Monthly Archives: February 2014

4.Mar.14 Evening Demo: Percussionist Patti Cudd presents Cort Lippe’s Duo for Cajón and Computer

Evening Demo: Percussionist Patti Cudd presents Cort Lippe’s Duo for Cajón and Computer

WHEN: Tuesday, March 4th, 6:30PM
WHERE: NYU Music Department
24 Waverly Place, Room 220, NY 10003

Dr. Cudd and composer Cort Lippe (telematically) will share their joint experience of collaboration for the commission, composition and premiere of a piece for percussion and live electronics, through the particular point of view of a performer and a composer. Topics include communication, planning of resources, method of composition, notation, and rehearsal strategies when the composer and performer live in separate places.

Bio:

Patti Cudd is a percussion soloist, chamber musician & educator teaching at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and College of St. Benedict/ St. Johns and is a member of the new music ensemble Zeitgeist. She has given concerts and master classes throughout the United States, Korea, Thailand, China, Mexico and Europe and has participated in the Bang on a Can Festival, Frau Musica Nova Cologne, Mexico City Ciclo de Percusiones, SEAMUS, Hawaii Mirror of the New, LA Phi Green Umbrella, Copenhagen Composers’ Biennale, Nove Hudby Plus Festival Brno, Czech Republic, Samcheok Korea Music Fest, Sokcho Korea Arts Fest, Hanyang New Music for Technology, Festival Cultural Zacatecas. She has worked with many innovative composers such as Ferneyhough, Feldman, R. Reynolds, P. Oliveros, John Luther Adams, J. Zorn, Colgrass, C. Wolff, Globokar, Rzewski and has premiered over 200 new works. Patti has recorded under Hat Hut, Bridge, New World, CRI, Innova, Emf Media & Mode labels and is a Yamaha Performing Artist, endorser of Sabian Cymbals and member of the Vic Firth Ed Team.

http://www.patticudd.com/

Spring-2014: Percussionist Luis Tabuenca in Residence

Spanish percussionist Luis Tabuenca is in residence in the Music Department this spring semester working on pieces by Yu Nakai, Elizabeth Hoffman, and Jaime Oliver. He is a fantastic musician and will be a wonderful resource for the department. Please feel free to contact him. More information below:

ARRITMIA Composed and performed by Luis Tabuenca from LUIS TABUENCA on Vimeo.

BIO: LUIS TABUENCA

Percussionist-Improviser-Composer

Percussionist, improviser, composer Luis Tabuenca was born in Zaragoza, Spain. For the past years he has focused on contemporary and experimental percussion music both as a performer and a composer. Tabuenca is also an active artist in the international improvising music scene. He studied in Europe and USA with Steven Schick, Miquel Bernat, and George Elie Octors. He has taken classes with soloists of music ensembles such as the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Ensemble Recherche. He is a former member of the Red Fish Blue Fish Ensemble (USA), the Jeunesses Musicales International Orchestra, and the Ensemble Reserche Academy (Germany), among others. He has toured in Europe, Asia, and America, performing in festivals like the Münstersommer Summer Festival (Freiburg, Germany), the Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles, USA), the Newbury Spring Festival (Newbury, England), International Performance Festival (Bogotá, Colombia), the LUX Festival (Sevilla, Spain) and the International Contemporary Music Festival (Alicante, Spain).

As an improviser Luis has played with Dafna Naphtali, Seijiro Murayama, Naomi Sato, Wade Matthews, Alessandra Rombolá, Julio Camarena, Artur Vidal, Ken Slaven, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Ruth Barberán, Lali Barriere, Juan Matos Capote, Miguel Angel Garcia, and Hector Rey.

Luis Tabuenca’s compositions explore the borderlines between improvised and composed music. He has created music for solo percussion, contemporary dance, and documentaries. He has collaborated with choreographers and visual artists.

Luis has recorded for Aural Terrains, Mode Records, RTVE, RAI and Verso. He has been honored in percussion competitions and he has received awards by the Government of Aragon, the Ministry of Culture of Spain, and the Fulbright Commission. Luis Tabuenca is founder and Artistic Director of the experimental music festival FAT (Festival de Audio Tangente). He is head of the Percussion Department at the Burgos Music Conservatory, Spain.

More info: www.luistabuenca.com

22.Feb & 1.Mar.14- Video Documentation Workshop / Ross Karre

Graduate Composition Workshop No. 2 – 2014

Theory and Techniques of Documentation in the Arts

- Ross Karre -

WHEN: Part 1: Feb. 22 . 2 – 5pm (we might go a little bit later this day…) ///// Part 2: March 1 . 10-2pm ///// WHERE: Music Dept., Room 220 ///// WHO: Directed primarily to students in the Composition Seminar, but all students in the FAS music dept. are welcome.

PDF-from-Workshop

abstract

Ross Karre will draw on his advanced degrees in music (DMA) and film (MFA) as well as numerous years of arts documentation experience to create a two-part lecture and tutorial on the theory and techniques of documentation in the arts. The sessions will include hands-on video demonstrations that span the entire workflow; from the lens to the web. Ross will speak specifically on practical subjects such as optimizing music documentation on a budget and the broader concepts of re-framing a work of music for the cinematic medium. Ross will discuss how music documentation is not only a process of audio-visual capture but of transcription from one medium to another. Session one will cover camera operation and capture methods. Session two will focus on editing and distribution.

bio

Ross Karre (b. 1983 in Battle Creek, MI) is a percussionist and temporal artist based in New York City. His primary focus is the combination of media selected from classical percussion, electronics, theater, moving image, visual art, and lighting design. After completing his Doctorate in Music at UCSD with Steven Schick, Ross formalized his intermedia studies with a Master of Fine Arts from UCSD. He has worked closely with composers from around the world such as Pierre Boulez, Helmut Lachenmann, and Harrison Birtwistle in N. America, S. America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Ross is a percussionist for the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and performs regularly with red fish blue fish, Third Coast Percussion (Chicago), the National Gallery of Art New Music Ensemble (DC), and many others. His projection design and video art has been presented in numerous prestigious venues around the world including the BBC Scotland (Glasgow Concert Halls), the Park Avenue Armory (NYC), Miller Theater (NYC), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), and the BIMhuis (Holland). Ross is the founder and owner of a growing arts documentation business called rKAD specializing in video and audio recordings of performing arts.

18.Feb.14 Guest Lecture: Roger Reynolds

Guest Talk

- Roger Reynolds -

Why would a composer who is perfectly capable of “doing it” himself let others into his workshop?

The perils and thrills of collaborating to get somewhere new.

WHEN: Tuesday, February 18th, 12:30PM
WHERE: NYU Music Department
24 Waverly Place, Room 220, NY 10003

Abstract

Roger Reynolds presents, with Jaime Oliver: An illustrated (and collaborative) exploration of three works: SEASONS (premiered at the National Gallery of Art), MARKed MUSIC (with the matchless improviser Mark Dresser), and george WASHINGTON (premiered at the Kennedy Center by the NSO under Christophe Eschenbach)

Bio

Reynolds is a Pulitzer-winning American composer known for his capacity to integrate diverse ideas and resources, for the seamless blending of traditional musical sounds and those newly enabled by technology. His work responds to text of poetic (Beckett, Ashbery) or mythological (Aeschylus, Euripides) origins. His profile includes “wizardry in sending music flying through space: whether vocal, instrumental, or computerized”. This signature feature first appeared in the notationally innovative theater piece, The Emperor of Ice Cream (1961-62). At the University of California, San Diego, Reynolds’s leadership helped establish an internationally recognized center for composition and computer music. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a string orchestra composition, Whispers Out of Time. Reynolds is author of three books and numerous journal articles. His work has been featured at international festivals in Europe, Asia, Australia, and Latin American. This work embodies an American artistic idealism reflecting the influence of Varèse and Cage. Reynolds lives with his partner of 50 years, Karen, in Del Mar, California, overlooking the Pacific. Performances by the Philadelphia, BBC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Tokyo Philharmonic, preceded his most recent large scale National Symphony Orchestra work honoring our nation’s first president: george WASHINGTON. It knits together Reynolds’s career-long interest in orchestral music, text, extended musical forms, intermedia, and computer spatialization of sound. Reynolds’ music is published exclusively by C.F. Peters, and the Library of Congress established a Special Collection of his work in 1998.