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Upcoming Events
Ann St Gallery: Electronic Music: Powered by Girls
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| Bonnie Jones |
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| Suzanne Thorpe |
March 13, 2010
The Ann Street gallery welcomes electronic music artists Suzanne Thorpe and Bonnie Jones to conduct a workshop and concert, Electronic Music: Powered by Girls, on Saturday March 13 from 1:00-5:00 PM, and a public concert at 8:00 PM. The workshop is free to the public, and concert admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students.
The workshop will provide young girls aged 13-18 hands-on experience with both digital and analog technologies, fostering familiarity and confidence in areas of art, science and technology. Designed for students with basic computer literacy, the workshop will include a sound walk and recording session, audio editing session, and exercises designed to develop skills in listening, dialogue, sharing and vocalizing. The artists believe that creative musical expression within a group setting is an effective method for addressing critical female adolescent and young adult issues such as: confidence and self-image, group-awareness, self-awareness, creative problem solving, peer support and diversity.
The evening concert will feature solo electronic music compositions by the artists as well as an improvised collaborative duet performance. Thorpe will present a single performance of Nautical Twilight, a multichannel solo work for flute, electronics, laptop and hemispherical speakers. Nautical Twilight is a piece about the absence of illumination, when objects are discernable, but details indistinguishable. Jones will present an improvised performance based on a text/poetry score. Jones' unusual self-made electronic instruments and use of microphones provide a unique palette in which to explore ideas of "voice" and "language." The piece will combine sound and poetry written by Jones, exploring the area where music becomes communicative and text becomes aural.
About the artists:
Suzanne Thorpe is an electro-acoustic flutist, composer, educator and arts-activist who extends her instrument with an ever-evolving set up up analogue and digital software components, and her recent compositions are multi-channel works that employ psycho-acoustic phenomena, tuned filtering systems and feedback. As an improvisor, Thorpe has performed with Chris Brown, Chris Cogburn, Rob Cambre, David Dove, Annette Krebs, Maggie Nicols, Pauline Oliveros, Gino Robair, Miya Masaoka, and Zeena Parkins, among others. She has been a featured performer at the Activating the Medium Festival, performing with Zbigniew Karkowski, Anti-Matter and Ulrich Krieger, at Issue Project Room's Floating Points Festival and the No Idea Festival. In another life, she was a founding member of Mercury Rev, with whom she composed, performed, recorded, produced and toured from 1989 through 1998, earning numerous critical accolades. At 2009's All Tomorrow's Parties, Thorpe recently re-emerged with the Mercury Rev alter-ego Harmony Rockets, performing their cult-classic Paralyzed Mind of the Arch Angel Void. Thorpe is currently one half of the flute and feedback duo thenumber46, with media artist Philip White, and can be heard as a member of The Wounded Knees, D2 Affinity with Chuck Johnson and occasionally mucking it up with J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. www.suzannethorpe.com
Bonnie Jones is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with sound and text. Born in 1977 in South Korea, she was raised by dairy farmers in New Jersey and currently resides in Baltimore, MD. In performances, Jones plays the circuit boards of digital delay pedals and used projected text and live, improvised writing techniques. Jones has performed her work in the U.S., Europe and Asia, and has appeared in the ErstQuake Festival, the No Idea Festival, Cha' al' ab Paaxil Festival, and High Zero Festival. Jones has received several awards and recognitions including a Fulbright Fellowship, Meet the Composer grants, and an artist residency at STEIM in Amsterdam. She is currently an MFA candidate at Bard College's Milton Avery School for Fine Arts. www.bonniejones.wordpress.com
For more information regarding Electronic Music: Powered by Girls, contact Suzanne Thorpe at (212) 206-1505 or suzanne@emf.org.
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