Friday, Feb. 12th

I’ll be playing with a group of electro-acoustic composer-performers at Ibeam Brooklyn.

Traditional instruments (saxophone, trumpet, guitar, etc.) and
Slovakian folk instruments such as fujara and sheep bells with electronics.
Some improv, some compositions, a lot of good music

@ Ibeam Music
Brooklyn, New York
8:30 pm $10 suggested

Ignite a Noise presents: Slov-Core

fujara player

Juraj Kojs: fujara, sheep bells, electronics
Michael Straus: saxophones
Andrew Greenwald: percussion and electronics
Scott Petersen: guitar, electronics + homemade electronics
Brian Kane: electronics + homemade electronics
Paula Matthusen: electronics
Rich Johnson: trumpet + laptop

Juraj Kojs:
Juraj Kojs is a performer, composer, producer, and educator. He is a Postdoctoral Associate in Music Technology and Multimedia Art at Yale’s Department of Music. In May 2008, Kojs received his Ph.D. in Composition and Music Technologies at the University of Virginia. Kojs’ compositions were recently featured at festivals and conferences in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Kojs’ works received awards at Eastman Electroacoustic Composition and Performance Competition and the Digital Art Award. His articles appeared in journals such as Organized Sound, Digital Creativity, Leonardo Music Journal, and Journal of New Music Research.

Mike Straus:
Amsterdam-based saxophonist Michael Straus is responsible for the commissioning and premieres of over seventy compositions and can regularly be seen collaborating with composers, visual artists, turntablists, conductors, dancers and other instrumentalists around the world. His extensive performance career has led to concert appearances throughout the United States, Holland, Canada, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Ireland. He is founder of the multimedia performance and commissioning project What are you looking at? and regularly performs with the chamber ensembles quux, portals of distortion and rare degree. He is the recent recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for studies in Amsterdam and holds M.M. degrees in saxophone performance and computer music from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University and a B.M. from Louisiana State University.

Andrew Greenwald:
Andrew Greenwald (born 1980, Queens N.Y), produces work which satisfies his fascination with the extremes of duration, density, texture, and their collective absence. His compositions have been programed by The Vancouver Jazz Festival, Festival of New Trumpet Music, Nhebraska Noise Fest., DUMBO Art Under the Bridge, SoundBubbles(for emerging NYC artists), Darrmstadt ‘Essential Repertoire of the Avant-Garde’ at Issue Project Room, HI-Fi New Music, the International Supercollider Symposium, and the 2010 MATA Festival. Residencies include The Banff Centre, Western Front (Vancouver BC), Harold Arts, Pamplemousse Seedlot, and Soaring Gardens. He has been commissioned by Ensemble Pamplemousse, On Structure, Tall Brown Boots, and the Flux Quartet. Work has been supported by NYSCA, The Argosy Foundation, The A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’connor Foundation, Wesleyan University, and the Ora Lerman Trust.

An active educator, Andrew has been an invited lecturer at the Manhattan School of Music, the School at the Art Institute of Chicago, Hartwick College, and taught classes at The Banff Centre and Wesleyan University. He holds a BM in music from New York University(cum laude), and is currently a graduate fellow in the composition program at Wesleyan University, working with advisor Alvin Lucier.

Scott Petersen and Brian Kane
El MuCo |el moōkō|
El MuCo is a group of composers and musicians dedicated to the production and performance of new music with electronics in the New Haven, CT area. El MuCo’s current activities revolve around hardware hacking (circuit bending) and the creation of new, custom musical interfaces for performance.

Paula Matthusen is a composer, currently based in Miami and New York.
She writes both electroacoustic and acoustic music and realizes sound
installations. Her work often considers discrepancies in musical
space–real, imagined, and remembered. Her music has been performed
by Alarm Will Sound, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE),
orchest de ereprijs, Ballett Frankfurt, Dither, Glass Farm Ensemble,
Kathryn Woodard, James Moore, Jody Redhage, and Todd Reynolds. She
performs frequently with the electroacoustic ensembles ouisaudei,
Object Collection, and winter company. Awards include a Fulbright
Grant, two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers’ Award, First Prize in
the Young Composers’ Meeting Composition Competition, the MacCracken
and Langley Ryan Fellowship, and a Van Lier Fellowship. Matthusen is
currently Director of Music Technology at Florida International
University.