Tribeca New Music Continues its 2017 Festival Season with HITCHCOCK ETUDES and KUBIRCK ETUDES
By: BWW News Desk Apr. 13, 2017
Tribeca New Music continues its 2017 Festival season with doubleheader New York premieres featuring Canadian composer Nicole Lizée's Hitchcock and Kubrick Etudes for video, electronics, and piano performed by pianist Kathleen Supové, and LA-based composer Ian Dicke as he premieres his Cowboy Rounds for piano, voice, and electronics. The concert takes place at Nancy Manocherian's - the cell, 338 West 23rd Street (bet. 8th & 9th Ave.) in NYC, on Sunday, April 23 at 4PM. Tickets range in price from $15 to $30. For details and to buy tickets, please go to Tribeca New Music.
Hitchcock Etudes & Kubirck Etudes by Nicole Lizée
Nicole Lizée - Called a "brilliant musical scientist" and lauded for "creating a stir with listeners for her breathless imagination and ability to capture Gen-X and beyond generation", Montreal based composer and video artist Nicole Lizée creates new music and video from an eclectic mix of influences including the earliest MTV videos, turntablism, rave culture, glitch, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Lynch, and 1960s psychedelia. For more info go to www.nicolelizee.com.
Hitchcock Études and Kubrick Études are volumes 1 and 2 of the The Criterion Collection: a series of glitch-based pieces that delve into the worlds of iconic films and filmmakers - each with a unique cinematic style - that have made a marked impact on her aesthetic, forming an idiosyncratic exploration into the marriage of glitch and concert music. The premise is centered around her ongoing preoccupation with the fallibility of media. Technology has the potential to fail and can fail in spectacular ways, creating fascinating sounds and visuals. How to capture and replicate those beautiful mistakes?
Each work is constructed around damaged and deconstructed audio and video from Specific Films from the auteur's canon. The resulting errors and imperfections are woven together to create a sonic landscape over which accompanying piano material - itself emulating the traits of broken or malfunctioning media - is performed live.
Cowboy Rounds by Ian Dicke
Ian Dicke (b. 1982) is a composer inspired by social-political culture and interactive technology. Praised for his "refreshingly well-structured" (Feast of Music) and "uncommonly memorable" (Sequenza 21) catalogue of works, Dicke currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of California, Riverside. His music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles and festivals around the world, including the New World Symphony, Alarm Will Sound, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, ISCM World New Music Days, and the Atlantic Coast Center Band Director's Association. For more information, please visit www.iandicke.com.
Cowboy Rounds reexamines oral tradition and ownership through the lens of today's internet-driven free culture movement. The folk recordings within the Lomax archive do not represent a final, unchangeable document, but rather a snapshot of each song, unique to its time, place, and performer. The lack of copyright in these field recordings invites current and future generations of musicians to continue developing the songs, either through digital manipulation of the recorded material itself or reconstructing elements of the recording through live performance. In that sense, Cowboy Rounds is a work deliberately caught between the ideological constructs of permanence and ephemera while building an intersection between new technologies and old traditions.
Coming up this season on the Tribeca New Music 2016-2017 Festival
• May 24: Wunderkammern - The Secret Life of Objects: (NYC premiere) A film by Erika Suderberg with live music by Eleonor Sandresky
• June 11: Ben Russel and The Founders: The Poe Song Cycle (World premiere), with new works from the 2017 Young Composer Competition
Videos