Modular Synthesizer Edition
Leisure is a bi-monthly social exchange at 319 Scholes involving music & visual performances.
December, December 10, 8pm
$10 at the door.
Artists:
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Keith Fullerton Whitman is a composer/performer obsessed with electronic music; from its mid-century origins in Europe through its contemporary worldwide incarnation as “digital music.”
Ben Vida
Ben Vida (b. 1974) is a composer, improviser and sound artist. His works include pieces for analog/digital hybrid synthesizing systems, acoustic compositions written for his group Town and Country and multi-channel sound/video installations.
Ben has worked in collaboration with artists Siebren Versteeg, Deborah Johnson, Hisham Bharoocha, Nadia Hironaka and Mathew Suib and with filmmaker Tim Kinsella. As an improviser he has performed with Milo Fine, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Taku Sugimoto, Kevin Drumm, Yamatsuka Eye, Jim O’Rourke, Michael Zerang, Josh Abrams, and Jeb Bishop among other as well as playing in ensembles led by Tony Conrad, Rhys Chattam, and Werner Dafeldecker. Ben has released over twenty records on such labels as Thrill Jockey, Drag City, Amish, Bottrop-Boy, Hapna and Kranky.
James Fei
JAMES FEI (b. Taipei, Taiwan) moved to the US in 1992 to pursue a degree in electrical engineering. He has since been active as a composer, improvisor and electronic musician. Works by Fei have been performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble and Noord-Hollands Philharmonisch Orkest. Recordings of his works can be found on Leo Records, Improvised Music from Japan, CRI and Organized Sound. In addition to writing concert music for conventional and electro-acoustic ensembles, Fei also creates sound installations and performs on saxophones and live electronics. Fei joined the faculty of Mills College in 2006, where he is assistant professor of electronic arts.
Chuck Johnson
Chuck Johnson is a composer and musician residing in Oakland, CA who has worked in improvised music, noise, experimental rock, traditional forms, and music for film and dance. In recent years he has developed a versatile analog electronic performance system, worked extensively with just intonation tuning systems, and released recording of solo acoustic fingerstyle guitar – all with an ear towards finding faults and instabilities that might reveal latent beauty. Recordings of his work have been published by Strange Attractors Audio House, Communion, Amish, Merge, and Threelobed.
Johnson has performed with Peter Kowald, Eugene Chadbourne, Frank Gratkowsi, Pauline Oliveros, and Miya Masaoka. His work has been premiered at the Transmissions festival (North Carolina and Chicago), Signal+Noise (Vancouver), and by the pulsoptional composers’ ensemble. Johnson has performed at Siren Fest (New York), BENT 2004 (New York), the Festival of New American Music (Sacramento,) and the San Francisco International Film Festival. Johnson has composed music for seven feature-length documentaries, including Brett Ingram’s award-winning Monster Road and Cynthia Hill’s Guestworker. Johnson holds an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College.
Philip White
Philip White’s performances center on a non-linear feedback system, which consists of a mixer and several homemade circuits. In addition to his work with analog and digital electronics, White has written extensively for chamber ensembles and created a large body of intermedia pieces that explore meaning in information transmission.
He currently performs with Suzanne Thorpe (thenumber46), Chuck Johnson (with chuck johnson with philip white) Ted Hearne (Re we Who R We) Phillip Stearns, Jeff Donaldson and Taylor Levine. Recent performances/exhibitions include Diapason (NYC), ISSUE Project Room (NYC), The Stone (NYC), Sonic Circuits (DC), Redux New Media Festival (Charleston, SC), Galerie Neurotitan (Berlin), Princeton University, Bent Festival, In/Out Festival, NYCEMF 2010, Floating Points Festival 2010 and a featured spot on free103.9.org. He has performed with Toshimaru Nakamura, Gene Coleman, Kenta Nagai, ADACHI Tomomi, MV Carbon, Michael Schumacher and Nisi Jacobs. He has received grants form Meet The Composer and Electronic Music Foundation. He is currently an artist-in-residence at Harvestworks.
