Efw Presents: Exclusiveor ( Sam Pluta / Jeff Snyder ) at Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center

"New York City has seemed rife in recent years with a new kind of contemporary music — a sort of composed music for improvisers...it is really just a new generation's own, particular fascination with sound, and one of the fulcrums of this new class of soundmakers is Sam Pluta. Pluta is a composer and electronicist who is a regular collaborator of trumpeter Peter Evans and is a member of Wet Ink Ensemble, one of the finer of a new flock of contemporary chamber groups enlivening the New York new music scene. He has also worked with two other dollops of the NYC cream: ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) and the Mivos Quartet. And not least among his achievements, Pluta is co-founder and artistic director of Carrier Records, home to releases by Wet Ink Ensemble, Yarn/Wire and Alex Mincek, among others."...

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"New York City has seemed rife in recent years with a new kind of contemporary music — a sort of composed music for improvisers...it is really just a new generation's own, particular fascination with sound, and one of the fulcrums of this new class of soundmakers is Sam Pluta. Pluta is a composer and electronicist who is a regular collaborator of trumpeter Peter Evans and is a member of Wet Ink Ensemble, one of the finer of a new flock of contemporary chamber groups enlivening the New York new music scene. He has also worked with two other dollops of the NYC cream: ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) and the Mivos Quartet. And not least among his achievements, Pluta is co-founder and artistic director of Carrier Records, home to releases by Wet Ink Ensemble, Yarn/Wire and Alex Mincek, among others."
— Kurt Gottschalk, The Squid's Ear

"Jeff Snyder not only has tremendous artistic and technological gifts, he embodies a marvelous melding of innovation with tradition...sweet or searing swoops, perky syncopations, and occasional ominous thumps, sizzles, and discords immediately bring to mind the 'realizations' of pioneering electronic music composers."
— Richard D. Smith, Princeton Echo

Elysium Furnace Works is excited to present as part of its 2023 season the remarkable experimental electronic ensemble exclusiveOr. This duo — featuring Peabody Institute professor of both Computer Music and Music Engineering Technology, as well as director of the Peabody Computer Music Studios, laptop artist Sam Pluta, and director of both Electronic Music and the Princeton Laptop Orchestra at Princeton University, analog synthethist and instrument inventor Jeff Snyder — creates stunning real-time electronic sound architectures which fluidly warp space-time, leaving far behind any conventional definition of “music.”

exclusiveOr will perform on Saturday, September 23 at 8 PM at the VBI Theatre of Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, located at 12 Vassar St. in Poughkeepsie, NY.

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