M/P '22
M/P '22
Day 3 - Edge Zones, 7 PM - 10 PM
M/P '22
M/P '22
POCKET OF LOLLIPOPS
Pocket Of Lollipops appear to play intuitively, with distinctive personalities that nonetheless drawn from a single source. The music can make the listener feel as if he also were floating. The musical performers create a theatrical setting of continuous interconnected changeovers to accommodate the sounds. In conclusion the audience is treated to Lollipops an invention that is something of a mystery that dates back to the middle ages.
EL FUGUE
El Fugue, a classically trained Russian multi-instrumentalist turning his current focus to the world of analog synthesis. Various twists and turns take you down dark alley ways into foreign zones, presenting hypnotic patterns with a synthetic profusion of growth and chaos. El Fugue creates music for dystopian dance floors but also fit for cybernetic meditation.
JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ SANCHÉZ
José attained a BFA in music composition at CalArts mentored by Barry Schraeder and James Tenney among others. He later earned his MFA in music composition at SDSU and attended workshops with Pierre Boulez, Tristan Murail, Vinko Globokar and Toshio Hosokawa. He worked as professor and coordinator of the department of composition at Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia from 2004 to 2010. He is presently based in Miami, composing music and independently researching aesthetics.
JULIO ROLOFF
Cuban-American composer of electro-acoustic, computer and experimental music, professor and producer. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1951, and is naturalized American Citizen, he started his musical education at the Conservatory Amadeo Roldan in his native city where he studied double-bass with professors Orestes Urfe and Angel Nenov, percussion with professors Domingo Aragu and Roberto Concepcion and music theory with professors Nereida Borges, Zoila Gomez, Aida Teseiro, Nidia Fournier and Carmen Valdes Sicardo.
MALDITA VAINA
Maldita Vaina is a Dominican-Sudanese artist, researcher, DJ, and facilitator who works with sound, movement, and the senses to activate memories. Maldita Vaina likes to combine and recombine rhythms and genres in her mixes to produce soundscapes for transformation. Her sets are high energy and incorporate sounds Afro, Carribean and Black Diaspora featuring Dembow, Palos, Gaga, Gqom. Her research and facilitation practice has taken her to exhibit in Taiwan (2017), Melbourne (2015), Berlin (2013, 2015, 2018), Barcelona (2019), Budapest (2016), San Francisco (2014, 2016), and Toronto (2018). She was a mentor at Madrid's Media Lab Prado in 2019. She had two radio shows as part of WZLY 91.5 FM (2004) in Wellesley, MA and RadioHive (2009-2011) in NYC. She produced an international art and technology conference in NYC from 2013-2015. She teaches mixing and DJ classes for non-heterosexuals in Santo Domingo and Bonao. She currently lives near Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in Itabo, Bajos de Haina, San Cristóbal.
STUART KING
A long time resident of Miami, Stuart has played his trumpet in many international know groups including Willy Chirino, Celia Cruz, Mongo Santamaria, Tavares, KC and the Sunshine Band, Sister Sledge, Rose, Jaco Pastorius, Royce, Johnny Mathis, Frankie Avalon, Styx, and many of the top bands of Puerto Rico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. In the past several years, while not playing with the above mentioned, he concentrates on improvised experimental SoundArt which he has had quite a success in at top art galleries in Miami. Stuart continues to search for the beauty in free-improvised SoundArt.
DUET FOR TWO PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER MET
Raymond MacDonald and Rachel Joy Weiss have never met, but they have collaborated. In an effort to go headfirst into the ‘shifting tectonic plates of communication’ brought about by the pandemic, the duo decided to explore the possibilities of online improvisation. In this composition, they explore how the online environment facilitates new ways of collaborating, and new ways on hearing, seeing, and experiencing the cyberspaces. A metaphor for sustaining community in times of adversity.
BONGO WATTZ
Shamar Watt is an experimental multidisciplinary independent artist born in Kingston (Jamaica) raised in Miami, based in Miami and New York City. He was nominated as one of the top 25 performers/choreographers to watch for 2019 Dance Magazine. Watt was a 2018 Bessie Nominee and in 2019 he was the recipient of the prestigious Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance. Watt is driven by the politics of black frequencies as they shift/manipulate space and can enable the body to respond in radical ways towards illumination.
RICHARD VERGEZ & MONICA MESA
Richard Vergez is a Cuban-American mixed-media visual and sound artist.
Monica Mesa is a Colombian-born, Miami-based experimental sound artist.
RAT BASTARD
Noise Pioneer, founder of the International Noise Conference. Airlift Project: The Music Box: A Shantytown Sound Laboratory.