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For over three decades, French composer
Eliane Radigue has been a leading figure in the field of
electronic music. Since 2004, she has focused exclusively
on acoustic compositions. At the center of this output is Naldjorlak,
a three-part work composed for and performed by Charles Curtis,
Carol Robinson, and Bruno Martinez (cello and basset horns).
Monumental in its scope, Naldjorlak explores a subtle,
delicate soundworld fashioned from breath, pulsation, beating,
murmurs, and radiant harmonics.
The concert is part of ISSUE’s Propensity of Sound:
New & Historic Works with Pauline Oliveros, Eliane
Radigue and Laurie Spiegel. Visit issueprojectroom.org for
details.
Eliane Radigue Bio
Eliane Radigue was born in Paris. She studied electroacoustic
music techniques at RTF under Pierre Shaeffer and Pierre
Henry, later becoming Henry's assistant at the Studio Apsome.
She has had residencies at the New York University School
of the Arts, at the University of Iowa, and at the California
Institute of the Arts. In 1975, Radigue became a disciple
of Tibetan Buddhism. After four years of study, she began
a large-scale cycle of works based on the life of the eleventh
century Tibetan master Milarepa. Three recordings of this
work, Songs of Milarepa, Jetsun Mila, and Mila's Joumey
Inspired By A Dream, have been released by Lovely Music.
Radigue's music has been performed throughout Europe and
the United States. She currently lives in France, where
she continues to compose electronic music and to study
the teachings of the Tibetan lamas.
Charles Curtis Bio
The cellist Charles Curtis performs a unique repertoire of
major solo works created expressly for him by La Monte
Young, Alvin Lucier, Éliane Radigue and Alison Knowles,
rarely-heard compositions by Terry Jennings and Richard
Maxfield, and works by Cardew, Wolff, Feldman and Cage.
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's four-hour long solo
composition, Just Charles and Cello in the Romantic Chord,
has been heard in Paris, Berlin, Lyon, New York, Dijon,
Polling and Bologna. Éliane Radigue's recent Naldjorlak
for solo cello has received over thirty performances worldwide
and, as part of a new trilogy, was premiered in the Auditorium
of the Musée du Louvre last October. Lucier's compositions
for Curtis include music for cello and piano, cello and
sine waves, and solo cello with large orchestra. A former
faculty member at Princeton University, and for eleven
years the first solo cellist of the NDR Symphony Orchestra
in Hamburg, Curtis is now professor for contemporary music
performance at the University of California, San Diego,
and tours and records internationally. In the Bavarian
village of Polling Curtis performs and teaches every summer
in the Regenbogenstadl, a space devoted to the work of
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. His performances in
recent seasons have taken him to the Guggenheim in New
York, the CAPC in Bordeaux, the Galerie Renos Xippas in
Paris, the MaerzMusik Festival in Berlin, Dundee Contemporary
Arts, the Kampnagelfabrik in Hamburg, the Emily Harvey
Foundation in New York, as well as Chicago, Ferrara, Austin,
Los Angeles and Harvard University. He continues to perform
and record the traditional repertoire for cello, both as
soloist and as artistic director of the chamber music project
Camera Lucida.
Bruno Martinez Bio
Bruno Martinez was born on September 13th, 1963 in Maubeuge,
France. Principal Bass Clarinetist at the Paris Opera since
1992, he has performed with conductors such as Pierre Boulez,
Seiji Ozawa, Charles Dutoit, Kurt Sanderling, Myung Wung
Chung, Armin Jordan, Georges Prêtre, James Conlon,
Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Witold Lutoslawski, Yehudi Menuhin,
Valery Gergiev, Esa Pekka Salonen, Bernhard Haitink, Semyon
Byshkov, and Christoph von Dohnanyi. Bruno Martinez appears
as soloist and chamber musician in France and worldwide.
Between 1996 and 1998, Bruno Martinez was the Principal
Bass Clarinetist with the Lucerne (Switzerland) and Aix
en Provence International Festival Orchestras. He has premiered
several contemporary works. He is also active in feature
film recordings among which as clarinet and basset horn
soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra for "Alice et
Martin" de A.Téchiné.
Carol Robinson Bio
Composer and clarinetist, Carol Robinson has a multifaceted
musical life. Equally at ease in the classical and experimental
realms, she performs in major concert halls and international
festivals (Wien Modern, RomaEuropa, MaerzMusik, Huddersfield,
Archipel, Musica, Musica Contemporanea, etc.). In addition
to working closely with composers, she pursues the new
in more alternative contexts, collaborating with video
artists, photographers, and musicians from diverse horizons.
Improvisation is her passion. Carol Robinson plays all
types and sizes of clarinets, including more exotic instruments
such as the Lithuanian birbyne. She began composing by
writing for her own music theater productions, subsequently
receiving commissions for concert pieces, installations,
radio, dance and film productions. Her works often combine
acoustic sounds with electronics, and her musical aesthetic
is strongly influenced by a fascination for aleatoric systems.
Particularly interested in dance, she has collaborated
with choreographers Susan Buirge, Nadège MacLeay,
Thierry Niang, François Verret, and Young Ho Nam.
In 2008, she was awarded a composition fellowship from
the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbertide, Italy. Her
works have been recorded by the Hessischer Rundfunk, Saarlandischer
Rundfunk, Lithuanian National Radio, and Radio France.
A CD of her composition Billows, for clarinets and live
electronics, was released by PLUSH in 2009. Other recent
releases include solo monograph recordings of music by
Giacinto Scelsi, Morton Feldman, Luigi Nono, and Luciano
Berio for MODE, Phil Niblock for TOUCH as well as classical
music and jazz for SYRIUS, BTL and NATO. A DVD of the aleatoric
musical system Cross-Currents is currently in production
for the label Shiiin, with support from IRCAM. Carol Robinson
was born in the United States and graduated from the Oberlin
Conservatory. After receiving a H.H. Wooley grant to study
in Paris, she settled in France.
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Ticket Price
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Members $15
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Venue
ISSUE
Project Room
110 Livingston St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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