Jane Wang is a composer, music improvisor, and plays the double bass, toy piano, piano, cello, and various other musical instruments. She is also an installation artist, performance artist, pedestrian movement artist and a former member of the Mobius Artists Group and part of the collaborative record company Hao Records [1] She participated in the ~chromatik d zabu.tmp vs. Vox Novus project and is a member of CDZ. [2] She has also been selected for the 60x60 project. [3] [4] [5] Jane Wang composed and performed music for Hanne Tierney’s How Wang-Fo Was Saved [6] and Ms. Tierney's Man, the Flower of All Flesh [7] The design team, including Jane Wang, were nominated for the 2005 Henry Hewes Design Award. Jane Wang composed and performed solo bass pieces for Hanne Tierney including in 2019, 18 Stanzas Sung to a Tatar Whistle at FiveMyles [8] Performances have been presented at the Wanas Exhibition in Sweden, the International Festival of Puppet Theatre, BAM Next Wave Festival, the Sculpture Center and FiveMyles Gallery in New York City, the Beograd International Theatre Festival in Yugoslavia, and Ms. Tierney's Obie-award-winning Salome (with Sabir Mateen) at five myles and the International Festival of Puppet Theatre. She composed the music for Danny Swain's 3000 Miles to Blue [9] and Renita Martin's Five Bottles In A Six Pack [10] at The Theater Offensive (Boston), Cherry Lane Theatre (NYC) and Jump-Start (San Antonio).
In 2009, Ms. Wang began her collaboration with choreographer Nathan Andary starting with Intervals [11] which they created and performed as a duo at Boston University, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and including Going Viral [12] at Dance Place, in 2014, The Weight of Square [13] at the Somerville Dancing in the Streets Festival and in 2017, Or... at Judson Church in NYC and a showing at the 2017 International Dance Day Festival in Lebanon.
In 2013, Ms. Wang was nominated for a Drama Desk Award Outstanding Music in a Play [14] - Hanne Tierney's Strange Tales of Liaozhai at HERE Arts Center. In 2018, Ms. Wang curated the one month set of live performances, dadamobile and dadabloge, a blog in homage to Tristan Tzara's DADAGLOBE. [15]
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she joined the NowNet Arts Hub, an international virtual contemporary arts performance group conducted by Sarah Weaver. She also continues to participate in the annual Maudslay State Park Outdoor Sculpture Exhibitions with her wire sculptures.
The Boch Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit performing arts organization located in Boston, Massachusetts. It manages the historic Wang and Shubert theatres on Tremont Street in the Boston Theater District, where it offers theatre, opera, classical and popular music, comedy, dance, and Broadway musicals. The center also offers a diverse mix of educational workshops and community activities; collaborates with artists and local performing arts organizations; and, acts as a champion for the arts in the Greater Boston community by aggressively helping to make the arts an integral part of the community's collective, daily experience. It maintains partnerships with numerous arts organizations in Boston, including the Celebrity Series of Boston, Fiddlehead Theatre Company, Express Yourself, and more.
Geraldine Margaret Agnew-Somerville is an Irish-British actress. She is known for her roles in the film Gosford Park (2001) and the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). Her other roles have included Daphne (2007), My Week with Marilyn (2011) and Grace of Monaco (2014). In 1995, Somerville was nominated for a BAFTA Award for playing Jane Penhaligon in the television series Cracker.
Steve Swell is an American free jazz trombonist, composer, and educator.
Allen Strange was an American composer. He authored two books, Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls and Programming and Meta-Programming the Electro-Organism. He co-wrote The Contemporary Violin: Extended Performance Techniques with his wife, Patricia.
Somerville High School is a public, four-year high school in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. The school offers a wide selection of classes and vocational programs.
Eldad Tsabary is a composer living in Montreal. He composes and performs in a variety of styles including contemporary, experimental, acousmatic, sound art, and live electronics. His works, in all styles, are created with wide textural and timbral variety and attention to motion and process.
Maggi Payne is an American composer, flutist, video artist, recording engineer/editor, and historical remastering engineer who creates electroacoustic, instrumental, vocal works, and works involving visuals.
Sister Spit was a lesbian-feminist spoken-word and performance art collective based in San Francisco, signed to Mr. Lady Records. They formed in 1994 and disbanded in 2006. Founding members included Michelle Tea and Sini Anderson, Other members included Jane LeCroy and poet Eileen Myles. The group were noted for their Ramblin' Roadshow, performing at feminist events such as the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. The Boston Phoenix described it as "the coolest line-up of talented, tattooed, pierced, and purple-pigtailed performance artists the Bay Area has to offer."
60x60 is a collection of 60 electroacoustic or acousmatic works from 60 different composers/artists, each work 60 seconds or less in duration. 60x60 project showcases sixty new works, each sixty seconds or less, by sixty composers in a continuous sixty-minute concert, for a one-hour cross-section of contemporary music. The 60x60 project was conceived and developed by the new music consortium, Vox Novus and its founder, Robert Voisey.
Robert Voisey is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the present, to appear on the Internet. A producer of new music and multi-media concerts and events, Voisey is best known for producing the 60x60 project, which he started in 2003 in order to promote contemporary composers and their music. He also founded and directs the Composer's Voice Concert Series as well as the chamber music project Fifteen Minutes of Fame as well as vice president of programs for the Living Music Foundation.
Zlatko Ćosić is a video artist born in Banja Luka, Yugoslavia whose work includes short films, video installations, theater and architectural projections, and audio-visual performances. Ćosić's experience as a refugee influenced and shaped the content of his early artistic practice. His work began with the challenges of immigration and shifting identities, evolving to socio-political issues related to injustice, consumerism, and climate crisis. Ćosić's artwork has been shown in over fifty countries in exhibitions such as the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Video Vortex XI at Kochi-Muziris Biennale, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, St. Louis International Film Festival, Torrance Art Museum, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, /si:n/ Video Art and Performance Biennale, Institut Für Alles Mögliche, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Kunstverein Kärnten, Art Speaks Out at 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, and the Research Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. Ćosić has received grants and fellowships including the Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowship, a Kranzberg Grant for a video installation at Laumeier Sculpture Park, and the WaveMaker Grant, Locust Projects, supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Jeramy Zimmerman is a founder and the director of CatScratch Theatre. CatScratch Theatre was founded in Washington DC in 2000 by Zimmerman, Krissie Marty, Jessica Hirst and Lisa Hetzel.
Vox Novus is a New York City-based organization consisting of composers, musicians, and music enthusiasts which presents and supports new music. Vox Novus was founded by Robert Voisey to promote contemporary composers in 2000.
David Morneau is an American composer. He is most noted for his work with the 60x365 project. in which Morneau blogged a 60-second composition once a day for an entire year. The 365 miniature compositions include ambient tracks, found sound, instrumental performances, and loops and sample-based pieces. One of the inspirations of 60x365 was Boris Willis's Dance-A-Day project where Willis podcast a single dance every day for a year. Another inspiration is 60x60, another miniature project in which Morneau's work was also part of several 60x60 mixes including the Crimson Mix, Order of Magnitude Mix, 2009 International Mix, 2008 International Mix, Evolution Mix 2007 International Mix, 2007 Midwest Mix, and 2006 Midwest Mix.
Christine Dakin is an American dancer, teacher and director, a foremost exponent of the Martha Graham repertory and technique.
Germaul Barnes is a dancer and choreographer and founder of Viewsic Dance. He received the 2003 Bessie Award.
Liana Alexandra Septefrati was a Romanian composer, pianist, and music educator.
J. C. Batzner is a composer primarily of electronic music and is a currently on the faculty of Central Michigan University. Jay Batzner is also the programming director for Electronic Music Midwest He ran a daily podcast about miniatures He wrote the music for Carla Poindexter's Carnival Daring Do His 10-minute opera Secrets & Waffles debuted in Carnegie Hall with the Remarkable Theater Brigade's Opera Shorts in 2010. Batzner's work was also part of several 60x60 mixes including the Sanguine Mix, Order of Magnitude Mix, 2009 International Mix, Evolution Mix, 2005 Midwest Mix. In 2012, Jay Batzner brought 60x60 Dance with his colleague Heather Trommer-Beardslee to Central Michigan University
Harvestworks is a not-for-profit arts organization located in New York City. It was founded in 1977 by artists supporting the creation and presentation of art works achieved through the use of new technologies. The Harvestworks TEAM Lab supports the creation of art works achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies.
FiveMyles gallery is located in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn. Founded in 1999, it is a non-profit gallery that exhibits visual and performance art. Its founder/director is Hanne Tierney. FiveMyles was the location for the Crown Heights Film Festival in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021.