9th Annual 2010 Outsound New Music Summit **MultiVox**
a night of performances infused by voice and performance art with
Amy X Neuburg
The Cornelius Cardew Choir
Reconnaissance FlyTim Walters, Polly Moller,Amar Chaudhary
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inTicketingPolly Moller's collected and adapted spoetry texts form the basis for a new "spong cycle" -- a song cycle based on spoetry. Entitled "Flower Futures", this otherworldly ten-movement work shifts constantly in imagery and sound. Movements feature free improvisation, graphic scores, and full scored music, each with a spoem as its basis. Moller's band, Reconnaissance Fly, will perform "Flower Futures".
The brainchild of flautist/composer Polly Moller, Reconnaissance Fly features electronic artist Amar Chaudhary, bassist
Tim Walters, and guitarist Noah Phillips in addition to Ms. Moller’s work on flute and voice. They're a band of composers, whose mission is to interpret spoetry (a mix of spoken word and poetry) -- the glorious gifts of the internet, designed to evade your spam filter, captured by them and set to music intermixed with electro acoustic music and multimedia art. Polly Moller is a composer, improviser, and performance artist based in Oakland, California, USA. Her current obsession with found text, specifically "spoetry" -- the poetry generated by the internet in its efforts to evade the spam filters of innocent netizens -- drives the compositions she writes for her band, Reconnaissance Fly.
The Cornelius Cardew Choir is a SF Bay Area-based vocal performance ensemble. Situated at the intersection of community & experimental music, these professional, amateur, & novice singers work collectively to turn ideas into sonic action. Founded in 2001 by Kattt Sammon, Bob Marsh and Tom Bickley, the ensemble consists of professional, amateurs, and novice singers who collectively work to turn their ideas into sonic action. All participants feel free to make suggestions about ways of performing a given piece or try new approach to singing. The Cornelius Cardew Choir sings at the intersection of community and experimental music, strongly influenced by Cardew and his circle in the 1960's in England. Inspired by the experimental music tradition, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage and others, the Cardew Choir intends their mutually supportive work to be compassionate, joyful and liberating political action.
Singer, composer and electronic instrument performer Amy X Neuburg has developed a unique career bridging the boundaries between classical, experimental and popular music. Her wildly entertaining 'avant-cabaret' songs combine her interests in language and theater, expressive use of music technology, and exploration of multiple genres using the many colors of her four-octave vocal range. Amy is best known for her live solo performances, in which she uses a MIDI drum kit, a real-time looping machine, and an array of sounds and samples to construct complex, meticulously crafted songs and stories one layer at a time. She has performed throughout the U.S. and internationally at venues as diverse as the Other Minds Festival (Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco), the Berlin International Poetry Festival, the Wellington and Christchurch jazz festivals (New Zealand), New York venues (including Roulette, Joe's Pub, Bang on a Can at Symphony Space), the Milwaukee Art Museum, and myriad college residencies and electronic music festivals at home and abroad. Amy received undergraduate degrees from Oberlin Conservatory (Voice) and Oberlin College (Linguistics), and an M.F.A. in Electronic Music from the Mills College CCM. Awards and honors include Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Kappa Lambda, Oberlin Conservatory Honors, the Wieland Prize for Vocal Excellence; residencies with Music Omi, Nautilus Composers & Playwrights, Djerassi, and the Arts Centre of Christchurch (New Zealand); and grants from Arts International, the US Embassy New Zealand, Meet the Composer, the East Bay Community Fund, Zellerbach, SF Friends of Chamber Music, and William and Flora Hewlett. In 2005 Amy was featured in the book The Art of Digital Music: 56 Visionary Artists & Insiders Reveal their Creative Secrets (Backbeat Books), and she has been interviewed about her recording and looping techniques in Electronic Musician, Guitar Player, and other national and international music and industry publications.
Cost: $10/15