A
FESTIVAL
OF NEW MEDIA, MUSIC and ART - MAY 4-7, 2016 - FREE Paralelní
Polis -
Dělnická
43 -
PRAGUE 7
- TRAMS 1, 12, 14, 25 - Dělnickámap - Festival Schedule
The
echo of the fluxus movement resonates in this time—a ongoing hedge
against the exclusivity of discipline-specific art and music. Echofluxx, produced by artists with
roots in the fluxus movement, an annual
festival of new
media, art and music, presents a free spectrum of experimental art and
has found kindred spirits with Paralelni Polis,
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• INTERNATIONAL
EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
• FOUR INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL
MUSIC ENSEMBLES
• TRIBUTE TO FLUXUS ARTIST PAUL
PANHUYSEN
• THREE EDGIE BITCOIN CAFE EVENTS
fama Q
David Danel and Roman Hranička – violins, Ondřej Martinovský – viola, Balázs Adorján – violoncello
fama Q is a string quartet
that was founded in 2005 in Prague. Its
members, being also orchestral musicians with the Prague Philharmonia,
were always devoted to chamber and string quartet music making. fama Q
presents regularly the works of contemporary composers, be it the
traditional approaches of 20th century or the avant-garde classics
(Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Dutilleux, Cage, Kurtág, Ligeti, Kagel,
Nono, Feldman, Xenakis amongst others), as well as prominent
international and Czech composers of these days (G. F. Haas, Husa,
Kopelent, Smolka, Srnka, Graham, LoudováMarek, Matej, Pudlák, Zemek,
Burlas). fama Q paves the way too for emerging young Czech
and
international authors (Adámek, Pelo, Ho, Kadeřábek, McMullin, Lejava).
Finally, fama Q also does not cease to explore the beauty of
traditional string quartet repertoire (Haydn, Mozart, Dvořák,
Janáček,
Shostakovitch, Martinů). fama Qhas appeared at renowned Prague concert
series such as
Přítomnost/Presence, PKF - Prague Philharmonia's Krása dneška/Le Bel
aujourd'hui/The Beauty of Today, at festivals such as Contempuls, Der
Film, New Music Marathon, Třídení (all in Prague), Exposition of New
Music (Brno, CZ), MusicOlomouc, Forfest, You:rope Together (Essen,
Germany), Afyonkarahisar Classical Music Festival (Turkey),
Evenings
of New Music, Festival SPACE (Bratislava, Slovakia), and in
concerts
in Japan. Members of fama Q also led numerous workshops to promote
contemporary music performance at the Academies of Music in Prague and
Bratislava, at the Palacký University in Olomouc and also on their
tours abroad in Romania (conservatories in Cluj – Napoca, Iasi,
Bucharest) and in Turkey (Afyonkarahisar). During the year of 2011 fama
Q made their US debut (Philips Collection, Washington D.C.) and
also
toured Slovakia and Romania with the works of Janáček, Ligeti, Kurtág
and Xenakis. In 2012 the quartet presented Marek Kopelent's works at
the Prague Spring Festival, in 2013 appeared at ISCM World New
Music
Days 2013 being held in Bratislava, Košice and Vienna. 2014 fama Q was
featured at festival Smetana Days Pilsen and Janáček's May Ostrava.
2015 saw fama Q perform at Ostrava Days - bienale of New Music, tribute
concerts for the holocaust victim composers in Prague and Terezín and
record works of the Canadian composer Rita Ueda ao. In 2016 invitations
follow again from the prestigious Prague Spring Festival, to the
project Performing the Jewish Archive (Prague), to Jerusalem, Israel,
Toledo, Spain, Quiberon, France, and elsewhere. Click here for
Czech translation.
PROGRAM
Karel Husa(*1921)(video) String Quartet no.4 “Poems” (1989) I. Bells,
II. Sunlight, III. Darkness, IV. Hope, V. Wild Birds, VI. Freedom.
Sobota, 7. Mario Van Horrik a Petra Dubach (Holandsko); Pocta Paula
Panhuysen strany Maciunas Ensemble (Holandsko); Cafe
PerformanceJiří Suchánek (Brno); Začátek programu v 20.00.
Echofluxx
16 Description
Echofluxx
16
is a festival of new media, visual art,
and experimental music produced by Efemera of Prague. This year it will
again present
international and Czech performers in a four-day festival at Paralelní
Polis in Prague, May 4-7, 2016. Media
Performances curated by Dan
Senn. Cafe Performancescurated
by Ladislav Zelezni
(Prague). Fixed
Media Works
for experimental video and sound adjudicated by Echofluxx team.; Live
Streaming of Performances hosted by David Means and Michael
Karman.
Festival
Concept
. The
echo of the fluxus movement resonates in this time—a ongoing hedge
against the exclusivity of discipline-specific art and music. Echofluxx 16, a festival of new
media, art and music, presents a spectrum of new art
and music, from experimental film and poetry, to experimental music and
art. It uses an organic curatorial method, with artists suggesting
artists who would like to present with other artists, and so on. The
festival is made possible with the assistance of
volunteer help and in-kind
support.
Festival
Concept The
echo of the fluxus movement resonates in this time—a ongoing hedge
against the exclusivity of discipline-specific art and music. Echofluxx 16, a festival of new
media, art and music, presents a spectrum of new art
and music, from experimental film and poetry, to experimental music and
art. It uses an organic curatorial method, with artists suggesting
artists who would like to present with other artists, and so on. The
festival is made possible with the assistance of
volunteer help and in-kind
support. FILM
FESTIVAL ARTISTS
Christopher Coleman (Hong Kong)and Jamsen Law(Hong Kong). Christopher
is a composer, conductor, trombonist, is currently Composition
Concentration Coordinator of the Hong Kong Baptist University
Department of Music. He has also taught at the University of Chicago,
DePaul University, Columbia College, and in the Interlochen Center for
the Arts summer program. He earned his Ph. D. from the University of
Chicago where he studied composition with Ralph Shapey and Shulamit
Ran. While at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned the M.A.
in composition, he studied with George Crumb, George Rochberg, and
Richard Wernick. While most of Coleman's works are scored for
traditional forces, work at Hong Kong Baptist University has resulted
in two large scale multimedia / improvisation pieces: September
Variations and Prophecies for a New Millennium. He has received
commissions from the Hong Kong Wind Philharmonia, the Hong Kong Bach
Choir and Orchestra, the Hong Kong Composers' Guild, the DuPage
Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago-area chapter of the American String
Teachers' Association, and the University of Georgia Trombone Choir,
among others. He has been awarded first place in the Percussive Arts
Society Percussion Ensemble Composition Contest and the ASUC/SESAC
Composition Contest. His music is published by Maecenas Music, Theodore
Presser, Ensemble Publications, C. Alan Publications and Crown Music
Press. As a trans-media artist interested in the creative process,
Coleman has worked in sculpture and computer graphics, and performs
stand-up comedy. He is a founding member of People’s Liberation Improv,
Hong Kong’s first and only regularly performing comedy improv troupe.
He can also be heard Sundays in October and November on RTHK Radio 4
when he programmes and presents the series Jazz, Blues, and Broadway. Jamsen
Law (Hong Kong)
became involved in performance and video art during his graduate
studies at Hong Kong University in the early 1990s through activities
organized by local multidisciplinary arts groups 20 Beans + A Box, Zuni
Icosahedron, and Videotage. These organizations not only promoted
experimental art forms, but also advocated socially engaged art
practices, much like art groups that flourished in Europe and North
America in the 1980s, such as London’s Black Audio Film Collectiveand
New York’s Paper Tiger Television. These alternative practices, often
politically engaged, sought to bring a voice to pressing issues often
left out of mainstream
discourse—lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues,
women’s rights, and freedom of expression. His first videos were made
in the mid-1990s, a period of heightened anxiety for Hong Kong’s
citizens in the run-up to the 1997 British handover of Hong Kong to
China. However, the 1990s was also a historically important decade for
the LGBT community in Hong Kong; homosexuality was decriminalized in
1991. Although art based on identity politics was already passé in the
1990s in places like New York—where the genre had peaked in the 1980s
with artists such as Adrian Piper and Gregg Bordowitz examining race,
class, and gender in their work—this self-reflective practice remained
unchartered territory for Hong Kong’s artists. Law’s first videos,
Every Time We Say Goodbye, Bathroom Fantasy (1997), I went up there and
I saw someone bathing (1998), I think therefore I am confused (1998),
and Re-presenting Queer Propaganda and Works (1998) were basic
explorations of the medium—playing with light, color, and sound, and
touching upon issues relevant to the artist, what he described as a
“representation of indescribable desire.”Although hardly a mid-career
artist at age twenty-seven, his four-chapter video series Matching Four
with Twelve, completed over a five-year period (2000-2005), coincided
with his graduate studies in media artat IAMAS. At the time, he wrote
to me, “Frankly, i don’t mind to give up media art or even art in
general after these two years in iamas.” One critic described this
highly abstract series, comprised of image manipulations with no real
narrative structure, as filled with “long boring shots.” But like a
diary, haiku poem, or even Twitter entry, Matching was perhaps never
intended for mass consumption. In fact, diaries tend to be intensely
boring for anyone aside from the diarist or those intimately involved
in the life of the writer.
William A. Brown
is an independent filmmaker and visual artist whose award winning work
has been shown at festivals throughout the world. As President of
Atlanta Video, Mr. Brown has produced literally thousands of media
projects since the company’s inception in 1976. His documentaries have
aired on PBS and The Arts & Entertainment Network. Mr. Brown also
writes feature films and film articles. He recently retired from the
Film & Media Studies Department at Emory University. Mr. Brown has
written, produced, and directed projects for IBM, the Coca-Cola
Company, and the High Museum of Art. His art works are in the permanent
collection of the High Museum of Art and have been shown at the
Corcoran Museum of Art. In his spare time Mr. Brown can be found
filming architectural oddities and ritual crowd activities anywhere
from Las Vegas to Angkor Wat.
The
Hong Kong New Music Ensemble
The Hong
Kong New
Music Ensemble (HKNME) is a culturally transformative
ensemble
which
was founded in 2008. It is widely praised for its innovative
programming, the ensemble productions include concerts, outdoor
performances, educational
outreach, and interdisciplinary
collaborations with artists from different fields.
The HKNME consists of over fifteen members who perform in various
combinations in a variety of settings. The HKNME performs
difficult
repertoire by composers such as Fausto Romitelli,
John Luther Adams,
György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Steve Reich and Iannis
Xenakis and has
collaborated internationally with artists such as conductors Manuel
Nawri, Ulrich Pöhl and Lio Kuok-man; soloists Jean Geoffroy
(percussion) and Tian Hao-jiang (bass), among others; and has
collaborated with organisations including Zuni Icosahedron, Hong
Kong
Chinese Orchestra, Guangdong Modern Dance Company, Alice Theatre
Laboratory, GRAME (France), West Kowloon Cultural District Authority,
and the Hong Kong Arts Centre. The ensemble
has been featured at
the New Vision Arts Festival, Freespace Fest, Le French May and Hong
Kong Arts Festival. Besides its artistic activities in Hong Kong, the
ensemble has toured Australia, Cambodia, Greater China, Malaysia, Taiwan and Singapore. A regular
collaborator with music departments of
all tertiary institutions in Hong Kong,
the HKNME became the Resident
Company at the Hong Kong Academy forPerforming Arts in 2014. It has
been a one-year-grantee of the Hong Kong Arts Development
Council since
2012. In 2013 and 2015, the organisation received project grants under
the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Home Affairs Bureau
to pioneer “The Modern Academy”, the foremost training institute for
contemporary classical music in Asia. For
Echofluxx the ensemble
will be comprised of five performers including Chiu Chan Ching
(guzheng, top left photo), Euna Kim (violin, top right), Selena Choi
(violin. lower left), William Lane (viola, lower right), and Zhu Mu
(cello, middle right).
Under
the direction of David Means (left)
(Minneapolis), the Echofluxx Ensemble will present Apropos of Not That - A Pop-up Performance
Opera by
members Oskar Kubica
(drums, Prague), Tereza Kučerová (tableau, Prague), Michael Karman
(text, touch pad, Spain), Mary Garvie(voice,
Minneapolis), Jon Spayde(narration,
St. Paul,
left), Michael Croswell
(above, righ) (guitar,
video*, St.
Paul, see video above)
and David Means (turntable, scores, photography). Based on Michael
Karman’s novel, performers relate to each other
through a highly
controlled yet stubbornly independent improvisational
system of
shifting textures and narratives describing a day in the lives of two
women who journey
into a labyrinth
of language
itself.
Austin Leung (Hong Kong) "I
forgot how many times I was told that I can either be a contemporary
composer or a commercial composer. I however love both music equally.
This piece is too tonal to be a contemporary piece, but is too
contemporary to be commercial music. I dont know how to classify it,
but do I really have to? It is a piece that I really love. What other
matters?"
Joungmin Lee(Korea)
is a composer, choral conductor and digital music artist. Also he is an
award-winning composer of 2016 Hong Kong New Music Ensemble Prague
Concert and Recording for his string quartet ‘Vexatious' as well as the
2016 Valencia International Performance Academy & Festival. ABLAZE
Records said “The piece has tremendous color, beautiful textures,
evocative passages and most of all uses the ensemble brilliantly.” He
is interested in instrumental as well as electro-acoustic music with an
interdisciplinary approach. He attempts to find innovative sound both
in instrumental and digital worlds to manipulate listener’s perception
floating between imagination and reality.
Mei-Fang
Lin(Taiwan-USA)is
currently a visiting professor in composition at the University of
Illinois at Urbana - Champaign. She received her doctoral degree from
the University of California at Berkeley in 2007 where she had studied
with Edmund Campion. She was awarded a Frank Huntington Beebe Fund from
Boston and the George Ladd Paris Prize from UC Berkeley to study with
composer Philippe Leroux in Paris during 2002-2005. She was also
selected by the IRCAM reading panel to pursue the one-year computer
music course "Cursus de Composition" at IRCAM in Paris during 2003-2004.
Major awards include those from the Seoul International Competition for
Composers, Bourges Competition (France), American Music Center, Look
& Listen Festival Prize (U.S.), Pierre Schaeffer Competition
(Italy), SCI/ASCAP Student Commission Competition in (U.S.), Luigi
Russolo Competition (Italy), Prix SCRIME (France), National Association
of Composers, (U.S.), 21st Century Piano Commission Competition (U.S.),
and the Music Taipei Composition Competition.
Rodney Wascka II(USA),
composer, is best known for his algorithmic compositions, his unusual
operas, and theater pieces. An expert in computer music, his works
often include electronic computer music or other media: visuals,
theater, or poetry. He also frequently composes music for traditional
ensembles. His music has been performed throughout North America and
Europe, in Japan, China, Argentina, Columbia, Puerto Rico, Jamaica,
Israel, South Africa, and elsewhere. Important festivals and concert
halls where his works have been performed include the Sound Ways
Festival in Russia, numerous instances of the International Computer
Music Conference, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the US
festival, the World Saxophone Congress in Montreal, Merkin Concert Hall
in New York, the Sheremetev Palace, Glinka Hall, and the Composers'
Center in St. Petersburg, Russia, the International Review of Composers
in Belgrade, the Purcell Room in London, the Museo Reina Sofia in
Madrid, and many others. Waschka is Professor of Arts Studies at North
Carolina State University where he directs the Arts Studies Program and
the Arts NOW Series.
Sarah Westwood(UK)
writes acoustic and electronic music, often found in the world of
music for dance, visual arts + AV. Her sounds are often
formed from meditated concepts, mythologies
and organic materials. She is drawn towards music for dance, a
collaborating artist with Eleven Farrer House and a composer at the
first Choreographer and Composers Lab at Phoenix Dance Theatre,
Leeds.She has
previously written film
music for 'awarding winning' Adda Films and Malik Roberts (BBC
Fresh). Her work has been performed in Europe and America, including
at South Bank Centre, Wales Millennium Centre, Phoenix Dance
Theatre, The ATRiuM, John Pritchard Hall Bangor University,
Tide Mills, Laban and at Manchester Film Festival, Zoom Film
Festival, Cardiff Mini Film Festival, Ffresh Film
Awards... Her music has been played by ensembles including players
of BBC National Orchestra of Wales,. Bangor New Music Ensemble,
Onix Ensemble (Mexico), amongst others.
Stephen Yip(Hong Kong-USA)
was born
in Hong Kong and now living in U.S.A. He received his doctor of musical
arts (D.M.A.) at Rice University and
bachelor of fine arts (B.F.A.) at the Hong
Kong Academy for Performing Arts. His mentors include
Wing-fai Law, Clarence Mak, Arthur Gottschalk and
Ellsworth Milburn. He has attended major music festivals include:
Wellesley Composers Conference, Aspen Music Festival, Asian Composers’
League, ISCM World Music Days, Music X, June in Buffalo, IMPULS Ensemble
Akademie, California E.A.R. Unit Composer Seminar, the 13th
International Summer Program, Czech Republic,
International Composers’ Workshop, Luxembourg, the International Summer
Course for New Music, Darmstadt, Germany and residencies include:
Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for
the Arts, Nebraska, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts , Yaddo
Colony, NY and MacDowell Colony, NH.
Banner
image by Brigid Burke (Melbourne,
Australia). Festival Organizers
With Special Thanks to... Jiří Sovinec
& Petra Vlachynská equipment transportation.
Douglas Knehans (USA-Australia)
received his initial music education at the Canberra School of Music
(Australian National University) where
he graduated with a high distinction in music composition. In 1990 he
received scholarships and
awards from Queens College, City University of New York where he gained
his M.A. in composition with Thea Musgrave. Upon graduation he
received the first Luigi Dallapiccola Composition Award (1991) for
outstanding achievement in music composition. After graduating from
Queens College, Knehans entered the Doctoral program at Yale University
where he studied with Jacob Druckman, Lukas Foss, Martin Bresnick and
Jonathan Berger. Receiving his doctorate in 1996, he earned the Woods
Chandler Memorial
Prize for best composition in a larger form. After Yale, Knehans
was appointed to the University of Alabama School of Music as Chair of
Composition, Theory and Electronic Music and Director of
the Southern Center for Research into ElectroAcoustic Music. Between
2000-2006 he was the Tasmanian State Chair, Federal
Board member, Chair, and Executive Director (Syllabus Development)
Music Craft of the Australian Music Examinations Board. In 2005 he
created the Australian International Symphony Orchestra Institute and
from 2005-2008 he was the Artistic and Executive Director of that
Institute. He was Professor of Music and Director of the University of
Tasmania Conservatorium of Music between 2000-2008, and Dean of the
College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) at the University of Cincinnati
from 2008-2010. He is currently the Norman Dinerstein Professor of
Composition Scholar at CCM. He is also Director and Producer of ABLAZE
Records, an Australian-American Company specializing in supporting new
music of living composers. ABLAZE
Records pursues this mission with a
robust series of recordings of Electronic and Computer music; New
Orchestral Recordings with the brilliant Czech Orchestra Filharmonie
Brno (the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra) and new music specialist
conductor Mikel Toms; as well as a new choral series of
recordings
using the First Readings Choir of Minneapolis under the director of J.
David Moore, with discs distributed worldwide on NAXOS Music Library,
Albany Music Distributors and others. Knehans' music is available on
New World Records, ERM Media, Crystal Records, Move Records and Ablaze
Records. He self-publishes his music under the Armadillo Edition
imprint.
Ladislav Železný (Prague)
studied at the School of Applied Arts in Bechyně and Fine Arts in Brno
where he graduated in 2004 in the studio of M-V-P
(multimedia-video-performance). He works for the Czech Radio as a sound
and music engineer in the realization of radio dramas, documentaries
and special projects. Since 2008 he collaborates on the project
rAdioCUSTICA intermediate (radioart.cz). In 2011, he became one of the
ten finalists of the project "Europe - a sound panorama" at ZKM.
Created sound and music compositions for short films (Monoskop No.3 -
2011, Monkey King - 2010), radio plays (Enigma Emmy Goring - 2010 Pro
patria mori - 2014 Love and Money - 2015). During the years 2006-11
musically contributed to projects for non-verbal theater and
contemporary dance (Extraction, Vrstvení, Iné ráno, Intenzita
neviditelného). Creates sound installations (Hlavou proti zdi - 2012,
Tabula rasa - 2013), radiophonic and acousmatic composition (Before
During After - 2007, ŠUM - 2012, 220 sound layers in five minutes -
2011, ZERO - 2014). Occasionally performs common audio performance
(Skupina C, Skupina B, Naru Tigama, OEM arts).
David Means (USA)
graphic scores, installations and performance systems have been
exhibited and presented by the Walker Art Center, IRCAM, Documenta IX,
the Xi An Conservatory of Music (China), Het Stroomhuis (Holland),
Logos Foundation (Belgium) and the Arts Council of Great Britain. He is
currently an Associate Professor of Media and Fine Arts and producer of
the Strange Attractors Festival of Experimental Intermedia Art at
Metropolitan State University. David contributed greatly to Echofluxx
12 as a technician, performer, U-Stream interviewer
and video-photo
documentarian for Echofluxx 12-15 See
David's site here.
Michael Karman (Spain) is
the
publisher, editor, and chief writer of Asymmetry Music Magazine,
an online magazine that is devoted to contemporary music. Karman lives
in Europe and Oregon after many years living in the Los Angeles area.
He
trained as a musician, is a novelist, and has taught writing for many
years at university. Here
is a recent interview of Michael in a Portland publication. Dan Senn(Prague-Wisconsin)
is an intermedia artist working in music
composition, kinetic sound sculpture, experimental and documentary
film. He has been a professor of music and art in the United States and
Australia. Dan travels internationally as a lecturer, performer and
installation artist living in Prague, The Czech Republic, where he
directs
the Echofluxx festivals, and Watertown, Wisconsin, the USA,
with his
partner-collaborator, Caroline Senn. He studied music and art at the
University of Wisconsin at La Crosse with Truman Daniel Hayes and
Leonard Stach, and at the University of Illinois, Urbana, with
Salvatore Martirano, Ben Johnston and Herbert Brun. His music is
published by Smith Publications of Baltimore. His work for "Any Three
Treble Instruments In the Same Key," called "Rivus," was released in
2015 by Ravello Records, along with works by Scotto and Cage and
performed by the
McCormick Percussion Group. Dan founded Newsense-Intermedium of Tacoma,
Washington, and cofounded Roulette Intermedium of New York City.
He is the artistic director of Echofluxx. FILM FESTIVAL
ARTISTS Paolo Geminiani(Italy) studied
composition, electronic music, choral music and choral
conducting, and band instrumentation at the conservatoires of Bologna
and Modena. Subsequently he advanced into the Master program at Verona
Opera Academy with Azio Corghi, Triennal course degree at ICONS Academy
Novara with Alessandro Solbiati, and other courses and masterclasses
with Franco Donatoni, Adriano Guarnieri, Alvise Vidolin, Gyorgy Ligeti,
Gerard Grisey, Goffredo Petrassi, Niccolň Castiglioni. He has won and
received commendations at various competitions including: Gustav Mahler
Klagenfurt, Counterpoint-Italy International, SuonoSonda, Daegu
Contemporary Music Orchestra, Valentino Bucchi Prize, Pierre Schaeffer,
Egidio Carella, Reggello International Festival, and many others. His
works performed in Italy, Slovenia, UK, South Corea, Japan, USA,
Argentina, Brazil, Canada. His scores are published in Italy by Ut
Orpheus, Sconfinarte, Bčrben, MAP Editions, Agenda, and TEM-Taukay; and
CD’s are available on RMN Label, SuonoSonda, Soundiff, Accademia
Pescarese, MobyDick. www.paologeminiani.it. Donato D'Antoniooriginated the video. Mirco Denicolň
says "I was born in Cattolica (RN) - Italy
in 1962. I learned ceramics and graduated in 1981, at the Art Institute
of Pesaro and in 1983 and at the Art Institute of Faenza. I started to
exhibit my artistic works in 1987. I worked until 2003 in the ceramic
industry as a researcher and a developer. I have been working since
1999 as professor of Laboratory at the ISIA (Institute of Industrial
Design) in Faenza. Since 2008 I teach drawing at the municipal school
of Fine Arts "Tommaso Minardi" of Faenza. In recent years I translate
my ceramic works into video animation and art books. My work are in
public and private collections and museums in Italy and abroad."
The
Maciunas Ensemble
Jan van Riet, Leon van Noorden,
and Mario van Horrik.
Mario
van Horrik and Petra Dubach(Eindhoven,
The Netherlands) are
soundartists. Their work includes concerts, installations,
performances, works in progress, media translations, video's and
objects. The main focus of their work is the combination of movement
and sound. In their opinion both media are similar: if there is no
movement, there is no sound. Petra and Mario make
unique, uncomparable works with the simplest possible means: copper
plates, aluminium bars, string, fans, water, air, paper, etc. They have
presented installations worldwide at Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Art in
General, New York City; Synagogue od Palmovka, Prague; Cinema Rex,
Belgrade; Galerie Artetage, Vladivostok; Museum School of Fine Arts,
Boston; Amber festival, Istanbul. Concerts amongst others in:
Experimental Intermedia, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;
Interzone Festival, Novi Sad; Ringring festval, Belgrade; BOA, Lucerne;
LOGOS, Ghent; Festival Experimental Music, Munich; Audio Art Festival,
Krakow. Performances: Castle of Imagination, Usztka, Poland; PAF,
Cleveland; Cuba Culture, Muenster; Interaczje, Piotrkow Trybunalski,
Poland; Spritzenhaus, Hamburg. Petra and Mario form part of the
multi-media group Antarctica, together with architect and lightartist
Tom Veeger and media-artist Mark Dijkstra. Also they are closely
related to Paul and Helene Panhuijsen and the former Apollohuis. Mario
is a member of The Maciunas Ensemble, the experimental music group with
Jan van Riet and Leon
van Noorden.
Petra and Mario released 2 audio-cd's: The Adventures of Toon Scales in
2002, originally by Bake Records, but sold out for quite some time; and
Live in Prague, 2004.
Marek Hlaváč(Prague) studied at Academy of
Fine Arts, Prague, Intermedia III. In his performances, from installation to site-specific work,
communitive performing, rehersal, improvisation to
expansive walks outside of the gallery, he
openly challenges the audience towards active participation with its
surroundings. His aim is to engage public to musical "presets" in form
of various special instruments and spatial and communicational
configurations. VIMEO
Tomáš Mika (Prague)
is a guitar- banjoist, improviser and composer from Prague. After
studies in musicology at Charles University, he transferred to the
Higher Education Section of the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory, where he
graduated in Jazz Guitar. He is currently active in the ensemble
Stratocluster, which works with intermedia and interactive graphic
scores, among others. Since 2014, he has performed as an electric
guitarist with the BERG Orchestra, which focuses on contemporary music.
In the year, he co-founded +x with Ian Mikyska. He is the leader of
TokDat, a trio combining elements of prog rock, minimalism, modern jazz
and improvisation. Apart from contemporary music and free
improvisation, he is also active in gypsy-jazz (the quartet Futur
Swing), folk music, particularly Bulgarian and Norwegian, which he
arranges and performs in a duo with accordionist Kieren Alexander, and
the post- underground group Tajná chut, which fuses theatriality, free
improvisation and popular culture with the Czech underground aesthetic.
In 2015, he founded – with Jan Faix – the live-processing free-folk duo
Sova Smrti ('The Owl of Death'). He has collaborated with, among
others, the Petr Kalfus Quartet, the Tomáš Hobzek Quartet, the Václav
Kozel Nonet, Libor Šmoldads, Lucie Páchová, Milan Svoboda, Tristram
Trio, Kirill Yakovlev, Lukas Ligeti, Samuel Vriesen. BANDCAMP
The duo +x (plus ex)
consists of Ian Mikyska and Tomáš Mika, guitar-banjists, composers,
performers and occasional poets, who wanted to play gigs without having
to drag equipment around. This didn't work out in the end, as they
perform with toys, balloons, masks and costumes, among other
implements. Their work is positioned on the edge of performative, sonic
and conceptual poetry, but humour and the absurd are never far off, and
all of their pieces are bound by a spirit of friendship.
Ian Mikyska (Prague-London)
is a composer divides his time between Prague and London. He is a
student of James Weeks at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and
spent 2014-15 at a residency at the Centre for Audiovisual Studies at
the Film Academy in Prague. His music has been performed by musicians
and ensembles such as the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau, Ostravská
banda, the VENI Ensemble, members of the Prague Philharmonic, Keiko
Shichijo, Annette Schönmüller, Hayk Melikian or Lucie Vítková. His work
is usually based in sound, but it tends to approach it at the edges,
through text, theatre or multimedia. It has been performed in the Czech
Republic, the UK, Germany, Spain, Armenia and elsewhere, and his texts
have been published in Psí víno, Host, A2, HISvoice, The Word Addict,
The Goose – Journal for Culture, the Arts and Environment in Canada,
Slovo (University College London) and the anthology Abolishing Prague
(Charles University Press). His first collection of poems is set to be
published in Prague in October 2016.
He often works collaboratively in theatre, dance or performance and
video art (Jan Pfeiffer, Markéta Magidová, Monika Cástková, Fanette
Pons, Althea Thauberger). He co-founded the Prague-based ensemble
Stratocluster, focusing on multimedia improvisation, which has
performed music by Ian, as well as world premieres of works by Samuel
Vriezen and Lucie Vítková. He is also active as a translator of Czech
prose and poetry into English.
Jiří Suchánek(Brno) is Czech sound and
media artist, musician and multimedia experimentalist. He studied atelier
video-multimedia-performance (Keiko Sei, Peter Ronai) at Faculty of
Fine Arts at Brno University of Technology (1999-2005). During studies
he explored relationship between sound and image in the context of time
(and later space). Few works were dedicated to developing own music
MIDI interfaces. In 2005 he established audiovisual performance group
“Mateřídouška” with which he performed on festivals around Eastern
Europe (Unsound on Tour, Rokolektive, Stimul, Exposition of New Music
etc.). He attended several workshops and study fellowships – for
example CTM MusicMakersHacklab 2014, Timet (Giardino Sonoro de la
Limonaia), STEIM (Orientation workshop). Since 2008 Jiří Suchánek is
focused in building permanent audio-light installations that are
usually interactive and placed in a natural or public spaces (like a
cave, astronomic observatory, bridge…). His artistic approach is
synthetic. In his works he is connecting sound, light, sculptural
objects, electronics + code and carefully chosen spaces. Through his
work he explores relationship between nature, technology and durability
of the electronic media in a wild climatic situations. Jiří Suchánek is
searching for alternative situations and places for presentation of
media art. The center of his works is sound. Since 2009 Jiří works as
an assistant at Department of Audiovisual Technology at Faculty of Fine
Arts Brno University of Technology where he teaches AudioTechnology and
History of SoundArt. Now he is Ph.D. candidate at Janáček Academy of
Music and Performing Arts where he is working on thesis “Sonification
and Aesthetics of Data-mapping” and teaches “Physical computing –
interactive systems.” LISTEN FILM FESTIVAL ARTISTS
David
Bird(New York City) is
a composer and producer from Laguna Beach, California. He is a graduate
of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and currently studies composition
at Columbia University. His work frequently employs the use of live
electronics with aims to strengthen the relationships between acoustic
and electronic instruments. His music has been a "Staff Pick" on Vimeo
and featured on their homepage, as well as publications such as The
Atlantic and The Plain Dealer. A review from Pitchfork’s Altered Zones
has described his expansive sound as, “vibrant, shirt-stain- ing, color
squirting... amidst swirling layers of white noise and choir... I do
believe a lie-down is in order.” His work has been performed
internationally, at venues and festivals such as the MATA festival in
New York City; the Wien Modern Festival in Vienna, Austria; the SPOR
festival in Aarhus, Denmark; the IRCAM Manifeste Festival in Paris,
France; the Festival Mixtur in Barcelona, Spain; the Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C.; the Bodo Sinfonieta in Bodo, Norway; the Percussive
Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in Indianapolis, Indiana;
and the SEAMUS electroacoustic music festival in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Joao
Pedro Oliveira(Prortugal)
completed
a PhD in Music at the University of New York at Stony Brook. His music
includes one chamber opera, several orchestral compositions, a Requiem,
3 string quartets, chamber music, solo instrumental music,
electroacoustic music and experimental video. He has received numerous
prizes and awards, including three Prizes at Bourges Electroacoustic
Music Competition, the prestigious Magisterium Prize in the same
competition, the Giga-Hertz Special Award, 1st Prize in Metamorphoses
competition, 1st Prize in Yamaha-Visiones Sonoras Competition, 1st
Prize in Musica Nova competition, etc.. He is Professor at Federal
University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) and Aveiro University (Portugal).
He published several articles in journals, and has written a book about
analysis and 20th century music theory.
Mark
Franz(Ohio) is
a designer, artist, and educator whose exhibitions and primary research
projects involve the creation of interactive installations that reflect
on issues of violence, dislocation, and other social constructions
important in contemporary cultures. Recently this work has been
exhibited as part of the PhxArtcade in conjunction with The Smithsonian
American Art Museum’s Art of Video Games presented by the Phoenix Art
Museum in Phoenix, AZ and at the Leuphana Centre for Digital Cultures
in Luneburg, Germany. Franz’s secondary research involves creating
custom hardware and software for audiovisual performance and
installation, and references the art historical current of visual music
commonly discussed as part of animation history. This work has
been exhibited at Pixelerations at the Rhode Island School of Design
and Brown University in Providence, RI, the Gene Siskel Film Center in
Chicago, IL and the Currents International New Media Festival in Santa
Fe, NM. As the Chair of the Graphic Design area, in the School of Art +
Design at Ohio University, Franz teaches courses in Graphic Design, New
Media, Visual Systems, and Interaction Design.
Maxime
Corbeil-Perron(Canada)
is
a composer and multidisciplinary artist whose work has been noticed by
many international competitions and events. His work has been qualified
as an «infinite cosmos» (Etherreal, 2015), «pushing the boundaries of
abstraction» (Silence and Sound, 2015) and «defying any explication or
labelling» (La Folia, UK, 2015). He
composes electroacoustic and
mixed-media music, with a compositional approach that is inspired by
electronic music, experimental cinema and visual arts – in a
constant state of research to create an abstract, dynamic, spiritual
and poetic sound-world.He is also
composes and produces electronic music ( D R E S D E N, Le Poisson
d’argent, Recepteurz), he is part of the drone/noise duo Political
Ritual and the instrumental post-rock duo Le Pélican Noir. Also a
video-artist, his audio-visual works have been shown in a many
prestigious international film festivals, and he recently premiered an
interactive installation.He
collaborates with many local musicans (Félix-Antoine Morin, Émilie
Girard-Charest, Ida Toninato, Sylvain Gagné, Marie-Chantal Leclair). He
wrote a mixed-media piece for Siren Organ (an invented instrument by
Jean-François Laporte, commissioned by Totem Contemporain) and recently
completed a piece for tape and cello (commissioned by Émilie
Girard-Charest, the piece will be available on the Ambiances
Magnétiques imprint in 2016).His
work has received national and international prizes, among them the
first prize from the Jeu de temps/Times Play competition (Canada,
2011), awarded by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community. A special
mention and the Senato della repubblica Italiana medal from the Cittŕ
di Udine international composition competition (Italy, 2012) and a
second place (Motus prize) from the Destellos Foundation international
composition competition (Argentina, 2012). The Musicworks magazine
awarded two of his video workGhostly, and his mix-media piece Vertiges
in ex-aequo in 2013 in the Musicworks international electronic
composition contest (Canada, 2013).
Since 2012, his work has been presented in over 40 international events
worldwide and has been distributed by Vox Novus, Taukay Musicali, CEC
Cache, Hardcore Jewellery, Ambiances Magnétiques, Speaker Footage and
Kohlenstoff Records. He is founding
member of the Kohlenstoff artist collective and co-director of the
digital record label Kohlensotff Records, which focuses on the
broadcast and distribution of new, unusual and experimental music.
Maggi
Payne’s(Mills College)
electroacoustic works often incorporate visuals, including dancers
outfitted with electroluminescent wire and videos she creates using
images ranging from nature to the abstract. She composes music for
dance and video, and is a video artist, photographer, recording
engineer, flutist, and Co-Director of the Center for Contemporary Music
at Mills College, in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she teaches
composition, electronic music, and recording engineering. Her works
have been presented in the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Australasia.
She received Composer's Grants and an Interdisciplinary Arts Grant from
the National Endowment for the Arts; video grants from the Mellon
Foundation and the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowships
Program; and honorary mentions from Concours International de Musique
et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges and Prix Ars Electronica.
Her works appear on Innova, Lovely Music, Starkland, Asphodel, New
World (CRI), Root Strata, Centaur, Ubuibi, MMC, Digital Narcis, Music
and Arts, Frog Peak, and/OAR, Capstone, and Mills College labels.
Mike
Vanusky(Austin) andDaniel
Muldanado (Austin) Mike Vernusky is an Austin-based
composer writes
music for concert, theatre, dance, and film, primarily using electronic
sound and live performance.His works have been called ‘brash’ by the
New York Times, ‘isolationist’ by The Wire, 'especially otherworldly'
by New Music USA, 'strange & intriguing' by Exclaim.ca and
'étonnante' by the French publication EtherReal.
Mike Vernusky's music has been heard around the world including
performances at Festival International de Música Experimental Săo
Paulo, MATA, Marrakech Biennale, Autumn Contemporary Music Festival of
Bucharest, Mise-En Festival NYC, Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey, Visiones
Sonoras Mexico City & Morelia, Wired for Sound in Cambridge, Le
Escucha Errante Bilbao, Art Basel Miami, GMEM Marseille, ICMC
Barcelona, Milwaukee Metalfest, among others. As a film composer,
Vernusky has worked with numerous filmmakers and moving image artists.
These works have been performed at festivals such as Tribeca
International Film Festival, SXSW, Rotterdam IFF, Experimental
Intermedia, Voices from the Waters Bangalore, Ann Arbor Film Festival,
Berlin Film Festival, FLEXFest Gainesville, FILE Festival Brazil,
Darklight Film Festival Dublin, Brno 16 CZ, and Seoul Net & Film
Festival. Mike Vernusky’s recorded music is published on BBC Audio, MIT
Press, The Wire, and Quiet Design. In 2006, Vernusky co-founded the
label Quiet Design, which features his own projects as well as those of
others working at the outer fringes of new music. This label, with its
24th release and co-curated with sound artist Cory Allen, has gone on
to become a full-fledged portal of audio art and information. Daniel Muldanado
is an award winning filmmaker who through the early exploration of
identity,found his reality through the lenses of contrast. Since then
he's found success in the many genres he's crossed. While graduating
from the School Of Visual Arts, Daniel worked for acclaimed executive
producer Ben Barenholtz (BARTON FINK)during which he wrote/produced and
directed several diversified short films, including BUTTERCUP, which
toured German movie theatres in 1997 & 1998 as part of the “BLUE
HEARTS OF N.Y.” traveling festival of short films (distributed by MOP
Distribution, Germany). Daniel's next film, (the B/W) KINGS, featured
in THE FACE magazine, had the honor of closing the 1997 Hero Festival
in New Zealand. His follow up, PACIFIER (Producer), praised by Chris
Gore, played to sold out festival screenings including Slamdance, while
winning the GRAND JURY AWARD at the Micro-Cine Fest 2000. (distributed
on the Xperimental Eros compilation by Other Cinema Distribution). In
2001, Daniel completed the award winning 10,082,an experimental
documentary as well as STICKERS-2004 which picked up an award for BEST
CINEMATOGRAPHY and was favorably featured on IFC News. Along with
commissioned & award winning experimental horror films ( EPISODE 22
& EPISODE 21), Daniel finished the festival circuit in 2011
showcasing LALO, which had received the BEST SHORT FILM award from
HBO/NY Latino International Film Festival (2009) and went on to be
licensed & nationally broadcast on the SiTV/Nuvo Tv cable network.
Currently, Daniel is in production on his first feature film, titled,
H.O.M.E. starring Imagen Award winner, Jeremy Ray Valdez and two time
Mexican Ariel award winner, Jesus Ochoa.
Eric
Souther(Indiana) is
a video and new media artist who creates explores the ritualistic
spaces of media and develops interactive systems for real-time
manipulation of time-based media. His work has been featured nationally
and internationally at venues such as the Museum of Art and
Design, NYC, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY and the ART DATA LAB,
Beijing. His work has been screened in The Outcasting: Fourth Wall
Festival, Grangetown, UK, Cronosfera Festival, Alessandria, Italy, and
the Galerija 12 New Media Hub, Belgrade, Serbia. He received his M.F.A.
in Electronic Integrated Arts from Alfred University. Currently he is
an Assistant Professor of New Media at Indiana University South Bend.
Panagiotis
Kokoras(Athens) is
an internationally award-winning composer and computer music innovator.
He is an Associate Professor in composition at the University of North
Texas. Born in Greece, he studied classical guitar and composition in
Athens, Greece and York, England; he taught for many years at Aristotle
University in Thessaloniki. Kokoras's sound compositions use timbre as
the main element of form. His concept of "holophony" describes his goal
that each independent sound (phonos), contributes equally into the
synthesis of the total (holos). In both instrumental and
electroacoustic writing, his music calls upon a "virtuosity of sound,"
emphasizing the precise production of variable sound possibilities and
the correct distinction between one timbre and another to convey the
musical ideas and structure of the piece. His compositional output is
also informed by musical research in Music Information Retrieval
compositional strategies, Extended techniques, Tactile sound, Detuned
Systems, Robotics, Sound and Consciousness.
Don
Burton(New Bedford,
MA)
is a filmmaker and artist specializing in new media and video driven
campaigns, documentary and narrative films. Home Entertainment clients
include Twentieth Century Fox, Comedy Central, NBC Universal Media,
MGM, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Warner Bros. Corporate projects
have involved the National Park Service, the University of
Massachusetts, Pepsi, Arbor Mist Winery and Microsoft. More at Media
Services.As an artist, Don designs and builds interactive
installations, fusing sculpture with time-based media. Visit Portfolio.
Don has taught film production and appreciation workshops in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil; Los Angeles, CA; and Southeastern, MA and co-founded
the new media, film and arts initiative, BridgeThink.org which connects
creative communities and promotes cross-pollination between fields.
Additionally, he serves as the artistic director for the Buzzards Bay
Film Festival and is an advisory committee member for AHA! New Bedford.
mythologies
and organic materials. She is drawn towards music for dance, a
collaborating artist with Eleven Farrer House and a composer at the
first Choreographer and Composers Lab at Phoenix Dance Theatre,
Leeds.She has
previously written film
music for 'awarding winning' Adda Films and Malik Roberts (BBC
Fresh). Her work has been performed in Europe and America, including
at South Bank Centre, Wales Millennium Centre, Phoenix Dance
Theatre, The ATRiuM, John Pritchard Hall Bangor University,
Tide Mills, Laban and at Manchester Film Festival, Zoom Film
Festival, Cardiff Mini Film Festival, Ffresh Film
Awards... Her music has been played by ensembles including players
of BBC National Orchestra of Wales,. Bangor New Music Ensemble,
Onix Ensemble (Mexico), amongst others.
born
in Hong Kong and now living in U.S.A. He received his doctor of musical
arts (D.M.A.) at Rice University and
bachelor of fine arts (B.F.A.) at the Hong
Kong Academy for Performing Arts. His mentors include
Wing-fai Law, Clarence Mak, Arthur Gottschalk and
Ellsworth Milburn. He has attended major music festivals include:
Wellesley Composers Conference, Aspen Music Festival, Asian Composers’
League, ISCM World Music Days, Music X, June in Buffalo, IMPULS Ensemble
Akademie, California E.A.R. Unit Composer Seminar, the 13th
International Summer Program, Czech Republic,
International Composers’ Workshop, Luxembourg, the International Summer
Course for New Music, Darmstadt, Germany and residencies include:
Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for
the Arts, Nebraska, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts , Yaddo
Colony, NY and MacDowell Colony, NH.
