A flagship project of the New York Philharmonic, the NY PHIL BIENNIAL is a wide-ranging exploration of today’s music that brings together an international roster of composers, performers, and curatorial voices for concerts presented both on the Lincoln Center campus and with partners in venues throughout the city. The second NY PHIL BIENNIAL, taking place May 23–June 11, 2016, features diverse programs — ranging from solo works and a chamber opera to large scale symphonies — by more than 100 composers, more than half of whom are American; presents some of the country’s top music schools and youth choruses; and expands to more New York City neighborhoods. A range of events and activities has been created to engender an ongoing dialogue among artists, composers, and audience members. Partners in the 2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL include National Sawdust; 92nd Street Y; Aspen Music Festival and School; Interlochen Center for the Arts; League of Composers/ISCM; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; LUCERNE FESTIVAL; MetLiveArts; New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival; Whitney Museum of American Art; WQXR’s Q2 Music; and Yale School of Music. Major support for the NY PHIL BIENNIAL is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and The Francis Goelet Fund. Additional funding is provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation and Honey M. Kurtz. NEW YORK CITY ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL __ JUNE 5-7, 2016 JUNE 13-19, 2016 __ www.nycemf.org CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4 DIRECTOR’S WELCOME 5 LOCATIONS 5 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE 7 COMMITTEE & STAFF 10 PROGRAMS AND NOTES 11 INSTALLATIONS 88 PRESENTATIONS 90 COMPOSERS 92 PERFORMERS 141 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA THE AMPHION FOUNDATION DIRECTOR’S LOCATIONS WELCOME NATIONAL SAWDUST 80 North Sixth Street Brooklyn, NY 11249 Welcome to NYCEMF 2016! Corner of Sixth Street and Wythe Avenue. Nearest subway stop: Bedford Avenue On behalf of the Steering Committee, it is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 2016 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. We have an exciting program of 25 concerts taking place at National Sawdust, in cooperation with the New York Philharmonic’s Biennial, at New York University, and at the Abrons Arts Center in New York City. We hope that you will enjoy all of them! We would first like to express our sincere appreciation to the following people and organizations who have contributed to us this year, in particular: - The New York Philharmonic Orchestra - National Sawdust - The Amphion Foundation - The Abrons Arts Center - The Genelec corporation, for providing us with loudspeakers to enable us to play all concerts in full surround sound - Fractured Atlas/Rocket Hub - New York University, Queens College and Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y., and the State University of New York ABRONS ARTS CENTER at Stony Brook, for lending us equipment and facilities 466 Grand Street - The Steering Committee, who spent numerous hours Between Pitt Street and Willett Street. in planning all aspects of the events Nearest subway stop: Delancey Street. - All the composers who submitted the music that we will be playing. None of this could have happened without their support. Hubert Howe Emeritus Professor of Music Queens College and the Graduate Center City University of New York 5 STEINHARDT SCHOOL NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 35 West 4th Street, Room 303 Half block east of Washington Square South. Nearest subway stop: West 4th Street. 6 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY JUNE 5 JUNE 6 JUNE 7 CONCERT 1 CONCERT 4 CONCERT 6 3-5 PM 5-6 PM 5-6 PM NATIONAL NATIONAL NATIONAL SAWDUST SAWDUST SAWDUST CONCERT 2 CONCERT 5 CONCERT 7 7-9:15 PM 8-10:15 PM 8-10:15 PM NATIONAL NATIONAL NATIONAL SAWDUST SAWDUST SAWDUST CONCERT 3 10-11 PM NATIONAL SAWDUST 7 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY JUNE 13 JUNE 14 JUNE 15 JUNE 16 CONCERT 8 CONCERT 12 CONCERT 16 CONCERT 20 12:30-1:30 PM 12:30-1:30 PM 12:30-1:30 PM 12:30-1:30 PM PLAYHOUSE UNDERGROUND UNDERGROUND EXPERIMENTAL THEATER THEATER THEATER CONCERT 9 CONCERT 13 CONCERT 17 CONCERT 21 2-3:30 PM 2-3:30 PM 2-3:30 PM 2-3:30 PM EXPERIMENTAL UNDERGROUND EXPERIMENTAL UNDERGROUND THEATER THEATER THEATER THEATER CONCERT 10 CONCERT 14 CONCERT 18 CONCERT 22 4-5:45 PM 4-5:45 PM 4-5:45 PM 4-5:45 PM PLAYHOUSE PLAYHOUSE PLAYHOUSE PLAYHOUSE CONCERT 11 CONCERT 15 CONCERT 19 CONCERT 23 8-10:30 PM 8-10:30 PM 8-10:30 PM 8-10:30 PM PLAYHOUSE PLAYHOUSE PLAYHOUSE PLAYHOUSE 8 FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY JUNE 17 JUNE 18 JUNE 19 CONCERT 24 CONCERT 28 CONCERT 32 12:30-1:30 PM 12:30-1:30 PM 12:30-1:40 PM PLAYHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL UNDERGROUND THEATER THEATER CONCERT 25 CONCERT 29 CONCERT 33 2-3:30 PM 2-3:30 PM 2:30-3:30 PM EXPERIMENTAL UNDERGROUND EXPERIMENTAL THEATER THEATER THEATER CONCERT 26 CONCERT 30 CONCERT 34 4-5:45 PM 4-5:45 PM 4-5:45 PM PLAYHOUSE PLAYHOUSE PLAYHOUSE CONCERT 27 CONCERT 31 CONCERT 35 8-10:30 PM 8-10:30 PM 8-10:30 PM PLAYHOUSE PLAYHOUSE PLAYHOUSE 9 NYCEMF 2016 Technologist, New York University, New York STEERING COMMITTEE (http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty/Tae_Hong_P ark) Angelo Bello, composer, New York City Izzi Ramkissoon, composer and performer, New York City Nathan Bowen, composer, Professor at Moorpark College David Reeder, composer, developer, installation artist, New York City Daniel Fine, composer, New York City (http://mobilesound.org) Travis Garrison, composer, Music Technology Paul Riker, composer, Lead Audio faculty at the University of Central Missouri Development Engineer, Visualization Lab, King (http://www.travisgarrison.com) Abdullah University of Science and Technology Doug Geers, composer, Professor of Music at Meg Schedel, composer, Professor of Music Brooklyn College at Stony Brook University (http://www.dgeers.com/) (http://www.schedel.net) Michael Gogins, composer, Irreducible Madeleine Shapiro, cellist, New York City Productions, New York City (http://www.modernworks.com/) (http://michaelgogins.tumblr.com) Joshua Tomlinson, composer Elizabeth Hoffman, composer, professor at New York University (https://wp.nyu.edu/elizabeth_hoffman/) Mark Zaki, composer, Professor of Music at Rutgers University Hubert Howe, Professor Emeritus of Music at Queens College _____ (http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/hhowe) FESTIVAL STAFF Howard Kenty, composer, Stony Brook University, Brooklyn, NY (http://hwarg.com) Hubert Howe, Director and co-founder Judy Klein, composer, New York City Travis Garrison, Chief Audio Engineer and Technical Director, Playhouse Eric Lyon, composer, Professor of Music at Virginia Tech University Howie Kenty, Technical Co-Director, (http://www.performingarts.vt.edu/faculty-staff/v Underground and Experimental Theaters iew/eric-lyon) David Reeder, Installation Manager and Akio Mokuno, composer and performer, New Technical Co-Director, Underground and York City. (www.akiomokuno.com) Experimental Theaters Dafna Naphtali, composer, performer, Angelo Bello, Assistant Technical Director educator, New York City (http://dafna.info) Akio Mokuno, Assistant Technical Director Daniel Pate, percussionist Joshua Tomlinson, Assistant Technical Tae Hong Park, composer, Music Director 10 PROGRAMS & NOTES 11 Aaron Einbond Concert 1 Xylography 10' June 5, 3:00-5:00 PM Madeleine Shapiro, cello National Sawdust Andrew Walters Red Plastic Bell Abstract 3'43" 8 channel fixed media Program Margaret Schedel QfwfQ 11' Thomas Dempster reACT: Francesca Arnone, flute melt 9'42" Mikylah Myers McTeer, violin 4 channel fixed media Gerald Eckert Program Notes Klangräume II 5'30" Beatrix Wagner, Piccolo Thomas Dempster, melt Damon Lee As water freezes and melts and crystals form or dissolve, Stumm 7'30" interesting sonic worlds take shape. Slowing these down Video and finding tiny universes in the instants of freezing, I found similarities to the overall shapes of tides, sleet falling, snow being crunched, and streams moving Fernando Laub toward lower ground engorged after heavy rains. The Consumation 11'24" playfulness and witty action of some of these sounds is Fernando Laub, underscored by the slow (yet accelerating) process of adhoc electroacoustic device climate change, as oceans rise, glaciers and ice fields melt and dissolve into the sea, becoming water again, posing massive challenges and dangers upon the people Andrew Babcock who continue to hasten the global melt. Humans still Ventriloquy 9'50" flock to the sea to watch it roll in and out, see its beauty, 2 channel fixed media hear its roar and sonic shapes – but soon the oceans will get to visit us at our homes the world over, whether we like it or not, and we won’t get to escape them so easily. Tania León There’s still hope, but each ice field that melts, each Axon 12' iceberg that becomes the ocean, brings us closer to Maja Cerar, Violin hearing the permanent, irreversible roars of the ocean and the altered states of the Earth’s climate. INTERMISSION Gerald Eckert, Klangräume II The main compositorial aspect of the piece Klangräume Paul Hembree II for piccolo and tape was on one hand the examination Apocryphal Chrysopoeia 6' of the instrument and electronics and on the other side Paul Hembree, laptop on the combination of graphics and sound/ timbre. The aim was to set graphical constructions and sound in relationship. Besides this the graphics should have an Clelia Patrono aesthetical substance. The focus on the examination Tension and Release 3'20" with graphical structures was the idea, to transform Video architectural static structures in changing musical processes. Jeremie Jones Damon Lee, Stumm Silver Fox & Complex Systems 3'47" This piece remixes Le locataire diabolique (1909) from 4 channel fixed media director Georges Méliès, one of the first directors in the silent film era to use stop motion techniques. In this piece, a “diabolical renter” moves into his new 12 accommodation.