David Linton + Anthony Jay Ptak & Cyrus Pireh’s “The End of Music”

Sat 08 Jul, 2006, 8pm
Old American Can Factory

“Points in a Circle: Site-Specific Works for the Hemispheres at Issue project Room”
A month-long program that features new, site-specific work presented on IPR’s 16-Channel Hemispherical Speaker System

First hitting his stride as a downtown drummer in the early 1980s, David Linton then moved to solo performing, live electronics, computer assisted composition, and sound design for dance and theater. Throughout the 90s he became a dedicated advocate for the expansion and the appreciation of realtime performance in electronic media through the design and production of event/environments. Linton’s fascination with instantaneous collaborative audio visual communication among select units of electronic musicians and visualists assumed the form of a live television Manhattan cable/webcast project - UGTV - Unitygain Television 1AM Sunday Mornings on MNN CH 34/mnn.org

Anthony Jay Ptak is an artist and composer who studied under Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, Lydia Kavina, and Herbert Brun, and had technical consultations with Robert Moog. He performed at the First International Theremin Festival, and has been a guest theremin artist at the Historical Experimental Music Studios at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2000, where he was appointed visiting researcher in 2001. He has given presentations on the theremin and electro-acoustics at Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), School of the Art Institute, Chicago Cultural Center, St. Louis Art Museum, Krannert Art Museum, FFMUP Princeton University, and Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He is a member of New York Theremin Society. http://axoxnxs/com

Cyrus Pireh http://4gre.tripod.com/