JOHN HASTINGS/ SHELLEY BURGON/ DAN JOSEPH/ TYLER WILCOX

Tyler Wilcox, Shelley Burgon, Dan Joseph and John Hastings

In order of appearance:

1 - Tyler Wilcox - live dub mixes of works for MPC 3000, harmonized soprano saxophone and FM synthesizer

Tyler Wilcox (born 1979) is a composer, soprano saxophonist and electronic producer from Maryland, currently living in Brooklyn, NY. The philosophies of his music-making are influenced by time spent wandering in the forests and deserts of the western United States. Wilcox's interests include a deepening and slowing into silence, simplicity, extended duration and subtle variation. His expansive awareness of, and attention to, environment leads him to an interest in permeability of musical structure. His music is created with sensitive awareness of contributing to perceivable phenomena, while also framing the extant soundscape.

2 - Shelley Burgon - Solo for harp and electronics

Shelley Burgon is a harpist and sound artist based in New York. Her musical work centers around the sound of the harp, both as a traditional acoustic instrument in a chamber setting and as the primary source for her electronic music. Her sound art focuses on handmade electronic sculptures that combine scientific theories and mysticism. For ICM001, Shelley recorded prepared harp in conjunction with computer processing. The resulting 11 minute piece titled LOVEHER is one live take with no editing or mixing.

Shelley received her MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College and studied with Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, Alvin Curran and Maryanne Amacher. She has performed and recorded the music of artists including Bjork, Zeena Parkins, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Butch Morris, Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto), Christian Marclay, Joan LaBarbara, Elliott Sharp and Maria Chavez in addition to performing with bands such as Stars Like Fleas, Elysian Fields and Blondes.

Her first sound and light installation was shown this year at The New Museum’s Ideas City Festival and Frieze Art Week.

3 - Dan Joseph - Dulcimer Flight

In his solo works for electroacoustic hammer dulcimer Dan constructs contemplative soundscapes that slowly unfold over the course of 45-minutes to one-hour. With roots in early minimalism, ambient music and acoustic ecology, these long-form “journeys” combine composed elements, often in the form of a fixed melodic pattern, with extensive improvisation while exploring the dulcimer’s rich harmonic properties. Using a mix of traditional and experimental (extended) techniques in combination with his self-designed laptop-based processing system, Dan gives this ancient instrument and entirely new and contemporary identity.

Dan Joseph is a freelance composer, performer and curator based in New York City. Active in a wide range of musical contexts, Dan performs regularly with his chamber ensemble, The Dan Joseph Ensemble as well as composing works for a variety of ensembles and soloists including Gamelan Son of Lion, the SF Sound Group, baritone Thomas Buckner, the Mannigan-Tunick duo and others. Since the late 1990s, the hammer dulcimer has been the primary vehicle for his music and he is active in a variety of collaborations with sound artist Andrea Williams, glass instrumentalist Miguel Frasconi, cellist Loren Dempster and saxophonist John Ingle. Dan has held residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and currently is Artist-In-Residence at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center. Also active as curator and presenter, he currently produces the monthly music and sound series Musical Ecologies at The Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

4 - John Hastings - Folk Music

A suite of pieces titled 'Folk Music'. Comprised of a piece is for cassette tape played on a shoebox recorder, an homage to Pete Seeger for solo banjo, and a work for solo contrabass wherein the player performs folk melodies page by page drinking whisky between page turns.

John P. Hastings is a composer, sound artist and curator based in Brooklyn, NY. His current focus is on the creation of unique sonic environments utilizing novel methods to engage the audience. Many compositions and installations include the use of the harmonic series, text, field recordings, digital sound generation, graphic performance scores, site-specificity, microtones and aleatoric performance practice. He is a founder of the web-based music journal, The Experimental Music Yearbook and was the music curator for the Sound Series Brooklyn in Brooklyn, NY from 2010 – 2012.

Born and raised in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, John has lived in London, UK, Charlottesville, VA, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and has a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts where he studied with Ulrich Krieger , Michael Pisaro, Mark Trayle and Wolfgang von Schweinitz. His musical influences include James Tenney, La Monte Young, and John Cage. In 2012 he was named a fellow as part of the Other Minds Festival 17 in San Francisco, CA.