5.5 Questions for Carmina Escobar

Posted on by Daniel Corral

What led you to the work you’re making now?

For a while, I’ve been really interested in the phenomenon of resonance, and most of my personal work has been oriented towards exploring this physical event both conceptually and perceptually. I think this is because of the nature of my primordial instrument, the voice, and its production through an utter bodily experience .

Who are some other musicians and/or artists you admire and why?

I tend to admire the people I…

5.5 Questions for Odeya Nini

Posted on by Daniel Corral

What led you to the work you’re making now?

My main focus in the last few years has been performing experimental vocals integrated with movement, a full bodied experience. The physical movement of the body is inseparable from the character of the voice. Integrating these two has led my vocalizing to be very dynamic and highly expressive, opening new possibilities of sound.

I arrived at this form of art over a long period of time spent singing as different personalities…

5.5 Questions for Woody Sullender

Posted on by Cindy
Woody Sullender

What led you to the work you’re making now?  I’m especially curious about the transition from the work you were doing with banjo to a more sculptural practice.

I came to the current performance work from a number of pathways, one being my frustrations working within the limitations of the more codified ‘improvised music’ context.  While I was primarily playing banjo, I also worked with Maryanne Amacher and Ei Arakawa, two very different artists who dealt with the performance environment…

5.5 Questions for Mark Trayle

Posted on by Gregory Lenczycki
Mark Trayle

What led you to the kind of music you play?

Curiosity.

Who are some other musicians and/or artists you admire and why?

That’s always a difficult question to answer, because that list changes all the time as I discover or rediscover music and musicians. So, in late June of 2014: James Tenney – his piece Fabric for Ché was the inspiration for most of what you’ll hear in this concert. I’d heard this piece a few times before but it didn’t capture my…

5.5 Questions for Charles Curtis

Posted on by Danny Gromfin

What led you to the kind of music you play?

I grew up as a straight-ahead classical cellist, with the twist that my older brother, as a composer, was very into what we thought of as the avant-garde, ca. 1975 – that meant Cage, Berio, Stockhausen, Crumb – mostly music I am not so interested in any more. We got the records out of the local library – Gesang der Juenglinge, Indeterminacy – and marveled at the weirdness.…