Projects include: "Necessary Monsters", a theater set song cycle led by violinist Carla Kihlstedt, based on Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Imaginary Beings, performed with 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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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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Collaboration with Sicilian sax player Gianni Gebbia. A self released demo "Night Mapping" has just been finished and is hot off my home press.
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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.
I am an improviser and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a cellist and vocalist, my current work spans the areas of improvisation, composition, video, performance art and large scale performance pieces. After studies in music and design, I was inspired towards an art form where I could unite the visual arts with sound and performance. My work has been presented at the Fondation Cartier in Paris in 2005, the Other Minds Brink series in San Francisco, the Radio France broadcast, "A L'improviste", the Seattle Improvised Music Festival, The Stone in New York City and Festival Unlimited XXI in Wels, Austria. In 2006 I wrote, directed and performed an improvised opera,“L( )VE”, which was presented at Mills College. I have collaborated and performed with such artists as Fred Frith, Tatsuya Nakatani, Joelle Leandre, Gianni Gebbia, Kanoko Nishi, Ellen Fullman, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Joan Jeanrenaud, Mark Dresser, June Watanabe, Gino Robair, Bob Marsh, Moe!Staiano, Devin Hoff, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, Meredith Monk, Luciano Chessa and Florentine Dance Company Secondo Taglio. I completed an MFA at Mills College where I studied with Fred Frith, Joelle Leandre, Alvin Curran, Annie Gosfield and cello with Joan Jeanrenaud.
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TRACKS: "Il Giornalaio" is with: Giorgio Occhipinti (piano, voice), Emanuele Primavera (drums, voice), Antonio Mainenti (voice, percussion), Filippo Portera (saxophones/flute/voice), Angelo Scelfo (boudzouko, voice) and Giuseppe Guarella (bass, voice). "Mr.Mungle" is with: Kanoko Nishi (bass koto, koto)."solo cello improvisation" is just acoustic cello, "bicycle improvisation" is two tracks of amplified and processed bicycle, "What Orbs!" is performed by Luciano Chessa on piano and "Map 1" is an improvisation by Gianni Gebbia (sax) and TW (cello with preparations).
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!
Dear Theresa Very interesting your music, impressive,great work! We hope to meet you someday and also to listen more of his music. Happy new year Best Rodrigo Montoya and Abaetetuba
I added you as I thought you might be interested in what I am doing.
Six_events is a worldwide performance project, looking for the art in the everyday. So far, there will be hundreds of group/individual performances in Spain, America (14 states), Egypt, China, India, Greece, Japan, Italy, England, Scotland, Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Germany, Serbia, Canada, New Zealand, Latvia, Azerbaijan, Australia and Malaysia across the last week in January (21st-27th)
Document your performances with pictures/films/poetry/drawings and they will be exhibited in London in February.
If you are interested in taking part and would like me to send you a reminder nearer the time about this then just send an email to six_events@yahoo.co.uk (tell me where you are as well!)
glad to meet you again, even if just virtually! I've listen your cd Night Mapping and I've enjoyed it very much, hope to see you soon in venice again, possibly on stage! I wish you a good beginning of the new year, keep in touch,
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!! How are you miss? it's good to listen to you in this virtual space! Hope to see you during your euro tour... maybe can we do a session? greetings from Paris! best, Frantz