Provided a developmental residency through LMCC on Governors Island to Joe Diebes with collaborators David Levine and Christian Hawkey for their work “WOW: A Milli Vanilli Opera and interviewed them about the project for EphemeralObjects.org. Joe Diebes creates works that converge around the categories of music, visual art and performance. From 1996-2003, he was a core member as well as […]
Project Type: Music
Joe Diebes
Andrew Ondrejcak
Provided Andrew Ondrejcak with a new work development residency on Governors Island through LMCC and has served the artist in an advisory capacity. Born and raised in Mississippi, Andrew Ondrejcak studied architecture and painting at Savannah College of Art and Design then playwriting at Brooklyn College. While making experimental theater in New York, Andrew was asked […]
Yarn|Wire
Curated Yarn|Wire into the 2011 River To River Festival for a site-specific performance of Louis Andriessen’s Hoketus performed from the balconies and on the street in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Yarn/Wire is a quartet of two percussionists and two pianists. This instrumental combination allows the ensemble flexibility to slip effortlessly between classics of the […]
Experiments in Opera
Programmed and produced Aaron Siegel’s GROUP into The River To River Festival (2011) and developed “Opera In Dialogue”, a series of public programs for EiO’s year-long residency at Abrons Arts Center. Experiments in Opera is a composer-driven initiative featuring recent and new works with innovative answers to the traditional questions about how to connect words, story and […]
Brooklyn Rider
Programmed Brooklyn Rider with special guest Kojiro Umezaki at the 2011 River To River Festival. Hailed as “the future of chamber music” (Strings), the game-changing string quartet Brooklyn Rider offers eclectic repertoire in gripping performances that continue to attract legions of fans and draw rave reviews from classical, world, and rock critics alike. Brooklyn Rider is Johnny […]
CHERYL
Programmed and produced CHERYL into the 2012 River To River Festival for “CHERYL: On The Waterfront”, a performance installation dance party on the pier. CHERYL is a four-member artist collective and band of hand models based in Brooklyn, New York, specializing in creativity. CHERYL’s video and performance work has been featured through various installations and […]
Rob Ramirez
Curated Rob Ramirez into The Future At The End of the World” exhibit at the Farley Post Office. Rob Ramirez is a performance artist, DJ, and computer programmer based in Brooklyn, New York. He has performed and exhibited works at SAT (Montréal), MANCC (Tallahassee), EMPAC (Troy), Borusan (Istanbul), and the festivals Novelum (Toulouse), Fusebox (Austin), Push […]
SŌ Percussion
Programmed and produced a collaboration between SŌ Percussion and the Joshua Light Show for the 2013 River To River Festival. So Percussion were offered a developmental residency to continue evolving their concert-length work “Where (We) Are’ and integrated it with elements of other pieces from their rep. The developmental residency included “open studio” hours when the […]
Joshua Light Show
Programmed Joshua Light Show into the 2013 River To River Festival for a unique collaboration with SO Percussion. The structure of the current Joshua Light Show differs little from the original of almost 45 years ago. At the time, it was Janis Joplin, The Who, Jimi Hendrix and The Grateful Dead for example, whose jams were driven […]
JG Thirlwell
Curated and produced JG Thirlwell’s Manorexia Ensemble performing “Dinoflagellate Blooms” into The 2013 River To River Festival. JG Thirlwell – also known as Clint Ruin, Frank Want, Foetus among other names – is an Australian singer, composer, and record producer known for his musical diversity and juxtaposing a variety of different styles.