Friday, January 6
Al Margolis was one of the prime movers in the legendary cassette underground scene of the 1980s (between 1984 and 1991 his Sound Of Pig label released over 300 cassettes of music by the likes of Merzbow, Costes, Amy Denio, John Hudak and Jim O'Rourke) and is the éminence grise behind twenty years of music under the name If, Bwana. He is the man behind the Pogus label, as well as label manager for Deep Listening, XI Records, and Mutable Music. He has recorded and/or performed with Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Joan Osborne, Adam Bohman, Ellen Christi, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jane Scarpantoni, Ulrich Krieger, David First, Dave Prescott, Hal McGee, Sarah Weaver, Hudson Valley Soundpainting Ensemble, and Amoeba (Raft) Boy, among others.
Katherine Liberovskaya is a Canadian video and media artist based in Montreal and New York. She has been working predominantly in experimental video since the late eighties. Over the years, she has produced many single-channel videos and video installation works which have been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues and events around the world. She has performed lived video mixing with a number of music/sound artists including: o.blaat, Toshio Kajiwara, Shelley Hirsch, David Watson, Margarida Garcia, Barry Weisblat, Vortex (Satoshi Takeishi + Shoko Nagai), Mary Halvorson, Hans Tammen, Tiziana Bertoncini, Thomas Lehn, Urkuma, Angelica Castellò, Micheal Delia, Antonio Della, Marina, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi, Martine Crispo, TV Pow, Boris Hauf, Matt Pass, Richard Geret, Gil Sanson, Gill Arno, Ben Owen, André Gonçalves...
Monique Buzzarté, trombonist/composer, is an avid proponent of contemporary music, commissioning and premiering many new works for trombone alone, with electronics, and in chamber ensembles in addition to her own compositions. Ms. Bussarté's recordings include Zanana's Holding Patterns (Deep Listening 30), John Cage's Five3 with the Arditti Quartet (Mode 75: John CAGE: Vol. 19 - The Number Pieces 2), and Dreaming Wide Awake with the New Circle Five (Deep Listening 20); forthcoming from Townhall Records is Sorrel Hays' Wake Up and Dream. Since 1983 her New Music from Women: Trombone project has supported the expansion of the trombone repertoire. An author and educator as well as a performer/composer, Ms. Buzzarté has published research on the brass music of women composers and received residencies in 2003 at Create@iEAR Studios and in 2002 at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts for the development of an interactive performance system for the trombone. Her advocacy work for women in music included coordinating efforts which led to the admission of women members into the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1997. Ms. Buzzarté is certified to teach the meditative improvisation practices of Deep Listening.