NOISE
c/o San Diego New Music
PMB 316
9700 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-5010
musical excerpt:
Illuminaciones, by Juan Campoverde Q.
photos by Supeena Insee Adler
San Diego New Music and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library join to present the fifth annual
soundON Festival of Modern Music
June 16-18, 2011
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
1008 Wall St., La Jolla, California
• THREE NIGHTS • NINE SETS •
of the best in international contemporary chamber music
featuring performances by
NOISE
Lisa Cella, flute
Mark Menzies, violin
Franklin Cox, cello
Christopher Adler, piano and khaen
Morris Palter, percussion
Colin McAllister, guitar and conductor
The Formalist Quartet
Mark Menzies, violin
Andrew Tholl, violin
Andrew Nathaniel McIntosh, viola
Ashley Walters, cello
Delenda Est Carthago
Robert Zelickman, clarinets
Colin McAllister, electric guitar
Christopher Adler, piano
and special guest artists
Robert Zelickman, clarinet
Matthew Burtner, saxophone
Nathan Brock, electronics
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The soundON Festival of Modern Music brings together an international roster of composers and performers to present a three-day exploration of contemporary chamber music. Set in the intimate environment of the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, in beautiful downtown La Jolla, the Festival offers ample opportunity for audiences to interact informally with the artists and to work with them on the performance of experimental new music. The Festival is hosted by San Diego New Music’s chamber ensemble-in-residence, NOISE, which features six acclaimed specialists in the performance of contemporary concert music from across the United States. With prominent performances across Europe and the U.S., and extensive recordings released, NOISE returns to its San Diego home once a year to produce the exciting Festival. NOISE is joined by the Formalist Quartet, Southern California's most adventurous string quartet, the improvising trio Delenda Est Carthago, klezmer virtuoso Robert Zelickman, Alaskan composer, sound artist and saxophonist Matthew Burtner, and electronics maestro Nathan Brock.
This year our guest composers represent the most dynamic young voices emerging in the chamber music world today. Festival events include chamber music concerts, daytime open rehearsals, panel discussions on contemporary music and a performance workshop in which members of community join with NOISE to perform experimental works. Guest composers (complete roster TBA) include Thomas DeLio, Sidney Marquez Boquiren, Matthew Burtner, Frances White, Madelyn Byrne, David Toub, Samuel Carl Adams, Alan Lechusza Aquallo and Nathan Brock.
The 2011 festival features the works of composers Mauricio Meza, Rei Munakata, Frances White, David Toub, Samuel Adams, and Justin Writer—all winners from our annual international call for scores, and masterworks by Osvaldo Golijov and Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
ongoing throughout festival
Arrival, by composer Madelyn Byrne and video artist Lily Glass
An audio visual installation investigating travel and self-discovery will be on display in the Athenaeum's reading room
Thursday, June 16
The soundON experience: virtuoso soloists, late-night meditations, and a great party—all in one night.
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Open rehearsals
NOISE rehearses the works of featured guest composers. A unique opportunity to peek behind the curtain at the making of new music as composers and performers work together to bring new works into being. Free and open to the public.
7:00 pm pre-concert talk with guest composers and performers
7:30 pm Opening Concert: Solos and Duos
Always a favorite of soundON, the solos and duos concert features the virtuoso members of NOISE at the height of the art form, performing works at the extremes of complexity, groove, and instrumental experimentation.
Luciano Berio, Sequenza I
Christopher Adler, Aeneas in the Underworld, Act I
Kimmo Hakola , Diamond Street
Stuart Saunders Smith, Time Comes Full Circle
8:30 pm Special fifth anniversary event and party
With special surprise performances and premieres of dedications by world-famous composers, this will be a party not to be missed!9:30 pm Chill-out Concert
The chill-out returns with late-evening presentations of minimalist contemplation. This year we feature three winners of the 2010 international call for scores, downtown minimalism by David Toub, lush filmscapes by Fraces White and a fascinating fusion of shoegazer guitar and chamber music intricacy by Samuel Adams.
David Toub, dharmachakramudra
Frances White, The ocean inside
Matthew Burtner, Citlatepetl Vertex
Friday, June 17
Grooves, electronica and improvisation
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Open rehearsals
NOISE rehearses the works of featured guest composers. A unique opportunity to peek behind the curtain at the making of new music as composers and performers work together to bring new works into being. Free and open to the public.
7:00 pm pre-concert talk with guest composers and performers
7:30 pm Lands of Rhythm and Ritual
NOISE performs works by Alaskan musical visionary Matthew Burtner and Filipino experimentalist Sidney Marquez Boquiren. Burtner's channels an expansive arctic sensibility in ritualistic interactions of live musicians and electronics, while Boquiren invokes Cagean aesthetics in avant-garde Catholic ritual music, featuring Christopher Adler performing on the Lao free-reed bamboo mouth organ, khaen.
Sidney Marquez Boquiren, Babaylan
Matthew Burtner, Polyrhythmicana
Sidney Marquez Boquiren, Missa cum Jubilo
Matthew Burtner, (dis)Sensus
8:30 pm The String Quartets of Wadada Leo Smith
The Formalist Quartet performs string quartets of trumpeter, composer, and creative music legend Wadada Leo Smith: "at the forefront of the
New Creative Music"—Downbeat / "one of the most vital musicians on the planet today" —Coda
9:30 pm Rock out concert: Delenda Est Carthago
Spawn of NOISE and the Alan Lechusza / Christopher Adler Duo, Delenda Est Carthago performs fierce grooves for improvisers. This is music fit for Roman conquest.
Alan Lechusza, Montana
Christopher Adler, Mastodon
Saturday, June 18
soundON: the best international contemporary chamber music
10:00 am - noon Community workshop
Have you wondered about the experience of playing modern music? It may be easier than you think! Join NOISE for an interactive workshop in the performance of contemporary music. We will prepare and perform a selection of experimental works, including B/P+IG(10) by Justin Writer, a selection for our international call for scores. Amateurs and professionals welcome! Please contact sdnm@yahoo.com for inquiries about participation so we may plan for a suitable instrumentation. Please note that participation in the workshop requires purchases of a one-day festival ticket or an all-festival pass.
12:15 pm Community workshop performance
NOISE and the participants in this morning's community workshop join to present experimental works in an informal concert.
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Open rehearsals
NOISE rehearses the works of featured guest composers. A unique opportunity to peek behind the curtain at the making of new music as composers and performers work together to bring new works into being. Free and open to the public.
7:00 pm pre-concert talk with guest composers and performers
7:30 pm Dreams and Prayers
The Formalist Quartet is joined by klezmer and new music virtuoso clarinettist Robert Zelickman for a performance of Osvaldo Golijov's Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind. "What Golijov has achieved in this new work is an unusually passionate synthesis of traditional Jewish folk and religious musics well seasoned with Latin and classical accents... "—The Boston Globe
8:30 pm Chamber Concert Finale, part I
NOISE is joined by guest performers in the performance of the most exciting new concert music being written today, including two winners from our 2010 international call for scores, Mauricio Meza and Rei Munakata. Experience the living tradition of chamber music in the hands of its finst explorers.
Rei Munakata, Pouring Etiquette
Thomas DeLio, transients / images
Juan Campoverde Q., torus / N
9:30 pm Chamber Concert Finale, part II
Nathan Brock, Cenotaph
Thomas DeLio, transients / interferences
Mauricio Meza, Confabulation 1.7
PERFORMER AND GUEST COMPOSER BIOGRAPHIES
NOISE, the ensemble-in-residence of San Diego New Music
David Toub
David Toub (b. 1961, Newark, NJ) has been described as a postminimalist composer. Largely self-taught, his only formal composition education consisted of attending music school during weekends while in high school. He received his AB and MD degrees from the University of Chicago and a MBA from Drexel University. Formally a practicing gynecologic surgeon at Pennsylvania Hospital, he currently works for a medical device startup (Gynesonics) in Silicon Valley. His music is freely available for download through his music site (http://homepage.mac.com/dtoub/dbtmusic.html), and has been heard on radio programs such as Music from Other Minds on KALW-FM and Classical Discoveries on WPRB-FM as well as Internet radio (Postclassic Radio, Contemporary Classical Radio). The Rangzen Quartet recorded his string quartet work mf for OgreOgress Productions and the composer Steve Layton has recorded both an extended piano work (textbook: music of descending landscapes in hyperspace) and the open instrumentation piece darfur pogrommen; all are available on iTunes and Amazon.com. Toub’s music has been increasingly performed in the past few years, including performances by the Diverse Instrument Ensemble, the first Sequenza 21 concert in New York City and by the percussionists Bill Solomon and Mike Lunoe at Hartt College of Music. He lives in Wyncote, Pennsylvania with his wife and two children, and is active in a number of social causes..
Robert Zelickman, clarinet
Robert Zelickman is a Lecturer of Music at UC San Diego where he has taught since 1983. In addition to teaching clarinet and performing contemporary music, Robert conducts the UCSD Wind Ensemble and lectures on Jewish Music. Besides his duties at the University, Robert can be seen in many other venues throughout the community. He is a member of Orchestra Nova San Diego and has performed with the San Diego Symphony and the San Diego Opera. Robert is also well known throughout California as the co-director of the Second Avenue Klezmer Ensemble, and is a frequent guest performer with NOISE. Zelickman earned his B.A. at UCLA and a MFA at Cal Arts. Robert Zelickman and Second Avenue Klezmer
TICKETS AND LOCAL INFORMATION
One day admission (includes all events on a given day):
$20 / $15 Athenaeum members and students with ID
Festival pass for all events
$50 / $40 Athenaeum members and students with ID
To reserve tickets call (858) 454-5872
Accomodations in San Diego
Empress Hotel
7766 Fay Avenue, La Jolla, CA 92037
(888) 369-9900
www.empress-hotel.com
La Jolla Village Lodge
1141 Silverado Street
La Jolla, CA 92037
Free:(877) 551-2001
www.lajollavillagelodge.com
The 2011 soundON Festival is supported in part by
the Music Department at the University of California, San Diego,
the Foundation for Contemporary Arts,
and the generosity of our private donors.