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| Ne (x)tworks plays music of Cornelius Dufallo and Chris McIntyre On March 22, 2006, ISSUE Project Room will present a shared evening of new and recent works by violinist and composer Cornelius Dufallo and trombonist, composer, and music curator Chris McIntyre. The concert marks the official opening event of SILOMUSIC: Ne(x)tworks 2006. Formed in June 2002, Ne (x)tworks ( Joan La Barbara - voice/electronics, Kenji Bunch - viola, Yves Dharamraj - cello, Cornelius Dufallo - violin, Stephen Gosling - piano, Ariana Kim - violin, Chris McIntyre - trombone/electronics, Peter Evans - trumpet ) continues the "Maverick" tradition in American music by creating and interpreting work that primarily explores intersections between composition and improvisation. Over the course of the Spring '06 season, the group will utilize IPR's facility to develop new works and programs which are then made available to the community through panel discussions, performances, and post-performance receptions. Cornelius Dufallo's compositional aesthetic is informed by years of playing in many of New York's most compelling ensembles, including Flux Quartet, Nurse Kaya, Butch Morris' Skyscraper, and recently, as the newest member of Ethel. On the 22nd, Ne(x)tworks presents two premiere performances and several works from Dufallo's oeuvre, including Pacem, a recent piece for solo violin and electronics, the one you call lost for strings, piano and voice (featuring Ne(x)tworks member Joan La Barbara singing the poetry of IPR staff member Dana Maisel) and The Fifth Dream, which incorporates the poetry of Ron Price in a setting for strings, voice, and live-electronic processing. Premiere performances include Palindrome Variations for two violins, and X, an ensemble work that engages Ne(x)tworks' diverse and world-class talents. X will actually exist within Chris McIntyre's new sound installation silOM (which begins at 5PM) as the ensemble physically enters its aural tableau and then seamlessly into Dufallo's new material. silOM represents McIntyre's debut sound installation. Heard moving around the sixteen hemispheric speakers hanging in the space (created by sound engineer Stephan Moore) are "dry" and altered field recordings collected at the IPR site, layered in and out, highlighting various ambient details, obscuring others. The influence of his recent performance experience (TILT Brass Band, Michael J. Schumacher's Room Pieces) and curatorial work (The Kitchen) is evident in the installation and continues into two new ensemble works, A31 and Sigmar [from 0]. The title of A31 is derived from the unsanctioned protests in NYC on August 31st, 2004, during the Republican National Convention. Sigmar [from 0] is named for and inspired by the work of Postmodernist German visual artist Sigmar Polke. Both pieces utilize graphic notation as an interface for conventional as well as improvisative elements. The aesthetic for these pieces overtly and obliquely suggests essential qualities of their respective inspirations: collective outrage and ennui in A31, and the abstract/kitch dialogic found in Polke's paintings. Also on the program is Conversions, a mutational improvising strategy that explores textural and elemental "binarism" in sound. ISSUE has been integrally involved in Ne(x)tworks' development since 2003. This has been a natural collaboration given our shared, uncompromising vision of presenting new and site-specific work by established and emerging artists. The residency, entitled SILOMUSIC (a reference to IPR's unusual space on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn), continues this relationship by offering Ne(x)tworks full use of our facility to develop new works and programs which are then made available to the community in various ways. We look forward to welcoming Ne(x)tworks and its audience into our space as this important process unfolds. Suzanne Fiol, Issue Project Room write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |