A run-down of all the amazing artists who have participated in NYsoundCircuit
NYsoundCircuit 10.1: LOFT PRESENCE
Saturday, november 12, 2022, 7:30pm
LOFT393
393 BROADWAY, 2ND FLOOR
New York, NY 10013
Artists: Daniel Lippel, Popebama, Jonathan Sims, & Casa de Galindo.
Saturday, April 2, 2022, 7:30pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 9th Ave.
New York, NY 10001
Artists: Robert Dick, CompCord Ensemble, Resonant Refractions, Nana YaaSerwaah Akuoku, Jevijoe Vitug, DJ & Vocalist Senerio
Saturday, December 4, 2021, 7:30pm
The Secret Theatre
38-02 61st St.
Queens, NY 11377
Artists: Kinga Augustyn, Iktus Percussion, Resonant Refractions, YunRay, Hazel Newlevant
NYsoundCircuit 8.3: “Papillon Morphing”
Thursday, MAY 13, 2021, 8:00PM
Digital Show
For the final digital show of the 2020-21 season, percussionist Adam Beard played Adam Beard, violinist Russell Kotcher collaborated on a new music video with flimmaker Scott Miller Berry, clarinetist Emmalie Tello performed “The Sirens” by Judd Greenstein, Jackie Traish brought us “LIPSTICK” by JacobTV, and cellist Luis Mercado performed Kaija Saariaho’s “Sept Papillons”. Plus our featured wearable art designer & visual artist for 8.3 was Nana YaaSerwaah Akuoku, who presented “Life is a journey” Part I.
NYsoundCircuit 8.2: “How this has to be told”
Thursday, March 25, 2021, 8:00PM
Digital Show
Resonant Refraction (RR) members Adam Beard, Russell Kotcher, Emmalie Tello, and Jackie Traish performed works by Alex Mincek, John Corigliano, JacobTV, & Ian Clarke. Filmmaker & visual artist Martha Naranjo Sandoval presented, “How this has to be told” - an exhibition of still photography, where the artist asks people to talk about pictures from her family album as if they were theirs.
NYsoundCircuit 8.1
A Moment of Time
Thursday, October 8, 2020, 2:30PM
Mise-En_Place in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
DIGITAL SHOW
NYsoundCircuit 8.1: “A Moment of Time” featured RESONANT REFRACTIONS (RR) under the direction of IAN SHAFER, the resident sinfonietta, front, center and socially distanced at Mise-En_Place in Brooklyn, webcasted directly to audiences. Performances of works by Ana Paola Santillán ALCOCER, George CRUMB, Gilbert GALINDO, David REMINICK, Carlos SIMON, David Jason SNOW, and Eunseon YU were interspersed by brief videos from the composers and a short film by MIRIAM AZIZ, "Ich sehe nicht die Stunde / I do not see the Hour ('ORA’)”.
NYsoundCircuit 7.1
Renegade
Saturday, February 1, 2020, 7:30PM
The flux factory, long island city, NYC
NYsoundCircuit 7.1: “Renegade” celebrated the relaunch with bold and audacious musical and visual acts that spoke to the struggle and resilience of the human spirit to break free from regressive constraints and systems. The relaunch show featured composer HOWIE KENTY, musical groups the ÆON ENSEMBLE and RESONANT REFRACTIONS, the photography of LUCAS ANDAHL, video and film by JAIME IGLEHART and NYsC alumnus MIRIAM AZIZ, and the club stylings of DJ JCLEF.
NYsoundCircuit 6.1
All the ends of the earth
Friday, October 24, 2014, 8-10PM
Cary Hall, The DiMenna Center, NYC
NYsoundCircuit celebrated its sixth season by bringing diverse musical and visual creations. NYC staple ensemble loadbang presented a selection of works bridging the 13th century to the 21st with works by NYC ex-pat TOM JOHNSON, Long Islander WILLIAM LANG, and ars antiqua adept PÉROTIN THE GREAT. Trans-Pacific composer & koto player KENTO IWASAKI and Dutch composer LISELOTTE WESTERTERP brought music for voice, strings and koto. HIRONA AMAMIYA, soprano and violinist, interprets the poetry of MISUZU KANEKO amidst the paintings of Queens-based artist ALEXIS KANDRA.
NYsoundCircuit 5.2
* Sound * Sight * Movement *
Friday, May 9, 2014, 8-10PM
Cary Hall, The DiMenna Center, NYC
NYsoundCircuit finishes off its fifth season in a blaze of sound, sight, and movement. Featured in sound is the versatile and raucous cellist, SETH WOODS who will present a program of premieres by George Lewis, Aaron Einbond, and Patricia Alessandrini. JAMES MOORE & ANDIE SPRINGER will give you colorful renditions of works for guitar and violin by Travis Just, Richard Maxwell, and James Moore with actor JIM FLETCHER. Oboist IAN SHAFER will give us a rare treat: an improvisation upon an improvisation on a piece by Elizabeth Hoffman. YUNG-LI CHEN will transform sound into movement, gracing us with her dance moves at various times. Flutist LAURA FALZON & violist EDMUNDO RAMIREZ serve you solos and duos by Carlos Castro, Nickos Harizanos, John Glover, and Shirish Korde. And to complete the show is our featured visual artist for the evening, the multi-faceted Korean-American/Kiwi artist YOUNG SUN HAN, projecting his work throughout the evening.
NYsoundCircuit 5.1
Surrounding Sounds
Saturday, jan 20, 2014, 8-10PM
Benzaquen Hall, The DiMenna Center, NYC
NYsoundCircuit celebrates its fifth season with fresh musical, visual, and spoken word acts while also highlighting staple artists of past seasons. ThingNY joins the fray by presenting theatrical chamber works by Paul Pinto and Erin Rogers as well as a newly created opera-in-progress, “This Takes Place Close By” about the prelude and aftermath of devastating storms. The powerhouse rockin’ pianist, AMIR KHOSROWPOUR offers his improvisational talents with a possible surprise guest. Spoken word performance artist POET GOLD presents her performance of “I M A Poet” along with her crew of vocalists. ROBERT DICK returns for the 3rd time in NYsoundCircuit history with a set of solo works, complemented by JESSICA MEYER’s own compositions for viola and electronics. Throughout the evening, seasoned NYsoundCircuit artist BILL MAZZA will capture the music, people, and architecture of the space in his continuing series, SPATIAL TENDENCIES.
NYsoundCircuit 4.3
1, 2, 3
Saturday, may 11, 2013, 8PM
mary flagler cary hall, The DiMenna Center, NYC
NYsoundCircuit - the multimedia salon series - closes the season with one of its most varied sonic and visual explorations yet. Featured is the one and only turntablist MARIA CHAVEZ, making it easy as “1,2,3” with a solo, duo, and finally a trio set woven through the evening. Also lined up are ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN premiering a new set of songs for voice, clocks, accordions, toys, and electronics and violinist ANDIE SPRINGER performing “Dandelion” by MARY KOUYOUMDJIAN, exploring childhood manipulations of old home movies. Trumpeter HUGO MORENO performs “Toying” by Chelsea Music Festival Composer-in-Residency ERIC NATHAN. Saxophones wail as the NEW THREAD QUARTET delivers music from the lyrical to the virtuosic. DANIEL NEUMANN performs a multi-channel live improvisation, "A Corner as a Field" while the CURT SYDNOR QUARTET reimagines the architecture of Louis Sullivan in “Materials and their Destiny.” As if that wasn’t enough, PHYLLIS CHEN and ROB DIETZ round out the night and keep you up late with their macabre micro puppet show, "The Slumber Thief."
NYsoundCircuit 4.2
Strings in Motion
Saturday, march 16, 2013, 8PM
mary flagler cary hall, The DiMenna Center, NYC
NYsoundCircuit – the multimedia salon series – continues its fourth season with an immersive night of strings vibrating every which way. Violin duo STRING NOISE headlines the night with several sets, in collaboration with video artist JANET WONG traveling in, around, and among the audience. Piano strings hammer, pulse, and pluck with the piano/dancer duo K A T E S and pianist CORY SMYTHE improvising. Soprano ELISABETH HALLIDAY gets in the mix with a number by Judith Weir. And psychedelic meets classical in the music of composer/guitarist ANDREW MCKENNA LEE, sounded by a company of singers and electric guitarists strumming and bursting through those boundaries.
NYsoundCircuit 4.1
Lost for Words
Saturday, October 20, 2012, 8PM
mary flagler cary hall, The DiMenna Center, NYC
NYsoundCircuit - the multimedia salon series - opens its fourth season at the DiMenna Center in Midtown West, Manhattan. Turntablist MARIA CHAVEZ continues her vinyl-based exploration of time and present moment. WILLIAM LANG presents a trombone program like none other performing Berio's Sequenza V and premiering 13 new works involving multiple trombones spread throughout Cary Hall. Pianist ADAM TENDLER drops by to bring you his exuberant piano stylings. And to bring it all together is our featured artist for the evening MIRIAM AZIZ whose immersive work "Lost for Words" will receive its world premiere involving an array of singers, a percussionist, a trumpeter, flamenco & ballet dancers, and a lone writer in the corner struggling to capture it all.
NYsoundCircuit 3.3
The Voice in Music - The Art in Fashion
Saturday, June 9, 2012, 8PM
mary flagler cary hall, The DiMenna Center, NYC
NYsoundCircuit - the multimedia salon concert series - continues at the DiMenna Center in Midtown Manhattan to present its third and final show of the season. RHYMES WITH OPERA (RWO) presents a program with works by Kathleen Bader, George Lam & Benjamin Rogers, and Adam Matlock & Brian Slattery. Internationally acclaimed audio-visual artist and singer FREDO VIOLA joins a quintet of musicians alongside his video creations in arrangements for voice, quintet, and electronics. Bang on a Can All-Stars pianist VICKY CHOW hammers on our Klavier and GARETH FLOWERS graces us with his trumpet and electronic sounds. BILL MAZZA creates the final installment of his live digital drawing series and on display throughout Cary Hall is the debut shirt & t-shirt collection of fashion designer CHANCE THACH - sure to get you talking. And to round out the evening are the beats of DJ ROBERTO X of "Invasion Thursdays" at Bar 13.
NYsoundCircuit 3.2
Saturday, april 14, 2012, 8PM
mary flagler cary hall, The DiMenna Center, NYC
NYsoundCircuit - the multimedia salon concert series - continues at the DiMenna Center in Midtown Manhattan to present its second show of the season. Violinist PAULINE KIM HARRIS, flutist LANCE SUZUKI with pianist MOLLY MORKOSKI, the EAST COAST CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE, and the PIERCY-HICKMAN DUO bring you non-stop performances of today's exciting and diverse acoustic, electro-acoustic, and electronic music. The video projections of ROB DIETZ will greet you in the lounge and neon sculptures by LOTTE VAN DEN AUDENAEREN will dot the performance landscape while BILL MAZZA provides you with his live digital drawing creations on the main screen. And to round out the evening, DJ REDSTAR will spin his "electro-ternative" dance stylings.
NYsoundCircuit 3.1
Saturday, november 5, 2011, 8PM
mary flagler cary hall, The DiMenna Center, NYC
NYsoundCircuit opens its 3rd season at the state-of-the-art DiMenna Center for Classical Music in Midtown Manhattan. Acclaimed contemporary pianist KATHLEEN SUPOVÉ, revolutionary flutist ROBERT DICK with virtuoso pianist URSEL SCHLICHT, accomplished clarinetist NICHOLAS GALLAS and New York's newest group, ENSEMBLE MISE-EN, bring you the finest acoustic/electro-acoustic/electronic music this city has to offer. Also, the stylish DJ EXECUTIVE REALNESS will be spinning and a NYsoundCircuit staple, visual artist BILL MAZZA, returns with a new and exciting project for the 2011-2012 season.
NYsoundCircuit 2.3
Saturday, APRIL 23, 2011, 8PM
THE BRECHT FORUM, NYC
This installment of NYsoundCircuit brings you the finest acoustic/electro-acoustic/electronic music in lower Manhattan, with the addition of a special guest, poet Matthew Hittinger. Artist-in-Residence Bill Mazza continues his “Spatial Tendencies” project with “In Vanity,” Part IV. Music for acoustics, electro-acoustics, and electronics by Rob Dietz, Gilbert Galindo, John Glover, Judd Greenstein, James Holt, Robert Pierzak, and Ricardo Romaniero. Performances by Rose Bellini, East Coast Contemporary Ensemble, Victor Lowrie, Joshua Modney, Andrew Rehrig, and Ricardo Romaneiro. Video by Rob Dietz.
NYsoundCircuit 2.2
Saturday, january 15, 2011, 8PM
THE BRECHT FORUM, NYC
Continue ringing in 2011 with NYsoundCircuit! We return to the Brecht Forum for our second show of the season. From the toy piano stylings of Phyllis Chen to Bill Mazza's 3rd installment of "In Vanity" to the all-female pop horn quartet Genghis Barbie, there is something for everyone. Music for acoustics, electro-acoustics, and electronics by Paul Clift, Nathan Davis, Aaron Einbond, John Glover, Rich Johnson, Karen Powers, and Erin Rogers. Performances by Alejandro Acierto on clarinets, Phyllis Chen on piano and toy piano, Rich Johnson on trumpet, Erin Rogers on saxophones, and the all-female pop horn quartet Genghis Barbie. Video by Rob Dietz. Improv Dance by Binh Nguyen and Colleen Walh Culley.
NYsoundCircuit 2.1
Saturday, november 13, 2010, 8PM
merce cunningham dance studio, NYC
Music for acoustic, electro-acoustic, and electronics by Wil Smith, John Cage, Stuart Sanders Smith, John Zorn, Pete Galub, and Jude Traxler & Anne Rainwater. Improv by Peter Evans and Sam Pluta. Performances by daring performers from NYC: futureCities (Jude Traxler, percussion, Anne Rainwater, pianist); Pete Galub, guitar and electronics; turntablist Maria Chavez; and Eleanor Oppenheim, bass. Visual Artist Bill Mazza performs a new live drawing throughout the evening as part of his ongoing series, "Spatial Tendencies”. Live video by Jude Traxler.
NYsoundCircuit 1.2
Saturday, may 15, 2010, 8PM
the brecht forum, NYC
Premieres of new acoustic, electro-acoustic, and electronic works by Anna Clyne, Gene Coleman, John Glover, and Samson Young. Rarely heard works by Donal Fox, Gilbert Galindo, Yohei Kurihara, Ingram Marshall, and Conrad Winslow. Performances and improv sessions by daring and adventurous performers from NYC and Philadelphia: MIVOS Quartet (strings and Gameboys), Ensemble Pamplemousse, Thomas Piercy (clarinets), John McGill & Max Abeles (electronic artists), Gene Coleman (bass clarinet), Claudine Hickman (piano), James Smith (oboe/oboe d'amore), and Maria Chavez (turntables). Visual Artist Bill Mazza performs "In Vanity" throughout the evening as part of his ongoing live drawing series, "Spatial Tendencies”.
NYsoundCircuit 1.1
Saturday, december 5, 2009, 8PM
the brecht forum, NYC
December 5, 2009 at the Brecht Forum was an evening of continuous music, food, visuals, drinks, and fashion. The music included: new acoustic works by Drew Baker, Gilbert Galindo, John Glover, Jay Vilnai; Terry Riley’s “Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector”; electronic works by Max Abeles, John McGill, and Darien Shulman, with DJ sets by Casa de Galindo. Performances by the ai ensemble, MIVOS Quartet, and the Joshue Ott trio with Robert Dick and Billy Gomberg. Visuals by Joshue Ott and a preview of the spring 2010 line of Cody Sai.
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