From March-May 2009 Theresa will be an artist in resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts to work on her next improvised opera.
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Presently working on a body of video/photographic works including "Face" (video/performance piece) and unititled self-portraits taken during a stay at Le Corbière in Estavayer-le-lac in Switzerland in November 2008.
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In the works: a solo album of songs for cello, voice and piano. Hopefully to be released at the beginning of 2009 (keeping my fingers crossed.)
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Collaborating with Ellen Fullman on songs and improvisations for long string instrument and cello. This work has been presented at the Maybeck House in Berkeley, CA, as well as in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Songs and improvisations with Kanoko Nishi, koto player extra-ordinaire.
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Past projects include Bolivar Zoar, a rockabilly punk band with MaryClare Brzytwa (flute, guitar and voice) and Ava Mendoza (guitar and voice.)
Listen at: myspace.com/bolivarzoar.
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Also performing on voice/cello/piano/feathers/heels as a cast member in "Necessary Monsters", a theater set song cycle led by violinist Carla Kihlstedt, based on Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Imaginary Beings. Other monsters include: Matthias Bossi, Chris Fisher-Lockhead, Nina Rolle, Michael Mellender and Freddi Price. Photos from the 2008 performance at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art are at: http://www.redlinski.net/necessarymonsters/
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Recent compositions include "What Orbs!", a miniature for solo piano written for Luciano Chessa and "Call It Culture", a cello duo written for and performed with Joan Jeanrenaud.
Theresa Wong is an improviser and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her current work spans the areas of improvisation, composition, video, performance art and large scale performance pieces. After studying design, she became interested in an art form which would unite the visual arts with sound and performance. Current and recent projects include solo songs for cello, voice and piano, "Call It Culture", a cello duo written for and performed with Joan Jeanrenaud, collaborations with Ellen Fullman and Kanoko Nishi, and Necessary Monsters, a theater set song cycle led by violinist Carla Kihlstedt. In 2006 she wrote, directed and performed an improvised opera, "L( )VE", which was presented at Mills College in Oakland California. In 2005 she gave a solo show of improvisations on amplified bicycle and cello as well as a video piece at the Fondation Cartier in Paris as a part of the J'en rêve exhibition.
Her performances have been included in the Unlimited 21 Festival in Wels, Austria, the Other Minds Brink series in San Francisco, the Radio France broadcast "A L'improviste", the Seattle Improvised Music Festival and at The Stone in New York City. She has collaborated and performed with such artists as Fred Frith, Tatsuya Nakatani, Joelle Leandre, Gianni Gebbia, MaryClare Brzytwa, June Watanabe, Meredith Monk, Mark Dresser, Gino Robair, Devin Hoff, Luciano Chessa, ROVA Saxophone Quartet and Moe!Staiano. Theresa completed an MFA in performance at Mills College in 2006 where she studied with Fred Frith, Alvin Curran, Annie Gosfield and cello with Gianna Abondolo and Joan Jeanrenaud.
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TRACKS: "Venice Is A Fish" is voice, cello, prepared piano & tonkori, "Il Sogno" is voice and prepared piano, "Night Watching" is voice and cello and "solo cello improvisation" is acoustic cello. "Mr.Mungle" is with: Kanoko Nishi (bass koto, koto) and TW (voice, cello) and "What Orbs!" is written for and performed by Luciano Chessa (piano).
Hi!!! it's nice to find you back in myspace!! i liked very much meeting you in san francisco and i am sure we will meet us soon in europe...i wish you all the best! greetings from stuttgart
Can you imagine?! another 5 years of programmatic disintegration of italian society, culture, economy and all the rest...we better all move to mongolia...
hope to see you soon, big kisses from schizophrenic Italy!
