FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Telematic Transform Music
April 23, 2011, in New York, Montreal,

San Diego, Irvine, and Seattle

TeLEmatic music composer Sarah Weaver presents two new works exploring Transform through nodality in mixed-reality performance. Telematic music is real-time performance via the internet by musicians in different geographic locations.  Two new works for this emerging artistic medium will be premiered by an amazing ensemble comprised of some of the most renowned innovators in creative improvised music, computer music, and contemporary concert music. Transform is explored through the concept of ‘node’ as point of multiple intersections. “Node 111” for solo percussion expresses this through multiplicity of self. “Node 4x4” works with a quartet in New York and a geographically spatialized quartet between San Diego, Irvine, Montreal, and Seattle.  The concert takes place over high-bandwidth internet with specialized telematic audio and video technology. Admission to the New York location is free but space is limited and RSVP is strongly encouraged!

Program:

“Node 111”

Gerry Hemingway, percussion (New York), Sarah Weaver, composer (New York)

“Node 4x4”

Oliver Lake, saxophone (New York), Zafer Tawil, oud (New York), Dave Taylor, bass trombone (New York), Gerry Hemingway, percussion (New York), Sarah Weaver, composer/conductor (New York), Mark Dresser, bass (San Diego), Michael Dessen, trombone and electronics (Irvine) Eldad Tsabary, laptop (Montreal), Stuart Dempster, trombone, didjeridu, conch shells (Seattle)

Sarah Weaver is a New York-based composer, conductor, researcher, and technologist working internationally as a specialist in telematic music for large contemporary ensembles. Telematic music is real-time performance via the internet by musicians in different geographic locations. Concerts take place over high-bandwidth internet with specialized telematic audio and video technology to achieve real-time and “real-space” performance. As a composer and conductor in telematic music she explores the inherent artistic properties of the medium within her contemporary music works.  Recent projects include “INSPIRALING: TELEMATIC JAZZ EXPLORATIONS”, a telematic concert between New York and San Diego featuring four premiered pieces by Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway, Oliver Lake, and Weaver;  “RESONATIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL TELEMATIC MUSIC CONCERT FOR PEACE”, in 2009 at United Nations Headquarters in New York, San Diego, Canada, Belfast, and Korea, new works by Chris Chafe, Mark Dresser and Weaver, Jun Kim, and Pedro Rebelo; in 2010 at UN Headquarters in New York, China, and Korea, new works by Yoon Jeong Heo, Min Xiao-Fen, and Weaver; education session at UN Headquaters and Abu Dhabi featuring student works; and “DEEP TONES FOR PEACE”, a telematic concert between Jerusalem and New York for peace in the Middle East, featuring performances by thirteen renowned bassists and premiered bass ensemble pieces by Mark Dresser and Weaver, JC Jones, Barre Phillips, and William Parker. Weaver is pursuing graduate studies at New York University.

Locations:

9:00pmEDT

New York: 35 W. 4th Street, 6th Floor, New York NY, 10012. Music Technology

Program, Steinhardt School, New York University.  Admission Free.   

For reservations and inquires contact:  infrequentseams@gmail.com

Montreal: Department of Music (Electroacoustic Studies) and Concordia Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technology, Concordia University

6:00pmPDT
San Diego: Department of Music, University of California San Diego

Irvine: REALab (Realtime Experimental Audio Laboratory), University of California Irvine

Seattle: Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXArts), University of Washington

For more information:

www.infrequentseams.com/telematictransformmusic

www.sarahweaver.org