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Thursday–Friday October 21–22, 2004 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

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Panel Discussion 6–7pm Panel Discussion 6–7pm Contemporary artists and an The Gesamtkunstwerk (Totalartwork) historical instrument in the 21st century Moderator: Moderator: Christopher McIntyre Christopher McIntyre Associate Music Curator, The Kitchen Associate Music Curator, The Kitchen Participants include: Jens Barnieck, pianist Participants include: Enrico Cocco, composer Jens Barnieck, pianist Gearoid Dolan, artist Enrico Cocco, composer Kyle Gann, composer, critic Gearoid Dolan, artist Thea Herold, word performer Thea Herold, word performer Charlie Morrow, composer Charlie Morrow, composer Aloisia Moser, philosopher Wolf-Dieter Neupert, company Wolf-Dieter Neupert, company for historical instruments for historical instruments Georg Nussbaumer, composer Georg Nussbaumer, composer Birgit Ramsauer, artist Birgit Ramsauer, artist Kartharina Rosenberger, Katharina Rosenberger, composer composer David Grahame Shane, architect, urbanist, author Concert 8pm Gerd Stern, poet and artist Gloria Coates Abraham Lincoln’s Performance 8pm Cooper Union Address* Frieder Butzmann Stefano Giannotti Soirée pour double solitaires * L’Arte des Paesaggio Charlie Morrow, alive I was silent Horst Lohse, Birgit’s Toy* and in death I do sing* Intermission Enrico Cocco, The Scene of Crime* Heinrich Hartl, Cemballissimo Aldo Brizzi, The Rosa Shocking* Katharina Rosenberger, Echo* Gerd Stern, Charlie Morrow, Spinett* Intermission pianist: Jens Barnieck Actor, Kyle Gann Gloria Coates, Birgit Ramsauer Performers: Thea Herold, Gerd Entering the Unknown* Stern, Katharina Rosenberger; Thea Herold, non papers* Dancers: Jeremy Nelson Georg Nussbaumer, Birding Guide* and Luis Lara Malvacias Jeremy Nelson, Luis Lara Malvacías and Marc Nasdor, Final Call* *World Premiere

Jens Barnieck L

Biography German pianist Jens Barnieck has Centennial Celebration Festival at the received a grant for the Cité Inter- University Buffalo. Since 1997 he is nationale des Arts in Paris from the artistic director of a biannual festival German government/Federal State of “ARTlantische Tage“ in Kaiserslautern, Hessen for the season 2003/2004. Germany. He has also performed in spınet He has performed in major concert different interdisciplinary multi media halls and festivals, including the projects with American visual artist SPINETT Ravello Festival, Italy, the Kurt Weill Jenni Lukac, sculptor Leah Jacobson. Fest 2000 at the Konzerthaus Berlin, Jens Barnieck studied with Prof. Gregor s s s s s s at Steinway Hall in New York City, the Weichert at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Detmold. During his time puh puh puh puh peeeee European Festival Week in Passau, Germany, the North American New in Detmold, he participated in master- in in not out in pee pin stick spin Music Festival, Buffalo, Almeida classes given by Peter Feuchtwanger, et like tete et not ate eat et Theatre, London, June in Buffalo, London, and Assanetta Egeserian, et cetera little et diminutivetoilette Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Moscow. As well he studied with the head et al Musik, Darmstadt, Imagine, Memphis, American pianist and composer Yvar shpinette shpin und sinn wahr sinn nett Tennessee, Schwabinger Klavierwinter, Mikhashoff at the State Univerity of sehr nett shpin ette Munich, the Heidelberger Klavierwoche New York at Buffalo, where he won spin span spun top spin et and a Festival for Contemporary the Cameron Baird Solo Competition play say sag mihr et was Chinese Music, Buffalo, which has and received a Masters degree in spinett ok been broadcast worldwide by “The Musical Performance cum laude. Voice of America.” Most recently, he Recordings with Jens Barnieck include spine thorn spinney performed the Second Piano Concerto television recordings for channel 2, when miss delights in her spineta fiddler by Edward MacDowell with the NBC (National Broadcasting Corp- may a fortune get Philharmonisches Staatsorchester oration, USA), Südwest-RP, Germany, ergo sum spinett Halle. He had appearance as avocal the national television company of the accompanist, with Sarah Leonard at Republic of Slovakia, RAI, Italy and Gerd Stern, NYC 2004 the Lincoln Centers’ Bruno Walter for Deutsche Welle, Cologne. Radio Auditorium, NY, with Gary Burgess, broadcasts include WNED-FM, Buffalo Bratislava Music Festival, with Kurt in their series “Opus Classics Live“ and Ollmann SWR and at Staatskanzlei for Südwestrundfunk, Baden-Baden. Mainz, with Julia Oesch, Jens he won A CD with “Das Marienleben“ by the prize for Lied at the second inter- Paul Hindemith with soprano Sarah national competition “Debut in Leonard is due to be released on the Merano,” Italy. In 1995 he became MODE label, New York. artistic director of a Paul Hindemith

Aldo Brizzi Frieder Butzmann

Statement Statement Biography The Rosa Shocking Theatre de L’Athenee, Paris in ’01 Soirée pour double solitaire 1954 born in Konstanz, Germany World Premiere 2004 (both directed by Alfredo Arias). (For Spinet and sewing machine with on Lake Constance In spring 2000 he co-produced the scissors), World Premiere 2004 He collects sound and noise double album “cristal” of Alados 1st movement (Boredom): The spinet impressions. Biography Namorados (EMI), which recieved player is bored. (May be frustrated). the “Golden Disc” in Portugal. For the most part he does not know He plays slowly and concentratedly, He was the principal conductor of whether he should create classical country Brasil, Italy bio student of look carefully to the score. He plays “Ensemble for Ferienkurse” in Darm- music or film music, lectures, radio Leonard Bernstein. His music is as if exercising. The sewing machine stadt (1990–1994) and conducted plays or even operas. He spreads, played among others, by the Strings player is a bit disturbing the spinet the Santa Cecilia Chamber Orchestra sorts, and transposes analogue and of the Berlin Philharmonie, the player´s play. 2nd movement (Work): of Rome, the strings of the Berliner digital sound recordings until they European Union Youth Orchestra, Both are playing perfectly: like a Philharmoniker, the Bamberger are unrecognizable. He presents Bamberger Symphoniker, Baden- (sewing) machine. At high speed. Symphoniker, Ensemble Recherche of them to the astonished audience, Baden Radio Symphonieorchester, The spinet player need not sing in a Freiburg, Ensemble Itineraire of Paris, whenever they are willing to listen. Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio belcanto manner. He´s singing loud, etc. He has consulted and worked He has exhibited in international fes- France, Arditti String Quartett, etc. with a thoughtful expression. He with Ennio Morricone, John Cage tivals and museums as Musée He opened the World Music Days in sings for himself. 3rd movement and Giacinto Scelsi. He was awarded National d’Art Moderne (Biennale), ’93 with a concert on Teotihuacan (Love): variable speed, running after the Prize of the “Venezia Opera Paris; Kitchen, New York, Berlin; Pyramids, Mexico. The multimedia the sewing machine, as a male after Prima” in Venice 1981, the prize Museum of Modern Art, New York; concert “The Labyrinths Trial” a female pigeon. The movement at the “European Year of the Music, Amsterdam Elektron Musik Festivalen; (music, dance, video, lights design) stops immediately, when each spinet 1985” in Paris, Cologne, Venice, Kunsthalle Wien; Saale Polivalente, was directed by the composer in note has been played. Rom, Madrid, Aqui Terme, Bruxelles, the “Franco Evangeliste” in 1986 Ferrara; Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Ars Porto, Salvador Bahia, Sao Paulo in Rome and the prize of the Electronica, Linz; Haus de Stilj, Oslo; among other places from 1998–2000. “Junge Komponisten Forum 1989” Kunsthalle, Nürnberg; etc. in Cologne. He composed stage music for www.friederbutzmann.de “Le frigo” (Prix Moliere) and for www.aldobrizzi.net “Les Bonnes” by Jean Genet at the

Ulrich Clewing

The first art theorist who used the At that time, but also centuries later only to emphasize their differences after his discharge from the term Gesamtkunstwerk (total work with Wagner, the Gesamtkunstwerk more explicitly. The scores of Düsseldorf art academy in 1972: of art) was Richard Wagner. In his was subject to strict rules and, so contemporary composers sometimes A Gesamtkunstwerk, according to essay “The Art Of The Future,” to speak, characterized by stringent look more like drawings or color Beuys, is only possible in a societal published in 1871, he describes what goal-orientation. The goal was signals than traditional sheets of space. Every person will be a he feels is the highest level of artistic always to express a certain content, music. They do not use traditional necessary co-creator of it in a creation: the combination of all to tell a certain predefined story, scales and notes, instead they build social architecture. arts—music, literature, painting, either to legitimate and glorify the their compositions with elements sculpture, architecture, and acting— regency of a potentate or to that must correctly be called noises Beuys was obviously thinking of making one complete work of art, construct other, seemingly more and sounds. emancipatory, socio-political the Gesamtkunstwerk. In his opinion depersonalised, but no less outdated developments in society at large, in this Gesamtkunstwerk could ideally mythological world views. This, of This list could be continued endlessly. which art was supposed to be part only be an opera, not surprising for course, has changed considerably What is important is: If the artistic of a general, enduring mission for an opera composer. This also had the since then. It is only possible to still form is in itself synaesthetic, it is education and training. “As long as advantage that Wagners penchant speak of a Gesamtkunstwerk today possible and even necessary to the last person can’t take part in the for mythological material could easily because the arts themselves have direct attention to other, until game, the ideal form of democracy be accomodated herein. defied their boundaries and freed then neglected features of the has not been reached. No matter if themselves from all strict rules—and Gesamtkunstwerk. In the “new” artist, mechanical engineer or nurse: When asking about the historic roots this had consequences for the term, Gesamtkunstwerk, the practical it’s about all-over participation.” of the concept of an integral interac- in the course of which its definition experience of the performance plays Maybe the disposition toward social tion of all arts, one may come to the experienced a decisive modification. a more and more prominent role, utopias has generally receded in the conclusion that such ideas and dis- especially on an immaterial, quasi years since Beuys publicised his play formats already existed much The boundaries of the different abstract level. theses, but this only pertains to the earlier. During the Renaissance, genres have softened, become porous pitch of the discussion. Its content ostentatious processions with music and permeable. The combination First of all, there is the nowadays is more topical than ever in the age and dancing, with specially designed of the arts in a large work of art has, not at all trivial factor that a group of digitalisation. carriages, costumes and painted at least partly, been replaced by the of artists with very different origins architectural vedutes were more combination of the arts in many and cultural imprints actually come Ulrich Clewing, Berlin 2004 frequent than commonly thought. small works of art. The development together in one place. Secondly, (translation: Vanessa Krout) Some of these temporary “decorati- of the last years and decades has the audience plays a more important ons” found entrance into art history shown that things are coming toget- role, in which effect and participation —one of the most famous examples her more and more: painting is still go into an interactive relationship. being the fantastic decoration of a painting, but it may possibly have a One of the great revitalizers of the triumphal procession that Albrecht good deal to do with dance, script idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, Dürer created 1512/13 for Emperor or literature. The same can be said Joseph Beuys, expressed it in the Maximilian I. about sculpture, which, as an example, following terms in an interview with converges with architecture at first, the art critic Georg Jappe shortly

Gloria Coates

Statement Biography Entering the Unknown Abraham Lincoln’s Gloria Coates, born in Wausau, which she began in 1962. She World Premiere 2004 Cooper Union Address Wisconsin, based since 1969 in eventually developed her method to World Premiere 2004 Munich has divided her time apply to orchestral works of which Entering the Unknown is a total art between the USA and Europe. She she has 14 symphonies. Although piece consisting of a film from On February 27, 1860, Abraham began composing at an early age, her music has been performed at Birgit Ramsauer, and spinet music Lincoln stood on the platform of the winnng a National Composition leading festivals; Warsaw Autumn and music from a string quartet Great Hall of Cooper Union and contest when she was 14. Her main 1978, Berlin Festival 1981, 2004, composed by Gloria Coates. It is a delivered a brilliant speech which not professors were Otto Luening and New Music America 1989, Dresden work expressing the frustrations of only gave him the nomination but Alexander Tcherepnin. After her Festival, and others; and by orchestras; our time; seeing and being among nine months later the Presidency of Masters Degree in Composition she Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, crowds of people in a heavily the United States. He proved that the did post graduate work at Columbia Milwaukee Symphony, Brooklyn populated world where there is no founding fathers and our Constitution University. She is the recipient of Philharmonic, Stuttgart Philharmonic, real communication or feelings for opposed slavery and the expansion numerous commissions, prizes, and St.Paul Chamber Orchestra, and others. The people move as if on of slavery into the territories. I have honors. She also attended Cooper Kronos, Henschel, and Kreuzer a treadmill, appearing like empty distilled Lincoln’s text to a fragment Union Art School. She continued Quartets to name a few, her music figures without faces and evoking of ist length and created a narrative, painting throughout the years; her burst into international recognition feelings of anxiety and loneliness. graphic poem. The spinet is used paintings are seen on numerous CD since the 1990’s through the CDs of percussively and the string orchestra covers of her music. Her experiments CPO (orchestral music), Naxos (8 is that of the first movement of with vocal multiphonics were String Quartets,) and New World “Symphony No. 1” composed in demonstrated in Darmstadt in 1972, Records (vocal—symphonic music). 1973, The projection behind Lincoln but her main contribution was her is from a naive collage on wood own particular use of microtones (1976) by Dorothy Cole entitled Abraham Lincoln. The composer— musicologist Kyle Gann interprets Abraham Lincoln. This performance will be slides of paintings by Robert Gwathmey, one of the first painters to paint the African Americans with dignity and my drawing teacher while I was a student at Cooper Union.

Enrico Cocco Stefano Giannotti

Statement Biography Statement Biography The Scene of the Crime Born in Rome in 1953. He is a L´Arte des Paesaggio, 2000 (1963), composer, author, guitarist World Premiere 2004 composer, sonic researcher, teacher (The Art of Landscape) and performer. Dramaturgy of sound for spinet and and festival organizer. His multimedia L ´Arte des Paesaggio was conceived He studied composition with Pietro digital sounds work/Visionari, inspired by a collection as a sort of concert for harpsichord Rigacci and he was the assistant of of essays by theologin and philosopher The crime committed is about the (spinet) and orchestra, in which the Alvin Curran in “Crystal Psalms” Oliviér Clément, was presented at language. Language that changing traditional orchestra is substituted by and “Tufo Muto.” He performed in the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte die, and revive in new forms. The an orchestra of natural sounds. The several European countries with di Montepulciano (1997). He was language of a spinet and music structure is based on counterpoint the chamber music group “Trio invited to present his work Poetico today...language of solipsism and and is reminiscent of J.S.Bach´s “Die Chitarristico Lucchese” and started Notturno Silenzio at the Ferienkurse of collective artistic work. The scene Kunst der Fuge.” a collaboration with the Italian fuer Neue Musik at Darmstadt. His is action of four characters there coreographer Roberto Castello. dance work Il Sogno di Chuang-Tzu The piece develops on the borders present that exhibit oneself, exorcizing Among several prizes he received is based on the short stories of J.L. between game and sound-mirage, the not linear nature of this music were a scholarship for DAAD Berlin; Borges. Since his early experiences between irony and the twisted irony dramaturgy, as a story about the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf; with electronic music in the 1970s, of fate. The landscape becomes a hybridation of the arts. They are Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, the he has moved away from pure language, sign and score; it becomes Spinet, Audience, Teknè, Beauty. But Karl-Sczuka-Preis (SWR, Baden- post-serialist composition and a mirror for the fragility of existence crime require a victim, a guilty and a Baden)—International Prize of Radio embraced a more personal esthetic when the heart stops beating, and feeling of guilt: in this live sound set Art Macrophon’91, Polskie Radio— of sound dramatics. This has given at the same time it takes the form of characters change in turn our role. Prix Ars Acustica International, his works a theatrical quality. His mother earth giving birth to a child´s Teknè love Audience, but Spinet, that WDR Cologne. music is influenced by the relation- singing. from distant time fell in love for ship between sound, theatre and His repertoire ranges from Beauty, now come under Audience’s image. Today his interests lie in Esposition performance, radio-art, dance theatre spell. Spinet promised to the sage reseach into how music and drama 1st Development to chamber music, orchestral scores Wandy that never had loved Audience, have shaped the role of the performer. 1st Cadenza and songs. Landscape, memory, life for any reason. But Audience turns 2nd Development cycles, voices of people, languages; one’s look toward it, and her couldn’t Reprise these are some of the main themes do without it. Teknè and Spinet was developed in Giannotti’s work. already met in New York, many times ago, between E 7th Street and Tompkins Square Park, when Teknè helped Spinet for some problems of its inner sound. But in that time Audience and Beauty was distant from their thought: even Audience was not still borned. Teknè and Spinet saw their and…”

Heinrich H. Hartl Thea Herold

Statement Biography Statement Biography Cembalissimo, 2003 Heinrich Hartl was born in 1953 in Daily Exercise (handwriting Thea Herold was born 1960 in Deggendorf (Germany). He studied performance for a Spinet), Saxonia and studied journalism in My composition Cembalissimo is a organ, piano, Catholic church World Premiere 2004 Leipzig. From 1984 to 1988 she lived rhythmic multilayered piece. Sound music, and composition at the in Moscow and since the fall of the sequences emerge in a narrow The writer is doing daily exercises. Meistersingerkonservatorium in wall she has been working as a ensemble within the space. Minimal Simply writing words and moving the Nuremberg. Since 1985 he teaches freelance author in Berlin. She writes rhythmic movements guide towards body. While writing you will refresh at the University of Erlangen- journalistic texts for newspapers, an emerging subject…The performer and better remember the words— Nuremberg. He recieved several magazines and published books. is encouraged to improvise. like while learning foreign vocabulary. prizes, among others: Kulturförder- For ten years Thea Herold also has …Widening the piece towards his So the performance has to create a preis Nuremberg, Bezirk Mittelfranken, been doing projects in handwriting own imagination makes the written dialogue between words and international competition in for exhibitions, performances and composition even more intense. Tai Chi movements—a close interac- compositions Czech Republic. installations. Since 2003 she holds a tion between “eastern movements” Concert tours have taken him to teaching assignment at the University and “western words.” The writer is various countries of Eastern Europe. of Arts Berlin (UDK) in the post grad- working with a feather pen. The Heinrich Hartl was born blind. uate program in cultural journalism. writing movements produce sound www.hartlmusik.de by touching the strings of the spinet. The words—keywords only—are extracted from the “Bill of Rights”— better known as Amendments to the US Constitution—the basic essence for our human rights. –T. H.

Horst Lohse Luis Lara Malvacías

Statement Biography Biography Notes for Birgit’s Toy Horst Lohse, born 1943 in Bavaria, Born in Venezuela Luis Lara Malvacías (Danspace Project at St Mark’s Church, The composer’s attempt is the worked in such different fields as is a choreographer, dancer, designer 1995), Beware of Dog, (Danspace experiment of transferring the basic orchestra, ballet, vocal music, and and visual artist. He is a graduate of Project, 1996), Di- Agnosis (PS 122, idea of the installation of the artist chamber music. He studied with The Instituto Superior de Danza in May 1998, The First International Birgit Ramsauer into music. The Helmut Eder (Mozartezum Salzburg) Caracas, Venezuela, He holds a BFA Dance Festival at Connecticut ancient Virginal composition of Giles and Bertold Hummel (HfM in Visual Arts from the Universidad College in June 1998), 2000 Pain- Farnaby’s “Toy“ (Fitzwilliam´s Virginal Würzburg). His compositions were Central de Venezuela and completed Stake at Danspace at Saint Mark’s compendium), played on CD, will performed at many international the Certification in Painting from the Church. His first collaborative chore- be layered and the live music of the festivals such as Montepulciano, Arts Students League of New York. ography with Nelson, Morphylactic, “new Toy’s composition “painted Iesi, Turin, Lissabon, Orléans, Zürich, He became a member of the company was performed at the Painted Bride over” until it disappears. At the very Aarhus, Leiden, Heilbronn, Hannover, Espacio Alterno, dancing in the works Arts Center in Philadelphia (1998), end a comtemporary “Toy” appears Lüneburg, Weimar, Erfurt, St. Peters- of David Zambrano, Jeremy Nelson at Dance Theater Workshop (1999) from the ancient “Toy,” dedicated to burg, Bukarest, Timisoara, Istanbul. and Mark Tompkins among others. and in Nuremberg, Germany (2001). Birgit Ramsauer’s installation: “Birgit´s The music was awarded national In New York he has danced for He has taught at Movement Research, Toy“ is born (spinet player Egino and international prizes in Salzburg, Marguerita Guergue, Yoshiko Chuma, Dance Space Center, CSV Cultural Klepper, recording by Cavalli Records). Stuttgart, Leverkusen, Aarhus und Jeremy Nelson and in his own & Educational Center and The Dresden. He is also the founder choreography and with John Jasperse, Greenspan Center, New York, and director of the “Festival for winning the Group Performance Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Contemporary Music“ in Bamberg. Award at the Rencontres Choré- Centro Cultural Mistral in Chile, graphiques Internationales de I.S.D., IUESAPAR, in the Grupo Bagnolet in Paris. His choreography ThejaDanza in Venezuela, International has been shown in the Festival de Dance Summer Festival in Japan, Jóvenes Coreógrafos in Caracas, in The Northern School of Dance in New York at University Settlement, Leeds, England, Connecticut College Context Studios and Mulberry Street and in Nuremberg- Germany. In 2001 Theater and as part of the repertory he curated Instalacion Sur 2001, a of the New York company Gotham project that involved a tour of Group. NoN was performed at the three countries in South America— Joyce SoHo 1999. Two dances— Colombia, Chile y Venezuela—with Pescando Agujas (1993) and a one week residency in each Buenaventura (1994) were performed country, involving teaching and by the Venezuelan company “Espacio performing structured improvisations Alterno. He has presented four in an installation-environment shared evenings of work with Jeremy created for the event. Nelson—A Skeleton in the Closet

Christopher McIntyre Charlie Morrow

Biography Statement Biography Sound artist/composer/producer Christopher McIntyre leads a Two-Manual Concept Works multi-faceted career in the arts. He is for Spinet Charlie Morrow is a conceptualist active as a performer (on trombone) whose music and sound work explores In Life/was Silent but in Death and composer in New York’s many styles and forms, from events I do Sing, World Premiere 2004 experimental music scene. His credits for media and public spaces to as Associate Music Curator at The A series of sound art works based commercial soundtracks, new media Kitchen include Artistic Directorship on the physical materials of music productions, museum installations of Kitchen House Blend, a 10-piece instruments. In these works for and programming for broadcast and commissioning chamber orchestra/ Spinet. a second electronic keyboard festivals. He is president and creative big band, and lead curator of (manual) is played in addition to the director of Charles Morrow Associates, performances during New Sound, spinet keyboard. Manual two plays Inc. and of The New Wilderness New York, a city-wide festival focusing samples based on spinet sounds Foundation, Inc. on current trends in sound art in recorded by Egino Klepper and Morrow sound installations have April ‘04. processed by Matt Stine with Morrow’s been presented in major museums direction. Other realizations are such as the Louvre, Paris, Chicago Please visit www.cmcintyre.com. envisioned with live sound processing. Museum of Science and Industry, Whitney Museum, American Spinett, World Premiere 2004 Museum of Natural History. He has The companion work for the two composed music for multimedia and keyboard (manual) performance is orchestra with 3D such as a miniature based on Stine’s sampled phrases Haydn “Clock Symphony” for Paik’s from poet Gerd Stern’s reading of Swatch Watch ZAPPING. He has his sound poem. created feature film soundtracks in the U.S. and Europe. ScruTiny in the Great Round (with Rice Dixon, and Jim Gasperini) won the MILIA D’OR 96 at Cannes. He created the audio tours for the Great Platte River Road Memorial Archway, NEB winner of a Thea Award 2001. In 2003 he invented the Morrow Sound Cube spatial sound delivery systems and the following year co-produced the New Sound New York Sound Cube show at The Kitchen. 2004 he partic- ipated in the Future of Sound, at the British Academy Awards.

DJ Poodlecannon (Marc Nasdor) Jeremy Nelson

DJ Poodlecannon (Marc Nasdor) Biography is a musician, DJ and writer living in Born in New Zealand he trained at Tilt Spazio Danza, Milan; Sasha Waltz New York City since 1980. He DJs an The London School of Contemporary Company and TanzFabrik, Berlin; eclectic mix of worldbeat at several Dance and went on to dance for PARTS and Rosas Company, Brussells; clubs in Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Siobhan Davies and Second Siobhan Davies and Company, Ballet He is also a solo musician, crooning Stride Dance companies in London Rambert, School of Contemporary cranky old country-western songs before coming to New York in 1984. Dance, London; Northern School of at waterfront dives in Red Hook. He was a dancer with The Stephen Dance in Leeds, England; S.O.A.P. His poems were published in a Petronio Dance Company in New Dance, Frankfurt; Instituto de Bellas collection in the late 1980s, and York from 1984-1992. In 1991, Artes, Havana; Angels Margarit, have been translated into German, he won a New York Dance and Mudanses, Barcelona; DanceForum, Hungarian and Spanish. Performance (“Bessie”) Award for Lisbon; The State School of Dance, outstanding performance with that The International Dance Festival of company. He now works as an Kalamata, Greece; DansensHus, independent choreographer, teacher Copenhagen; Tanzwerkstatt, Munich; and dancer. He has performed in TanzImpulse, Austria; CanalDanse, the work of David Zambrano, Mia Paris; Companie Christiane Blaise, Lawrence and Luis Lara Malvacías, Grenoble; among others. as well as in his own work. He also He presented a full evening of his works with contact improviser, Kirstie own work in New York at Danspace Simpson in an improvisational group Project at St. Mark’s Church in and performs in installation- October 2002 and created a new improvisations organized by Luis work for Phoenix Dance Company Lara Malvacías. in Leeds, England for their spring He is a member of the teaching 2003 season. In August 2003, he faculty at Movement Research in New performed his work at Die Pratze York. In the United States, he has Theater, in Tokyo. taught as part of the American Dance Festival, and at various universities including New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Bennington College. For the last seventeen years, he has been teaching classes and workshops all over the world at places including: International Summer Dance School, Tokyo;

Wolf Dieter Neupert Georg Nussbaumer

Statement Biography Statement Biography J.C.Neupert from Bamberg, Birding Guide Composer/Gesamtkunstartist Born 05/31/1937 in Bamberg, father Germany, founded in the year 1868, World Premiere 2004 Born 1964 in Linz (Austria) Hanns Neupert, piano manufacturer, are the oldest manufacturers of works using musical instruments mother Emma Neupert, pianist. cembali and spinets today. To defy The instrument spinet with its flung- various organic and anorganic Student of the humanistic school in the formaesthetic boundaries of open top is, in my mind, always materials, machines, appliances and Bamberg, graduation 1956. Studying tradition that had grown over four connected with the connotation of ideas. Video, Insinuations and physics and mathematics at the generations of building instruments, an odd mating bird. This happens Suppositions. Works published by university of Munich and Berlin, he the current owner, Wolf-Dieter even more intensely with Birgit Ariadne, Vienna Symphoid (an received his diploma in physics at the Neupert, asked the artist Birgit Ramsauer´s extremely colorful ensemble for music and its derivatives) technical faculty of the University of Ramsauer to develop a new design, installation. The technique of this Berlin in 1957 and in 1958 he according to her ideas, for the precursor of today’s grand piano finished his studies at the University Neupert spinet “Zenti.” He added: (German: Flügel = wing) tearing at for music with a diploma for sound ”If we like your design right away, the strings with feather keels to engineer, 1972–1974 he became an you did something wrong.” create sound is even more connected assistant professor for mathematics to the connotation of a bird. My at the polytechnic for economics in composition “birding guide“ Berlin. In fall 1973 he entered searches on and within the instrument. J.C.Neupert, his fathers workshops. It creates bird-related sound by using Since 1975 he is managing director body parts of the bird (feathers, (in forth generation) of this worldwide beak, eggs) as well as the movement oldest manufacturer for historical of birds arranging their feathers. keyboard instruments. 1974–1991 Instead of imitating the bird’s sounds Head of Musikverein Bamberg my piece is going to listen to the (managing classical concert events), song of this bird-like object “spinet.” now honorary chairman. 1983–2003 Cembalist in chamber orchestras of the Bamberg Symphonic Orchestra. Numerous publications on instrument building subjects.

Birgit Ramsauer Katharina Rosenberger

Artist’s statement Biography Statement Biography Dialogue and exchange have always 1982-1989 studies at the Universities Echo, World Premiere 2004 Born 1971 in Zurich, Rosenberger’s been very important for my installa- of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Echo is a performance art piece slight tendency to “nomadism” has tions, photography, performances, Bamberg for teaching and dedicated to the German artist brought her to collaborations all videos and poems. As/myself went Magister Artium in German Birgit Ramsauer and her installation around Europe and the USA. Her through different professions/am Literature, Art History “spinet—an experiment on Total- work—acoustic and electro-acoustic deeply convinced that the different 1990–1995 studies at the Academy artwork.” It is a multidisciplinary music, installations and performance kinds of knowledge and experiences of Fine Arts, Nuremberg event with the “spinet” as its art—is often inspired and linked with in the arts and science should be in 1997–2000 project ART: HOME–LESS centerpiece, a vibrant reconstruction the visual arts and inquiries into an ongoing dialogue. In 1997, in NYC, Moscow, Marseille, Berlin of a 16th century keyboard perceptual and phenomenological during the ART: HOME—LESS (scholarship of DAAD, Kolodzei instrument. “The past meets the issues. She is currently studying project,/started to work with Foundation USA, Triangle France, present in color and form.” Echo composition with Tristan Murail and collaborators. Since the beginning of Museum der Verbotenen Kunst, intends to investigate this idea. completing her PhD with a Faculty 2003/have asked different interna- Kunstfabrik). Assistant professor, Twofold in structure, it envisions a Fellowship at Columbia University tional artists to take part in the proj- Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg mirror effect: Part I– listen: the past in NYC. ect “spinet“ and become collabora- 2001 artist in residency, Atlanta lives in the present, Part II–question: tors. The idea is an experiment on 2002 artist in residency at the past “re-invented.” Departing the Gesamtkunstwerk, to find a team Worpswede, “JWD,” Worpswede from William Byrd’s The Bells, of collaborators who will work Künstlerhäuser, Gallery of the City composed in the early 17th century, together in a free exchange. And to of Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, the audience is asked to engage grow into new dimensions within scholarship of the Adenauer- in the significance of old music in your own art by crossing borders and Foundation, Berlin the present. In contrast stands the widening horizons within this con- 2003 Guest Professor, The Cooper second part of the piece, where the cept in all different aspects of form, Union, NYC function of the historical instrument structure, age, concept, media, types 2004 Guest professor at School in the context of new media art is of arts and nationalities. of Art, Atlanta questioned and considered. Echo is not meant to denote a judgement. Rather it should evoke a critical outlook on existing notions of authenticity, genuineness and traditional values. Many thanks to Egino Klepper for introducing to me The Bells.

Gerd Stern

Statement Biography Spinett, World Premiere 2004 Stern, a founder of the 60’s multimedia commune USCO and the Gerd Stern is a poet and visual artist. group’s electronicist Michael Callahan He has collaborated with sounds are working toward a three night creator Charlie Morrow before this late March event at Anthology Film presentation of” Separate & Archives in New York and the Unequal.” Speedy and irreverent the recreation of installations for the piece is vocalization breaking Tate Museum’s “Summer of Love” “in the beginning was the word” exhibition opening May in Liverpool. mind processors into syllabic frag. Stern is the author of three volumes References, humor, consanguinity of poetry. His oral history was pub- become meaningful. Listening is not lished by the University of California, the same as hearing if overstanding’s Berkeley in 2001. a goal.

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