Thursday, October 26th, 2006, at 8pm
Galapagos Art Space—backroom
70 North 6th St., Brooklyn, NY 11211
Cost: $10 at door
L train to Bedford Ave.
This program is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. In Kings County, the Decentralization Program is administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC)
Program:- James Barry/Linnea Paskow: Piecing
- George Brunner: The Last Flash of Light Before the Beginning (Recipient of the first Forecast Music Commission)
- Aaron Copland: Long Time Ago, At the River, and Simple Gifts
- Eric Schwartz: The Horror Show
- William Smith: Crushed
George Brunner is a composer and performer, researcher/writer, recording engineer/producer and teacher. His music has been performed throughout the United States, in Europe, Asia, and South America. Recent activities include: composer-in-residence at IMEB, Bourges, France and three times at EMS, Electroacoustic Music Studios, Stockholm, Sweden. Awarded commissions for Festival Synthese (Bourges France), twice from The Royal Irish Academy (Dublin, Ireland), twice from Istanbul Bilgi University (Istanbul, Turkey). Composed music for 'Radio Radio' (16 - 45 minute programs), London, England.
As Director of Music Technology at Brooklyn College, Conservatory of Music, Brunner teaches composition and recording arts. He is the founder and director of the International Electroacoustic Music Festival at Brooklyn College and the Brooklyn College Electroacoustic Music Ensemble, which produces an annual CD recording.
For more information visit: http://www.bcmusic.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=FacDetail&facid=37
Linnea Paskow is a visual artist who works with collage as her primary medium. She is an Assistant Professor at Pratt at Munson-Williams-Proctor in Utica, NY where she teaches design and painting. She has an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and B.A. from Haverford College. Recent exhibitions include, The Armory Show at Pier 92, The New York Design Center, and The Painting Center. She will have a solo show at Kunstoffice in Berlin, Germany in 2007.
For more information visit: http://www.mwpai.edu/facultypratt/fulltimefaculty/linneapaskow/
Wil Smith is a Brooklyn based composer born in South Miami in 1980. He was a fellow at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Institute as well as the CASMI Summer Music Institute in Prague. Active in public radio, his music has been broadcast on radio stations across the US, Canada, New Zealand, and Slovenia. Wil holds degrees from the Florida State University and Manhattan School of Music, where his teachers were Ladislav Kubík and Julia Wolfe.