Today we are featuring the work of Sabrina Schroeder, who currently runs the Harvard Group for New Music. This strikingly original piece is called “Fox Bride.” About the piece: I wrote this piece working in layers, as though mapping different parts of the same room. While each layer embodies a distinct character, a curious sense of communication emerges between them. The piece evolves around folding and unfolding these layers in various ways, exploring them in relationship and as shifting dimensions of one another. About the composer: Sabrina Schroeder (b. 1979 in BC, Canada) writes music for acoustic ensembles, homemade instruments, electronic sound, and extended performance or installation settings. Playing through tactile sound, her work finds much of its underlying impulses in the grain of everyday events, taking pleasure in frictions and synergies, both intimate and oppositional. Co-founder of the composer-performer collective SET Group and the duo Underbush, Schroeder spent formative years on the west coast of Canada actively mixing scored and improvised music. As an extension of these activities, she founded 578 John Street, an experimental studio and performance space presenting work by emerging musicians and visual artists. A recent show at Chicago’s Heaven Gallery premiered a self-performed solo set titled Stircrazer, currently being developed as a modular work for solo performer and homemade electronics. From 2007-2009, Schroeder taught as an Adjunct Instructor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, designing courses in Sound Art practice and 20th Century Art History with a focus on cross-disciplinary threads. Other activities drawing on a parallel career in social work include coordinating / playing in back-up bands and recording projects for incarcerated teens, and for youth in mental health and hospice care. Schroeder lives in Somerville (Massachussets, USA) where she is current director of the Harvard Group for New Music, and is completing a PhD in composition at Harvard University with Chaya Czernowin, Hans Tutschku, and Steven Kazuo Takasugi. Former long-term teachers include Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton (Wesleyan University), and Michael Longton and Christopher Butterfield (University of Victoria). Her work has been presented throughout North America and Europe by groups that include ICE Ensemble, Arraymusic, musikFabrik, Argento, SEM Ensemble, Quatuor Bozzini, Flux Quartet, Quatuor Diotima, Till by Turning, Continuum Ensemble, Ensemble Surplus, Ensemble Argento, Nadia Francavilla, Stephane Ginsburgh, Séverine Ballon and other independent performers including a duo portrait show with composer Aaron Siegel at the Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens, New York.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:30:50 +0000