1995 Artists in Residence
Awarded Artists:
Zeena Parkins
New York based electro-acoustic composer / improviser Zeena Parkins is a pioneer of contemporary harp practices. Using expanded techniques, object preparations, and electronic processing she has re-defined the instrument’s capacities. Concurrently, Parkins self-designed a series of one-of-a kind electric instruments. She leans into the harp’s physical limitations pushing its boundaries and impossibilities. In her compositions, Parkins utilizes collections, recombination, historic proximities, geography, tactility, spatial configurations and movement. Sonic presence and personality is revealed in explorations of subtle frequency shifts, feedback, over and under tones, melodic fragments, timbral and gestural intervals, perception, and residues.
David Simons
David Simons composes music for theater, dance, film, installations, and concert ensembles. His unusual collection of sounds from self-built and non-European instruments combines with digital sampling technologies to create a unique pan-cultural music. He has devised his own method of using the Theremin as a Midi controller. David has researched and performed music from many of the world’s cultures, and furthered his music studies in Bali, Bangkok and Seoul. As a founding member of the FUTURE PRIMITIVE ENSEMBLE his pieces were heard live on radio and in concert throughout the U.S. He has also performed on tour in Java, Bali, Korea, Japan, Eastern and Western Europe, Canada, Cuba and Hawaii.
Shelley Hirsch
Shelley Hirsch is an award winning, critically acclaimed vocalist, composer, and storyteller whose solo compositions, staged multimedia works, improvisations, radio plays, surround sound pieces, installations and collaborations havebeen produced and presented in concert halls, clubs, festivals, theaters, museums, galleries and on radio, film and television on five continents. She has received awards. fellowships, grants and residencies from Creative Capital, NYFA, NYSCA, Mary Flagler Carey Trust, NEA and AIRS from the DAAD, Yaddo, Montalvo Arts Center and many more.
Stephen Vitiello
Stephen Vitiello is an electronic musician and media artist. CD, LP and digital releases have been published by New Albion, Sub Rosa, 12k, and Room 40. His sound installations and multi-channel works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon. Over the last 30 years, Vitiello has collaborated with such artists and musicians as Pauline Oliveros, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Taylor Deupree, Joan Jonas, Tony Oursler, Steve Roden and Scanner. Vitiello has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for “Fine Arts,” a Creative Capital grant for “Emerging Fields” and an Alpert/Ucross Award for Music. Originally from New York, Vitiello is now based in Richmond, VA where he is a professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Jo Andres
Jo Andres for sounddesign of the experimental film, World Citizen, based on the 1992 journals of visual artist Izeta Gradevic in her hometown of Sarajevo.
Tony Allard
Tony Allard/Kristine Diekman for an audio track for Corpse and Mirror, a videotape based on a monologue written by Allard that moves non-sequentially through seven childhood memories of his experiences with language and his father’s mental illness.
Barbara Nimri Aziz
Barbara Nimri Aziz for a radio project that will explore new and creative cultural bridges between the Arab and Western worlds. Components include standard Quranic prayers, spoken voices of children and adults telling folktales at festivals and in normal conversation, and Islamic-inspired as well as innovative arabic musics.
Jennie M. Bourne
Jennie M. Bourne for a radio project about an African-American musician drafted in 1941 into a then-segregated Army and assigned to the Army band. Production elements will include oral histories of members of the band; martial band, Big Band Swing, and Be Bop music; and an allegorical narration of the story.
Blondell Cummings
Blondell Cummings for a score for “Women in the Dunes,” a dance project which explores and compares differences and similarities between an African-American woman and a Japanese woman. Explorations will include cultural identities, traditional and contemporary values, customs and rituals, and family ties and personal histories.
Dandara
Dandara for a soundtrack of “Urban Forestry Carnival-a Samba Synthesis” an art performance that will combine solo performances of a Samba singer and dancer, as an example of the relationship between Samba and the Urban Forestry environment of Rio.
Michael Dwass
Michael Dwass for sound design of an experimental film, Bway, which explores the urban environment/landscape through a highly personal stylistic walk down the length of Broadway in New York City.
Patricia Villalobos Echeverria
Patricia Villalobos Echeverria for a radio project Grietas (Fissures), an art piece utilizing Spanish and English as elements of a densely layered sound environment. The project will consist of an oscillation between Echeverria’s Spanglish poetry and sounds of public spaces where cultures collide.
Joan Giroux
Joan Giroux for “A Giant Misstep: In Search of Possessions,” an installation about exploration and occupying territories. The installation will be a network of colorful cubes connected by tubing using a variety of sound material to address the issue of fate and determinism in a metaphorical fashion.
Daniel Goode
Daniel Goode/Larry Polansky for “Clarinet/Geese” a collaborative project of two pieces. “Clarinet/Geese” will be a piece for tape and ensemble in which sounds of a flock of geese are used.
Larry Polansky
Daniel Goode/Larry Polansky for “Clarinet/Geese” a collaborative project of two pieces. “Clarinet/Geese” will be a piece for tape and ensemble in which sounds of a flock of geese are used.
Paul Kaiser
Paul Kaiser for a CD-ROM on the theater of Robert Wilson. The piece is built on the autobiographical lecture and slide-show that Wilson has been delivering for many years. Kaiser will rescue recordings of the two young men who inspired Wilson’s first plays: Raymond Andrews, who was deaf, and Christopher Knowles, who was autistic.
Sarah Montague
Sarah Montague for “Three Sisters Sisters.” Using as its matrix Chekhov’s play Three Sisters — the theme of which is the struggle between freedom and stasis — the work will explore the role and symbolism of other trios of women: the Three Graces, the Three Witches, the Brontes, Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives, and Robert Altman’s Three Women.
Yosunao Tone
Yosunao Tone for “Musica Iconologos II ” an experimental CD-ROM project that will utilize a sound file generating program, Projector, that produces sound information based upon combinations of X-Y data.
Nancy Meli Walker
Nancy Meli Walker for a sound track for an installation using 3D videotapes. Exploring the beauty of nature and the importance of the preservation of its existence, the sound track will draw sounds from nature.