The Interpretations Series 32nd season concludes on Thursday May 12th, 2022, with new and recent works by composer Tom Hamilton.
New York based composer Tom Hamilton will offer new and recent mixed-media works including TH SR, a video work by Mimi Garrard featuring dancer Samuel Roberts with Hamilton’s electronic score; Habitat Paradox, a work for ensemble featuring Bonnie Lander (voice), Alex LoRe (saxophone), Jacqueline Martelle (flute), Joe Moffett (trumpet), Andie Tanning (violin) and Hamilton on electronics; as well as works for solo electronics.
Please note: Finnish composer and cellist Juho Laitinen who was originally scheduled to share the program, was unable to obtain a visa. This program will be re-scheduled.
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
About the Artists:
Tom Hamilton has composed and performed electronic music for over 50 years. His ongoing series of concerts, installations and recordings contrast structure with improvisation and textural electronics with acoustic instruments. Hamilton makes “aural scores” to connect performers to a changing context of electronic sound. Hamilton’s work has most notably developed in forms that lie outside the traditional concert format. Morelos Sin Termino (1980), commissioned by the St. Louis Art Museum, employed a system of kaleidoscopically changing sounds to create a self-composing installation. Continuing this direction has resulted in another half-dozen sound environments. Off-Hour Wait State (1995), Hamilton’s exploration of the NY subway system, altered the function of the pure sound environment, and was created as an aural score for a changing cast of performers. Over a hundred presentations of this piece throughout the world, as well as a CD, make this Hamilton’s best-known work to date. His installationLondon Fix (2003) followed the price fluctuations of the spot gold market over the course of one year, generating a continuous flow of electronic sound, and was awarded an honorary mention in the 2004 Prix Ars Electronica. City of Vorticity (2014) offered a kaleidoscopically changing environment, to provide an aural context for soloists in both concert and sound installations. Hamilton is currently serving as the music director for four operas by (the late) composer Robert Ashley, and has been a member of that company for 30 years. Hamilton is a fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.
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The Interpretations series, now in its 32nd season, is a New York-based concert series focusing on the relationship between contemporary composers and their interpreters. Sometimes the interpreters are the composers themselves; more often, the series features performers who specialize in the interpretation of new music. Since its inception in 1989, Interpretations has featured leading figures in contemporary music and multimedia, including Muhal Richard Abrams, Robert Ashley, Anthony Braxton, Thomas Buckner, FLUX Quartet, Joseph Kubera, Annea Lockwood, and Alvin Lucier, Roscoe Mitchell, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Ursula Oppens, and Morton Subotnick.
Interpretations began as a collaboration with Robert and Helene Browning and the World Music Institute, presenting concerts at Merkin Concert Hall, then at Roulette, at its Greene Street location in Soho. When Roulette moved to the current space in Brooklyn, Interpretations moved with it. Interpretations is thrilled to co-produce at Roulette, which has developed into a premiere venue for new and innovative music, with excellent acoustics and world-class technical facilities.
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ROULETTE:
509 Atlantic Ave. Downtown Brooklyn
2, 3, 4, 5, C, G, D, M, N, R, B & Q trains & LIRR.
Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students & seniors, available at Roulette.org.