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Composer/Performer Ensemble Ne(x)tworks
performs:
The Music of Cornelius Dufallo & Chris
McIntyre
Opening Night of Season-long Residency
@ ISSUE Project Room
March 22, 2006, 8PM, $10
(sound installation - 5 to 8PM)
400 Carroll Street (btw Bond and Nevins)
Brooklyn, NY 11231
718.330.0313
Joan La Barbara - voice/electronics, Kenji Bunch
- viola, Yves Dharamraj - cello, Cornelius Dufallo - violin, Stephen Gosling -
piano, Ariana Kim - violin, Chris McIntyre - trombone/electronics, Peter Evans
- trumpet
New York, NY - On March 22,
2006,
ISSUE Project Room
(IPR) will present a shared evening of new and recent works
by violinist and composer Cornelius Dufallo
and trombonist, composer, and music curator Chris McIntyre.
The concert marks the official opening event of SILOMUSIC: Ne(x)tworks
2006,
IPR¹s first ever residency program
for artists and ensembles featuring the composer/performer group Ne(x)tworks
(please follow this link http://www.nextworksmusic.net/silomusic_brochure.pdf
for further details). Formed in June 2002, Ne(x)tworks continues the ³Maverick²
tradition in American music by creating and interpreting
work that primarily explores intersections between composition and
improvisation. Over the course of the Spring Œ06 season, the group will
utilize IPR¹s facility to develop new works and programs which are then made
available to the community through panel discussions, performances, and
post-performance receptions.
Composer and Program Info
Cornelius Dufallo¹s
compositional aesthetic is informed by years of playing in many of New York¹s
most compelling ensembles, including Flux Quartet, Nurse Kaya, Butch Morris¹
Skyscraper, and recently, as the newest member of Ethel. On the 22nd,
Ne(x)tworks presents two premiere performances and several works from Dufallo¹s
oeuvre, including Pacem,
a recent piece for solo violin and electronics, the one you call lost
for strings, piano and voice (featuring Ne(x)tworks member Joan La Barbara
singing the poetry of IPR staff member Dana Maisel) and The Fifth Dream,
which incorporates the poetry of Ron Price in a setting for strings, voice, and
live-electronic processing. Premiere performances
include Palindrome Variations,
for two violins, and X,
an ensemble work that engages Ne(x)tworks¹ diverse and world-class talents. X will actually exist within
Chris McIntyre¹s new sound installation silOM (which begins at 5PM) as the
ensemble physically enters its aural tableau and then seamlessly into Dufallo¹s
new material.
silOM
represents
McIntyre¹s debut sound installation.
Heard moving around the sixteen hemispheric speakers hanging in the space
(created by sound engineer Stephan Moore) are ³dry² and altered field
recordings collected at the IPR site, layered in and out, highlighting various
ambient details, obscuring others. The influence of his recent performance
experience (TILT Brass Band, Michael J. Schumacher¹s Room Pieces)
and curatorial work (The Kitchen) is evident in the installation and continues
into two new ensemble works, A31
and Sigmar [from 0].
The title of A31 is derived from the
unsanctioned protests in NYC on August 31st, 2004, during the Republican
National Convention. Sigmar [from 0] is named for and inspired by
the work of Postmodernist German visual artist Sigmar Polke. Both pieces
utilize graphic notation as an interface for conventional as well as
improvisative elements. The aesthetic for these pieces both overtly and obliquely
suggests essential qualities of their respective inspirations: collective
outrage and ennui in A31, and the abstract/kitch
dialogic found in Polke¹s paintings. Also on the program is Conversions, a mutational improvising
strategy that explores textural and elemental ³binarism² in sound.
A Note on
SILOMUSIC
ISSUE has been integrally involved in Ne(x)tworks' development since 2003. This has been a natural collaboration given our shared, uncompromising vision of presenting new and site-specific work by established and emerging artists. The residency, entitled SILOMUSIC (a reference to IPR's unusual space on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn), continues this relationship by offering Ne(x)tworks full use of our facility to develop new works and programs which are then made available to the community through open rehearsals, panel discussions, performances, and post-performance receptions. We look forward to welcoming Ne(x)tworks and its audience into our space as this important process unfolds.
Suzanne Fiol, Issue Project Room
IPR
Biography
ISSUE
Project Room [IPR] provides an open and
versatile environment where both established and emerging artists can conduct,
exhibit and perform new and site-specific work according to their respective
visions. Through an evolving collaboration with curators, artists and
educators, the Project Room fosters a wide-range of artistic projects that
challenge and expand conventional practices in art. IPR fulfills its mission
through a series of innovative programs, events, exhibitions, performances,
talks and concerts. Our programs are designed to present innovative projects,
rare artist appearances, first time showings and multidisciplinary events,
highlighting the creative process while encouraging broad public appreciation
and access to the art of our times.
Ne(x)tworks
Biography
Ne(x)tworks is a collaborative ensemble of
performing composers based in New York City. Formed in June 2002, the group
continues the ³Maverick² tradition in American music by creating and
interpreting work that primarily explores intersections between composition and
improvisation. Ne(x)tworks' repertoire encompasses an extraordinary range of
aesthetics, including works by composers of the New York School and
idiosyncratic new works from artists within the ensemble such as experimental
operas by renowned composer/vocalist Joan La Barbara and composer/violist Kenji
Bunch.
Press
Contacts
Suzanne
Fiol
718.330.0313
| suzanne@issueprojectroom.org
Chris
McIntyre
917.676.4585
| chris@cmcintyre.com
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