[Leonard-Stage] balloon voice

Wed May 24 18:51:44 CEST 2006

Hi Class,

Ho appena ricevuto questa mp3 di Judith Dunaway ---

http://classes.berklee.edu/nleonard/audio/JudithDunawayEtude2.mp3

Daria - sarà pronta fare balloon e voce?

A domani,

Neil

On May 24, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Neil Leonard wrote:

> I just posted a few mp3s to the Berklee server for a non-Padova  
> presention, but I thought that I would share them in case they are  
> of interest.
>
> A presto,
>
> Neil
>
>
> Mike Ladd - electronics and rap
>
> http://classes.berklee.edu/nleonard/audio/Mike_Ladd-Awful_Raw_128.mp3
> http://classes.berklee.edu/nleonard/audio/Mike_Ladd_shake_it.mp3
>
> Jonathan Check - violin, electronics, installation
>
> http://classes.berklee.edu/nleonard/audio/J_Chen_Short_Cut  
> for_Koto_and_Elect.mp3
>
> Hae Young Kim aka Bubblyfish - gameboy, like electronics
>
> http://classes.berklee.edu/nleonard/audio/HaeYoungKim_Morph02.mp3
>
> We can also include Judith Dunaway's sub sonic performance for sub- 
> audio and ballons. There are some pictures of Manual Eardrums on  
> the internet that you can download, from the presentation at  
> Diapason in NYC:
>
> http://www.diapasongallery.org/archive/03_11_01.html
>
>
> Judy Dunaway
>
> Since 1990, Judy Dunaway has composed over forty compositions for  
> balloons as instruments, and has also made this her main instrument  
> for improvisation. She has presented her compositions and  
> improvisations throughout North America and Europe at many well- 
> known venues and festivals including Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors,  
> the SoHo Arts Festival, the Alternative Museum, the Knitting  
> Factory, P.S. 122, Roulette, Experimental Intermedia, the New  
> Museum of Contemporary Art, the Bang On A Can Festival, the Guelph  
> Jazz Festival, Podewil, ZKM and SŽance Ecoute.
> She has performed as a balloon player in compositions by John Zorn  
> and Roscoe Mitchell, and in improvisations and/or collaborations  
> with the Flux Quartet, Joe Gallant's Illuminati big band, DJ Singe,  
> visual artists Ken Butler and Nancy Davidson, and numerous others.
> Her compositions for balloons include electronic and multi-media  
> works, sound installations, and works that incorporate more  
> traditional instrumentation such as string quartet, chorus and  
> Japanese koto.
>
> CRI/Composers Recordings Inc. released a full CD of her works for  
> balloons entitled "Balloon Music" in 1998. A CD of her noise-rock  
> trio "Shar" (in which the balloon replaces the electric guitar) was  
> recently released on Outer Realm records. Her discography also  
> includes appearances on John Zorn's "Cobra" from Knitting Factory  
> Works.
>
> Awards include a commission from the American Composers Forum's  
> Composers Commissioning Fund, an artist/researcher-in-residency at  
> Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie, a recording residency at  
> Harvestworks/Studio Pass, and grants from the National Endowment  
> for the Arts, Meet the Composer and the Kalliste Foundation.
>
> Jonathan Chen
>
> Born on April 26 of 1974, JONATHAN CHEN’s work includes sound  
> installation, composition and improvisation. His work has been  
> performed or installed at The Soap Factory (Minneapolis), Chicago  
> Cultural Center, Asian American Jazz Festival, Art House (Dublin),  
> Sonic Circuits International Festival of Electronic Music and Art  
> (collab. w/Walsh), Heaven Gallery and others. As a violinist and/or  
> electronicist he has performed at venues or festivals such as  
> Sounds Like Now (NYC), Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art,  
> Renaissance Society, Smithsonian Institute, Chicago Jazz Festival,  
> as well as clubs such as the Empty Bottle, Metro, Green Mill, etc.  
> Chen has collaborated or worked with Tatsu Aoki, Olivia Block,  
> Anthony Braxton, Gene Coleman, Nic Collins, Andrew Dewar, Steven  
> Drury, David Grubbs, Steven Hess, Jessica Pavone, Amnon Wolman, and  
> visual artists Jeremy Chen, Santiago Cucullu, Megan Rodgers, and  
> others. His recently recorded duets with bassist Tatsu Aoki will be  
> released on AIR.
>
> Chen received his Bachelor of Music degree from Hope College in  
> 1997 and his Master of Music in violin performance from  
> Northwestern University in 1999. In 2001/02 he briefly attended The  
> School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a MFA student in the Art  
> and Technology program. Currently he is completing his final year  
> as a MA candidate in music composition at Wesleyan University,  
> Middletown, CT, where he studies with Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton  
> and Ron Kuivila. He will be relocating to Germany shortly.
>
> Michael Ladd
>
> Boston-born MICHAEL C. LADD received his BA in Black expatriates in  
> the Nineteenth century from Hampshire college and an MA in poetry  
> from Boston University. He has published in several literary  
> magazines including "Long Shot Review" and Bostonia. His work is  
> also featured in the book Swing Low, Black Men Writing and the  
> anthologies, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and In  
> Defense of Mumia. Michael is the writer and producer of the  
> pioneering albums Easy Listening For Armageddon (Scratchie/ 
> Mercury), Live From Paris (Home Style Cooking), Welcome to the  
> Afterfuture (LikeMadd/Ozone), The Infesticons: Gun Hill Road (Big  
> Da Da), and Majesticons: Beauty Party (Big Da Da), as well as In  
> What Language? with Vijay Iyer (Pi Recordings). As a Fellow at the  
> Institute for Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard University, Mr.  
> Ladd produced and directed "Blood Black and Blue," an audio  
> documentary/performance about Black police officers in the United  
> States. His forthcoming projects include Nostalgialator (!K7),  
> Negrophilia: The Album (Thirsty Ear), and a dub album under the  
> collective alias Father Divine (Roir). Michael currently lives in  
> Paris and the Bronx.
>
> Haeyoung Kim
>
> Haeyoung Kim aka Bubblyfish relocated to the US from Korea in 1992.  
> With a background in classical piano, she explores the territory of  
> sounds and their cultural representation. Her “lo-fi”, 8-bit sound  
> works and minimal electronic compositions have been featured by the  
> American Museum of the Moving Inage, The New Museum and Lincoln  
> Center. She was the 2003 Van Lier resident artists at Harvestworks  
> Media Art Center in NYC.
>
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