jascha narveson

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last updated: May 9, 2008

 


upcoming fun things


Tuesday, June 10
Issue Project Room, 232 3rd St., Brooklyn
Time, $ TBA

I'll be a laptopist with some of the other PLOrk people in a show of works for multiple laptops and crazy multichannel somethingsomething. More details when I get them!


past fun things


(2008):

Thursday, May 8
The Tank, NYC
10:00pm, $5

Columbia University's "fün night" and Princeton's "ffmup" series combine to form "ffüp night," featuring pen plotters, laptops, analog gear, violins and clarinets, 3-D visuals, circuit bending, vocals, smarts, and stupidity!

For more info click here.

Sunday, May 4
The Stone, New York City (corner of Ave. C and 2nd St.)
10:00pm, $10

The mighty Brooklyn guitar heroes Dither play my electric guitar quartet "Vectors" along with a bunch of other cool music.

Sunday, April 19
Dartmouth University
8:00pm, Free

Another playing of my 8-channel electroacoustic piece "Doors.", along with pieces by other Princeton composers.

Tuesday, April 15
FFMUP (Free-Form Mash-Up)
Terrace - 62 Washington, Princeton NJ
9:00pm, Free

I'll be doing a short set with laptop and some "etc" at the FFMUP, opening for Michael Early and The Polish Club (David Jensenius and Tom Crean).

Tuesday, March 25
Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
8:00pm, Free

The Brooklyn-based electric guitar quartet Dither will be playing my new piece "Vectors" as part of the Composers Ensemble concert series.

Wednesday, March 19
Marueen Forester Recital Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, ON)
8:00pm, Free

Another playing of my 8-channel work "Doors." as part of the New Music Concerts series at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Friday, February 22 - Friday, March 29
The MT Space and Studio 23, at Globe Studios (Kitchener, ON)

The installation "EMPIRE" is a collaboration between myself and visual artist Grace Kary, featuring new poloroid photographic work and a motion-sensitive sound installation.

 

(2007):

Tuesday, November 27
Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
8:00pm, Free

"Doors" is a new 8-channel electroacoustic work which will be played at this installment of the Composer's Ensemble series at Princeton University.

Tuesday, April 24 - Sunday, April 29
The King Street Theatre lobby, Kitchener, Ontario
Part of the Open Ears installation series

The installation "STATES" is a collaboration between visual artist Grace Kary and myself. STATES attempts to mimic some of the psychological processes we associate with Freud's theory of 'transference,' in which unconcsious traumas are projected into the present as a means of freeing one's self of them. Video and sound will work together to try and capture something of the feelings we imagine this process evokes...

The version presented at the Open Ears festival will be followed by a larger version later in the summer.

With thanks to the Waterloo Regional Arts Fund for their support.

Friday, February 23, 2007
The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline St. N., Waterloo
Tickets $25, $15 full-time students

"New York's sensational Bang on a Can composer Michael Gordon has his ecstatic Weather for strings and electronics performed along with new video design by Stefan Rose. Jascha Narveson, a local Gen Y post-minimalist, premieres a new work featuring harp, accordion, strings and electronics. Finishing things off is KW's new international DJ prodigy Jesse Somfay, critically renowned for creating experimental and emotionally epic layered tracks."

Co-presented with NUMUS and the KW Symphony.

go to the event page

(2006):

Tuesday, October 10, 2006
The Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. W., Toronto
Tickets $15, $12 artists, students, and seniors

RED presents: Paradise Lost - and Ekphrastic Collision

"RED founder and curator Lisa Pijuan-Nomura teams up with Erin Shields to bring together eleven of Toronto's most talented artists in this multi-disciplinary artistic reinterpretation of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Don't miss this chance to see a first glimpse of this exciting collaboration!"

go to RED's event page

Friday, April 28th, 7:00pm
Queen Street Yoga, 44 Queen Street S., Kitchener, Ontario
$20

Queen Street Yoga's "Yoga Jam"

I'll be providing electronic music accompaniment to a tag-team multi-teacher yoga flow at Queen Street Yoga. Yoga from 7-9pm, and then tea, snacks, and more music from 9 onward...

(2005):

Wednesday, December 14th, 8:00 PM
The Tank, 217 East 42nd Street, New York, NY
$10

"Transmissions" (presented by Transonic Arts)

Transmissions will explore works which use “found sound” – recorded sound like a bird chirping, a train passing by, or speech. The program will look at how computer technology has extended the definition of the term by allowing real-time recording and alteration of musical instruments and ambient sounds. Trasmissions will feature two multimedia sound installations, by sound artist Jessica Feldman and composer Jonathan Zalben; a “composed” radio documentary and a piece of concert music by composer/radio producer Jonathan Mitchell; and two contrasting performances of Jascha Narveson’s work 'Kaleidoscope' for improvising soloist and computer processing.

Monday, August 15th, 8:00 PM
Zero To One Studios, Kitchener, Ontario
$5


•jascha narveson - live computer music
•úna ní fhlannagáin - "two lies," for harp and electronics
•david newman & jascha narveson - (untitled), video
•colin fisher (guitar, sax), nick storring (cello, computer) - improv

Thursday, June 23rd, 9:00 PM
University of Waterloo Grad House, Waterloo, Ontario
$5


•jascha narveson - live computer music
•the lonely flight - lush analog-flavoured ambience
•colin fisher (guitar, sax), nick storring (cello, computer) & brandon valdivia (drums) - trio improvisations

Saturday, May 7, 2:00pm
Bessie Schoenberg Dance Studio
Wesleyan University

...a concert of Batá music from the Cuban Santeria tradition. I wrote none of it, but i love all of it. For this cocnert, the Wesleyan Batá group is:

Elizabeth Sayre
Nicholas Hockin
David Garlitz
Justin Martinez
Raquel Rivela
Luis Miguel Haneo
Jascha Narveson

and guests:

Michele "Buffy" Drysdale (dance)
Susan Rapalee (lead vocals)

April 23 - May 1 - Zero To One Galleries, Kitchener, Ontario

a collaborative installation with Ian Newton will be presented in his Zero To One Galleries space in Kitchener, Ontario as part of the Open Ears Festival. here's the description of the piece:
 
Creak Speak:
The Zero to One space has been the site of many of Kitchener's more spontaneous and underground cultural events for the past 5 years, from exhibits and readings to concerts, workshops and large multimedia events. As an homage to a space which is loved by so many, local artists Ian Newton (founder and director of Zero to One) and Jascha Narveson have designed an installation piece which will put the room itself on display.  Complete darkness, twenty-two contact microphones, several litres of phosphorescent paint, a multi-channel computer processing system, and the fantastically creaky wooden floor of the Zero to One gallery form the elements of this interactive work.

Tuesday, April 19th, 8:00
Wesleyan University Memorial Chapel
Middletown, Connecticut


split concert:

Phillip Schulze - "Abschiedskonzert"
with:
Johnathan Chen, Dave Kadden, Angela Opell, Dave Ruder, Carl Testa

Jascha Narveson - M.A. Thesis concert
with:

Neely Bruce - piano
Tom Crean - guitar
Andrew Dewar - tenor clarinet


Other info can be found at:

http://www.phillip-schulze.de

new-music pianist Danny Holt will be performing my solo piano piece ripple on tour, along with memory pieces by David Lang and other new music which Danny commissioned especially for him. Detailed info (prices, venue, program notes, etc...) can be found on his own site (linked to his name in the previous sentence).


•Sunday, March 13 2pm - Valencia, CA
•Tuesday, March 29, 7:30pm - Springfield, MA
•Wednesday, March 30 - 7pm, Amherst, MA
•Friday, April , 8pm, Waterloo, Ontario
•Sunday, April 3 - 1:30pm, Cambridge, MA
•Tuesday, April 5 - 7:30pm, Old Town Pasadena, CA
•Tuesday, April 12, 8pm, New York, NY
•Friday, April 15, 8pm, New Haven, CT
•Saturday, April 16, 8:00pm, Philadelphia, PA (partial program, does not include ripple)
•Saturday, April 17, 7:30pm, Philadelphia, PA (partial program, does not include ripple)
•Friday, April 21, 1pm, Dartington, Devon, England
•Saturday, April 23, 11am St. Mary's Church, Totnes, Devon, ENGLAND
•Date & Time TBA - Home of Alain Bioteau & Rachel Guilloux, Paris. RSVP: postmaster@alain-bioteau.com.fr
•Tuesday, May 3, 1pm, York, England