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SFEMF 2008
SFEMF 2008
Artists:
Monique Buzzarté
Edmund Campion
Ata Ebtekar
Hans Fjellestad
Christopher Fleeger
Myrmyr
Phill Niblock
Tujiko Noriko
Pauline Oliveros and Carl Stone
Akira Rabelais
sfSoundGroup
Rut-ro and the Logs
Sharkiface
Ray Sweeten
Richard Teitelbaum
Monique Buzzarté
Monique Buzzarté, trombonist/composer, is an avid proponent of contemporary music, commissioning and premiering many new works for trombone alone and with electronics in addition to her own compositions. Since 1983 her "New Music from Women: Trombone" project has supported the expansion of the trombone repertoire, and in recognition of her long history of commissioning and premiering new works, Meet the Composer selected Ms. Buzzarté for their "Soloist Champions" program. An author and educator as well as a performer/composer, Ms. Buzzarté has published research on the brass music of woman composers and received artist residencies as a composer and for the development of a unique interactive performance interface for the trombone.
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Edmund Campion
Edmund J. Campion (Co-Director, CNMAT) was born in Dallas ,Texas in 1957. He received his Doctorate degree in composition at Columbia University and attended the Paris Conservatory where he worked with composer Gérard Grisey. In 1993, he created the piece Losing Touch (Billaudot Editions, Paris) at IRCAM ( L'Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) he was subsequently commissioned by IRCAM to produce a large scale work for interactive electronics and midi-grand piano (Natural Selection) (ICMC 2002). Other projects include a Radio France Commission l'Autre (The Other), the full-scale ballet Playback (commissioned by IRCAM and the Socitété des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques ) and ME, for Baritone and live electronics, commissioned by the MANCA festival in association with CIRM (Centre National de Création Musicale). Campion is currently Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley where he also serves as Co-Director at CNMAT (The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies).
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Ata Ebtekar
Ata Ebtekar aka Sote is an Iranian-American electronic musician/sound artist. His music has been published by various companies, such as Warp Records, Sub Rosa, Sonic Arts Network, Dielectric Records, Record Label Records plus others.
He has spent the last few years, living in Iran and working on several projects. One of these projects was just released as a double disc set called "Persian Electronic Music - Yesterday and Today" on the Sub Rosa label. For this project, he compiled early electronic music from Alireza Mashayekhi, a classical composer who, to Ebtekar's pleasant surprise, had made electronic music 40 years ago. Disc Two features Sote's own compositions to present a timeline in modern Iranian music history. This disc has been licensed by the renowned Buchinger's Boot Marionettes Company in Europe for their upcoming world tour in 2008 and 2009.
He was also given the opportunity to collaborate with the Iranian Orchestra for New Music. This project will be published in the summer of 2008.
Ata Ebtekar believes that music is a cultural habit of sound and anti-sound (silence). Therefore, he composes music without a specific culture, which he believes to be "the other sound."
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Hans Fjellestad is a Los Angeles musician and filmmaker, who tours and records extensively both as a solo artist and in collaboration with numerous players on the experimental music scene in over a dozen countries. He is one of the founders of San Diego's Trummerflora Collective. A "mad scientist improviser" (International DJ Magazine) and "master of analogue synthesis" (The Wire), his music has been described as "unbridled sonic freedom... raw, almost shamanic energy that embodies the true essence of unrestricted music" (XLR8R). As filmmaker, Hans directed the feature documentaries Moog (2004) and Frontier Life (2002).
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Myrmyr is the collaboration by Marielle Jakobsons and Agnes Szelag to create an improvisational electroacoustic music. Myrmyr's music rides on the tension between the slightly cacophonous to flowing folklike melodies, using their many instruments, voices, field recordings, livesampling and programming skills. They are currently recording their debut album "The Amber Sea".
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Phill Niblock
Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968’s barricade-hopping in Lower Manhattan. He has been a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since. His influence has had more impact on younger composers such as Susan Stenger, Lois V Vierk, David First, and Glenn Branca. He’s even worked with Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo on “Guitar two, for four” which is actually for five guitarists. Niblock constructs big 24-track digitally-processed monolithic microtonal drones, resulting in sound without melody or rhythm. Movement is slow, changes imperceptible, and his music has a way of creeping up on you. Since 1968, Niblock has put on over 1,000 concerts in his loft space, including Ryoji Ikeda, Zbigniew Karkowski and Jim O’Rourke.
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Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros' life as a composer, performer and humanitarian is about opening her own and others' sensibilities it the many facets of sound. Since the 1960's she has influenced American Music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual. She is the founder of the musical practice Deep Listening®. Pauline is also one of the founders of the original San Francisco Tape Music Center, and many credit her with being the founder of present day meditative music. All of Oliveros' work emphasizes musicianship, attention strategies, and improvisational skills.
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Akira Rabelais
Akira Rabelais is a composer and author based in Los Angeles. His music is largely inspired by the tonality of the desolate spaces of his youth. he has authored various pieces of software, but his main instrument is Argeïphontes Lyre, a set of time domain filters and generators including: Evisceration Reanimation, Dynamic FM Synthesis, Time Domain Mutation, Morphological Disintegration and the Lobster Quadrille. He has worked with Stephan Mathieu, David Sylvian, Harold Budd, Björk and a host of curious characters. Rob Young at the Wire writes, "Simply because he insists on placing individual clarity of vision at the center of the creative process, rather than be enslaved and driven by the technological toys and tools of the day, he will always remain a liberating remove from any definable scene."
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sfSoundGroup
sfSoundGroup has been presenting innovative and challenging concerts in the San Francisco bay area since 1999. A true 21st century ensemble, the group has an extraordinary roster of Bay Area composer-performers whose virtuosic and "extended" instrumental abilities are equally balanced with their involvement in composition, electronic sound, performance art, computer audio programming, and experimental instrument making. The group's sfSoundSeries presents cutting-edge new works by local and international composers, virtuosic improvisations, theatrical performances, live diffusion of tape music, and avant-garde classics. The group also frequently presents existing work in highly creative "radical transcriptions," blurring the lines between performance, composition, interpretation and improvisation.
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Rutro & the Logs
"Out in the woods the first people are killed by their log house. In the city, pencil pusher office workers are stabbed by their wooden pencils. In the packaging warehouse, 100's of broken down cardboard boxes form cylindrical structures and roll towards the forklift drivers, batting them until they are but liquidy messes. The war has begun: a war of the Cylindricals against the Rutrolians. The Cylindricals are a fierce army of wood pulp and wood, combating their own rebellious children - a strong people - the Rutrolians." Relaying this Saga in sub-human, proto-musical form, Rutro & The Logs is an all-star cast of musicians from the Bay Area's improv and noise scenes: Liz Allbee, trumpet/electronics; Mark Gergis, found objects/electronics; Matt Ingalls, clarinet, violin, computer; Canner MEFE, voice/electronics and Jake Rodriguez, cello/electronics
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Sharkiface is Bay Area experimental artist Angela Edwards, co-founder of the veteran “costume noise” & comedy duo Tarantism, a member of the electronic duo Pigs In The Ground and the macabre experimental doo-wop quintet Diatric Puds. Solo performances usually involve dense textures and rich layered tones using various rare electronic intstruments such as the Ciat Lonbarde Tranoe, a heavily modified stereo delay and looping instrument, and the Bug, an electro-acoustic soundboard built by Tom Nunn.
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Ray Sweeten, aka Ray, was born of an interest in electronic sound/communication at an early age whilst engaged in audio correspondences with his estranged father in Peru. He cultivated this interest much later at the Oberlin Conservatory along with what would become an ongoing exploration in the systematic mapping of sound to image. His work has been screened and performed at The Kitchen, The Liverpool Biennial, The New York Underground Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, Participant Gallery, La General, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Mata Foundation, The Stone, Ocularis, Issue project Room, Aurora Picture Show, MoMa PS1, NY Independent Film Festival, and the Conflux Festival. He has taught and given workshops to young people through programs such as Vibe Songmakers, Community Musicworks and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. His work has received support from Harvestworks/Van Lier, Experimental Television Center, NYSCA, MATA, Fabrica, spa., and mediaThe. Sweeten currently resides in New York City.
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Richard Teitelbaum: Born in New York City in 1939, Teitelbaum received a BA from Haverford College and a Master of Music degree from Yale University. After two years on a Fulbright to Italy, he brought the first Moog synthesizer to Europe, performing over 200 concerts with it and helping to found the pioneering live electronic music group Musica Elettronica Viva, with Frederic Rzewski, Alvin Curran and others in Rome in 1966. Teitelbaum has toured worldwide and received numerous awards. He currently teaches composition and electronic music at Bard College where he is Director of the Electronic Music Studio.
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