What began as a months-long project over Zoom during the early months of the pandemic, the electronic and mixed-media artists Miguel Frasconi, Tom Hamilton and Matthew Ostrowski resume their collaboration with Present, a new live work with guest cellist Meaghan Burke. Sharing the evening will be violinist and composer Mari Kimura, who will perform MUGIC Magic!, a solo program of international scope, featuring works written for violin and her MUGIC® motion sensor. The program will include works by Dai Fujikura (Japan), Páll Ragnar Pálsson (Iceland) and Ileana Perez Velazquez (Cuba), Jean Claude Risset (France) and Nolan Miranda, as well as Kimura’s own recent works Sasakawa in a new violin version, and SOMAXMOBILE, which utilizes IRCAM’s SOMAX technology.
The concert will take place at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students & seniors, available at Roulette.org and Interpretations.info.
About the artists:
Violinist/Composer Mari Kimura, hailed by The New York Times as a “virtuoso playing at the edge,” captivates audiences with performances that seamlessly blend virtuosity and innovation. A master of subharmonics—a revolutionary technique producing pitches an octave below the violin’s lowest string—she expands the instrument’s sonic possibilities in breathtaking ways. Kimura has premiered major works by John Adams, Luciano Berio, Tania León, and Salvatore Sciarrino, performing with orchestras including the Hamburg Symphony and Tokyo Symphony. Her performances have graced prestigious festivals from the Bartók Festival in Hungary to Lincoln Center. As an improviser, she collaborates with Henry Kaiser, Elliott Sharp, and Jim O’Rourke; Her latest album, MUGETSU (2024), showcases improvisations Elliott Sharp describes as displaying “a sense of inevitability.” Her performances now feature MUGIC®, her pioneering wearable motion sensor that transforms gesture into sound. Recipient of the 2025 SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award, nominated for Entrepreneur Leader of the Year with certification from the U.S. House of Representatives, and honored by Carnegie Corporation as “Immigrant: Pride of America,” Kimura continues pushing boundaries worldwide.
A New York City native, Matthew Ostrowski is a composer and installation artist. Using digital tools and formalist techniques to engage with quotidian materials – sonic, physical, and cultural – Ostrowski explores the liminal space between the virtual and phenomenological worlds. Engaged with tropes of interruption and flux, his works function as environments in a constant state of change, exploring the process of consciousness in its constant state of collision with the world. His work includes live digital improvisations, multichannel compositions, and installations for video, sound, and robotically-controlled objects. It has been seen on six continents, including the Wien Modern Festival, Transmediale and Maerz Musik,the Kraków Audio Art Festival, Sonic Acts, PS 1 and The Kitchen in New York, Mass MOCA, and Unyazi in Johannesburg. He has received numerous grants and awards, most recently a 2026 Creative Research Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. His essays have been published in the Performance Art Journal, The Art Section, and Leonardo.
Tom Hamilton has composed and performed electronic music for over 50 years. His music references the 1970s era of analog electronics, contrasting structure with improvisation and textural electronics with acoustic instruments, voices, and other sound objects; prompting the use of “present-time listening” by both performer and listener. Hamilton is a Fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and has received the Mike Zagorski Artist Award from the Sound Symposium festival in St. John’s NL. He serves as the music director for six operas by the late composer Robert Ashley and has been a member of that company for 35 years. His audio production is found on over 100 recordings of prominent contemporary musicians.
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 has worked closely with composers John Cage, Morton Subotnick, Pauline Oliveros, James Tenney, “Butch” Morris, and Jon Hassell. He has also collaborated with many choreographers and was music director and composer for dance pioneer Anna Halprin. He was a founding member of The Glass Orchestra, Toronto’s internationally renowned ensemble featuring all glass instruments, and performed as a keyboardist with the Paul Dresher Ensemble and the Philip Glass Ensemble. In 2012 the New York Times called his CAGE100 Festival @ The Stone “one of the best observances of John Cage’s 100th birthday.” He presently has an ongoing duo project with vocalist/composer Kristin Norderval.
Hailed as “outstanding,” with a “street-smart, feline voice” (The New York Times), Meaghan Burke is a cellist, singer-songwriter, and composer working in spaces between contemporary music, improvised music, and song. Meaghan is a founding member of contemporary feminist string quartet The Rhythm Method, avant-grunge band Forever House, and Viennese songwriting collective Loose Lips Sink Ships. Meaghan’s latest album of songs with The Rhythm Method, A Few Concerns (Gold Bolus Recordings) was described as “a smart, feisty album that is both provocative and a pleasure to listen to.” (I Care If You Listen) Meaghan is a frequent guest performer with many of NYC’s contemporary ensembles, including International Contemporary Ensemble, TAK, and S.E.M. Ensemble, as well as Miho Hazama’s Grammy-nominated jazz chamber band m-unit, and just completed a run of Gypsy on Broadway as principal cellist.
Photos (L-R): Nicholas Croft; Amanda Remus; Titilayo Ayangade.