NMC PRESENTS: NEW MUS IX - SENSO DI VOCE | LISA CAMERON
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SENSO DI VOCE
Senso di Voce focuses on the embodied experience of varying acoustical phenomena:
Esin Gunduz
(voice, composition, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica, harmonium, electric keyboard)
Megan Kyle
(oboe, English horn)
Implementing the unique acoustic properties of their instruments and of the performance space, they create otherworldly performances that reveal the interconnected timbral threads among new music and early music from diverse cultural traditions. This, combined with improvisation and movement, brings audiences into an immersive experience that transcends expectations.
Their album Tierceron, with Henry Birdsey (of Tongue Depressor), was released by Other Minds Records in July 2023. Senso di Voce is the recipient of a Chamber Music America Commissioning Award, from which was born a new piece by Esin that is featured on their upcoming album Through Itself from Sonic Transmission Records.
Esin Gunduz
Sound originates in the body for composer, vocal performer, and improviser Esin Gunduz. Originally from Istanbul, Turkiye, she explores life’s energies as vibrations, timbre as visceral sensory experience, building landscapes from recorded-voices to surround acoustical instrumental textures, creating breathtaking acoustic vistas that have an unveiling quality. Her works span mediums and diverse contexts: acoustic / electroacoustic, live - chamber music - improvisation / sound design - installation - or music for theater / moving image. They shine a light on the multiplicity and unity, the psychological and spiritual overtones of our lives and life itself.
She had her works performed around the UK, in Reykjavík, Berlin, Rome, Istanbul, Montréal, NYC, Philadelphia, and other cities. Her work in close collaboration with London-based mezzo soprano Rosie Middleton: En-he-du-an-na-me-en (2020) got ten performances around Europe with excellent reviews. Her Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning work ‘...through itself…’ ©2023 will be released from Sonic Transmissions Records on Sept. 12
Having lived in Austin TX for more than a year, Esin is a big fan of (not only the Texan avant-garde music scene but also) its musicians and their generous ways of living, relating, and sharing. – https://esingunduz.com/
Megan Kyle
Oboist Megan Kyle performs as a soloist, improviser, chamber musician, and orchestral musician throughout Western New York, with a particular interest in resonances between early and recent music.
Megan is a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. She is a regular substitute with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and has also appeared with the St. Louis Symphony, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, and the New World Symphony in Miami, among others. As a chamber musician and new music specialist, Megan performs and creates with new music ensemble Wooden Cities, musical research group Null Point, voice/oboe duo Senso di Voce, and oboe/piano/violin/cello quartet The Evolution of the Arm.
Megan teaches oboe and English horn at SUNY at Buffalo. She holds degrees from DePaul University, Oberlin Conservatory, and Oberlin College, where she studied with Eugene Izotov, Robert Walters, and Alex Klein.
LISA CAMERON
Lisa Cameron (aka Venison Whirled) is from Austin, Tx. Using amplified/acoustic percussion and strings, she locates resonant frequencies in space to create oscillating overtones, which are then employed as sound sources for live improvisation.
She has improvised live with Jandek, Mani Neumier, Eugene Chadbourne, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, Mike Watt, Jaap Blonk, Faust, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Claire Rousay, Alex Cunningham, Damon Smith, Jessica Ackerley, Eli Wallace, Sandy Ewen, Raquel Bell,Tom Carter, Nathan Bowles, Fritz Welch, Sandy Ewen, Thor Harris, Jonathan Horne, and others.
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In 2013, for the New Media Art and Sound Summit,in Austin, Texas, she composed and directed "Canopy Of Sound",involving 12 suspended cymbal players in an outdoor dynamic context.This led her to form Ommmg,an ongoing acoustic percussion group with ritualistic overtones.
Lisa has turned her attention recently to making instruments and then learning how to play them.In January of 2018 she performed solo with homemade sound sources at the Blanton Museum of Art. In 2018 she was commissioned by Cloud Tree Gallery in Austin, to create an installation which became a joint effort with artist Brian Johnson. Entitled "Thee Mortal Coil",the sound sculpture consisted of a 20 foot tall spiral tube that incorporated ball bearings with timed bursts of pneumatic pressure, amplified by contact microphones routed through a mixer.
In 2023 she received the 2023 Austin Chronicle Award for “best drummer and percussionist”
She also plays drums with various rock bands:
ST37, Suspirians, percussion with Future Blondes, and Three Day Stubble, and played guitar in The Devil Bat and Devil Bat's Daughter.
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