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> Thursday, March 22, 2001 . 6 pm
> Miami Beach Botanical Garden
> 2000 Convention Center Dr, Miami Beach
> $15-$10
>
> SUBTROPICS
> Miami's experimental music festival opens its
> 13th edition with its classic marathon
>
> Despite the superstition surrounding the number thirteen our local
composers
> are defiant - an indefatigable and steadfast lot. At the Subtropics
> Marathon the atmosphere is relaxed. Come listen...step out and get a
> snack...come back in...three hours of pure musical irreverence by Florida
> based artists.
>
> Featuring: Julio Roloff, David Font, Kristine Burns, Sony Mao, Needle,
> Armando Rodriguez, Ileana Perez Velazquez, Francis Schwatz, George
Tegzes,
> Alfredo Triff, Robert Constable & other members of Tampa based BONK...
>
> Highlights include
>
> . The randomly patterned electronic microsounds of Needle and Sony Mao
(supported by the Beta Bodega Coalition).
> . Short Wave Fantasy - an audio/video collage by David Font.
> . Spectrum - a performance for Galician Bag Pipes by Armando Rodriguez
> . Yoruba, Celia - two new works from Ileana Perez Velazquez
> . And much much more.
>
> About the artists
>
> Khristine Burns
> Kristine Burns is the director of the Electronic Music Studios of the
> Florida International University School of Music. As the owner and
editor
> of WOW'EM, Women on the WebElectron Media
> (
http://music.drtmouth.edu/~wowem), Kristine designed and implemented a
web
> site intended for young women with interests in the media arts as well as
> science, math or computers. Her intermedia compositions have been
performed
> throughout the United States, canada, and Europe, including the
> international Congress of Women in Music (Vienna), the FUTURA Festival
> (Drome, France), SEAMUS and SCI Conferences, The Bowling Green State
> University of New Music and Art, and the California State University at
Los
> Angeles Computer Music Festival.
>
> Robert Constable
> Since 1993, Robert Constable has been the director of the Slavin
Electronic
> Studio at New College of USF. He received a BA from University of South
> Florida, Masters and Ph.D. work at the Eastman School of Music, where he
> held the position of Co-administrator of the Electronic/Computer Music
> Studio. He studied with Samuel Adler, Hilton Jones, David Liptak, Robert
> Morris, Joseph Schwantner. In 1986, he received a Fulbright Scholarship
to
> study with Gy?rgy Ligeti in Hamburg, Germany. He is a co-founder of the
IN
> YOUR EAR New Music Festival in Rochester NY, and a Vice-president of the
> BONK Festival of New Music. His compositions employ recursive and
iterative
> algorithms and mappings of extra-musical systems into unique
> instrumentations, with an emphasis on computer generated/processed music.
He
> has been experimenting in the computer analysis and re-synthesis of
> intuitive writing, and has described himself as 'trying to compose music
> that will cause genetic changes in the listener.' He also composes small
> (anti-)theater pieces which have been described as "twisted commentaries
on
> music, life, love and bodily functions. Since 1993, Constable has been
> adjunct professor of music and director of the Slavin Electronic Music
> Studio at New College of University of South Florida. His rock/pop band
> Handshake Squad is currently recording their second album.
>
> David Font
> David Font is a multi-instrumentalist and folklorist, who explores
musical
> relationships between ancient traditions and modern aesthetics. As a
member
> of the "io project" David is attempting to further the legacy of
innovative
> "world" musicians such as Don Cherry, where a wide range of artists
> integrates non-Western classical music and develops new forms. Currently
> David Font is collaborating with dancer/choreographer Shirley Julien (as
> part of the Here and Now Festival 2001), as is working with poet Adrian
> Castro, and Alfredo Triff to continue an interdisciplinary body of work
that
> explores some of the most elemental connections between humans and sound.
> "io" has performed recently at the Roots and Culture Festival, the Living
> Room, organized the Roots Lab at the Meza Art Gallery, the Miami Art
Museum,
> Artemis, and Words and Music. David participated as a member of Furakan
> Caribe with Lukas Ligeti in last year's SUBTROPICS Millenium Project and
has
> performed with Needle, Iroko and Ife-Ile Afro-Cuban Dance Theaters,
Albita
> Rodriguez, Eddie "Gua Gua" Rivera, Rivers of Time, Satellite Lounge, The
Baboons, Conjunto
> Progreso, and Ezequiel Torres Bata Group.
>
> Needle and Sony Mao
> Needle and Sony Mao are two shadowy figures operating out of Miami and
Lima. They are
> reputed to be linked to local composer XX XXXX. Needle composes randomly
> patterned, electronic music, based upon the spectral analysis of
microscopic
> fissures residing in the grooves and on the surfaces of closely examined,
> vinyl phonographic recordings. It is not altogether clear what Sony
Mao's
> role is but we do know that in the past twelve months both Sony Mao and
> Needle have performed together at various underground clubs throughout
> Europe and in North America, including an event in September 2000 at New
> York's -The Knitting Factory.
>
> Ileana Perez Velazquez
> Ileana Perez Velazquez is a cuban composer. She earned a DM in music
> composition from the School of Music of Indiana University in May, 2000.
She
> completed her Master\'s degree in Electroacoustic Music from Dartmouth
> College in 1995. She is a graduate of music composition and piano from
the
> Instituto Superior de Artes (ISA), Havana, Cuba, 1989. Her music has been
> presented in International Festivals and concerts in Cuba, Colombia,
> Venezuela, United States, Spain, and Hungary. She received several
national
> composition awards in her natal country. She has received a 2000 Cintas
> Fellowship in composition. She is currently an Assistant Professor of
> Composition at Williams College.
>
> Armando Rodriguez
> Cuban composer Armando Rodriguez, studied guitar and music theory at the
> National School of Arts in Havana, Cuba, and served in the same school as
> professor of guitar and composition. In 1978, he received the Cuban
National
> Artists and Writers Musical Composition Award. His music was thoroughly
> performed in Cuba by performers and ensembles, including the National
> Symphony Orchestra and the Cuban National Ballet. Rodriguez has resided
in
> the U.S. since 1985. He received an Individual Artist Fellowship Award
from
> the State of Florida in 1991. His music has been performed by such renown
> artists as pianist Max Lifchitz and Beatriz Balzi, guitarists Flores
> Chaviano and Carlos Molina, double basist Luis Gomez-Imbert and the
Relache
> Ensemble, and in such events as the Bang on a Can Festival in New York,
> Subtropics in Miami, Los Primera Jornadas de Musica Contemporenea de
> Sevilla, the Sao Paulo Bienal, and the Latin-American and Caribbean Music
> forums. His work has been broadcast in the US, Canada, Europe and Latin
> America.
>
> David Rogers
> A native of Atlanta, Georgia, David Rogers has been a core Bonk artist
since
> 1994. He holds a B.M. and Ph.D. in composition from the Eastman School of
> Music and completed a Masters degree at New York University; his teachers
> have included Robert Morris, David Liptak, Louis Karchin, Samuel Adler,
and
> some Pulitzer-Prize-winning composers. He has performed on a number of
> instruments (including horn, accordion, piano and guitar) with such
diverse
> artists as Handshake Squad, Florence Henderson, the Eastman Philharmonia,
> Earle Brown, and the Redlands Y Circus Band. Currently living in Tampa,
> Rogers works as a freelance composer and music editor and teaches at the
> University of South Florida.
>
> Julio Roloff
> Julio Roloff is a graduate of Havana's Instituto Superior de Arte. Before
> his arrival in the US Julio was one of Cuba's leading composers and
> intellectuals. For years, as Professor of Harmony, Counterpoint and
> Orchestration at the National School of Music in Havana, Julio had a
vital
> role to play in producing and promoting much of Cuba's modern music. He
has
> traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Americas where his
> compositions have been presented and where he was an agent for the
cultural
> exchange of ideas.
>
> George Tegzes
> George Tegzes is a sound artist and maker of electronic instruments
living
> in the Florida Keys. In a recent statement he summarizes his intentions.
> "Synthesis offers a unique opportunity to sculpt sounds in a continuous
way
> that is almost as free as a voice. The art of electronic synthesis
turned
> away from that freedom early in its beginnings. Trying to emulate
> traditional instruments and playing methods, and not taking advantage of
the
> new paths available. To achieve what I wanted I went back to the simple
> oscillators, filters and controls. I reassessed the designs as
instruments
> in their own right, as playable circuits, with no attempt to sound like
> anything else. I work in the analog domain where infinite variety is
> possible, and various controls interact. It is not commonly allowed in a
> synthesizer design commercially for there to be a control setting where
> there is silence or a crashing noise, but eliminating those possibilities
> carries the price of losing those subtle sounds on the edge of each
extreme.
> Imagine a violin programmed only to allow the designer's ideas of a
good
> sound out. That is the state of commercial design. The analog world
also
> frees us from the machine-like beat of the microprocessor. Analog allows
> patterns that oscillate around chaotic attractors in patterns
unimaginable
in
> complexity."
>
> Alfredo Triff
> Alfredo Triff, a Miami based composer and violinist, holds a Ph.D in
> philosophy from the University of Miami. He has played, recorded or
> collaborated with such musicians as Hanrahan, Nono, Leo Brower, Reissler,
> Don Pullen, Eddie Palmieri, and Sting, among others. He teaches
philosophy
> at Miami Dade Community College and is the Visual Arts critic for the
Miami
> New Times.
>
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