Lars Graugaard with the NYU Improvisers’ Ensemble, Robert Dick, Chris Jordan and Katherine Liberovskaya
A deeply involved experience with Lars Graugaard’s rich take on electronic styles in dialogue with Chris Jordan and Katherine Liberovskaya’s visual contribution, Robert Dick’s flute and the NYU Improvisers’ Ensemble for free exploration in sound, image and super-responsive realtime electronics. In a unique mix of acoustic instruments and live, realtime and interactive electronica, the music brings in fresh elements from electronic and hand-made arts and street styles to produces a novel and captivating result. The electronics are very versatile and performed on the spot (nothing is pre-recorded), and this flexibility provides that openness for improvisations and inventive flights of fancy that combines so well with the artist’s rich palette.
– Lars Graugaard
Denmark’s Lars Graugaard is a prolific and chameleon-like operative who moves with ease between a variety of musical areas. His background lies in a mix of musical styles and roles including composer and performer of classical, contemporary and electronic musics. Holding a MA in music performance and a PhD Interactive music allows him a unique and innovative take on electronic music, where he emphasizes music’s expressive capacities in immediately communicative settings. Lars has worked with a wide range of artists – in jazz he has played with names such as Mal Waldron, Ed Thigpen, Marilyn Mazur and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – with releases on small independents and major labels. A multiple recipient of artist grants, he now focuses his performing energies on realtime interaction with an entirely unique re-imagining of the possibilities of the 21st century improvised idiom. Lars is Visiting Faculty Artists at NYU Steinhardt, lecturer at Medialogy, Aalborg University (Denmark), composer-in-residence with Grup Moderna, Valencia (Spain) and artistic director of the re-new media arts festival (Denmark).– Robert Dick
Denmark’s Lars Graugaard is a prolific and chameleon-like operative who moves with ease between a variety of musical areas. His background lies in a mix of musical styles and roles including composer and performer of classical, contemporary and electronic musics. Holding a MA in music performance and a PhD Interactive music allows him a unique and innovative take on electronic music, where he emphasizes music’s expressive capacities in immediately communicative settings. Lars has worked with a wide range of artists – in jazz he has played with names such as Mal Waldron, Ed Thigpen, Marilyn Mazur and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – with releases on small independents and major labels. A multiple recipient of artist grants, he now focuses his performing energies on realtime interaction with an entirely unique re-imagining of the possibilities of the 21st century improvised idiom. Lars is Visiting Faculty Artists at NYU Steinhardt, lecturer at Medialogy, Aalborg University (Denmark), composer-in-residence with Grup Moderna, Valencia (Spain) and artistic director of the re-new media arts festival (Denmark).– Robert Dick
With equally deep roots in classical music old and new and in free improvisation and new jazz, Robert Dick has established himself as an artist who has not only mastered, but redefined the flute. Known worldwide for creating revolutionary visions of the flute’s musical role, listening to Robert Dick play solo has been likened to the experience of hearing a full orchestra. His performances typically include flute (with his invention, the Glissando Headjoint®)piccolo, alto flute, and bass flutes in C and F. On special occasions, he’ll bring out the giant, stand-up contrabass flute.– The NYU Improvisers’ Ensemble
The NYUIE is the instructional component of the for aspiring students of jazz and creative music at New York University Steinhardt. The ensemble changes line-up regularly, but retains the essense of creation in improvisation that ranges from the jazz to well into the contemporary music fields.– Katherine Liberovskaya
Katherine Liberovskaya is a video and media artist based in Montreal, Canada, and New York City. She has been working predominantly in experimental video since the late eighties. Over the years, she has produced many single-channel videos, video installation works and video performances which have been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues and events around the world. As of recent years her work – in single-channel and installation video as well as performance – mainly revolves around collaborations with new music composers/sound artists, notably Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana, Hitoshi Kojo, Zanana, Anne Wellmer, David First and David Watson. Since 2003 she is active in live video mixing exploring improvisation with numerous live new music/audio artists including: Margarida Garcia, Barry Weisblat, o.blaat, murmer, André Gonçalves, Monique Buzzarté, Anthony Coleman, Shelley Hirsch, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi, Audrey Chen, among many others. In addition to her art practice she has concurrently been involved in the programming and organization of diverse media art events, notably with Studio XX in Montreal (programming coordinator 1996-1998, president 2001-2003), Espace Vidéographe, Montreal and Experimental Intermedia, NY (Screen Compositions 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) as well as the OptoSonic Tea series with Ursula Scherrer at Diapason in NYC and in various locations in Europe and elsewhere with OptoSonic Tea On the Road.– Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan explores the medium of light, movement, and time through the use of technology. His installations have appeared at the Moma, The New Museum, The Whitney, The Museum of Natural History, The Chelsea Museum, Times Square, numerous galleries and clubs; and the incidental spaces inbetween. The common elements that define Chris’ work include explorations into memory, photography, film, interactivity, and projections. By examining the political and social implications technology has on us through a diversity of media, his work challenges the viewer to redefine perceptions of audience and performer. In addition Chris teaches interactive design at Baruch College and NYU; and organizes T-Minus, G33kXmas, rooftop movies, and visualist salons in New York City.
