ALEX WATERMAN 8 Exeter Circle Beacon, NY 12508 | +1 646 239 2384 | [email protected] | www.alexwaterman.com EDUCATION Ph.D. Musicology|2014| New York University. MMus. Composition & Performance |2002 | Institute for Sonology, Royal Conservatory, Den Haag. BMus. Cello Performance| 1998 | Oberlin Conservatory. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Ramapo College, Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Arts 2018-present Connecticut College, Adjunct Professor of Music 2018-19 Wesleyan University, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music 2015-2018. Bard College, Milton Avery School for the Arts MFA Program 2011-present (Sound and Music). Bloomfield College, Adjunct Professor of Music 2014-2015. New York University, Graduate Teaching Fellowship and Assistantship 2008-14. Courses taught (B= Bloomfield, CC= Conn College, NYU= New York University, R= Ramapo, W= Wesleyan): The Elements of Music (NYU), The Art of Listening (NYU), Music Theory I (B), Music Theory II (B), Music Sequencing & Production (B), MUSC 103 Materials & Design (W), MUSC 201 Tonal Harmony (W), MUSC 202 Theory and Analysis (W), MUSC 522 Comparative Music Theory (W), MUSC 106 History of European Art Music (W), MUSC 243 Music of the 19th Century (W), MUSC 244 Music of the 20th Century (W), MUSC 129 The Art of Listening (W), MUSC 223 Recording and Sound Design (W), MUSC 508 Graduate Composition Seminar (W), MUSC 220 Composing, Performing, and Listening to Experimental Music, Electroacoustic Music 1 and 2 (CC), Composition Seminar (CC), Electronic and Computer Music 1 (R), Recording Arts (R). Other experience: -August 4th-17th 2013, Guest Faculty with Will Holder, David Reinfurt, and Richard Birkett at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada. - Dec 2013, guest teacher for the end of semester critiques of graduate students in Electronic Media Arts and Communication Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. GRANTS & AWARDS 2014. THREE OPERAS AT THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL was supported by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, and a commission from the El Paso Opera and Ballroom Marfa. 2012. Nominated for a Bessie Award for Outstanding Sound Design or Composition for Maria Hassabi's SHOW, premiered at The Kitchen, NYC and performed in River to River NYC, and Kaaitheater Brussels, Belgium. 2011. Nominated for a USA Artists Award. 2010. National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius awarded to Alex Waterman and Issue Project Room to support a new Spanish language production of Robert Ashley's opera, Perfect Lives directed by Alex Waterman. 2009. A Necessary Music (a film by Beatrice Gibson and Alex Waterman). Hors Pistes, Official Selection, Centre Pompidou, Paris. - Nominated for a New Vision Award: Festival Dei Popoli, International Festival of Documentary Film, Florence. 2008. Tiger Award for Best Short Film: A Necessary Music by Beatrice Gibson and Alex Waterman, Rotterdam Film Festival. A Necessary Music was supported by grants from the Arts Council England and the Graham Foundation for Art and Architecture. 2007-11. MacCracken Fellowship, New York University. PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Postcommodity and Alex Waterman, in memoriam…Mary Cecil, Victoria Callihoo, and Eleanor Thomas Garneau (Berlin: uh books, 2017). Ashley, R., Holder, W. & Waterman, A. Yes, But is it Edible?: the music of Robert Ashley for two or more voices (Vancouver: New Documents, 2014). The Tiger's Mind (London: Sternberg Press, 2012)- book accompanying a 3-year interdisciplinary research project culminating in the publication, an installation/exhibition, a film, and series of performances; based on a score by Cornelius Cardew with artists, Beatrice Gibson, John Tilbury, Celine Condorelli, Will Holder, Jesse Ash and Alex Waterman. Co-produced by Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Kunstverein Amsterdam, CAC Bretigny, and Pavilion Leeds. Waterman, A. Between Thought and Sound. (New York: The Kitchen, 2007). Waterman, A. Agapē. (New York: Miguel Abreu Gallery, 2007). SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS | ARTICLES - “Listening to Resonant Words” in Theorizing Sound Writing, ed. Deborah Kapchan (Wesleyan University Press, 2016). - "Anna Magdalena Bach: True Author of the Suites for Unaccompanied Cello", A Circular issue 3, London: Cubitt Gallery, Summer 2015. - "Shoot the Player Piano!" Sur, Volume 1, Mexico D.F., 2014. -"Orderly Outsider" a story, published in The Third Rail (Issue #1) alongside three sound pieces: http://www.thirdrailquarterly.org/ - Waterman, Alex, "Some Notes on a Performance of The Entrance"; published in John Lely and James Saunders, Word Events: Perspectives on Verbal Notation, London, Continuum Books; 2011. - "In Conversation: Alex Waterman" by Timothy Nassau, The Brooklyn Rail, December - January 2011. - "Robert Ashley by Alex Waterman", BOMB Magazine, winter, 2011. -"Hearing Voices: Alex Waterman on Robert Ashley", Artforum, April 2009. 2 BOOKS FEATURING THE WORK OF ALEX WATERMAN Ed. Spampinato & Wiedemann, Art Record Covers (New York, Taschen, 2017). Spampinato, Francesco, Can You Hear Me? Music Labels by Visual Artists (Eindhoven, Onomatopee, 2015). Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms, Michelle Grabner, Whitney Biennial 2014 (New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, New Haven; Distributed by Yale University Press 2014). CONFERENCE PAPERS & INVITED TALKS 2015 - December 4th, WHERE WERE WE: A Festival on intimacy, writing, body, Aarhus, Denmark. Lecture and performance on the work of Robert Ashley. -Alex Waterman and Will Holder: Yes, But is it Edible book tour in Europe, reading excerpts from their monograph on American opera composer, Robert Ashley: March 6th, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland. March 7th, Pavilion, Leeds, England. March 8th, Cafe Oto, London, England. March 10th, Fondation Lafayette, Paris, France March 11th, La Loge, Brussels, Belgium. March 13th, Kunstverein Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 16th, Motto, Berlin, Germany. -February 18th and 23rd, two guest lectures on contemporary music notation for Stanley Boorman's honor's seminar at New York University. 2014 -November 17-21, Sympathetic Vibrations, Guggenheim Museum Online Forum with Shelley Trower, Sergei Tcherepnin, Alex Waterman, and Margaret Wertheim. http://www .guggenheim.org/newyork/online/forum/sympathetic-vibrations/session-1 Alex Waterman and Will Holder: Yes, But is it Edible book tour on the West Coast: September 30th-October 5th: Ooga Booga, Los Angeles, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, Mother Foucault's Bookstore, Portland, Oregon, & The Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia. -March 28, 'Robert Ashley and the Impossible Landscape of Television' at the Sound and Cinema Conference, New York University. - March 22nd, 'Polis is This' at the ACLA Conference at New York University. 2013 -May 17, Extended Vocals, a PERFORMA Festival pre-event with Mark Beasley, Joan LaBarbara, and Alex Waterman. -April 29, L.A.B. with Alex Waterman, Sam Greene and Tim Griffin, at The Kitchen, NYC. -April 19, EMP Conference, panel on 'Sound Writing.' - April 5th-6, talk on still lives, landscape, and notation, at the Time Stands Still Conference at Wesleyan University. 2012 -October 25-28, University of Toronto, The Future of Cage. Invited to present a paper on graphic and verbal notation and perform RYOANJI and ONE 13 by John Cage. 3 2011 -October 3, American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, "Listening to Resonant Words: Speaking Musically". Presented as part of an SEM sponsored panel, "Theorizing Sound Writing." -October 16, The Serpentine Gallery London. Beacons of Ancestorship- Invited presentation of an ongoing screenplay and radio performance by Alex Waterman based on a poem by John Barton Wolgamot. http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2011/08/garden_marathon.html - Sunday, April 17, Walls and Bridges Festival at The Cooper Union, NYC. "Redrawing Borders" round-table discussion with: Eric Chauvier, Serge Michel, Alex Waterman, Heribierto Yepez. Hosted by: Mónica de la Torre. Co-presented with BOMB Magazine and the Cooper Union. -March 17, Barbican Art Gallery, London. Will Holder and Alex Waterman read from Yes, But is it Edible? as part of the Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark exhibition. http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/eventdetail.asp?ID=11719 2010 -November 18, Vera List Center at The New School presents Organized Listening: Sound Art, Collectivity and Politics. A panel discussion with Ultra-Red Collective members Dont Rhine and Robert Sember and Rev. Jamaul Roots (Ballroom Ministries), Karen Hakobian (human rights advocate and musician) Paige Sarlin (artist and member of 16 Beaver), Alex Waterman (musician, writer, curator and member of Plus Minus Ensemble and Either/Or Ensemble). 2009 -December 10, "Discussion with Will Holder and Alex Waterman" in conjunction with the exhibition, The Malady of Writing, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (MACBA). 2008 -October 1, "Agape: Experimental Notations, The Social Act of Reading, and the Possibility of Action." A Lecture and Concert by Alex Waterman at Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (MACBA). SELECTED PERFORMANCES & EXHIBITIONS 2017 -October 18. Urantia! a new one-person opera by Alex Waterman. Donaueschingen Festival for New Music in Germany. -July 12-18. Alex Waterman and Postcommodity collaborated on in memoriam…, a new set of interpretations of the early graphic scores of Robert Ashley alongside a new score by Waterman and Postcommodity dedicated to three First Nation women elders from the late 19th century. The music was performed by an ensemble of Indigenous musicians. Recordings