Presents SUBHAZE: RESONANT SYMMETRY
With Christian Hannon, Leo Leite, Loni Landon Dance Project, String Noise, Daisy Press, Hannah Sumner, Jacqui Kerrod, Justin Abrams, Fabio Morelli, NoisioN, David Zisa, & lighting design by Dominick Chang
SUBHAZE : RESONANT SYMMETRY is an ethereal & pulsating audio-visual performance by composer Ricardo Romaneiro with projection artist Christian Hannon, & sound engineer Leo Leite. In this performance, intangible audio-visual dimensions created with fog, lights, strobes, subwoofers and video projection mapping transform the space. The experience is completed via a surround sound musical score, accompanied by innovative dance choreography.
Choreography and dance is by Loni Landon Dance Project, with performances by String Noise (violin duo), Daisy Press (vocals), Hannah Sumner (vocals), Jacqui Kerrod (harp), Justin Abrams (cello), Fabio Morelli (piano), NoisioN (analog synth), David Zisa (modular synth), and special guest Jakub Ciupinski (theremin).
Sound is the only major channel of communication that actively vibrates inside the body, utilizing the material vibrations of timbre and the body’s role as a sympathetic resonator. Sound is thus both heard and felt, transcending tactile awareness & dimension. The music takes the listener on a cerebral cortex journey through the five brainwaves: Gamma, Beta, Alpha, Theta & Delta. Low frequency pulsations in the music, amplified by the subwoofers, allow the listener to reach these altered states. Join us for an evening of transcendental music & movement.
Ricardo Romaneiro
Composer & electronic artist Ricardo Romaneiro was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil and moved to the U.S. at an early age. Ricardo’s music synthesizes his major musical influences & passions: classical music, electronic music, and the percussive rhythm/beat of his native country. The New York Times described his work as “a blissful and compelling mix of Minimalist-derived rhythmic ecstasy and nightclub beats”. His music has been featured, performed and commissioned in eclectic range of institutions, festivals, and projects such as the Museum of Modern Art’s Summergarden Series, New Juilliard Ensemble, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Metropolis Ensemble, Wordless Music, Ensemble LPR, Nu Deco Ensemble, ECCE, American Composers Orchestra, Quintet of the Americas, the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, Colorado Ballet at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, and the Sacramento Ballet. Ricardo’s music has been featured on NPR live broadcast from Prospect Park Bandshell as part of Celebrate Brooklyn! summer concerts. Esquire Magazine featured his music and work process in their annual “Best & Brightest” issue. A recipient of the ASCAP Rudy Perez Songwriting Scholarship, Ricardo earned a Bachelor degree in composition from Manhattan School of Music and a Master degree in composition from The Juilliard School.
Recent performance with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Chorus at Hammer Hall on the live film & orchestra performance of Terrance Malick’s film Voyage of Time, produced by Wordless Music as part of Melbourne Festival, it was orchestrated, composed and arranged by Ricardo for 100 piece orchestra and choir with Ricardo performing live electronics.
Loni Landon Dance Project
Loni Landon Dance Project is a New York City-based contemporary dance company that creates and performs original works by artistic director Loni Landon. LLDP is known for creating lush, innovative movement full of subtle detail and sophistication, and maintaining a highly charged emotional current throughout. Upholding to the integrity of the movement itself, LLDP’s works search for honest reaction and expression while shedding the performance persona.
Christian Hannon
New York based digital artist Christian Hannon a.k.a. NON Visuals is a Charleston native who has merged his interests in art and technology into an audio visual experience called projection mapping. Paired with live music, Hannon projects his own moving images onto 3D structures and installations to create an exceptional audiovisual experience.
Hannon has worked with a wide array of musical acts such as Kris Bowers, Spanky McCurdy, Lex’s Sadler’s Rhythm and Stealth, as well as partnering with composer Ricardo Romaneiro for the collaboration entitled SUBHAZE
“Hannon’s projections never fail to wow his audiences. When projection mapping combines with live music, it seamlessly blends into a larger, ethereal experience.” – Davin Turkewitz – Creator’s Clubhouse
String Noise
String Noise is a classical, avant-punk violin duo comprised of violinists Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim. Since its inception in 2011 at Ostrava New Music Days, they have expanded the two violin repertoire in over 50 new works to include larger collaborations with electronics, projections and dance.
Their first feature album “The Book of Strange Positions” was released on NORTHERN SPY RECORDS in November 2015. Tiny Mix Tapes describes this collection of original works and arrangements by Eric Lyon of punk covers by Bad Brains, Violent Femmes, Deerhoof, Radiohead, and Black Flag as a “mix of classic punk covers and ZERO APOLOGIES.” Their new 7” inch EP “Covers” produced by Deerhoof drummer and composer Greg Saunier is now available on Northern Spy Records.
String Noise was highlighted in Performa 2011 with artist Will Cotton and was the featured ensemble for the launch of composers collective Index 0. Premieres include works by Christian Wolff, John King, Phill Niblock, Caleb Burhans, David Lang, Annie Gosfield, Bernhard Lang, John Zorn, Greg Saunier and Alvin Lucier. String Noise has performed at Issue Project Room, Roulette, EXAPNO, Rockwood Music Hall and the Stone and has been heard on WNYC, WKCR and WFMU.
As curators, Conrad and Pauline presented Drawing Sound: Part II at the Drawing Center – a three night mini-festival featuring artists Alvin Lucier, Greg Saunier and Jad Fair.
Daisy Press
Daisy Press, vocalist, was raised under the stage of a large-scale international rock and roll tour, and is now a prominent interpreter of experimental classical music in the US and Europe and the principal singer at Brooklyn’s famed “House of Yes.”
At House of Yes, Daisy has been honored to collaborate with astoundingly talented aerialists, dancers, and cirucus performers in “Ketamine: The Musical,” “The Xmas Spectacular,” and countless other creations. In addition, Daisy is the High Priestess for “Voice Cult,” a bi-monthly vocal workshop that is a mix of performance art, healing ritual, and joyful/irreverent singing in community.
In Europe Ms. Press was most recently featured as a soloist at the “Akademie Der Künste” in Berlin, singing the music of Bernhard Lang with Trio Amos. Immediately before that, she was in Graz, Austria, as part of ÖRF’s “Musikprotokoll” festival, where she, along with the Aleph Guitar Quartet, presented three major new contemporary works: Bernhard Lang’s song cycle “The Cold Trip,”; Gerhard Winker’s “Frostblues” (world premiere) and “Basho” by Czech composer Martin Smolka (world premiere). Other highlights of 2016 a performance at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, delivering three of a series of Hildegard von Bingen’s “Ursula Songs.” In Vienna, she was the soloist in Bernhard Lang’s “Monadology XVIII ‘Moving Architecture’” alongside Ensemble Phace, and with the acclaimed Austrian choreographer Silke Grabinger.
For her interpretation of Morton Feldman’s “Three Voices” and Schoenberg’s “Herzgewächse” at MoMa in New York City, Ms. Press was hailed by the New York Times as “intrepid” and “passionate.”
For several years she served as the lead backing singer/dancer for the band “Chromeo,” and appeared with them on The Late Show With David Letterman, Conan, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Lollapalooza, Coachella, and as headliners of the Montreal Jazz Festival.
Additional credits include a musical cameo in director Jonathan Parker’s film “(Untitled)”, ongoing performances of Morton Feldman’s “Three Voices,” Bernhard Lang’s “DW2” with the Argento Ensemble at LPR, and a longtime collaboration in the video opera “Whispering Pines 10” with composer Nick Hallett and visual artist Shana Moulton. With So Percussion, Ms. Press presented “Unto the Hills” by George Crumb at Miller Theater, for which the New York Times praised her “winning subtlety and understatement.” Also with So Percussion: Steve Reich’s “Drumming” and “Music for 18 Musicians” at various worldwide venues including Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and the Barbican in London. Additional credits include the New York premiere of Phillipe Leroux’s blindingly virtuosic “Voi(rex)” at Miller Theater alongside IRCAM; Attila-Joszef Fragments by Kurtag at Symphony Space, and Elliot Carter’s “Of Challenge and of Love.”
For several years Ms. Press served on faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, where she received her Masters degree. She holds academic degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and Oxford University, and in the past she studied voice with Trish McCaffrey and North Indian ragas with Michael Harrison.
As an active and passionate teacher, Daisy utilizes a powerful synergistic mix of Western classical/pop vocal technique, sound healing, and North Indian ragas to coax her students into a fully-embodied, joyful manifestation of their vocal, emotional, and spiritual potential.
Jakub Ciupinski
Jakub Ciupinski (‘yacoob chioopinsky’) is Polish composer living in New York City. Although his music is often associated with electronics and interactive performances, he has written numerous pieces for traditional acoustic forces, varying in scope from solo miniatures to an hour long Oratorio for symphony orchestra and double choir. At the age of 18, he signed a contract with Sony Music Poland and since then has been recording electronica-infused world music under the stage name Jakub Żak. His concert music has been commissioned and performed by various institutions and ensembles including Birmingham Royal Ballet, Metropolis Ensemble, Silicon Valley Ballet, The New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute, Spokane Symphony, Stamford Symphony, Sinfonietta Cracovia, The New Juilliard Ensemble, Sybarite5, as well as the world-famous violinists Anne Akiko-Meyers, Philippe Quint and Kristin Lee. His works have been performed around the world, including prestigious venues such as Tonhalle in Zurich and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York. Ciupinski is a co-founder of Blind Ear Music, New York based group of composers and instrumentalists performing improvised, real-time compositions, using wirelessly connected laptops as musical score displays. He has also designed his own instrument for performing electronic music using hand gestures. He has collaborated with a variety of artists, musicians, choreographers and film directors, including Oscar winning director Andrzej Wajda, and scored the music for United Nations documentary “Opening Doors”. He is also a fellow of the Sundance Institute Episodic Story Lab 2016. Ciupinski studied with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Christopher Rouse at The Juilliard School, Zbigniew Bujarski and Krzysztof Penderecki at the Cracow Academy of Music, and with Edwin Roxbrough and Joe Cutler at the Birmingham Conservatoire. Since 2013 he has been teaching at Purchase College, State University of New York where he served as head of Studio Composition program as well as artistic director of Purchase Orchestra Electric, an innovative multimedia project combining live orchestra with electronics, lights and and video projection mapping.
