Ghostland Empire : for viola, two bowls of water, and electronics - Stefanie Lubkowski viola: Ashleigh Gordon, laptop: Stefanie Lubkowski A resident of Cambridge, MA, Stefanie Lubkowski studied flute, organ, and piano as a child before moving on to a ten-year love affair with the classical guitar. Her initial compositional efforts involved developing unusual timbres on her mother’s Wurlitzer organ and independent study in her high school electronic music studio. These early explorations nurtured Stefanie’s interest in creating sound worlds guided by harmony, punctuated by melody, and inspired by poetry and prose. She went on to study Music and Technology and Guitar Performance at Connecticut College in New London, CT, and received her masters from New England Conservatory where her primary teachers were Lee Hyla and Pozzi Escot. Stefanie has written for orchestra, voice, various chamber ensembles, and electronic media. She has been commissioned by Auros Group for New Music, Ashleigh Gordon, Anthology, the New Gallery Concert Series, Alea III, The Fourth Wall Ensemble, and Transient Canvas. She received her doctorate in composition from Boston University in 2014, where her teachers included Ketty Nez and Sam Headrick. www.stefanielubkowski.com
Jamaican-American violist Ashleigh Gordon has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Hong Kong, ranging from chamber and orchestral music settings to off-Broadway and new music productions. As an entrepreneur, Ashleigh is the Artistic Director of Castle of our Skins, a newly created concert series dedicated to promoting the music of Black American composers. She is also the founding violist of Sound Energy, a dynamic new string trio dedicated to performing and commissioning new works. She can be heard on Naxos, Musique Suisse labels. www.violashe.com
Inter Alia II - Jed Speare My work emerges out of field recordings and moves through transformative and combinatory phases, inter alia, often with long gestation periods and desultory stances. They pool like eels on the ocean floor, and move about as they wish, in the dark knowledge of their depths until they discover their chains of affinities and move closer to them, eventually finding them. Jed Speare is an interdisciplinary artist who has presented time-based arts internationally for over thirty years. In 2008, The Wire magazine called him “a pioneer of multimedia presentation,” for his use of location recordings in performance and multimedia collaborations. His work encompasses albums, notably Cable Car Soundscapes (Smithsonian Folkways, 1982) and Sound Works 1982-1987 (Family Vineyard, 2008); public projects such as Quiet Zone (Fitchburg, MA, 1994; Toronto Island, 2004) and Audiograms (1994); and sound in urban design (Peaceful - An Ping, Tainan, Taiwan, 1999). In Boston, he’s been Director of two alternative arts organizations, Mobius and Studio Soto, for a combined twenty years. He performs solo electroacoustic work as well as in other combinations, and is active with the New England Phonographers Union, a group he co-founded. He is also on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Acoustic Ecology.
LUSITANIA (re)CALLING - Danny McCarthy The work LUSITANIA (re)CALLING was created initially as a sound installation which took place in the Sirius Arts Centre Cobh Ireland to mark the centenary of the sinking of the ship the Lusitania .Cobh is the Irish town where most of the survivors were landed also the bodies of the dead were held there for identification etc. There are numerous photos of the bodies lying in coffins and the town ran out of coffins. The town obviously echoed to the sound of coffins being made and closed.Once commissioned to make the installation the artist undertook extensive research and proceeded to make numerous field recordings of this sound in local workshops. He then used these field recordings and some basic electronics to create the work which was then played back on speakers in the Arts Centre and on the streets of the town to co inside with the centenary of the sinking on the 7th May2015. The work that you will be hearing is a remix of this piece. A special limited edition 10" vinyl record was released by Farpoint Recordings also.The record consists of two tracks "Coffinmakers Blues" and "Stonecarvers Lament".
Danny McCarthy tudied at the National College of Art and Design. He currently lectures in Sound Art in the School Of Music and Drama ,UCC as well as visiting lecturer and workshop facilitator in various institutions He has pioneered both performance art and sound art in Ireland and he continues to be a leading exponent exhibiting and performing both in Ireland and abroad .His work has appeared on numerous CD.s, DVDs and has been broadcast widely on both radio and T.V. His work regularly appears on the programme NOVA Lyric FM and he has been the subject of several features on the programme. He is a founding director of Triskel Arts Centre and of the National Sculpture Factory and is a director the Sirius Arts Centre Cobh as well as curating numerous exhibitions and projects including Sound Out (with David Toop), Bend It Like Beckett, Sonic Vigil, Just Listen plus many more, He is the recipient of numerous awards and bursaries from both the Irish Arts Council and Dept of Foreign Affairs, Culture Ireland and has represented Ireland abroad at various exhibitions. He is a First Prize winner in EV+A (selector Pierre Restany). His Books CDs DVDs, vinyls etc are available from www.farpointrecordings.com, www.dannymccarthy.ie and www.soundoutin.blogspot.com .
Praest Arif-John-Lichun - Mick O'Shea When visiting Boston with Strange Attractor in 2012 I came across Brattle a second hand bookshop. I bought a book written in Danish in 1909 with the title Praest. The book was small hard backed and smelled good, the cost was $1. In an effort to ‘understand’ this book I asked and recorded non Danish speakers to read from the book. After they read I drew on the pages. These were I think two transgressive acts. The first changed the words and meaning into sounds the second added layers of symbols and marks on top of the words. For this recording I’ve used the voices of Arif Ayab (Singapore), John Thompson (Ireland) and Lichun Tseng (Taiwan). This is an ongoing project.
Mick O’Shea lives and works in Cork city and is a member and director of the Cork Artists Collective and The Guesthouse and has been instrumental in establishing a vibrant and growing sound art scene in Cork city. He has exhibited in UK, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Tasmania, USA, China and Japan. He studied instrument physics in C.I.T. and works as an instrument technician in UCC. All of his works spring from his essential experience in drawing. His medium includes sculpture, drawing, sound and cooking. In 2003 O’Shea and fellow artist Stephen Brandes and Irene Murphy set up the collaborative practice, The Domestic Godless which, through performative cooking events, explores culinary activity as art practice and tests assumptions about the cultural traditions of food in challenging and often irreverent and absurdist ways. He also works with various sound artists and composers both national and international including: The Quiet Club with sound artist Danny McCarthy, Rhodri Davies, Stephen Vitiello, Steve Roden, David Toop, Rajesh Meta, Jennifer Walshe, Damo Suzuki;Strange Attractor: Experiments in a quinary landscape and other fields with Anthony Kelly, Danny McCarthy, Irene Murphy, David Stalling Gaitkrash (an experimental performance group) with Bernadette Cronin and Regina Crowley.
Broken Memory (excerpt) - David Morneau Gameboy: David Morneau Welcome to Broken Memory by David Morneau, Immigrant Breast Nest's composer-in-residence. Although born from the limited sonic palette of chip-tunes, Morneau is able to coax delightfully unexpected results from the familiar 8-bit chirps and blips in each of these six pieces. Immediately dissolving our preconceptions, "The Black Hallway" leads us to other strange locales, brutal and broken terroir, terminating finally with "Rue D'Auseil" which riddles blips with funk and thumps. Each track title references H.P. Lovecraft's story The Music of Erich Zann in which the titular hero plays his intense, strange music to keep the demons at bay. It's apropos, Broken Memory is radically creative music for staving off the abyss. (immigrantbreastnest.com) David Morneau is a composer of an entirely undecided genre. Described by Molly Sheridan as a "shining beacon" of inspiration, his diverse work illuminates ideas about our culture, issues concerning creativity, and even the very nature of music itself. His eclectic output has been described variously as "elegantly rendered", "happily prissy", "impressive", "unusual, esoteric, and offbeat". Morneau’s eclectic output is shown by two recent albums Love Songs and Broken Memory. One is songs that combine Shakespeare’s Sonnets with contemporary poetry. The other is noisy, droning Gameboy tracks that "absolutely wreck shop.… For that, David Morneau wins." Morneau is composer-in-residence with Immigrant Breast Nest, an underground electronic music label, and the artistic director of Circuit Bridges, a new electronic music concert series. Learn more at http://5of4.com
Integer Underground - Stefanie Lubkowski A collage of numbers stations samples and sounds from my garage evoke a cold war intrigue and paranoia.
Cloud 1 - Max Lord Recorded in 2015 with the Buchla Electric Music Box
Max Lord is a Boston-based improvisor who has worked in a variety of rock, noise, electronic and improv settings. Though originally identifying as a percussionist, since 2000 he has performed with Buchla electronic instruments. His recorded work as Ghost Grass recalls mid-century electronic experimentation as often as more modern improvised approaches and is intimately tied to the magnetic medium on which it is created. As a collaborator and organizer, he is closely associated with the experimental movement community.
Freedom Around The World - Nezecus (a.k.a. Antonino Eze Cuscinà) This piece is dedicated to the great Robert Wyatt.
Antonino Eze Cuscinà is a self-taught musician composer living in Sicily. He’s been into music since he was 16 when he started playing drums in a local cover band, and later guitars (left-hand with right- hand string position), learning from records how to get into the instruments; his main influences come from Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, David Sylvian, Peter Gabriel, Robert Wyatt, Ryuichi Sakamoto. His studio comprises of Apple computers, Pro Tools, Fender, Yamaha and Cuenca guitars, hardware- software analog a digital synthesizers, various outboard. His music vision concentrates mostly on vibrations from different nature, that excited together bring to an harmonic flowing in precisely constructed pieces. “Maritime Tatami”/”A Game Of Despair” EP, from 1983, featuring Victrola, the duo of Antonio Eze Cuscinà and Carlo Smeriglio is currently available at www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/dark-entries/victrola-maritime-tatami-12 noi - Caroline Park How do we disrupt established norms, break out of traditional patterns? There are no errors, only differences in perception. "noi" is simply sound in space.
Caroline Park is a composer, musician, and artist working within the minimum in experimental electronic music. She creates custom software in Max/MSP, integrating chance and silence in unique, minimal systems. Her 2015 digital release "less than human" was described in The Wire as "a hissing, humid approximation of summer and wet earth to surround." Caroline collaborates frequently with Asha Tamirisa in duo situations and also performs in the electro-improv quartet BUMPR (Peter Bussigel, Stephan Moore, Tim Rovinelli). Performances, solo and collaborative, have occurred at venues including Machines With Magnets, AS220, Jordan Hall, New Museum, and the Stone. Caroline is a founding member of OPENSIGNAL, a Providence-based artist collective focusing on the representation of gender and race within experimental electronic music. She received B.M. and M.M. degrees in composition at the New England Conservatory and is currently finishing the MEME Ph.D at Brown University. Caroline lives and works in Providence, RI.
River Rising - Kirsten Volness violin: Lilit Hartunian An elegy to those who have lost friends, family, livelihoods, and communities—sometimes an entire existence that can never be recovered—to unexpected tragedy. The hopelessness and horror that tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, war, illness, climate change, and other catastrophic forces may bring seem surreal, having never lived through anything like this firsthand. I wanted to take a moment to reflect on being overwhelmed entirely by situations beyond our control that may only be endured together. Special thanks to Mary Kouyoumdjian for letting me play and sample her beloved Siran. Kirsten Volness is a composer and pianist currently residing in Providence, RI. Her acoustic and electronic music is often inspired by nature, myth, science, spirituality, and environmental and sociopolitical issues. She has received commissions from the BMI Foundation, ASCAP/SEAMUS, World Future Council, and various notable performers and new music ensembles. When not writing electro/acoustic music, she plays piano for NYC-based Hotel Elefant, collaborates with Meridian Project on astrophysics-inspired multimedia performances, writes and performs operas with homeless advocacy group Tenderloin Opera Company, serves on the board of directors for the Boston New Music Initiative, and is an affiliate artist of Sleeping Weazel. She holds composition degrees from the Universities of Michigan (DMA, MM) and Minnesota (BA summa cum laude), and teaches privately and at the University of Rhode Island. • www.kirstenvolness.com Violinist Lilit Hartunian performs at the forefront of contemporary music innovation in Boston and internationally. Described as “brilliantly rhapsodic” by the Harvard Crimson, Lilit is regularly heard on stage premiering works written for her by leading composers, and with ensembles such as Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Sound Icon, Boston New Music Initiative, Transient Canvas, Equilibrium Ensemble, Boston Microtonal Society, and others. She has been invited repeatedly to perform at the Museum of Fine Arts, with projects ranging from solo recitals to orchestral concerts with a lighting design co-conceived by Lilit. Locally, the Boston Musical Intelligencer praised her “captivating and luxurious tone,”. Internationally, she was selected as one of 12 American violinists to attend the Lucerne Festival Academy in 2014. Lilit has performed under conductors including Simon Rattle, Matthias Pintscher, Peter Oundjian, Douglas Boyd, and Andrew Litton.
Fifteen Minutes of Fame: Eva Ingolf, electric violin :: video: Nicole Antebi composers: David Morneau, Doug Thomas, Michael Braudy, Carrin Tanaka, Bob Siebert, Dan Mackenzie, James Bohn, Rosa Brands, Melanie Mitrano, Douglas DaSilva, Daniel Mihai, Peter Hawkey, Daniel Schnee, Melissa Grey, Alon Nechushtan Eva Ingolf is a well known Icelandic violinist particularly recognized for her authoritative performances of solo works by J. S. Bach. She comes from a leading musical family and her father, Ingólfur Guðbrandsson, premiered many of the great choral works in Iceland and six of her sisters and brothers are professional musicians who have made an important contribution to the high quality of the musical life in the country. Eva Ingolf currently lives in New York City with her husband Kristinn Sv. Helgason, an official of the United Nations Secretariat and their daughter, Andrea Kristinsdóttir, a musician and actress. Education She began violin studies at a young age, gaining early recognition for outstanding musical talent, including the beautiful tone and artistic interpretation of her playing. After studying at the Conservatory of Reykjavík for 6 years, Eva left Iceland to study with some of Europe’s finest violin pedagogues. Her playing has been greatly influenced by the spirit of the Russian and East- European violin schools. At the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, she was a student of Prof. Leon-Ara, followed by studies with Prof. Corrado Romano at the Conservatory of Geneva and Prof. Istvan Parkanyi at the Sweelink Conservatory in Amsterdam. During these years she won many awards, as well as scholarships to study with world renowned pedagogues such as Stephan Gheorghiu, Victor Pikaizen, Zachar Bron and Tibor Varga. Throughout her career, Eva has given numerous solo recitals in well-known concert halls in Iceland, Japan, United States, Russia and Europe, including regularly at the Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Trinity Church in New York City and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., receiving high acclaim from music critics as well as the general public. She has released two highly-regarded CDs on the Japis label. Eva has also recorded for the Icelandic State Radio. In 1995-1996, she undertook studies in composition, conducting and orchestration at Harvard University.
Nicole Antebi: I consider myself a student of animistic thinking and landscape. I work in non-fiction animation, motion graphics, installation while simultaneously connecting and creating opportunities for other artists through larger curatorial and editorial projects such as Water, CA and The Winter Shack. My work has been shown in many places including High Desert Test Sites, The Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, Teeny Cine’s converted trailer, Portable Forest, a Texas Grain Silo and in the cabin of a capsized ship at Machine Project, Los Angeles.
Pulse 3 - Doug Thomas was written to accompany the video animation Gesture #1 "For Circuit Bridges" by Nicole Antebi. I am currently working on Pulse 1 and Pulse 2, which in addition to Pulse 3 will form a larger project entitled PULSE. Doug Thomas is a French composer and artist. In 2014, he graduated from his BMus Degree (Hons) in Popular Music Performance at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in London. Doug is currently busy working on his solo projects, as well as on many side projects.
Air in Rag Bhimpalasi - Michael Braudy In India, the afternoon is a time for rest and reflection, and the raga on which this Celtic air is based has that nature of openness and exploration. The violin lifts us into a realm of pensive recollections, and gently returns us to where we began. Michael Braudy is a violinist who specializes in Western classical, Celtic and Indian music. He teaches playing the violin with relaxation, improvises, and composes tunes in the Celtic idiom based on Indian ragas. He collaborates with storytellers and poets, and gives workshops in music and health. www.michaelbraudy.com Dial 414 - Carrin Tanaka was written as a nod to the 1990’s. Electric violin leads the music through a digital, churning atmosphere, which subtly emulates the sounds of video games and the early Internet. The numbers 414 refer to the semi-tone intervals of the most prominent motif in the piece. Carrin Tanaka is a Los Angeles-based composer specializing in scoring for visual media. Her collaborations have been screened at Warner Bros. Studios as well as various film festivals throughout the US. She holds a dual Bachelor’s Degree in music composition and ethnomusicology from the University of California, Davis.
Dancing Pearls - Bob Siebert I wanted to create an animated piece that best compliments the animation in Gesture 1 I received my BM and MM Music Degrees from Manhattan School of Music and have been a performer/composer/teacher in the New York area for the past thirty-five years. My music, which can be found on iTunes, runs the gambit from pop influenced electronic realism, reinvented jazz standards, experimental electronic pieces and improvisations for the African thumb piano.
Olga Maria Valentina Fernanda Beauregard - Dan Mackenzie An old violinist who hasn't played in decades comes upon their violin in the attic. Tentative musical reminiscing gives way to a joyously melodic nostalgia trip, which fades as quickly as it began with the wistful realization that time has indeed passed, and the bliss of youth is gone. Dan Mackenzie: BA Brown University 1989 2004 Emmy nomination for best TV theme song winner of 2004 ASCAP Foundation Sammy Cahn Award and 2010 ASCAP Foundation Joe Raposo Award, co- writing and producing credits include Joss Stone and Martin Sexton
=:-) <:-) [:-) - James Bohn pronounced punk dunce walkman, for electric violin and fixed audio was composed to accompany Nicole Antebi’s video "Gesture #2" utilizing a high degree of coordination between the music and the animation. Drum and bass? Cheesy video game music? Early seventies synthesized pop music? You be the judge.
Studies have shown that performing music by James Bohn causes performers to be viewed as 17% more sexually attractive to both men and women. People who perform music by James Bohn develop whiter teeth and thicker, fuller hair. Science is never wrong.
The crab race - Rosa Brands is written for Gesture 3 and electric violin.
Rosa Brands born 1989 in Stykkisholmur, has studied cello and music composition since the age of 12.
Remember Who You Are - Melanie Mitrano is a vocal trance EDM in which the violin emulates the human voice. The message is self- empowerment; a reminder to value what makes us strong and unique. This was inspired by Gesture #1, a string of moving pearls, precious gems in motion, my definition of humankind. Melanie Mitrano is an award-winning ASCAP composer, singer, and teacher whose vocal and compositional styles span many genres, including classical, jazz, theater, Brazilian music and Portuguese Fado, the traditional music of Portugal. Her music has been performed in a variety of venues from concert halls to theaters to jazz clubs.
Funeral for Avogadro’s Balloon - Douglas DaSilva Avogadro’s Law: “Equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules regardless of their chemical nature and physical properties” Amadeo Avogadro (1776-1856). Sounds were created by Yumi Suehiro: acoustic piano, mic, wah-wah, guitar effects, amp. Composer, Artistic Director of the Composer's Voice Concert Series, Douglas DaSilva is dedicated to promoting the music of living composers. His “Stabat Serban” was performed at the George Enescu Festival by cellist Maestro Serban Nichifor. “Rondellhund” was performed by Bateira Trio at Carnegie Hall.
Videomatics - Daniel Mihai For this composition i reach one of the meaning of the conexxion of the future with the playing violine in some feelings in postmoden era. Daniel Mihai studied with the Maestro and teachers like Serban Nichifor, Stefan Gheorghiu and a lot of great teachers of Romanian School of Music (National University of Music in Bucharest)! The first teacher in my life was my father who brings my special love to music and special to my first love- violine! He has attended MBA courses in the Faculty of Performing Art, with the objective of improvement and assimilation of all knowledge related to contemporary music. I am teacher of violine in Constanta and also I play with pleasure this kind of music wherever! Also, I am PhD Teacher of Violine since 2013.
Building Blocks.... - Peter Hawkey Beginning with a rigid motif to reflect the abstract nature of the images, the piece begins to become more playful with a series of short twists and turns. Through a flurry of notes it feels as if the piece is inevitably being drawn back to the original motif. Peter Hawkey is a musician and composer who studied at Oxford Brookes University. Although having a background in rock music, he enjoys writing in many styles, and taking on the challenges of composing in unfamiliar styles or starting with unusual materials.
Villutrú (Icelandic: heresy) - Daniel Schnee is a quasi-improvisational composition for violin and film. Each section moves at the same tempo but switches time signatures, creating a shift in harmonic rhythm. The performer can switch sections any time, as well as switch to and fro from each section without finishing either. Daniel Schnee is an ethnomusicologist and saxophonist who has performed worldwide with many Juno and Grammy™ Award winning musicians. He has also been internationally recognized as a graphic score composer, and is a former student of both Pulitzer Prize-winning saxophonist Ornette Coleman, and legendary GUTAI artist Shozo Shimamoto. Gesture 1 on 2 Strings - Melissa Grey The violin part, dedicated to Eva Ingolf, offers real time frequencies and beating rhythms that are influenced by Schumann resonance and highlight two strings on the violin. The frequencies and beating effects align with Nicole Antebi’s Gesture 1. Composer Melissa Grey’s projects include concert works, electroacoustic performances, installations, and collaborations with artists, architectural designers, and musicians.
Duelity - Alon Nechushtan explores the balance between a perpetual climbing melody and a more droning counter pulse, driving a single intervallic nucleus to it's full potential before it's final stop. Alon Nechushtan is a Composer and Pianist based in New York. His work has been presented in Carnegie Hall, The Blue Note Jazz Club, Central Park Summer Stage and many other venues in New York, Europe and his native Israel. www.musicalon.com
CaCO3 - David Morneau is the molecular formula for calcium carbonate, the substance from which pearls are formed. David Morneau is a composer of an entirely undecided genre, a provider of exclusive unprecedented experiments. In his work he endeavors to explore ideas about our culture, issues concerning creativity, and even the very nature of music itself. Learn more at 5of4.com
An Evening Indigo - Rain Worthington electric violin: Eva Ingolf, video: Rakel Steinarsdóttir, poetry: Gunnbjörg Oladottir A quiet contemplation of life in the hours of evening twilight. (Originally composed for violinist, Eva Ingolf’s call for short works for solo violin.) Rain Worthington has a distinct voice within the field of contemporary music. As music journalist, Bob Briggs, noted, “… she writes music which speaks to the senses, is packed with real emotion and, most important of all in contemporary music, really communicates.” World music, minimalism and romanticism have influenced Worthington’s compositional style. Her music has been performed in a wide variety of venues from loft performance spaces and dance clubs in New York City, to orchestra recordings in Eastern Europe and chamber concerts in Spain, Belgium, Italy, Brazil, Iceland, and India. Rain Worthington’s evocative work is nuanced, delicate, passionate and transporting. Her music takes “…ideas of American musical style to a new place – like a walk in a familiar, yet very different park... And isn't afraid to come up with its own startling conclusions.” (Kyle Gann, Chamber Music magazine) Her music is released on CDBaby, North/South Recordings, and Navona Records. Gunnbjörg Oladottir is born in Reykjavík in 1964. Gráduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1999 with an MTh degree. Has worked on translations in the past mostly on works related to the psychology of religion. Now works as an assistant in the fishing industry and writes in her spare time.
Rakel Steinarsdóttir is a versatile and widely travelled artist who is beginning to make her presensce felt on the Icelandic art scene. Her chosen method which has chiefly been a conceptual one touches on issues of social or ecological import. These have led her to extend her range of materials to include not only window glass and mirror glass, but also cast concrete, photographs, videotape, electric light and sound effects. Her large-scale glass pieces thus become installations of sorts that enclose the viewer and challenge his preconceptions. She has started to develop independent sound works composed uniquely of glass sounds. Among the influences that Rakel Steinarsdóttir has listed are modern architecture and the Icelandic landscape. She seeks inspiration in the circle of life and Icelandic vastness. She makes a point of incorporating natural processes into her work, for instance by freezing glass panes overpainted with water and then burning the resulting frost formations into the glass. She has also worked with the Blue Lagoon by immersing glass panes in its silica-rich waters and using the ensuing silica texture in her work.
H20 Sonata in Two Movements - Bibiana Padilla Maltos actions: Liz Roncka, Matt Samolis, Jane Wang + ...
Bibiana Padilla Maltos. Tijuana, 1974. Writer and conceptual artist closely tie to the Fluxus lifestyle. She has published “Equilibrios”, 1992, “Intrucciones para cocinar”,2001, “Los Demonios de la Casa Mayor”, 2002, “Los Impersonales”, 2002, “25 ScoreS 25”, 2009, "Mini Poemas", 2009, "MCA- Chicago Scores",2011; has curated, exhibited, performed, done residencies, as well as interventions and collaborated in several anthologies, magazines and newspapers across the world. Cofounder of AVTEXTFEST and AVTEXTPRESS experimental literature projects, Padilla Maltos holds a degree in International Affairs, and a Masters in Marketing. Has coordinated creative writing and experimental literature workshops. Her work is extremely wide ranging and goes from collage and the reinvention of performances and classic metadramas, to the exploration of visual narratives parallel to literary and political texts, as well as the explorations of the body’s sense in contemporary societies.
Liz Roncka is a performing artist working in the genres of movement improvisation and contemporary dance. She is an accomplished solo artist and teacher whose work has been presented across the United States and internationally in France, and Hungary since 1991. Liz has performed original work at a range of prominent venues including the Dance Theater Workshop, Center for Performance Research, Five Myles, and Spoke the Hub in New York City, Canaldanse, Kiosque Flottant, Chez Adel and Galerie G in Paris, the Ludwig Museum and MU Szinhaz in Budapest, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston University, the Boston Center for the Arts, and the New England Conservatory in Boston. She has taught internationally at Canaldanse in Paris and locally at Green Street Studios, Boston College, Bridgewater State College, the American College Dance Festival and currently at Boston University.
Matt Samolis has been working in sonic and visual mediums since 1987. He began studying flute, and later composition and tenor banjo. He has worked with ensembles at New England Conservatory, Brandeis University, Berklee, and Tufts, as well as Open Hand Theatre, Pilgrim Research Collaborative, Mobius, Roy Hart Theatre, and numerous other projects. Currently, his primary focus is composition, and performing as a flutist with various performance groups. He also curates a concert series for new music at the Church of the Advent Library in Boston.
Jane Wang is a composer/multi-instrumentalist and member of the Mobius Artists Group. Her artistic bio may be found on www.mobius.org. She is grateful to David Morneau, Melissa Grey and Rob Voisey for inviting Mobius to collaborate with Circuit Bridges and to all the composers and performers for bringing their talents to this first of hopefully many more collaborations.
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