Nonesuch releases composer Timo Andres’ new studio album, The Blind Banister, on March 22, 2024 featuring pianist Timo Andres, cellist Inbal Segev, and Metropolis Ensemble conducted by Andrew Cyr.
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opperaddor is a composer and producer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied composition at the Conservatorio de Música de Morón, and electronic composition in UNA (Universidad Nacional de las Artes). He is a video game music composer, sound designer, and member of Truchotoys, where he is a music composer and programmer. He is also the founder of Canopus.EM where he teaches music production and composition.
New Amsterdam releases composer William Brittelle’s new studio album, Alive in the Electric Snow Dream, on February 23, 2024 featuring Holland Andrews, Jenn Wasner, Eliza Bagg, and Metropolis Ensemble conducted by Andrew Cyr.
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Matteo Liberatore’s new project Molto Ohm is a sonic and visual exploration of the interplay between digital life and social decay on an emotional level. In today's alluring digital world, we are merely users, to whom health, beauty, love, and connection are promised. But at what cost? In the end, we find ourselves alone, void of purpose yet still mindlessly scrolling, pulling furtively on a pane of glass, unable to break through.
Utilizing a mixed palette of sporadic dance beats, seductive voices, synthetic melodies and environmental sound, the music deftly distills these experiences into arresting aural scenes. Liberatore’s prior prolific work in the realms of improvised and creative music is combined with his experience working as a freelance sound recordist in the advertising industry, as well as memories of dancing in nightclubs as a teenager in Italy, to assemble a work that is at once profoundly alienating and deeply intimate.
For the live experience, Molto Ohm plays next to a vertical screen projection that is complementing (or not…) the ideas expressed in the music, creating an immersive world of screen recordings, 360 footage, iPhone footage, and stock footage, in which the audience can get lost, amused, bewildered.
A third absurdist club night, a third art experience, a third movie, you won’t be disappointed. Join the Molto Ohm world today sign up for the mailing list at https://www.moltoohm.com/
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Alejandro Vega is a Nicaraguan born and Munich, Germany based musician, music producer, mixer and sound designer.
Vega is also one of the co-founders of the sample pack label nu.wav, where they are constantly releasing sample packs through Splice and on their site. Lastly, he has also worked with many independent artists as a producer/mixer and he’s done scoring and sound design for film.
Vega is currently working as a music producer and sound engineer at the sound branding agency amp GmbH.
Listen to “Infinite Staircase,” our September 2023 concert at National Sawdust with pianist Han Chen.
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Randall Minick is an artist working with synthesis & electronics in Denton, Texas and has been active in the vibrant North Texas DIY community for the last fifteen years. He performs in groups and as a solo artist, whether it be in crumbling house venues or the Dallas Contemporary.
Minick was inspired by his research of the experimental post-war sounds of kosmische & motorik music in Germany, seeing similarities in the DIY ethos and rejection of mainstream western culture decades later in his own local scene.
Having no formal education in music, he stumbled through his own path of murky drones and electronics. He founded several projects including Wave Swinger, Demandite, and Felt & Fur; the latter of which would eventually morph into his main project up until 2021, releasing a full length record in 2018 and opening for national / international acts like Dan Deacon, Mortiis, She Wants Revenge, SURVIVE & more.
Minick currently plays modular synth in the Texas hardcore punk band Laughing Matter, electronics and synths in his EBM duo Python Potions, & makes rhythmic techno & electro under the solo guise of Formless Ocean. He also hosts “Sound Creature” on Denton’s nonprofit LPFM station KUZU 92.9, and is employed at North Texas’ finest venue for loud experimental music, Rubber Gloves.
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Altimetry is the creative outlet for Brooklyn-based pianist and musician/composer Brice Edward (they/them). Their music blends organic sound with electronic sound, creating environments that feel both serene and chaotic. Their most recent album "microenvironments" was released on Nov 4th, 2022 via the New York based Label of Goods. Aside from being an active performer and collaborator, they teach piano and love to garden.
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This week at Flame Keepers, the installation has been intentionally left “abandoned” with no composers maintaining the audio stems. When this happens, the system engages a fail-safe algorithm that replaces any one of the streams with one randomly selected from the historical archive of musical streams of all previous Flame Keepers. The results might be harmonious, cacophonous, anodyne, or expressive, yet always surprising. During this time, the composition will evolve continuously with unpredictable results until the next composer takes over in a following week.
“A vividly immersive thriller... not a word or note is without purpose, and both are captured, if not enhanced, in this richly produced recording.”
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Symi is Argentinian experimental electronic musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and teacher Fernanda Flores.
Through concrete and electronic sound synthesis, Symi seeks to capture emotional atmospheres. Her four albums: CR 350, CR 450, CR 570 and T 36000/2, form a quartet that oscillates between atmospheric and ambient noise and the rhythmic hypnotism of trance.
With a conservatory training in guitar and viola, as a teacher of composition and musical experimentation, and as a producer for different artists over the years, she evolved her own practice to produce soundtracks for audiovisual projects, and began publishing her own electronic works in 2012. Today she composes, produces, records and performs live as Symi.
In December 2021, she participated in the Artlab Artistic Residencies by Amplify D.A.I teaming up with Brazilian visual artist and filmmaker Keila Sankofa. Their audiovisual piece explores the notions of food and affectivity, combining performance and video art with experimental electronic music.
This work was presented at the MAPA Contemporary Art Fair, at the Amplify Occupation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the Mutek 2022 Festival from Montreal and at Mutek Argentina 2022.
Her last shows were at Festival Experimentalia, Arteba and Mutek Argentina 2023.
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Leonardo Piaggio (apodado El Piyi) es un cantante y artista sonoro. Co-fundador del sello Isla Visión y ha estado / está en diversos proyectos musicales. Su búsqueda estética se basa en lo-fi y grabaciones caseras (porta estudios o computadora) explorando géneros como Electrónica, Ambient y Noise.
Leonardo Piaggio (El Piyi) is a singer and sound artist. He has been part of diverse musical projects and is the co-founder of the label Isla Visión. His aesthetic world is based in lo-fi and homemade recordings, exploring genres such as electronica, ambient, and noise.
An exclusive interview with Ricardo Romaneiro at Cosm Studio at the University of Utah campus, and a preview of his immersive Liquidverse project.
Cosm, a leading experiential media and immersive technology company, taps composer Ricardo Romaneiro for their new L.A. venue: the world’s first 87-foot diameter 12K LED dome.
Metropolis Ensemble is a recipient of a 2024 grant award from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support the nonprofit arts and culture sector.
In a Grove provides further confirmation of Cerrone's singular gifts and why Christopher Cerrone is justly regarded as one of today's leading composers.
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Eli Berman (she/they/זי/זיי) is a vocalist, improviser, composer-producer and new instrument builder from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She creates electroacoustic music using experimental vocal techniques across a variety of her ancestral vocal technologies, including khazones (Ashkenazi Jewish cantorial music), Yiddish and Appalachian folk songs, and western classical repertoire for countertenor and baritone. For the past three years, Eli has been developing feedback instruments that extend the human voice using PVC pipes, metal sheets and frame drums amplified by transducers and modulated by delay pedals. In the past year she has begun to create beats from digital samples of her voice.
Eli has premiered her music at the Watermill Center, Banff Centre, New Music On the Point, Yiddish Summer Weimar, New Explorative Oratorio Voice Festival, Atlantic Music Festival, Gender Unbound, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, and the New School. Eli recently opened the 2023 Snug Harbor Dance Festival (Staten Island, NY) with Bonita Oliver in her new work “Trans Water Stories,” for which Eli built digital feedback instruments designed for singers. Eli performed in and contributed to Anna Lublina's 2023 Undying in Yidderland: Jargon Rituals at Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt, Germany), and she performed her originally produced track for the live premiere of Sanni Est's critically-acclaimed album PHOTOPHOBIA for the closing of the 2022 Pop-Kultur Festival at Kulturbrauerei (Berlin, Germany). In addition to her experience as a countertenor and baritone in vocal ensembles such as C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective (New York, New York), Eli has sung as a soloist in the 2018 US premiere of John Tavener's Total Eclipse and a 2018 New York Times critically-acclaimed concert of works by Eve Beglarian. She has presented her music and creative research at the 2021 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2020 Pan-American Vocology Association Symposium, and 2019 Transgender Singing Voice Conference. Instagram: @_eliberman_
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Elizabeth Gartman is a composer/soprano based in New York City. Her compositions explore vocalism, process in performance, and active listening and response. Elizabeth’s music has been commissioned by the Washington National Opera, New Chamber Ballet, Beth Morrison Projects, Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra, InfraSound Ensemble, Ensemble Chemie, Pax Duo, and others. Recent accolades include selection as a composer fellow with American Opera Initiative (2023), the William Schuman Prize for Most Outstanding Score with BMI Student Composer Awards (2021), and Runner Up of Beth Morrison Projects Next Generation (2022). This season, Elizabeth will premiere a one-act opera at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., a full length ballet at Mark Morris Dance Group in Brooklyn, and a choral piece with the NYC Virtuoso Singers. Elizabeth holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music (M.M. Composition 2021) and the University of Illinois (B.M. Vocal Performance, B.M. Composition 2019).
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Macarena Aguilar Tau aka MAQ is a sound artist, composer, improviser and teacher born in Argentina. She studied at the Faculty of Arts of the National University of La Plata where she obtained a university degree in orchestral conducting. Currently, her work is linked to the exploration of the sound of the environment and the sound experimentation. She incorporates acoustics, electroacoustics and electronics materials. She works with field recordings, musical instruments and unconventional materials.
She has created original music and sound design for films, short films, theater plays, dance, performance, installations, virtual reality and podcasts.