Inn-fest:
Innova Recordings Label Showcase
Saturday, March 11th @ 10pm
Tickets
About the Show
Peter Van Zandt Lane
Neil Rolnick
Cornelius Dufallo
Inn-fest is a two-act mini-festival curated by innova Recordings and showcasing an all-star cast of composers and performers fro its New York contingent. As the label of the Minnesota-based American Composers Forum, innova is dedicated to expanding the boundaries of new music. Since 1982, innova has produced an ever-growing catalog that currently stands at over 550 albums, and promotes a staggering array of idiosyncratic genres and voices. This micro-marathon will celebrate the variety and vision that is a hallmark of the award-winning label.
The first act (7 pm) features Miya Masaoka’s powerful double quartet, Eleonore Oppenheim’s performance works for double-bass and electronics, Mari Kimura’s astonishing violin techniques, and the Afro-Cuban inspired Bohemian Trio.
The second act (10 pm) opens with excerpts from Peter Van Zandt Lane’s ballet about cyber hacking, followed by Neil Rolnick’s works for laptop and piano (with Kathleen Supové), and Cornelius Dufallo performing works for amplified violin. The evening ends with a massive graphic score by Mark Applebaum interpreted by the previous artists joined by other labelmates, including Guy Barash, Gordon Beeferman, Yuki Numata Resnick, Viv Corringham, Trevor Babb, Grant Cutler, Bernd Klug and more.
About the Artists
Peter Van Zandt Lane “The People Movers”
Peter Van Zandt Lane’s electroacoustic ballet, HackPolitik, was described as “angular, jarring, and sophisticated” (Boston Musical Intelligencer) after its Boston Premiere in 2013, and dubbed a New York Times Critics Pick for its second run of performances at Here Space Manhattan in 2014. At Inn-fest, dancers from The People Movers (Kate Ladenheim, choreographer) and musicians from Juventas New Music Ensemble will present a scene from HackPolitick, a wild collision of music, technology, and politics that brings the compelling story of cyber-dissident groups Anonymous and LulzSec to the stage. Excerpts from a new work and Peter and Kate’s second collaboration, Four Passages, will also be featured.
Neil Rolnick
Composer Neil Rolnick has a thing about machines. He likes to play with them. And he likes to tell other people how to play with them. For this performance, he will present works from his latest album, Ex Machina — WakeUp and O Brother! — mashups which spin and shape alternative narratives from familiar samples. He will be joined by pianist Kathleen Supové for a performance of Digits with a video track by R. Luke Dubois.
Cornelius Dufallo
Bringing together elements of electronics, extended techniques, chance procedures, and digital interactivity, Cornelius Dufallo will perform works for amplified violin from his brand new release, Journaling 2: Missy Mazzoli’s Dissolve, O my Heart, Guy Barash’s Talkback II, and Kinan Azmeh’s How Many Would it Take? For the past two decades, Dufallo has performed and promoted new music, as a soloist and as a collaborator. He has been a member of several notable ensembles, including the Flux Quartet (1996-2001), Ne(x)tworks (2003-2011), and ETHEL (2005-2012). Currently, it is rumored, he performs as a member of the Secret Quartet.
The combined forces of regional innova artist/improvisers assemble to perform Mark Applebaum’s Metaphysics of Notation, a giant scrolling graphic score:
Neel Murgai, sitar
Hans Tammen, Buchla
Jennie Oh Brown, flute
Guy Barash, electronics
Gordon Beeferman, piano
Yuki Numata Resnick, violin
Viv Corringham, voice
Trevor Babb, guitar
Grant Cutler, synth
Bernd Klug, acoustic bass
Cornelius Dufallo, violin
Miya Masaoka, koto
Mari Kimura, violin
Neil Rolnick, laptop
Eleonore Oppenheim, bass
Yosvany Terry, sax
Dancers from The People Movers:
Kate Ladenheim
Shay Bares
Anna Reyes
Bre Short
Shannon Spicer
Kristin Yancy
Philip Blackburn, conductor
