Friday, March 21
Calicchia Gallery Studio, 1433 E 33rd St Cleveland
Doors 7:30, Music 8PM
Admission: $15 suggested donation
No one will be turned away for lack of funds
Tendrils Trio
The supergroup of bassoonists Katherine Young, Dana Jessen, and Ben Roidl-Ward made their trio debut in May 2023 at Chicago’s Elastic Arts with an original evening-length work called Tendrils. Each considered a pioneer in the field of contemporary, experimental, electronic, and improvised music, their collective artistic output has significantly expanded the range and sonic possibilities of their instrument. Collectively, they have presented hundreds of performances and world premieres at international music festivals and concert series spanning prestigious concert halls to local community art spaces. Members of the ensemble hold teaching positions at Emory University, Oberlin College and Conservatory, and the University of Illinois.
Tendrils Trio performs Altarpiece H. af K. by Eric Wubbels. Altarpiece H. af K. is a study in the acoustics of complex sounds. Drawing inspiration from the radically abstract visual language of the visionary early 20th-century Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, the piece unfolds in a 25-minute wave of saturated resonance.
Eric Wubbels is a composer and performer. Since 2004 he has been pianist and Co-Director of the Wet Ink Ensemble, and he maintains ongoing collaborative projects with Charmaine Lee, TAK Ensemble (interbeing), and Erin Lesser and Ian Antonio (Second Nature).
https://katherineyoung.info/
https://www.danajessen.com/
https://www.benroidlward.com/
http://www.wubbelsmusic.com/
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Ryan Carter
Ryan Carter (b. 1980) composes for instruments, voices, and computers. Ryan's work often explores new musical possibilities presented by emerging technologies, while remaining critical of the assumptions and unintended side effects embedded in them. Alternately playful, quirky, visceral, and intense, his music has been described by the New York Times as "imaginative ... like, say, a Martian dance party." Ryan has been commissioned by Carnegie Hall, the National Flute Association, the MATA Festival, Present Music, and many ensembles and soloists, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the American Composers Forum, and Meet the Composer. Awards include the Lee Ettelson Award, the Aaron Copland Award, the Left Coast Composition Contest, the National Association of Composers/USA Composer's Competition, the Publikumspreis at the Heidelberg Spring Festival, and the LA Phil Prize at Hack Music LA. Two portrait albums of his work can be heard on KAIROS Records.
An early innovator of interactive music for mobile devices, Ryan released iMonkeypants (an iOS album of motion-controlled interactive music) on the App Store in 2012. Beginning in 2017, Ryan developed a web-based system for allowing audiences to interact with performers by playing motion-controlled sound on their phones, leading to collaborations with the Boise Philharmonic, Hub New Music, the JACK Quartet, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Seattle Symphony artist-in-residence Seth Parker Woods, the Society for New Music, and musicians of the San Diego Symphony.
Raised in Wisconsin, Ryan holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory (BMus), Stony Brook University (MA), and New York University (PhD), where his teachers included Richard Hoffmann, Pauline Oliveros, Daniel Weymouth, Elizabeth Hoffman, and Matthias Pintscher. Ryan has pursued additional studies with Louis Andriessen and Gilius van Bergeijk at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (the Netherlands) and with Brad Garton at the Computer Music Center at Columbia University. Ryan is Associate Professor of Music at Hamilton College.
Headless Monkey Attack is an electronic (and sometimes also acoustic) music project founded by composer Ryan Carter. At its core, Headless Monkey Attack performs live electronic music that is synthesized in real time from code that responds to input from a video game controller. This controller (the "Gametrak") features two retractable tethers that can be pulled in any direction, controlling aspects of the sound as it synthesizes. The recently completed album "System Integrity" also includes processed video and generative graphics, both responding to the same controller data as the audio. Many parameters are controlled by the different axes of motion on the two tethers, and the performance and musical style are both dance-adjacent.