Monday, September 14, 2009
when the next Sidewalk Tzara is...
There is no October Sidewalk Tzara... but, an exciting November line-up on the usual first Thursday is coming together... details soon!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
September 3, 8pm, Sidewalk Tzara #7: qfwfq duo, Brian Ellis, April Ranger
Featuring:
qfwfq duo, video and sound performance
Composer and sound artist Andrea Pensado teamed up with digital artist Greg Kowalski in Krakow, Poland, in 1997 to form Qfwfq duo. The duo's main concern has been live sound-image interaction and the use of movement to articulate complex sounds and digital visual material. Their work is highly performatic and often involves the use of sensors and/or motion tracking devices. The elements of Qfwfq’s artistic language are: interactivity, which is treated as an expressive parameter in itself, projected images, electronic sound, voice, movements and / or actions. http://www.qfwfqduo.com/
View a sample of their work, Rara avis (2007):
Brian S. Ellis, spoken word poetry
Brian S. Ellis is a poet who performs writing of his own devising. He has been reading in the New England area for four years, and has been touring nationally for two. This includes but is not limited to several local and national slam poetry competitions. His first full book of poems was published in two thousand eight with Write Bloody Books. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. For more information go to http://www.myspace.com/brianstephenellis
April Ranger, spoken word poetry
April Ranger is perhaps best known in Boston as the winner of Emerson College's Nicole DusFresne Playwriting award, but she became an almost instant Cambridge favorite when she began reading regularly on the Cantab open mic. Since day one, her vivid, original imagery has been eliciting longing sighs from our audience, making her the local master of the Oh-I-Wish-I-Had-Written-That poem.
qfwfq duo, video and sound performance
Composer and sound artist Andrea Pensado teamed up with digital artist Greg Kowalski in Krakow, Poland, in 1997 to form Qfwfq duo. The duo's main concern has been live sound-image interaction and the use of movement to articulate complex sounds and digital visual material. Their work is highly performatic and often involves the use of sensors and/or motion tracking devices. The elements of Qfwfq’s artistic language are: interactivity, which is treated as an expressive parameter in itself, projected images, electronic sound, voice, movements and / or actions. http://www.qfwfqduo.com/
View a sample of their work, Rara avis (2007):
Rara Avis from Qfwfq duo on Vimeo.
Brian S. Ellis, spoken word poetry
Brian S. Ellis is a poet who performs writing of his own devising. He has been reading in the New England area for four years, and has been touring nationally for two. This includes but is not limited to several local and national slam poetry competitions. His first full book of poems was published in two thousand eight with Write Bloody Books. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. For more information go to http://www.myspace.com/brianstephenellisApril Ranger, spoken word poetry
April Ranger is perhaps best known in Boston as the winner of Emerson College's Nicole DusFresne Playwriting award, but she became an almost instant Cambridge favorite when she began reading regularly on the Cantab open mic. Since day one, her vivid, original imagery has been eliciting longing sighs from our audience, making her the local master of the Oh-I-Wish-I-Had-Written-That poem.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
August 6, 8pm, Sidewalk Tzara #6: Aaron Larget-Caplan, Abram Taber
Featuring:
Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar
Called “a riveting artist” by the G. Acosta of the Washington Post, classical guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan rides the razor’s edge of the guitar, bringing together the traditional, non-traditional, & contemporary music into exciting and thought provoking programs. He is the founder of the Spanish music & dance group ¡Con Fuego! and the New Lullaby Project. Aaron was born in Oklahoma, raised in Colorado, and graduated from the New England Conservatory. He now resides in greater Boston with wife and muse Catherine. www.AARONLC.com
Abram Taber, guitar and electronics
Abram Taber is a musician and educator currently residing in Medford, MA.
In addition to his day job as a high school music director, he performs in several musical ensembles including the Musical Theatre, Verre and Glancy, Dubler & Taber. He has previously performed with Paraffin Section, Pyotr, Slurred Murrays and Abernathy.
Abram has recently begun working as a solo performer, spurred on by the 2009 RPM Challenge. His solo performances combine elements of pre-composed themes and improvisation. Instrumentation includes electric bass, electric guitar, drums, voice, effects, found sounds and more. The music brings together ideas from minimalism, psychedelia, indie rock, avant-garde classical and noise.
http://www.reallybadreverb.com/
Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitarCalled “a riveting artist” by the G. Acosta of the Washington Post, classical guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan rides the razor’s edge of the guitar, bringing together the traditional, non-traditional, & contemporary music into exciting and thought provoking programs. He is the founder of the Spanish music & dance group ¡Con Fuego! and the New Lullaby Project. Aaron was born in Oklahoma, raised in Colorado, and graduated from the New England Conservatory. He now resides in greater Boston with wife and muse Catherine. www.AARONLC.com
Abram Taber, guitar and electronics
Abram Taber is a musician and educator currently residing in Medford, MA.
In addition to his day job as a high school music director, he performs in several musical ensembles including the Musical Theatre, Verre and Glancy, Dubler & Taber. He has previously performed with Paraffin Section, Pyotr, Slurred Murrays and Abernathy.
Abram has recently begun working as a solo performer, spurred on by the 2009 RPM Challenge. His solo performances combine elements of pre-composed themes and improvisation. Instrumentation includes electric bass, electric guitar, drums, voice, effects, found sounds and more. The music brings together ideas from minimalism, psychedelia, indie rock, avant-garde classical and noise.
http://www.reallybadreverb.com/
Monday, June 1, 2009
June 11, 8pm, Sidewalk Tzara #5: Brian S. Ellis, Solomon / Ellis / Sargent, Sean Peuquet
Featuring:
Solomon / Ellis / Sargent
Bill Solomon (percussion), Lief Ellis (laptop/electronics), Matt Sargent (laptop/electronics/guitars) are members of the Hartford Sound Alliance, a flexible, CT-based collective of composers, performers, sound engineers, and artists. They regularly perform as a trio, creating visceral, improvisation-based music that especially focuses on the real-time recycling of live sound, collaborative processing, incorporation of field recording in live performance, and group composition. They have recently performed as a trio at Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT) [in collaboration with video artists Liz Stephens and Devan Mulvaney], the New Britain Arts Alliance Gallery (New Britain, CT), and the Hartford Art School (West Hartford, CT).
In addition to their work within this ensemble, each of the members maintains an active and varied schedule. This summer, Bill Solomon will perform the solo vibraphone part for Pierre Boulez's Repons in collaboration with the Lucerne Festival, IRCAM and Mr. Boulez. Other upcoming appearances include performances at the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival, the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at New England Conservatory. An active performer of new music, Bill has commissioned and premiered over thirty works for percussion. He also frequently performs with cellist Katie Kennedy in the duo, The Uncanny Valley.
Matt Sargent’s multi-channel installation works are currently on display in SPCTCLR VWS @ One Brooklyn Bridge Park (Brooklyn, NY) and Art-o-matic (Washington D.C.). His work is informed by his appreciation and ongoing study of natural resonance, field recording, and outdoor listening. Most recently, he has been creating a series of collaborative multimedia pieces for Space Between, an ongoing collaborative project with visual artists JT Kirkland and John M. Adams (works-in-progress can be seen and heard at http://spacebetweenblog.wordpress.com). Among his contributions to this project is Ghost Music, a concert-length composition for solo percussionist (composed specifically for Bill Solomon), accompanied by live wall drawings by John M. Adams.
Lief Ellis’s recent work as a composer and sound engineer has been focused on the creation of hybrid instruments and the transformation of commercial hardware into dynamic MAX/MSP-based musical interfaces. His latest compositions and collaborative projects have included by a performance of The Rings of Yggdrasill by the Hartt School Bass Ensemble (directed by Robert Black), and a series of interactive installation pieces presented at the Hartford Art School with Ken Steen (composer), Bill Solomon (composer), and Rebecca McDonald (video artist).
For more information about the trio, please visit http://www.hartfordsoundalliance.com, http://www.mattsargentmusic.com, and http://www.liefellis.com.
Brian S. Ellis, spoken word poetry
Brian S. Ellis is a poet who performs writing of his own devising. He has been reading in the New England area for four years, and has been touring nationally for two. This includes but is not limited to several local and national slam poetry competitions. His first full book of poems was published in two thousand eight with Write Bloody Books. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. For more information go to http://www.myspace.com/brianstephenellis
Sean Peuquet, laptop and live electronics
Sean Peuquet will be performing a live improvisation using a mixture of sound materials, including pre-recorded audio samples, realtime computer synthesis, and guitar. Throughout the improvisation, rhythm and pitch are dealt with in very simple terms; through speed and delay. He is a composer of both electronic and instrumental music, an audio software programmer, and sometimes a music hardware designer. He grew up in southeast PA, outside of Philadelphia, and now lives in Gainesville, FL. His compositions have been played at a number of places, mainly along the east coast. He is currently a student in composition. Over the past few years he has explored the topic of Discoverable Composition, which deals with writing pieces where an audience is not explicitly aware of music happening in their environment. In undergraduate school, he studied music, psychology, and astronomy; the combination of which has led me to approach experimental composition as a unifying field of study.
Generally, he am interested in how music can interact with extra-musical ideas. Sean's compositions often aim to represent or suggest extra-musical ideas directly through the compositional process. His focus is on exploring physical phenomena, experiences, and relationships through compositional forms, methodologies, and performance dynamics. As a result, tension emerges between the abstracted experience of music and the composition's concrete underpinning. It is this tension that he finds interesting and fruitful. For more information go to: http://www.ludicsound.com/
Solomon / Ellis / Sargent
Bill Solomon (percussion), Lief Ellis (laptop/electronics), Matt Sargent (laptop/electronics/guitars) are members of the Hartford Sound Alliance, a flexible, CT-based collective of composers, performers, sound engineers, and artists. They regularly perform as a trio, creating visceral, improvisation-based music that especially focuses on the real-time recycling of live sound, collaborative processing, incorporation of field recording in live performance, and group composition. They have recently performed as a trio at Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT) [in collaboration with video artists Liz Stephens and Devan Mulvaney], the New Britain Arts Alliance Gallery (New Britain, CT), and the Hartford Art School (West Hartford, CT).
In addition to their work within this ensemble, each of the members maintains an active and varied schedule. This summer, Bill Solomon will perform the solo vibraphone part for Pierre Boulez's Repons in collaboration with the Lucerne Festival, IRCAM and Mr. Boulez. Other upcoming appearances include performances at the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival, the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at New England Conservatory. An active performer of new music, Bill has commissioned and premiered over thirty works for percussion. He also frequently performs with cellist Katie Kennedy in the duo, The Uncanny Valley.
Matt Sargent’s multi-channel installation works are currently on display in SPCTCLR VWS @ One Brooklyn Bridge Park (Brooklyn, NY) and Art-o-matic (Washington D.C.). His work is informed by his appreciation and ongoing study of natural resonance, field recording, and outdoor listening. Most recently, he has been creating a series of collaborative multimedia pieces for Space Between, an ongoing collaborative project with visual artists JT Kirkland and John M. Adams (works-in-progress can be seen and heard at http://spacebetweenblog.wordpress.com). Among his contributions to this project is Ghost Music, a concert-length composition for solo percussionist (composed specifically for Bill Solomon), accompanied by live wall drawings by John M. Adams.
Lief Ellis’s recent work as a composer and sound engineer has been focused on the creation of hybrid instruments and the transformation of commercial hardware into dynamic MAX/MSP-based musical interfaces. His latest compositions and collaborative projects have included by a performance of The Rings of Yggdrasill by the Hartt School Bass Ensemble (directed by Robert Black), and a series of interactive installation pieces presented at the Hartford Art School with Ken Steen (composer), Bill Solomon (composer), and Rebecca McDonald (video artist).
For more information about the trio, please visit http://www.hartfordsoundalliance.com, http://www.mattsargentmusic.com, and http://www.liefellis.com.
Brian S. Ellis, spoken word poetry
Brian S. Ellis is a poet who performs writing of his own devising. He has been reading in the New England area for four years, and has been touring nationally for two. This includes but is not limited to several local and national slam poetry competitions. His first full book of poems was published in two thousand eight with Write Bloody Books. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. For more information go to http://www.myspace.com/brianstephenellis
Sean Peuquet, laptop and live electronics
Sean Peuquet will be performing a live improvisation using a mixture of sound materials, including pre-recorded audio samples, realtime computer synthesis, and guitar. Throughout the improvisation, rhythm and pitch are dealt with in very simple terms; through speed and delay. He is a composer of both electronic and instrumental music, an audio software programmer, and sometimes a music hardware designer. He grew up in southeast PA, outside of Philadelphia, and now lives in Gainesville, FL. His compositions have been played at a number of places, mainly along the east coast. He is currently a student in composition. Over the past few years he has explored the topic of Discoverable Composition, which deals with writing pieces where an audience is not explicitly aware of music happening in their environment. In undergraduate school, he studied music, psychology, and astronomy; the combination of which has led me to approach experimental composition as a unifying field of study.
Generally, he am interested in how music can interact with extra-musical ideas. Sean's compositions often aim to represent or suggest extra-musical ideas directly through the compositional process. His focus is on exploring physical phenomena, experiences, and relationships through compositional forms, methodologies, and performance dynamics. As a result, tension emerges between the abstracted experience of music and the composition's concrete underpinning. It is this tension that he finds interesting and fruitful. For more information go to: http://www.ludicsound.com/
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Date Change!! Next Sidewalk Tzara is June 11!!!
The same line-up as before:
Brian S. Ellis, poetry
Sean Peuquet, laptop music
Bill Solomon, Matt Sargent, Lief Ellis, improvisation
Brian S. Ellis, poetry
Sean Peuquet, laptop music
Bill Solomon, Matt Sargent, Lief Ellis, improvisation
Sunday, April 12, 2009
May 7, 8pm, Sidewalk Tzara #4: Mem1, Area C, Every Night I Lose Control
Featuring:
Mem1
http://www.mem1.com/
Mem1 (Mark + Laura Cetilia) seamlessly blends the sounds of cello and electronics to create a limitless palette of sonic possibilities. In their improvisation-based performances, all sounds are derived from the cello as the sole source material, which is manipulated in real time. Their music moves beyond melody, lyricism, and traditional structural confines, resulting in organically revealed narrative. Hailing from Los Angeles, CA, Mem1 has traveled extensively, performing at Roulette (NYC), REDCAT / Disney Hall (LA), the Orange County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, and, in Spring 2009, the Borealis Festival (Bergen). In 2007, they were awarded an artist residency at Harvestworks in New York for the creation of a new Surround Sound piece, Sonodendron. Throughout the next year, they will travel throughout Europe, Norway, and Israel to take part in residencies at STEIM (NL), Kunstenaarslogies (NL) and USF Verftet (Norway), and to perform and create a sound installation for the Museums of Bat Yam (Israel). Their third full-length album, +1, consists of collaborations between Mem1 and artists such as Steve Roden, Jan Jelenik, and Frank Bretschneider. It will be released in early 2009 by Interval Recordings.
Area C
http://www.areacmusic.com/
Erik Carlson is a composer, media artist and architect based in Providence, RI. His work examines sound as an evocative presence, often acting as a marker, in the physical and mental spaces we inhabit. Since 2002 he has been recording and performing under the name AREA C, whose compositions work with timbre, texture and live loops, exploring cyclical relationships and the details of their decay over time. Improvisation plays an important part in both recordings and live performances, encompassing extended explorations of minimal rhythm and melody, drawing on remnants of other times and places, outdated and untested technologies, signals sent out but never received
Courtney Brown
http://www.courtney-brown.net
Courtney Brown has long harbored aspirations of becoming an Edward Gorey heroine, but her attempts have thus far been foiled. In lieu of her unlikely but tragic demise, she makes strange dark music and fiddles with electronics. Her solo act, Every Night I Lose Control, explores the danger of performance and ultimately exposes the vulnerabilities of its performer. Her works are heavily influenced by tango, Weimar cabaret, flamenco, and early goth rock, and often cross into performance art.
She has performed her solo cabaret act up and down the east coast, including New York, Boston, Providence, Baltimore, and Washington, DC. Her compositions have been featured in the Chosen Vale Trumpet Seminar, the Festival of New Musics, the Boston CyberArts Festival, SEAMUS, the New York Electrocoustic Music Festival, and more. In 2008, her work "Places in Time become Magnetic" was selected for inclusion in the Vox Novus 60x60 project. She is the curator of the series, "Sidewalk Tzara" at The Outpost in Boston and she currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Upcoming on June 4, 2009:
Improvisation by Bill Solomon (percussion), Lief Ellis (laptop), Matt Sargent (laptop)
Brian S. Ellis, spoken word poetry
Sean Peuquet, laptop and live electronics
Mem1
http://www.mem1.com/Mem1 (Mark + Laura Cetilia) seamlessly blends the sounds of cello and electronics to create a limitless palette of sonic possibilities. In their improvisation-based performances, all sounds are derived from the cello as the sole source material, which is manipulated in real time. Their music moves beyond melody, lyricism, and traditional structural confines, resulting in organically revealed narrative. Hailing from Los Angeles, CA, Mem1 has traveled extensively, performing at Roulette (NYC), REDCAT / Disney Hall (LA), the Orange County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, and, in Spring 2009, the Borealis Festival (Bergen). In 2007, they were awarded an artist residency at Harvestworks in New York for the creation of a new Surround Sound piece, Sonodendron. Throughout the next year, they will travel throughout Europe, Norway, and Israel to take part in residencies at STEIM (NL), Kunstenaarslogies (NL) and USF Verftet (Norway), and to perform and create a sound installation for the Museums of Bat Yam (Israel). Their third full-length album, +1, consists of collaborations between Mem1 and artists such as Steve Roden, Jan Jelenik, and Frank Bretschneider. It will be released in early 2009 by Interval Recordings.
Area C
http://www.areacmusic.com/
Erik Carlson is a composer, media artist and architect based in Providence, RI. His work examines sound as an evocative presence, often acting as a marker, in the physical and mental spaces we inhabit. Since 2002 he has been recording and performing under the name AREA C, whose compositions work with timbre, texture and live loops, exploring cyclical relationships and the details of their decay over time. Improvisation plays an important part in both recordings and live performances, encompassing extended explorations of minimal rhythm and melody, drawing on remnants of other times and places, outdated and untested technologies, signals sent out but never received
Courtney Brown
http://www.courtney-brown.netCourtney Brown has long harbored aspirations of becoming an Edward Gorey heroine, but her attempts have thus far been foiled. In lieu of her unlikely but tragic demise, she makes strange dark music and fiddles with electronics. Her solo act, Every Night I Lose Control, explores the danger of performance and ultimately exposes the vulnerabilities of its performer. Her works are heavily influenced by tango, Weimar cabaret, flamenco, and early goth rock, and often cross into performance art.
She has performed her solo cabaret act up and down the east coast, including New York, Boston, Providence, Baltimore, and Washington, DC. Her compositions have been featured in the Chosen Vale Trumpet Seminar, the Festival of New Musics, the Boston CyberArts Festival, SEAMUS, the New York Electrocoustic Music Festival, and more. In 2008, her work "Places in Time become Magnetic" was selected for inclusion in the Vox Novus 60x60 project. She is the curator of the series, "Sidewalk Tzara" at The Outpost in Boston and she currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Upcoming on June 4, 2009:
Improvisation by Bill Solomon (percussion), Lief Ellis (laptop), Matt Sargent (laptop)
Brian S. Ellis, spoken word poetry
Sean Peuquet, laptop and live electronics
Monday, April 6, 2009
Video from February 5 show!!!
Performance at the Outpost 186 on February 5, 2009. Alissandra Hipona (hairstylist), Kristina Wolfe (video, poetry), Courtney Brown (live electronics), Bridget Doyle (model)
Sound. Picture. Coif. Part 1
Sound. Picture. Coif. Part 2
Sound. Picture. Coif. Part 1
Sound. Picture. Coif. Part 2
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