EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC!

EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC presents radical, genre-blind music from composers and musicians based in New York City and around the world. The series covers as broad a range of sound art as possible (improvisation, time-based, graphic, electronic, text-based/verbal/performance, new composition, installation, homemade devices etc...). Experimental Music is curated by Travis Just.

2009--2010 SEASON:

July 9: Aki Onda

July 20: Devin Maxwell

Sept 4: Francesco Gagliardi

Sept 22: music of Christian Wolff presented by Craig Shepard

Oct 11: Bonnie Jones

Feb 6: Jason Mears

Feb 13: Paula Matthusen

March 6: Aaron Meicht

April 10: Jonathan Marmor

May 15: Christopher McIntyre

ALL PERFORMANCES AT 10P.M., DOWNSTAIRS FROM THE ONTOLOGICAL THEATER
131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Avenue), inside St. Mark's Church

Experimental Music Archives

BIOS FOR 2009-10 ARTISTS (by performance date):

July 9, 2009:
Aki Onda is an electronic musician, composer, and photographer. Onda was born in Japan and currently resides in New York. He is particularly known for his Cassette Memories project – works compiled from a “sound diary” of field-recordings collected by Onda over a span of two decades. Onda’s musical instrument of choice is the cassette Walkman. Not only does he capture field recordings with the Walkman, he also physically manipulates multiple Walkmans with electronics in his performances. In another of his projects, Cinemage, Onda produces slide projections of still photo images set to live guitar improvisation. Onda has collaborated with artists such as Michael Snow, Ken Jacobs, Alan Licht, Loren Connors, Oren Ambarchi, Noël Akchoté, Jac Berrocal, Linda Sharrock, and Shelley Hirsch. www.akionda.net

July 20, 2009:
Devin Maxwell is a percussionist and composer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Performance and Composition from the California Institute of the Arts as well as a Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. He has studied percussion with Allen Otte, Rusty Burge, and James Culley and has studied composition with Michael Pisaro and Morton Subotnick.

September 4, 2009:
Francesco Gagliardi is a performance artist, historian of performance and filmmaker based in New York City. He studied theatre and philosophy in Italy and in the UK and has been working internationally as an actor, director and performance artist for over a decade. In 2000 he translated, directed, and performed in the first Italian production of Gertrude Stein's “Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights.” He is currently working on a series of invisible performances of mental tasks, and writing an essay on the photographic documentation of performance art. Programs of his work were recently presented in Los Angles (The Wulf, December 2008), Berlin (Miss Micks, January 2009) and Torino, Italy (quindicifebbraio, June 2009). francescogagliardi.net

September 22, 2009
Craig Shepard studied trombone with Frank Crisafulli at Northwestern University and sacbut with Ulrich Eichenberger at the Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich. He has performed with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Collegium Novum Zürich, the Zurich Symphony Orchestra, the Ensemble für Alte Musik München, and many others. On the sacbut, he has recorded with the Münchner Vokal Ensemble. His compositions are published by Edition Wandelweiser. He lives in Weehawken, New Jersey. www.craigshepard.net