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NowNet Arts Transmission Series

Sarah Weaver

Featuring Viv Corringham, Ximena Alarcon, Cássia Carrascoza Bomfim, Anne Sophie Andersen, Biggi Vinkeloe, Lynn Baker, Colin James Gibson, James Ilgenfritz, Steve Rust, Diane Roblin, Jane Wang, Gloria Damijan, Rebekkah Palov, Mike O’Connor, Kit Fitzgerald, Beth Warshafsky, Yoon Sun Choi, Matthias Ziegler, Jane Ira Bloom, James Zollar, Ray Anderson, David Taylor, Mark Helias, Ursel Schlicht, Stephan Moore

NowNet Arts Transmission Series features premieres of Interloculation Flow and Here Mirror, Sub Way, Transcendence Transmission for NowNet Arts Ensemble electroacoustic group. The pieces are composed by Sarah Weaver for improvising performers and utilize conducting gestures based in Soundpainting. The performances December 3, 17, and 18 will be virtual in the network arts medium via JackTrip audio, OBS, and Vimeo Live. Audience can view online in the NowNet Arts Virtual Venue or attend in-person at Harvestworks for a watch party on December 3 and 18. Weaver will be in-person at Harvestworks for the December 3 performance. All performances will be followed by a post-performance discussion in Zoom (link in venue) or at Harvestworks @ 596 Broadway Suite 602 NYC.

December 3, 2022 at 12pm EST

Harvestworks Watch Party with Sarah Weaver, in-person at Harvestworks

NowNet Arts Hub, virtual
Also available to view online: nownetarts.org/venue

Post-performance discussion in Zoom (link in venue) and at Harvestworks

December 18 at 2:00pm EST (note different start time)

Harvestworks Watch Party – NowNet Arts Ensemble

LOCATION: 596 Broadway Suite 602 NY. NY 10012 @ Houston Street

COVID STATUS: masks are recommended.

Also available to view online: nownetarts.org/venue

Post-performance discussion in Zoom (link in venue) and at Harvestworks

Also: December 17 at 12pm EST Online Only: nownetarts.org/venue

NowNet Arts Chamber Works with Post-performance discussion in Zoom (link in venue)

December 3, 2022 ProgramInterloculation Flow

Performers/Improvisers: Viv Corringham (voice, electronics), Ximena Alarcon (voice), Cássia Carrascoza Bomfim (flute), Anne Sophie Andersen (violin), Biggi Vinkeloe (alto saxophone), Lynn Baker (tenor saxophone), Colin James Gibson (guitar), James Ilgenfritz (bass), Steve Rust (bass), Diane Roblin (piano, electric keyboards), Jane Wang (multi-instrumentalist), Gloria Damijan (toy pianos, percussion, objects), Rebekkah Palov (electronics), Mike O’Connor (network arts technology, field recordings), Kit Fitzgerald, (live video), Beth Warshafsky (live video).

Conductor/Improviser/Composer: Sarah Weaver. Visual Director: Katherine Liberovskaya

In collaboration with Harvestworks and Experimental Intermedia.

December 18, 2022 ProgramTranscendence Transmission
Performers/Improvisers: Yoon Sun Choi (voice), Matthias Ziegler (flutes), Jane Ira Bloom (soprano saxophone), James Zollar (trumpet), Ray Anderson (trombone), David Taylor (bass trombone), Mark Helias (bass), Ursel Schlicht (piano), Stephan Moore (electronics)
Conductor/Improviser/Composer: Sarah Weaver

Network Arts Technology: Mike O’Connor

The NowNet Arts Series is also available online only on December 17 at 12pm EST@ @ nownetarts.org/venue with the NowNet Arts Chamber Works and a post-performance discussion in Zoom (link in venue)

 The Program for December 17th includes: Here Mirror. Performer/Improviser: David Taylor (bass trombone). Performer/Composer: Sarah Weaver (electronics) and Sub Way. Performers/Improvisers: Robert Dick (contrabass flute), David Taylor (bass trombone), Gerry Hemingway (percussion). Composer: Sarah Weaver

Network Arts Technology: Mike O’Connor

Bios

NowNet Arts Ensemble features contemporary musicians and media artists in New York and locations internationally performing together live via the internet. With performances and collaborations spanning 15 years in network arts, NowNet Arts Ensemble expresses works at the forefront of the medium and artistic interconnection.

NowNet Arts Hub is an international virtual contemporary audiovisual performance group in partnership with Experimental Intermedia and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center. The Hub was formed in 2022, evolving from the NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble (2020-2022) in the Covid-19 pandemic. The Hub has included performers from 17 countries connecting virtually from individual locations.

Sarah Weaver, Ph.D. is a New York-based contemporary composer, conductor, technologist, educator, and researcher working internationally as a specialist in large ensemble and network arts. Her work innovates contemplative concepts on network, synchrony, synthesis, and interconnection for artistic and social purpose. Weaver has composed solo, chamber, and large ensemble works for groundbreaking musicians for twenty-five years, integrating influences of classical, jazz, world, contemplative, electronic music, and individual music languages of performers. She is an innovator in network arts advancing live performance via the internet by musicians and artists in different geographic locations. Weaver is Director of Sarah Weaver Ensemble, Director of NowNet Arts, Editor of the Journal of Network Music and Arts (JONMA), Director of JackTrip Foundation, and Faculty of The New School College of Performing Arts.

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This project is supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant

James Ilgenfritz

Composer/bassist James Ilgenfritz is recognized in The Wire & The New Yorker for his “characteristic magnanimity” and “glint of mischief.” James had residencies at John Zorn’s The Stone in 2015 & 2017. He’s worked with Anthony Braxton, Thomas Buckner, David First, Pauline Oliveros, & Roscoe Mitchell. He directs Infrequent Seams & has recorded for Cuneiform, Clean Feed, Important Records, & Tzadik.

Steve Rust

Steve grew up in an eclectic household, which is evidenced in his range as performer and composer. He has over 20 recordings as leader and co-leader, and has recorded and performed with a wide range of artists, including Sir James Galway, Dave Douglas, Paul Simon, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Jorma Kaukonnen, Neil Rolnick, and many others.

Matthias Ziegler

Matthias Ziegler is one of the world’s most versatile and innovative flutist. He is committed both to the traditional literature for flute as well as to contemporary music and concepts that cross the boundaries between classical music and jazz.

Accordingly, his performances take place in a vast range of contexts: he plays principal flute with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, has toured with the percussionist Pierre Favre and performed with the pianist George Gruntz as well as with the American contrabass player Mark Dresser. He is also a member of the ”Collegium Novum Zurich“, where he has worked with Mauricio Kagel, Heinz Holliger and George Crumb.

Concert tours have brought him to the US, Japan, Australia, South America and Israel. Many recordings on CD document his inclusive musical interests.
Matthias Ziegler currently teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts.

James Zollar

James Zollar began his musical career at age 9 playing bugle in his hometown, Kansas City Missouri. At 12, he graduated to the trumpet where he began to discover his musical voice and focus. In, 1984, he moved to New York and played with the Cecil McBee Quintet for five years and then recorded with Tom Harrell, with Weldon Erving and Sam Rivers. Zollar was featured in Robert Altman’s motion picture Kansas City, in Madonna’s music video My Baby’s Got a Secret, as well as Malcolm Lee’s film The Best Man and the sound track of The Perez Family. He is proud to be included in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. James was also a featured soloist with Jon Faddis and Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra as well as Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. He is currently playing with The Duke Ellington Orchestra, The Count Basie Orchestra, Don Byron’s Bands, The Marty Ehrlich Sextet, working with the Latin piano master Eddie Palmieri and Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga Live at Lincoln Center. James released the CD Zollar Systems in 2010 and the newest CD It’s All Good People in 2013

Ray Anderson

Ray Anderson is an American jazz trombonist. Trained by the Chicago Symphony trombonists, he is regarded as someone who pushes the limits of the instrument, including performing on alto and soprano trombone.

Mark Helias

Mark Helias is a renowned bassist, composer and producer who has performed throughout the world for more than four decadeswith some of the most important and innovative musicians in Jazz and Improvised Music including Don Cherry, Edward Blackwell, Anthony Davis, Dewey Redman, Anthony Braxton, Abbey Lincoln, Cecil Taylor, and Uri Caine.
Sixteen albums of his music have been released since 1984.

Viv Corringham

Viv Corringham is a New York based British vocalist, composer and sound artist, active
since the late 1970s. Her work includes concerts, soundwalks, workshops and
installations, exploring people’s sense of place and the link with personal history
and memory. She has received international recognition and her work has been
presented in twenty six countries on five continents. Educational background
includes an MA Sonic Art with Distinction from Middlesex University, London, England
and a BA Theatre Design from Nottingham Trent University, England. She is a
certified teacher of Deep Listening, having studied and worked with composer Pauline
Oliveros. Awards: She is a 2012 and 2006 McKnight Composer Fellow. Other grants and
awards have come from the English and Irish Arts Councils, Jerome Foundation,
Harvestworks NY, Jazz Services UK, Millennium Funding UK, London Arts Board,
Chisenhale Awards, Creative Partnerships, Awards for All and Meet the Composer. Work
has been presented in venues including Hong Kong Arts Centre, Fonoteca Nacional de
Mexico, Issue Project Room New York, Onassis Centre Athens, Institute of
Contemporary Art London, Serralves Museum Portugal, Taipei University Taiwan,
Ohrenhoch Sound Gallery Berlin, Shantou University China, Bangalore, Calcutta and
Delhi universities, Ftarri Tokyo and Tempo Reale Florence. Invited Artist
Residencies include soundpocket Hong Kong; Harvestworks NYC; Srishti Bangalore,
Emily Harvey Foundation Venice; Montalvo Art Center CA; Guild Hall East Hampton NY,
Memorial University Newfoundland; Cal State University; Sound Meetings Greece; Cobh
Art Centre Ireland; Radio Papesse Florence; Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art
Portugal; NAISA Toronto; Soundworks Cork Ireland; Deep Listening Institute NY and
Binaural Media Portugal. Articles about her work have appeared in many publications,
including In the Field (UK), Leonardo Music Journal (US), Walking from Scores
(Belgium), Art of Immersive Soundscapes (Canada), Organised Sound (UK), Musicworks
(Canada), Catskill Made (US), Playing With Words (UK) and For Those Who Have Ears
(Ireland). Recordings are available on Innova, Flaming Pines, Zeromoon, Farpoint,
Linear Obsessional, FMR, Slowfoot, NoMansLand, ARC Music, MASH, Slam, Rhiannon,
Jungle Records, Emanem, Move, Artship and Third Force.

Ximena Alarcon

Ximena Alarcón is a UK-based Colombian new media artist who focuses on listening to social context related sound, connecting it to individual and collective memories. She nourishes her practice with ethnography, looks for expression in voice and body, and uses networking technologies to interconnect different locations and perspectives of life. She completed her PhD in Music, Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University in 2007 and and was awarded with The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship 2007-2009 to develop “Sounding Underground” at De Montfort’s Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT). She is Research Fellow at the Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice-CRiSAP, University of the Arts London, where currently develops her project “Networked Migrations: listening to and performing the in-between space”. She studies Deep Listening practice by performing with The Migratory Band.

Cássia Carrascoza Bomfim

Cássia Carrascoza is Professor in the Music Department at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (USP). She is currently visiting scholar at the University of California, Riverside, working on a research on telematic performance under the supervision of Prof. Paulo C. Chagas. From 1999 to 2018 she was principal flutist of the Symphonic Orchestra of the Municipal Theater of São Paulo and, from 2000 to 2014, principal flutist of the São Paulo State Symphonic Jazz Orchestra. She was member of the Brazilian contemporary music ensemble Camerata Aberta since its foundation in 2010. She received the APCA Contemporary Music Award (São Paulo Association of Arts Critics) in 2010 and the 8th Bravo Award in 2012. As a soloist, she performed with several orchestras in Brazil and abroad and gave concerts in many countries such as Hungary, Holland, France, Portugal, Belgium, the United States and Argentina. She premiered in Brazil and abroad many pieces by Brazilian composers such as Silvio Ferraz, Alexandre Lunsqui, Rodolfo Coelho de Souza, Flo Menezes, Mathias Kadar, Eduardo Alvares, Arrigo Barnabé, Mikhail Malt, Danilo Rossetti, and Paulo C. Chagas. Currently, Cassia Carrascoza develops research in collaborative composition, telematic performance and improvisation with electronics. Since December 2020 she has been a member of NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble, an international group directed by Sarah Weaver dedicated to telematic performance. She has been invited to research and perform at international institutions such as IRCAM (Paris), University of California – Riverside, and Pontificia Universidad Católica (Chile).

Anne Sophie Andersen

Both an accomplished violinist and composer, Anne Sophie Andersen is an unusually diverse artist seeking to explore music from a variety of angles. One of her greatest passions is performing and promoting contemporary music, and she has collaborated with several composers in the US as well as her native region of Scandinavia. Ms. Andersen’s compositions include orchestral, ensemble and solo pieces for a variety of instruments, as well as works with live electronics. She has written, performed and lectured on works by Schubert, Carter and Grisey and was a presenter at the 2015 TEDxSBU conference.

 

 

Biggi Vinkeloe

Biggi Vinkeloe is one of few women musicians of her generation that has been influential in jazz and improvisational music. She has an enormous musical range and has initiated a great number of genre-bending projects and focuses on bridging traditional and folk music from India and Europe, sacred music and jazz, field recordings and electronic with acoustic music, compositions and improvisations.

Lynn Baker

Lynn is an active performer and clinician, performing on Soprano and Tenor Saxophones, and Percussion with his own Lynn Baker Quartet, the free-improvisation trio Rhythmic_Void, and the soundpainting ensemble The Noise Gallery. His clinician appearances at colleges, universities, high schools, and festivals have taken him across the North American continent, Europe, and to Asia. He is a Conn-Selmer Artist Clinician and Origin Records recording artist and his debut release Azure Intention, was released September 2010 and appears on many “Best Jazz CD” of 2010 lists. His latest Origin recording LectroCoustic was released May 2013.

In addition to his performing activities Malcolm Lynn Baker is a Professor of Jazz and Improvised Music at the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver, where he teaches graduate-level courses in Advanced Bebop Concepts, Sound Painting, and Free Improvisation, Jazz History classes, and Jazz Techniques classes. Lynn holds degrees from the University of Oregon and Western Oregon University and has also studied at Mt Hood Community College with Larry McVeigh and at Indiana University with David Baker, Dominic Spera and Eugene Robinson. Before coming to Denver in 1993 Lynn taught at Indiana University and before that Carleton College, and universities in Oregon.

Lynn is an award-winning composer, performer, and educator winning the 1987 Westside Composer Award (Minneapolis, MN), the 1995 COVisions Award for Jazz Composition, the 1980 Ruth Loraine Close award in performance from the University of Oregon, and the 2005 Downbeat Magazine award for Outstanding Achievement in Jazz Education – College Level and students and ensembles from Lamont are frequent Downbeat Student Music Award winners.

Colin James Gibson

Colin James Gibson is a guitarist based in Toronto, CA.

Diane Roblin

Diane Roblin’s dynamic career has earned her a place among Canada’s most respected women in jazz. Known for her powerful compositions and expressive keyboard style, Diane’s performances blend technical agility with a deep commitment to the connective power of music. As a composer, pianist, electric keyboardist, improviser, and bandleader, Diane’s spirited, genre-crossing work has led to collaborations with artists ranging from avant-garde improviser Charles Gayle to the iconic rock band Rough Trade.

A classical pianist by training, Diane pursued a diverse music education at York University in Toronto, immersing herself in jazz improvisation, world music, and electronic composition with David Rosenboom. She has also studied with mridangam master Trichy Sankaran and participated in the Ornette Coleman/Karl Berger workshop in NYC, where she worked with luminaries like Lee Konitz, and in the Dutch Improv Academy with drummer Hans Bennink.

Diane’s collaborations span an impressive range of Canadian jazz and experimental musicians, and she regularly performs in both traditional and experimental contexts, including telematic music with Sarah Weaver’s NowNet Inc. Lab Ensemble. Her performances have reached audiences at major venues and festivals in North America and Europe, from Toronto’s Kensington Market Jazz Festival to Amsterdam’s Bimhuis and New York’s Smalls. Diane is also an active member of the Association of Canadian Women Composers, committed to advancing Canada’s jazz and compositional community.

Jane Wang

Jane Wang is a composer, music improvisor, and plays the double bass, toy piano, piano, cello, and various other musical instruments. She is also an installation artist, performance artist, pedestrian movement artist and a former member of the Mobius Artists Group and part of the collaborative record company Hao Records.

Gloria Damijan

Gloria Damijan studied piano and music pedagogy at Music University Vienna where she focused on contemporary music and free improvisation.

She has led workshops with with Manon-Lìu Winter, Burkhard Stangl, Franz Hautzinger and Ian Pace. Since 2003 Gloria has been active in the Viennese Free Improvisation-scene with the ensembles ctrl and lsd.

Gloria is a member of the international cooperation-project Improvisation-Orchestra ÖNCZskequist, the duo fesch, and is part art of the Viennese Improvisers-Network snim.

Rebekkah Palov

Rebekkah Palov is a time-based artist with videos and sound-art
exhibited at experimental film festivals and exhibitions including MassArt Boston,
Museum of Arts and Design NYC, SAT Montréal, QC, Bushwick Starr NYC, Oblo Film
Festival Lausanne CH and SoundFjord Gallery London UK. She is a member of the
electroacoustic ensembles NowNet Arts Hub and Carrier Band. Her recent practice has
pivoted toward lens based video, spatial AV, and custom AV performance software.
Rebekkah has a range of experiences in artist and activist communities. She was a
member of 1990s punk / indie / metal and third-wave feminist music communities in
Washington, DC and Olympia WA, where she played bass guitar. Her early interest was
with the materials of electronic arts, instruments and amplification. This
engagement with electro-mechanical materials continued while studying experimental
film and electronic music composition at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
Following her BFA she worked in professional film production in Portland OR.
Rebekkah also became involved with community bike shops in Austin TX, and Baltimore,
MD. While in Austin and Baltimore, Rebekkah continued to make time-based works with
exhibitions at AMODA (Austin Museum of Digital Art) and Anthology Film Archives.
Baltimore projects included bands, experimental theatre performance, video and
html-css art. Rebekkah received her MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from Alfred
University. Following this she became an artist / educator. At Kutztown University,
Rebekkah was sole-faculty for Time-based Experimental Media where she developed new
studios and curriculum. Her students have moved onto top graduate programs, solo and
group exhibitions. Continuing her work as artist / educator Rebekkah ran the
Electronic Media artist residencies at Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred, NY.
She is currently the Principle at The-Mind-Agency LLC.

Mike O’Connor

audio technology (Wisconsin)

Kit Fitzgerald

Kit Fitzgerald is a video artist, director, and educator. She has been pioneering video with collaborators Peter Gordon and Max Roach at BAM Next Wave Festival, Lincoln Center, LaMama, Het Muziektheater and other opera houses and theaters abroad. Other collaborators include choreographers Bill T. Jones, Donald Byrd, Yoshiko Chuma; musicians Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ned Sublette and Matt Mottel; poets Bob Holman, Ann Waldman, and Sekou Sundiata; and theater companies The Talking Band, Northern Netherlands Theatre, and The Wooster Group.

Notable work includes video design for the Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson opera, The  Mother of Us All (a collaboration between The Juilliard School, the New York Philharmonic, and MetLiveArts), video performance and projection design for Arthur Russell’s Instrumentals directed by Peter Gordon at the Sydney Festival, Primavera Festival in Barcelona, MoFo Festival in Tasmania, and venues throughout Europe, as well music videos for major record labels.

Beth Warshafsky

Beth Warshafsky is a NYC-based artist whose work includes video, animation, photography, drawing, writing, artist books, dynamic visuals and dance. Beth’s artwork has been shown at the International Short Film Festival in Hamburg, Follow the work Sound Jazz Festival – Antwerp, Belgium, The Guelph Jazz Festival & Nuit Blanche – Ontario, Canada, The Tricky Woman Animation Festival – Vienna, Austria, The BITT Festival – Seoul Korea, The 9th Korea Experimental Arts Festival, The MadCat Film Festival, SIGGRAPH, Imagina in France, The 5th International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium in Havana – Cuba, Experimental Intermedia’s Screen Compositions, New York City, Video-Ex, Zurich. She is a part of NowNet Arts Hub: Interloculation Flow, an international virtual contemporary audiovisual performance group.

Yoon Sun Choi

Yoon Sun Choi has spent more than two decades capturing listeners with her uncompromising, freewheeling and beautiful style and the breadth of her musical vision.

A Korean-Canadian improvising vocalist and pianist, Choi has been based in New York City since 2000. Her main musical projects are with her longtime collaborative duo with pianist Jacob Sacks, her solo voice/piano work.

Choi has performed and collaborated with renown artists such as Jane Ira Bloom, Samir Chatterjee, Steve Coleman, Mark Dresser, Mark Elias, Gerry Hemmingway, Darius Jones, D.D. Jackson, Oliver Lake, Mat Maneri, Ben Monder, the Tri-Centric Orchestra, Sarah Weaver, Kenny Werner and Kenny Wheeler. She has performed in some of the finest concert houses and music venues including The Blue Note, Birdland, The Stone, Roulette, The River Theater, Roy Thompson Hall and Carnegie Hall.Choi received a BMus in classical piano and composition at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and a BMus in voice and jazz performance at the University of Toronto. She studied voice with Thomas Schilling and piano with the late Sofia Rosoff.

Jane Ira Bloom

Soaring, poetic, quick silver, spontaneous and instantly identifiable are words used to describe the soprano sound of saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom. She’s been steadfastly developing her singular voice on the soprano saxophone for over 40 years creating a body of music that marks her as an American original. She is a pioneer in the use of live electronics and movement in jazz, as well as the possessor of “one of the most gorgeous tones and hauntingly lyrical ballad conceptions of any soprano saxophonist – Pulse.” She is the winner of the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Surround Sound Album for her trio album “Early Americans.”

David Taylor

Receiving B.S. and M.S. degrees from The Julliard School of Music, David Taylor started his playing career as a member of Leopold Stowkowski’s American Symphony Orchestra, and with appearances with the New York Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez. Simultaneously, he was a member of the Thad Jones Mel Lewis jazz band, and recorded with groups ranging from Duke Ellington to The Rolling Stones. He has also recorded numerous solo CDs on the following labels: Koch, New World, ENJA, DMP, Tzadik, CIMP, PAU, and TLB.

Mr. Taylor performs recitals and concerts around the world: from Lincoln Center in NY to the Musikverein in Vienna and Suntory Hall in Japan. In addition to his own compositions, he has been involved in well over a hundred commissioning projects for solo bass trombone collaborating with composers including Alan Hovhaness, Charles Wuorinen, George Perle, Frederic Rzewski, Lucia Dlugoszchewski, Eric Ewazen, Dave Liebman, and Daniel Schnyder. He has appeared and recorded chamber music with Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, and Wynton Marsalis and performs with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Orpheus, and the St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra. Throughout his career, Taylor has appeared and recorded with major jazz and popular artists including Barbara Streisand, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, and Aretha Franklin.

Mr. Taylor has won the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Most Valuable Player Award for five consecutive years, and has been awarded the NARAS Most Valuable Player Virtuoso Award, an honor accorded no other bass trombonist. He has also won The International Trombone Association’s Award “in recognition of his distinguished career and in acknowledgement of his impact on the world of trombone performance.

He has been a member of the bands of Gil Evans, Thad Jones-Mel Lewis, Jaco Pastorius, Charles Mingus, JJ Johnson, Joe Henderson, George Russell, Michele Camilo, Bob Mintzer, Dave Matthews, Dave Grusin, Randy Brecker, and the Words Within Music Trio (Daniel Schnyder, David Taylor, Kenny Drew Jr., The Art of the Duo (with D Schnyder) and B3+. He has performed on numerous GRAMMY Award winning recordings.

Ursel Schlicht

Fostering intercultural collaboration has been an important focus of her work. She currently works with refugees from several areas in the Middle East. Her project SonicExchange during documenta13 in Kassel (2012) featured over 50 artists from nine countries and is documented on the DVD SonicExchange. SonicExchange has continued as a concert series ever since.

CDs featuring her as leader or co-leader are on Nemu, Cadence, CIMP, Hybrid, Konnex, Muse-Eek and Leo Records and Nemu Records. She is part of Hans Tammen’s Third Eye Orchestra, Sarah Weaver’s SLM Orchestra, and various smaller groups with Anna Jonsdottir, Ute Völker, Andrew Drury, Stephanie Griffin, Catherine Sikora, Lou Grassi, Ken Filiano, Andrea Wolper, Christian Ramond, Klaus Kugel, Detlef Landeck, Georg Wolf, et al.

Performances include: Festival Cervantino (Mexico), Juneau Jazz & Classics (Alaska), Guelph Jazz Festival (Canada), Festival for Creative Music in Seattle (US), International Music Meeting in Monterrey (Mexico), Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival (Australia), Merkin Hall Interpretations Series (New York), Roulette (New York), et al.

Ursel Schlicht holds a doctorate in musicology from the University of Hamburg, Germany, and has published a book about the working conditions of women jazz musicians, including Marian McPartland, Carline Ray, Joanne Brackeen, Connie Crothers, Geri Allen, Jane Ira Bloom, and Myra Melford (Coda Verlag, Germany).

She lived in Brooklyn for many years as a freelance musician and educator; she designed and taught seminars on Music & Gender and on Improvisation at Ramapo College of New Jersey, has taught Music Appeciation at Rutgers University and Masterpieces of Western Music at Columbia University in New York until 2013. She currently lives in Germany and teaches Improvisation at the University of Kassel.

Her compositions interweave notated and improvised material. Also, she interprets silent film classics Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Faust, and The Adventures of Prince Achmed with an avant-improv approach. As an artist-in-residence at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in New York, she created a score for F.W. Murnau’s silent classic film Faust. She is currently working on a solo CD.

Stephan Moore

Stephan Moore is a composer, improviser, audio artist, sound designer,
teacher, and curator based in Brooklyn and Providence. His creative work currently
manifests as electronic studio compositions, solo and group improvisations, sound
installation works, scores for collaborative performance pieces, and sound designs
for unusual circumstances. Evidence, his long-standing project with Scott Smallwood,
has performed widely and released several recordings over the past decade. He also
performs with the improvisation quartets Bumpr and Volume(n), and is a frequent
collaborator with the performance groups The Nerve Tank and a canary torsi. His
company, Isobel Audio, produces unique Hemisphere speakers. Since receiving an
Electronic Arts MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2003, where he studied
with Pauline Oliveros and Curtis Bahn, he has created custom music software for a
number of composers and artists, and taught workshops and numerous college-level
courses in composition, programming, sound art and electronic music. He is the vice
president of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology, and the curator and artistic
director of In The Garden of Sonic Delights at the Caramoor Center for Music and the
Arts, a 5-month exhibition of outdoor sound art across Westchester County in 2014.
From late 2004 to mid-2010, he performed over 250 concerts with the Merce Cunningham
Dance Company, serving as a touring musician, sound engineer, and music coordinator.
He is currently enrolled in the MEME Ph.D. program at Brown University.