Featured composers John Plenge, Ha-Yang Kim and Marco Benevento perform at the Cutting Room in New York City
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(l-r) ASCAP's Cia Toscanini, Ha-Yang Kim, John Plenge, Martha Mooke, Marco Benevento, and from Sibelius Lee Whitmore, Lisa Speegle and Ernie Jackson |
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The ASCAP Foundation presented its Thru the Walls showcase series at Manhattan's The Cutting Room on November 14, 2007. The series is designed to showcase the work of concert composer/ performers whose concert music defies boundaries and genres. Frank J. Oteri emceed, sponsored by Sibelius, which featured composer/sonic artist John Plenge, composer/cellist Ha-Yang Kim and composer/pianist Marco Benevento.
Sponsored in part by Sibelius, the music notation program for the 21st century. It is designed to notate, edit, playback and publish music of every kind, to the highest professional standards. It's quick, fast and easy. Be sure and visit www.sibelius.com for detailed product information.
Launched in 2001, Thru the Walls was conceived by ASCAP composer/ performer Martha Mooke. The event is co-produced by Mooke and ASCAP's Cia Toscanini.
John Plenge (composer/sonic artist/songwriter)
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John Plenge |
John Plenge and The ToneFactory will be performing an audio-visual collage of John's music and sonic environments from select film, theater and animation projects. John is an ASCAP, OBIE and NYSCA award winning composer, sound designer and music producer who is based in New York City. John writes and produces music and sonic environments for filmmakers, recording artists, performers, theater and dance companies that has been featured in performances all around the world. This Fall Johns music and sound designs were featured in the Ars Electronica Festival, The Turkish Biennial, the Festival International du Film d'Environnement in Paris, The Solento International Film Festival, in Italy, The LA Shorts Festival and in a new animated Peanuts video game series.
John's roots reach back to working in the studio and live with the recording artists Pink Floyd, PianoSaurus, The Vibes, Ornette Coleman, Motorhead, The Orange Project, Sly Stone, Bang On A Can, and Philip Glass, among others. During his tenure as resident sound designer at The Kitchen Theater, New York City he worked with a range of artists including Nam Jun Paik, Thurston Moore, Future Sound of London, DJ Spooky, Laurie Anderson, Glen Branca, Morton Subotnick, Mikel Rouse and Anthony Braxton.
John currently has two separate large scale multi-media theater projects in production with Mabou Mines and the 3 Legged Dog Media and Theater Group both with premieres in 2008. John is part of the Graduate Faculty in Media Studies and Film at The New School University in New York City where he teaches Music and Audio Production for Film and Music Production and Sound Design in the 21st Century. For more information, visit www.tonefactory.com.
Ha-Yang Kim (composer/cello)
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Ha-Yang Kim |
Cellist, composer and improviser Ha-Yang Kim was born in Seoul, Korea. Ha-Yang made her professional solo debut at age 16 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. She performs new music as a soloist and with ensembles and artists in festivals and concert venues throughout the world. She is the founder of Odd Appetite, a cello-percussion duo that performs and commissions new contemporary works alongside original works and improvisations. Her musical influences draw equally from a range of western classical music, American experimentalism, rock, jazz, and improvised music, to non-western musical sources from Bali, Korea and South Indian classical music (Karnatic).
In seeking new musical experiences, Ha-Yang has performed traditional and new Balinese music as a member of Gamelan Galak Tika, and has collaborated/ performed with many diverse musicians such as Evan Ziporyn, Cecil Taylor, John Zorn, Christian Wolff, Lee Hyla, Louis Andriessen, Lukas Ligeti, Larry Polansky, and Stefan Poetzsch, with whom she has presented original compositions incorporating electronics, dance, theatre, and multi-media. Ama, a CD of her own compositions, is out now on Tzadik. She has received prizes and awards including a grant from Meet the Composer, Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Argosy Foundation, the Ruth Schwob Foundation, and The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Kim has been an artist-in-residence at Princeton University, Brown University, Harvard University and a number of other universities.. Ha-Yang studied cello, improvisation, and microtonality at the New England Conservatory of Music, Karnatic music concepts at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and was on the faculty at Franklin Pierce College. For more information, visit www.hayangkim.com.
Marco Benevento
(composer/piano and circuit bent toys)
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Marco Benevento |
Marco Benevento is best known as one half of the Benevento/Russo Duo, the acclaimed instrumental indie rock, post jazz experimentalists, who've earned a legion of fans performing at high profile events like Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, Fuji Rock Festival and Bonnaroo, while drawing rave reviews at publications ranging from Rolling Stone to Pitchfork.com. Holding court behind a dizzying array of vintage keyboards, upright and toy pianos, pedals, samplers and other circuit bent gadgets, Benevento has established a reputation as one of the most exciting young keyboardists to emerge in the last decade. The ever-curious 28-year old artist's spirit remains rooted in the musicians he studied under and played alongside when first starting out; teachers like Kenny Werner, Billy Hart, Brad Mehldau and Joanne Brackeen and band-mates like Bob Moses and Ari Hoeing. Benevento set up shop every Wednesday in November 2006 for a residency at Tonic, the recently shuttered New York City improvisational music Mecca. Alternating between group and solo performance, Benevento was joined by a different cast of musical co-conspirators for each show. Highlights from that residency were recently gathered for a three-disc release entitled Marco Benevento - Live At Tonic.
For more information, visit www.marcobenevento.com.
