[microsound-announce] Tuesday April 16 The Virgil Moorefield Bicontinental Pocket Orchestra & Intermedia Works

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Tuesday April 16 2013 Doors 21:00 Concert 21:30
THE VIRGIL MOOREFIELD BICONTINENTAL POCKET ORCHESTRA & INTERMEDIA WORKS

hinterzimmer cd /dvd release tour

Performing in full the new double cd/dvd release on hinterzimmer records

–the pocket orchestra:

1. no business as usual (2010) 18 min.
2. arrival of the crows (1998) 11 min.
3. detroit per se (2012) 15 min.

–the intermedia work:

five ideas about the relation of sight and sound (2008-2011) 35 min.

a live intermedia performance, synthesizing synesthesia in three  
scenes and two interludes

vicky chow, piano
ian ding, vibraphone, drums
will robbins, bass
martin lorenz, percussion, drums
virgil moorefield, drums, piano
jürg wickihalder, bari sax
arad evans, electric guitar

will stanton, technical director
daniel wharton, key grip

Virgil Moorefield is a composer, intermedia artist, author, and  
drummer. CDs of his composer-led ensembles include “Things You Must Do  
to Get to Heaven” (Innova, 2007), “The Temperature in Hell is Over  
3,000 Degrees” (Tzadik, 1997), and “Distractions On the Way To the  
King’s Party” (Cuneiform, 1994). The Virgil Moorefield Ensemble has  
performed in Europe and the U.S., including the Inventing America  
Festival at London’s Barbican Hall, and the Bang on a Can Marathon at  
Lincoln Center. Moorefield’s concert-length intermedia work, “Five  
Ideas About the Relation of Sight and Sound” (2008), has been  
presented at festivals in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and  
Chile. A collaborative intermedia work, “Chicago Union Station”  
(2004), has been shown around the world. His work has received support  
from the Rockefeller Foundation, Commissioning Music USA, and the  
National Endowment for the Arts, among others. Moorefield’s  
commissions include the Bang On A Can All-Stars and New Music Detroit.  
His orchestral work “Blanqui” was performed by the Orchestra of the  
S.E.M. Ensemble in Brooklyn.

His book, “The Producer As Composer” (2005; paperback, 2010), is  
published by MIT Press. As a drummer, Moorefield has worked with  
numerous rock and avantgarde artists, including Glenn Branca, Swans,  
Bill Laswell, Elliott Sharp, and Damage.

Moorefield received an M.F.A. and a Ph.D. in composition from  
Princeton University. He also holds an M.A. and a B.A. in Comparative  
Literature from Columbia University, and studied at the Juilliard  
School. He was formerly an Assistant Professor of Music at  
Northwestern University and an Associate Professor of Music at the  
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Moorefield lives and works near  
Zürich, Switzerland

virgilmoorefield.com

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/virgil-moorefield-ensemble