Miguel Frasconi's instruments
Produced by
Electronic Music Foundation
Ear to the Earth 2010
New York Soundscape
Performances
Paula Matthusen
Miguel Frasconi
Jennifer Stock
Aleksei Stevens
Saturday, October 30, 8pm
White Box
329 Broome Street
$15 / $10 seniors & EMF members / $5 students
PROGRAM
Navigable....................................................................................................................Paula Matthusen
Sound performance for resonant frequencies by Paula Matthusen
INSIDE/OUT: A Water Meditation............................................................................Miguel Frasconi
Performance with invented instruments by Miguel Frasconi
At Water's Edge..............................................................................................................Jennifer Stock
An audio/visual presentation of Brooklyn's waterfront by Jennifer Stock
Standing Water: Sound Map of the Gowanus Canal, 2010..........................................Aleksei Stevens
Performance with field recordings by Aleksei Stevens
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Composer and sound artist Paula Matthusen creates electronic and acoustic music and installations. She has written for diverse instrumentations, such as run-on sentence of the pavement for piano, ping-pong balls, and electronics. Her work has been featured at numerous venues and festivals, including Roulette Intermedium, Merkin Concert Hall, Sonic Arts Research Center, Tanglewood Festival, and SEAMUS.
Miguel Frasconi
Miguel Frasconi uses glass objects, eletronics, and "de-evolved" instruments to create music from a uniquely imagined tradition. His glass instruments are struck, blown, stroked and coaxed into vibration. Miguel has worked closely with composers John Cage, Jon Hassell, James Tenney, Morton Subotnick, and dance pioneer Anna Halprin. He was a founding member of the new music ensemble The Glass Orchestra.
Aleksei Stevens
The work of Brooklyn-based composer, sound artist, and laptop performer Aleksei Stevens incorporates traditional instruments with found sound and interactive computer music. He has performed in the US and abroad, and presented work in festivals including Make Music NY (NYC), Source (Washington, DC), and Tevereterno (Rome). In 2008, he received a MacDowell colony fellowship.
ABOUT THE MUSIC
In Navigable, Paula Matthusen presents a theme and variations based on the resonant frequencies of the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel – a space not only renowned for its significance in the development of subways, but also as a site of cultural intrigue.
Matthusen in performance
Miguel Frasconi’s INSIDE/OUT: A Water Meditation transforms information on NYC water consumption, and the journey taken from its source to its destination, into a score to be performed on invented instruments inspired by water as a physical material.
Frasconi in performance
Jennifer Stock’s At Water's Edge compiles footage and sounds from the liminal points on Brooklyn's waterfront, capturing and abstracting the water/horizon line and the assemblage of rock, light, water, air, and detritus on the shore line.
Stock in performance
Aleksei Stevens made recordings of the Gowanus Canal in order to isolate its sounds from the highly visible evidence of its pollution. The resulting recordings were devoid not only of the typical sounds of wildlife (save the odd gull), or those of ships and docks, but indeed of the very sounds of water itself. Standing Water: Sound Map of the Gowanus Canal, 2010 captures the world of water that does not lap, flow, babble or splash, but simply sits -- amidst both the cacophonous trains, trucks, and heavy machinery of the daytime, and the eerie silence of the night.
Stevens in performance
SITES
EMF :: Arts Electric :: EMF Productions :: Ear to the Earth :: CDeMusic :: EMF Media :: EMF Institute