WATERINTOBEER Brockley, Thursday May 2nd
Kari Watson/Alex Mckenzie (duo)
Rory Salter/Kiran Leonard/Josh Barfoot (trio)
The Greater London Banjo Trio
Programme:
James Creed: Tendings
Kaija Saariaho: Cendres
Alannah Halay: Energy cannot be created V
Kari Watson: The Wild Iris
Ben Finlay: Typhon
Anthony Gilbert: Réflexions, Rose Nord
INTERVAL
Ed Cooper: Requiem
Mainly in CCCH (plus external Goods Tunnel), School of Music, University of Leeds, Friday 3rd May 2024 6pm - plus livestream
Watson plays at Elastic Arts on the Pleiades Series, a monthly series that features womxn and non-binary musicians and improvisors.
Solo modular synthesizer set at Clara Bar in Wicker Park, Chicago with quadraphonic speaker array.
Soak is a dance-based performance project that emerges from a study of public bathing. This work considers how both dance and bathing practices carve out space to imagine new ways of relating to our bodies, our community, and the natural world. The work is created through the exploration of pleasure and leisure, collectively created social space, and the relationship between body and ecology. This showing of Soak will feature dance set to live a score performed by Kari Watson on modular synthesizer with amplified voice, and video projection mapping.
Five UChicago graduate composers present a concert of works written for and in collaboration with the New York-based TAK Ensemble. The new music powerhouse group, in residence for the 2023/24 academic year, works alongside composers Ryan Garvey, Benjamin Martin, Andrew Stock, Kari Watson, and Justin Weiss.
Percussionist Daniel Lewis performs Splittings, for just intonation vibraphone and electronics at UChicago’s 2024 CHIMEfest concert in the Logan Performance Penthouse.
UChicago’s New Music Ensemble gives the US Premier of Rilke Fragments, for string trio and tenor, originally written in Fontainebleau, FR and premiered in the summer of 2023.
Dal Niente joins the 2024 Frequency Festival with a program of new music by Louis Goldford, Lei Liang, Carlos Carrillo, Kari Watson, and more.
An in-process movement and sound workshop open to the public, led in collaboration with dancer Amalia Raye Wiatr Lewis as part of SOAK, a multimedia album/movement piece.
https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/dance_residency.html
A performance on modular synthesizers as part of “Cyberpairings” with, Kotoka Suzuki, Brent Lee, Sigi Torinus, Shelby Lock and Kyong Mee Choi at Columbia College Chicago, Sherwood Recital Hall, 1312 S Michigan Ave, Chicago
Over the past six months, lovemusic members have worked closely with Ryan Garvey, Kari Watson, Jack Cramer, and Benjamin Martin on their latest compositions, which will be unveiled for the first time at the Logan Center for the Arts.
On Monday, December 18, 2023 members of Axiom Brass will premier untethering for brass trio at the Musicians Club of Women in Chicago, IL.
Constellation’s Frequency Series presents two solo sets of live electronic music by Kari Watson and Anna Johnson.
Kari Watson is a Chicago-based composer, performer, and sound artist working between the mediums of contemporary concert music, electroacoustic music, live performance, and interactive installation work. As a performer playing analog synthesizer, they engage a customizable spatialization software built in MaxMSP with spatial speaker arrays to further explore issues of tactility and drama in immersive, sonic environments.
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Anna Johnsonis an experimental artist working at intersections of performance, sound, moving image and installation. She explores processes of transformation through embodied emotional and psychological landscapes. Her work is oriented around immersive experience and site-responsitivity. She is based in Chicago, IL.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2023
7:30 PM 8:30 PM
SFCM BOWES CENTER (MAP)
https://sfcm.edu/experience/performances/nois-saxophone-quartet-performance-electronics
SFCM Bowes Center (in TAC Studio G)
200 Van Ness Ave
San Francisco, CA
Program:
Augusta Read Thomas: Shakespeare’s Jesters (2023)
Elijah Daniel Smith: Perihelion (2022)
Elliott Lupp: minus (2020)
Kari Watson: Shelf Life (2023)
Pauline Oliveros: Thirteen Changes (1986)
https://sfcm.edu/experience/performances/nois-saxophone-quartet-performance-electronics
~Nois: Julian Velasco, Hunter Bockes, Jordan Lulloff, János Csontos
Join ~Nois for the Sixth installment of their “Curiosity Series” at Constellation Chicago. Every fall, ~Nois kicks off their season with a program exclusively featuring the works of composers with strong ties to Chicago. This year, “Curiosity” will feature new works from Kari Watson, Carlos Bandera, and Augusta Read Thomas alongside a special performance by Chicago’s own, Masso Quartet.
Hunter Brown + Kari Watson
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Wed 16 August 2023, 16.00 – 17.00
OS Showcase
Hunter Brown and Kari Watson present two solo sets of live electronic music focused on synthesis. [Hunter -> algorithmic digital synthesis] [Kari -> analog modular synthesis]
MIVOS Quartet gives the European premier of Three Places for string quartet (2022) on a program of string quartets from their call for scores at the 2023 Darmstädter Ferienkurse.
for Maaria - for solo harp, was written for harpist Maaria Pulakka as part of the harp composition workshop with Sarah Nemstov and Gunnhildur Einarsdottir at the 2023 Darmstädter Ferienkurse.
Performers from the Fontainebleau festival premier Rilke Fragments (2023) for tenor and string trio on a program of premiers by festival composers. The piece brings together fragments in German by Rainer Maria Rilke and response fragments by writer, editor, and poet Lucy McKeon.
Alexandre Jamar - tenor
Lena-Marie Stoger - violin
Daniel Simmons - viola
Lily Stern - cello
The Chicago Philharmonic premiers About the Wreck (2023) at the Ravinia Festival’s Breaking Barrier’s Festival under conductors Laura Jackson and Rebecca Tong, with guidance from mentors Marin Alsop, Augusta Read Thomas, and Clarice Assad.
Percussionist Daniel T Lewis premiers Splittings, for just intonation vibraphone and live electronics as part of this years Frequency Series at Constellation.
Tickets can be purchased at: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Frequency-SeriesPresentsDanielTLewis/547736?afflky=ConstellationChicago
UChicago’s New Music Ensemble Performs The Wild Iris (2018) on a program featuring the work of Yuting Tan, Timothy Ren, Cory Turnbaugh, and Jack Cramer. Performers:
Rina Sugawara - Clarinet
Philip Lo - Violin
Audrey Slote - Cello
Quadraphonic will feature music and performances for quadraphonic speaker array by Kari Watson, Lula Asplund, and Dorothy Carlos.
Members of the Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble and Sandbox Percussion premier [of desire, settings of Sappho translated by Anne Carson set alongside response poems by contemporary poet and composer Kevin Madison.
on May 1st in the Logan Performance Penthouse, 8pm.
Liz Pearse performs intonations i for amplified electronics, which is then followed by the premier of intonations ii for 8 channel tape.
Liz Pearse, Voice and Electronics
Saturday, February 4 / 4:30 PM
Music by Milton Babbitt, Darlene Castro Ortiz, David Bird, Kari Watson, Elise Roy, and Blaise Ubaldini
Dana Jessen, Bassoon and Electronics
Friday, February 3 / 7:30 PM
Music by George Lewis, Kari Watson, Eli Stine, and Ryan Garvey
Live improvisation, Dana Jessen - Bassoon, Kari Watson - modular synthesizer and spatialized electronics
on Saturday, January 21st at 7pm Abagael Cheng performs Facing Shadows (2021) on Spirals: A Song Recital.
Description: Spirals is a song recital that explores the transformation of grief and shame into self-empowerment through stages of personal healing.
tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spirals-a-song-recital-tickets-506665719807
location: Church St School For Music and Art 41 White Street New York, NY 10013
an installation of two ceramic vases-turned speakers, carved and painted by Emily Harter. Each vase has a hand built amplifier inside that plays a fixed electroacoustic piece constructed from archival audio sources inspired by the implied sound in Emily’s images.
The Constellation Men’s Ensemble gives the world premier of a newly commissioned work as part of their 2022 Nova New Music Series.
Quartet Diotima will premiere a concert of new works by UChicago composers in April of 2022.
A subset of the Ekmeles vocal ensemble and 2 percussionists from Sandbox Percussion will premiere settings of Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho alongside response texts by Kevin Madison.
The San Francisco based Friction Quartet will be giving the live world premiers of 6 works commissioned as part of their commissioning initiative II.
The program includes newly commissioned works by composers Carolina Bragg, Kari Watson, Rogelio Cardoza, Benjamin Champion, Theodore Heber, and Sofia Belimova.
Soprano Liz Pearse premieres Intonations I for amplified solo soprano, at Chicago’s Ear Taxi Festival.
Axiom Brass will give the New York Premiere of Alloys at Adelphi University.
Praised for its “high level of musicality and technical ability” and for its “clean, clear and precise sound,” the award-winning Axiom Brass Quintet has quickly established itself as “one of the major art music groups in brass chamber music.” Axiom Brass’ performances have captured the hearts and imaginations of their audiences, leading the ensemble to national radio and television appearances as well as concerts in Asia, Europe and across the United States. Axiom Brass is dedicated to enhancing the musical life of communities across the globe and educating the next generation of musicians.
Their concert programs regularly pair newer works with traditional works. This September, Axiom Brass will present the world premiere of David Lipten’s “Waits and Measures” and the New York premiere of Kari Watson’s “Alloys”.
The program will include centennial celebrations of two giants of the music world, Astor Piazzolla and Geroge Walker as well as music from Argentina, Brazil, England, Germany, India and the USA, exploring over 400 years of musical history.
