1994 Artists in Residence
Awarded Artists:
Ikue Mori
Ikue Mori is a composer, improviser, and performer who began as a drummer in the No Wave band DNA before moving on to work with drum machines and laptops. She has collaborated with artists like Fred Frith, Ensemble Modern, and John Zorn, and has received numerous awards, grants, and commissions for her cutting edge work.
Associated project: Post-minimalist drum-machine work
Leroy Jenkins
“Coincidents,” a documentary about the artists African American and Welsh heritages and the effect of migration on identity, uses Jitter to allow Jenkins violin to trigger the video. Jenkins is an internationally renowned composer/violinist who is a founding member of the Association for the Advancement for the Creative Musicians. Griffin is a writer and video maker, who has received awards from the New York foundation for the Arts and The Rockefeller Foundation, and residency grants at Harvestworks, The Atlantic Center, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Jane Ira Bloom
“Pilobolus Score” will incorporate samples of the “sonic output” from the spontaneous interaction between improvising musicians and dancers for the premiere dance company, Pilobolus.
Associated project: Pilobolus Score
Yau Ching
“Building A New Stove” is a personal documentary/exploration of the forthcoming takeover of Hong Kong by mainland China utilizing interviews and sound scapes to create a production for radio broadcast.
Associated project: Building A New Stove
Gideon D’Arcangelo
“Mosaic of the Air” is a “hit parade of the streets” for radio airplay and will be gathered by tapping into the Walkmen of public citizens chosen at random and interviewing them about music in general.
Rev. Dwight Frizell
“The Phenomenological Telephone” is a fast-paced humorous radio drama that examines the complex, ever-sprawling network of person-to-person telecommunications with special emphasis on social impact and the unwriting of history. Included in to this piece will be archival recordings of telephone songs as well as original music and commentary.
Associated project: The Phenomenological Telephone
John Hollenbeck
“Bell Tree Pulse” is a musical composition for percussion and sampled voices written for the Harlem School of the Arts Dance Company.
Associated project: Bell Tree Pulse
Rod Lindauer
“Mechanics of Our Malaise,” is an nteractive performance of controlled video and audio accompanied by the artist’s life signs via biofeedback devices – newly developed rituals for evolved technologies.
Associated project: Mechanics of Our Malaise
Brian Patton
“State O’Static” is a film-music project which reveals the complicity of the average workday and narrative structure with post-structuralist strategies, sample-driven music and dry wit.
Associated project: State O’Static
Reginald Woolery
“Sojourn” is a multilayered video and audio installation that centers on the journey of an African-American, Jamaican-Canadian and First Nation individual who set out to reclaim culturally significant objects purchased in the fallout of the African Diaspora.
Associated project: Sojourn
Otomo Yoshihide
“Solo” consists of recordings for compact disc by the turntable/found-sound and noise-guitar wizard.
Associated project: Solo
Sui Kang Zhao
“Alternative Polyphonic Realities” is a multimedia installation containing visualizations and verbalizations of selected religious texts.
Associated project: Alternative Polyphonic Realities
Reynold Weidenaar
Associated project: Magic Music from the Telharmonium
Michael Smith
“Rear Window 1994” is a sound and light show to be staged against the real wall of a non-descript apartment building to produce elaborate shadow play performed by actors seen through the windows of individual apartments with a soundtrack of ingoing and outgoing messages from amplified phone machines in the building.