String Theories: The String Orchestra of Brooklyn

Sat 17 Mar, 2012, 8pm
St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, 157 Montague Street, Brooklyn

String Theories is a joint partnership between ISSUE Project Room and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn designed to provide innovative artists with a unique opportunity to premiere new experimental works for string orchestra. For many of the selected artists, this is their first opportunity to work on this large a scale.  The March 17 concert features works by Anthony Coleman, C. Spencer Yeh, MV Carbon, and Eric Wubbels

Anthony Coleman is a composer-keyboardist who has performed and recorded throughout the world. His projects include the piano trio Sephardic Tinge, which has released three discs: Sephardic Tinge, Morenica, and Our Beautiful Garden Is Open (Tzadik) and has performed at the Sarajevo Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Saalfelden Festival, and the Krakow and Vienna Jewish Culture Festivals. His Selfhaters Orchestra has issued two CDs: Selfhaters and The Abysmal Richness of the Infinite Proximity of the Same (Tzadik).

C. Spencer Yeh (b. 1975, Taipei, Taiwan) moved to the US in 1980, studied radio/television/film at NorthwesternUniversity, lived in Cincinnati, Ohio for over a decade, and is now based in Brooklyn, New York. Yeh works as a solo artist and improviser, most notably with his project, Burning Star Core. He has collaborated with a variety of artists and groups, including Tony Conrad, New Humans with Vito Acconci, Evan Parker, Thurston Moore, Amy Granat with Jutta Koether, Okkyung Lee, Paul Flaherty and Chris Corsano, John Wiese, Nate Wooley, Wally Shoup, Don Dietrich and Ben Hall (as The New Monuments), Clare Cooper, Prurient, and Jandek. He has performed at festivals and venues such as Sonar, FIMAV at Victoriaville, Frieze Arts Fair, ISSUE Project Room, No Fun Fest, High Zero, the 24 Hour Drone People at Fylkingen, The Kitchen, and ZKM Karlsruhe.

Eric Wubbels (b. 1980) is a New York-based composer and performer. He is Executive Director, pianist, and a composer member of the Wet Ink Ensemble, a New York collective devoted to creating, promoting, and organizing adventurous contemporary music. Wubbels’s music has been presented at concerts and festivals in Europe, Asia and the U.S., by groups such as the Wet Ink Ensemble, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, ICE, Yarn/Wire, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (San Francisco), Manabe/Moriyama Duo (Japan), and The Knights String Orchestra. He has received commissioning grants from the American Composers Forum/Jerome Composers Commissioning Program, and the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, and his music has been recorded for the Quiet Design and Carrier Records labels.

MV Carbon is a Brooklyn-based musician and artist. Her work frequently involves tape machines, voice, cello, analog synthesizers, field recordings, along with hand-built electronics. She has recently been developing and performing new works which utilize physical computing and sensor-controlled synthesis. She has performed nationally and internationally with her solo work as well as in collaborations at spaces including Arnolfi (UK), ISSUE Project Room (NYC), Lehman Maupin Gallery (NYC), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Museum of Contemporary Art (Detroit), Nefertiti Jazz Club (Sweden), PS1 Contemporary Art (NYC), Roulette (NYC), The Sage (UK), The Stone (NYC), the Tate Modern (UK), and Tesla (Berlin).

Founded in 2007 by violinist and conductor Eli Spindel, (SOB) is a close-knit group of amateur and professional musicians coming together to explore the breadth of the string repertoire, from the concertos of Bach to the latest experimental works by emerging composers.

MV Carbon – if we could see out the tomb
Eric Wubbels – Being-Time
Anthony Coleman - Empfindsamer
C. Spencer Yeh - Logic 2

String Theories is made possible, in part, by generous support from Meet the Composer.