Jan 15 2018
Keep Composers Weird panel/discussion

Keep Composers Weird panel/discussion

Presented by Austin Creative Alliance and City of Austin Cultural Arts Division at Genuine Joe Coffee House

Keep Composer’s Weird
Composer, Nathan Felix will host the second annual, Keep Composers Weird, residency for Emerging Composers in Austin, TX. The program will take place from January 15th – 23rd 2018. Keep Composers Weird will provide an opportunity for four selected composers from around the world to record and premiere a new classical piece in Austin, TX. Each composer will spend a full day recording at Cacophony Recorders to work with Grammy winning producer, Erik Wofford. A concert is organized at The Blanton Museum of Art where each new classical work will premiere. In addition, all composers will participate in lectures, networking events and establish professional relationships with colleagues in the music and arts industry such as Graham Reynolds (A Scanner Darkly), Brent Baldwin (Panoramic Voices) and more. For this event, the composers will talk about their careers and answer questions and engage in discussion.
Dana Lyn
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Dana​ ​Lyn​ has performed at New York’s Lincoln Center, Beacon Theater, Carnegie and Town Halls, as well as folk festivals and dive bars the world over. She is at home in multiple musical worlds, including classical, folk, contemporary and improvisatory music, and has worked with a wide variety of artists, including Tony Award-winning playwright Stew, performance artist Taylor Mac, avant-garde cellist Hank Roberts and actor-director Ethan Hawke. Dana is also a well-versed fiddle player in the Irish tradition. She started composing and leading her own projects in 2008; among them, a duo specializing in inventive arrangements of traditional Irish music with guitarist Kyle Sanna, a spoken-word/music collaboration with actor Vincent D’Onofrio, and her own quintet, Mother Octopus. Lyn has been a resident artist at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute since 2015 and was a resident artist at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in the spring of 2017, where she began developing a multi-media piece about Bay Area visual artist Jay Defeo, with music
scored for voice, viola, cello, flute, prepared piano and drums, accompanied by Lyn’s own visuals.
Kyle Henkel
Kyle Henkel is a composer of contemporary chamber and concert music. Henkel’s music has been described as “…unique…eclectic…music that pushes the colors of the orchestral timbre and asks listeners to use their strongest imagination in understanding Henkel’s music.” – Dr. Gene Moon, Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music, director of orchestras, East Texas Youth Orchestras, Inc., music director and conductor, Longview Symphony Orchestra, music director and conductor
Adam Zuckerman
Adam Zuckerman recently returned to Los Angeles from Austria, where for the last two years he pursued a master’s degree at the Kunstuniversität Graz under composer Klaus Lang. His work has grown primarily out of the American experimental tradition of Cage and those that have come after him. He is involved with a music that has as its primary concern sound: the nature of sound as an expression of time, memory, space, the role of notation as a determinant, and the musical questions that grow from these concerns. “In this regard, my music is not the means to convey a message, or an emotion or a philosophy — it considers sound an object of beauty to be admired on its own terms. But at the same time I am interested in a music that creates a space for the listener to engage with their own ways of experiencing sound, time, and their emotional reactions as they come and go.”
Daniel Fawcett
Daniel Fawcett (b.1991) is a Chilean composer, sound artist, visual artist and instrument builder from the United States. He is a graduate of New York University’s Steinhardt School with a M.M. degree in music composition where he studied privately with Joan La Barbara and Morton Subotnick. Prior to this, he completed his B.M. studies at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts, studying with Stacy Garrop and Kyong Mee Choi.
Admission Info

Phone: 512-731-0314

Email: n.j.felix@gmail.com

Dates & Times

2018/01/15 - 2018/01/15

Location Info

Genuine Joe Coffee House

2001 W. Anderson Ln., Austin, TX 78757