Darmstadt presents: Essential Repertoire
Darmstadt “Classics of the Avant Garde” music series is proud to announce its first-ever multi-performance curation at ISSUE Project Room from October 22 through the 26th. Entitled “Essential Repertoire,” its six performances are an initial attempt to accumulate a unique and expanding collection of cherished experimental music: from the New York School through the Minimalists, European approaches, and a number of electronic practices, alongside music’s connectivity to art, performance, and multimedia. Darmstadt’s curators encourage vivid interpretations of their favorite avant-garde works from the city’s liveliest composers and musicians.
Sunday, 26 October 2008
Contemporary Extended Vocal Technique: Jennifer Walshe with Object Collection
Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin. Her works have been performed throughout Europe, the US, and Canada by groups such as Alter Ego, Ensemble Récherche, Ensemble Resonanz, Apartment House, Ensemble Intégrales, Neue Vocalisten Stuttgart, the Crash Ensemble, ensemble ascolta, Champ d’Action, and the Rilke Ensemble. She has received commissions from RTÉ, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Sudwest Rundfunk (SWR), Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, the Project Arts Centre and the National Concert Hall, Ireland, as well as commission awards from the New Music Scheme of the Arts Council of Ireland and the Scottish Arts Council. In 2000 she won the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt; in July 2002 she returned to Darmstadt to lecture in composition. During 2004-2005 she lived in Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm. In 2007 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York. In addition to her activities as a composer, Jennifer Walshe frequently performs as a vocalist, specializing in extended techniques.
Jennifer Walshe: I: Same Person / II: Not the Same Person (2007)
Jennifer Walshe: Nature Data (2004)
The Dowager Marchylove: The Wasistas of Thereswhere (2008)
and a new composition by O’Brien Industries
Object Collection was founded in 2004 by director/writer/designer Kara Feely and composer/instrumentalist Travis Just as an interdisciplinary experimental performance group dedicated to new artistic work in hybrid forms. Based in New York City, the group presents original interdisciplinary performances, concerts, and curated performance series, collaborating with musicians, actors, and visual artists, and combining techniques and methodologies from different mediums. Their performances have been seen at the Ontological Theater, AMBUSH/Chez Bushwick, Experimental Intermedia, Brooklyn Fireproof, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn College, California Institute of the Arts among other venues in New York and abroad. Their work has been praised for its “rich imagery” and “dreamlike intimacy” (nytheatre.com), and has been described as “contemplative……highly conceptual” (Vital Weekly). Their new opera Problem Radical(s), written and directed by Kara Feely and composed by Travis Just, will premiere at Performance Space 122 in April 2009.
http://www.milker.org/personnel/walshe/walshe_bio.html
http://www.objectcollection.us
Presented in part by the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland in association with Culture Ireland.