Playing in Public by Berglind María Tómasdóttir and Carolyn Chen
Carolyn Chen has made music for supermarket, demolition district, and the dark. Her work reconfigures the everyday to take apart habits of our ears through sound, text, light, image, and movement. Recent projects include an opera mashup of Euripides’ Hekabe and Red Riding Hood sung to helicopter and digestion sounds, and an assemblage on gravity interweaving stories about falling, interviews with physicists, and footage from falling cameras commissioned for the 2014 MATA Festival of New Music. The New York Times described Wilder Shores of Love, a chamber orchestra piece commissioned for a 2011 Zankel Hall premiere by S.E.M. and Ostravska Banda, as “evening’s most consistently alluring piece … a quiet but lush meditation.” She holds a PhD in music from UC San Diego, and an MA in Modern Thought and Literature and BA in music from Stanford University. For more information see:
Flutist and interdisciplinary artist Berglind Tómasdóttir frequently explores identity and archetypes in her work. Tómasdóttir has worked with elements of video art, theater and music through various performances, including the acclaimed I’m an Island (2012). Her work has been featured at Reykjavík Arts Festival, MSPS New Music Festival in Shreveport, Louisiana, The 2013 National Flute Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, REDCAT in Los Angeles, CMMAS in Morelia, Mexico and the Bang on a Can Marathon in San Francisco. Berglind Tómasdóttir holds degrees in flute playing from Reykjavik College of Music and the Royal Danish Music Conservatory in Copenhagen and a DMA in contemporary music performance from University of California, San Diego. For more information see:
http://berglindtomasdottir.com
Please note the early start time of 7.00pm. Cushions will be provided to enhance your movie viewing experience! Refreshment will be available during and after the event.