Bach Marathon Hour One: 7pm to 8pm
Your host is Kamyron Williams
This hour’s lineup, with performer bios and program notes:
Sanggar Kembang Ceraki (Bali, Indonesia)
Contrapunctus V from the Art of Fugue (arranged by I Wayan Ari Widyantara)
Performers : I Putu Gede Sukaryana (Balot), leader I Putu Arya Deva Suryanegara, I Gede Putu Resky Gita Adhi Pratista, I Komang Pasek Wijaya, I Gede Putu Gita Kumara Putra, I Putu Purwwangsa Nagara, I Putu Suta Muliartawan, Ida Bagus Hery Yoga Permadi, I Wayan Situbanda, I Wayan Ari Widyantara, Yan Priya Kumara Janardhana, I Gusti Putu Arya Wira Kusuma, I Made Alit Widiarsana, I Made Rika Pradivta, I Gede Wahyu Kurniawan
The musicians/performers live in Bali. The project was conceived by John Noise Manis (in Italy), who made the initial adaptation to the gamelan scale, and mastered the audio files.Jonathan Adams (USA) made sound and video recordings and compiled the extensive liner notes for the album (iTunes). Videos may be found on YouTube searching Yantra Gamelan. www.gamelan.gs
CMW Fellows String Quartet (Providence, RI, USA)
Contrapunctus VI & VII from the Art of Fugue
String Quartet #14 in G, K 387 Mvmt IV Molto Allegro, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Kimberly Fang and Lara Madden violins; Jake Pietroniro viola; Kamyron Williams, cello
Betty Greenstein (Jamestown, RI, USA)
Prelude No.1 in C major, from The Well Tempered Clavier
Stephan Moore (Chicago, IL, USA)
Live from the Archives: Bach to the Future 2 (2014)
Prelude No.1 in C major, from The Well Tempered Clavier
Stephan Moore is a sound artist, designer, composer, improviser, coder, teacher, and curator based in Chicago. He is the curator of sound art for the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, organizing annual exhibitions since 2014. He is also the president of Isobel Audio LLC, which builds and sells his Hemisphere loudspeakers. He was the music coordinator and touring sound engineer of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (2004-10), and has worked with Pauline Oliveros, Anthony McCall, and Animal Collective, among many others. Stephanmoore.bandcamp.com
CMW Phase II Ensemble (Providence, RI, USA)
Live from the Archives: Bach to the Future VI (2018)
Allegro from Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G major
Lauren Latessa (Columbia, MD, USA)
Bach Tells a Story
Lauren is the founder and director of Iris Music Project, based in Columbia Maryland. Iris Music Project reimagines residential and healthcare communities as spaces of creative exchange. Through collaboratively designed programming, Iris Music Project provides opportunities for connection and purpose for residents, caregivers, and musicians. To learn more about the work of Iris Music Project, please visit irismusicproject.com
Akio Mokuno (NYC, USA)
Chromatic (Modulated, Filtered, and Spatial) Fantasia and Fugue in Infinite Keys, composed by Akio Mokuno
Akio Mokuno is an electroacoustic music composer, audio engineer, singer-songwriter, noise bassist and multimedia performer. www.akiomokuno.com
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