Reviewing

Closing performance

Kevin Ramsay, Sam Yulsman, Lucie Vitkova’

Featuring Daxophone, voice and Hichiriki

Closing performance by Kevin Ramsay, Daxophone, Sam Yulsman, electronics and Lucie Vitkova’, voice and Hichiriki.

Time: 5:30 pm

Location: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island

FREE

Excerpt from the performance

About the performers:

Sam Yulsman:

Sam Yulsman is a composer and pianist whose music spans a wide array of idioms. A belief in music as a means of psychonautic exploration is central to his work. Yulsman’s music includes acoustic and electroacoustic works for soloists, chamber ensembles, jazz ensembles and improvisers, as well as fixed media pieces, installations, and collaborations with artists working across disciplines. collaborators: Jessie Cox, Roman Filiu, Anaïs Maviel, Brandon Lopez, Ashkan Behzadi, Art Lande

Lucie Vitkova’ – Lucie Vítková_Emergency: Nest – YouTube


www.vitkovalucie.com

ig: @lucie__vitkova

Lucie’s work, which incorporates compositional, improvisational, and performative aspects, has been commissioned by the Roulette Intermedium, where they were a resident artist in 2018. They have organized the NYC Constellation Ensemble and the OPERA Ensemble. Their dissertation, Compositional Techniques of Christian Wolff and Social Aspects in Music, was published in 2021.  Lucie’s teachers and collaborators include George Lewis, Suzanne Cusick, Ellie Hisama, Miya Masaoka, Petr Kotík, Hitomi Nakamura, Teerapat Parnmongkol, Jolana Havelková, Muyassar Kurdi, Haruhiko Okabe, Jaroslav Šťastný, Teodora Stepančić, James Ilgenfritz, Mae May, and Graham Haynes.

Kevin Ramsay. – Carnegie Hill Concerts: Kevin Ramsay and Sam Yulsman’s Veiled Gazelle

Website: https://www.kevinramsaysound.com/

Social media – Ig: @waynefaure2

Kevin Ramsay work is focuses primarily on theoretical, practical aspects of sound recording/reproduction with unpredictable pairings of acoustic and electronic instruments. Kevin’s current works explore new ways to capture, mix, and process immersive audio for playback, on multichannel sound systems.Kevin’s  collaborators include Jon Carlos Evans, Henry Threadgill, Michael Byron, William Hooker, Anne Tardos, Daniel Belquer, and Malik Ameer Crumpler, String Noise, and InternationalContemporary Ensemble

Kevin Ramsay

Kevin Ramsay is a composer, producer, recording/mixing/mastering/sound
engineer, and musician on several critically acclaimed international albums.
Brooklyn born and based, Ramsay’s work focuses primarily on theoretical, practical
aspects of sound recording/reproduction with unpredictable pairings of acoustic and
electronic instruments. Kevin’s current works explore new ways to capture, mix, and
process immersive audio for playback, on multichannel sound systems. In addition to
serving as the Lead Sound Engineer at Harvestworks Digital Media, he continues to
collaborate with a variety of international artists committed to using sound as
their main creative medium. Kevin has worked with notable artists such as Michael
Byron, Henry Threadgil, Art Jones, Joan Jonas, Pauline Kim- Harris and Conrad Harris
(String Noise), Anne Tardos, Danilio Correale, Maria Grand, Prince Harvey, Emilio
Vavarella, Malik Ameer Crumpler, Daniel Belquer, Jon-Carlos Evans and many others.

Sam Yulsman

Sam Yulsman is a composer and pianist whose music spans a wide array of idioms. A belief in music as a means of psychonautic exploration is central to his work. Yulsman’s music includes acoustic and electroacoustic works for soloists, chamber ensembles, jazz ensembles and improvisers, as well as fixed media pieces, installations, and collaborations with artists working across disciplines. collaborators: Jessie Cox, Roman Filiu, Anaïs Maviel, Brandon Lopez, Ashkan Behzadi, Art Lande.

Lucie Vitkova

Lucie’s work, which incorporates compositional, improvisational, and performative aspects, has been commissioned by the Roulette Intermedium, where they were a resident artist in 2018. They have organized the NYC Constellation Ensemble and the OPERA Ensemble. Their dissertation, Compositional Techniques of Christian Wolff and Social Aspects in Music, was published in 2021. Lucie’s teachers and collaborators include George Lewis, Suzanne Cusick, Ellie Hisama, Miya Masaoka, Petr Kotík, Hitomi Nakamura, Teerapat Parnmongkol, Jolana Havelková, Muyassar Kurdi, Haruhiko Okabe, Jaroslav Šťastný, Teodora Stepančić, James Ilgenfritz, Mae May, and Graham Haynes.