DRAW DRAW's compositions form the basis for improvisations involving processed video, algorithmically generated sound and live musicians. Through experimentation and dialogue, they explore in depth the relation between sound and image. Their practice involves a number of strategies, such as coupling specific sound and image sequences, using multi-channel setups for video + sound, role-switching, and exploring notational techniques.
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NISI JACOBS
Nisi Jacobs works with video, sound, language, music, digital imagery and processing. The basis of her work involves finding pathways from one medium to another. Jacobs collaborates on installation and performance with composer/sound artist, Michael J. Schumacher (DRAW); other collaborations have been with poet Bruce Andrews, violinist Tom Chiu, sound artist David Galbraith, and percussionist James Galbraith (Padtech), sound artist Andre Goncalves, indie band Aeroplane Pageant, etc.
Jacobs has presented work at the Circulo de Bellas Artes of Madrid, Jeu De Paume Museum in Paris, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, SONAR festival at the Caracas Contemporary Art Museum, CalArts Film/Video Cinematheque, The Alejandro Otero Museum, the National Cinématheque of Spain, Maya Stendhal Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University of England, Tribeca Film Festival 2003, River-To-River Festival, and Hong Kong Film Festival, Happy New Ears Festival, Ear to the Ear Festival, among other venues. Jacobs performed live video with pop bands at The Bowery Ballroom, PIANOS NYC, The Living Room, Mercury Lounge, Music Hall of Williamsburg and curated video/film in 5.1 surround sound for SYNCH FESTIVAL in Greece, The Phatory Gallery, and HOWL Film Festival in NYC. The soundtrack for DISHING was listed as KQED radio's on-line choice of the month for EARSHOT: LISTEN TO A FILM WITHOUT PICTURES, ‘02. Nisi teaches video and sound editing at NYU and Soho Editors in NYC, and is an Apple Certified trainer in Apple's Final Cut Studio. Jacobs assists Ken Jacobs as video-sound editor. Among the many works she has assisted in editing, STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH, a 4-part internationally distributed documentary, won The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award by the LA Film Critics in 2005, enjoying screenings in Brussels, Paris, Vienna, Holland, Hong Kong, MoMa, Lincoln Center, London Film Festival, and Slovenia.
Selected Performances/Installations:
2009: DRAW, Happy New Ears Festival, Belgium
2009: DRAW, Q-02 Festival
2009: DRAW, Diapason Gallery, NYC
2009: Music piece, ‘And She Knows’ included on soundtrack of ‘Anaglyph Tom’ by Ken Jacobs
2009: DRAW, Weaves disc, distributed by En’tract (release date 2010)
2009: DRAW, Padtech, Diapason Gallery, NYC
2008: DRAW, Tom Chiu/Andre Goncalves, Monkeytown, NYC
2008: DRAW, Ear to the Earth Festival, Judson Church, NYC
2008: DRAW, Bruce Andrews/Alex Waterman, Monkeytown, NYC
2008: DRAW, Aki Onda, Alan Licht, Keir Neuringer & dj sniff, ECA, NYC
2008: The Living Room
2008: Bowery Ballroom
2008: PIANOS
2008: Mercury Lounge
2008: DRAW, Red Room, Baltimore
2008: DRAW, The Stone, NYC
2008: Williamsburg Hall of Music
2008: River-to-River Film Festival
2007: National Cinématheque of Spain
2007: The Alejandro Otero Museum
2007: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2007: Circulo de Bellas Artes of Madrid
2007: Jeu De Paume Museum, Paris
2005: Maya Stendhal Gallery, REPETITIONS
2005: Maya Stendhal Gallery, VITAL SIGNS, Commission
2005: Maya Stendhal Gallery, FRAGMENTS IN PARADISE
2005: Artist Visit: New School Film Department
2005: The Phatory Gallery
2005: HOWL Film Festival
2005: SYNCH FESTIVAL, Athens, Greece
2005: SONAR festival at the Caracas Contemporary Art Museum
2005: CalArts Film/Video Cinematheque
2004: Artist Visit: Massachusetts College of Art
2004: Artist Visit: New School Film Department2004: Manchester Metropolitan University of England
2004: Rencontres Festival, Paris
2003: San Francisco Cinemathequediapa
2003: Rencontres Festival, Paris
2003: Tribeca Film Festival
2003: Hong Kong Film Festival
2002: EARSHOT: LISTEN TO A FILM WITHOUT PICTURES/ KQED radio's on-line choice of the month
2002: Millennium Film Workshop
2002: Anthology Film Archives
MICHAEL J. SCHUMACHER
Michael J. Schumacher is a composer, performer and installation artist based in New York City.
He works predominantly with electronic and digital media, specializing in computer generated sound environments that evolve continuously for long time periods. In their realization, Schumacher uses multiple speaker configurations that relate the sounds of the installation to the architecture of the exhibition space. Architectural and acoustical considerations thereby become basic structural elements.
Schumacher’s sound installations have been heard at Art in General, Apex Art, PS 1, The Kitchen and Sculpture Center in New York City, CCNOA in Brussels, Singuhr Gallery and Tesla in Berlin, the Museum for Applied Arts in Frankfurt , the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, Triskel Arts Center in Cork, Ireland, Transmissions Festival in Chicago, Tone Deaf in Kingston, Ontario, The Sound Art Museum in Rome, )toon Festival in Haarlem, RADAR in Mexico City, Ostrava Music Days and others. XI Records has published a DVD set of five sound installations as computer applications, playable on up to eight speakers, which may be installed on a computer to create sound environments in the home. Schumacher’s composition “Grid”, a computer generated score that unfolds in real time, has been in exhibitions in New York, Barcelona and Houston. His CD "Room Pieces", also on XI Records, was rated best of 2003 for “modern composition” by The Wire magazine.
Schumacher has composed for traditional instrumentation, including works for solo piano, pieces for a variety of chamber ensembles, song cycles, and two symphonies for full orchestra. He has been commissioned by the pianist Tomas Baechli, Sally Silvers Dance Company, and the Zeitkratzer Ensemble of Berlin, among others. Schumacher is the composer in residence for the Liz Gerring Dance Company, with whom he has worked since 1984.
Schumacher has lectured at Bard College, The New School, The School for Visual Arts and Juilliard. He has taught piano, composition, theory and ear training privately since 1983. He currently teaches at Polytechnic Institute of NYU in Brooklyn.
Selected Sound Installations:
2009: Room Piece Ostrava 2009, 16 channel sound installation, Ostrava Music Days Festival, Czech Republic
2009: Troubled, 12 channel sound installation, RADAR Festival, Mexico City
2008: Unintending, 12 channel sound installation, Sonic City Festival, Mons, Belgium
2008: Glacier, 8 channel sound installation, Diapason, NYC
2007: Living Room Pieces Singuhr 2007, 12 channel continuous sound installation in a hotel in Prenzlauerberg, Berlin, presented by Singuhr Gallery
2007: Room Piece Berlin 2007, 10 channel sound installation, Transmediale Festival at Tesla, Berlin, Germany
2006: Living Room Pieces New York 2006, 12 channel continuous sound installation in the Chelsea Hotel
2006: Noema, 6 channel sound installation, Tone Deaf Festival, Kingston, Ontario
2006: Untitled, collaboration with Stephen Vitiello, group exhibition with Emilio Prini, Vito Acconci and others, curated by Mario Pieroni, Diapason, NYC
2006: Room Pieces Rome 2006, solo exhibition: The Sound Art Museum, Rome, Italy
2006: Unintending, 8 channel sound installation, Artefact Festival, Leuven, Belgium
2005: Room Piece Polli Talu 2005, exhibition with Ursula Scherrer, video: Polli Talu, Ramä, Estonia
2005: Room Piece London 2005, solo exhibition: MOT, London, UK
2005: Steiner Suite, solo exhibition: )toon festival, Haarlem, The Netherlands
2005: Alley, group exhibition: “In Practice” Sculpture Center, Queens, NY
2004: Still Life, solo exhibition: Deep Listening Space, Red Hook, NY
2004: Sill Life South of Italy, solo exhibition: CCNOA Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2004: Rock’s Role, group exhibition: Art in General, NYC, curated by Ron Kuivila
2004: Still, group exhibition: Sound Cube, The Kitchen, NYC, curated by Charles Morrow and The Kitchen
2004: A Realization of Earle Brown’s Dec. 1952, group exhibition: Treasure Maps, Apex Art, NYC, and Untitled Space, New Haven, curated by Janine Antoni
2003: Electronic Music Archive, group exhibition, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, CH, curated by Norbert Möslang
2002: Room Piece Cork 2002, Triskel Arts Center, Cork, Ireland
2002: Room Piece Lyon 2002, group exhibition: New York: New Sounds, New Spaces, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France, curated by Stephen Vitiello
2001: Maspet, sound for a video by Alan Michelson, The Queens Museum, New York
2000: Untitled ‘99, group exhibition: Volume: Bed of Sound, PS 1, Long Island City, NY, curated by Elliott Sharp
2000: MAKMix, group exhibition: Museum fuer Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Selected Performances and Commissions
2009: Ensemble Phosphor, Isorhythmic Variations, Ostrava Music Days Festival, Czech Republic
2009: Sally Silvers and Dancers, PS 122, NY, with Bruce Andrews
2008: Ear to the Earth Festival, DRAW: 8 channel sound and 3 channel video performance
2008: DRAW, with Bruce Andrews, poetry, Alex Waterman, cello, Monkeytown, NYC
2008: DRAW, (mjs sound, Nisi Jacobs, video) with Aki Onda, Alan Licht, Keir Neuringer and dj sniff, Eas Coast Aliens, NYC
2007: Nextworks Ensemble, Grid, computer generated score, part of the Between Thought and Sound, curated by Alex Waterman, Deborah Singer and Matthew
Lyons, the Kitchen, NYC
2007: Nextworks Ensemble, Isorhythmic Variations, commission
2007: Ultraschall Festival, Berlin,, with Michael Moser, cello and Kurt Ralske, video
2006: The Stone, NYC, with David Behrman and John King
2006: MARTE Festival, Malaga, Spain, with Stephen Vitiello and David Tronzo
2005: PS 122, with Sally Silvers and Dancers
2005: The Stone, NYC, solo piano
2005: UC San Diego, with Charles Curtis
2005: )toon festival, Haarlem, solo laptop
2004: La Mama, etc., Sounds Like Now Festival, NYC, with Kato Hideki, Chris McIntyre and Rich O’Donnell
2004: Parochial Kirche, Berlin, with Kaffe Matthews
2004: Diapason, NYC, with Joan La Barbera, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Peter Zummo, and others
2003: Merkin Hall, NYC, with Tim Barnes, Kato Hideki, Toshio Kajiwara
2003: Engine 27, New York, with Kato Hideki and Jim Pugliese
2001: Podewil, Berlin, with Ensemble Zeitkratzer
2001: Transmissions IV Festival, Chicago, solo laptop
2000: Roulette, New York City, solo laptop
2000: GaleGates, Brooklyn, NY solo laptop
Selected Discography
2008: Five Sound Installations, stand-alone applications that create music in real-time, XI, New York
2004: Stories, electronic music, Quecksilber, Berlin
2004: The Other Boulez, on “A Call for Silence”, compilation published by the Sonic Arts Network, curated by Nic Collins
2003: Room Pieces, electronic music, XI, New York
2002: Four Stills, electronic music, Sedimental, Boston, MA
2001: 01-01-18, An Improvisation, improvised computer music, Quakebasket, NYC.
2000: Guitar Electrica, music for prepared electric guitar, Quakebasket, NYC.
2000: Untitled 2000, “State of the Union” CD produced by Elliott Sharp, EMF, Troy, NY
1999: Fidicin Drones, prepared electric guitar, Colorful Clouds for Acoustics, Philadelphia
1998: Room Piece, a 71 minute computer generated composition, self-produced
Selected Lectures/Interviews/Publications
2009: AVA Gallery, New York City, series of 3 lectures on Sound Art
2008: positionen, Texte zur aktuellen Musik, article on Living Room Pieces
2007: WDR Cologne, a program dedicated to the music of MJS, hosted by Björn Gottstein
2006: RAI SAT Television, Rome, interview with Maya Constantini
2005: Blow Up magazine, interview with Daniela Cascella
2005: Resonance Supplement, interview with Tobi Meier
2004: Murmurs, a conference on Sound Art, Columbia University
2004: For a long time..., a symposium on Sound Art, Wesleyan University
2003: Das (Un)mögliche Klangkunst Museum, a conference on Sound Art, KHM, Cologne, Germany
2003: 2000, 2002: WKCR, New York, on Federico Marulanda Rey’s “Live Constructions” program
2000: WFMU, Live broadcast of a performance with Dean Roberts, Christoph Charles and Heimo Lattner
2000: WFMU, a two hour interview/performance on “The Stork Club”
1998: WKCR, an hour long show devoted to my music, on Susie Jae’s New Music program
1998: Mantra TV, New York, an interview with Jung Hee Choi
Diapason/Studio Five Beekman
In 1996 I founded Studio Five Beekman, a sound and intermedia gallery which presented 41 shows by 33 different composers, including Ellen Band, David Behrman,
Maria Blondeel, David First, and Phill Niblock, between January 1997 and August 2000.
In April 2001, with Liz Gerring, I founded Diapason, a new gallery and performance space for sound and intermedia now located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Since
April, Diapason has presented installations and performances by Ellen Band, David Behrman, Tom Hamilton, John Hudak, Steve Roden, Stephen Vitiello, La Monte
Young and many others.
Awards and Residencies
2009: EMAPC, Troy NY, residency
2007: DAAD Residency, Berlin, Germany
2006: Experimental Television Center Finishing Funds Grant
2004: NYFA Fellowship
2002: RPI iEAR Residency
2001: FCPA Fellowship
1995, 90: Meet the Composer Composer’s Performance Fund Grant
1994: Harvestworks Artist-in-Residence Programming Residency
1988: New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship
1982: Indiana University Undergraduate Composition Competition Winner
Education
1988: Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition, The Juilliard School, New York
1985: Master of Musical Arts in Composition, The Juilliard School, New York
1982: Bachelor of Music in Composition, Indiana University, Bloomington