Formed in 2006 by Brooklyn based composer and pianist David Moore, ambient chamber band Bing and Ruth utilizes a large number of traditional acoustic instruments to craft expansive soundscapes and quiet microtonal textures. With clarinets, voices, cellos, bass, percussion, and piano, the group calls upon a family of experienced musicians and improvisers who ably interpret Moore’s slow-developing, visceral compositions. Recent performances for the ensemble include a pair of shows for New York’s Wordless Music Series; sharing the stage with Icelandic super-band Mum and British minimalist composer Max Richter.
http://www.myspace.com/bingandruth
Composer Elodie Lauten’s musical oeuvre includes many electronic and electro-acoustic pieces, as well as chamber and orchestral music. Lauten’s landmarks are unique neo-operas – some of which she has directed – evolving or deconstructing the classic form: The Death of Don Juan (1985), Existence (1991), The Deus Ex Machina Cycle (1997), Orfreo (2004) and Waking in New York (1999), which appeared on a list of the most influential works of the last three decades.
Lauten’s music has been presented by the Lincoln Center Festival, the New York City Opera, WNYC, The Kitchen, the Performing Garage, the Dance Theater Workshop, La Mama, the Soho Baroque Opera, Downtown Music Productions, AFMM, Interpretations, the SEM Ensemble, The Whitney Museum, and at the Paris Museum of Modern Art. The current discography includes 27 titles to-date, released on Lovely Music, O.O. Discs, Point/Polygram, New Tone (Italy), 4-Tay, Tellus, Nonsequitur, Capstone, Frog Peak, Pitch, Studio 21 and Unseen Worlds.
No stranger to visual and media arts, Lauten has had solo, collaborative and group gallery showings in New York and Boston including sound installations, drawings, as well as computer-based art and animation.
In 2008 Lauten’s music was featured in the Seattle Chamber Players’ Classics of Downtown program along with major names in the industry, curated by critics Alex Ross and Kyle Gann.
Lauten received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, and The Music Liberty Initiative. Lauten has taught on the composition faculty at New York University. She currently teaches music technology at NYC Tech. She is a regular contributor to the classical music internet publication Sequenza21. With 20 years of experience as a producer of both recordings and live events, she is currently the artistic director for Lower East Side Performing Arts. She is a writer/publisher member of ASCAP.
http://www.elodielauten.net/