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  • Subject: [silence] New Works by Emerging Composers: Workshop Performance, Feb. 17 @ 8 pm, Willow Place Auditorium
  • Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:31:53 -0500

The Orchestra of the
S.E.M. Ensemble performs

WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE
new works by emerging composers

Thursday, February 17 @ 8 pm
Willow Place Auditorium
26 Willow Place, Brooklyn Heights
Free Admission (contributions are appreciated)
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or by phone: (718) 488-7659

 

The performance is the result of a two-day Workshop and Reading of New Compositions, including works by Carolyn Chen (San Diego, CA), Jason Brogan (Charleston, SC), David Kant (Hanover, NH), Beau Sievers (Brooklyn, NY), K. C. M. Walker (Midletown, CT), & Andrew Christopher Smith (Brooklyn, NY).

Program:

Jason Brogan, 44 nocturnes for morton feldman
David Kant, Variations for Functions and Partitions of Time: Variation XVII (Quartet for Ruth)
Beau Sievers, Coordination Study for Three Players
Andrew Christopher Smith, -
K. C. M. Walker, Trio No. 1
Carolyn Chen, wilder shores (embryos)

Jason Brogan (b. 1983) is a composer and researcher based in New York and South Carolina. His work has been presented in the United States and abroad, at conferences and festivals, and in smaller venues, as part of the Dog Star Orchestra at the California Institute of the Arts (near Los Angeles, CA), An Exchange with Sol LeWitt at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA), Experimental Music at St. Mark's Church (New York), Konzerte in der Galerie Mark Müller (Zürich, CH), Nothing New? Understanding Newness in Medieval and Contemporary Music (University of Huddersfield, UK), the S.E.M. Ensemble Reading of New Compositions Workshop (Brooklyn, NY), and Wandelweiser at the Goethe-Institut Niederlande (Amsterdam, NL), among others. He curated the project Michael Pisaro: 2000 - 2010 and the concert series Silent Music: 4'33'' and Beyond, and currently performs research in contemporary philosophy and music theory.

David Kant works at the intersection of science, music and mathematics. With Cameron Hu, he recently he curated MATA Interval 3.1: Architectures of Sound at ISSUE Project Room, a program attending to the relation of sound to built space. He studied music composition at Yale with Michael Klingbeil and has worked in residence with Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, David Dunn, Elliott Sharp, Bernhard Lang and more at Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida) and at Ostrava Days 2009 (Czech Republic). For more information, please visit http://uploaddownloadperform.net/DavidKant/Index

Beau Sievers is a composer, improviser, and music cognition researcher. His music stages confrontations between people and formal systems, and has been performed by Doug Perkins, Nuno Aroso, and Alex Waterman. He has improvised with Chris Peck, Will Guthrie, Patrick Barter, and Hey Exit. His research focuses on cross-modal perception of emotion. He holds a Master’s degree in Digital Musics from Dartmouth College, where he studied music composition with Larry Polansky and Newton Armstrong and cognitive neuroscience with Thalia Wheatley.

K. C. M. Walker (b. 1985) was born in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in the small town of Travelers Rest, SC where he became interested in composing while in grade school. He has since studied music theory and composition at the Fine Art Center in Greenville, SC and at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2008. In 2009, he attended the Ostrava Days Institute as a resident student. Now a resident of Middletown, CT, he is pursuing a Master of Arts degree in Composition at Wesleyan University, working with advisor Alvin Lucier. His current interests include games, puzzles and mythologies.

Andrew Christopher Smith is a composer based in Brooklyn. His work focuses on microtonality and the metaphysics of the voice. He has studied composition with Donnacha Dennehy and John Peel, and his music has been performed by fEARnoMUSIC, the Node Ensemble (Dublin, Ireland), and his own ensembles.

Carolyn Chen was born in New Jersey and live in San Diego.  Some recent projects have been human windchimes, supermarket music, an out-of-water ballet, and music for Red Light Ensemble, red fish blue fish, Kallisti and predatory tunicate chorus, and thingNY.  Current interests include falling and slowness.

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S.E.M. Ensemble’s Workshop & Reading of New Works is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Meet the Composer’s Cary New Music Performance Fund, the Phaedrus Foundation, and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.




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