Moonrise Hernandez (Charlottesville, VA/Amsterdam, NL)
Ted Coffey [electronics and more] & Michael Straus [saxophones and less]
Amsterdam-based saxophonist Michael Straus has firmly established himself as an important new voice for contemporary and experimental music. He is founder of the multimedia performance and commissioning project What are you looking at?, and regularly performs with the chamber ensembles quux, Moonrise Hernandez, Portals of Distortion and EAR Duo. He has been featured artist at music festivals internationally with recent performances at Ireland's Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, New York City's The Stone, Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s 8 Days in June Festival, Minneapolis' Spark Festival of Electronic Music & Art, Berlin's Universität der Künste, Italy's Festival Internazionale del Sassofono, Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center, Paris' Eglise Saint-Merri and Amsterdam's World Minimal Music Festival.
His recordings as a performer, composer and improviser can be heard on SEAMUS, New Tertian, Innova and The Walter's Art Museum record labels along with forthcoming releases on EcoSono and Portugal's lvcenti 14-bis. Michael is the recipient of a 2010 American-Scandinavian Foundation Creative Arts Grant (Oslo) and 2008 – 2009 J. William Fulbright Fellowship (Amsterdam).
www.mstraus.net/moonrisehernandez.html
Ted Coffey makes acoustic and electronic chamber music, interactive installations, and songs. His work has been presented in concerts and festivals across North America, Europe and Asia, at such venues as Judson Church, The Knitting Factory, Symphony Space, and Lincoln Center (NYC), The Lab, New Langton Arts and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), the Korean National University of the Arts (Seoul), Muziekcentrum de Badcuyp (Amsterdam), and ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany). Coffey’s electroacoustic composition has been featured at ICMC (2004, 2005, 2006), SEAMUS (2001, 2009, 2010), the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival (2008), the Spark Festival (2009), the Third Practice Festival (2005, 2008, 2009), and the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (2010), among others. In Open Space, Newton Armstrong described Coffey’s music as “subtle, weird and devoid of heroics.
It’s the kind of music that resonates for days after you’ve heard it, and its spaces and gestures continue to form into new and extraordinary geometries.”
His writings on the aesthetics and social politics of transmissive networks in the arts have been honored with significant awards from the Josephine De Kármán and Andrew C. Mellon Foundations. Coffey studied composition with Jon Appleton, Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros, Paul Lansky, and others, earning degrees at Dartmouth [AB], Mills College [MFA] and Princeton [MFA, PhD].
He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, where he teaches courses in composition, music technologies, critical theory, and pop.
www.tedcoffey.com
The name of the group is Dobro Jutro -2.
Теодора Степанчић : piano and objects,
Corné Roos : double bass, electric bass guitar and euphonium:
Free Improvisation - Theatrical - Electricity - Musical Noise – Free Instrumentation
Ariel Ninas- electro acoustic hurdy-gurdy.
Ariel Ninas discovered the secrets and miracles of sound and silence in his twenties -having been doing music before- but kept engaged to the acoustic phenomena since then. Now in his thirties, is concerned about continuity of noise in everyday life. He conceives the music as channel of invisible physical transmission between two, or more, bodies.
Born in the strong traditional music roots of Galicia (north-west of Iberian Peninsula), he had to leave to his mother land to learn new traditions. First in Spain and then in the UK, he started to use the hurdygurdy for his artistic expression in 2001. In Oxford, as soloist and being a member of the acoustic-punk-rock-skifflecabaret band Inflatable Buddha he toured England and Wales for two years. Back to Galicia he starts from scratch in the newly created Galician Centre for Traditional Music -aCentral Folque- with maestro Óscar Fernández, taking the hurdy-gurdy to the renovated tradition of the XXI century. At the same time gets involved in the fresh Free Improvisation scene in Galicia, being an active member with different groups of improvisers and with OMEGA (Galician Orchestra of Spontaneous Music) working with the likes of Fred Frith, Michael Fisher, Chefa Alonso or pop singer Germán Coppini.
He comes to the Netherlands from the UK after a collaboration with the LIO (London Improvisers Orchestra).