Event overview
The Centre for Contemporary Music Cultures presents Keir Neuringer, composer, improvisor and sax player from New York.
KEIR NEURINGER is a composer and performer (saxophone, voice, electronics). His output ranges from pulse-based electronic music, through free jazz and experimental electroacoustic improvisation, to theater music and notated compositions for contemporary chamber ensembles. He also writes texts and makes videos and installations critical of the destructive behavior of the dominant culture. Raised in New York, he completed an undergraduate composition degree at Ithaca College. In 1999 he moved to Europe and spent ten years, during which time he was a Fulbright Scholar at the Adacemy of Music in Krakow and a master's degree graduate of The Hague's interdisciplinary ArtScience Institute. In these years he cultivated a personal and intensely physical approach to solo saxophone performance that both honors, builds upon, and eschews diverse music-making traditions. He developed and curated an experimental audiovisual concert program at the contemporary art platform <>TAG in The Netherlands and gives lectures and workshops on composition, improvisation and interdisciplinary art.
Equally at home in underground venues and high profile festival stages, he has given numerous performances of Heiner Goebbels' Walden and Robert Ashley's The Wolfman and performed and exhibited his own works in the US, Mexico, Israel, Turkey, South Africa and throughout Europe. He collaborates with a wide and undefined network of musicians, including Polish improviser Rafal Mazur, Dutch new music group Ensemble Klang, real-time electronics pioneer Joel Ryan, experimental turntablists DJ Sniff and Matt Wright, Mexican composer Carlos Iturralde and New York-based saxophonist Matt Bauder. His latest project is Keir Neuringer's Other People, a large avant-jazz ensemble. He lives in New York.
All welcome
Dates & times
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26 Mar 2009 | 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
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