Jan 28: MOMENTA QUARTET
Dalit Warshaw: ELEGY
Franz Schubert: ROSAMUNDE QUARTET
Jonathan Gruver: PARADISE FORESAKEN
Andrew Taylor: STRING QUARTET 01
Philip Glass: STRING QUARTET NO. 2 "COMPANY"
Feb 20 CYBERSOUNDS
Maurice Wright: Domestic Tranquility
Adam Vidiksis: MITOCHONDRIAL DREAMS for percussion and electronics Maurice Wright: TRANQUILITY: visual music
Ryan Olivier: DISTANCE – music video
Matthew Greenbaum : 23 SKIDDOO – music/video
Joo Won Park: TOCCATA for contact microphone, found objects and computer.
Annie Niekirk: BALLOON MAN for alto sax and computer-generated sound
Vinnie Manzo: NIL for solo classical guitar and interactive music system
Beth Wiemann: CROWS EVERYWHERE ARE EQUALLY BLACK for clarinet, viola and video
Aaron Stewart, saxophone
Beth Wiemann, clarinet
Anatole Wieck, viola
March 7 BITS AND PIECES
Shulamit Serfaty: THE DISTANCE FROM THE MOON - video
Tony Parabawo KE ERSE for singing violist
Mena Hannah: THREE TRAPPED WORLDS for saxophone
David Carpenter: DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT - electronic sound
Kenneth Brown: duo for flute and clarinet
Alexander Kruchoski: ELEGY for clarinet solo
Jeremiah Bornfeld: JB's Musical Playground - video
Andrew Taylor: THREE PIECES for viola sola
Christian Blök: EUNOIA: Chapter U - poem
Giancinto Scelsi: TRE PEZZI for Soprano or Tenor Saxophone
Mohammed Fairouz : FOUR CRITICAL MODELS for alto sax and violin
Drake Z. Tyler: PETRICHOR
Adrian Baule, flute
Ana Catalina Ramírez, clarinet
Aaron Stewart, saxophone
Kenan Serenbetz, saxophone
Julie Lee, violin
Stephanie Griffin, viola
Bill Ricci, percussion
Drake Z. Tyler, vibraphone
April 3 CYGNUS
David Rakowski: ZYG ZAG
Stephen Jaffe: DESIGNS II
Martin Rokeach: FANTASY ON 12 STRINGS
Charles Wuorinen: DODECADACTYL
MatthewGreenbaum: MITTAGS (from ROPE AND CHASM)
VENERABLE CANONS
Milton Babbitt: SOLI E DUETTINI
Guest Artist: Re'ut Ben Ze'ev
"The Cygnus Ensemble has long distinguished itself as one of New York's finest new-music ensembles
(and has brought about a remarkable amount of excellent music for its unusual
configuration).".....Carson Cooman, Fanfare Magazine
April 25 MARI KIMURA
Mario Davidovksy: SYNCHRONISMS NO. 9
Stefan Wolpe: SECOND PIECE FOR VIOLIN ALONE
Egberto Gismonti: arrangements by Mari Kimura
Mari Kimura: CANON ELASTIQUE for Augmented Violin
EIGENSPACE for interactive graphics
VOYAGE APOLLONIAN for interactive graphics
JANMARICANA for Subharmonics (violin solo)
Conlon Nancarrow: TOCCATA
Matthew Greenbaum: LATERAL
Eric Chasalow: SCUFFLE AND SNAP
Mari Kimura will give solo recital program including American and European contemporary music for the violin, and her own compositions for the violin, using the "revolutionary" (The New York Times) bowing technique, "Subharmonics." She will also present works using interactive computer with motion sensor extracting musical expression from the violin bow: the "Augmented Violin" system developed at IRCAM in Paris.
The "Augmented Violin" system, developed by the Real Time Musical Interaction Team at IRCAM in Paris, extracts and analyzes via bowing motion, human musical expression. The motion sensor of "Augmented Violin" system is called Mini-MO (Modular Musical Objects), which contains 3D accelerometer and 2-axis gyroscope. The sensor is very small, not intrusive for the fast-moving bow arm, and attached into a custom-made glove on violinist's right hand. Kimura incorporates the data taken from the "Augmented Violin System" into the interactive computer music program MaxMSP, creating expressive collaboration between human and machine. Kimura will also present her works, which include interacting with graphics created by Japanese movie director, Tomoyuki Kato.
For more information on the motion sensor and interactive technology, please see feature article in Scientific American:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=kimura-augmented-violin-subharmonics
For more information on "Subharmonics," please see the feature article on the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/arts/music/the-violinist-mari-kimura-looks-for-low-notes.html?pagewanted=all
For demo video, please visit:
http://www.marikimura.com/Site_2/videos.html
SPRING 2011
February 27, 2011
Kento Watanabe Travelerʼs Song (2010)
Adam Vidiksis Quartet: Machine Sounds and Industrial Impulses
Manena Contreras Instantes
Arthur Kampela Uma Faca Só Lâmina
March 25
RECITAL: CYNTHIA FOLIO
With guest artists William Anderson (guitar), Andy Laster (sax) and Adam Vidiksis (djembe).
Works by William Anderson, Eric Chasalow, Cynthia Folio, Alba Potes and Kento Watanabe
MAY 5
CYBERSOUNDS
Ryan Olivier Colorful Movements (2011)
Cicada Brokaw Sit Still (2010)
Maurice Wright Darwiniana (2011)
Mel Brooks The Critic
James Falconi . ..con solo le macchine (2010)
Matthew Greenbaum two excerpts from ROPE AND CHASM
HOLZMAN POSTER