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Subtropics (infiltrate 3.0/bbc action) ... in the belly of the beast of academia
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Thursday, March 22, 2001 . 6 pm
Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Dr, Miami Beach
$15-$10
SUBTROPICS
Miami's experimental music festival opens its
13th edition with its classic marathon
Despite the superstition surrounding the number thirteen our local
composers
are defiant - an indefatigable and steadfast lot. At the Subtropics
Marathon the atmosphere is relaxed. Come listen...step out and get a
snack...come back in...three hours of pure musical irreverence by Florida
based artists.
Featuring: Julio Roloff, David Font, Kristine Burns, Sony Mao, Needle,
Armando Rodriguez, Ileana Perez Velazquez, Francis Schwatz, George Tegzes,
Alfredo Triff, Robert Constable & other members of Tampa based BONK...
Highlights include
. The randomly patterned electronic microsounds of Needle and Sony Mao.
. Short Wave Fantasy - an audio/video collage by David Font.
. Spectrum - a performance for Galician Bag Pipes by Armando Rodriguez
. Yoruba, Celia - two new works from Ileana Perez Velazquez
. And much much more.
About the artists
Khristine Burns
Kristine Burns is the director of the Electronic Music Studios of the
Florida International University School of Music. As the owner and editor
of WOW'EM, Women on the WebElectron Media
(http://music.drtmouth.edu/~wowem), Kristine designed and implemented a
web
site intended for young women with interests in the media arts as well as
science, math or computers. Her intermedia compositions have been
performed
throughout the United States, canada, and Europe, including the
international Congress of Women in Music (Vienna), the FUTURA Festival
(Drome, France), SEAMUS and SCI Conferences, The Bowling Green State
University of New Music and Art, and the California State University at
Los
Angeles Computer Music Festival.
Robert Constable
Since 1993, Robert Constable has been the director of the Slavin
Electronic
Studio at New College of USF. He received a BA from University of South
Florida, Masters and Ph.D. work at the Eastman School of Music, where he
held the position of Co-administrator of the Electronic/Computer Music
Studio. He studied with Samuel Adler, Hilton Jones, David Liptak, Robert
Morris, Joseph Schwantner. In 1986, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to
study with György Ligeti in Hamburg, Germany. He is a co-founder of the IN
YOUR EAR New Music Festival in Rochester NY, and a Vice-president of the
BONK Festival of New Music. His compositions employ recursive and
iterative
algorithms and mappings of extra-musical systems into unique
instrumentations, with an emphasis on computer generated/processed music.
He
has been experimenting in the computer analysis and re-synthesis of
intuitive writing, and has described himself as 'trying to compose music
that will cause genetic changes in the listener.' He also composes small
(anti-)theater pieces which have been described as "twisted commentaries
on
music, life, love and bodily functions. Since 1993, Constable has been
adjunct professor of music and director of the Slavin Electronic Music
Studio at New College of University of South Florida. His rock/pop band
Handshake Squad is currently recording their second album.
David Font
David Font is a multi-instrumentalist and folklorist, who explores musical
relationships between ancient traditions and modern aesthetics. As a
member
of the "io project" David is attempting to further the legacy of
innovative
"world" musicians such as Don Cherry, where a wide range of artists
integrates non-Western classical music and develops new forms. Currently
David Font is collaborating with dancer/choreographer Shirley Julien (as
part of the Here and Now Festival 2001), as is working with poet Adrian
Castro, and Alfredo Triff to continue an interdisciplinary body of work
that
explores some of the most elemental connections between humans and sound.
"io" has performed recently at the Roots and Culture Festival, the Living
Room, organized the Roots Lab at the Meza Art Gallery, the Miami Art
Museum,
Artemis, and Words and Music. David participated as a member of Furakan
Caribe with Lukas Ligeti in last year's SUBTROPICS Millenium Project and
has
performed with Needle, Iroko and Ife-Ile Afro-Cuban Dance Theaters, Albita
Rodriguez, Eddie "Gua Gua" Rivera, Rivers of Time, Satellite Lounge, The
Baboons, Conjunto
Progreso, and Ezequiel Torres Bata Group.
Needle and Sony Mao
Needle and Sony Mao are two shadowy figures operating out of Miami and
Lima. They
are
reputed to be linked to local composer Xx Xxxx. Needle composes randomly
patterned, electronic music, based upon the spectral analysis of
microscopic
fissures residing in the grooves and on the surfaces of closely examined,
vinyl phonographic recordings. It is not altogether clear what Sony Mao's
role is but we do know that in the past twelve months both Sony Mao and
Needle have performed together at various underground clubs throughout
Europe and in North America, including an event in September 2000 at New
York's -The Knitting Factory.
Ileana Perez Velazquez
Ileana Perez Velazquez is a cuban composer. She earned a DM in music
composition from the School of Music of Indiana University in May, 2000.
She
completed her Master\'s degree in Electroacoustic Music from Dartmouth
College in 1995. She is a graduate of music composition and piano from the
Instituto Superior de Artes (ISA), Havana, Cuba, 1989. Her music has been
presented in International Festivals and concerts in Cuba, Colombia,
Venezuela, United States, Spain, and Hungary. She received several
national
composition awards in her natal country. She has received a 2000 Cintas
Fellowship in composition. She is currently an Assistant Professor of
Composition at Williams College.
Armando Rodriguez
Cuban composer Armando Rodriguez, studied guitar and music theory at the
National School of Arts in Havana, Cuba, and served in the same school as
professor of guitar and composition. In 1978, he received the Cuban
National
Artists and Writers Musical Composition Award. His music was thoroughly
performed in Cuba by performers and ensembles, including the National
Symphony Orchestra and the Cuban National Ballet. Rodriguez has resided in
the U.S. since 1985. He received an Individual Artist Fellowship Award
from
the State of Florida in 1991. His music has been performed by such renown
artists as pianist Max Lifchitz and Beatriz Balzi, guitarists Flores
Chaviano and Carlos Molina, double basist Luis Gomez-Imbert and the
Relache
Ensemble, and in such events as the Bang on a Can Festival in New York,
Subtropics in Miami, Los Primera Jornadas de Musica Contemporenea de
Sevilla, the Sao Paulo Bienal, and the Latin-American and Caribbean Music
forums. His work has been broadcast in the US, Canada, Europe and Latin
America.
David Rogers
A native of Atlanta, Georgia, David Rogers has been a core Bonk artist
since
1994. He holds a B.M. and Ph.D. in composition from the Eastman School of
Music and completed a Masters degree at New York University; his teachers
have included Robert Morris, David Liptak, Louis Karchin, Samuel Adler,
and
some Pulitzer-Prize-winning composers. He has performed on a number of
instruments (including horn, accordion, piano and guitar) with such
diverse
artists as Handshake Squad, Florence Henderson, the Eastman Philharmonia,
Earle Brown, and the Redlands Y Circus Band. Currently living in Tampa,
Rogers works as a freelance composer and music editor and teaches at the
University of South Florida.
Julio Roloff
Julio Roloff is a graduate of Havana's Instituto Superior de Arte. Before
his arrival in the US Julio was one of Cuba's leading composers and
intellectuals. For years, as Professor of Harmony, Counterpoint and
Orchestration at the National School of Music in Havana, Julio had a vital
role to play in producing and promoting much of Cuba's modern music. He
has
traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Americas where his
compositions have been presented and where he was an agent for the
cultural
exchange of ideas.
George Tegzes
George Tegzes is a sound artist and maker of electronic instruments living
in the Florida Keys. In a recent statement he summarizes his intentions.
"Synthesis offers a unique opportunity to sculpt sounds in a continuous
way
that is almost as free as a voice. The art of electronic synthesis turned
away from that freedom early in its beginnings. Trying to emulate
traditional instruments and playing methods, and not taking advantage of
the
new paths available. To achieve what I wanted I went back to the simple
oscillators, filters and controls. I reassessed the designs as
instruments
in their own right, as playable circuits, with no attempt to sound like
anything else. I work in the analog domain where infinite variety is
possible, and various controls interact. It is not commonly allowed in a
synthesizer design commercially for there to be a control setting where
there is silence or a crashing noise, but eliminating those possibilities
carries the price of losing those subtle sounds on the edge of each
extreme.
Imagine a violin programmed only to allow the designer's ideas of a good
sound out. That is the state of commercial design. The analog world also
frees us from the machine-like beat of the microprocessor. Analog allows
patterns that occilate around chaotic attractors in patterns unimaginable
in
complexity."
Alfredo Triff
Alfredo Triff, a Miami based composer and violinist, holds a Ph.D in
philosophy from the University of Miami. He has played, recorded or
collaborated with such musicians as Hanrahan, Nono, Leo Brower, Reissler,
Don Pullen, Eddie Palmieri, and Sting, among others. He teaches philosophy
at Miami Dade Community College and is the Visual Arts critic for the
Miami
New Times.
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