Reviewing

TRANSIT

Tristan Perich, Lesley Flanigan, Daniel Wohl

Featuring Woody Sullender

TRANSIT presents works by Tristan Perich, Lesley Flanigan and Daniel Wohl in THE NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL WAVE(length)s Electronic Music concert series in New York’s historic St. Paul’s Chapel in lower Manhattan. Woven by Tristan Perich opens up new timbral possibilities for an acoustic ensemble, Lesley Flanigan’s Expand/Release incorporates hand-built speaker feedback instruments and Daniel Wohl’s Corps Exquis incorporates elements of chamber-rock shows and electro-noise.

TRANSIT

WAVE(length)s Electronic Music

TRANSIT: Tristan Perich, Lesley Flanigan and Daniel Wohl
Sunday, July 3rd 2011 at 8pm (together with Woody Sullender)

Location:
THE NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL
St. Pauls Chapel, Broadway and Fulton St.
New York

TRANSIT presents works by Tristan Perich, Lesley Flanigan and Daniel Wohl that reinterprets the boundries of electro-accoustic music.
Woven, a 20 minute piece by Tristan Perich written for the TRANSIT ensemble is the creation of a new system of amplification that opens up new timbral possibilities and allows an acoustic ensemble to be treated in an electronic way. The result is a new experience in electro-acoustic music– a piece that melds the organic comfort of acoustic sound with the precision of music-generating circuitry.

Expand/Release is a project between Lesley Flanigan and the TRANSIT ensemble that incorporates hand-built speaker feedback instruments as well as traditional acoustic instruments and amplified singing. While Lesley Flanigan’s previous work has focused primarily on sound installation and performances for vocalists and feedback, Expand/Release represents her most substantial collaboration with an instrumental ensemble to date. The piece also maintains an element of performance for the composer, who interacts with the ensemble throughout the piece in various roles including as a vocalist.

Corps Exquis is a special project between the TRANSIT collective, Daniel Wohl, and six emerging artists based in New York City. This multimedia piece revels in a post-modern digital era approach to new music, incorporating elements of chamber-rock shows and electro-noise. An Exquisite Corpse process was used for structuring the work and in establishing the relationship between the musical components. By collectively assembling the work using this surrealist mechanism, the artists were able to produce a work that is cohesive, while maintaining the individuality of each creative voice.
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Tristan Perich

New York City- based performer, composer, and visual artist Tristan
Perich will explore a series of compositions for the Transit ensemble: clarinet,
violin, cello, percussion, and piano. The newe work, From One explores new ways that
the physical and the electronic can interact, for example, as an electronic
accompaniment, as a video installation, as dance, and as visual art . On October 14,
2010 at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, NY Perich will be performing From One.
He has studied art, music and electronics at Interactive Telecommunications Program
at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. He has been recognized by WIRE Magazine and was
the artist in Residence of the Philip Academy in Andover, MA.

Daniel Wohl

Corps Exquis is a special project between the TRANSIT collective,
Daniel Wohl, and six emerging artists based in New York City. This multimedia piece
revels in a post-modern digital era approach to new music, incorporating elements of
chamber-rock shows and electro-noise. An Exquisite Corpse process was used for
structuring the work and in establishing the relationship between the musical
components. By collectively assembling the work using this surrealist mechanism, the
artists were able to produce a work that is cohesive, while maintaining the
individuality of each creative voice.