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)
RSVP via 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. ### 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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