Closing performance by Kevin Ramsay, Daxophone, Sam Yulsman, electronics and Lucie Vitkova’, voice and Hichiriki.
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island
FREE
About the performers:
Sam Yulsman is a composer and pianist whose music spans a wide array of idioms. A belief in music as a means of psychonautic exploration is central to his work. Yulsman’s music includes acoustic and electroacoustic works for soloists, chamber ensembles, jazz ensembles and improvisers, as well as fixed media pieces, installations, and collaborations with artists working across disciplines. collaborators: Jessie Cox, Roman Filiu, Anaïs Maviel, Brandon Lopez, Ashkan Behzadi, Art Lande
Lucie Vitkova’ – Lucie Vítková_Emergency: Nest – YouTube
ig: @lucie__vitkova
Lucie’s work, which incorporates compositional, improvisational, and performative aspects, has been commissioned by the Roulette Intermedium, where they were a resident artist in 2018. They have organized the NYC Constellation Ensemble and the OPERA Ensemble. Their dissertation, Compositional Techniques of Christian Wolff and Social Aspects in Music, was published in 2021. Lucie’s teachers and collaborators include George Lewis, Suzanne Cusick, Ellie Hisama, Miya Masaoka, Petr Kotík, Hitomi Nakamura, Teerapat Parnmongkol, Jolana Havelková, Muyassar Kurdi, Haruhiko Okabe, Jaroslav Šťastný, Teodora Stepančić, James Ilgenfritz, Mae May, and Graham Haynes.
Kevin Ramsay. – Carnegie Hill Concerts: Kevin Ramsay and Sam Yulsman’s Veiled Gazelle
Website: https://www.kevinramsaysound.com/
Social media – Ig: @waynefaure2
Kevin Ramsay work is focuses primarily on theoretical, practical aspects of sound recording/reproduction with unpredictable pairings of acoustic and electronic instruments. Kevin’s current works explore new ways to capture, mix, and process immersive audio for playback, on multichannel sound systems.Kevin’s collaborators include Jon Carlos Evans, Henry Threadgill, Michael Byron, William Hooker, Anne Tardos, Daniel Belquer, and Malik Ameer Crumpler, String Noise, and InternationalContemporary Ensemble