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Biography: Christopher McIntyre - Composer, Creative Director, TILT Brass Director
Christopher McIntyre leads a multi-faceted career as a composer, solo and ensemble performer, and curator/producer. His compositional language is a personal mix of intuitive and iterative formal constructs articulated by competing elemental forces: strict rhythmic patterning and symmetrical pitch complexes working in tandem with an irrational, often ecstatic gestural landscape. McIntyre often finds inspiration in the work and ideas of visual artists. His on-going Smithson Project is a growing body of compositions in various media that explore musical solutions to problems inspired by and considered in the writing and works of visual/conceptual artist Robert Smithson. The project currently includes work ranging from solo trombone etudes and multi-channel sound compositions to large electroacoustic ensemble pieces. He has contributed music to the repertoire of UllU, TILT, Ne(x)tworks, 7X7 Trombone Band (septet music for choreographer Yoshiko Chuma), and Flexible Orchestra. His pieces have been performed at venues including The Kitchen, City Center, Paula Cooper Gallery, ISSUE Project Room, and Roulette. McIntyre also performs extensively on trombone and synthesizers in a wide variety of settings, from orchestral and chamber music to open improvisation. His performance projects include solo programs, leading TILT Brass and 7X7 Trombone Band, and collaborative efforts such as UllU (duo w/ David Shively), Either/Or, and the creative music group Ne(x)tworks. His trombone work has been utilized in composer-led projects of Anthony Braxton, Zeena Parkins, John King, R. Luke DuBois, David First, Michael Schumacher, Elliott Sharp, Jonathan Bepler (w/ Matthew Barney), and Anthony Coleman. McIntyre is an accomplished interpreter of the music of John Cage, performing with Merce Cunningham Dance Co (Legacy Tour, Lincoln Center Festival), Orchestra of the S.E.M Ensemble (Carnegie Hall, Paula Cooper), and with Ne(x)tworks (2012 MärzMusik, Berlin, Lincoln Center Atrium, Bowerbird Cage Festival, Philadelphia). He can be heard on the Tzadik, New World, Mode, POTTR, and Non-Site record labels. Beyond performing and creating music, McIntyre is active as a curator and concert producer, with independent projects at venues including The Kitchen, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Issue Project Room, and The Stone (June 2007), and as Artistic Director of the MATA Festival (07-10). www.cmcintyre.com
Biography: Ed Bear, Technology Director & Creative Collaborator
Ed Bear & Lea Bertucci as Twistycat
Ed Bear [b. 1983] is an American performing artist and engineer. His work with robotics, sound, video, transmission and collective improvisation investigates the questionable calibration of perception. As an educator and designer committed to an open source world, he researches and practices material reuse and as a civil responsibility.
He has toured extensively in North America and Europe as a performer and teacher, working with organizations such as The Mattress Factory, The Montreal Pop Festival, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2009 and 2010 he received NSF and other funds to study e-waste streams as educational resources, software defined radio and novel energy harvesting using ionic polymer metal composites. He is a 2012 LMCC SwingSpace artist-in-residence, 2010 free103point9 AIRtime fellow and received the 2008 Roulette Emerging Composer Commission. His music is available on Peira, Azul Discographica, Roar Tapes, and several other record labels.
Since receiving his B.S. In Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Ed Bear has provided freelance design, manufacturing and engineering services to start-ups, acclaimed artists and musicians, film and theater productions, and leading education institutions. As a research specialist at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he investigated technology-neutral, commercially viable solutions to dimming and control of emerging solid state lighting systems for multiple markets with funding from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Alliance for Solid-State Illumination Systems and Technologies industry partners. Ed currently working with littleBits, Inc.to help revolution modular electronics. www.twistycat.org
Biography: David Shively, Feedback Percussion & Creative Collaborator
David Shively performs concert and installation works in media ranging from percussion to Hungarian cimbalom to analog electronics and feedback systems. Solo appearances throughout North America and Europe include Dia:Beacon, EMPAC, Miller Theatre, Performa 09, SONiC Festival, the American Academy in Rome, Other Minds 13, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Wittner Tage für neue Kammermusik, and Münchener Biennale. Currently based in Brooklyn, NY, he has been co-artistic director of the experimental music ensemble Either/Or since 2004, curating its programming and festivals in New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia.
One of the few classical and new music cimbalom players working in the United States, Shively plays instruments ranging from Hungarian concert cimbalom to Romanian tambal mic. The New York Times has praised the “gorgeous nuance” of his performances on these rare instruments. His repertoire includes more than a dozen newly commissioned solo and chamber works in addition to a wide range of earlier music, whether the standards of the orchestral repertoire or 16th century Hungarian keyboard intabulations. Further projects explore various folk and popular musics of Central and Eastern Europe. Performances in New York City and elsewhere with ICE, Mark Morris Dance Group, Zeena Parkins, Tony Arnold, Ensemble SON, Fox/Searchlight Pictures, Howard Shore, and various orchestras and ensembles.
Other ongoing projects include the noise/drone band UllU and a wide range of work as an improviser. Commissions from Dia: Beacon, EMPAC, and Donna Uchizono Dance Company. Recordings for Starkland, New World, Tzadik, Mode, Quecksilber, and other labels in addition to works for film, sound installation, and radio broadcast. www.resonantobjects.com