October 21, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Edward Schneider
612-806-7591 or [email protected]
Holidays for the Future
7pm Sunday, November 6th, at 16 Beaver Street (between Broad and Broadway) 4th Floor, New York, NY 10004
Holidays For the Future is a music series in Manhattan that features composers and improvisers, who are dedicated to exploring and experimenting with musical styles and forms. The series occurs on the first Sunday of every month and is curated by Edward Schneider.
Featuring Three Performances:
Act 1: Gregory Sogorka (piano)...
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October 21, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Edward Schneider
612-806-7591 or [email protected]
Holidays for the Future
7pm Sunday, November 6th, at 16 Beaver Street (between Broad and Broadway) 4th Floor, New York, NY 10004
Holidays For the Future is a music series in Manhattan that features composers and improvisers, who are dedicated to exploring and experimenting with musical styles and forms. The series occurs on the first Sunday of every month and is curated by Edward Schneider.
Featuring Three Performances:
Act 1: Gregory Sogorka (piano)
Act 2: Chantal Dumas (electronics)
Act 3: Edward Schneider (saxophone) + Brian Baumbusch (electronics/keyboard)
Guitar player and composer Brian Baumbusch (Washington, DC) completed his formal musical training at Interlochen Arts Academy and then moved to Asheville, North Carolina, where he formed the Opal Quartet. In 2006 he entered Bard College, where he performed in the Gamelan group and studied with the renowned microtonal music scholar Kyle Gann. During this time he was awarded an independent study grant to travel to Argentina and research folk music and guitar pedagogy. His recent recording with the Opal Quartet of an arrangement of a Gamelan piece has received significant attention. Baumusch has played with such notable musicians as Dharma Swara and has toured Bali with his ensemble. brianbaumbusch.com/
Composer Chantal Dumas (Montreal, Canada) explores the medium of sound through the production of radiophonic fictions or docu-fictions (Hoerspiel), electroacoustic musics and sound installations. She is in a New-York with a Studio-Residency from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (july - dec. 2011). Dumas uses sound to chart a new approach to listening and perception. Combining music, narrative, and real-world sounds, she constructs stories that encourage listeners to establish their own sense of a narrative. She has produced over 25 radio pieces. Her music and radio works are widely broadcasted on radios and festivals in Europe, Canada, the United-States and the Australia. Her work can be found on CD at 326 (France), AVATAR/Ohm Éditions (Quebec), and PoGUS & Nonsequitur (USA). Some of her commission include: Kunstradio (ORF, Austria), DeutschlandRadio Berlin, Hessischer Rundfunk, silenceradio.org (Bxls/BE), la RSR Couleur 3 (Swizerland), AVATAR (Qc), radio grenouille (Marseilles/F), La Muse en Circuit (Paris/F), Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago/USA. In parallel to her musical and radio works, she pursues research which questions the relation in between the mobility, the sound, the space and the listener and which presents under the shape of sound installations. Her latest work, Le vivant bruit du corps, an interactive immersive sound installation stages two wooden chairs from which a whole sound universe develops. vimeo.com/21803964
Pianist Gregory Sogorka (Brooklyn) has lived and worked in New York for the past ten years in 
varying musical/technological capacities. Experiments/influences include classical, jazz, Haitian, Ethiopian, and West African musics. Recent compositions have 
centered around a search for connective tissue between disparate ideas and themes. soundcloud.com/gregory-sogorka
Saxophonist Edward Schneider (Brooklyn) is an improviser, composer, and educator currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Before his recent move to New York, Schneider lived in Minneapolis where he co-founded the quintet Process is the Goal and was founding member of the Minneapolis Free Music Society. Prior to this Schneider studied composition at the University of Illinois under the renowned experimental composer Herbert Brun. During this time the Kronos Quartet selected his composition for sight-reading. After earning a Masters in Ethnomusicology from Washington University, Schneider received a Subito grant from the American Composers Forum to produce the compact disc (Again) Against/Because. . . In 2009 his new electronic composition, the tree that was a bird, was performed as part of the Conny Purtill performance at the Blinky Palermo puppet theater at the Pompidou in Paris. Recently, Schneider was the subject of a documentary by the filmmaker Mark Nye. soundcloud.com/edward-schneider
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