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EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC!A music performance series involving sound/text/gesture events (instrumental and action), improvisation, computers/electronics, radical approaches to time Curated by Travis Just This ongoing series examines text, speech and gesture from the standpoint of music composition, featuring composers who work with open and unconventional instrumentation. From January to May, the program operates with performances roughly once a month. The first season of the series concludes with a three-night run of radical new music from New York and around the world. Object Collection is in residence as the performing ensemble.
PERFORMANCE DATES: $10 cash at the door, or reserve in advance here or by calling 212-352-3101. Can't be here in person? Tune in during show times online at www.free103point9.org and see video of the productions live! Experimental Music has received generous support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
COMPOSER BIOGRAPHIES:
Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1974. She studied composition with John Maxwell Geddes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Kevin Volans in Dublin and graduated from Northwestern University, Chicago, with a doctoral degree in composition in June 2002. Her chief teachers at Northwestern were Amnon Wolman and Michael Pisaro. In 2003-2004 Jennifer was a fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; during 2004-2005 she lived in Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm. From 2006 to 2008 she is the composer-in-residence in South Dublin County for In Context 3. In 2007 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York. Jennifer’s work has been performed throughout Europe, the U.S. and Canada by ensembles such as Alter Ego, ensemble récherche, Ensemble Resonanz, Apartment House, ensemble Intégrales, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Schlagquartett Köln, CrashEnsemble, ensemble ascolta, Champ d’Action, ensemble laboratorium, ensemble surplus, the Rilke Ensemble, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Irish Youth Wind Ensemble, Bozzini Quartet, Callino Quartet, Ensemble 2000, Concorde, Kaleidoscop, Black Hair, Continuum, Ensemble Musica Nova, ensemble chronophonie, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind Quintet, the Hebrides Ensemble, Psappha, and Q-02 among others. She has received commissions from organizations including Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Sudwest Rundfunk (SWR), the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Maerzmusik, Musik der Jahrhundert, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Dresdener Tage der zeitgenössischen Musik, Wien Modern, the Dresden Semper Oper, ZKM (Karslruhe), the Irish Chamber Orchestra, CrashEnsemble, the Project Arts Centre and the National Concert Hall, Ireland, as well as commission awards from the New Music Scheme of the Arts Council of Ireland and the Scottish Arts Council. In 2003-04 Jennifer was composer-in-residence at the National Sculpture Factory, Cork. In 2000 Jennifer won the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, and received first prize in the SCI/ASCAP 2002 Commission Competition. In July 2002 she returned to Darmstadt to lecture in composition at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik. Her work been in a room and a room and a room and a room was shortlisted for the 2003 Gaudeamus Foundation composition prize; moving in/love songs/city front garden with old men was shortlisted for the 2002 Gaudeamus Foundation composition prize. In addition to her activities as a composer, Jennifer frequently performs as a vocalist, specialising in extended techniques. Many of her recent compositions were commissioned for her voice in conjunction with other instruments, and her works have been performed by her and others at festivals such as RTÉ Living Music (Dublin), Kilkenny Arts Festival (Kilkenny), Båstad Kammarmusik Festival (Sweden), Ultraschall (Berlin), Ars Musica (Brussels), Steirischer Herbst, Wien Modern, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Donaueschinger Musiktagen, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Late Music Festival (York), Hamburger Klangwerktage, Gaida (Lithuania), BMIC Cutting Edge, Composer’s Choice (Dublin), SoundField (Chicago) the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt, Stockholm New Music, BELEF (Belgrade), Traiettorie (Parma), Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), SPOR (Denmark), Frau Musica Nova (Cologne), Performa (New York) and Music at the Anthology (New York). Jennifer is also active as an improviser, performing regularly with musicians in Europe and the U.S. Recent projects of note include Physics for the Girl in the Street, a music theatre work commissioned by the Maerzmusik Festival, Berlin, performed by Jennifer Walshe and the Schlagquartett Köln in Berlin, Wiesbaden and Cologne; My Extensive Relationship with Mr. Stephen Patrick M., a piece for ensemble commissioned by Wien Modern, performed by Jennifer Walshe and Apartment House in the Sammlung Essl, Austria; and Grove of Drift, a sound installation commissioned by the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, exhibited in the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, and the Project Arts Centre. Upcoming performances include solo performances at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Ultrasound Festival, Tel Aviv, and a performance of the chamber opera for Barbie dolls XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS!!! in the Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Rome.
Christian Kesten was born in 1966 and works as composer, performance artist, vocalist and stage director. He lives in Berlin, Germany.His interest lies in the „space in-between“: between music and theatre, music and language, between music and the visual arts. His pieces work with the space which opens up between the sound of language and the parallel, non-illustrative action (-cycling 1990; des Kleinen Übergewicht 1995; 45 seconds 2006). They make use of everyday spaces and their sounds, including works made for train stations, in which minimal sounds of winds and brass are spread over the station and mixed with sounds of trains and passers-by (nordbahnhof 1996, bahnhof westend 1996, bahnhof zoo 1997). welcome home is written for the squeaking doors of the Nordbahnhof station in Berlin and two violins which mirror the door sounds: the passers-by experience the music while on the move. In (o.T.) für klarinette in einem raum mit langem nachhall 1(1999) and 2(2000) [(without title) for clarinet in a space with a long reverberation time] the clarinet plays to its own reverberation as a second voice, microtonally, and thus refers to the presence of space. parochial (1998) – for the group „Maulwerker“ (4 female voices, trumpet/voice, clarinet/voice, alto saxophone + additional instruments) – was written especially for the space of the Parochialkirche in Berlin: sculptural shaped sounds are moved in space, while trumpet, clarinet and sax move mostly outside the space and so extending acoustic perception beyond the walls of the church. LIFT (2005) for four performers (voices, trumpet, saxophone) in three elevators work with vertically moving single sounds and silent, visual actions: a temporary sculpture. zunge lösen [releasing the tongue] (solo version 1999/ ensemble version 2001/ trio version 2002) - for tongue and breath - works with the root of articulation and is both a work for voice and a scenic composition, music-theatre in a compact form. His works unter umständen verabschieden wir uns behalten etwas in erinnerung was wesentlicher erscheint als das gegenwärtige fragen aber nicht mehr [possibly we take leave keep remembering something which seems more essential than the present but don't ask anymore] (2004) for water, paper, voice; tongue, breath, larynx; trumpet (trio) and o.T. (atem zunge lippen) [without title (breath tongue lips)] (2005) for voice solo analyze the vocal production and understand breath, tongue, larynx and lips as separate layers in 'counterpoint'. Recently he developed the „video audio field recording“, by recording field sounds with a video camera, composing dense and light sound textures of field recordings and live instruments. The projected images are always fixed camera angles, filming spaces in-between, the incidental, the mundane: the Los Angeles catalogue; dodger stadium; cypress park; urban cafe restroom (all 2007). Kesten studied at the University of Arts (UdK) Berlin (Music: guitar, piano, voice; counterpoint/twelvetone-technique with H.Fladt; musicological thesis on „Silence in the works of John Cage and Morton Feldman“; Experimental music and music-theatre with Dieter Schnebel | Performance Art | Projects with the stage design class of Achim Freyer) and TU Berlin (German literature and linguistics). 1989-91 he studied privately with Michael Vetter (overtone singing, vocal improvisation, calligraphy/notation etc.). Movement studies with various teachers (Amos Hetz a.o.). Since 1987, he has been performing new vocal music and experimental music-theatre throughout Europe and in New York, Rio de Janeiro, Israel, Moscow and Tokyo. He currently works with the ensemble „Maulwerker“ and as soloist. In a long collaboration with Dieter Schnebel he premiered most of his music theatre works since 1987. He has recently worked with Alessandro Bosetti, Jacques Demierre, Chico Mello, Makiko Nishikaze, Iris ter Schiphorst, who wrote solo works or operas for him. Kesten conceives and curates the series „maulwerker performing music“ (since 2005) in Berlin with programs like „poems for feet“, „pro cedere. Music as Process“, „Situationen. Interpenetrations of art and life“ or „Halt’s Maul. Screaming pieces from four decades“, with World Premieres by Antonia Baehr, Alessandro Bosetti, Bill Dietz, Jürg Frey, Robin Hayward, David Helbich, Michael Hirsch, Sven-Åke Johansson, Travis Just, Christian Kesten, Andrea Neumann, Pauline Oliveros, Dieter Schnebel, Emmett Williams, István Zelenka, a.o. Since 2006, he is co-curator of the experimental music concert series Labor Sonor at KULE Berlin www.christiankesten.de
G. Douglas Barrett is a composer whose recent work involves experimental transcriptions of recorded material—field recordings made on Hollywood street corners, a friend playing in front of a camera, recordings of other pieces…Performers of his music include The Barton Workshop, The S.E.M. Ensemble, The Sonar Streich Quartett, Tobias Liebezeit, Seth Josel, and Mark So. He studied with James Tenney, Michael Pisaro, and Sara Roberts at CalArts and is currently a Ph.D. student at SUNY at Buffalo.
Joe Kurdirka was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1978. He studied composition with Michael Pisaro, Alan Stout, James Tenney and Bryn Harrison, at Northwestern University, CalArts, and The University of Huddersfield (where he is currently a postgraduate researcher). Along with composing, he also performs experimental music, usually on the ukulele.
James Orsher is a composer, performer and curator. Many of his works derive their content and material from found sources and chance procedures. He particularly enjoys cooking, borders and intersections, the process of getting to know a place, and short text scores. He studied at CalArts with Michael Pisaro, Stephen "Lucky" Mosko and Sara Roberts, and Amherst College with Lewis Spratlan. He currently purses doctoral studies with Clarence Barlow at UCSB. www.myspace.com/jamesorsher
Harris Wulfson is a composer and multi-instrumentalist in New York City. He holds an MFA in Music Composition from the California Institute of the Arts. www.wulfson.com
Craig Shepard was born in 1975 in Connecticut. Performances of his compositions have been called "touchingly beautiful" (Wolfgang Fuhrmann, Berliner Zeitung) and "ab-original" (Tanja Hell, Westdeutch Zeitung). On the trombone, he has performed with Christian Wolff, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Jürg Frey, and Collegium Novum Zürich. On the sacbut, he has recorded with the Münchner Vokal Ensemble. He lives in Weehawken, New Jersey. www.wandelweiser.de
Eric km Clark: One of the younger generation's most genre-defying musicians, Canadian violinist, composer, and improviser Eric km Clark splits his time between LA and New York City. He has appeared in concert with many of today's leading interpreters of new music, and performs regularly with the California EAR Unit. Compositionally, Mr. Clark employs many styles, including the use of Hearing Deprivation as a medium to explore hermetic, or individualized, canons; and Simplified Instruments [i.e. Instruments with all of the same string <eg. 4 E-strings on a violin>].
Christoph Ogiermann was born in 1967. He started composing by animation of Erwin Koch-Raphael. Since this time he is writing music. He was engaged in several theatre and dance-theatre projects in Bremen, Berlin and Düsseldorf. He works as a reciter, singer, violinist, pianist, live-electronicist and conductor in the fields of free improvisation (e.g with Dror Feiler, Bernhard Lang, Torsten Müller, Serge Baghdassarians, John Hughes), medieval music and new music. 1998 he got a scholarship of the Künstlerhäuser Worpswede. In winter 1999/2000 he got his diploma as a composer in the Hochschule für Künste Bremen, studying with Younghi Pagh-Paan. Important musical and philosophical studies with Georges Nicolas Wolff and Nicolas Schalz. He was one of the founders of the ensemble x-pol-batterie for researches in experimental music and performance. Beginning of the year 2000 he worked in the Archivio Luigi Nono in Venezia/italy by a scholarship of the DAAD. He is member of collective artists association TONTO in Graz / Austria and of the PGNM (projektgruppe neue musik bremen), organizing concerts and a biannual festival for contemporary music, and he is founder and curator of the REM concerts of electronic music in the museum of contemporary art and in the Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst (GAK) in Bremen.
Gisburg is a singer and composer who composes cinematographic music and melody minimalism.She performed and toured Classical New Music extensively with Dieter Schnebel's "maulwerker" ensemble from Berlin. She recorded several CDs for Tzadik and an experimental trip-hop soundtrack for "High Life". She sings chinese Pop Music of the 30's and 50's and is a member of the Hai-Tien Choir with Mrs. Pi-Chu Hsiao. As a sound and music editor for film she has worked with Abigail Child, Ethan Coen, Robert Duvall and Rob Marshall (a.m.o.). Currently she is working on the film sound and music for Amie Siegel's documentary DDR/DDR.
Paula Matthusen is a composer, currently living between New York and Miami. She writes both electroacoustic and acoustic music and realizes sound installations. Her work often considers discrepancies in musical space—real, imagined, and remembered and has been described as "entrancing" by Alex Ross of The New Yorker. Her music has been performed by Alarm Will Sound, International Contemporary Ensemble, orchest de ereprijs, Ballett Frankfurt, noranewdanceco, Kathryn Woodard, Diesel Lounge Boys, and Jody Redhage. Her work has been featured at venues and festivals through America and Europe, including Merkin Concert Hall, WAX, The Stone, Judson Dance, Joyce SoHo, the Construction Company, Das TAT, the Aspen Music Festival, Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music at MassMoCA, Aural Tick Festival, the Gaudeamus New Music Week, SEAMUS, and the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival. She performs with the electroacoustic duo ouisaudei, the oktoschlocks, Groundwave New Music Collective, Gamelan Dharma Swara, Object Collection and recently she has performed alongside Pauline Oliveros, Lukas Ligeti, and amoebazoid. Awards include a Fulbright Grant to work at the Universität der Künste—Berlin with Martin Supper, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers' Award, First Prize in the Young Composers' Meeting Composition Competition, the MacCracken and Langley Ryan Fellowship. Matthusen has also held residencies at create@iEar at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA), STEIM (Netherlands), and the Atlantic Center for the Arts (USA). Matthusen currently teaches electronic music at Florida International University, where she is the Coordinator for Music Technology.
Aaron Meicht: trumpet, computer, improvisation, composition. Aaron has released several albums on Scrapple Records with AB Duo and The Meicht Group. Venues where his music has been featured include ABC No Rio, Knitting Factory, Munich Experimental Music Festival, Kulturhaus Mitte (Berlin), Falaises (Paris). He curates the Rattlestick New Music Series. Aaron has composed music for theater productions at The Flea, Rattlestick Theater, SPF, Keen Company and Prospect Theater, among others. Education: University of the Arts (Philadelphia) and CCMIX (Paris). www.meichtgroup.com/aaronmeicht/
Radu Malfatti was born in 1943 in Innsbruck, Austria. In 1970 he studied music at “akademie für angewandte kunst und musik“ in Graz [trombone with Eje Thelin, piano and composition]. Since 1997 he has lived in Vienna, toured in Europe, North America, Canada, Japan. Numerous lp’s – and cd’s [incus records, ogun, fmp, hat hut, splash, in’n’out, edition wandelweiser etc.] Since 1995 he has been a member of the composer’s collective ”wandelweiser.” Malfatti’s compositions have been performed in Europe, US and Japan. In 2006 he started his own record label “b-boim records”.
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