2014 SOUNDEVENT: Composers Inside Electronics

Long Island City, NY--On June 21 and in conjunction with Socrates Sculpture Park's annual celebration of the Summer Solstice, Norte Maar collaborates with Socrates Sculpture Park to present SOUNDEVENT: an evening of site-specific sound performances at Socrates Sculpture Park. For this event noted international sound artists will create unique sound platforms that encompass the entire park. Employing a range of techniques from traditional instrumentation, amplification of objects, juxtaposition of voices and experimental electronic sound, many of the performances will be durational. SOUNDEVENT is free to the public and will be held June 21 from 5-10pm.

SOUNDEVENT will feature the following members of CIE:
John Driscoll is a founding member of the pioneering group Composers Inside Electronics and collaborated on David Tudor's "Rainforest IV" project since its inception in 1973. He has performed extensively in the US and Europe with: CIE, Douglas Dunn & Dancers, David Tudor, and as a solo performer. His work involves robotic loudspeaker instruments, compositions and sound installations for unique architectural spaces, and music for dance. His recent work "Speaking in Tongues" (2012) uses custom ultrasonic instruments and he is currently an artist-in-residence at Harvestworks completing a new performance/installation work "Voices in My Head" for highly focused sound fields. He is presently working with the David Tudor Trust on planning for an exhibition on David Tudor and the re-construction of Tudor's works from the Pepsi Pavilion in 1970.

Phil Edelstein is a founding member of Composers Inside Electronics. He has collaborated on the "Rainforest IV" project since its inception at New Music in New Hampshire in Chocoruha in 1973 including evolution of the automated installation version "Rainforest V" in 2009. His work involves composing software, architected sound installations, sculptural sound fields and objects implemented in electronic media, circuitry and algorithm. Recent works have used fractals and data mining as compositional tools for construction of sound fields in work such as "Fractoloy", a series of chaotic activated patches. An extension of this is "Impulsion" in which synthetic and encoded reverberant spaces and objects are folded upon themselves and acoustically rendered.

You Nakai makes music and other works as part of No Collective. Recent works include "Concertos No.4" (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2012), performed with ball-speakers kicked around by blind athletes in a completely darkened space, and "Vesna's Fall" (Judson Church, Black Mountain College, 2014), a decidedly modernist dance piece made in collaboration with Lindsey Drury. You is also a PhD student in Musicology at NYU, writing a dissertation on the music of David Tudor. His research is funded by Fulbright scholarship.