From: Juraj Kojs (juraj@kojs.net)
Date: Fri Jan 07 2011 - 14:00:47 EST
Apologies for cross-posting!
Join us for this wonderful event next week!
Juraj
www.kojs.net
Mata Interval 4.2
Live electronic music by J. Kojs, P. Matthusen, C. Miyama, S.
O'Halloran, M. Schedel, S. Topel and J. Variego
Thursday, January 13, 8pm
ISSUE Project Room, 232 Third Street, Third Floor, Brooklyn
http://matafestival.org/2010/interval-4-2-in-one-curatorial-statement/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
12/21/2010
WHAT: MATA'S INTERVAL CONCERT 4.2 "In One"
WHEN: Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 8PM
WHERE: Issue Project Room, 232 3rd Street, Brooklyn
Train F or G to 4th Ave-9th St.
*HOW:* Individual tickets $10. To order, visit
www.issueprojectroom.org/buy-tickets
<http://www.issueprojectroom.org/buy-tickets>
*CONTACT:* David T. Little, Executive Director
dlittle@matafestival.org <mailto:dlittle@matafestival.org>, (212) 563-5124
*New York, NY*---Composer, instrument designer, performer *Juraj Kojs
*curates a January 13th performance as part of *MATA's INTERVAL* concert
series, joining such esteemed former curators as SO Percussion, the
Calder Quartet, and The Knights Chamber Orchestra. Held at 8:00 p.m. at
the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, the concert will feature works by
young composers *Paula Matthusen, Spencer Topel, Jorge Variego, Sarah
O'Holloran, Margaret Schedel, and Chikashi Miyami.*
Showcasing their unique approaches to extending, hybridizing, and
abstracting instrument design, composition, and performance, these
composers seek an experience beyond mere collaboration, and into the
realm of true integration of the composer, performer, and instrument,
fusing the three into a unique whole.
While Paula Matthusen's laptop ensemble composition /lathyrus/
re-contextualizes an existing technology musically, Spencer Topel's
/Violine/ expands the timbral possibilities of an existing instrument
with novel digital techniques. In Jorge Variego's /Mimic/, a clarinet
and joystick game controller share control over the music creation and
performance, and in Juraj Kojs' /At and Across/, the Slovakian sheep
bells and digitally modeled bell structures fuse the physical and cyber
sonic spaces. Sarah O'Halloran and Margaret Schedel paired to craft an
interactive multimodal composition ./..linger figure flutter...,/
engaging a narrator, the Zeta cello, K-Bow controller and video. The
program concludes with Chikashi Miyama's /Black Vox/, which the composer
performs on his homemade non-tangible Peacock instrument.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased directly from the Issue Project
Room's website, www.issueprojecroom.org <http://www.issueprojecroom.org>.
This program is supported in part by a grant from Meet the Composer's
Cary New Music Performance Fund.
ABOUT JURAJ KOJS
Juraj Kojs is a Slovakian composer, performer, multimedia artist,
producer and educator residing in the US. He is the director
of Foundation for Music Technologies (FETA) in Miami, FL where he
manages the monthly 12 Nights of Electronic Music and Art concert
series. Kojs holds a PhD. in Composition and Computer Technologies from
University of Virginia and was a Postdoctoral Associate in Music
Technology and Multimedia Art at Yale's Department of Music between
September 2008 and May 2010.
His compositions have been featured at festivals and conferences in
Europe, Asia and the Americas, and performed by Tomoko Mukaiyama, Blair
McMillen, Margaret Lancaster, Michael Straus, Susan Fancher, Atticus
Brass Quintet, IKTUS Percussion Quartet, Cassatt String Quartet, NOW
Ensemble and Yale Gamelan Suprabanggo. His compositions received awards
at Eastman Electroacoustic Composition and Performance Competition and
the Digital Art Award.
His muscle-powered multimedia Neraissance---described as "striking and
unforgettable," received the Best Art Performance 2010 Award from Miami
New Times. Kojs has received commissions from The Quiet Music Ensemble,
Miami Light Project and Meet the Composer. His research articles
appeared in journals such as Organized Sound, Digital Creativity,
Leonardo Music Journal and Journal of New Music Research. www.kojs.net
<http://www.kojs.net/>
ABOUT MATA
MATA is a non-profit organization dedicated to *commissioning and
presenting works by young composers from around the world.* Now in its
14^th year, MATA's directors are motivated by a desire to create
community among young musicians, especially those whose work defies
definition and doesn't fit into existing institutions. By providing
young composers with a professional performance of their work, access to
first-rate performers and valuable connections to colleagues, MATA
nurtures their entry into American musical life.
Founded in 1996 by *Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa*,
MATA presents pieces by young composers on a 4-day festival, held each
spring in New York City, featuring several works commissioned
specifically by MATA for the festival, and performed by professional
musicians from around the world. In 2007 MATA initiated *INTERVAL, a
bi-monthly concert series dedicated to young composers presented in
conjunction with Brooklyn's Issue Project Room.* Participants in our
Curatorial Associate Program, an internship designed to teach young
artists the basics of concert production and arts administration, curate
each concert on the INTERVAL series.
To date, MATA has commissioned over 61 works, and has presented over 260
performances of pieces by young composers. Composers who have been
commissioned or presented by MATA early in their careers include
Pulitzer-prize winner Jennifer Higdon, Derek Bermel, Yotam Haber, Annie
Gosfield, Julia Wolfe, Nico Muhly, and Randall Woolf. In 2010 MATA
received the prestigious Aaron Copland Award from the ASCAP Foundation,
in recognition of its outstanding commitment to young composers.
For more information about this event, please contact David T. Little.
Executive Director, MATA: dlittle@matafestival.org
<mailto:dlittle@matafestival.org>, (212) 563-5149
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