Night 5: Electric cello,

K-bow, and computers

featuring

Margaret Schedel,

Sarah O'Halloran,

and Dawn Weleski

July 10, 2009 at 8PM

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This event will feature two up-and-coming musicians Margaret Schedel from Stony Brook, NY, Sarah O'Halloran from Cork, Ireland and artist Dawn Weleski. In a melange of intimate interactions between the electrically powered cello, performance and computers, this event promises to expose a fantasy sonic world residing on the border of the analog and digital. Margaret will use a novel K-bow sensor bow designed by K. McMillen.

Bios:

Margaret Anne Schedel is a composer and cellist specializing in the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media. Her works have been performed throughout the United Stated and abroad.

While working towards a DMA in music composition at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, her interactive multimedia opera, A King Listens, premiered at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and was profiled by apple.com.

Her work has been supported by the Presser Foundation, Centro Mexicano para la Música y les Artes Sonoras, and Meet the Composer. She recently won the Ruth Anderson Prize for her collaborative installation Twenty Love Songs and a Song of Despair. As an Assistant Professor of Music at Stony Brook University, she serves as Co-Director of Computer Music and is a core faculty member of cDACT, the consortium for digital art, culture and technology.

Sarah O’Halloran’s work includes concert music, installations, and sculpture. In 2004 she graduated from University College Cork in Ireland with a BA in Music and English, and two years later she completed an MPhil on Gerald Barry’s operas, which focused on issues of sexual and national idenity.

In 2007 she finished an MA in Sonic Arts at Queens University Belfast. Until recently Sarah was based in Cork where she lectured in music and ran the Quiet Music Festival which brought Alvin Lucier and Pauline Oliveros to Ireland for the first time. Her music has been played at festivals including Gaudeamus (Netherlands), Sonorities (UK), and Ostrava Days (Czech Republic).

Dawn Weleski re-purposes local newspapers, public transportation commutes, and meals with family as transformative social stages to reveal their own social wellness and cultural renewal and to provide a forum for provisional awareness. Her art work often acts as a political and social stress test, measuring the health of routine within shared cultural behavior. She encourages relating to the other by opening entry into unfamiliar and uncomfortable systems, by implicating and embedding within the work its own collaborative rules, and by reanimating defunct or retarded connections between seemingly disparate people and places in a state of transition. Dawn resides in Pittsburgh, PA.