Current Projects
1. Re:Sonance of Mahler's Song of the Earth
Tuesday January 24, 2012 7:30pm
Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 11 East 52nd Street, New York NY
Tickets:
http://www.acfny.org/event/sarah-weaver-mahlers-song-of-the-earth/?no_cache=1&tx_julleevents_pi1%5Bsub%5D=reg
Min Xiao-Fen, voice/pipa
Yoon Sun Choi, voice
Franz Hackl, trumpet, Guest, Manhattan New Music Project
Bruce Williamson, woodwinds, Guest, Manhattan New Music Project
Dave Taylor, bass trombone, Ensemble Member and Manhattan New Music Project
Mark Helias, bass
Gerry Hemingway, percussion
Doug Van Nort, laptop
Sarah Weaver, composer/conductor
A double quartet electroacoustic piece influenced by Gustav Mahler’s seminal composition Song of the Earth (1909). The music includes polyphony, heterophony, nodality, swing, cultural diversity, and live streams of environmental sound from geographically diverse locations via the internet.
This concert is part of a new series curated by Dave Taylor, presented by the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Manhattan New Music Project: “The Emancipation of Re:Sonance – Five Austrian Masters Revisited”, which focuses on five of Austria’s most famous composers and the re-interpretation, re-imagination, and re-arrangement of some of their greatest works. The title of the series plays on Arnold Schönberg’s concept of the “Emancipation of Dissonance”.
2. Publication
"ResoNations: International Telematic Music Concerts for Peace" included in "Music As A Global Resource: Solutions for Social and Economic Issues" 2011 Compendium.
Launching Event - "Age of Connectivity: Cities, Magnets of Hope" Conference, Wednesday 25th January at United Nations Headquarters.
In 2009 ICCC, a UN partner organization launched "Music As A Natural Resource", an initiative to explore and develop the potential of music as a social tool. The project was developed in close cooperation with UN-HABITAT to support of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. The initial phase of the project produced the "Music As A Natural Resource: Solutions for Social and Economic Issues Compendium”. Now in its second edition, the Compendium is a global survey, currently highlighting sixty existing music initiatives geared toward health, education and socioeconomic change.
In addition to creating a resource of successful projects and initiatives, Music As A Natural Resource helps to promote and grow projects both by providing access to the UN's global community and by linking the organizations via an International ICT network. In print, the Music As A Natural Resource Compendium is distributed to ambassadors, secretaries and cultural administrators from over one hundred UN nations and "Compendium: Live" multimedia/concert events take place in various UN regions, showcasing both international and regional "Natural Resource" projects.
3. Performance at The Stone
February 28, 2012 10pm $10
Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC
Robert Dick, flutes
Jane Ira Bloom, soprano saxophone
Ned Rothenberg, woodwinds
Dave Taylor, bass trombone
Miya Masaoka, koto
Ursel Schlicht, piano
Satoshi Takeishi, percussion
Sarah Weaver, composer, conductor