April 23, 2011

9PM EDT, 6PM PDT

Telematic music is real-time performance via the internet by musicians in different geographic locations. Transform is explored in this concert with renowned musicians through the concept of node as point of multiple intersections. “Node 111” for solo percussion expresses this through multiplicity of self. “Node 4×4” works with a quartet in New York and a geographically spatialized quartet between San Diego, Irvine, Montreal, and Seattle.

Program:
“Node 111”
GERRY HEMINGWAY, percussion, SARAH WEAVER, composer

“Node 4×4”
New York: OLIVER LAKE, saxophone, HADI ELDEBEK, oud, DAVE TAYLOR, bass trombone, GERRY HEMINGWAY, percussion, SARAH WEAVER, composer/conductor
San Diego: MARK DRESSER, bass
Irvine: MICHAEL DESSEN, trombone and electronics
Montreal: ELDAD TSABARY, laptop
Seattle: STUART DEMPSTER, trombone, didjeridu, conch shells

Locations:
9:00pmEDT
New York: 35 W. 4th Street, 6th Floor, New York NY, 10012. Music Technology Program, Steinhardt School, New York University. Admission Free. For reservations and inquires contact: infrequentseams@gmail.com

Montreal: The Department of Music (Electroacoustic Studies) and Concordia Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technology, Concordia University

6:00pmPDT
San Diego: Department of Music, University of California San Diego
Irvine: REALab (Realtime Experimental Audio Laboratory), University of California Irvine
Seattle: Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXArts), University of Washington

STUART DEMPSTER–Sound Gatherer–trombonist, composer, didjeriduist, et al, and Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, has recorded for numerous labels including Columbia (Sony), Nonesuch, and New Albion. The latter includes In the Great Abbey of Clement VI at Avignon – a “cult classic” – and Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel consisting of music sources for a 1995 Merce Cunningham Dance Company commission. Grants include: Creative Associate at SUNYAB; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois; Fulbright Scholar (Australia); NEA Composer, US/UK, and Guggenheim Fellowships. Dempster’s book “The Modern Trombone: A Definition of Its Idioms” published in 1979. A founding member of Deep Listening Band, TAIGA celebrated 20 years with a dbl LP “Then & Now Now & Then” 2008. Dempster sooths aches, pains, and psychic sores with his healing, yet playful, Sound Massage Parlor. Two Golden Ear Awards; Deep Listening 2006; Earshot Jazz 2009. International Trombone Association Lifetime Achievement Award 2010.

MICHAEL DESSEN is a composer-improviser who performs on the slide trombone and computer. His music has been acclaimed by critics in numerous jazz and contemporary music publications, and recorded on labels such as Clean Feed, Cuneiform, and Circumvention. Current projects include his own electro-acoustic trio, the collective quartet Cosmologic, telematic collaborations, and solo performance on trombone and electronics. He teaches at the University of California, Irvine, where he co-founded a new MFA emphasis in Integrated Composition, Improvisation and Technology (ICIT). photo: Edwin Serrano

MARK DRESSER is a renown bass player, improviser, composer, and interdisciplinary collaborator. He has recorded over one hundred thirty CDs including two solo CDs and a solo DVD. Besides leading his own trio and quintet his collective ensembles include Trio M and Mauger. For eighteen years he lived in New York City where he recorded and performed with Anthony Braxton, Ray Anderson, Jane Ira Bloom, Tim Berne, Anthony Davis, Dave Douglas, Osvaldo Golijov, Gerry Hemingway, Bob Osertag, Dawn Upshaw, John Zorn and many others. Extending the sonic and musical possibilities of the double bass through the use of unconventional amplification has been the core of his research. Since 2006 he has been actively involved in telematic performance which is live music making in multiple geographical locations via the internet. Notable performances include Deep Tones for Peace and ResoNations. In 2001 he was nominated for a Grammy. He is Professor of Music at University of California, San Diego.

GERRY HEMINGWAY has been making a living as a composer and performer of solo and ensemble music since 1974. His current quintet includes Ellery Eskelin, Oscar Noriega, Terrence McManus and Kermit Driscoll, and collaborative groups include trios with Mark Helias & Ray Anderson (BassDrumBone, celebrating its 34th anniversary in 2011), Reggie Workman and Miya Masaoka on koto (Brew), and Georg Graewe & Ernst Reijseger, (celebrating their twentieth anniversary), as well as duo projects with Thomas Lehn, John Butcher, Ellery Eskelin, Marilyn Crispell, and others. Mr. Hemingway is a Guggenheim fellow and has received numerous commissions for chamber and orchestral work including “Terrains”, a concerto for percussionist and orchestra commissioned by the Kansas City Symphony. He is well known for his eleven years in the Anthony Braxton Quartet and his recent duo with Anthony, “Old Dogs (2007)” (Mode/Avant). His many collaborations include work with Evan Parker, Cecil Taylor, Mark Dresser, Anthony Davis, George Lewis, Derek Bailey, Leo Smith, Oliver Lake, Kenny Wheeler, Frank Gratkowski, Michael Moore and many others. Hemingway currently lives in Switzerland, having joined the faculty of the Hochschule Luzern in 2009.

“It’s all about choices,” states modern Renaissance Man OLIVER LAKE, to explain his expansive artistic vision. A co-founder of the internationally acclaimed World Saxophone Quartet with Hemphill, Hamiet Bluiett and David Murray in 1977 (and recently celebrating its 30th anniversary with an album of Jimi Hendrix pieces for Justin Time Records), Oliver continued to work with the WSQ and his own various groups – including the groundbreaking roots/reggae ensemble Jump Up – and collaborating with many notable choreographers, poets and a veritable Who’s Who of the progressive jazz scene of the late 20th century, performing all over the U.S. as well as in Europe, Japan, the Middle East, Africa and Australia.

HADI ELDEBEK was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1988.  He moved to New York city in the fall of 2005 where he studied with master Violin and Oud player, Simon Shaheen. While in New York, Hadi has collaborated with world renown artists, Indian tabla player Suphala Patankar, fiddler and cellist Mike Block, the New York Arabic Orchestra conducted by Bassam Saba, jazz trumpeter Amir El-Saffar, African ballaphonist Balla Kouyate, and many others.  With playwright Heather Raffo, Hadi has developed and played in a musical mounting of her play “9 parts of desire”.  He has collaborated with world dance choreographer Ramzi el-Edlibi, and has worked with the Silk Road Project as a Teaching Artist educating 5th grade students about the Oud and Arabic music through workshops in public schools and the American Museum of Natural History. Currently, Hadi is a member of Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and music director of the New York Arabic Music and Arts Society.

Bass trombonist  DAVE TAYLOR started his playing career performing with Leopold Stowkowski’s American Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez. Simultaneously, he was a member of the Thad Jones Mel Lewis jazz band, and recorded with Duke Ellington and The Rolling Stones. He also recorded numerous solo CDs on the Koch, New World, ENJA, DMP, Tzadik, CIMP, and PAU labels. Collaborations with composers include Alan Hovhaness, Charles Wuorinen, George Perle, Frederic Rzewski, Liebman, and Daniel Schnyder. He has worked with Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, and Wynton Marsalis, as well as Barbara Streisand, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, and Aretha Franklin. He has been a member of the bands of Gil Evans, Thad Jones-Mel Lewis, George Russell, Jaco Pastorius, Charles Mingus, Michelle Camillo, Bob Mintzer, the Words Within Music Trio (Daniel Schnyder, David Taylor, Kenny Drew Jr.), The J.J. Johnson Big Band, the Joe Henderson Big Band, and the Randy Brecker Band. The latter two included CDs that were chosen for GRAMMYs. David Taylor is also on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and Mannes College. He plays Edwards bass trombones exclusively.

ELDAD TSABARY is a composer, professor, and event organizer of electroacoustic music. He teaches live electroacoustic composition and performance, aural perception, and music technology at Concordia University and Formation Musitechnic in Montreal. He is director of the Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk), the Canadian director of 60×60, and treasurer of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC). Recent artistic highlights include telematic performances, interreligious compositions, and comprovisations for large laptop orchestra. His compositions are released on Confluencias, ERMMedia, Capstone, NAISA, Musicworks, ElektraMusic, Vibrö, VoxNovus, and JAZZIS, and published by Editions BIM. His works won prizes and mentions in WPA and Kraft Media prize, Miniaturas Electroacústicas, NAISA/CBC, Bourges, Madrid Abierto, ZKM, Harbourfront, and others. Performers of his instrumental music include the Bulgarian Philharmonic, Cygnus Ensemble, and Haim Avitsur.

SARAH WEAVER is a New York-based composer, conductor, researcher, technologist, and producer working internationally as a specialist in telematic music. Recent telematic projects include “ResoNations 2010: An International Telematic Music Concert for Peace”, at United Nations Headquarters in New York, China, Korea, United Arab Emirates, composers Yoon-Jeong Heo, Min Xiao-Fen, and Weaver; “Inspiraling: Telematic Jazz Explorations”, at New York and San Diego, composers Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway, Oliver Lake, and Weaver; “ResoNations 2009: An International Telematic Music Concert for Peace”, at United Nations Headquarters in New York, San Diego, Canada, Belfast, and Korea, composers Chris Chafe, Mark Dresser and Weaver, Jun Kim, and Pedro Rebelo; and “Deep Tones for Peace”, at Jerusalem and New York, ensemble composers Mark Dresser and Weaver, JC Jones, Barre Phillips, and William Parker. Weaver is Music and Technology Advisor for Arts for Peace of UN-NGO WAFUNIF, on the advisory board of International Society for Improvised Music, and pursuing graduate work at New York University.