December 13, 2020
Infrequent Seams and their recording artist Ty Citerman commissioned me to create a video series for their album of Yiddish Labor Union adaptations When You Speak of Times to Come (Ven Du Redst Fun Naye Tsaytn) – to debut on the global live-streaming music festival STREAMFEST. Infrequent Seams Streamfest 2020 presents multimedia work from more than 40 artists over four days, and most of that work is represented in these four digital releases, in 24bit/48khz audio, as well as video. It was a powerful process to make the films, and I’m whirring to see them premiered internationally in this festival. Delighted to be on a lineup with Carl Testa, Elliott Sharp, Miya Masakoa, and so many other folks who are bringing surprises and delights, oddities and vortexes into which I cannot wait to descend/ascend.
If you aren’t available during the four day festival, check out the music only with the link below, because after the live event it will be available for download on Bandcamp HERE. And to see my videos along with the music, go HERE!
Led by composer, presenter, curator, and bassist James Ilgenfritz, the New Yorker- and The Wire-celebrated company Infrequent Seams presents new work by emerging composers and performers in New York City and elsewhere. Infrequent Seams seeks to locate a post-downtown musical practice in and out of New York City (even in the downtown area). Conceptually it supports music that treats the AACM, Sonic Arts Union, No Wave, the New York School, and the SF Tape Center as antecedents to one emerging post-millennial genre.
https://infrequentseams.com/album/stream-fest-night-iii-dec-19th-2020
I posted earlier here with some screenshots from the videos in progress – original site-specific films at the locations of Labor Union organizing sites in the Catskills for composer and musician Ty Citerman‘s highly acclaimed new album surrounding the Yiddish Labor Rights Movement in New York – When You Speak of Times to Come (Ven Du Redst Fun Naye Tsaytn).
Thursday December 17
Tasting Menu – Timothy Feeney / Cassia Streb / Cody Putman
Colin Cannon – Get Up
Nahadoth – Dungeon Synth
Andrea Parkins / Matthew Ostrowski Duo
Viola Yip & Nicola L. Hein – Transsonic
Elliott Sharp / Janene Higgins: Filiseti Mekidesi (excerpts)
Travis Just – Magic Is Real
UC Irvine Two-0-Nine Ensemble
Friday December 18
Devin Maxwell – Bonneville Park 3
Lucie Vítková / Muyassar Kurdi
Leo Chang / Chris Williams / Miriam Parker
Red Desert Ensemble plays Devin Maxwell Acoustic and Electronic Music
A Ghost Ensemble Trio feat. Ben Richter, Alice Jones, & Lucia Stavros
Katie Porter solo clarinet at the Sun Tunnels
Matthew Goodheart – Berlin Head Metal IV with visuals by Shawn Lawson
Sarah Krasnow / Wendy Richman – On Guard
Ted Reichman Solo (Music & Poetry)
Odeya Nini & Archie Carey – Third Eye
Miya Masakoa – Four Moons Of Pluto (feat. James Ilgenfritz, Ross Wightman, Will Yager)
Saturday December 19
Anaïs Maviel – Bleu Blanc Black
Ty Citerman & Quintan Ana Wikswo with vocalists Judith Berkson and Sara Serpa
James Ilgenfritz plays music by Anthony Braxton
Dan Blake, Olivia Da Prato, & Josh Modney – The Dust Moves (violin duo)
Anna Vitale and Shelley Salant
Damon Holzborn & John O’Brien – Less Exquisite
Zodiac Saxophone Quartet (ZSQ) – Nu Survival Techniques: Volume Two
Stephanie Sleeper & Yuri Zupançic
Rachel Devorah and Carl Testa
Sunday December 20
Elliot Simpson plays 85 Chords (The Historical Tuning Problem) by Larry Polansky
String Noise – Dark, Light (2017) by Jessie Cox
Thomas Buckner / James Ilgenfritz duo (with text by Yuko Otomo)
Ensemble Consensus – Here, There, and Here, There
Red Rainbow (Anne Rhodes)
Teodora Stepančić w/ Elliot Simpson, James Moore – guitars, streets, resonances
Andie Tanning Plays Jonah Rosenberg’s A Fictional Account of My Upbringing
Chris Cochrane & Stuart Popejoy
James Moore and Mila Henry play Larry Polansky’s conjugation
Martha Cargo (works by Jonah Rosenberg & Anne Goldberg-Baldwin)
