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December 01 2019
Sonic Commentary: Audio Series Volume 29
Manfred Werder,
Manfred Werder
Email: manfred.werder@gmail.com. Web: www.manfred-werder.blogspot.com.
MANFRED WERDER, composer and performer. His performances,
both indoors and outdoors, aim at letting the world’s
natural abundance appear. Within an intrinsic practice of derive,
he writes with a portable typewriter on found paper, actualizing
words and sentences found in poetry, philosophy and
the world. Earlier works include stück 1998, a 4,000-page score
whose nonrecurring and intermittent performative realization
has been ongoing since December 1997. Lives in situ.
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Casey Anderson,
Casey Anderson
Email: cta@caseyanderson.com. Web: www.caseyanderson.com.
CASEY ANDERSON is an artist working with sound in a
number of media, including composition, improvisation, electronic
music, saxophone, text and installations. Performances,
exhibitions, and residencies include MOCA Los Angeles (CA), ISSUE
Project Room (NY), STEIM (NL), Atlantic Center for
the Arts (FL), Mass MOCA (MA), The Walker Art Center
(MN), and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (CA). He cofounded,
and coedits, the Experimental Music Yearbook and
owns and operates a wave press. He currently lives in Los Angeles,
California, and teaches in the Media Design Practices
and Humanities & Sciences departments at ArtCenter College
of Design.
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Travis Just,
Travis Just
Email: travis@objectcollection.us. Web: www.objectcollection.us.
TRAVIS JUST (composer, codirector of Object Collection) is a
composer based in Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.. His work often uses
text, objects and gesture in addition to instruments, voice and
electronics. He has composed six operas: Problem Radical(s) (2009), Innova (2011) and NO HOTEL (2013), cheap&easy
OCTOBER (2015), It’s All True (2016) and YOU ARE UNDER
OUR SPACE CONTROL (2019). Travis received a BFA
from the Mannes College of Music/New School University
while studying with Andrew Cyrille. He received an MFA from
California Institute of the Arts and studied with James Tenney,
Wadada Leo Smith and Michael Pisaro.
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Kara Feely,
Kara Feely
KARA FEELY (writer/director, codirector of Object Collection)
is a writer, director, designer and performer for experimental
theater and interdisciplinary performance. Her work draws
inspiration from experimental writing and music composition
strategies, and combines a variety of materials, from found
text fragments and landscapes of objects, to recorded interviews
and radio broadcasts. Additionally, her texts have been
published in Antennae, a journal of experimental writing
and performance, PLAY A JOURNAL OF PLAYS, and the
Japanese imprint futow. Kara currently teaches and advises
design in the theater department at Barnard College/Columbia
University.
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Natacha Diels,
Natacha Diels
Email: ndiels@ucsd.edu. Web: www.natachadiels.com.
NATACHA DIELS’s work combines choreographed movement,
improvisation, video, instrumental practice and cynical play to
create worlds of curiosity and unease. Recent work includes Papillon
and the Dancing Cranes, for construction cranes (2018);
forthcoming is a TV miniseries with the JACK quartet. With a
focus on collage, collaboration and the ritual of life as art, Natacha’s
compositions have been described as “a fairy tale for a
fractured world” (FOCI Arts/Music We Care About). Natacha
is a member of the composer/performer collective Ensemble
Pamplemousse and the performance duo On Structure. She
teaches composition and computer music at UC San Diego.
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John (Jack) Callahan,
John (Jack) Callahan
Email: banhmiverlag@gmail.com. Web: www.banhmiverlag.com/callahan.
JOHN (JACK) CALLAHAN is a composer and sound engineer
based in New York. He primarily works under the moniker
die Reihe, taken from the journal edited by Herbert Eimert
and Karlheinz Stockhausen. With this project he has released
music with labels such as Anomia, Ascetic House, NNA Tapes
and Salon. In 2013 he founded Bánh Mì Verlag, an imprint
dedicated to contemporary experimental music and culture.
As a composer his music has been performed and recorded by
ensembles such as the S.E.M. Ensemble, the Wet Ink Ensemble
and the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra in such cities as New
York, Amsterdam and Zürich.
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Carolyn Chen,
Carolyn Chen
Email: walkingmango@gmail.com. Web: www.carolyn-chen.com.
CAROLYN CHEN has made music for supermarket, demolition
district and the dark. Recent projects include a hug quartet
and commissions for Klangforum Wien and the LA Phil. Her
listening is informed by playing the guqin, the Chinese zither
traditionally used for private meditation in nature. Described
by The New York Times as “consistently alluring . . . a quiet
but lush meditation,” her work has been presented in 25 countries
and supported by the Berlin Prize, the Fulbright Program,
ASCAP’s Fred Ho Award, Stanford University’s Sudler Prize,
Soros Fellowships for New Americans, MATA Festival and impuls
Festival.
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Sarah Hennies
Sarah Hennies
Email: sarah.l.hennies@gmail.com. Web: www.sarah-hennies.com.
SARAH HENNIES (b. 1979) is a composer and percussionist
based in Ithaca, NY, whose work is concerned with a variety
of musical and sociopolitical issues including psychoacoustics,
love, intimacy and queer/trans identity. She is a recipient of a
2016 fellowship in music/sound from the New York Foundation
of the Arts and a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Grants to Artists Award. She is currently Visiting Professor of
Music at Bard College during the 2019–2020 academic year.
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Manfred Werder
Email: manfred.werder@gmail.com. Web: www.manfred-werder.blogspot.com.
MANFRED WERDER, composer and performer. His performances,
both indoors and outdoors, aim at letting the world’s
natural abundance appear. Within an intrinsic practice of derive,
he writes with a portable typewriter on found paper, actualizing
words and sentences found in poetry, philosophy and
the world. Earlier works include stück 1998, a 4,000-page score
whose nonrecurring and intermittent performative realization
has been ongoing since December 1997. Lives in situ.
Casey Anderson
Email: cta@caseyanderson.com. Web: www.caseyanderson.com.
CASEY ANDERSON is an artist working with sound in a
number of media, including composition, improvisation, electronic
music, saxophone, text and installations. Performances,
exhibitions, and residencies include MOCA Los Angeles (CA), ISSUE
Project Room (NY), STEIM (NL), Atlantic Center for
the Arts (FL), Mass MOCA (MA), The Walker Art Center
(MN), and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (CA). He cofounded,
and coedits, the Experimental Music Yearbook and
owns and operates a wave press. He currently lives in Los Angeles,
California, and teaches in the Media Design Practices
and Humanities & Sciences departments at ArtCenter College
of Design.
Travis Just
Email: travis@objectcollection.us. Web: www.objectcollection.us.
TRAVIS JUST (composer, codirector of Object Collection) is a
composer based in Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.. His work often uses
text, objects and gesture in addition to instruments, voice and
electronics. He has composed six operas: Problem Radical(s) (2009), Innova (2011) and NO HOTEL (2013), cheap&easy
OCTOBER (2015), It’s All True (2016) and YOU ARE UNDER
OUR SPACE CONTROL (2019). Travis received a BFA
from the Mannes College of Music/New School University
while studying with Andrew Cyrille. He received an MFA from
California Institute of the Arts and studied with James Tenney,
Wadada Leo Smith and Michael Pisaro.
Kara Feely
KARA FEELY (writer/director, codirector of Object Collection)
is a writer, director, designer and performer for experimental
theater and interdisciplinary performance. Her work draws
inspiration from experimental writing and music composition
strategies, and combines a variety of materials, from found
text fragments and landscapes of objects, to recorded interviews
and radio broadcasts. Additionally, her texts have been
published in Antennae, a journal of experimental writing
and performance, PLAY A JOURNAL OF PLAYS, and the
Japanese imprint futow. Kara currently teaches and advises
design in the theater department at Barnard College/Columbia
University.
Natacha Diels
Email: ndiels@ucsd.edu. Web: www.natachadiels.com.
NATACHA DIELS’s work combines choreographed movement,
improvisation, video, instrumental practice and cynical play to
create worlds of curiosity and unease. Recent work includes Papillon
and the Dancing Cranes, for construction cranes (2018);
forthcoming is a TV miniseries with the JACK quartet. With a
focus on collage, collaboration and the ritual of life as art, Natacha’s
compositions have been described as “a fairy tale for a
fractured world” (FOCI Arts/Music We Care About). Natacha
is a member of the composer/performer collective Ensemble
Pamplemousse and the performance duo On Structure. She
teaches composition and computer music at UC San Diego.
John (Jack) Callahan
Email: banhmiverlag@gmail.com. Web: www.banhmiverlag.com/callahan.
JOHN (JACK) CALLAHAN is a composer and sound engineer
based in New York. He primarily works under the moniker
die Reihe, taken from the journal edited by Herbert Eimert
and Karlheinz Stockhausen. With this project he has released
music with labels such as Anomia, Ascetic House, NNA Tapes
and Salon. In 2013 he founded Bánh Mì Verlag, an imprint
dedicated to contemporary experimental music and culture.
As a composer his music has been performed and recorded by
ensembles such as the S.E.M. Ensemble, the Wet Ink Ensemble
and the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra in such cities as New
York, Amsterdam and Zürich.
Carolyn Chen
Email: walkingmango@gmail.com. Web: www.carolyn-chen.com.
CAROLYN CHEN has made music for supermarket, demolition
district and the dark. Recent projects include a hug quartet
and commissions for Klangforum Wien and the LA Phil. Her
listening is informed by playing the guqin, the Chinese zither
traditionally used for private meditation in nature. Described
by The New York Times as “consistently alluring . . . a quiet
but lush meditation,” her work has been presented in 25 countries
and supported by the Berlin Prize, the Fulbright Program,
ASCAP’s Fred Ho Award, Stanford University’s Sudler Prize,
Soros Fellowships for New Americans, MATA Festival and impuls
Festival.
Sarah Hennies
Email: sarah.l.hennies@gmail.com. Web: www.sarah-hennies.com.
SARAH HENNIES (b. 1979) is a composer and percussionist
based in Ithaca, NY, whose work is concerned with a variety
of musical and sociopolitical issues including psychoacoustics,
love, intimacy and queer/trans identity. She is a recipient of a
2016 fellowship in music/sound from the New York Foundation
of the Arts and a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Grants to Artists Award. She is currently Visiting Professor of
Music at Bard College during the 2019–2020 academic year.
Online Issn: 1531-4812
Print Issn: 0961-1215
©2019 ISAST
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Leonardo Music Journal (2019) 29: 100–103.
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Manfred Werder, Casey Anderson, Travis Just, Kara Feely, Natacha Diels, John (Jack) Callahan, Carolyn Chen, Sarah Hennies; Sonic Commentary: Audio Series Volume 29. Leonardo Music Journal 2019; 29 100–103. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/lmj_a_01078
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