A new bi-monthly series
An evening of recently commissioned chamber music, electronic sounds and abstract video with Zach Layton, Ray Sweeten and Jessica Pavone.
Ray Sweeten b.1975. In ‘98 he acquired a residency at Fabrica spa, Italy, where he collaborated with Michael Galasso (ECM), Robert Wilson, and Chieko Mori (Tzadik). He also produced music for MTV Japan and Italy, as well as Benetton, and performed frequently throughout Italy and Europe solo and with FabricaMusica. Ray moved to New York City in 2000, where he received the Van Lier Residency for experimental electronics and oscilloscope graphics. He was also a member of the Plantains, a multi-media synth-pop outfit, and released work on Suction Records, Kinetic Media, They Shoot Homos Don’t They, Ghostly, and Colette. Sweeten has performed and screened at The Kitchen, Monkey Town, Millennium Film Project, The New York Underground Film Festival, CinemaTexas, Liverpool Biennial, Pacific Film Archive, Chicago Filmmakers, Aurora Picture Show and Angel Orensantz.
www.raysweeten.com
New York native Jessica Pavone is a string instrumentalist and composer based in Brooklyn who holds degrees in viola performance, Europe and the United States with The AnthonyBraxton Sextet and Twelve+1tet and in a collaborative duo with Mary Halvorson (guitar, viola, and voice). She currently leads twoensembles; The Pavones and Quotidian and improvises in groups led byWilliam Parker, Taylor Ho Bynum, and Matana Roberts. She plays bass guitar with; Minnows, Christy and Emily, and Jason Cady and the Artificials. She has performed at a number of international music festivals including, The Banlieues Blues Festival in Paris, and All Tomorrows Parties in England. As a composer, she has received commissions to write chamber music for The Eastern Winds and Till by Turning. Since 2000, she has documented her music via her self-run label Peacock Recordings, which was recently awarded a grant from The AaronCopland Fund for Music Recording Program, and her growing discography and list of works can be witnessed via her web site,
www.jessicapavone.com.
Zach Layton is a composer, curator and new media artist based in New York with an interest in biofeedback, generative algorithms, experimental music, biomimicry and contemporary architectural practice. His work investigates complex relationships and topologies created through the interaction of simple core elements like sine waves, minimal surfaces and kinetic visual patterns. Zach’s work has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and he has performed and exhibited at the Kitchen, Roulette, Art Forum Berlin, the New York Electronic Art Festival, the St. Mark’s Ontological Hysterical Theater, Dumbo Arts Festival, New York Digital Salon, Monkeytown, and many other venues in New York and Europe. He has collaborated with Luke Dubois, Vito Acconci, Bradley Eros, Marissa Olsen, Angie Eng, Chika Ijima and Ray Sweeten among many other artists, filmmakers and musicians. Zach is also the curator of Brooklyn’s monthly experimental music series “darmstadt: classics of the avant garde” and is also co-curator of the PS1 warmup summer music series. He has received grants from the Netherlands America Foundation, Turbulance and the Jerome Foundation.
www.zachlaytonindustries.com
