For the 9th season, the Society for New Music presents “Vision of Sound” -- a program of live new music and dance in Syracuse, NY. Vision of Soundis committed to the performance and promotion of new work by living composers and choreographers, with the purpose of showcasing New York State artists. The collaborative effort of the choreographers and composers in the creation of a piece is brought to life by musicians, dancers and audience.Vision of Sound is a feast for the senses and performed in spaces intimate enough for audience members to bask in the sight and sound.

Come enjoy this colorful showcase of New York State talent.

Composers participating this season are Marco Alunno (Eastman doctorate, now at Universidad EAFIT,Medellin, Colombia), David H. Davies (Houghton College graduate, teaching at Texas A&M-Commerce), Kevin Ernste (Eastman doctorate, Cornell professor), Mark Olivieri (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), Nicolas Scherzinger (Syracuse University), and Rob Voisey (freelance composer and performer in New York City).

The choreographers represent dance companies and dance faculties across Upstate New York and in New York City. They are: Alexandra Beller (New York City company and nationally), Lisa Fagan (Brooklyn via Bard), Shannon Holmes (Syracuse-Empire State Dance), Cheryl Johnson (Rochester via Seattle), HanniSchwarzlander (Syracuse via national tours, founder of Dancematazz), Cynthia Williams (Hobart and William Smith faculty and nationally).

These visions have titles like Apparition, The Brake and the Signal, immoral minorities, Janus,cakedeath/small questions hardly worth asking, and Long Path.The quintet of performers interacting with the dancers and electronics live are Wendy Mehne, flute; Blagomira Lipari, violin; George Macero, cello; Rob Auler, piano; and Rob Bridge, marimba. They are renowned soloists, chamber musicians, and lauded recording artists. The Society for New Music, now in its 43rd season, is the only year-round new music group in New York State outside of Manhattan.

For the 9th season, the Society for New Music presents “Vision of Sound” -- a program of live new music and dance in Syracuse, NY. Vision of Soundis committed to the performance and promotion of new work by living composers and choreographers, with the purpose of showcasing New York State artists. The collaborative effort of the choreographers and composers in the creation of a piece is brought to life by musicians, dancers and audience.Vision of Sound is a feast for the senses and performed in spaces intimate enough for audience members to bask in the sight and sound.

Composers participating this season are Marco Alunno (Eastman doctorate, now at Universidad EAFIT,Medellin, Colombia), David H. Davies (Houghton College graduate, teaching at Texas A&M-Commerce), Kevin Ernste (Eastman doctorate, Cornell professor), Mark Olivieri (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), Nicolas Scherzinger (Syracuse University), and Rob Voisey (freelance composer and performer in New York City).

The choreographers represent dance companies and dance faculties across Upstate New York and in New York City. They are: Alexandra Beller (New York City company and nationally), Lisa Fagan (Brooklyn via Bard), Shannon Holmes (Syracuse-Empire State Dance), Cheryl Johnson (Rochester via Seattle), HanniSchwarzlander (Syracuse via national tours, founder of Dancematazz), Cynthia Williams (Hobart and William Smith faculty and nationally).

These visions have titles like Apparition, The Brake and the Signal, immoral minorities, Janus,cakedeath/small questions hardly worth asking, and Long Path.The quintet of performers interacting with the dancers and electronics live are Wendy Mehne, flute; Blagomira Lipari, violin; George Macero, cello; Rob Auler, piano; and Rob Bridge, marimba. They are renowned soloists, chamber musicians, and lauded recording artists. The Society for New Music, now in its 43rd season, is the only year-round new music group in New York State outside of Manhattan.

Meet the Choreographers:

CANDY ELISA COSTA AGUILERA was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. In 2007 she became a member of National Ballet of Cuba where and danced principal roles, such as The Queen of Willies from Giselle, Don Quixote, and Swan Lake.

ALEXANDRA BELLER is the Artistic Director of Alexandra Beller/Dances, a NY based Dance Theatre company currently celebrating its 13th anniversary. As a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company from 1995-2001, she performed in over 50 countries and throughout the U.S. In 2004 she helped to create “The Belle Epoch,” (Martha Clarke/Charles Mee).

LISA FAGAN is a Brooklyn-based dance artist whose work irritates the guidelines of modern dance, and plays intermittently within the modalities of dance, theater, improvisation, and radical physical nonsense. Fagan’s work has been presented at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan and at Brooklyn Arts Exchange. She has also worked in film and will appear in an upcoming science fiction short film by Encyclopedia Pictura's Daren Rabinovitch called "Smartware."

CHERYL JOHNSON has performed off-Broadway, at international arts festivals, in music videos, TV specials, nightclubs, and touring dance companies. In NYC she was a pioneer dancer for the original creation of MTV music videos. In Seattle, she was the dance consultant to the Jimi Hendrix Museum:Experience Music Project andco-founder of the non-profit organization Anacrusis Modern Tap Dance.

HANNI SCHWARZLANDER is a professional dancer, director, dance educator, and choreographer. Hanni currently teaches at the Ballet and Dance Center, the Dance Theater of Syracuse, and is spearheading the introduction of ZenaRommett Floor-Barre® technique to CNY. She is also the director and founder of Dancematazz, a broadway style dance entertainment troupe.

CYNTHIA J. WILLIAMS is a Professor of Dance at Hobart and William Smith Colleges where she teaches modern dance, improvisation, composition, dance history and other courses. A choreographer and lighting designer, Williams will be presenting an ensemble work from 2014 Falling at an up-coming ACDA.

Meet the Composers:

MARCO ALUNNO was born in Italy. At present he is professor of Composition and Theory at the Universidad EAFIT in Medellín (Colombia) where he works both as a scholar in film music and as a composer of concert music.

DAVID HORACE DAVIES is Assistant Professor of Music at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Davies' music has been performed in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York City, the Culturo Jorge Borges in Buenos Aires, and the Conservatorio de Musica de Puerto Rico in San Juan. A finalist for the Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Davies’ works have received awards from the College Music Society and the International Arts Movement, and in 2014 he was a Semi-Finalist for the American Prize for Choral Composition.

KEVIN ERNSTE is a composer, performer, and teacher of composition and electronic music at Cornell University where he is Director of the Cornell Electroacoustic Music Center (CEMC). He is a founding member of the Cornell Avant-Garde Ensemble (CAGE).

MARK OLIVIERI is an Assistant Professor of Music at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the founder and co-Artistic Director of Vision of Sound New Music and Dance Concert Festival, which pairs composers and choreographers together in the creation of new collaborative works. His most recent work, D=RxT, was premiered by critically acclaimed, Trio Medellín in Medellín, Colombia in May of 2014. Olivieri’sSpectacular Vernaculars for solo piano were recently recorded by pianist Nicholas Phillips for his American Vernaculars CD released in January 2014 on New Focus Recordings. Spectacular Vernaculars received high praise from the New York Times, describing his contributions to the project as "glittering pop-infused ètudes."Olivieri lives in Canandaigua, NY with his wife, dancer Alaina Olivieri, and their five children.

Composer Nicolas Scherzinger has received awards and commissions from ASCAP, SOCAN, the Barlow Endowment, the Jerome Foundation, the Canada Council, and the Eastman School of Music. He is currently associate professor of composition at the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University, is a member of the composition faculty at Mannes Prep, the New School for Music, and is composer-in-residence at the Kinhaven Music School in Vermont. In addition to his work as a professional composer and educator, he is active as a performer of improvisatory works for saxophone and interactive computer. He currently lives in Bronx, New York.

Composer ROBERT VOISEY has been described as "mad" by the New York Times and publications around the globe. The LA Times highlighted Voisey as a composer using creativity to get his work heard. His work has been heard in more than 40 countries in venues including Carnegie Hall, Winter Garden Atrium in New York City, Stratford Circus in London, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, as well as TV, radio, off-off broadway productions, movie screenings, bars, and a 3 story video installation projected against a building.

Tickets: Admission is FREE. Donations of food, clothing, and toiletries are encouraged for the Homeless Outreach & Advocacy Program

Composer's Voice Concert
Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 1:00pm
Jan Hus Presbyterian Church
351 E 74th Street
New York, New York 10021
FREE ADMISSION

Circuit Bridges is collaborating with Sprawl to present new audio works by students from the London School of Communication (University of the Arts London) and The New Schoolin two special concerts in London and New York City. The concerts, which feature sound art and electroacoustic music, are scheduled for Machines Room, 45 Vyner Street, London on April 16 as part of sonica.fm, and at Gallery MC, 549 W 52nd St, New York, New York on April 30. Pieces will also be streamed at sonic.fm and later broadcast via Resonance fm.

Students from the BA Sound Arts and Design and MA Sound Arts at London School of Communication (University of the Arts London) include: SebBruen, Robin Buckley, PärCarlsson, Serena Emtiaz, Jacques Everiss, Andrew Ford, Tomoko Hojo, Rahel Kraft, YasminKuymizakis, DominykasMorkunas, Pascal Louis Mowla, Lutfi Othman & Clive Vella, Dominic Stephens. Students from The New School for Public Engagement, School of Media Studies and ParsonsSchool of Art, Media, and Technology at The New School include: Emil Boserup, Marc Fiaux, Oscar Gracida, Fatima Mendez, Eric Romeo, and Evan Viola.

A range of influences and processes inspire the audio works: a listening ritual in Sufi meditation, attention economics, sounds produced on hand-built instruments, free improvisation, imaginary acoustic spaces creating a sensorial experience, rhythm, music, and noise, urban drone, and others.The audio pieces will be presented as fixed stereo sound.

Sprawl is an artist led organization that has been curating experimental sound events since in 1996. It was founded by Iris Garrelfs and Douglas Benford. Artists featured have included Kim Cascone, David Toop, Scanner, Talvin Singh, Kaffe Matthews, Christian Fennesz, Hayley Newman and more. Events include the Interplay Festival, Sonic Recycler, the Groundswell Festival at ICA, Presenting Vladislav Delay - a concert organized in conjunction with the Tate Modern’s educational department and the Finnish Institute. They have teamed up with Sonica.fm, an online radio 'gallery' dedicated to sound art, experimental electronics and radio art. First Bridges works will be showcased during a Sonica.fm residency at the Machines Room. http://www.sprawl.org.uk/http://www.sonica.fm

Circuit Bridges is a monthly concert series dedicated to highlighting the community of electroacoustic music creators. Founded in 2014 by Robert Voisey and under the artistic direction of David Morneau and Melissa Grey, Circuit Bridges strives to explore all music under the electroacoustic umbrella. This includes but is not limited to sonic art, radio art, glitch, circuit bending, electronica, real-time improvisation, network performance, audiovisual composition, mash-up, and data sonification. Our mission is to connect with artists from around the globe to present the wealth of electroacoustic music being written today.

For more information visit: www.CircuitBridges.com

Circuit Bridges: First Bridges
Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 12:30pm
Circuit Bridges @ Machines Room, London
45 Vyner Street
London E2 9DQ, United Kingdom
http://machinesroom.org/