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Studio IMC and the Chelsea Art Museum are pleased to present: Convergence: The Collision of Physical & Virtual Space in Digital Art Opening June 3, 2004 6-9PM At the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City (556 West 22nd Street & 11th Avenue) Featuring live music, new musical instruments, and video art
Live Performances by: The Matt Shulman Trio føn - Dan Perlin Some Terrapin Urns - Cartridge Quadbox - Morgan Barnard Enkidu - Doug Geers & Maja Cerar Gilgamesh, Table - Kinan Azmeh & Kevork Mourad Metastable sound framework - Jamie Allen & Brian Maniere Autopoiesis - Maja Cerar & Liubo Borissov
ARTIST BIOS Jamie Allen is interested in physical disruption as a means of creative input. His visceral performance tools allow him a varied arsenal of sound materials. For this performance Jamie will be creating the starting functions fed to Brian's metastable sound frameworks. Kinan Azmeh (Clarinet, composition) is the only Syrian and first Arab to win the first prize at the Nicolay Rubinstein international youth competition in Moscow, Russia, 1997. He holds two BA degrees, one in Clarinet performance from Damascus high institute of music and drama where he studied with Anatoly Moratof, and BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Damascus. He completed his Masters degree and graduate diploma in music from the Juilliard School in New York, studying with Charles Neidich. Born in Damascus, Syria in 1976, Kinan studied at the Arab conservatory of music in Damascus with Shukry Shawkey and Nicolay Viovanof. He has appeared as a soloist in performances in Lebanon, Jordan, Italy, Greece, Germany, Turkey, Egypt, Russia, USA and Syria, such performances include solo appearances at the Tschikovsky grand hall in Moscow in 1997, Solo performances with the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra during its first American tour (UCLA's Royce hall, Orange County performing arts center, Los-Angeles, USA) with Solhi Al-Wadi conducting, the premiere of two clarinet concertos written for him by Dutch composer Guus Janssen at Lincoln center in New York, and by Zaid Jabri at the opening of the Syrian opera house 2004. As principal Clarinetist, kinan performed under the baton of reputed conductors such as John Adams, Roger Norrington, Daniel Barenboim, Charles Dutoit, Itzhak Perlman, Julius Rudel, Larry Rachleff, Ahmad el Saedi, and Solhi Al-Wadi among others. In addition to his interest in Classical Music as a soloist, Chamber Musician and Orchestra member, he enjoys improvising on his Clarinet and tenor Saxophone. He has appeared as soloist with Sylvain Kassab, Marcel Khalife, Kani Karaca and Hot house Jazz band, as well as being member of the well-known Arabic pop group "Kulna Sawa". Kinan started his Arabic Jazz crossover band “Hewar” in the year 2003 and led the group on its first American tour in 2004, including a performance at the reputed Kennedy center. In the summer 2004 Kinan was invited as a guest faculty at the Apple hill center for Chamber music in New Hampshire. This season shall include solo appearances in Japan, Germany, Italy, Turkey and Syria. Morgan Barnard has worked as a music video director, documentary film editor, and as a video artist. Always seeking to intersect audio and video content his work explores the boundaries and connections of perception. Originally from Los Angeles California, Morgan is currently obtaining a graduate degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. Maja Cerar. International critics have consistently praised violinist Maja Cerar's performances for "great depth" and "immense musicality" (Neue Zürcher Zeitung). Since her debut in the Zürich Tonhalle in 1991, Maja Cerar has played as a soloist with orchestras in Europe and given recitals with distinguished artists on international tours (Paris, Rome, Washington, Chicago, New York, Mexico City) as well as at festivals in Davos, Aspen, and Lockenhaus. Her repertoire ranges from the baroque to the present and her stage experience includes performance with live electronics, dance and theater. She has premiered and recorded numerous works that were written for and dedicated to her. Highlights of the current season include the performance of John Zorn's violin concerto at the World Music Days 2003. Maja Cerar is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Columbia University, where she also teaches Music Humanities and serves on the editorial board of Current Musicology. Website: www.majacerar.com. Douglas Geers. Described as “powerful” ( Neue Zuericher Zeitung ), "fascinating... virtuosic... beautifully eerie" (Jim Lowe, Montpelier Times-Argus ), and praised for its "shimmering electronic textures" (Kyle Gann, Village Voice ), the music of Douglas Geers utilizes technology extensively, often in multimedia contexts. Mr. Geers' works have been performed widely, including recent performances at World Music Days 2003 (Slovenia), ICMC 2003 (Singapore), SEAMUS 2004 (USA), and the 2003 Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology (USA). He has won a number of grants and awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship, a 2001 American Composers Forum Composers Commissioning Project prize, and others from sources including the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Zürich, the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des Südwestrundfunks e.V., Meet the Composer, ASCAP, and the Mellon Foundation. He holds degrees from Xavier University (B.A., Music/English), University of Cincinnati (M.M., Composition), and Columbia University (D.M.A., Composition), and currently teaches composition and electronic music at the University of Minnesota, USA. Please see www.dgeers.com for more information. Brian Maniere uses analog sound tools and feedback pathways to generate organic sound. He is concerned with examining sonic space on the verge of chaos - performance as an act of restraint. Kevork Mourad , an artist of Armenian origin, was born in 1970 in Aleppo, Syria. After his education in Syria, he was accepted to the Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts in Armenia, where he received his MFA in 1996. He has exhibited widely in Armenia and the United States. Early on, he developed a technique of spontaneous painting, in which he shares the stage with musicians, improvising along with them, his art created in counterpoint to their music. His first performance of live drawing was at the Gyumri Biennial in 1997 with trombonist David Minassian. Since then his collaborations have included a live performance with Djivan Gasparyan at Cooper Union in April 2001, and a benefit show for the Coalition to Ban Land mines at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, in tandem with George Winston. He has also appeared at the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe with the Latin jazz band, SYOTOS. He performed at Juilliard at the “Machine and Beyond” Festival with Kinan Azmeh, in a project based on the epic of Gilgamesh. He performs as part of the quartet Neolexica, (piano. clarinet, electronics and visuals,) around New York City. He most recently appeared at the Tenri Center and at Angel Orensanz with members of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble. Daniel Perlin is a New York based artist. Daniel's recent projects have included: sound design for Errol Morris's Fog of War and for Todd Solondz's Palindromes ; mixing the feature documentary Stoked: the Rise and Fall of Gator , and installation sound design and music for Mutations , a book and exhibit in Tokyo featuring Rem Koolhaas, Sanford Kwinter and Daniela Fabricius. His sound design work has also been featured at Cannes film festival, HBO, Showtime, History Channel, Discovery Channel, PBS and others. Currently, Daniel is editing his feature documentary, Come and See: Jewish Brazilian Cowboys . Will Redmond has been an active participant in NYC's music and art communities for the past 4 years. He has performed and collaborated with Elliott Sharp, Graham Haynes, Eyvind Kang, the Ruins, Anthony Coleman, Ron Anderson, Phillip Johnston, Jeff Arnal,and Blaise Siwula to name a few. His compositions have been performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, New York University, and Europe. Will has toured internationally and all over the U.S. He currently works with John Savage as Cartridge, an electronics/woodwind duet performing original electroacoustic compositions. His solo electronic music is released on OHM records (Norway) and Ron Anderson's Ra Sounds label. John Savage (flutes, saxophone), a native of Portland, OR, received his Bachelor of Music degree in flute performance from Portland State University. In addition to the western flute, he also plays the Korean so-ceum, as well as the alto saxophone, blues harp and the didjeridu. In 1991-92 Savage studied extended techniques with the Dutch flutist and composer Wil Offermans. Since that time, extended techniques have been a focus of Savage's playing and composing. In New York he has performed with the Andrew Hill Big Band, and is a featured soloist on Hill's Palmetto release, A Beautiful Day. His jazz trio, The Savage 3, performs largely Savage's original material; and Cartridge, which performed at the Kennedy center in Washington D.C. this April. Downbeat magazine calls his flute playing “gorgeous”, and The Guardian (UK) describes his sound as “yearning” and his soloing as “exquisite”. In 2002, John Savage completed an MA in music performance at NYU, and was also chosen as a recipient of the Alberto Vilar Global Fellowship in the Performing Arts. He is subsequently a Ph.D. candidate in performance at NYU, where he studies flute with Keith Underwood, and improvisation and chamber music with Dr. Esther Lamneck. A gifted teacher, Savage is currently a chamber music coach for the New York Youth Symphony. Matt Shulman. Hailed by the New York Times as “A new voice from jazz's emerging generation…an individual voice…with imagination and distinction,” by the International Trumpet Guild as "exquisite…on the forefront of jazz…a pioneer", and by Downbeat Magazine as "… Zen-like…combines beautifully effortless acrobatic passages with multiphonic phrases…" virtuoso jazz and new music trumpeter Matt Shulman made his Carnegie Hall main stage debut as featured guest soloist in 2002 to a sold out audience, and was named Jazz Artist of the Year by the 2003 Independent Music Awards. Possessing a rare combination of traditional and progressive aesthetics, Matt has toured internationally, recorded and/or collaborated with such diverse artists as: Brad Mehldau, Robert Sadin, Ethan Iverson, John Medeski, Kurt Rosenwinkle, Joe Lovano, the Complexions Dance Company, Kenny Werner, Seamus Blake, Nneena Freelon, and Skitch Henderson. His work as a soloist has been featured on NBC's Saturday Night Live, the nationally syndicated Showtime Channel, at the Pabst Theatre, and as both soloist and composer at Lincoln Center. As a new music artist, Matt has given New York and world premiers of Edward Green's Concerto in C, Marcello Toledo's Solitude of the World, Timothy Newman's Intervention, and his own Works for Trumpet. Matt is also the recipient of numerous top prizes and awards including a 2002 Vilar Global Fellowship in the Performing Arts, being named a Runner-up in the 1997 Thelonius Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition, 1st place winner of both the International Trumpet Guild's and National Trumpet Competition's Jazz Improvisation divisions, winner of the Yamaha Young Performing Artist Award, and two-time finalist in the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Competition. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and having studied extensively with Mark Gould and Laurie Frink, Matt also has wide-ranging experience as an educator, having conducted inspirational clinics and master-classes at music programs across the United States. Consistently in pursuit of new ideas and developments, Matt is a student of body-alignment, meditation, and developing human potential. In 2000 Matt and his wife Key Park founded www.ShulmanSystem.com, a company dedicated to promoting a perspective of the world as composed of music. Liubo Borissov is a Vilar Fellow in the performing arts at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. He is just feeling so lucky to know all these wonderful people and wants to thank them and send them all his love for contributing their incredible talent to this event.
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