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[Nettime-nl] [ STEIM ] STEIM announcement: Lecture/Concert by Judy Dunaway and Tom Chiu
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STEIM presents a Lecture/Concert by:
Judy Dunaway (US) & Tom Chiu (US)
Date: Thursday, November 8
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Time: 20.30 hrs.
Entrance: 5 euros
Reservations and more information: knock@steim.nl or 020-6228690
One of the significances of experimental artistic practice is its
motivation to challenge conventions and social norms. New movements
and shifts in standards are often conceived in these practices. For
example, the recent release of Radiohead and Saul Williams' album
available for free download comes with no surprise if one has been
sensitive to the climate that has built up over the years by artists
like Negativland and Bob Ostertag. The reason to why an artist
decides to deal with a specific theme or choose a certain tool often
represents a shared consciousness (or unconsciousness) that is
brewing within a specific time period. I believe that experimental
art give us the earliest glimpse of what our contemporary life is
dealing with.
Judy Dunaway is a composer and improvisor who works mainly with
balloons. She is also the founder of S.W.I.R.L. - Sex Worker Internet
Radio Lounge which is an organization and platform for sex workers
around the world to express themselves. Although her duo with Tom
Chiu (founder of the critically acclaimed FLUX Quartet) is not
electronic, we felt that their music was compelling and that it would
be a great opportunity to listen to the artists talk about the
context of their work.
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LINKS:
Judy Dunaway http://jdunaway.web.wesleyan.edu/
SWIRL http://emedia.art.sunysb.edu/swirl/
FLUX Quartet http://www.fluxquartet.com/
BIO:
Judy Dunaway
Since 1990, Judy Dunaway has created over forty pieces for balloons
as sound producers, and has also made this her main instrument for
improvisation. She has presented her work throughout North America
and Europe at many venues and festivals including Lincoln Center Out-
of-Doors, The Roy and Edna Disney Center, the SoHo Arts Festival, the
Alternative Museum, the Knitting Factory, Performance Space 122,
Roulette, Experimental Intermedia, Soundlab, the New Museum of
Contemporary Art, the Bang on a Can Festival, the Guelph Jazz
Festival, Podewil and ZKM. She has performed as a balloon player in
compositions by John Zorn and Roscoe Mitchell, and in improvisations
and/or collaborations with the FLUX Quartet, performance artist Annie
Sprinkle, video artist Zev Robinson, visual artists Nancy Davidson
and Ken Butler, percussionists John Hollenbeck and Matt Moran, the
Illuminati big band, DJ Singe, and numerous others. Her compositions
for balloons include electronic and multi-media works, sound
installations, and works that incorporate more traditional
instrumentation such as string quartet, chorus and Japanese koto.
Her discography includes âMother of Balloon Musicâ (Innova,
2006), âShar: Pop Musicâ (Outer Realm, 2002) and âBalloon
Musicâ (CRI, 1998), as well as appearances on numerous other CDs.
Dunaway has a Ph.D. (doctorate) in Music Composition from State
University of New York at Stony Brook, where she studied with analog
electronic music composer Daria Semegen and multi-media artist
Christa Erickson, and a M.A. in Experimental Music from Wesleyan
University (Connecticut) where she studied with composer Alvin
Lucier. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Critical Studies
Department at Massachusetts College of Art.
Tom Chiu
Violinist Tom Chiu is the founder of the FLUX Quartet, which has been
called âone of the most fearless and important new-music ensembles
around,â (Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle) âwho has a
brought a new renaissance to quartet music,â (Kyle Gann, The Village
Voice). The FLUX Quartet has performed to rave reviews at many music
centers around the world, including Da Camera of Houston, Miller
Theater, the Walker Art Center, the Library of Congress, and Carnegie
Hallâs When Morty Met John Festival. FLUX captivates its audiences
worldwide with a vivid repertoire balanced between notable pioneers
as well as visionaries of tomorrow. From "classics" by Conlon
Nancarrow, Giacinto Scelsi, and Iannis Xenakis, to new works by Leroy
Jenkins, Elliott Sharp, and John Zorn, FLUX brings to all of its
performances a âboundless, uninhibited energy.â (New York Times)
The quartet avidly seeks out collaborative relationships with genre-
transcending artists such as Ornette Coleman, Joan LaBarbara, Oliver
Lake, balloon artist Judy Dunaway (new CD on Innova Recordings), and
musical-visual artist collective, the Slave Pianos. The FLUX
Quartetâs discography includes Morton Feldman's six-hour marathon
"String Quartet No. 2," on Mode Records, which they presented live at
Carnegie Hall on September 27, 2007. FLUX is the only group to have
ever played the complete âString Quartet No. 2â score in one
performance.
As a solo artist, Chiu has performed over 100 premieres worldwide and
has worked closely with many distinguished composers including Virko
Baley, Dean Drummond, Oliver Lake and Chen Yi, among others. He has
worked closely with Ornette Coleman, with whom he appeared at the
2000 Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival. Tom's discography includes
recordings for the Asphodel, Cambria, Koch, Mode, Sombient, and
Tzadik labels. His original works as composer/improvisor have been
performed in numerous countries, including Mongolia and Uzbekistan.
Having also composed for motion pictures, his first soundtrack for
the short film Boris (written and directed by Francesca Galesi) won
the top prize at the NY Expo Festival of Shorts. Chiu holds degrees
in music and chemistry from Juilliard and Yale.
Dunaway/Chiu Duo:
Judy Dunaway (balloons) has been working with Tom Chiu (violin) since
the mid-1990âs. Both in improvisational duo and in collaboration
with Chiuâs FLUX Quartet, Dunaway and Chiu have performed frequently
in New York City at many venues including Roulette, The Stone, The
Living Room, Greenwich House, The Brecht Forum and Soundlab. Dunaway
composed her 30 minute epic âFor Balloon and String Quartetâ
especially for the FLUX Quartet. The work was premiered at Roulette
in 2001 and subsequently recorded and released by Innova records in
2006, supported by a grant from the Aaron Copland Fund. Dunaway and
Chiu are now touring Europe together for the first time, including
presentations on German Radio and at STEIM in Amsterdam.
âDunaway's two duo improvisations with Tom Chiu also use the primary
balloon music technique of rubbing (or otherwise agitating) the
surface (a technique insightfully labelled by Dunaway as an "orb-
shaped string"), which allows for a flexibility of sound production
far exceeding any other known instrument, but the big surprise here
is the flexibility of the violin because Chiu somehow manages to make
it sound like a balloon! The high-pitched acrobatics and sound
mergers they achieve are breathtaking and will surely change many
people's lives.â
- from review of Judy Dunawayâs CD âMother of Balloon Musicâ by
Michael Anton Parker, Downtown Music Gallery
The STEIM concerts are made possible by the Municipality of Amsterdam.
More information on concerts: http://www.steim.org/steim/activity.php
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