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Amelia Cuni______________________________________________________ Cuni is a singer, composer and performer. She has trained her voice and musical skills in India, according to the tradition of Dhrupad singing and Kathak dance. Her present work includes contemporary and experimental music collaborations with several artists of international repute. She is engaged in the transmission of the knowledge she has acquired from her gurus and teaches Indian singing at the Vicenza Conservatory in Italy. Composers like Terry Riley, Roland Pfrengle, Chico Mello, Fernando Grillo, Maria de Alvear have written for her voice. She has collaborated on experimental projects with David Toop, Paul Schütze, David Moss, Terry Riley a.o. download Info |
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Riley_______________________________________________________ Terry Riley is considered one of the most influential figures of contemporary American music and, together with La Monte Young, the originator of the “minimalist” movement. His piano improvisations make free use of rhythmic and melodic modules, which make the musical structure fluid and constantly open to new and unexpected developments. His music draws on a great variety of compositional techniques and ideas and is influenced by Jazz and blues as well as Indian music. The classical tradition of northern India has had a profound influence on the musical thoughts of Terry Riley, who has studied Khyal singing with Pandit Pran Nath from 1970 until the death of the Indian maestro in 1996. Riley's attraction to this ancient and refined tradition was immediate and whole-hearted also because of the many connections and similarities with his own musical and philosophical inclinations. He has continued an intense practice of Indian singing along side his notable artistic production as a virtuoso piano composer and improviser.. |
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Charles Curtis_____________________________________________________ Cellist Charles Curtis is an internationally renowned performer and composer of a wide variety of music, with particular emphasis on the avant-garde. A graduate of the prestigious Julliard School, Curtis has since been involved with the music department at Princeton University and at the University of California, San Diego, where he has served as Professor of Conemporary Music Performance since the year 2000. Curtis has studied under such masters as vocalist Pandit Pran Nath and composer La Monte Young and still regularly records and performs. download Info | The Wire Review |
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Cascone has a long history involving electronic music: he received his formal training in electronic music at the Berklee College of Music in the early 1970's, and in 1976 continued his studies with Dana McCurdy at the New School in New York City. In the 1980's, after moving to San Francisco and gaining experience as an audio technician, Cascone worked with David Lynch as Assistant Music Editor on both Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart. Cascone left the film industry in 1991 to concentrate on Silent Records, a label that he founded in 1986, transforming it into the U.S.'s premier electronic music label. At the height of Silent's success, he sold the company in early 1996 to pursue a career as a sound designer and went to work for Thomas Dolby's company Headspace as a sound designer and composer. After a two year stint at Headspace he worked for Staccato Systems as the Director of Content where he oversaw sound design using algorithmic synthesis for video games. Since 1984, Kim has released more than 30 albums of electronic music and has recorded/performed with Merzbow, Keith Rowe, Tony Conrad, Scanner, Ikue Mori, and Pauline Oliveros among others. download Info |
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Silvia Ocougne____________________________________________________ Born in São Paulo, Brazil. Guitar studies with Manoel São Marcos, Edgard Poças and Paulo Bellinatti, among others. Studies of Composition by Willy Correa de Oliveira at the São Paulo University. Scholarship from the Brazilian Culture Ministerium, to Boston, USA, New England Conservatory. Studies with Ran Blake and Mick Goodrick a.o. Master with Honors and Distinction in Performance "Third Stream - Guitar ". She has colaborated with many composers /musicians like: Chico Mello, Arnold Dreyblatt, Daniel Ott, Carlo Domeniconi, Livio Tragtemberg, a.o. Silvia Ocougne has been living in Berlin since 1987 where she has worked as composer, guitarist and performer of Experimental, New and Brazilian Music. In the 90´she was a member of the group "Thirteenth Tribe" and the "Orchestra of Excited Strings". Since 1999 - member of the experimental ensemble " Armchair Traveller" with Werner Durand, Sebastian Hilken and Hella von Ploetz. Silvia Ocougne has performed many german, brazilian and world first auditions with pieces of La Monte Young, David First, Graciela Paraiskaidas, Vitold Szalonek , Leo Masliah, Stephanie Schweiger, among others. |
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Text of Light______________________________________________________ Text of Light was formed in 1999 to perform improvised music during screenings of films by Stan Brakhage and other American avant-garde filmmakers from the 1950s and '60s. These should not be considered soundtracks for Brakhage's works, which are intended to be screened silently. Rather, the group uses the films as an element to stimulate improvisation, like an additional player, juxtaposing film and music in a real-time performance mixed-media collage. Earlier free improv experiments by the likes of AMM and Derek Bailey are brought into an intermedia environment where records and turntablism are especially crucial. |
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gebiete (Ulrich Krieger & Thomas Köner)______________________ Ulrich Krieger, freischaffender Saxophonist, Komponist und Performer bewegt sich im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen improvisierter, komponierter und Rockmusik. Er trifft in der Zusammenarbeit mit Thomas Köner auf einen Performer, der seine Klanginstallationen vor allem mit visuellen Experimenten unter Einbeziehung des Publikums kombiniert. In „zerfall gebiete“ treten die beiden mittels (Live) Elektronik und Instrumenten in einen Dialog, der sich immer mehr auflöst und in seine atomaren Einzelteile zerfällt. more... |
