MUSIC SHOW & TELL #11: Ixos

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) kicks off its music series in 2012 with MUSIC SHOW & TELL #11: Ixos, a concert organized by clarinetist and multi-media artist Krista Martynes. The performance (approximately 55' in duration) will incorporate movement direction by choreographer Kristin Hatleberg, sound art by Adam Basanta and dance by Ms. Hatleberg and Janet Aisawa. 

Fascinated by different ingredients of simple boundaries, Ms. Martynes, Ms. Hatleberg and the Japanese-American Ms. Aisawa have collaborated on various projects centered on the symmetrical axis of movement and sound. Ixos is a cyclical production, inspired loosely by bird songs (Ixos is a type of song bird) wherein the four artists envelope the improv-generated compositions of Giacinto Scelsi with their own sound and movement improvisation, including intensification of simple timbres and rhythmic exchanges. 

MUSIC SHOW & TELL is a curated live music series that provides a chamber-music like setting for the performance and discussion of mostly acoustic music, primarily of international origin, including world music, early music, classical and jazz, "new" music, and multi-disciplinary collaborations with video or dance artists. 

Krista Martynes is a multi-media clarinetist who brings new life to standard and new repertoire. She broadens her performances with inventive improvisation including audio and video sampling that maintains an acoustic character. She performs as a soloist, chamber musician, and ensemble clarinetist.  www.kristamartynes.com

Janet Aisawa is a Japanese-American dance artist. She works as Rehearsal Director for Fly by Night Dance Theater, an aerial trapeze dance company. She dances with Ollom Movement Art and has collaborated with Mary-Clare McKenna and Kristin Hatleberg. Janet is deeply influenced by Skinner Releasing Technique.

Kristin Hatleberg is a dance artist and educator based out of Brooklyn. Her work focuses on cross-genre collaborations, and has been shown throughout the United States and in the Netherlands. As a performer she has danced for various international choreographers and performance artists including Eva Dean/Eva Dean Dance; Willi Dorner/Cie. Willi Dorner; Katie Duck/Magpie Umbrella; Noemie LaFrance/Sens Productions; Julie Ludwick/Fly by Night Dance Theater.www.kristinhatleberg.com 

Adam Basanta is a composer and sound-artist, writing both acoustic and electroacoustic music. Particular interests include semiotic and ecological approaches to electroacoustic composition, music cognition and perception, mixed music, binaural phonography, sound installations and found sound environments. His electroacoustic works have won the 1st prize in the student category of Métamorphoses 2010 (Musiques et Recherches, Belgium), 1st prize at the VII International Contest of Electroacoustic Miniatures 2009 (Andalucia, Spain). 

Giacinto Scelsi was a 20th century Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French. He is best known for writing music based around only one pitch, altered in all manners through microtonal oscillations, harmonic allusions, and changes in timbre and dynamics.