Projects
ASPHALT ORCHESTRA
Co-Director
Asphalt Orchestra is a new iconoclastic 12-piece marching band conceived by Bang on a Can. An ultra-populist band accessible to the mobile masses, Asphalt Orchestra premiered to critical acclaim at Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival 2009 featuring premieres of ambitious processional music from every corner of the world, including new works by Tyondai Braxton, Goran Bregovic, and Stew and Heidi Rodewald, and arrangements of songs by Bjork, Meshuggah, Mingus, Nancarrow, and Zappa.
Asphalt Orchestra is looking ahead to a jam packed summer invading the UK @ The Barbican, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and NYC’s Upper West Side.
More information at www.asphaltorchestra.com.
UNSOUND FESTIVAL
Co-Curator
Unsound is an international experimental music festival founded in Krakow, Poland 2003. Unsound’s mission is to foster the creation of new music and contacts between artists, labels, curators, and other music industry professionals from all parts of the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
In February, 2010 Unsound came to the US for the first Unsound NYC festival. Co-organized by the Polish Institute in New York, the New York Goethe-Institute and Tone Foundation, Unsound NYC showcased European and American experimental and electronic music to critical acclaim with partners including Lincoln Center, Wordless Music, Le Poisson Rouge, Public Assembly, and Issue Project Room.
More information at http://www.unsound.pl/en
AUKSALAQ
Performer & Producer
Auksalaq is a live, telematic, multimedia opera composed by Matthew Burner performed simultaneously in multiple venues worldwide. Using distance technology, live music, dance, movement, visual arts and commentary, the work creates a rich counterpoint of media linking great distances. Auksalaq, the Inupiaq Eskimo word for “melting snow”, will integrate artistic expression, scientific information and social/political commentary to present an interactive, multi-dimensional experience that embodies relevant complex cultural and empirical processes. The piece illuminates scientific analysis as well as cultural and political issues surrounding global climate change.
More information coming soon.