Princeton Sound Kitchen Presents
The Black Box Project
Performing New Works by:
Alex Dowling
Amanda Feery
Wally Gunn
Dave Molk
Jason Treuting
Performed by:
The Black Box Project
Location: The Black Box Theater at Wilson College
Ticketing: Free admission
Date: Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Start time: 8:00 pm
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PSK presents composers Alex Dowling, Amanda Feery, Wally Gunn, Dave Molk and Jason Treuting showing newly devised performance works in a black box theater with director Laura Sheedy on Tuesday, November 5th, 2013 at 8:00pm.
Dan Trueman, Curator
Michael Pratt, Resident Conductor
THE BLACK BOX PROJECT
Princeton composers Alex Dowling, Amanda Feery, Wally Gunn, Dave Molk and Jason Treuting showing newly devised performance works in a black box theater
Director: Laura Sheedy
Producer: Andrew Lovett
Production Manager: Wally Gunn
PROGRAM
ALEX DOWLING
1. Birds
2. My Joy
World Premiere
Leila Adu-Gilmore, vocals
Elliot Cole, vocals
Alex Dowling, vocals
Emma O’Halloran, vocals
AMANDA FEERY
Tide Over, Tide Over
World Premiere
Leila Adu-Gilmore, vocals
Amanda Feery, vocals
Rosalie Kaplan, vocals
Emma O’Halloran, vocals
WALLY GUNN
By The Time You Get This
World Premiere
Devised by Nothing To See Here Theater, Laura Sheedy, Artistic Director
Danielle Brustman, deviser and designer
Ryan Drickey, violin
Spencer Evans, deviser and actor
Wally Gunn, deviser and composer
Laura Sheedy, deviser, actor and director
Jason Treuting, percussion
DAVE MOLK
Time for Coffee
World Premiere
1. down
1a. head in hands
2. a pitter of patterns
2a. the quiet one
2b. #1 groove
3. waiter, reader, sugar, sleeper (who is she, and can we keep her?)
3a. #2 groove brew
4. cupuccino forte!
Quinn Collins, percupsion
Wally Gunn, percupsion
David Molk, percupsion
Jason Treuting, percupsion
JASON TREUTING
Interludes 1, 2, 3 and 4
Jason Treuting, percussion
Beth Meyers, viola
ABOUT THE COMPOSERS AND PERFORMERS
Leila Adu travels the spaceways of music without limits. From tours of the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Far East, London’s Time Out says, “Avante-garde pop that recalls Nina Simone and Tim Buckley,” and Italy’s popular music mag Blow Up describes her last album Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker as “splinters of folk and blues but also hypnotic and ghostly prog.” Steve Albini who produced her second album dubbed her ‘Spooky Adu.’ In 2013 Leila Adu has recorded improv with Daniel Carter, Jeff Henderson, Federico Ughi, with Quinn Collins and Jeff Snyder as part of The Miz'Ries, as well as singing in renowned NZ composer, John Psathas's audio visual composition Between Zero and One and as part of Alex Dowling's electronic accapella group. Adu has performed and composed for dance, theatre, film, gamelan, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Brentano String Quartet and So Percussion. She completed post-graduate studies in 2003 at Victoria University of Wellington, majoring in composition and specialising in Electro-acoustic Music, Ethnomusicology and Orchestration. Adu is currently a Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University.
Elliot Cole is a composer, singer, programmer and producer. His musical activities are wide-ranging. As a singer, he has performed at Merkin Hall, in the premiere of Sarah Snider’s Unremembered, at the Berkshire Fringe Festival, as soloist with the Princeton Chamber Choir, and with his book-club-band Oracle Hysterical in tours across Germany and Texas. Most recently, he sang the roles of Jupiter and Deucalion in Doug Balliett's newest Ovid cantata, The Flood. This winter he will sing his bardic epic Hanuman’s Leap with percussion ensembles across the midwest, and the role of Mercury in Monteverdi's Poppea at Princeton. Also committed to exploring territory between traditional storytelling and hip hop, he has performed his rap lecture about the history of the world, De Rerum, with the Chicago Composers Orchestra and at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, where he was Spotlight Artist in 2011. Deeply interested in the music of the past, he was a member of the Princeton Georgian Choir and sings regularly in a working group devoted to 14th and 15th century repertoire from original notation.
Usually, Quinn Collins asks other people to make a racket. But tonight, David Molk has asked him to make a racket in his debut as a mugger.
Alex Dowling makes music for real and imaginary instruments.
Ryan Drickey is a violinist who specializes in contemporary and traditional musical dialects. His influences range from the 20th century classical virtuoso tradition to the rural old-time fiddling of Appalachia, from the formidable traditions of Scandinavian dance music to the wild intricacies of American Jazz. He spent the 2011 - 2012 academic year in Sweden studying traditional Swedish fiddle styles with the support of a Fulbright grant. He won the Rockygrass fiddle competition in 2007 in Colorado, and has played and taught across the US as well as in Europe, Canada, and Australia. Ryan currently plays with the bluegrass/americana/honky-tonk outfit known as Finnders and Youngberg (FY5), as well as with Cahalen Morrison and Eli West, and others. He holds a Masters of Music in violin from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Currently living in New York City, Ryan has performed on the Late Show with David Letterman and the Ellen DeGeneres Show, and has worked with artists such as Matt Morris, Darrell Scott, Matt Flinner, Opera Colorado, The Denver Philharmonic, and many others.
Spencer Evans is very pleased to be making his debut with Nothing to See Here. He was most recently seen in the Players Theatre productions of The Traveler and Famished in New York. After graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BA in Theatre Arts, he has lived primarily between New York and San Francisco creating critically acclaimed experimental theatre. Over the years he has collaborated with: Sens Productions, Z Plays, Zaccho Dance Theater, ESP/Erica Shuch, Torque, Ensemble 6150 and The Sisyphus Project. Special thanks to Varian.
Amanda Feery is a musicmaker from Ireland, working with acoustic, electronic, and improvised music. She graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2006, with a B.A in Music. She completed an M.Phil in Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College Dublin in 2009. Her work has been performed by Orkest de Ereprijs, Fidelio Trio, Lisa Moore, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble and Dublin Guitar Quartet. She was the winner of the West Cork Chamber Music Composer Award (2009) and the recipient of the Music Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland (2011/2012). She has participated at a number of festivals and residencies including the International Young Composers Meeting (2009), Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival (2010), soundSCAPE Festival (2011) and Ostrava Days (2011). She is currently a graduate fellow at Princeton University. Current and ongoing projects include a vocal work based on the diary entries of Donald Crowhurst, a bass clarinet work based on motet cadences, and an EP recorded on neglected pianos.
Wally Gunn is an Australian composer living and working in New York. He writes concert music, rock music, and music for theatre, visual art, and other media, and enjoys collaboration with artists in other fields. He is interested in the sciences - especially natural history - as well as modern history and contemporary literature, and these themes often make appearances in his work. Wally is currently a Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University.
Rosalie Kaplan is a singer. She studied at the New England Conservatory and graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School. She co-leads the Brooklyn-based art song rock band Dollshot, whose forthcoming album Lalande, will be released in 2014. Her duo with guitarist/improviser Marco Cappelli recently recorded an EP of arrangements of Britten’s Songs from the Chinese which will be released this fall. She has performed at (le) Poisson Rouge, Galapagos Art Space, and The Stone among other venues.
Violist Beth Meyers is a founding member of janus flute, viola and harp trio whose debut album i am not was called “gorgeously subtle” (Studio 360). She is also a member of the band, QQQ (viola, hardanger fiddle, acoustic guitar and drums) whose debut album Unpacking the Trailer (also New Amsterdam Records) was hailed “a bold statement of purpose disguised as an unpretentious lark” (Time Out New York). She has performed with ensembles and artists including ACME Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, Antony and the Johnsons, Chromeo, Clare Muldaur Manchon, Da Capo Chamber Players, Ensemble ACJW, Kishibashi, Matmos, Meredith Monk, Pierre Boulez, Theater of a Two-Headed Calf, Rochester Philharmonic, Signal, Regina Spektor, So Percussion, Steve Reich and Musicians, Sufjan Stevens, Theo Bleckman and the Ying Quartet. Beth is a graduate of the University of Rochester (BA English ’00) and Eastman School of Music (BM ’00, MM ’02) where she studied with George Taylor. Her principal teachers also include John Graham (Aspen Music Festival), Christophe Dejardins (Lucerne Festival Academy), Garth Knox (formerly Arditti String Quartet), and Melissa Micciche (Rochester Philharmonic). Beth spends a good deal of her playing in NYC on the Broadway scene where she can be heard in various pit orchestras. She lives with her family in Princeton, NJ and enjoys riding her road bike and fiddling on fiddle.
Dave Molk is in his 3rd year at Princeton. He previously studied composition at Berklee College of Music under John Bavicchi and Tufts University under John McDonald.
Emma O'Halloran is a composer and musician from Ireland. She is currently pursuing graduate studies in composition at Princeton University. She also likes to sing.
Laura Sheedy is a performer and director from Melbourne, Australia currently based in New York. Laura was a founding member of The Other Tongue performing in Face2Face (Melb. Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival) and Speaking in Thongs (Melbourne Comedy Festival). She also co-founded physical clown duo A Scam and a Strongman, making the shows A Scam and a Strongman, Spoilt and Short Straw (Melb. Comedy Festival and the Melbourne Fringe Festival Green Room Award nomination). Laura has trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company in New York since 2000 (Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant) and has been teaching Viewpoints, both in Australia and New York, since 2001. She has a solo show, Undercover (Melb. Fringe Festival) and has directed solo works by Kirsty Fraser, Miss Behave, Captain Frodo, Amy G and Kurt Braunohler. Laura has been a directorial advisor to such companies and artists as Circus Oz, La Clique, La La Parlour and Suitcase Royale, Kate Neal and Wally Gunn. Laura has performed with the Wau Wau Sisters both in NY and at the Sydney Opera House. In February 2012, Laura along with SITI Company’s Barney O’Hanlon, presented a creative development showing of a new work, Communication Over Distance, at the World Theatre Festival in Brisbane. In May 2012, Laura directed Chuck Mee Jr’s Big Love for La Trobe University and in December, she performed in Adrienne Truscott’s Too Freedom at The Kitchen and in Ann Hamilton’s The Event of A Thread at the Park Ave Armory. Laura is founder and Artistic Director of the theater company Nothing To See Here.
Jason Treuting is a performer and composer. He plays with and writes most often for his quartet So Percussion and now lives in Princeton as one of two inaugural Lewis Center Fellows in the Arts.