Richard Teitelbaum Memorial featuring Alvin Curran, Andrew Cyrille, Elliott Sharp, Shelley Hirsch, Catherine Lamb, & Ghost Ensemble
Free (RSVP required for in-person attendance)
- Ralph Samuelson, shakuhachi
- Alvin Curran, piano, electronics, & shofar
- Andrew Cyrille, drumset & percussion
- Elliott Sharp, 8-string guitarbass, bass clarinet, & electronics
- Lea Bertucci, alto saxophone, tapes, & electronics
- James Ilgenfritz, double bass & objects
- Miguel Frasconi, glass instruments & laptop
- Shelley Hirsch, voice
- Leila Bordreuil, cello
- Daniel Fishkin, daxophone
- Ghost Ensemble
- IONE
Richard Teitelbaum — Threshold Music
Catherine Lamb — interius/exterius (world premiere)
Pauline Oliveros — N.Y. Air (Arctic Air)
This memorial for avant-garde composer, synthesizer keyboardist, and improvisor Richard Lowe Teitelbaum (May 19, 1939 – April 9, 2020)—a pioneer in live electronic music and brain-wave controlled synthesizer music who brought many different world music performers together— features two of his well-known compositions and work by colleagues from throughout his career.
Ralph Samuelson performs Teitelbaum's Hi Kaeshi Hachi Mi Fu for solo Shakuhachi. Daniel Fishkin presents a new version of Teitelbaum's Threshold Music. The evening also includes two improvising ensembles that feature some of Teitelbaum's long-time colleagues: MEV co-founder Alvin Curran, percussionist Andrew Cyrille, and Elliott Sharp are joined by Lea Bertucci and James Ilgenfritz for a quintet. Then, Miguel Frasconi presents a group with cellist Leila Bordreuil and vocalist Shelley Hirsch, incorporating sounds from Teitelbaum's Ableton sample library.
At the end of the evening, Ghost Ensemble presents the World Premiere of Catherine Lamb's interius/exterius and is joined in a performance of Pauline Oliveros's N.Y. Air (Arctic Air) by special guest IONE, improvising text/sound artist and Oliveros's partner. Ghost Ensemble's commission of Catherine Lamb has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
"While our aspiring musical philosophical styles in concert were distinct, Richard gave us the reliable mystical thread that bound us all." -Alvin Curran
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.
About Ralph Samuelson, shakuhachi
About Alvin Curran, piano, electronics, & shofar
About Andrew Cyrille, drumset & percussion
About Elliott Sharp, 8-string guitarbass, bass clarinet, & electronics
Elliott Sharp is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist, and author who leads the projects Orchestra Carbon, SysOrk, Tectonics and Terraplane. His compositional strategies have encompassed the use of fractal geometry, chaos theory, algorithms, genetic metaphors, and new techniques for graphic notation to yield work that catalyzes a synesthetic approach to musicmaking as well as functioning as retinal art. In 2015, Sharp was awarded both the Berlin Prize and the Jahrespreis from der Deutscher Schallplatten Kritiks. In 2014 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fellowship from the Center for Transformative Media. He has been featured in the Darmstadt and Huddersfield festivals, New Music Stockholm, Au Printemps-Paris, Hessischer Rundfunk Klangbiennale, and the Venice Biennale. His book IrRational Music, a mix of memoir, cultural discussion, and music theory was published in 2019. He is the subject of the documentary Doing The Don't and has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered. Sharp's composition Storm of the Eye, composed for violinist Hilary Hahn, appeared on her Grammy-winning album In 27 Pieces. His opera Die Grösste Fuge premiered in Bonn as part of Beethoven@250 and his opera Filiseti Mekidesi premiered at the RuhrTriennale in 2018. His Walter Benjamin opera Port Bou premiered in NYC in 2014 at Issue Project Room and in Europe at Berlin Konzerthaus in 2015. Sound installations include Foliage, Fluvial, Chromatine, and Tag. Sharp's collaborators have included Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; pianist Cecil Taylor; Ensemble Modern; pop singer Debbie Harry; blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples; Arditti, JACK, and Kronos quartets; jazz greats Jack Dejohnette and Sonny Sharrock; media artists Christian Marclay and Pierre Huyghe; Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt; and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians Of Jajouka.
http://www.elliottsharp.com/About Lea Bertucci, alto saxophone, tapes, & electronics
Lea Bertucci is an experimental musician, composer, and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance through electroacoustic tactics. She has performed in the United States at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gagosian, Pioneer Works, The Kitchen, and the Walker Art Center, and internationally at Tempo Reale, Florence; Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; ReWire Festival, the Hague; Borderline Festival, Athens; and Unsound Festival, Krakow. Artist residencies include MacDowell, ISSUE Project Room, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
http://lea-bertucci.comAbout James Ilgenfritz, double bass & objects
About Miguel Frasconi, glass instruments & laptop
Miguel Frasconi is a composer and improviser whose instrumentarium includes glass objects, analog electronics, and instruments of his own design. His glass instruments are struck, blown, stroked, smashed and otherwise coaxed into vibration, while his unique approach to modular synthesis takes a similar approach in the sonic domain. He has composed numerous operas, chamber works, dance scores and performs in the ensembles NewBorn Trio and Lampshade. Miguel's recent events include a performance at the Electric Eclectics Festival, a residency at Art Omi, and performances in Norway with composer Kristin Norderval. His music has been released on New Albion, Porter, Clang, and independently through his own Bandcamp page, frasconimusic.
http://johnroach.net/miguel-frasconi/About Shelley Hirsch, voice
About Leila Bordreuil, cello
About Daniel Fishkin, daxophone
About Ghost Ensemble
Margaret Lancaster (flute), Sky Macklay (oboe), Ben Richter (accordion), Chris Nappi (percussion), Lucia Stavros (harp), Martine Thomas (viola), Laura Cetilia (cello), James Ilgenfritz (contrabass), Kyle Motl (contrabass), Carl Bettendorf (conductor)
https://www.ghostensemble.org/