Meridian Music: Composers in Performance will conclude its 2014-2015 concert season with a special interdisciplinary performance led by electronic musician Benjamin Tinker. Tinker will perform his original three-part composition, Paperwork/Condensed Cuke/Green-Eyed Monster, with cellist
Crystal Pascucci and dancer Kim Ip in a sequence of multi-tracked solo performances. In addition to this collaboration, Tinker will perform his composition Sugar Town, an immersive sound collage sourced from in and around the town of Crockett, CA that meditates on the relations between sonic travel and geographic space.
Trained as a sculptor, Tinker reflects on the relative importance of collaboration in his work as a composer of New Music:
“I have arrived at music and sound through the visual arts, and one of the fundamental benefits I’ve found in moving from one discipline to the other is the benefit of collaboration in the latter. With the possible exception of the theatre and film arts, music/sound seemed all about working with others and the collective character and experience they bring. Additionally, the venue in which it’s performed adds so much as compared to the static visual works of my past. This is no exception to the two collaborative compositions I bring to tonight’s Meridian Composers In Performance series.”
About the Artist:
Benjamin Ethan Tinker is a multidisciplinary artist and electronic musician who has lived in San Francisco since 1996. He works primarily with analog synthesizers to compose electroacoustic music, and performs regularly with the improv ensemble White Pee and with his own project That Hideous Strength. In addition, he curates and writes about experimental music. He has a BFA in Sculpture from SUNY Purchase and a MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College, between those degrees was a decade of commercial audio engineering.
Cost: General Admission $15. Students and Seniors $10. S