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Monday November 20, 7:30pm<\/span>
\nTake a Chance<\/span><\/strong><\/em>
\nA tribute to Morton Feldman<\/span><\/strong>
\nMatteo Ramon Arevalos, Tom Chiu, Zach Layton, Laura Ortman, Sandra Sprecher, Ray Sweeten, Adam Tendler<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nFrom Morton Feldman, beginning of “Projection 2” \u00a9 1962 C. F. Peters Corporation<\/span><\/em>
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\u201cIf a man teaches composition in a university, how can he not be a composer? He has worked hard, learned his craft. Ergo, he is a composer. A professional. Like a doctor. But there is that doctor who opens you up, does exactly the right thing, closes you up\u2014and you die. He failed to take the chance that might have saved you. Art is a crucial, dangerous operation we perform on ourselves. Unless we take a chance, we die in art.\u201d – Morton Feldman<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Microscope Gallery is pleased to present\u00a0Take a Chance<\/em>,\u00a0an evening of live sound performed by Matteo Ramon Arevalos, Sandra Sprecher, Tom Chiu, Zach Layton, Laura Ortman, Ray Sweeten, and Adam Tendler, to pay homage to American composer Morton Feldman 30 years after his death in 1987 at the age of 61. <\/span><\/p>\n

The program features the artists performing short compositions of their choice by Feldman in solo or group configurations as well as original works inspired by the New York born composer who is known for his minimalist compositions, with hushed, yet expansive sounds. <\/span><\/p>\n

Feldman\u2019s work\u00a0challenge concepts of structure through the use of unpredictable patterns and repetition, silence and duration, and unconventional forms of musical notation. He along\u00a0with\u00a0John Cage, Earle Brown and Christian Wolff are referred to as the “New York School” of musicians, influenced by the New York\u00a0abstract expressionist painters. His\u00a0body of\u00a0work includes nearly 200 compositions ranging from just minutes to those extending up to 6 hours made from the early 1950s to the mid-1980s. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Program:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPiano Four Hands\u201d (1958)<\/span>
\nAdam Tendler, Matteo Ramon Arevalos, Sandra Sprecher –\u00a0keyboards<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTwo Pieces\u201d (1954)<\/span>
\nMatteo Ramon Arevalos, Sandra Sprecher –\u00a0keyboards<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIxion\u201d (1958)<\/span>
\nAdam Tendler, Sandra Sprecher –\u00a0keyboards<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTwo Pianos\u201d (1957)<\/span>
\nSandra Sprecher, Adam Tendler, Matteo Ramon Arevalos –\u00a0keyboards<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor Aaron Copland\u201d (1981)<\/span>
\nTom Chiu –\u00a0violin<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cProjection 1\u201d (1950) (adaptation for solo violin)<\/span>
\nTom Chiu –\u00a0violin<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIntermission 6\u201d (1953)<\/span>
\nZach Layton –\u00a0keyboard<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLast Pieces\u201d (1959)<\/span>
\nZach Layton –\u00a0keyboard<\/span><\/p>\n

Improvisation inspired by Feldman\u2019s \u201cTriadic Memories\u201d (1981)<\/span>
\nRay Sweeten –\u00a0modular synthesizers<\/span><\/p>\n

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ADVANCE TICKETS<\/a><\/div>\n

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\nGeneral Admission $10
\nMembers & Students w\/ ID $8<\/em>
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\nMatteo Ramon Arevalos<\/strong>\u00a0began playing drums at the age of six, but soon switched to piano, then took up composition. During his studies it was fundamental the opportunity to learn with the pianist Fiorenza Ferroni, Rudolf Kehrer and Oxana Yablonskaya. In 1996 he won first prize at the National Piano Competition\u00a0Agor\u00e0\u00a0in Rome. He published two compositions for piano of his own for the music publishing house College Music:\u00a0Vivo Marcia Fantasia\u00a0(2002) and\u00a0Nocturne 1996\u00a0(2006). From 2003 to 2006 he was the pianist for the show\u00a0Ada, a family chronicle\u00a0by the theatre company Fanny & Alexander, performing music by O. Messiaen, G. Ligeti and M. Feldman, and recording the DVD\u00a0Rebus per Ada\u00a0(Luca Sossella Editore, 2006). In 2008 he performed Feldman\u2019s Rothko Chapel with the Ensemble Giacinto Scelsi, directed by Roberto Gabbiani, and with ondist Nadia Ratsimandresy produced\u00a0Messiaen et autour de Messiaen\u00a0for the centenary of Messiaen’s birth. From 2009 to 2011 he collaborated with the electronic composer Paolo F. Bragaglia in the group Synusonde, publishing a CD\u00a0Yug\u00a0for Minus Habens Records (2011). He worked with film director Elisabetta Sgarbi composing and performing original soundtracks for\u00a0Raffaello – La Stanza della Segnatura\u00a0(2009) and\u00a0Sono rimasto senza parole\u00a0(2011). In 2011 he participated in the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale with the artist Vanni Cuoghi.\u00a0 In 2013 he released his second project for ondes martenot and piano entitled\u00a0S\u00e9rimpie\u00a0with the ondist Bruno Perrault and a subsequent concert tour with stage designed by artist\u00a0 Roberto Pagnani. He recently collaborated with the theatre company Masque Teatro in the shows\u00a0The Decision\u00a0and\u00a0Marmo, with the theatre company Drammatico Vegetale in the show\u00a0Pin’Occhio – Attraverso lo specchio,\u00a0and with film director Hanspeter Ammann for the soundtrack of\u00a0Late Afternoon Penang\u00a0coming out in 2017. Arevalos is currently involved\u00a0in a project for piano solo\u00a0PER PIANO\u00a0with works by Fausto Razzi,\u00a0and in a project with his own compositions for prepared piano and video of title\u00a0METAMORPHOSIS.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tom Chiu\u00a0<\/strong>is a violinist\/composer\u00a0 and recent\u00a0recipient of the CMA Commissioning Grant that\u00a0has premiered over 200 new works worldwide by and with musical pioneers including Muhal Richard Abrams, Virko Baley, David Chesky, Ornette Coleman, David First, Leroy Jenkins, Oliver Lake, Alvin Lucier, Michael Schumacher, Henry Threadgill, and more. His extensive discography includes recordings on the Cambria, Chesky, Innova, Koch, Mode, Passin Thru, and Tzadik labels.\u00a0His original compositions, dedicated to artists such as Joan La Barbara, Bobby Few, Max Mandel, SLAVE PIANOS and the OpenEnded Group, have been premiered at innovative venues such as Mount Tremper Arts, EMPAC, Roulette, STEIM Amsterdam, Experimental Intermedia, Walker Art Center, Museum of Moving Image, and Anthology Film Archives.\u00a0In a mixed-media context, Chiu has created new works with choreographers Pam Tanowitz and Shen Wei, sound\/video artist Phill Niblock, filmmaker Ken Jacobs, conceptual balloonist Judy Dunaway,\u00a0and director Lee Breuer from avant theater troupe Mabou Mines.\u00a0As founder of the influential FLUX Quartet, Chiu has helped bring a “renaissance to string quartet music\u201d\u00a0(Village Voice).\u00a0Chiu holds degrees in music and chemistry from Yale, as well as a doctorate from Juilliard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zach Layton\u00a0<\/strong>is a guitarist, composer, curator, teacher, and media artist based in New York.\u00a0 He has performed and exhibited at the\u00a0\u202aGuggenheim Museum\u202c, the Kitchen, and many other venues in New York and internationally.\u00a0 Curator of ISSUE Project Room from 2008 – 2012, PS1 Warmup from 2005 – 2007, and the founder of the acclaimed Darmstadt “Classics of The Avant-Garde,” festival, Zach has also received numerous awards including the Jerome Foundation emerging artist award and was selected as a 2015 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grants to artists award. Zach is currently assistant professor of music \u00a0production at Ramapo College of New Jersey.<\/span><\/p>\n

Laura Ortman<\/strong>\u00a0is a Brooklyn composer, musician, and visual artist. She\u00a0has recorded three solo albums\u00a0playing violin, Apache violin, piano, electric guitar, samples, pedal steel guitar, megaphone, organ among other instruments.\u00a0Ortman has also collaborated with artists, filmmakers, musicians and dancers from New York, New Mexico, Italy and Canada, including Jock Soto, Nanobah Becker, Raven Chacon, Martha Colburn, Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Okkyung Lee, Alan Michelson, Lorenzo Clayton, and Pegi Vail. She has performed and recorded with New York bands Stars Like Fleas, The Dust Dive, Black Mirror Picnic, Raft’s Assemble, and White Hills. In 2008, she founded the Coast Orchestra, an all-Native American orchestral ensemble performing and improvising to the 1914 original score to photographer Edward Curtis’s only film “In the Land of the Head Hunters” to sold-out audiences at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. \u00a0She is also a member of Optipus visual and sound collective which was featured this year as part of the Whitney Museum of Art’s \u201cDreamlands: Immersive Cinema & Art 1905-2016\u201d and at the Parrish Museum of Art, Watermill, New York.\u00a0Residencies and grants include: Jerome Foundation Fellowship (2017-18); Art Matters Grant Awardee (2016);\u00a0Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellowship (2016);\u00a0\u00a0Rauschenberg Residency (2014);\u00a0Social Engagement Residency at IAIA\u2019s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts S ants Fe (2015), Artist\u00ad-in\u00ad-Residence, Issue Project Room NYC (2015), First Nations Composers Initiative Common Ground Grant (2008).<\/span><\/p>\n

Sandra Sprecher<\/strong>\u00a0is a composer,sound designer,pianist, videographer ad Artistic Director of The Firehouse Space, a popular venue in Williamsburg which\u00a0just finished it’s\u00a0sixth season\u00a0and\u00a0featured\u00a0cutting edge creative jazz, experimental and contemporary music as well as video\/electro-acoustic multimedia. She has written an extensive variety of instrumental and vocal music and as pianist, has performed and recorded many works throughout Europe and the USA, She has had projects funded by the Fromm Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, Meet the Composers, NYFA, and NYSCA. In addition, she has also worked on numerous projects as pianist, music director, composer, and sound designer for The Medicine Show Theater and has composed music for a variety of dancers and videographers. She received her DMA in Composition from Columbia University, MM in Composition from Indiana University School of Music and an Artist\u2019s Diploma in piano performance from Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, France. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ray Sweeten<\/strong>\u00a0is an artist and composer living and working in Brooklyn NY. He\u00a0has screened work and performed\u00a0at\u00a0The New Museum, The Kitchen, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Roulette. As one half of DataSpaceTime with Lisa Gwilliam, he has\u00a0shown\u00a0work at Microscope Gallery, Centre Pompidou, BAM Next Wave Festival, Parrish Art Museum in collaboration with City Center NYC ad Florida Atlantic University.<\/span><\/p>\n

Adam Tendler<\/strong>\u00a0is New York based pianist who has\u00a0has been called \u201ca virtuoso pianist\u201d by The Village Voice, “an exuberantly expressive pianist” who “vividly displayed his enthusiasm for every phrase” by The Los Angeles Times, a \u201cquietly charismatic…intrepid…outstanding…maverick pianist\u201d by The New Yorker. Tendler has performed solo recitals in all fifty United States, including engagements at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, Symphony Space, National Sawdust, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Rothko Chapel, Joyce Theatre, The Maverick Concert Hall, Joe\u2019s Pub, The Fisher Center at Bard College, The Rubin Museum, and James Turrell’s Skypace in Sarasota Florida, and serves on the faculty of Third Street Music School Settlement, the country\u2019s first community music school. Tendler\u2019s own memoir,\u00a088×50, about his grassroots fifty-state recital tour, was a 2014 Kirkus Indie Book of the Month and Lambda Literary Award Nominee. His premiere recording of Edward T. Cone\u2019s 21 Little Preludes for piano was released in 2015 and he is currently recording an album of works by Robert Palmer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nWith the underwriting support of the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation<\/em><\/p>\n<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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