David Weinstein is a Brooklyn based composer and multimedia artist whose musical and site-specific installation works have been shown worldwide. His musical works juxtapose sound effects, traditional and non-traditional instruments, synthetic sound, and ancient and exotic tunings and noise. As a keyboardist Weinstein has recorded and performed with musicians including Shelley Hirsch, Elliott Sharp, John Zorn, Ned Rothenberg, Rhys Chatham and many others from Arto Lindsay to Zeena Parkins. Weinstein also makes theatrical, installation and site-specific multimedia pieces, and is an expert in computer assisted audio and animation including streaming and interactive media. A founder of the New York new music series Roulette, he co-directed the day-to-day operations from 1978 to 1994. He is currently Director of Programs for P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Managing Director of their Web radio station Art Radio WPS1.org, and Curatorial Director of the summer Warm
Up concert Series.
Janene Higgins has directed numerous short videos and several installations, which have been presented internationally at a variety of festivals and galleries. In the realm of live video performance, she has collaborated with many of New York’s preeminent composers and improvisers of new music, including Elliott Sharp, Ikue Mori, Mari Kimura, Alan Licht, Nurit Tilles, Aki Onda, Okkyung Lee, and Zeena Parkins.
http://www.echonyc.com/~myrakoob
Composer/violinist Mari Kimura has been hailed by The New York Times as “a virtuoso playing at the edge.” Ms. Kimura is widely admired for her revolutionary extended technique “Subharmonics” and for her diverse solo performances including her works with interactive computer music. She has won numerous awards both in her native Japan and in the U.S., and has been invited to give solo performances in international festivals around the world including Spring in Budapest, Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, International Bartok Festival, Festival Cervantino in Mexico, ISCM World Music Days, and at IRCAM, Paris. Since September 1998, Ms. Kimura has been teaching a graduate class in Computer Music Performance at The Juilliard School in New York City.
http://www.marikimura.com