Reviewing

Dreaming in Sound: An Experiential Performance

Martha Mooke

In collaboration with the Agosto Foundation

Martha Mooke’s Dreaming in Sound: An Experiential Performance

Dreaming in Sound is an immersive large scale work for electric viola and electronic processing with interactive video (created by pioneering software artist Scott Draves).  Dreaming in Sound is inspired by the sleep stage REM and the concept of lucid dreaming which evokes the chaotic state vs. orderliness of the dream realm.  The score includes data collected from the audience to create a collaborative dream score.

Thursday May 5, 2016 10:00pm – 11:30pm

Bio

Pioneering composer/electro-acoustic violist Martha Mooke is a leading Yamaha and Eventide Artist/clinician in demand as performer, composer and educator.

She is Artistic Director/violist of the avant garde Scorchio Quartet, featured on David Bowie’s Heathen CD, and has played with Barbra Streisand, Peter Gabriel, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Elton John, Trey Anastasio, Lou Reed and Patti Smith.

Mooke’s honors include awards from Meet the Composer, American String Teachers Association, Arts International and the prestigious ASCAP Concert Music Award for creating the new music/boundary defying showcase THRU THE WALLS. Her new CD, No Ordinary Window, is produced by Grammy winner Cynthia Daniels.

Supported in part by the Harvestworks Artist in Residence Program.  This event is presented in collaboration with the Agosto Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic.

Thursday May 5, 2016 10:00pm – 11:30pm

Martha Mooke

Martha Mooke, composer/electro-acoustic violist, a pioneer in the field
of electric five string viola, transcends musical boundaries by synthesizing her
classical training with extended techniques, digital effects processing and
improvisation. A Yamaha, Eventide and Thomastik-Infeld Artist, she is a leading
clinician on electric and progressive approaches to string playing including the use
of electronics, extended techniques and improvisation. Mooke is Artistic Director
and violist of the electro-acoustic Scorchio Quartet, featured on David Bowie’s
Heathen CD. A frequent collaborator of Philip Glass, she has toured with Barbra
Streisand, Peter Gabriel, Damon Albarn, Star Wars in Concert and Andrea Bocelli. She
has played with Elton John, Tony Bennett, Trey Anastasio, Lou Reed, Bon Jovi and
many others. She is featured in the award winning documentary, “Inside the Perfect
Circle”. Mooke has received awards from ASCAP, Meet the Composer and Arts
International. She was honored with the prestigious ASCAP Concert Music Award for
conceiving and producing the new music showcase THRU THE WALLS featuring
boundary-defying composer/performers. Her latest solo CD, No Ordinary Window,
released in December 2015, is produced by Grammy winner Cynthia Daniels.