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Thursday, August 21
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 8:30
reservations
are recommended
“A night of classical (Jeremiah
Bornfield), experimental/contemporary
(Victoria Cheah), oneiric pseudo
folk/minimalist (Thomas Deneuville),
and post–electronica/ambient (Noise
Floor Music).”
JEREMIAH BORNFIELD —
Jeremiah Bornfield began studying music at age 4 with his father
in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. By 11 Jeremiah was touring
the nation as a singer in the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus. After
studying strings with the Tucson Symphony's principal violinist,
Jeremiah decided his talents would be best suited for hardcore
gangster rap. After re–evaluating his position within
society's legal structure, Bornfield thought it better to become
a classical composer. Since 2005 Jeremiah's compositions have
been performed at Lincoln Center, Adirondack Festival of
American Music, Samuel Dorsky Museum, The International
Electro–Acoustic Festival, Composer's Voice series, and
various galleries and venues throughout the Hudson Valley.
Jeremiah is currently studying composition at Hunter College's
graduate school for music.
VICTORIA CHEAH —
A native New Yorker, Victoria Cheah has been involved with various
artistic projects and artists of all kinds from an early age. After
dabbling in visual arts, design, writing and theater, she realized
that music was perhaps the best medium for expressing her
particular point of view. She has studied piano, voice, erhu,
guzheng and recently begun to explore Beijing opera, hoping to fuse
the “east” and the “east” into a purely
“New York” sound. As a composer, her work has been
performed at Symphony Space, The Walden School and Hunter College
High School. She currently studies composition and 20th century
literature at Hunter College.
For this concert, Victoria will collaborate with two superb New
York–based musicians — Ryan Krause and Dan Koz.
Originally from the vast plains of Iowa, Ryan Krause makes music
from downtown and Brooklyn, drawing heavily on a number of
influences including Stravinsky, Zappa, Ligeti, Byrne, Piazolla,
Hindustani, jazz, disco, and European film composers. Dan Koz,
drummer and a founding member of the experimental band Pieces,
explores new tonalities and unconventional instrumentation.
THOMAS DENEUVILLE —
Born in France, Thomas Deneuville had the chance to spend most
of his childhood on a small island in the Pacific Ocean. After
an unsuccessful attempt to build a spaceship in his backyard,
and some nasty–smelling experiments in chemistry, he
decided to learn how to play guitar on his own before moving to
violin, mandolin, bagpipes, ... Obsessed with the
“East”, Thomas also studied Carnatic theory and
violin for a while and is now studying tabla. He is blessed to
study composition at Hunter College's graduate school for music
with Shafer Mahoney.
For this concert, Thomas will collaborate with Estonian artist
Kristiana Pärn. A former student of Marje Berlokko, she moved
to New York City to study animation at The School of Visual Arts.
Kristiana eventually established her own studio in Brooklyn where
she creates original work for clients in the New York area and
exhibits her paintings and drawings at local galleries.
NOISE FLOOR MUSIC —
The sound of Noise Floor Music, Roy Vanegas's solo music
project, is electronic, often guitar–based, heady,
typical (yet experimental), and ambient. The music exhibits
Pärt, Boards of Canada, and GY!BE as influences.
The theoretical constructions of Western melody conjoins them
all.
The collaboration between Noise Floor Music and Ingrid Rojas, an
award winning documentary filmmaker and video journalist/editor
based in Brooklyn, will yield a combination of light, images of
color, and the absence of them.
http://www.plrcounterpoint.com
http://www.myspace.com/vcheah
http://www.thomasdeneuville.com
http://www.kristianaparn.com
http://www.noisefloormusic.org
http://www.indiered.blogspot.com
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