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Events Coming 2010
NIRUSU III CD Release
Details TBA
The return of the lethal improvising trio NIRUSU III - on CD ! A full-length studio recording made at the legendary Maybeck Recital Hall* is in post production and will be available before the end of the year. This recording promises the outré-elegant improv NIRUSU III that earned them a reputation. Watch for previews and samples here!
(*special thanks to Gregory Moore)
July 9, 2010
11 Ideas Airs on WHMT TvFILM (repeat - see June 27)
10:00pm
WMHT TV, New York Capital Region
Digital 17.2 and TimeWarner Channel 200
Regular series airs every Sunday evening
TvFILM at www.wmht.org
Watch full episodes online at www.wmht.org/program and see extended filmmaker interviews on the TvFILM blog.
June 27, 2010
11 Ideas Airs on WHMT TvFILM
WMHT TvFILM Season 2 begins June 27
June 27
10:30pm
WMHT TV, New York Capital Region
(Series airs every Sunday evening)
TvFILM at www.wmht.org
The Capital Region's WMHT TvFILM series launches its 2nd season this Sunday, June 27 at 10:30pm. This season's opening episode will feature Chase's collaborative film 11 Ideas (About People and Stuff) with an interview and commentary by Chase about the making of the film, its concept and its future. More about 11 Ideas here.
WMHT's TvFILM looks at what filmmaking is happening in the region. Guided by host Brandon Bethmann, TvFILM features short films to documentaries to animated shorts, and leaves no cinematic stone unturned.
WMHT and TvFILM will be airing extended filmmaker interviews on the TvFILM blog.
June 17, 2010
Cadillac Moon Ensemble: On The Road
World Premiere of Street Mixes
8pm
Issue Project Room
232 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718)330-0313
$15 general, $10 Students and Seniors
www.issueprojectroom.org
www.cadillacmoonensemble.com
Cadillac Moon Ensemble presents a concert of works for a traveling quartet. Brand-new works by Nicholas Chase, Matthew Welch as well as works by Wolfgang Rihm, Pawel Szymanski, Christian Wolff, and Jay Batzner.
Chase's Street Mixes tune the music of the composition to the urban environment and include every day street noise as part of the orchestration. Premiering will be Chase's Street Mix No. 1: New York Above Ground tuned to the intersection of Canal and Centre Street, New York.
May 30, 2010
60x60 Dance "Order of Magnitude" Mix
10:59-21:00
FoFA Gallery
Concordia University
1515 Catherine Street West
EV 1.715
Montreal, Québec,
Canada, H3G 2W1
www.voxnovus.com
"Vox Novus is proud to present ten hours of music, dance, and video, featuring one-minute works by 600 composers, the most ever to be programmed in a single show." Chase's Broken Spaces and Paper Construction No. 1a have been featured works in Robert Voisey's 60x60 2008 International Mix played around the globe. In 2007 Broken Spaces was selected as one of the works for dance at the World Financial Center's Winter Garden Dance Collaboration. Broken Spaces appears again with dance in this unique day-long mix of 600 micro-pieces with improvised movement.
May 16, 2010
Reel Preview of Ngoma Lungundu
6:30 PM
Arts Center of the Capital Region
265 River St.
Troy, NY 12180
518/273-0552
www.artscenteronline.org
As part of the Supernature group show vernissage, Ngoma Lungundu - 3rd Movement will be shown in the Blackbox Theater, 6:30pm.
April 30-May 2, 2010
International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place
Towson University
Baltimore, MD
www.towson.edu
Chase will attend the IASESP 2010 conference to talk on a new paper on medial space and artistic practices entitled Unboxing Infinity. Details TBA.
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April 17, 2010 Chase reprises Ngoma Lungundu (Voice That Thunders) with new interactive video and extended musical passages. The concert will pair with Anna Lindemann's Bird Brain. |
April 17, 2010
RPI Orchestra and Pauline Oliveros' Tintinnabulate
give World Premiere of Uuq
2pm
EMPAC Main Stage
Troy, NY
Tickets free!
empac.rpi.edu
www.myspace.com/tintinnabulate
The RPI Orchestra teams for the first time ever with Pauline Oliveros' improvising research ensemble Tintinnabulate to premiere Chase's Uuq, an extravaganza of noise, energy and madness!
 October 3, 2009 2-9PM Re:Soundings' A Festival of Firsts The Brick Elephant 12 Emily Street Valley Falls NY 12185 Admission by donation Potluck dinner from 7 to 8PM Chase performs at 3pm on the festival roster www.resoundings.net |
Chase gives the World Premiere of the newly revised Songs of the Thirsty Sword Part I (For Lucky Mosko) as part of Re:Soundings' A Festival of Firsts at the Brick Elephant in Valley Falls New York.
A Festival of Firsts is a music and multi-media extravaganza featuring 8 premiere performances facilitated by Damian of Kalvos and Damian and composer Mary Jane Leach. Chase continues his exploration of of dynamic, spontaneously composed visual narratives and music with the haunting Songs of the Thirsty Sword Part I (For Lucky Mosko) for solo piano with interactive electronics and video. Preview the piece here (scroll to the bottom of the page).
OUT NOW, EXCLUSIVELY AS MP3 DOWNLOAD!*
Twin Recording Release:
Ngoma Lungundu (voice that thunders): the Velvet Watt Vol. 1
Blue Sky Over Buchenwald: Original Music Soundtrack
The Summer brings two new studio albums from Nicholas Chase, the first full-length commercial releases since 1993. These feature Chase's most recent musical explorations, brand new material premiered and toured last fall in Europe and the US.
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Ngoma Lungundu (Voice That Thunders), features the studio premiere of the epic 4-movement title track, originally created for live, multi-channel electronics, mastered here for home stereo and iPod, and comes alongside Seventh Sense, the half-hour opus for bass and electronics featuring a tour-de-force performance by contrabassist Cristin Wildbolz. Seventh Sense was originally released on STV/Unit records in Switzerland on 5.1 Surround Sound DVD, but is available in the US for the first time in this specially re-mastered stereo edition - and includes 3 minutes of material not issued on the Swiss release! Get it now on iTunes! |
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Also appearing this Summer, Blue Sky Over Buchenwald, the electronic soundtrack to the Alternativer Medienpreis nominated documentary Wie kann es so schoen in Buchenwald sein? by Gabriele Rabe. The recording features original tracks produced for the documentary as well as a selection of originally composed and performed acoustic tracks that provided the basis for the electronic soundtrack.
Get it now on iTunes! |
Ngoma Lungundu (Voice That Thunders) and Blue Sky Over Buchenwald will be digitally available internationally on iTunes other online music stores. (*Hardcopy CD of these recordings is NOT available - purchase your music online, download it now, play it instantly!)
April 4, 2009
60x60 2008 International Mix
Outside the Box New Music Festival
Southern Illinois University, Carbondalel, Illinois
www.voxnovus.com
60x60 is annual project including 60 works from 60 different composers where each work is 60 seconds (or less) in length. Featured amongst the 2008 International Mix will be Chase's Broken Spaces recently premiered with dance (see below) and Paper Construction No. 1a.
60x60 2008 International Mix Tour dates
April 2, 2009
Brooke's Oxford's Sonic Arts Festival
Oxford, England
April 4
Outside the Box New Music Festival
Southern Illinois University, Carbondalel, Illinois
April 17
NonSequitur
The Good Shepherd Center
Seattle, Washington
www.voxnovus.com
60x60 is annual project including 60 works from 60 different composers where each work is 60 seconds (or less) in length. Featured amongst the 2008 International Mix will be Chase's Broken Spaces recently premiered with dance (see below) and Paper Construction No. 1a.
March 11, 2009
+60x60 at the EARFEST
8pm
SUNY Stony Brook
www.voxnovus.com
+60x60 features the 60x60 2008 International Mix plus composers from SUNY Stony Brook in Long Island, NY. 60x60 is an annual project made up of 60 works from 60 different composers where each work is 60 seconds (or less) in length. Featured in the 2008 International Mix will be Chase's Broken Spaces recently premiered with dance (see below) and Paper Construction No. 1a. 60x60 is produced by Robert Voisey.
January 22, 2009
60x60 2008 International Mix
8pm
United Christian Fellowship
313 Thurstin Ave.
Bowling Green, OH
www.voxnovus.com
BGSU Electronic Music Studios presents 60x60 2008 International Mix. 60x60 is an annual project made up of 60 works from 60 different composers where each work is 60 seconds (or less) in length. Featured in the 2008 International Mix will be Chase's Broken Spaces recently premiered with dance (see below) and Paper Construction No. 1a. 60x60 is produced by Robert Voisey.
December 5, 2008
World Premiere of Considering Light
Tribute to Lucky Mosko
8pm
Murphy Hall, Loyola Marymount College
1 LMU Drive
Los Angeles, California
$7-10 Requested Donation
Chase's latest work for sextet, Considering Light commissioned by The Los Angeles Wholesale Orchestra premieres as part of a tribute to late composer Stephen "Lucky" Mosko.
Chase's appearance at this event is supported in part by Meet The Composer.
[blog about it]
December 3, 2008
Trilogy KXLU FM 88.9 FM
Tribute to Lucky Mosko Feature
9pm
Hosted by Emily Hay
www.kxlu.com
www.emilyhay.com
Emily Hay will talk with Chase, Running Bear Bunch and Trevor Berens about the upcoming Tribute to Lucky Mosko concert (see Dec. 5) on her KXLU program Trilogy 9pm Wednesday, December 3 on FM 88.9.
Chase's appearance at this event is supported in part by Meet The Composer.
[blog about it]
November 21, 2008
60x60 2008 International Mix
11pm
Band Room A311
University Music Center
Cole Conservatory of Music
at CalState Long Beach
www.voxnovus.com
60x60 is annual project including 60 works from 60 different composers where each work is 60 seconds (or less) in length. Featured amongst the 2008 International Mix will be Chase's Broken Spaces recently premiered with dance (see below) and Paper Construction No. 1a.
November 14, 2008
60x60 Dance - 2008 International Mix
12:30 and 7pm
World Financial Center
220 Vesey St. New York, NY
Admission Free
www.voxnovus.com
60x60.blogspot.com
60x60Dance is 60 one-minute dances performed to 60 one-minute musical pieces. 60x60 Dance is a collaboration between Vox Novus and CatScratch Theatre. This performance is presented by arts World Financial Center, which is sponsored by American Express, Battery Park City Authority, Brookfield Properties and Merrill Lynch.
This round features a long list of composers and choreographers, among them Chase's Broken Spaces with movement by Germaul Barnes.
Nicholas Chase and Spark Applied to Powder
An Evening of Electronic Mu(sic) and Video
| 8pm DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway Eugene, OR $5-7 suggested donation www.divacenter.org |
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Chase and Eugene sound-artist Spark Applied to Powder share an evening of eclectic and unusual non-synth-pop electronic music. Chase reprises Ngoma Lungundu (Voice That Thunders) for multi-channel electronics and interactive video after premiering Ngoma in Europe and San Francisco. Spark Applied to Powder (aka Kevin Spahn) offers his signature analogue-artistry with new sonic expressions and ambient drone works.
[blog about it]
October 25, 2008
Nicholas Chase and Gregory Moore: New Works
Private Concert - If you would like to attend RSVP HERE
Maybeck Recital Hall
1847 Euclid Avenue at Buena Vista
Berkeley, CA
www.handprintseries.com
Nicholas Chase and Gregory Moore present an evening of New Works. Chase reprises Songs of the Thirsty Sword Part I for solo piano and interactive video and electronics. Details TBA.
[blog about it]
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October 23, 2008 Music By The Eyeful 8pm Luggage Store 1007 Market Street at 6th San Francisco, CA 94103 tickets: $6-10 Sliding Scale www.myspace.com/musicbytheeyeful Nicholas Chase, Dylan Bolles and Keith Evans will open the Music By The Eyeful audio/visual performance festival at San Francisco's legendary Luggage Store. This performance will cap Chase's fall tour of solo electronic audio/video performances and will feature the epic Ngoma Lungundu for solo laptop in 4-channel sound with interactive video. [blog about it] The Festival hosts a bevy of cutting-edge aritsts through April, 2009, all at the Luggage Store. |
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October 16, 2008
Opening of Art at the Galerie Slovácké Muzeum v Uherském Hradišti
5:00pm
Galerie Slovácké Muzeum
Uherském Hradišti, Czech Republic
www.slovackemuzeum.cz
Invited by the Director of the School of Music at the Janacek Academie in Brno, Czechia, Chase teams with pianist Lenka Zalcikova for an exhibition of improvised video and piano commemorating the opening of a retrospective exhibition of ceramic work of Mme. Ludmila Kováríková.
October 12-18, 2008
12th International New Music Plus Festival
Concert October 14
7:30pm
Janacek Academie
Brno, Czech Republic
Kicking off a fall tour of solo performances, Chase will be in residence at the Janaçek Academie in Brno, Czech Republic. Chase will present an evening of world-premiere solo works for 4-channel audio, piano and interactive video as well as meet with students of the academie and take part in various festival events.
This residency is funded in part through the Foundation for Contemporary Arts
[blog about it]
September 1 and 11
Microscore Project reprises boner.
9/1
8pm
The Wulf
1026 Santa Fe Ave.
no. 206
Los Angeles, CA 90021
www.thewulf.org
9/11
7:30pm
Strauss Performing Arts Center
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Tickets $10
www.artsaha.org
www.myspace.com/theMicroscoreProject
The Microscore Project, Johnny Chang (violin) and Jessica Catron (cello) play musical works with durations shorter than 30 seconds. The Microscore Project will perform Chase's boner. (first movement, including tequila) as part of their program of 'micro-hits' selected from hundreds of pieces that have been written for the duo, including works by composer luminaries such as Pauline Oliveros, Harold Budd and James Tenney.
May 31, 2008
NOVA
Illuminated Corridor at the Whitney Biennial 2008
Civil Twilight-11pm (or so)
Location TBD
www.illuminatedcorridor.com
Chase joins the San Francisco based Illuminated Corridor once more for the 2008 incarnation NOVA, creating a new film-sound installation for the streets of Manhattan. The Illuminated Corridor will join Neighborhood Public Radio at its American Life exhibition at the 2008 Whitney Biennial (March 6 - June 1). The Corridor will close NPR’s run at the Whitney, creating a one-night only outdoor performance that uses source material from NPR’s Public Radio Interfaces (PRIs) and television transmissions. Advance details here.
[blog about it]
May 17, 2008
Museumnacht, Weimar
9:00pm
3 Jenaerstr. (Die Franz Liszt Altenburg)
Weimar, Germany
Acclaimed artist Anne-Katrin Altwein (www.anne-katrin-altwein.de) presents an evening of new work as part of the nationally celebrated Museumnacht at the historic Franz Liszt Altenburg house. Included in the evening's festivities will be the performance of a work by Chase - details to be determined - as well as the screening of a new film by Altwein.
April 12, 13 2008
Nanette Brodie Dance Theater premieres New Orleans Lowdown
Golden West College Theater
Huntington Beach, CA
(details to follow)
www.nbdt.net
www.stevelockwood.org
Steve Lockwood's New Orleans Lowdown premieres with choreography by the Nanette Brodie Dance Theater. Lockwood's epic jazz-ballet features a new film by Chase's creative collaborative Egg Ensemble. Visit the websites above for details about the ballet and www.mas-lab.org to learn more about the film.
February 29, 2008
Guthrie and Streb Solstice Concert Series
7:30pm
Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103
626-792-5101
Admission $5-$10 Sliding Donation
www.armoryarts.org
www.guthrieandstreb.com
Innovative string duo April Guthrie ('cello) and Cassia Streb (viola) give the world premiere of Chase's Ouistitis, kicking off their triptych concert series featuring works written during the Summer Solstice.
September 14, 2007
Weimar-New York presents Nicholas Chase
8pm
Kunsthalle
Goetheplatz 9
Weimar, Germany
Laptop-improvisations, experi-Mental video and other Variations
An evening dedicated to the digital/audio-visual work of L.A. composer Nicholas Chase takes place at the historic Harry Graf Kessler Kunsthalle in Weimar, Germany, as part of the hall's festival/art-show Weimar-New York. In his premiere solo performance, Chase's will work with complex palettes of electronic sound and music and explore the possibility of dynamic, spontaneously composed visual material that includes animated film, and vector generated graphics.
Salve TV-Weimar will broadcast an interview with Leon Klayman about the Weimar-New York Kunst u. Konzert. Klayman will talk about Chase's participation in the Festival and Salve-TV will air a portion of Chase's "7th Sense" as recorded by Cristin Wildbolz: airdate Monday, September 24.
Upcoming Premieres
Winter 2008
Mosko Portrait Concert
Los Angeles: venue, time and date TBA
Trevor Berens pilots the Los Angeles Wholesale Orchestra* in a concert exploration of the work of composers Stephen "Lucky" Mosko . The ensemble will also give the world premiere performance of Chase's Considering Light for large ensemble.
Read about the composition in progress here.
*Los Angeles Wholesale Orchestra previews its debut August 11, 8PM, Murphy Recital Hall, Loyola Marymount University.
Fall 2007
Solstice Music
Los Angeles: venue, time and date TBA
Guthrie and Streb give the world premiere of Chase's Ouistitis for viola and 'cello as part of the duo's Solstice Composition Series. The series features 16 original compositions by various composers, created the week of the 2007 Summer Solstice. Visit www.guthrieandstreb.com for more information.
New Press!
June 27, 2007
Double Bassist Magazine reviews Cristin Wildbolz' DVD C ollaborations. Buy the DVD from MAS-Lab!
June 1, 2007
Neue Zeitung Zürich (NZZ-Switzerland) write-up of C ollaborations. Buy the DVD from MAS-Lab!
May 21, 2007
Roman Stolyar writes about his US tour for Jazz Russia Magazine (read a rudimentary translation here).
May 17-20, 2007
Kalamzoo Animation Festival International
Center for New Media - KAFI
202 N. Rose St.
Kalamazoo, MI 49003-4070
269-373-7883
kafi.kvcc.edu
Competition Round 6: Best of the Best (Non-narrative)
May 20
11am
State Theater
(Click here for competition lineup)
Dali's Egg: Chapter 1 (Other People's Things) has been selected as a finalist in the Kalamazoo Animation Festival International (KAFI) and will be screened competitively along with animation shorts by Bill Plympton, Peter Parr and a host of others. More about the Dali's Egg project at www.dalisegg.com and www.mas-lab.org. Watch the Dali's Egg website for screening times, and please check out KAFI's website (kafi.kvcc.edu) for more information on the festival.
April 27, 2007
Audio/Video Improvisation with Roman Stolyar
8:30PM
REDCAT
631 W. 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 237-2800
Tickets $20, $16 Students, $10 CalArts associates
Chase performs electronics and video with world renown pianist and improviser Roman Stoylar in an evening of music, projection and cutting edge antics at Los Angeles' REDCAT. Watch here for details.
January 2, 2007
Stranger Than Fiction - Helsinki
3pm
Academy of Fine Arts
Kasarmikatu 36
Seminar Room 3 (3rd Floor)
Helsinki, Finland
www.kuva.fi
The first international screening of Dali's Egg: Chapter 1 (Other People's Things) takes place at the Academy of Fine arts in Helsinki, Finland as part of the STRANGER THAN FICTION - HELSINKI film festival. The festival is an extension of the STRANGER THAN FICTION festival that took place in San Francisco at The Lab in July 2006. STRANGER THAN FICTION was curated by Nomi Talisman and STRANGER THAN FICTION - HELSINKI is curated by Pilvi Takala. For details and a full listing of the festival programing, please download the press release.
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