This is the second year of the Other Minds fellowship, and the four young composers chosen as Other Minds Fellows - D. Edward Davis, John P. Hastings, Peter V. Swendsen and Jen Wang - will be able to show off at their very own concert, scheduled to take place at The Lab in San Francisco:
Wednesday, 29 February 2012 @ 7:30pm
The Lab
2948 16th Street, San Francisco 94103
Composers: D. Edward Davis; John P. Hastings; Peter V.
Swendsen; Jen Wang
Performers: Rootstock Percussion
A reception will follow the concert.
Tickets: $20 general / $12 students
800‐838‐3006
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/218306
N.B. Limited availability; must be purchased separately from Festival tickets.
For more information: www.otherminds.org/fellowship
D. Edward Davis writes electronic and acoustic music, usually both in the same piece.His work explores patterns and systems inspired by nature and mathematics, and he has a longstanding interest in slowly‐developing nuances of timbre and tuning. In 2011, his compositions were released on two recordings: Phantasm (Music for Saxophone and
Computer) by Eric Honour and Music for Violin by Erik Carlson. Davis has studied with Amnon Wolman, David Grubbs, and John Supko. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Duke University and lives in Durham, NC.
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, field recordings, digital sound generation, microtones and aleatoric performance practice. Minimalist art theories and artists, especially Barnett Newman, Donald Judd and Michael Heizer, also heavily inform his music and practice. The formalist tendencies of these artists are projected into a musical landscape creating a logical and rationally satisfying whole. He is a founder of the web-based music journal The Experimental Music Yearbook, a co-head of the experimental music performance group, Ensemble 303, and a music curator for the Sound Series at Presents Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Born and raised in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, John 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.
Peter V. Swendsen explores the capacity of electroacoustic sound and digital media to challenge and extend our sense of place and engagement with performance. His music has been called “highly skillful” by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, “the sonic equivalent of ether” and “marvelous” by the San Francisco Chronicle, and “ethereal and arresting” by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He is Assistant Professor of Computer Music and Digital Arts at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Swendsen spent a year in residence as a Fulbright Fellow at the NoTAM computer music studios in Oslo, Norway, where he worked on a large project based in soundscape composition and ecoacoustics. His subsequent compositions combine live instruments with electronics to shape an experience of place for the listener. He works extensively in collaboration with choreographers and has composed over three dozen scores for dance, including recent collaborations with Amy Miller (NYC/Cleveland) of GroundWorks DanceTheater and Mary Carbonara (San Francisco). Swendsen received his BM from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, his MFA from Mills College, and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. His research on soundscape composition and the relationship between electroacoustic music and dance has been presented and published in the US and Europe. Performances of his compositions in the past year have taken place in New York City, Boston, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, and Oslo.
Jen Wangʹs work has been featured at the Wellesley Composers Conference, the International Computer Music Conference, the Bang On A Can Summer Institute, the California EAR Unit Residency at Arcosanti, the Music ’03 and ’04 festivals, and the SPARK Festival. She has been performed by Lucy Shelton, SoundGEAR, the Del Sol String Quartet, the California EAR Unit, Onix Ensamble, Eco Ensemble, the New Spectrum Ensemble, and the percussion ensembles of Mannes College, SUNY Purchase, and the University of California, Davis. Jen has been commissioned to write a chamber work for Talea for the 2012 Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, as one of the recipients of the Staubach Honoraria. She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Millay Colony of the Arts. She is a graduate of Carleton College (B.A.). and the University of Cincinnati College‐Conservatory of Music (M.M.). Currently, Jen is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has been awarded the Eisner Award in Music and the Nicola de Lorenzo Prize in Music Composition. She is founder and co‐director of Wild Rumpus, a San Francisco music collective dedicated to the collaborative development of new work by emerging composers.
