Random Access Music

We’ll soon be taking our summer breaks and vacations, but we wanted to give everyone fair warning about our first concert next season. On Saturday, October 18, the members of RAM will collaborate with the Iktus Percussion Quartet. The concert will take place in Symphony Space’s Thalia Theater. We’ll also be performing a preview of the concert at SUNY Purchase sometime in the previous week. More information about the preview will be provided once the details are solidified.

Thanks to everyone who came out to our concerts this past weekend. The members of RAM appreciate your continued support for our work. For those of you who couldn’t make it, please come to our next concert with the Iktus Percussion Quartet in October 2008! More information about this concert will be posted here soon. In the meantime, RAM would like to thank the Lost Dog Players and special guest artist Hai-Ting Chinn for their great performances. We believe this was our strongest program ever, artistically. We heard the same comment from many of our audience, too!

Please check back on this page soon–we’ll have more info about next season as soon as the details are confirmed.

Please join us for six world premieres by the composers of Random Access Music as performed by the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble. This performance will be the third year of collaboration between RAM and Lost Dog. Joining the Lost Dog players will be special guest artist, mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn.

Friday, May 2, 2008, @ 8:00 pm
The Tenri Cultural Institute
43-A West. 13th Street (near 6th Ave.)
Manhattan, NYC
Tickets: $15 online; $20 at the door; $15 for seniors; $7 for students

and

Sunday, May 4, 2008, @ 2:00 pm
Queens Library
41-17 Main Street
Flushing Queens, NYC
Admission to this concert is FREE!

The works on the concert will be:

Jonathan Pieslak Banchetul, for Soprano
David Fetherolf Septuagenaria, for Flute, Piano, and Cello
Erin Rogers Primary Colors, for Flute, Clarinet, & Cello
Manly Romero Remember, Father, for Violin & Piano
B. Allen Schulz Still Life (with Monkey), for Clarinet & Cello
I. The Fruit: Apples and Oranges
II. The Knife and the Bowl
III. (and the Monkey)
Stefan Weisman CalabiYau Songs, for Violin, Piano, & Mezzo-Soprano
(text by Susanna Speier)

The Lost Dog Players are: Laura Barger (Piano), Miranda Cuckson (Violin), Chistine Perea (Flute), Tom Piercy (Clarinet), and Clarice Jensen (Cello).

Please join us this Friday, February 1st, 2008 for drinks, conversation, and the presentation of a CD of music by the RAM composers we’ve created for anyone who donates money to our cause. This is not a concert. This is not a high-pressure solicitation for your money. We just want to invite friends, colleagues and supporters to come and join us for a pleasant evening. Hope to see you there!

Connolly’s Pub
121 W 45th St
Friday, Feb. 1, 2008
6:30-9:00pm

We’d like to thank all of our supporters who came out to the Gallerie Icosahedron on October. The six of us thought that this might have been our most artistically-interesting concert yet, and much of our audience agreed. Thanks, also, to all the performers who played for us that night.

Our next concert won’t take place until May 2nd, 2008 (followed by a repeat performance on May 4th). This concert will be the third year of our three-year collaboration with the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble. We’ll post more information when the date nears.

Finally, we’d like to announce that the RAM composers are self-producing a CD to give to any supporter who donates $20 to our collective. We’re presently mastering the CD, and we’ll be having a small party to celebrate the release of the CD. Details to be announced soon, so check back to learn more!

The composers of RAM proudly announce our first event of the 2007-08 season:

Breaking Down the Beat.

This concert will include six works by the RAM composers based around the theme of exploration, development, and deconstruction of rhythm in modern, American music. The eclectic style of the works will include explorations of meringue, Wiik, rock, south-american dance rhythms, traditional Ghanaese drumming rhythms, and aleatoric rhythmic schemes, just to name a few. All of the works are “older” compositions. Some have never been performed while others are pieces we’d like to share again.�

The program will be:

• Rhythm and Movement for the Awkward by Allen Schulz; Vilian Ivantchev, Guitar

• Three Nonfiction Songs: Beauty Tips (for Girls), Urban Trees, and
  Twinkie by Stefan Weisman; Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo-soprano; Melody Fader, piano

• Spiral by Johathan Pieslak; Robert Auler, Piano

• Chronophobia by Erin Rogers; Elizabeth Mondragon, mezzo-soprano

• Melodias Lejanas by Manly Romero; Laura Barger, Piano

• Ein unzussammenhangend ur Zussammenhang by David Fetherolf; Vilian Ivantchev, Guitar; Liz Keller-Tripp, Flute; David Flachs, Oboe; Ed Matthew, Bass Clarinet; Anne-Marie Tranchida, Violoncello

The Concert will be part of the new Ico Music concert series.

Gallerie Icosahedron
27 N Moore St
New York NY 10013

Thursday, October 18, 2007, at 7:00 p.m.

Hope to see you there!

The members of RAM would like to thank all of our supporters for a wonderful 2nd year of music-making! Our last concert Electric Ayres (a collaboration between RAM and Ursula’s End (David Nadal, guitar; and Holly Nadal, voice and electronics) was a huge success. We’ve uploaded a live recording of the concert if you’d like to take a listen!

Because of the financial and artistic success RAM enjoyed this past season, we are presently planning multiple concerts and collaborations with a wide array of new music ensembles and venues for the 2007-2008 AND 2008-2009 concert seasons. Included in our 2007-2008 season will be

• Breaking Down the Beat, a concert of older works that explore, develop, and/or deconstruct the use of rhythm in modern, American music (October, 2007);
• Lost Dog and RAM: RhododendRAM, another year of collaboration between the RAM composers and the musicians of the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble (May 2 and May 4, 2008);
• Iktus Percussion Quartet and RAM, a first-time collaboration between the two groups (Summer, 2008).

Right now, we are all enjoying a bit of time off this summer before we return to writing music and collaborating with musicians on future concerts. We’ll post more information about our coming season very soon. Please visit the website again later to find out the dates and times of our plans.

Stefan, Allen, Erin, Manly, Jonathan, and David would like to thank our collaborators and our audiences for their unstinting support of our work. We look forward to seeing you at our up-coming concerts!

in collaboration with Random Access Music, present

Electric Ayres

Saturday, May 5, 2007 @8:00pm

The Monkey, 37 West 26th Street, 12th floor (Between 6th and Broadway)

Tickets: $20 ($18 advance sales: visit www.astoriamusic.org)

Holly Nadal (voice and electronics) and David Nadal (electric guitar) present six world premieres by the composers of the Random Access Music composers’ collective. These works chart new musical territories while bridging the gap between traditional and experimental composition for voice and guitar. By channeling a wide variety of techniques, musical styles and sounds, Ursula’s End ushers in the arrival of a new form of art song for the 21st century.

Ursula’s End is Holly and David Nadal. Holly is a vocalist who specializes in “straight-tone” vocal technique and is a gifted arranger and transcriber. She is a proponent of both ancient and new music, having arranged works for performance by composers from various time periods and styles ranging from Meredith Monk to Hildegard von Bingen. Meredith Monk has called Holly “her musical grand-daughter.” David is a master of both the acoustic and electric guitar, and he has published books (by Dover Press) in genres ranging from guitar arrangements of the music of John Dowland to arrangements of baroque and classical masterpieces for electric guitar.

Listen to a live recording of this concert.

Please join us this Saturday for RAM’s first concert of 2007. In collaboration with The Lost Dog New Music Ensemble, we’ll present a concert of 6 world premieres by the members of the Random Access Music composers’ collective. The concert will take place at the TenRi Cultural Institute 43A west 13th Steet, Manhattan.

Purchase tickets here.

—–Past Performances and Collaborations—–

Breaking Down the Beat.

Gallerie Icosahedron
27 N Moore St
New York NY 10013

Thursday, October 18, 2007, at 7:00 p.m.

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The program:

• Rhythm and Movement for the Awkward by Allen Schulz; Vilian Ivantchev, Guitar

• Three Nonfiction Songs: Beauty Tips (for Girls), Urban Trees, and
  Twinkie by Stefan Weisman; Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo-soprano; Melody Fader, piano

• Spiral by Johathan Pieslak; Robert Auler, Piano

• Chronophobia by Erin Rogers; Elizabeth Mondragon, mezzo-soprano

• Melodias Lejanas by Manly Romero; Laura Barger, Piano

• Ein unzussammenhangend ur Zussammenhang by David Fetherolf; Vilian Ivantchev, Guitar; Liz Keller-Tripp, Flute; David Flachs, Oboe; Ed Matthew, Bass Clarinet; Anne-Marie Tranchida, Violoncello

 

Ursula’s End

in collaboration with Random Access Music, present

Electric Ayres

Saturday, May 5, 2007 @8:00pm

The Monkey, 37 West 26th Street, 12th floor (Between 6th and Broadway)

Tickets: $20 ($18 advance sales)

Holly Nadal (voice and electronics) and David Nadal (electric guitar) present six world premiers by the composers of the Random Access Music composers’ collective. These works chart new musical territories while bridging the gap between traditional and experimental composition for voice and guitar. By channeling a wide variety of techniques, musical styles and sounds, Ursula’s End ushers in the arrival of a new form of art song for the 21st century.

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