Kind of, sort of:
Thurston Moore,
Kaffe Matthews,
Weird Cookie with Cristiina Carter,
Andy Ex (The EX),
Chris Cog-to-the-burn (THIS TIGHT ROPE),
Donna Huanca y mas y mas y mas
Maria Chavez is an avant-turntablist from Peru, currently living in New York City. She focuses on electro acoustic sound of vinyl and needle and has a
collection of needles from immaculate to ruined that she calls her "pencils of sound" and a collection of records that provide the palette.
She has performed with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth in her New York City debut, recorded with London-based laptop artist Kaffe Matthews and performed with Otomo Yoshihide, dieb13, and ErikM as part of the Wien Modern festival of contemporary music in Vienna in November of 2007.
Chavez has created sound pieces for gallery spaces all over the world including STEIM (Amsterdam), El Cervatino (Merida, Yucatan), the Kitchen (NYC), and was an artist in residence with the Issue Project Room (Brooklyn) for the fall of 2006 and with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Bard College in June and July 2008 where she had to create and perform a large scale sound piece for the DIA:Beacon museum in Beacon, New York. She performed within one of Richard Serra's "Torqued Ellipses" along with David Linton, Newton Armstrong and Stephan Moore.
Chavez has been awarded several artist grants, the most recent award came from the Jerome Foundation as an Emerging Artist Grant from Roulette Intermedium in SOHO, NYC.
She currently finished working on a short film score w/ video artist David Gacs and performing artist Matthew Day entitled "Through my Geography" which can be viewed on her myspace page. And is working as an apprentice with BROOKLYN:PHONO, a professional vinyl cutting service under the instruction of Master Lathe cutter Albert
Grundy, founder of the Audio Engineering Society.
Author Tara Rodgers has included Chavez in a book entitled "Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound" alongside Ikue Mori, Mira Calix, and Marina Rosenfeld
which is due to be published by Duke University Press in 2009.
2009 looks to be a promising year with public performances scheduled in Vienna for the "PhonoFemme" festival in the Spring, San Fransisco for the "Electronic Music Festival" in the fall and many more performances to be announced.
For booking Maria Chavez: mariachavez@mail.com
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"About my Lack of Recordings"
I have received a lot of messages asking about where to purchase new music of mine but I am no longer recording my performances to sell music. My performances are video recorded instead for archival purposes and can be seen on my blog mynamelookslikeme for free.
Thank you for your encouragement and understanding.
The New York Times says about my last artist residency with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the DIA:Beacon Museum:
*There were four musicians, one placed within each sculpture; the resonance this placed around their electronic music was terrific, making it sometimes like distant thunder, often like a giant hum.*
wonderful! now i realize u r on "women take back the noise" which i have & treasure! hope to see your store one day in brooklyn! ohhhh....i love your profile pic & that amazing photo with merce & jasper..... thanx for add & happy holidays!
