Percussion Group Cincinnati, eighth blackbird, Gamelan Son of Lion, SO
Percussion Group, and Kathyrn Woodard. Recent performances of his music have
taken place at the International Computer Music Conference 2003 (Singapore),
MATA festival (NYC), Engine 27 (NYC), Williamsburg Art NeXus (NYC), the
Indonesian Consulate (NYC), Aronoff Center for the Arts (Cincinnati), and the
Headlands Center for the Arts (San Fransisco). Paul recently completed a
residency at STEIM in Amsterdam where he collaborated with Mike Barnhart on a
sound installation and performance. The Lower Manhattan Community Council,
ASCAP, and Meet the Composer have given him support, and he studies at Columbia
University. www.hoganmusic.com Hailed as "a portal
into special sound worlds" by the New Music Connoisseur, pianist Kathryn
Woodard has appeared as soloist and chamber musician at venues throughout the
U.S. and in Europe and Asia. Recent engagements include performances with the
New Music Ensemble Boston, at the Construction Company in New York City and on
the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago. Specializing in new
music, Woodard has performed several premieres including works by Moiya
Callahan, Paul Hogan, Allen Otte, Huang Ruo, and Aziza Sadikova. As a scholar Woodard has researched and
presented papers on Asian and American composers, most recently at the Third
Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-century Music in Nottingham,
England. Her DMA thesis completed at the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music is the first scholarly study of piano music by a
Turkish composer, Ahmed Adnan Saygun. Woodard has traveled to Turkey and
Central Asia with grants from the U.S. Department of State in order to perform
American music and research composers from those regions. As an educator
Woodard specializes in body mapping and was recently certified as an Andover
Educator. In 1991 she received her undergraduate degree from the Hochschule für
Musik in Munich, Germany. She currently teaches at Hunter College in New York
City.
HWANG Sung Ho graduated from Seoul National University and studied
composition and music theory at Brussel Koninklijk Conservatorium and
electronic music at Utrecht Conservatorium and Instituut voor Sonologie,
Utrecht University. He is currently professor at the Korean National University
of Arts. He also participated in the establishment of major groups important in
the history of electro-acoustic music in Korea, including KEAMS (Korean Electro-Acoustic
Music Society) serving as president for 8 years and founded Seoul International
Computer Music Festival (SICMF). Obtaining acknowledgement worldwide, his
electro-acoustic music has been performed internationally, in such festivals
and networks as Asian Composer's League Festival'93 (Taipei), HKUST Multimedia
Concert (H.K), ICMC'96 (H.K), 96'FEM (Blatislava), Kwangju International
Biennale'95, IV. SBCM (Brasillia), CNN's Inside Asia, SOUND Box (Finland),
ICMF'98 (Kobe, Japan), The 3rd Annual Santa Fe International Festival of
Electro Acoustic Music, "Media Art Week Kyoto 99" (Goethe Institute
Kyoto), ICMC'99 (Beijing), Spring in Havana 2000, Asian Music Week 2000(Yokohama), CCRMA
Concert(U.S.A 2000), Synthese 2001(Bourge), Unbalanced connection 20 (Univ. of
Florida U.S.A. 2002), Festival Nova Musica, (Paris) among others. He was also
panel member of the ICMA Commissioning Project for ICMC 2000(Berlin), faculty
in Chugye University of Arts, Seoul National University, and director of
Computer Music Center at KNUA(Korean National University of Arts).
Ajay Kapur graduated with a BSE computer science degree from
Princeton University in 2002. He studied tabla and sitar in Mumbai, India, for
6
months this year at the Alla Rakha Institute of Music and The Ustad Siraj Khan
Institute of Sitar. Ajay has been playing percussion instruments
for 15 years while studying world rhythms, composition, Indian classical
theory, and computer based music theory. He is currently a music technology
researcher and developer at Princeton University, working with his mentor and
guru Professor Perry Cook. In January 2004, Ajay will be a Ph.D. student at
University of Victoria working towards an Interdisciplinary degree in Music,
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Psychology with a focus
on Artificial Intelligent Music and Media Technology.
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sound/people/ajay
Seung Hye Kim (b.1978) was awarded her B.A in Piano Performance from
the Seoul National University where studying primarily with Ik-Joo Moon. She is
currently a second-year graduate student in electro-acoustic music composition
at the Korean National University of Arts studying with Sung-Ho Hwang, Jaeho
Jang and Christopher Dobrian. Her performance repertoire spans traditional
acoustic music as well as electronic music and her pieces have recently been
performed at various festivals including FEMS 2003 and Digital Play Ground 2002
in Seoul.
Jonathon Kirk is a native of Southern Illinois and been active in
improvisation, composition, and performing for many years. His instruments include the trombone,
euphonium, banjo, Udu drum, and computer.
He has been a composer-in-residence at the Logos Foundation for
Experimental Music in Ghent, Belgium, and most recently directed a
non-traditional music curriculum at the F.L. Chamberlain School.
Michael Klingbeil is a composer in the doctoral program at
Columbia University. He completed an M.M. in composition at the University of
Illinois in 2001. He holds a B.A. in computer science and a B.M. in music from
Oberlin College where he studied in the TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related
Arts) program. Principal teachers include Tristan Murail, Heinrich Taube, Gary
Lee Nelson, Pieter Snapper, P.Q. Phan and James Beauchamp. In addition to
musical activities, he was a computer science research fellow at the University
of Iowa, and has earned industry awards for computer software development. His
works have been played by ensembles including the University of Illinois New
Music Ensemble, the Orchestre Lyrique de Région Avignon-Provence, the Aspen
Contemporary Ensemble, and the Minnesota Orchestra. Recent awards include a
First Music chamber music commission from the New York Youth Symphony,
finalist recognition from the Concorso Internazionale "Luigi
Russolo", and an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award.
Posy Knight completed her undergraduate studies in dance at The
Juilliard School in May of 2002. She met
Theresa Ling during her professional debut last spring at St. Mark's Church on
the Bowery while they worked with choreographer Kara Cross on her suite of
dances entitled "Rhythms of the Creed." After performing in the original cast of
"ceaskaepe" at the WAX, she joined her best friend for a summer of
artistic collaboration at the Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, Florida. She is happy to return to good work and good
friends here in the New York Metropolitan region.
Hailed as the "leading exponent of the avant-garde
flute" (Kyle Gann,
Village Voice), Margaret Lancaster has built a large repertoire of
new works that employ extended techniques, dance, drama, multi-media, and
electronics. Her acclaimed solo CD Future Flute is a collection of
electro-acoustic works written for her.
Lancaster is a member of Essential Music and the Downtown Ensemble and
is a recurring performer at Spoleto Festival USA, BONK Festival of New Music, Three
Two Festival, and Santa Fe New Music.
She has appeared as a lecturer/soloist at many sites including Dartmouth
College and the National Flute Association and recently performed with Absolute
Ensemble at the Bremen MusikFest.
Lancaster is the recipient of a 2003 Meet the Composer Commissioning
Music/USA grant for a new multi-disciplinary solo work by composer Carolyn
Yarnell and will be playing the role of Helena in the upcoming Mabou Mines
production of Ibsen's "A Doll's
House."
Paul Lansky is Professor of Music at Princeton. Recent work includes a string quartet,
several 8-channel pieces, and an Alphabet Book (Bridge Records).
Ari Lazier is currently a researcher at the Princeton University
Sound Lab under the direction Perry Cook. He holds a degree in Computer Science
from Princeton University.
Johnathan F. Lee, digital sound artist and composer, is currently
completing his doctorate in music composition at Columbia University, and
teaches composition and music technology at Columbia University and Adelphi
University. In addition to collaborations with visual artists, choreographers
and musicians (his collaborations as performer and producer with the Freight
Elevator Quartet are available on Caipirinha/Sire and Cycling '74), he has also
worked on projects at IRCAM and the Columbia University Computer Music Center.
Sawoo LEE graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Department at
Yonsei University. Currently, he is
studying music technology at the Korean National University of Arts (KNUA)
Jonathan Lee Marcus is a video performance and installation artist
based in Troy, New York. He has focused on interactive pieces that encourage
the creativity of participants. His work has been performed and exhibited at a
variety of places in the United States and Canada. He is also an active participant
in the Burning Man community.
Theresa Ling received her BA in English Literature and a minor in
Dance from Barnard College in 1999. Since then, she has worked with several
dance companies and choerographers including
Buglisi/Foreman Dance, Palindrome in Germany, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance
Company, Neta Pulvermacher, Kara McMahon Cross and the Mark Morris Dance Group.
Her own choreography has been presented in New York at Miller Theater, Theater
Et Al, the Williamsburg Art Nexxus, and the D.U.M.B.O Dance Festival.
LMNOPF - pronounced el-em-en-oh-pee-efff, is a collective of video
artists from Troy, NY. Members Jack Turner, David Lublin, and Jonathan Lee
Marcus combine live performance with custom software to produce real-time
cinema.
On David Lublin: "Eugene Ionescu was reincarnated as a earwig
and has burrowed himself in david's head so that he can say everything he
always wanted to say. David is legitimately great. Pure unfiltered human brain
with a horses heart and little piggie feet." - Seth Cluett
Eric Lyon is a composer and developer of computer music tools such
as BashFest, POWERpv, Mushroom, and (with Chris Penrose) FFTease. Recent
activities include directing the Electric Rainbow Coalition Festival, presenting
a lecture on the music of post-punk band XTC at IASPM, and developing
spectral-spatial software for musical composition at STEIM. Lyon is a core
composer of the Bonk Festival, a member of the Hanover Quartet, and teaches in
the Music Department and Electro-Acoustic graduate program at Dartmouth
College.
1962 born in Bolzano, Italy. Studied at the Academy of Music,
Vienna (electro-acoustics). 1998-2002 employment at the Institute for
Electronic Music and Acoustics in Graz/Austria, where he contributed to
software development and community raising of the Open Source computer
multimedia system "Pure Data" by Miller Puckette. Since 2001 curator
of Fluss - NÖ. Fotoinitiative.
William Matthews attended Oberlin, Iowa, Utrecht (Sonology), and
Yale. He has taught at Bates College in Maine since 1978, and presently makes
his home in Princeton.
Nathan Michel makes music in both the classical and rock
traditions. His debut album of melodic, lo-fi electronic music entitled abc def
was released in 2002 on Tigerbeat6 records, and he performs live with computer,
keyboards, voice, and other instruments. Currently a Ph.D. composition fellow
at Princeton University, Nathan has also studied with Elliott Schwartz at
Bowdoin College, with Louis Andriessen in Amsterdam, and at Yale University
with Ezra Laderman and Martin Bresnick. Recognition for his work has come from
Yale, Bowdoin, ASCAP, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters from whom he
received a 2002 Charles Ives Scholarship. His interests range from the
concision and rhythmic vitality of Stravinsky to the poetic ramblings of
Captain Beefheart, and some things in between. Dear Bicycle, Nathan's second
record for Tigerbeat6 was released in July 2003, and a recording of his live
computer performances entitled Trebly will be out October 2003 on the Italian
label Mr. Mutt.
Bonnie Miksch, a composer and performer whose music embraces
multiple musical universes, creates both acoustic and electroacoustic works.
She is passionate about music which moves beyond abstract relationships into
the boundless realm of emotions and dreams. An avid consumer of musical
possibilities, she strives to create coherent musical environments where
diverse musical elements can coexist. Her computer music and vocal
improvisations have been heard in Asia, Europe, Canada, and throughout the
United States. Upcoming activities range from performing as a vocalist and
laptop artist with Suddenly Listen, an experimental improvisation group based
in Nova Scotia to a performance of Inklings on the loose for flute and
computer-realized recording at the Bonk Festival of New Music. The Atlanta
Artists Records is soon to release man dreaming butterfly dreaming man, a work
for violin and piano. She received her B.M. in Composition from Syracuse
University and her M.M. and D.M.A. in Composition with a cognate in computer
music from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. Currently
a Visiting Professor at Williams College where she teaches composition,
electroacoustic music, and music theory, she has also held academic positions
at Colgate University and Mercer University.
Moon Hyun was born in Seoul in 1958 and graduated from Bo-seong
high school. He majored in chemical engineering at Seonggyungwan Universityand
worked as a researcher at the Sam Hwa Paint Co. Research Institute, Ltd. for 2
years. In college, he became interested in Korean traditional music thourgh activities
at the college broadcasting station and theatre club. His interests soon
multiplied as he indulged himself in Korean traditional music, studying the
Danso, Piri and several other traditional Korean instruments at the Hansorihoi
and Pungryuhoi meetings (groups focusing on Korean traditional music). A
turning point in his life occurred when he studied Gagok, Gasa and Shijo from
Lee Yang-gyo, who is as renown as the 41st important intangible cultural assets
in Gasa. Finally, he quit Sam Hwa Paint Co., Ltd. and enrolled at Chugye art
college and started his life as a traditional Korean musician by majoring in
Korean traditional song. He received his master's degree (“The Musical
Structure of Narrative Shouting Shijo”
- with an emphasis an Yim Gi-jun's handing down) in National Classical
Music Theory at Hanyang University and he completed the doctorate program for
National Classical Music Theory at the Academy for Korean Studies. Presently he
is working on his a doctorate thesis (“A Research for the Regional
Musical Characteristics of Shijo” - emphasis on Pyoung(common) Shijo and
Narrative Shijo). He still efforts to broaden his musical palette not only for
Korean traditional songs but also for Peom-pae (Buddhist vocal song), Kyoung
Seo-Do sori and art vocal songs in China, and Japan. He was Assistant Professor
at Chugye Art University in the area of Liberal Arts research in 1989, Liberal
Arts research fellow, responsible for planning various performances and
research activities at the National Center for Korean Traditional Performing
Arts. He published his CD in 1999.
Jason Moore is a student at Brown University in the Computer Music
and Multimedia Composition program. He is currently studying the use of
products in a manner inconsistent with their labeling.
Sound artist Stephan Moore makes audio work for the stage,
gallery, screen, and in the studio. His
creations often center around the collection and use of real-world sound, the
creation and perception of sonic environments, and technological manifestations
of improvisation and interactivity. He
performs regularly as half of the electronic duo Evidence, and with a wide
variety of musicians, video artists, and dancers. A major series of recent sound art
installations and performances uses a sixteen-channel array of hand-built
hemispherical speakers. A recent
graduate of the Integrated Electronic Arts Master's program at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, he also designs custom performance software and hardware
for a number of composers and artists, and teaches sound art and electronic
music at the Massachusetts College of Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
and Simon's Rock College.
Kiwon Nam has studied multimedia at the Korean National University
of Arts. He would like to find something bigger than this line of the boundary.
His current interests are in the study of the division of North and South
Korea.
Pauline Oliveros is acclaimed internationally as a composer,
performer and humanitarian. An important pioneer in American Music, she has
explored sound for five decades, forging new ground for herself and others.
Through improvisation, electronic music, ritual, teaching and meditation she
has created a body of work with such breadth of vision that it profoundly
affects those who experience it and eludes many who try to write about it.
"On some level, music, sound consciousness and religion are all one, and
she would seem to be very close to that level." - John Rockwell
Oliveros has been honored with awards, grants and concerts
internationally. Whether performing at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington
D.C., in an underground cavern, or in the studios of West German Radio,
Oliveros' commitment to interaction with the moment is unchanged. Through Deep
Listening Pieces and earlier Sonic Meditations Oliveros introduced the concept
of incorporating all environmental sounds into musical performance through
listening. She can make the sound of a sweeping siren into another instrument
of the ensemble. To make a pleasurable experience of this requires focus,
concentrated, musicianship and strong improvisational skills, which are the
hallmarks of Oliveros' form. In performance Oliveros plays an accordion that
has been re-tuned in two different systems of just intonation. Additionally she
uses electronics to alter the sound of the accordion and to incorporate and
transform room acoustics. Pauline Oliveros has built a loyal following in
response to her many concerts, recordings, and publications. She has written
numerous musical compositions for soloists and ensembles in music, dance,
theater and inter-arts companies. She has also provided leadership within the
music community. She was the first Director of the Center for Contemporary
Music (formerly the Tape Music Center at Mills College), and she was Director
of the Center for Music Experiment during her 14-year tenure as professor of
music at the University of California at San Diego. She frequently acted in an advisory capacity
for organizations such as The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York
State Council for the Arts, and many private foundations. She now serves as
Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Darius Milhaud Composer in Residence at Mills College and mentor in the Bard
College summer MFA program. Oliveros has been vocal about representing the
needs of individual artists of all ages, about the need for diversity and
experimentation in the arts, and promoting cooperation and good will among people.
Tae Hong Park received his B.E degree in Electronics at Korea
University in 1994 and has worked in the area of digital communication systems
and digital musical keyboards at the GoldStar Central Research Laboratory in
Seoul, Korea from 1994 to 1998. He has received his M.A. at Dartmouth's
Electroacoustic Music Program in June 2000 and is currently a graduate student
at Princeton's Composition program. His
current interests are composition and research in multi-dimensional aspects of
timbre. Mr. Park's music has been heard
in various locations in Brazil, Germany, Hungary, Korea, USA, Sweden, UK, and
the Netherlands; in venues, conferences and festivals including SEAMUS, EMM, ICMC,
CEAIT, ISMEAM, SICMF, MATA, NWEAMO, FILE, DIEM, MAXIS, Santa Fe International
Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music, Third Practice, Pulse Field, FEMS,
Dartmouth College, Princeton University, Syracuse University, and Wesleyan
University. His work has been/will be
played and premiered by groups and performers such as the Nash Ensemble of
London, Brentano String Quartet, Edward Carroll, Zoe Martlew, Wayne Dumaine,
California EAR Unit, and Entropy.
Terry Pender is Center Manager of the Computer Music Center at
Columbia University. He enjoys playing,
listening and composing music in many styles.
Christopher, as he types this text, is overhearing a heated
discussion concerning the virtues of boiled bagels over baked. As a native of
Southern California, this act of discourse still thoroughly hypnotizes
him. The trance effect has lasted long
enough during his writing process to consume half of the alloted words for his
biography. His backspace key broken,
Christopher simply shrugs and continues to type. Christopher is currently on leave from a
professorship with the Media Design Program at Keio University SFC of Fujisawa,
Japan and is a visiting professor in the Computer Music and Multimedia Program
at Brown University of Providence, Rhode Island.
Steve Pierce is a native of Los Angeles and did his undergraduate
work in cinema and music at the University of Southern California, graduating
in 1990. In the 90s, he moved to England. During this time, he worked mainly as
a computer programmer, including three years at the BBC in London. In 2000, he
earned an M.A. in Computer Music from the University of Leeds. In the Fall of
2002, he started in the Master's Program of Electro-Acoustic Music at Dartmouth
College.
Larry Polansky is a composer, performer, theorist, programmer,
teacher, writer, and editor. He teaches at Dartmouth College and co-directs
Frog Peak Music (A Composer's Collective).
Miller Puckette was the top scorer in the 1979-1980 William Lowell
Putnam mathematics competition and was awarded Putnam and NSF fellowships to
study mathematics at MIT and Harvard, where he finished his Ph.D. in 1986 under
Andrew Gleason. From 1979 through 1986
Puckette also studied with Barry Vercoe at the MIT Media Lab, concentrating on
real-time techniques for live music performance. He then joined IRCAM in Paris and wrote the
Max graphic programming language which has become the lingua franca of live
computer music. In 1994 Puckette joined UCSD where he is now professor of music
and associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts.
Douglas Irving Repetto is an artist and teacher. His work,
including installations, performances, recordings, software, and lectures, has
been presented internationally. He runs a number of arts/community-oriented
groups in New York City and on the web, including dorkbot: people doing strange
things with electricity (http://dorkbot.org ),
ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show (http://artbots.org ), organism: making
art with living systems (http://music.columbia.edu/organism ), and the
music-dsp mailing list and website ( http://shoko.calarts.edu/musicdsp ). When
not teaching or making art, Douglas spends much of his time cooking, coveting
buildings, and socializing with members of the plant kingdom. He works at the
Columbia University Computer Music Center and lives in New York City with his
wife, writer Amy Charlotte Benson; two cute/bad cats, Pokey and Sneezy; and
many plants.
The diet is not known; fecal material contains organic (?)
crystals and perhaps sediment particles. The radula morphology suggests that
the diet is is particle-size dependent, probably detritus.
http://www.conrexrecords.com/scutopus.html
When Scott Smallwood was 10 years old, he received his first tape
recorder, and ever since he has been fascinated by the possibilities of
recorded sound. Traditionally trained as
a pianist and composer, Smallwood has at various times found himself composing
concert music, improvising in free-music contexts, recording and manipulating
field recordings, and making dance music.
He is active as a composer/performer with several New York-based
ensembles, including Nyquist, Brown Cuts Neighbors, and Evidence. He holds music degrees from Miami University
of Ohio and Peabody Conservatory, and has performed with a variety of
improvisors including Curtis Bahn, Dan Trueman, Leroy Jenkins, Joe McPhee, Phil
Gelb, Todd Reynolds, and Pauline Oliveros. His work has been presented in a
variety of national and international venues including the Kitchen in NYC, the
Knitting Factory in NYC, Lincoln Center, Roulette, Mobius in Boston, the 1996
ICMC in Hong Kong, and the 2003 Conference on World Acoustic Ecology in
Melbourne, Australia. He has produced numerous recordings on Wavelet Records,
Televaw, and Deep Listening. Scott is currently a doctoral fellow in the music
department of Princeton University.
1961 born in Vienna, Austria. Studied at the Academy of Applied
Arts, Vienna, and at the Academy of Music, Vienna (institute for
electro-acoustics). 1991-95 president of the society of electro-acoustic music
G.E.M.. Since 1996 member of the artist's association Wiener Secession. Since
1999 lectures on Sound Art and Radio Art at the University of Vienna and at the
Academy of Music, Vienna. Since 2003 president of Fluss - NÖ. Fotoinitiative.
Various awards and scholarships for music and visual arts.
Yuri Spitsyn is a representative of the Theremin Center (Moscow,
Russia) who is currently working as a technical director in the Dartmouth
Electroacoustic Music program. Doing mostly real-time interactive music
projects he's happy when able to catch a well-balanced proportion between
conceptpuality and musicality.
Jesse Stiles: THE JESSE STILES 3000 (aka jts3k) is an electronic
music performance system/character developed by Jesse Stiles for the primary
goal of melting faces. Secondary goals of the system are; i) to extend
human/sound interaction through the development of new instruments and
software, ii) to extend the boundaries of electronic music by engaging in a
dialogue between "popular" as well as non-western world cultures, and
iii) to improve the quality of human life through fun, innovative music. The Jesse Stiles 3000 is a long-term project that Jesse Stiles has
been working on since 1996. Other major
contributors to the project include: Curtis Bahn (Composer/Instrument Builder),
Alexander Bohn Web/Motion Producer), Nao Bustamante (Performance Artist), Tyler
Jacobsen, (Electronic Performer/Media Tactitian), Kevin McCormick (Lighting
Engineer/Artist), and Dylan Stiles (Organic Chemist). From 2000 to 2001 the first jts3k album, "watson songs,"
was recorded while traveling under the auspices of a Thomas J. Watson
Fellowship. During this time, Jesse
Stiles collaborated and recorded with local musicians across India as well as
Australia and London. The Jesse Stiles 3000
has been recently deployed at a variety of Electronic Art festivals such as
Version>03 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago), Rencontres Internationales
(Paris/Berlin), Interarts (Columbia University, NYC), and The Hemispheric
Institute of Performance and Politics 4th Annual Encuentro (NYU, NYC). The Jesse Stiles 3000 is a regular performer
at New Media/Music venues such as The Galapagos Art Space (Brooklyn, NY), The
Remote Lounge (Manhattan, NY), The Arts Center of the Capital Region (Troy,
NY), and The Deep Listening Space (Kingston, NY). The Jesse Stiles 3000 also plays every
Tuesday night at a dive bar in Troy, NY.
http://www.conrexrecords.com/jts3k.html, http://www.rpi.edu/~stilej
Kuenstler Treu was born in some small town or other somewhere in
the highly civilized wilds of Southern Germany. His childhood was spent
panicking his mother with grocery-store disappearances, pricking his ears to
the various sounds echoing across the neighborhood, and listening to crackled
Erik Satie, krautrock, and Balinese gamelan music on a short-wave radio (under
the covers, long past his bedtime). These echoes, waves, and crackles could
soon be heard popping up their heads and weaving their ways through the wild
and often humor-drenched audio chaos that he obsessively dedicated to tape
during his teenage years. You could say perhaps that things haven't changed
much - except that the waves and crackles (expanded by bleeps and blonks) are
now dedicated to digital formats and that the chaos has become very precise indeed;
a fine, fingertip placement of elements - intricate but never labored. A couple
of years ago his love of odd selections in vintage vinyl brought about an
unexpected contact with the illustrious Mr. Jon Appleton. After hearing some of
Kuenstler Treu's work Professor Appleton decided that it was high time they
collaborated...
Alan Tormey has no inner self. He flickers away leaving only a
scent.
Dan Trueman
Dan Trueman is a composing performer on both the 6-string electric violin and
the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. His duo łTrollstilt˛ (with guitarist Monica
Mugan) released its first CD of original tunes in 2000, inspired by his
activities as a traditional Hardanger fiddler, and has performed widely at both
contemporary music festivals (such as the Bang-on-a-Can Marathon) and folk
music festivals (in Norway and the US). His electronic improvisation ensemble
łinterface˛ (with Curtis Bahn and Tomie Hahn) has performed widely; their first
CD, ł./swank,˛ was released by c74 Records in early 2001. While most of Dan's
compositions are for his own ensembles, he has also worked with the Brentano,
Cassatt and Amernet string quartets, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the
Newman/Oltman Guitar Duo, and others. He recently completed commissions from
the American Composers Forum (Hardanger fiddle and orchestra), the Society for
New Music (electronic chamber ensemble), and the Tarab Cello Ensemble (8
cellos). Dan has been active as an experimental instrument designer and has
built sensor bows, spherical speakers, and the Bowed-Sensor-Speaker-Array
(BoSSA). He teaches composition and electronic music at Princeton University.
Ge Wang received his B.S. in computer science from
As a digital media artist, Lee Whittier employs video and video
stills to tell stories seen through the eyes of people dabbling in space
travel, implanting wireless networks, overcoming compatibility issues, quietly
building utopias. His work has a sensual quality to it which keeps it kinetic,
galvanized by the energy discharged when analog is converted to digital. His
world is intimate, approachable, and determined to maintain something of himself as he is broken
down into 1ís and 0ís, Aís, Cís, Gís and Tís.
Todd Winkler is a composer and multimedia artist on the faculty at
Christian Wolff
Christian Wolff (born 1934 in
Minsuk Yang studied composition at the Kyung Won University and
computer music composition with Prof. Sung-Ho Hwang at the Korean National
University of Arts (M.M). His chamber pieces were selected by the Chosun daily
newspaper and PAN music festival. His "tromBONE & ASH" was
awarded the first prize in the KEAMS computer Music Contest 2003 and
"having some doubts about three things" has been peformed at FEMS in
2003 and Digital Music Festival 2003(in Kobe, Japan)
Miriama Young grew up in Wellington, New Zealand and in 2000 took
up a Fulbright Graduate Award to pursue a Masters in Public History and Music
at New York University. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Music
Composition at Princeton University. Recent work has led to an exploration of
the nexus where oral histories, music and radio collide. In 2001 Miriama
created a radio documentary, "The Prime Cut", based on interviews
with people who have a personal association with the Meatpacking District in
New York. This piece aired on NPR's "The Next Big Thing Show".
Miriama is currently working on a piece for orchestra.
