CIRCUIT BRIDGES CONCERT MARCH 26: PRESS RELEASE Electroacoustic Music

March 2, 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information, contact:

Robert Voisey

Radio City Station, P.O. Box 1607

New York, NY 10101

support@voxnovus.com

Circuit Bridges: Up to Upstate

(NEW YORK, NEW YORK) Circuit Bridges and SUNY Buffalo State are collaborating on Circuit Bridges: Up to Upstate, a concert featuring electroacoustic music, on March 26, 2015 at Gallery MC, 549 W 52nd St, New York, New York. The concert features work by Linda Antas, Hubert Howe, Dave Seidel, Whitney George, Tomás Henriques, Sabrina Peña Young, and a special performance by composer/guitarist/rapper/Di.J. Gene Pritsker, who will celebrate the first anniversary of Circuit Bridges by re-mixing music from the first season.

Half of the program, Circuit Bridges: Up to Upstate, is organized by composers Sabrina Peña Young and Tomás Henriques, and features composers from SUNY Buffalo State, where Dr. Henriques is Director of the Program in Digital Music and head of the Music Theory and Composition. The second half of the program is curated by Circuit Bridges, based in New York City, and features Dave Seidel, a composer/performer who works with electronics in improvised and composed idioms. He will be performing Prism, Mirror, Lens on a Shnth, a recently-invented electronic instrument, and processed in real time by Csound, which is in turn controlled by the performer using a device called a rePatcher. His CD ~60 Hz was released by Irritable Hedgehog in 2014. George Grella in The Brooklyn Rail rated it the “best electronic music” of 2014. Hubert Howe, Director of the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and Executive Director of the New York Composers Circle, will present Inharmonic Fantasy No. 2. Composer and digital artist Linda Antas will present her audiovisual work All That Glitters and Goes Bump in the Night. Composer Whitney George will present the world premiere of a new work for piano and video.

Circuit Bridges is a monthly concert series dedicated to highlighting the community of electroacoustic music creators. Founded in 2014 by Robert Voisey and under the artistic direction of David Morneau and Melissa Grey, Circuit Bridges strives to explore all music under the electroacoustic umbrella. This includes but is not limited to sonic art, radio art, glitch, circuit bending, electronica, real-time improvisation, network performance, audiovisual composition,
mash-up, and data sonification. Our mission is to connect with artists from around the globe to present the wealth of electroacoustic music being written today.

For more information visit: www.CircuitBridges.com

Circuit Bridges:

Thursday, March 26, 2015 7:30pm (doors open at 7:15pm)

Gallery MC

(ride the freight elevator to the 8th floor)

549 W 52nd St, New York, NY 10019

Between 10th Avenue and 11th Avenue

Closest subway A/C/E at 50th Street, 8th Avenue

$15 admission

$ 7 students

www.GalleryMC.org

For more information, contact Robert Voisey at support@voxnovus.com

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