just me, but I also run Ensemble Plus-Minus with Matthew Shlomowitz
Influences
(old) Morton Feldman, Tom Johnson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Heinz Holliger, Aldo Clementi, Salvatore Sciarrino, Sol Lewitt, Peter Greenaway. (contemporaries) Peter Ablinger, Matthew Shlomowitz, Christopher Fox, Laurence Crane, Simon Steen-Anderson, Øyvind Torvund, Richard Barrett, Bernard Lang.
Joanna Bailie was born in London in 1973 and has been living in Brussels since 2001. In 1995, with a scholarship from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, she moved to Holland where she took private composition lessons with Richard Barrett, in addition to attending courses at the Institute of Sonology in the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 1999 she won a fellowship to study composition at the University of Columbia, New York where she completed her Masters.
Two pieces, Magnifications Matrix 1 and Waning were selected by the jury of the Gaudeamus Competition in 1998 and 1999 respectively. In 2001 she was selected by a jury at IRCAM in Paris to take part in their computer music course. Her music has been performed in both the UK and abroad by performers such as Ensemble Musikfabrik, The Nieuw Ensemble, Apartment House, The London Sinfonietta and Orkest de Volharding. She has been commissioned by such festivals as the Venice Biennale (in 2001) and Huddersfield (in 2004) and has had work presented at the Borealis and Ultima festivals in Norway, the Transit Festival in Belgium and SPOR in Denmark. In February 2007 she created On and Off, a piece for radios and CD players, as part of the first New Rational Music event at Rational Rec in London. Her string quartet Five Famous Adagios appears on the 4th CD of the London Sinfonietta Jerwood Series.
Over the past few years she has become increasingly involved in collaborative work. She has formed an artistic partnership with German scenographer Christoph Ragg with whom she makes installations and multimedia performances and in May 2006 she provided the electronic soundtrack for choreographer Brice Leroux’s Quantum Quintet at the KunstenFESTIVALdesArts — a production that is still touring.
Together with the Australian composer Matthew Shlomowitz, she is the founder and artistic director of Ensemble Plus-Minus. She has won a DIVA residency from the Danish Arts Council and will be spending time in Copenhagen in 2009/2010. She will also be the guest curator for the SPOR festival 2010 in Aarhus.
"...some magnificent singing from one soloist (music composed by Matthew Lee Knowles)..." Howard Loxton , Review for the British Theatre Guide ****CRITICS CHOICE IN TIME-OUT MAGAZINE!!****
Hey J how are you? Doing well in Brux ? I am hearing to the player here... bit strange...your music is mixed in real time with the hindu chants coming from the temple out of my home..quite a good mix....keep in touch !! Big hug R
Joanna! So good to hear from you after all this time. Just now listening to Splice -- fantastic, thick textures and wonderfully ambiguous sounds. Very cool....
