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HARD WOOD: Daxophone Consort with Daniel Fishkin, Cleek Schrey & Ron Shalom - Feat. Judith Berkson and a new commission by Alvin Lucier
Saturday, March 30th, ISSUE presents composers and instrumentalists Daniel Fishkin, Cleek Schrey, and Ron Shalom, staging the U.S.'s only extant daxophone consort. The daxophone is a thin wooden strip played with a bow, which was created by the German improviser/inventor Hans Reichel in 1987. The instruments sound, somewhere between a cello and badger, ranges from furtive gurgles and delicate whistles to wild screams.
Drawing on backgrounds in instrument building, theater, costume, and traditional music, the trio develops realizations of historical experimental music and creates new compositions out of a shared improvisational grammar. Past collaborators have included Ellen Fullman, music theorist Mack Hagood, and the LeStrange Viols. In 2015 they performed at Dublins Science Gallery as part of Trauma: Built to Break, an exhibition on art and trauma. In 2016 they participated in Fishkins ambitious series of concerts in Philadelphia, supported by The Pew Center, which posed the question What is Tinnitus Music?
At ISSUE, the group will collaborate with NYC experimental vocalist and composer Judith Berkson. The concert will also feature the premiere of a new commission, HARD WOOD, for daxophones by the esteemed experimental composer Alvin Lucier (performed as a quartet with Trevor Saint)
Daniel Fishkins ears are ringing. Composer, sound artist, and instrument builder. Completely ambivalent about music. Daniel studied with composer Maryanne Amacher and with multi-instrumentalist Mark Stewart. He has performed as a soloist on modular synthesizer with the American Symphony Orchestra, developed sound installations in abandoned concert halls, and played innumerable basement punk shows. Daniels lifework investigating the aesthetics of hearing damage has received international press (Nature Journal, 2014); as an ally in the search for a cure, he has been awarded the title of tinnitus ambassador by the Deutsche Tinnitus-Stiftung. Recent activities include Composing the Tinnitus Suites: 2016, taking place in Philadelphia, PA, supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Daniel received his MA in Music Composition from Wesleyan University, has taught analog synthesis at Bard College. After a stint working toward his PhD at University of California, San Diego, Daniel returned to the East Coast, and now lives in Queens, NY.
Cleek Schrey is fiddler, improviser, and composer from Virginia, now based in NYC. Recent engagements include the Big Ears Festival (TN), the Kilkenny Arts Festival (IR), SuperSense Festival of the Ecstatic (Aus). Frequent collaborators include the electronic music pioneer David Behrman, the viol da gamba player Liam Byrne, and the traditional fiddle icon Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh. The journal Sound Post has noted that Cleek possesses a rare combination of traits: deep respect for traditional music and the people who make it, and an unbounded curiosity about new directions for sound. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies in Music Composition at Princeton University.
Ron Shalom is a producer, composer, instrumentalist and theater maker. Minivan is his electropop project featuring custom lights, instructional dance and disintegrating drag. Fers Yn Ri is the ensemble dedicated to his baroque death pop. He studied music and linguistics at Oberlin College and Conservatory and completed his masters in composition at Wesleyan University, where he also directed the erstwhile Cult of the Illuminated Orifice, an amateur performance troupe that probed public life with theatrical interventions such as the Mobile Colonoscopy Clinic. Solo artist residencies include the Atlantic Center for the Arts and Rhizome DC. As part of a composer's collective with Daniel Fishkin and Cleek Schrey, residencies include Harvestworks, Princeton University, with support from The Pew Center at The Rotunda, and forthcoming at the Watermill Center.
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LocationISSUE Project Room (View)
22 Boerum Place
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States
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