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NowNet Arts Hub Performance

Sarah Weaver, Katherine Liberovskaya

Featuring Ximena Alarcon, Luisa Muhr, Anne Sophie Andersen, Cássia Carrascoza Bomfim, Biggi Vinkeloe, Lynn Baker, Christian Pincock, Colin James Gibson, Diane Roblin, Ethan Cayko, Jane Wang, Gloria Damijan, Rebekkah Palov, Travis Shetter, Mike O’Connor, Kit Fitzgerald, Katherine Liberovskaya, Beth Warshafsky, Sarah Weaver

Harvestworks is pleased to announce the first performance of the NowNet Arts Hub in our Network Arts Studio in partnership with Experimental Intermedia and NowNet Arts. Admission is by Donation. Attend the Livestream at the NowNet Arts Virtual Venue.

Time: Noon EST

Date: March 5, 2022

Location: online at the NowNet Arts Virtual Venue

MARCH 5TH PROGRAM:
Deep Field Synthesis by Sarah Weaver (composer), Katherine Liberovskaya (visual director). Deep Field Synthesis is a long-form network large ensemble piece on contemplative concepts of networked synchrony utilizing intuitive gesture, composition, and improvisation. The piece is performed by the NowNet Arts Hub, an international virtual contemporary audiovisual performance group in partnership with Experimental Intermedia and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center. The Hub works with performance-quality network arts technology including JackTrip audio.

Performers: Ximena Alarcon, voice (UK), Luisa Muhr, voice (New York), Anne Sophie Andersen, violin (Denmark), Cássia Carrascoza Bomfim, flute (Brazil), Biggi Vinkeloe, alto saxophone (Sweden), Lynn Baker, saxophones (Oregon), Christian Pincock, trombone (Seattle), Colin James Gibson, guitar (Toronto), Diane Roblin, piano, electric keyboards (Toronto), Ethan Cayko, percussion (Vermont), Jane Wang, multi-instrumentalist (Boston), Gloria Damijan, toy pianos, percussion, objects (Vienna), Rebekkah Palov, electronics (New York), Travis Shetter, electronics (New York), Mike O’Connor, audio technology (Wisconsin), Kit Fitzgerald, live video (New York), Katherine Liberovskaya, live visuals (New York), Beth Warshafsky, live video (New York), Sarah Weaver, conductor (New York)

POST-PERFORMANCE DISCUSSION IN ZOOM: Click Link in Venue

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.

Luisa Muhr

Luisa Muhr is an interdisciplinary vocalist and art-maker, with a focus on vocal, movement and performance art. Her range includes her capacity as a performer, improviser, installation artist, sound artist, composer, director, and experimental theater maker.


Originally from Vienna (Austria), Luisa speaks multiple languages and has Hungarian and Anatolian-Greek roots. She lives and works in New York, and finds a home in the experimental/avant-garde. Her creations range from interdisciplinary installation performance works, experimental and music theater pieces, improvised music and movement, graphic scores and compositions, to video works, and opera.

Luisa is the vocalist of the free improv band PlayField (577 Records) (with Daniel Carter, Aron Namenwirth, Ayumi Ishito, Eric Plaks, Zachary Swanson, Yutaka Takahaschi, and Jon Panikkar) and the audio-visual collective Dilate Ensemble (with Carole Kim, Jon Raskin, Scott L. Miller, and Gloria Damijan). She was also a former member of the the online NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble and a core member of the former vocal-movement ensemble Constellation Chor (which ended in 2024).

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.

 

 

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).

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.

Christian Pincock

Christian Pincock is a composer, trombonist and educator who creates a wide range of adventurous and eclectic music.  Expanding from a firm background in jazz, his work draws upon a multitude of experiences to create unique and innovative music that seeks to explore new concepts and processes.

Christian has three distinct vehicles for his expansive musical vision. He composes for and performs with Slipstitch, which explores unusual orchestrational sounds, brings together composition and improvisation in unique ways, and uses the full textural range of individual solos through complex group counterpoint.  Coming out of the jazz tradition of innovation, the group incorporates many other influences including the rhythms of Afro-Cuban and Brazilian music, the forms and compositional practices of European classical music, and grooves and expressive techniques from popular modern styles.

He also performs as Tightrope on trombone and computer using custom controllers and computer software for live control over computer-generated sounds and processing.  Some of these controllers include organ-style pedals, buttons and motion sensors attached to his valve trombone and keyboard controllers used in nonstandard ways.  Among other things, the music explores the expressive possibilities of indeterminate durations, feel and form within a set harmonic framework.

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.

Ethan Cayko

Ethan Cayko’s academic and creative work focuses on the use of digital technology in live music performance and network music performance. He obtained a B.A. in Music Technology from Montana State University. There he performed as principle percussionist for the university’s top ensembles and composed acoustic and electro-acoustic music. He completed a MMus in Sonic Art at the University of Calgary where his work focused on multichannel sound-based music and network music performance. His research in network music has been performed internationally between Canada, China, and USA and was demonstrated at the International Computer Music Conference.

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.

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.