Bay Area voice/electronics artist Neuburg performs with special guest Smythe on piano and electronics, in a concert of duets and solo works at Brooklyn's hottest new venue.
AMY X NEUBURG & CORY SMYTHE will perform this one-time-only collaboration on Tuesday December 13, 2011 at 8:00 PM at the brand new Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue (at 3rd Avenue) in Brooklyn, NY (2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, G, D, M, N, R, B & Q trains and the LIRR). Tickets are $15 ($10 students/seniors/members) and can be purchased at
www.roulette.org or by calling (917) 267-0363. NOTE: At the end of this release, please find information about Amy X Neuburg's additional upcoming NYC performances, on November 11th and 28th.
The evening will consist of new compositions for voice, piano and live electronics, improvisational duets, and solos from Amy and Cory -- including Amy's spirited ‘avant-cabaret' songs for voice and drum-controlled looping, and works from Cory's recent release "Pluripotent" for piano with live processing.
Amy and Cory met in June 2011 where they performed with the venerable Present Music Ensemble in Milwaukee, and Cory premiered Amy's "When" for live-looped piano and voice -- a fully scored song in which both performers are recorded in real time, then instantly played back and layered in interlocking parts. Amy's evocative, haunting "When," which uses few words to sum up nearly a whole life, was paired with her 2001 voice and piano piece "What he Was" -- a clever, tongue-twisting wordplay exercise that uses many words to say very little. Links to music samples and photos of Amy and Cory are at www.petermcdowell.com/amyx.
At Roulette Amy and Cory will recreate this duet of songs as well as present new compositions for voice, piano and electronics -- partly composed and partly improvised, and created by both artists expressly for this concert. In addition, Amy will perform several of her classic "avant-cabaret" solo songs for voice with electronic drums and live looping/processing, and Cory will perform selections from his recently released "Pluripotent" recording of solo piano works with electronic processing, about which composer Jason Moran said: "The music is captivating, and hands down one of the best solo recordings I've ever heard."
ABOUT THE ARTISTS (full performer bios are available through web site links)
Amy X Neuburg (
www.amyxneuburg.com) is widely considered one of the most innovative practitioners of voice and live electronics performance working today. She calls her style "avant-cabaret," as it combines theater and wordplay, intricate multi-layered composition, expressive use of music technology (with emphases on drums and live looping), and exploration of multiple genres using the many colors of her 4-octave vocal range -- with lyrics ranging from the personal and poignant to the political and downright outrageous. Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle calls Amy "A wonderful composer-performer," whose "songs channel the rhythms of urban life through the seriocomic sensibility of a born entertainer."
As soloist Amy has performed at Other Minds, Bang on a Can, the Berlin International Poetry Festival, the Wellington and Christchurch Jazz Festivals (NZ), the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, electronic music festivals, colleges, clubs, and concert halls at home and abroad. As composer/collaborator, commissions include numerous works for ensembles with and without live electronics (recently Present Music, Robin Cox Ensemble, Pacific Mozart Ensemble chorus, Del Sol String Quartet), as well as for theater, visual media, and modern dance, and she performs regularly with her Cello ChiXtet -- three cellists with voice and electronics -- for whom she composed her formidable song cycle "The Secret Language of Subways" (Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco Symphony After-Hours, LA Philharmonic Left Coast Festival). As vocalist Amy toured Europe and Japan with Robert Ashley's operas. Among her many grants and honors she is a 2011 recipient of the Alpert/Ucross prize. A fixture of the San Francisco Area new music scene, this will be Amy's fourth appearance at Roulette -- her favorite place to play in New York. Watch videos of Amy at
www.youtube.com/amyxneuburg.
Pianist Cory Smythe (
www.corysmythe.com) is an inventive improviser, chamber musician, and performer of contemporary classical music. As a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, Cory has contributed to numerous premieres, worked with composers Philippe Hurel, Dai Fujikura, Magnus Lindberg, Kaija Saariaho, Mathias Pintscher,
David Lang, and
Alvin Lucier among many others, and performed in venues across the U.S. and abroad. His recent performance of solo piano music by Lindberg was praised by the Boston Globe for its "grace and intensity," and a forthcoming recording by ICE (Mode Records) will feature Cory as soloist in Iannis Xenakis's "Palimpsest." Equally invested in the classical repertoire, Cory is a sought-after chamber musician and soloist, appearing with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, violinist Hilary Hahn, and Present Music, and making his Carnegie Weill Hall debut with violinist Sung-Ju Lee. As an improviser and jazz musician, Cory has worked with the Greg Osby Four, Pete Robbins' Centric, Tyshawn Sorey,
Peter Evans, Beth Schenk, Kyle Quass, and Anthony Braxton. Listen to Cory's music at www.corysmythe.bandcamp.com
OTHER UPCOMING AMY X NEUBURG PERFORMANCES IN NYC:
Friday November 11, 8:00 PM
Todd Reynolds, Amy X Neuburg, thingNY, and Joey Molinaro celebrate 11/11/11
Exapno (
www.exapno.org)
33 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn
$5 to $15 sliding scale donation
Presented by The Super Coda (Valerie Kuehne)
More info: valeriekuehne@gmail.com
Monday November 28, 8:30 PM
Amy X Neuburg in solo performance
Cornelia Street Café (
www.corneliastreetcafe.com)
29 Cornelia St., New York
$10
Classical at the Cornelia concert series, presented by Jed Distler
More info: jdistler@composerscollab.org
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