Marina Rosenfeld & John King

Fri 07 Jul, 2006, 8pm
Old American Can Factory

Marina Rosenfeld is an artist, composer, and turntablist based in New York City. Her work straddles the worlds of music composition and improvisation, visual and sound art, photography, video and performance, and has taken many forms since she formed her first “orchestra” at the California Institute of the Arts in 1994. Marina’s work has appeared in a wide variety of contexts including the Whitney Biennial (2002), the Tate Modern Museum, Artists Space, Creative Time, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, & Mills College.

John King (guitar/electronics) has performed interactive computer music with the electronic music collectives unitygain and share at Galapogos and open air in NYC over the past four years. His commissions and collaborations include those for the Kronos Quartet; Bang On a Can All-Stars; the new string qurtet ETHEL; Red Orchestra; Albany Symphony/Dogs of Desire; and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He was Music Curator at the Kitchen from 1999-2003 and is currently on the Music Committee at MCDC. He’ll be performing with a new interface which combines composition, improvisation, and randomization.