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Synthesis Series 10-16-21

Sarah Weaver

Yoon Sun Choi, Robert Dick, Jane Ira Bloom, Marty Ehrlich, Jen Baker, David Taylor

Because of the weather, the performance will be remote on the NowNetArts Performance Venue on vimeo. A watch party will happen at the Harvestworks Art and Technology House in Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island.
A post-concert discussion in Zoom was added for anyone that would like to join in. This can be accessed by clicking the button at the bottom of the venue page labeled “Click Here To Enter Zoom Post-Concert Discussion”.

Performers: Yoon Sun Choi (voice), Robert Dick (flute), Jane Ira Bloom (soprano saxophone), Marty Ehrlich (saxophone), Jen Baker (trombone), David Taylor(bass trombone), Sarah Weaver (electronics)

“Synthesis Series” is a collection of solo, chamber, and large ensemble pieces on contemplative concepts of networked synchrony across realities, transformation of distance, and synthesis activation for healing and transcendence. This concert will feature works from the series titled “Sound in Peace”, “Interpolation Space”, and “Isomorphic Now”.

Supported by the City Artist Corps Grants program, presented by The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theatre.

Date:  October 16, 2021. Time:  3:30 pm @ The Workings of Media [art and artists]

Location: Outdoor/Indoor at the Harvestworks Art and Technology Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island

Synthesis Series 10-16-21

BIOS

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 the Director of NowNet Arts and Sarah Weaver Ensemble, Executive Director of JackTrip Foundation, Editor of the Journal of Network Music and Arts (JONMA), and Faculty of The New School College of Performing Arts. Website: www.sarahweaver.org

Sarah Weaver Ensemble the primary performing group for her solo, chamber, and large ensemble works. The work incorporates a spectrum of notation (staff, graphics, text), structures for improvisation, a hybrid approach of gesture with Soundpainting and original gestures, and materials written for the individual languages of the musicians. The ensemble has performed at contemporary venues across New York including The Stone, Experimental Intermedia, Roulette, The Cell Theatre, Symphony Space, Iridium Jazz Club, Austrian Cultural Forum, and others. The ensemble recently released a compilation double album “Synchrony: Music of Sarah Weaver and Collaborations (2011-2019)” on the SyncSource Label. Website: https://www.sarahweaver.org/#/ensembles/


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WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
sarahweaver.org
https://www.facebook.com/sarahweavermusic/

Performers: Yoon Sun Choi (voice), Robert Dick (flute), Jane Ira Bloom (soprano saxophone), Marty Ehrlich (saxophone), Jen Baker (trombone), David Taylor (bass trombone), Sarah Weaver (electronics). 

INTERVIEWS AND PRESS COVERAGE
https://touchingextremes.wordpress.com/2020/02/08/sarah-weaver-synchrony-series-music-of-sarah-weaver-and-collaborations/

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.”

Marty Ehrlich

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Jen Baker

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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.