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check schedule www.remixedmedia.org
many activities going on all day and night . . . discount tickets available
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June 11:
June 1:
May 6:
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http://evolution.binghamton.edu/evos/seminars/fall-2010/simons-karrer
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Sundays with the Gamelan
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Taking Darwin on the road: San Diego, Nov 10
Robert Egert & Lisa Karrer present Featuring Lisa Karrer, composer, vocalist and multi-media performance artist, David Simons, composer/musician,
And Shahid Naeem from Columbia University will join us reflecting on the consequences of for more info: http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com/downstairs/list.asp?sdate=10/4/2009
COLLISION THEORY
Lisa Karrer and David Simons perform highly original works for voice, interactive Theremin,
The
Flea Theater
is located in Tribeca at 41White Street NYC(between
Broadway & Church Streets); Admission is $20. Tickets may be purchased directly on the FLEA
site http://www.theflea.org
highly original works for interactive Theremin,
With original lyrics and texts
An exciting evening of sonically and culturally diverse music
With special guests Gregor Kitzis, Denman Maroney, Sheila Schonbrun,
For more info visit: http://www.rocklandartcenter.org/
2008
LaMama
In collaboration with multi-instrumentalist/composer David Simons and sculptor Jacqueline Shatz, Lisa Karrer's solo voice is featured
In the spirit of natural selection, the audience will decide the sequence of onstage events in real-time during each performance.
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29 Cornelia Street between Bleecker and W. 4th
for more info visit Issue Project Room in Brooklyn
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Works by Barbara Benary, Daniel
Goode, Lisa Karrer, Laura Liben,
The New York Times calls this composers' collective
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For more info, directions etc: http://www.ramapo.edu/berriecenter/events/march.html
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2009
THREE Great events at GAGA Arts Center:
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featuring dances by Tjokorda Gde Arsa Artha and Carlos Fittante
a collaborative graphic & sound Installation
Created for Garnerville Holding Company's 150th Anniversary
with 100 contemporary Artists / October 23 - November 25
Opening Reception: Friday October 23 6-9pm
AND 
Sunday October 4th, @ 6:00PM
Curated by Roald Hoffmann
and Shahid Naeem, biologist, Columbia University
29 Cornelia Street, NYC 10014 (212) 989-9319
Sunday October 4th 6:00PM Cover $10
NATURAL LAW: DARWIN'S TANGLED BANK
Charles Darwin's last sentence in The Origin of the Species reads: "There is grandeur in this view of life; from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." Grandeur indeed. To celebrate, and to preserve.
Lisa Karrer is an internationally celebrated composer, vocalist and multi-media performance artist.
She brings us "Schismism: Natural Law", a solo performance inspired by Darwin's exploration of
evolution and universal connectedness, in collaboration with composer/musician David Simons.
In the spirit of natural selection, the audience will decide the sequence of events in real-time
during the performance.
the modern day unraveling of the entanglement of biological diversity evolution has spun
over the last 3.5 billion years. His laboratory's motto is "Ecology With No Apology,"
and explores the environmental consequences of widespread losses in biodiversity,
or the disentanglement of what Darwin called, the "entangled bank."
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INTERACTIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL on the same bill as NYPD Academy BIG BAND!
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June 7 - call 845-358-4601 for directions
Gamelan Son of Lion: GONGing Ceremony
Sunday June 7th, 3-5pm
Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)
521 N. Broadway, Nyack, NY
Outdoor processional, ceremonial and concert music featuring David Simons' "GONGing" and pieces by other composers in the gamelan. Gamelan Son of Lion specializes in new music written by its composer members for large gongs and percussion instruments of Java and Bali. With guest Balinese mask dancer Tjok Gde Arsa Artha. Outdoor on the grounds; inside if rain.
Suggested donation $10.
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MUSIC @ THE FLEA
~ curated by Kathleen Supove ~
Lisa Karrer and David Simons
in
May
27 & 28 at 7pm (Wed - Thurs)
video with soundscapes for brain scan, time warp and magnetic sculpture,
molecular self-assembly with processed voice, and compositions featuring voice, slide guitar, percussion, jawharp and laptop.
accessible from the A, C, E, N,
R, Q, W, 6, J, M, Z to Canal Street or the 1 to Franklin Street.
or by calling 212-352-3101, or in person at the Box Office, which opens one hour prior to show time.
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video and soundscapes for brain scan
and magnetic sculpture,
molecular assembly with processed voice,
and vocal compositions
with extended keyboard, slide guitar,
percussion and laptop.
drawn from pre-Surrealist authors
Alfred Jarry and Raymond Roussel,
post-modernist Mark Leyner,
proto-feminist Olive Schreiner,
a palindromic opera
and poet WB Yeats.
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Barbara Benary, Lisa Karrer and John Morton
perform repertoire and premieres of contemporary music, including
works for chamber group, music boxes, voice, video and electronics.
in the intimate and beautiful setting of the Emerson Gallery.
Steve Silverstein, David Simons and Yvonne Troxler
solo dance by Sin Cha Hong
with live music by David Simons
and soundtrack by Lisa Karrer
Thurs-Sun Nov 20-30 at 7:30, Sunday shows at 2:30
about GODOT
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THE LIVING THEATRE PRESENTS
"SCHISMISM part 2: NATURAL LAW"
A SOLO PERFORMANCE BY LISA KARRER
The Living Theatre, 21 Clinton St., NYC 212 792 8050
October 20, 21, 27, 28 at 8pm, October 26 at 3pm and 8pm
Tickets: $15; $12 students/seniors
Lisa Karrer will premiere her newest piece "SCHISMISM: NATURAL LAW"for a 6 performance run at the Living Theater
in Manhattan."Schismism" is a multi-media solo performance inspired by the life of Charles Darwin and his theory of
Natural Selection, and features an interwoven collection of stories, visual associations and musical concepts that
mirror Darwin's exploration of evolution and universal connectedness.
with arresting sonic and visual backdrops, acoustic and electronic compositions, linked and triggered video sections and hands-on sculptural
stage constructions. SCHISMISM combines the human voice with technology and 3-dimensional visual media, a richly layered story-telling
hybrid that illuminates our fragile coexistence and the ties that bind us.
There will be a panel discussion lead by a special guest moderator following each performance.
under the Brooklyn Bridge!
info:brooklynbridgepark.org
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"CIPHER" String quartet PREMIERE by David Simons
June 25 at Greenwich House Music school
46 Barrow St, 8 pm
DAVID SIMONS - zheng
the concert also features music by Betsey Biggs, Skip La Plante and Karl Korte
SKIP LAPLANTE - styrobab
STEPHANIE GRIFFIN - viola
ALEX WATERMAN - cello
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Listen to David Simons' show at the Whitney Biennial
http://www.neighborhoodpublicradio.org
The show is all about THEREMIN history, new works, and intrigue.
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LISA KARRER at ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
Lisa will share the evening with the excellent vocalist Dean Bowman.
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM is located at 232 3rd St at 3rd Ave, 3rd floor,
Brooklyn, NY
Issue's " Week of Voice" series
Thursday February 28 at 8pm
$10
piano, electronics and video, featuring guest artists
Stephanie Griffin on viola
and David Simons playing percussion and jawharp.
In addition to English and pseudo-Slavic,
Lisa will sing in Batak (Indonesian)
and Pre-Columbian languages.
Her compositions include texts by Olive Schreiner, Mark Leyner,
Ariel Dorfman and Sitor Situmorang.
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2007
see Tues. nite perf !
check out the Living Theater's Music series
Lisa Karrer's
WOMAN'S SONG:THE STORY OF RORO MENDUT
(premiered at The Kitchen)
&
Barbara Benary's
KARNA
(premiered at LaMama)
Saturday November 17 at 2pm
New York Public Library
Hamilton Fish Park Branch
415 Houston Street (Ave C-D)
Information: 212-388-0202
for complete series schedule:
http://www.geocities.com/lesperformingarts
Admission is free
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FREE and open to the public!
Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, Wesleyan Steel Drum Band, Pheeroan akLaff, Warren Smith, and more . . .
Manhattan New Music Projects presents
KINDRED SPIRITS - AN EVENING OF EXPERIMENTAL CHAMBER MUSIC
The Manhattan New Music Project presents an evening of experimental chamber music pieces to honor the adventurous spirit of a broad variety of composers of chamber music, jazz and classical works. The pieces presented will include early works by MNMP's late founder Paul Nash, as well as compositions by Thelonius Monk, Johann Sebastian Bach and Lisa Karrer.
Featured musicians: Lisa Karrer (vocals, spoken word), Dave Taylor (trombone), Bruce Williamson (saxes and clarinets), Ben Kono (oboe, saxes, clarinets), Thomas Ulrich (cello), and Bill Ruyle (vibes and percussion).
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Saturday, June 23, 6pm
The Laura Andel Orchestra @ BRAC
1087 East Tremont Avenue (next to the Bronx Zoo)
New York-based Argentinean composer and conductor Laura Andel premieres a new work commissioned by the Bronx River Art Center for her nine-piece orchestra comprised of an unusually eclectic instrumentation that includes bandoneon, gamelan instruments, electric guitar, Fender Rhodes, vibraphone, cornet, viola, clarinets, piano and double bass.
The Laura Andel Orchestra includes the long-time collaborators and unique musicians
Taylor Ho Bynum, Ken Filiano, Stephanie Griffin, Carl Maguire, Ursel Schlicht, David Simons, and Danny Tunick, and for this BRAC performance, the special participation of Argentinean Tango bandoneon player Daniel Binelli, and New York experimental electric guitar player Elliott Sharp. In addition to the BRAC premiere, the orchestra will perform another recently created work titled Doble Mano.
SUBWAYS: #2 or #5 to West Farms Square/East Tremont stop.
(Walk one block east to Bronx Street.)
http://www.bronxriverart.org/directions_hours.html
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MAY 18 GAMELAN CONCERT
NYC premieres!!! 8pm
Sunday, April 1, at 6pm - 8pm
Roald Hoffmann's Entertaining Science cabaret
downstairs at the Cornelia Street Cafe
Molecular architect Shuguang Zhang from MIT talks about the dynamic process of molecular self-assembly, A RIFF ON THE WAY TO STRUCTURE ; with Lisa Karrer and David Simons performing music that assembles, dissembles, and re-assembles itself in real time, triggering sounds in unpredictable ways, asking the listener to create their own connective tissues of meaning.
Admission $10; Reservations 212-989-9319.
featuring very good food!!!
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FEBRUARY 24 THEREMIN FESTIVAL
at issue project room:
"ODENTITY" World Premiere of the composition by David Simons
for Newband and the Harry Partch instruments -
KASSER THEATER, Montclair State University, NJ
for full information see:
http://www.newband.org/events.htm
LISA KARRER premieres SCHISMISM: FRACTURED AMERICA Pt 1
at THE FLEA THEATER / NYC "Music With A View" Series
SCHISMISM is a work-in-progress combining voice, piano, stilts, electronics and video.
Utilizing a wide variety of mediums, "Schismism . . . " examines the American condition from various aesthetic and cultural perspectives. With triggered light device created in collaboration with sculptor Gregory Barsamian (2001 Leonardo New Horizons Award for Innovations in New Media).
Sharing the bill that evening will be Endangered Guitarist Hans Tammen!
The FLEA is located at 41 White Street (between Church and Broadway), in Tribeca, 3 blocks below Canal St. Admission: FREE
part of "The Independents" Festival, Locust recording artists
Program will include selections from Locust's reissues
of the ensemble's early recordings:
The Complete
Gamelan in the New World (1979, Folkways) and Metal
Notes (1985, New Wilderness Audiographics)
plus pieces
by current ensemble members.
for full program and concert directions see:
http://www.issueprojectroom.org/events.html
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2006
"SINKHOLE-SONOGRAM-INHERITANCE" for 2 voices, piano and percussion - Nov 11 '06
STATE OF THE MUSIC: Six Contemporary Rockland Composers
a concert of original works by Barbara Benary, Mark Steven Brooks, Lisa Karrer,
Denman Maroney, John Morton, and David Simons
Rockland Center for the Arts
27 South Greenbush Rd, West Nyack, NY
845 358 0877
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APRIL 23 - DAVID SIMONS & LISA KARRER -
inflammable flapping chewable cymbal crushers
sTRANGEmUSIC presents:
ONE-TWO-THREE-GO!
A SERIES OF ONE HOUR CONCERTS ON ALTERNATE SUNDAYS
Sunday, April 23, 4:30 p.m., at
THEATERLAB, 137 West
14th Street (6th & 7th Aves.).
Tickets are $10. Doors open at 4:00 p.m.
Four Kotekan - Balinese counterpoint on bamboo instruments
Dematerialized - Theremin as proximity controlled sample player
I Like it Here - live vocalist courts her refracted mirror images
and from their opera "The Birth of George":
Bella's Fantasy - acappella heart wrenching leap of faith
God of Mud - genre-cide w/National Geographic captions from 1940's (featuring guest keyboardist and series curator Patrick Grant)
Dear Officer - a classic NY Post headline suicide note set to music
ALSO:
a world premiere lap steel guitar & voice duet !!!
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Saturday, April 8
theremin society: an evening of theremin III
with:
Armen Ra,
Anthony Ptak
David Simons,
Rob Schwimmer
Michael Evans,
Dorit Chrysler
Elizabeth Brown, Jon Bernhardt, Jen Hammaker
Issue Project Room
400 Carroll St, Brooklyn
between Bond and Nevins. F or G train to Carroll
8:00 p.m., $10
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GAMELAN SON OF LION's next performance will be on the
Interpretations concert series,
presented by the World
Music Institute and Tom Buckner
Thursday Feb. 2, 2006, 8pm
at Merkin Concert Hall
129 West 67th St. New York City.
The program:
Bang on a Tin Can by Laura Liben
The Tempest Suite by Jody Kruskal
Jigalullaby - Gaelic songs and jigs by Barbara Benary
Bali Hi - a unique arrangement by David Simons
River Kotekan by Lisa Karrer
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Thurs, Jan 19 8pm $10
Issue Project Room
400 Carroll St, Brooklyn,
between Bond and Nevins. F or G train to Carroll
DAVID SIMONS, composer/performer
Theremin as spacial-controlled sample trigger,
jaw harp, percussion and homemade instruments.
with:
Lisa Karrer - Voice
Stephanie Griffin - Viola
Skip LaPlante, Carol Weber,
Michael Evans, Sima Wolf - Homemades
program:
INFORMATION - from the CD "Prismatic Hearing"
FAIT/HURT/KOOL TANG - more samples triggered by theremin
DEAR OFFICER - an actual published suicide note & original poem by Lisa Karrer
GRANDMA - text by Mark Leyner from "My Cousin My Gastroenterologist "
VIRTUAL PERCUSSION TRIO - in which the viola, voice and theremin each midi-trigger percussion phrases
COLLECTIVE CHOK - for blown bottles and styrocello
CREMATION MUSIC - new arrangement of Balinese gamelan
For more information: Issue Project 718 812 1129
A concrete silo performance space on the Gowanus Canal
with 16 channel hemispherical speaker array !!!
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2005
in concert December 2:
Five unique approaches to playing the THEREMIN
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& North River Music
Presents a concert of New Works and PREMIERES
for Gamelan Orchestra, FLUX String Quartet,
2 Pianos, Voices & Percussion
Thursday March 24 at 8pm
Greenwich House Music School/The Renee Weiler Concert Hall
46 Barrow Street, NYC(between Seventh Ave. South & Bedford)
For more info, please call 212.242.4770
for complete details visit www.gharts.org/GSOL+FLUXMar242005
Cal Arts at The Kitchen
a 4 day festival of performances January 26-29, 2005 8 PM
FEATURING on Jan 29, "MUSIC FOR THEREMIN and GAMELAN"
and other works by David Simons performed by the GAMELAN SON OF LION
schedule of events:
512 W.19th Street, NYC
Tickets $15 Festival pass $50
www.thekitchen.org
212-255-5793
Roulette presents
Gamelan Son of Lion
Sunday November 21, 2004
New York's New Music gamelan presents a program of
syncretic works, conflating tunings, timbres, and
cultural norms, combining Indonesian and European
scales, Western and Eastern timbres and
sensibilities.
David Simons, Jody Kruskal, Empi Morn,
and David Demnitz will be presented.
Performance begins at 8:30pm.
Admission: $12 / Students: $8 / Roulette members: free
Reservations/Tickets: 212.219.8242
Spring Concert of new music premiers 2004
Friday April 2nd, 8pm
Wooster Arts Space, 147 Wooster St. NYC
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Gamelan Son of Lion
June 2004 concerts in Brooklyn & Rockland
Saturday June 5th 2004 @ 7:30pm
Music and Dance at The Re:Creation Center
748 Union Street, Park Slope Brooklyn (btw. 5th & 6th Ave.)
hosted by Spoke the Hub Dancing
Admission---$15./$5.
Reservations: 718.408-3234
AND
Wednesday June 9th 2004 @ 7:00pm
Music & Word with Poetry Jam at The Nyack Center
58 Depew Ave, Nyack NY (corner of S. Broadway)
Rockland County
Admission by donation.
For further info call 845 354-3375
Indonesian gongs, drums, xylophones, and home-made instruments.
New Music by David Demnitz, Skip LaPlante, Lisa Karrer, Barbara Benary,
Jody Kruskal, Empi Morn, and Arvo Part / arr. by Laura Liben
and guest composer - hammer dulcimer player Dan Joseph;
also with players Dan Goode, Bill Jacobs and David Simons .
CD release concert:
JULY 6, 2004 Tues 8pm at TONIC, NYC
David Simons and Lisa Karrer and friends
Saturday, JULY 10
Roxbury Art Center, NY
