On Saturday December 11, Hogar Collection and Harsh House.com present an evening of deCompositional duets featuring NY based composer/ improviser Damian Catera with double bassist Margarida Garcia , sound artist Ben Owen and cellist Tianna Kennedy.
Hogar Collection is located at 111 Grand St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, A reception celebrating the release of Catera’s newest cd Radio deComposition will be at 7pm, the music will start at 8.
Fresh from a tour which, included performances at the ZKM institute in Germany and the Walker Art Center in Minnesota (with Owen, Tom Roe and Abinadi Meza) Catera returns to Hogar for three improvisational duets featuring his deCompositional approach, an algorithmically mediated form of improvisation. Working with performance software which he wrote in the MAX/ MSP programming environment, Catera will sample and process each of his partner’s improvisations, feeding the transformations back to each performer as a basis of further improvisation.
Copies of Catera’s new cd Radio deComposition (harshhouse.com), which includes a piece recorded at Hogar during a June 2003 performance, will be available.
Hogar Collection, which is owned and operated by artists Cecelia Biagini and Todd Rosenbaum,
focuses on painting, sculpture, photography and furniture by emerging artists. The gallery has existed since the early part of 2003 and has hosted several exhibits and cultural events.
Damian Catera has been active as a composer, performer and media artist for over 15 years. He has toured Europe and the US and is also active as a free103point9 transmission artist. Recent accomplishments include his involvement in the Rock’s Role exhibit at Art in General as well as free103’s (Tune In))) at The Kitchen. Catera has also composed interactive works for the NYU New Music Ensemble, and recently premiered a new video piece at the DUMBO film and video festival.
Margarida Garcia is a Lisbon based improvising double bassist, currently residing in NYC. She has collaborated with Manuel Mota, Barry Weisblat and Phil Niblock and has released works on the Thin ice and Quakebasket labels.
Ben Owen works with experimental electro-acoustic sound composition and is the curator of Seasonal, which includes a series of listening environments. Ben is based in Brooklyn and is also a free103point9 transmission artist.
Tianna Kennedy is a NY based cellist, sound artist and writer who is also heavily involved in the micro broadcasting community. Currently Tianna is the free103point9 special project coordinator and is one of the guiding forces behind A-Noise, a web broadcasting collective that originally came together as a response to the Republican National Convention in NYC.