The UOM in action. Photo: Luis Olazabal.
Harold Golen Gallery
2294 NW 2nd Ave, Wynwood Art District, Miami FL, 33127
434-284-2985
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featuring
October 24, 2009 at 8PM
University of Miami's CAS Art Gallery at 1210 Stanford Drive (Wesley Building across from the Lowe Art Museum), Coral Gables, Fl
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Free admission.
Hardware store items such as screws, bolts, chains and pipes will star as musical instruments tonight. International troupe of composers and performers will engage you in a neo-futurist spectacle. In a series of sets, live electronics and physical labor will conjure up ambient soundscapes and polyrhythmic beats full of musical colors.
About Kasia Glowicka:
Kasia Glowicka's (1979) artistic output embraces musical mediums of all types collaborating with stage directors, choreographers, visual artists, musicians and conductors on original works for opera, dance and symphonic orchestra distinguishable by her force of expression and color. Kasia’s works have been premiered by renowned international ensembles and soloists (a.o. Ensemble Recherché, Holland Symfonia, the Netherlands Vocal Laboratorium, Ensemble ‘de Ereprijs’, Jonathan Peter Kenny) at prestigious events (a.o. Biennale di Venezia, Warsaw Autumn, ‘De Suite at ‘Ijsbreker, Gaudeamus Music Week, International Women in New Music festival in California, ICMC in Barcelona and the Musica Electronica Nova) and she is a recipient of several awards (a.o. Bourges competition, Musica Sacra, BMW!Crash). In 2008 she obtained a doctorate in electroacoustic music composition (SARC, Belfast) and is currently lecturing at Royal Conservatory Brussels.
About Henry Vega:
born in New York City, is dedicated to the creation and promotion of electro acoustic music. In a handful of years he has been involved as teacher, technician, composer and performer on productions of theatre, dance and concert music that focus solely on modern artistic trends. As a composer Vega has received commissions to work with choreographers, theatre directors and video artists while his devotion is focused on computer interactive performance.
His music has received first prize from Musica Nova (Czech Rep.), Crash Intl. Biennale (Poland) and SCI, Honorable Mention from the Hungarian Radio EAR competition and was a selected for the Gaudeamus Composition Contest 2004 in Amsterdam for his work 'Alibi'. Vega's works have been performed at venues in Cuba, the United States, Korea, Europe and Australia and at festivals such as ICMC, SEAMUS, Sonic Residues, the Scarborough EA Festival, Primavera en la Havana, Sonorities, Aural Tick and the Florida EM Festival.
In 2003 he founded 'The Electronic Hammer' with Diego Espinosa and Juan Parra, a group dedicated to performing new and recent works for percussion and computers allowing composers with limited or expert knowledge of computers to compose freely for this meta-instrument. The trio has performed in many international festivals and received a one hour featured artist presentation on the BBC "Hear and Now" radio program. In 2007 the group released their debut CD How to philosophize with a Hammer on the EMF label.
About Mirjana Petrovic:
Mirjana Petrovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. At the age of 9 she studied piano, accordion, and voice. She then continued her education in high school and at the Music Academy. She came to Miami in 2005 to study composition at Florida International University, and in 2008 she received her Masters. She has presented her compositions at two music festivals in Belgrade – BEMUS and BELEF, and has actively participated in a number of composer’s workshops. In addition, she has taught at Florida International University, SOBE Music Institute, Music America, H.O.M.E., and Miami Music Works.
About David Dean Mendoza:
David Dean Mendoza was born in El Paso Texas. He learned to play piano at age 7 and viola at age 10. At age 16, he began to compose music. While in high school, he performed not only in his high school orchestra, but local youth and university orchestras as well. He went on to study viola and composition at Florida State University earning his BM in composition (2003) studying under Ladislav Kubik and Mark Wingate. While at Florida State he also took advantage of learning Early Music with Pamela Andrews, Chinese Music with Haiqiong Deng, Korean Music with Andrew Killick, and Balinese Gamelan with Michael Bakan. Looking for a more progressive learning environment, he decided to study at Florida International University with Orlando Garcia. While there, he exclusively played music of the last fifty years and expanded his compositional skills earning his MM in 2008.
About the UOM:
The UOM is a multi-disciplinary project where the focus is non-traditional instruments and performance technique. The UOMs make music with handmade bells (made of slice gas tanks), sheet metal, copper pipes, all sorts of percussion, cello, heavily processed electric guitar, bass, melodica, whistles, toy instruments, harmoniums, typewriters, synths, , etc... "UOM" stands for Unheard Of Music, but also happens to be an acronym for "Union Obrera Metalurgica", the steel workers' union in Argentina, which has always been at the center of heated political discussion. Ironically, a great deal of our music is based on metal percussion, with its unpredictable harmonics and rough edges. After starting on the path of experimental performance, we started developing the theatrical & comical aspects that come naturally from playing unusual instruments. We have taken this exploratory approach to collaborations with other disciplines. We often improvise along contemporary dancers; we perform in artist-designed sets, and amid video projections. Our performances are unusual, entretaining, and provoking.
About Juraj Kojs:
Juraj Kojs is a performer, composer, producer, and educator. He is a Postdoctoral Associate in Music Technology and Multimedia Art at Yale’s Department of Music. In May 2008, Kojs received his Ph.D. in Composition and Music Technologies at the University of Virginia. Kojs' compositions were recently featured at festivals and conferences in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Kojs’ works received awards at Eastman Electroacoustic Composition and Performance Competition and the Digital Art Award. His articles appeared in journals such as Organized Sound, Digital Creativity, Leonardo Music Journal, and Journal of New Music Research.