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| Jane Shaw |
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Jane Shaw's (Composer, Sound Designer) sound design credits include Monster with Michael Greif, In the Penal Colony with Joanne Akalaitis, Romola & Nijinski (Deux Mariages) at Primary Stages, Big Dance Theater's Girl Gone, Simple Heart, Shunkin, Another Telepathic Thing, and Mac Wellman's Antigone at Dance Theater Workshop. Other favorites include: Machinal, Bloody Poetry, Silence (Synapse Productions), 8/124 (Will Knapp), Antony and Cleopatra and Lucky Chance with the Queen's Company, Firecracker with Michael Mao, and an ongoing collaboration with Capital Rep in Albany. Shaw has been the sound engineer for Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Susan Marshall, Richard Daniels, PerksDanceMusicTheatre and Lucinda Childs. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a native of Lawrence, Kansas.
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| David Lang |
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David Lang (Composer) is co-founder and co-artistic director of New York's legendary music festival, Bang on a Can, and Composer-in-Residence at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He has composed sections of Susan Marshall's Sleeping Beauty, as well as full scores for Marshall's The Descent Beckons, and The Most Dangerous Room in the House, the latter for which he received a Bessie Award. Recent projects include the amplified orchestra piece The Passing Measures; The Difficulty of Crossing a Field - an opera for the Kronos Quartet with libretto by Mac Wellman and direction by Carey Perloff; the opera Modern Painters about the curious and tragic life of art critic John Ruskin; the evening-length piano solo Psalms without Words, and the comic book opera The Carbon Copy Building, with cartoonist Ben Katchor, Bob McGrath and the Ridge Theater, and composers Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe. Lang holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of Iowa, and received his doctorate from the Yale School of Music in 1989. He has studied with Jacob Druckman, Hans Werner Henze and Martin Bresnick. His work is recorded on the Sony Classical, BMG, Point, Chandos, Argo/Decca, CRI and Cantaloupe labels. Lang's music is published by Red Poppy (ASCAP) and distributed by G. Schirmer, Inc.
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| Annie Gosfield |
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Annie Gosfield (Composer) is based in downtown New York. Her music has been performed worldwide by her own ensemble and by The Bang on a Can Allstars, Newband/The Harry Partch instruments, Agon Orchestra, The West Australian Symphony Orchestra New Music Group, FLUX Quartet, Raw Fish Quartet, Silesian String Quartet, Rova, Present Music, Zeitgeist, cellists Joan Jeanrenaud and Felix Fan, and many others, at festivals including Warsaw Autumn, ISCM World Music Days, The Bang on a Can Marathon, The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Festival Musique Actuelle in Victoriaville, Wien Modern, OtherMinds, Company Week, and three "Radical New Jewish Culture" festivals curated by John Zorn. Her discography includes two solo releases on the Tzadik label, and CD's on Sony Classical, CRI, Harmonia Mundi, Wergo, Caprice, Cantaloupe, Rift, EMF, Innova, Atavistic, ORF, and Starkland.
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| Danny Blume |
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Danny Blume (Composer/Musician). Liminal's founder, Danny Blume, is known for both his innovative, signature guitar work, and for electronica honed to live performance and instrumental in scope. He has worked with such composers as Eve Beglarian—including a commissioned piece for the dance company That Was Fast (choreographed by Karen Perlman and Richard Allen), and Uri Cain (most recently Blume was commissioned by Cain to write and perform a modern electronic version of Bach's The Goldberg Variations). Blume has also worked closely with composers Zeena Parkins, Randall Woolf and John Zorn, and abstract filmmaker Bill Morrison. His vast performance and recording roster includes the Lounge Lizards, Felix Da Housecat, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, John Cale, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Jill Sobule and Chocolate Genius. Together with Chris Kelly, he comprises the production team GoodandEvil, based in their studio of the same name.
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| Liminal |
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Well known for performances in New York and abroad, Liminal is an electronic/live hybrid; a music-making mandroid founded and maintained by Danny Blume. Liminal is known for its blazing live sets – Blume and Chris Kelly focus on samples, live looping, and dub-style mixing, while Ben Perowsky plays acoustic drums and electric percussion trigger rig. Their powerful, groove-driven body music evokes sonic bliss and a new tribal spirit. Liminal has gone through multiple incarnations over the years. With its original members Blume, DJ Olive and Loop, Liminal composed an all-new score for F.W. Murnau's classic film of 1922, Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror. They toured Europe and the USA performing live with the film including gigs at the Rotterdam Film Festival. They secured a regular spot at the Knitting Factory's Tap Room, which was transformed into the legendary Liminal Lounge every Monday night for three years. Two CDs from that period (Nosferatu, Liminal Lounge-Preset) were released on Knitting Factory Works. Currently, Blume and Kelly own and operate the notorious recording studio GoodandEvil in Brooklyn, NY. Their clients and collaborators include WE ™, Roni Size, DJ Logic, The B-52's, Elysian Fields, Dave Douglas, Eve Beglarian, Foetus, DJ Olive, Medeski Martin Wood, Sex Mob, Brad Roberts (Crash Test Dummies), Marc Ribot, Atau Tanaka, Bobby Previte, Zeena Parkins, Christina Wheeler, Harriet Tubman, Ben Perowsky, Mark Helias, Jim Black, just to name a few.
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| Peter Whitehead |
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Peter Whitehead (Composer) is an instrument builder, performer, songwriter, and composer . His instruments are often based on folk instruments from around the world, and feature unusual or found materials in place of traditional ones, (e.g. a banjo made from a metal pan).The instruments have appeared in exhibitions at The Oakland Museum ('97), The L.A. Municipal Museum of Art ('97) the Vancouver Museum ('98), The Yerba Buena Center For The Arts San Francisco ('99) and the ODC Theater Gallery ('00). He creates scores and performs solo work using these instruments and is a member of Closer To Carbon, a trio featuring bass, cello, spike fiddles, sampler, percussion, toys and an array of conventional, invented & found instruments.
He was a founder-member of the critically acclaimed Mobius Operandi performance group, known for its spectacular large-scale multi-media events. In this ensemble he functioned as musician, actor and musical director. (Exit Vacaville '95/96, Xibalba,'97).
He is also an original member of the Conspiracy of Beards, a 30-member, all-male choir which performs exclusively the songs of Leonard Cohen.
His film scores include The Key of G ( Robert Arnold ( '06), Following Sean ( Ralph Arlick '04) City of Ghosts (Matt Dillon '02), 24 Girls & China Diary (Eva Brzeski '97 & '02), Fortune Tell (Robert Strauss '95), Shift (Maxine Moerman '97) and the theme music for the San Francisco International Film Festival ('97).
He has composed several full length scores for dance, including Giselle (Underbelly Dance Theater '94), Come Live With Me and You'll Know Me (Rachel Kaplan '97), The Tree of Life ( Michelle Stortz '97), dear (Maxine Moerman '96), Red Tuba (Charles Moulton '98). Anna Halprin Turns 80 ('00) and Monk at the Met /Feast of Souls (Sarah Shelton Mann '00 - '03 , with Norman Rutherford), Just Dancing ( Jess Curtis &
Gravity '06)
His recorded music appears on four solo CDs entitled Three Bags Full (Strange Attractor Records '98) "Now This", Giselle and "Under the Gun" - ('01, '03, '06 - Out of Round Records), with the group Closer To Carbon ( Out Of Round '01 & '07), with Mobius Operandi on the CD What Were We Thinking (Mobius Music '98) and in the Ellipsis Arts CD/book of experimental musical instrument builders Orbitones Spoonharps & Bellowphones ('98).
With a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, he wrote and directed "The Mission Is Not Impossible"( ODC Theater '00), a full length work of songs and readings about life in San Francisco's Mission District at the turn of the century., which due to critical acclaim was remounted in 2001.
His music and sound installation appeared in 'Tilt ' , a collaboration with Lauren Elder and Oliver Di Cicco at Zeum, San Francisco ('99).
Other musical collaborations include 'Vinculum Symphony' ( with Beth Custer and a 30 piece classical/jazz/original instrument orchestra, '99), 'Survival Part 1 &2 - Monk at the Met'( directed by Sarah Shelton Mann, with Norman Rutherford musical director, '00 -01) and 'Below Zero' (directed by Kim Epifano with Elaine Buckholtz musical director, '01).
He has traveled extensively in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, Viet Nam, Malaysia, Indonesia & Morocco collecting music and instruments along the way.
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