NowNet Arts Ensemble
NowNet Arts Ensemble features contemporary musicians and media artists in New York and locations internationally performing together live via the internet. With performances and collaborations spanning fifteen years in network arts, NowNet Arts Ensemble expresses works at the forefront of the medium and artistic interconnection. Directed by composer and conductor Sarah Weaver.
Synthesis Series: Excerpts
NowNet Arts Series May 23, 2021
Synthesis Series Excerpts
Premiered May 23, 2021
NowNet Arts Ensemble premiered contemporary network arts works by composer Sarah Weaver and collaborations for pioneering musicians in New York, California, and Switzerland performing together live via the internet. With collaborations spanning over fifteen years in network arts, NowNet Arts Ensemble expresses works at the forefront of the medium and artistic interconnection. "Synthesis Series" is a collection of solo, chamber, and large ensemble pieces on contemplative concepts of networked synchrony across realities, transformation of distance, and synthesis activation for healing and transcendence. The concert audio utilizes JackTrip network music technology.
Excerpts:
Infinite Beauty (00:14)
Dedicated to Mark Dresser (solo bass)
Sarah Weaver (composer)
Isomorphic Now (10:01)
Yoon Sun Choi (voice), Julie Ferrara (oboe), Marty Ehrlich (clarinet), Jane Ira Bloom (soprano saxophone), Ned Rothenberg (alto saxophone), James Zollar (trumpet), Sarah Weaver (composer)
Interpolation Space (13:40)
Ray Anderson (trombone), David Taylor (bass trombone), Sarah Weaver (composer)
At the Intersection of Eternity and Time (18:55)
Dedicated to William Jastrow
Gerry Hemingway (solo percussion, composer), Sarah Weaver (composer)
Integral Infinity (24:58)
Yoon Sun Choi (voice), Julie Ferrara (oboe), Jane Ira Bloom (soprano saxophone), Marty Ehrlich (woodwinds), Ned Rothenberg (woodwinds), James Zollar (trumpet), Ray Anderson (trombone), David Taylor (bass trombone), Mark Dresser (bass), Gerry Hemingway (percussion), Sarah Weaver (conductor, composer)
RECORDING OF LIVE STREAM
NowNet Arts Festival 2020 Recording of Live Stream: https://nownetarts.org/festival-2020
Set 1: NowNet Arts Ensemble
Requiem: Interconnection by Sarah Weaver
Latent Energies by Stephan Moore
Performers: Yoon Sun Choi, voice (New York), Jane Ira Bloom, soprano saxophone (New York), Ned Rothenberg, woodwinds (New York), Matthias Ziegler, flutes (Zurich), James Zollar, trumpet (New York), Ray Anderson, trombone (New York), David Taylor, bass trombone (New York), Mark Dresser, bass (California), Gerry Hemingway, percussion, electronics (Lucerne), JoVia Armstrong, percussion, electronics (California), Stephan Moore, electronics (Chicago), Sarah Weaver, conductor (New York)