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August 16, 2008: Lineup & info
The East River Music Project’s final show for 2008 will take place on August 16, 2008.
Curated by CounterstreamRadio.org and New Amsterdam Records.
(NPR recently spotlighted the latter on All Things Considered.)
2 PM | East River Amphitheater
itsnotyouitsme
Mark Dancigers
Timberbrit
Alex Sopp
Matt Marks and the Li’l Death Band
New Amsterdam’s site has additional information.
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itsnotyouitsme
“The four works on “walled gardens” are instrumental meditations that draw heavily on early Minimalist techniques, most notably repetition and gradual expansion. Repeating figures often continue without transformation and gradually melt into the ambient haze as new layers of violin, guitar and electronic sound are added.” (Allen Koznin, New York Times review of walled gardens)
Website/audio: http://www.myspace.com/inyimband
NY Times review: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/arts/music/13reco.html
Mark Dancigers
“The New York Youth Symphony premiered his Snow in Carnegie Hall in 2006. The Cabrillo Festival Orchestra performed his Liquid Song in August 2006, and the Minnesota Orchestra read the same piece in May 2006. The Yale Philharmonia Orchestra premiered Liquid Song in March 2005. NOW Ensemble performed Cloudbank at the 2006 Carlsbad Festival and and Hanging There at the 2005 Look and Listen Festival in New York. Other performances of his work have been at the Music at the Anthology Festival, Merkin Hall, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Percussive Arts Society International Conference, and venues throughout New York, Boston, New Haven, and Philadelphia.”
Website: http://www.markdancigers.com
Timberbrit
“Straight from her latest barely clothed fiasco, Britney Spears is coming to New York. On Sunday, March 16, “TimberBrit,” an opera telling the (as yet) fictional story of the rekindled love between Spears and her former beau Justin Timberlake, will receive its world premiere. To create the songs, composer Jacob Cooper listened to hits from Spears’s oeuvre at a very slow speed, eliminating the hooks from the slickly produced tracks, and wrote his own songs inspired by the experience.” (Adam Rathe, The Brooklyn Paper)
Website/audio: http://www.myspace.com/timberbrit
Press: http://www.jacobcoopermusic.com/press.html
Brooklyn Paper article: http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/11/31_11_hes_a_slave_4_u.html
Alex Sopp
“New York-based flutist Alex Sopp performs all different genres of music and was recently called “outstanding” and “an admired new music mainstay” by Time Out New York. Alex has commissioned, premiered, and recorded with some of the most exciting composers and songwriters of our time, including Björk, Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens, Philip Glass, Judd Greenstein, The National, and makes professional appearances with The New York Philharmonic and The Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Alex is a member of NOW Ensemble, The Knights, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), AXIOM, and has performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble and Continuum. In the not-so-distant future Alex will make her solo recording debut with an album on the newly-minted New Amsterdam label.”
Website/audio: http://www.myspace.com/alexsopp
Matt Marks and the Li’l Death Band
Matt Marks has been a significant presence in the New York City contemporary and experimental music scene since the early 2000s, premiering solo and chamber works for horn at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, the Miller Theater, amongst many others. He is a founding member of Alarm Will Sound, a new music ensemble whose most recent album of music by Aphex Twin was praised by Billboard Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times and Pitchforkmedia.com. Matt also works as a composer/arranger, performing original music around the country. His most recent project, an arrangement of The Beatles’ Revolution 9, was called “staggeringly creative” by The New York Times and “obsessively detailed” by New York Magazine.
Website/audio: http://www.myspace.com/mattmarksmusic
Alarm Will Sound’s page: http://www.alarmwillsound.com/about/members/marks.html