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Composer/Performer Ensemble Ne(x)tworks performs
The Music of Cornelius Dufallo & Chris McIntyre

Opening Night of a Season-long Residency
SILOMUSIC: Ne(x)tworks 2006
@ ISSUE Project Room
March 22, 2006, 8PM, $10
(sound installation - 5 to 8PM)

ISSUE Project Room
http://www.issueprojectroom.org/
400 Carroll Street (btw Bond and Nevins)
Brooklyn, NY 11231
718.330.0313
[email protected]

Ne(x)tworks
http://www.nextworksmusic.net/
Joan La Barbara - voice/electronics, Kenji Bunch - viola, Yves Dharamraj - cello, Cornelius Dufallo - violin, Stephen Gosling - piano, Ariana Kim - violin, Chris McIntyre - trombone/electronics, Peter Evans - trumpet

New York, NY - On March 22, 2006, ISSUE Project Room (IPR) will present a shared evening of new and recent works by violinist and composer Cornelius Dufallo and trombonist, composer, and music curator Chris McIntyre. The concert marks the official opening event of SILOMUSIC: Ne(x)tworks 2006, IPR's first ever residency program for artists and ensembles featuring the composer/performer group Ne(x) tworks (please follow this link http://www.nextworksmusic.net/ silomusic_brochure.pdf for further details). Formed in June 2002, Ne (x)tworks continues the “Maverick" tradition in American music by creating and interpreting work that primarily explores intersections between composition and improvisation. Over the course of the Spring '06 season, the group will utilize IPR's facility to develop new works and programs which are then made available to the community through panel discussions, performances, and post-performance receptions.

Composer and Program Info
Cornelius Dufallo's compositional aesthetic is informed by years of playing in many of New York's most compelling ensembles, including Flux Quartet, Nurse Kaya, Butch Morris' Skyscraper, and recently, as the newest member of Ethel. On the 22nd, Ne(x)tworks presents two premiere performances and several works from Dufallo's oeuvre, including Pacem, a recent piece for solo violin and electronics, the one you call lost for strings, piano and voice (featuring Ne(x)tworks member Joan La Barbara singing the poetry of IPR staff member Dana Maisel) and The Fifth Dream, which incorporates the poetry of Ron Price in a setting for strings, voice, and live-electronic processing. Premiere performances include Palindrome Variations for two violins, and X, an ensemble work that engages Ne(x)tworks' diverse and world-class talents. X will actually exist within Chris McIntyre's new sound installation silOM (which begins at 5PM) as the ensemble physically enters its aural tableau and then seamlessly into Dufallo's new material.

silOM represents McIntyre's debut sound installation. Heard moving around the sixteen hemispheric speakers hanging in the space (created by sound engineer Stephan Moore) are “dry" and altered field recordings collected at the IPR site, layered in and out, highlighting various ambient details, obscuring others. The influence of his recent performance experience (TILT Brass Band, Michael J. Schumacher's Room Pieces) and curatorial work (The Kitchen) is evident in the installation and continues into two new ensemble works, A31 and Sigmar [from 0]. The title of A31 is derived from the unsanctioned protests in NYC on August 31st, 2004, during the Republican National Convention. Sigmar [from 0] is named for and inspired by the work of Postmodernist German visual artist Sigmar Polke. Both pieces utilize graphic notation as an interface for conventional as well as improvisative elements. The aesthetic for these pieces overtly and obliquely suggests essential qualities of their respective inspirations: collective outrage and ennui in A31, and the abstract/kitch dialogic found in Polke's paintings. Also on the program is Conversions, a mutational improvising strategy that explores textural and elemental “binarism" in sound.

A Note on SILOMUSIC
ISSUE has been integrally involved in Ne(x)tworks' development since 2003. This has been a natural collaboration given our shared, uncompromising vision of presenting new and site-specific work by established and emerging artists. The residency, entitled SILOMUSIC (a reference to IPR's unusual space on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn), continues this relationship by offering Ne(x)tworks full use of our facility to develop new works and programs which are then made available to the community in various ways. We look forward to welcoming Ne(x)tworks and its audience into our space as this important process unfolds. Suzanne Fiol, Issue Project Room

IPR Biography
ISSUE Project Room [IPR] provides an open and versatile environment where both established and emerging artists can conduct, exhibit and perform new and site-specific work according to their respective visions. Through an evolving collaboration with curators, artists and educators, the Project Room fosters a wide-range of artistic projects that challenge and expand conventional practices in art. IPR fulfills its mission through a series of innovative programs, events, exhibitions, performances, talks and concerts. Our programs are designed to present innovative projects, rare artist appearances, first time showings and multidisciplinary events, highlighting the creative process while encouraging broad public appreciation and access to the art of our times.

Ne(x)tworks Biography
Ne(x)tworks is a collaborative ensemble of performing composers based in New York City. Formed in June 2002, the group continues the “Maverick" tradition in American music by creating and interpreting work that primarily explores intersections between composition and improvisation. Ne(x)tworks' repertoire encompasses an extraordinary range of aesthetics, including works by composers of the New York School and idiosyncratic new works from artists within the ensemble such as experimental operas by renowned composer/vocalist Joan La Barbara and composer/violist Kenji Bunch.

Press Contacts
Suzanne Fiol
718.330.0313
[email protected] Chris McIntyre
917.676.4585
[email protected]

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