TRANSMISSION SERIES: MUSIC OF SARAH ROSE WEAVER AND COLLABORATIONS
Transmission Series is a set of contemplative contemporary works for solo, chamber, and large ensemble performance. The works include my compositions and collaborations from 2022 to 2025. Transmission Series is conceptually inspired by the physical and metaphorical dynamics of transmission, including synthesis-based motion and the flow of technology through digital media. My concept of "here" as a composite location, a layered reality, a sustained resonance, and a transmission of synchrony has been especially illuminated through this series.
Composer/Conductor: Sarah Rose Weaver
Performers/Improvisers:
Yoon Sun Choi (voice), Lisa Sokolov (voice), Robert Dick (flutes), Jane Ira Bloom (soprano saxophone), Ned Rothenberg (woodwinds), Franz Hackl (trumpet), Jonathan Impett (trumpet), Ray Anderson (trombone), David Taylor (bass trombone), Ursel Schlicht (piano), Mark Helias (bass), Gerry Hemingway (percussion)
Cover Art Painting: Anna Pasztor
SYNthesis SERIES:
Music of Sarah Weaver and Collaborations
Synthesis Series is a compilation of contemplative contemporary network music works for solo, chamber, and large ensemble from the years 2020 to 2022. The works are conceived for the network music setting artistically and technologically for live performance via the internet by artists in different geographic locations.
Synthesis Series builds on my prior works conceptually to activate networked synchronies across realities for transformation of distance (physical, emotional, societal, environmental, dimensional), multiplicities of resonance, and transcendence. The collaborative composition At the Intersection of Eternity and Time with solo percussionist Gerry Hemingway is an expansion on our works in Reality Axis (2011-2018) conceptually exploring inner networks.
Composer/Conductor/Computer Music:
Sarah Weaver
Performers/Improvisers:
Yoon Sun Choi (voice), Robert Dick (flutes), Jane Ira Bloom (soprano saxophone), Marty Ehrlich (woodwinds), Ned Rothenberg (woodwinds), Ray Anderson (trombone), David Taylor (bass trombone), Mark Helias (bass), Gerry Hemingway (percussion)
Network Arts Technology and Post Production:
Peter Karl, Mike O’Connor, Sarah Weaver
SYNCHRONY SERIES:
MUSIC OF SARAH WEAVER AND COLLABORATIONS
Synchrony Series is a compilation album (2011-2019) of contemporary music by composer Sarah Weaver and collaborations based on concepts of synchrony as an alignment of distributed time and space components. The work is realized in pieces for solo, duo, large ensemble, and network music ensemble (live performance via the internet by musicians in different geographic locations).
Composer/Conductor/Computer Music:
Sarah Weaver
Performers/Improvisers:
Yoon Sun Choi (voice), Robert Dick (flutes), Julie Ferrara (oboe), Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon), Jane Ira Bloom (soprano saxophone), Marty Ehrlich (woodwinds), Ned Rothenberg (woodwinds), Min Xiao-Fen (pipa), Joe McPhee (trumpet), James Zollar (trumpet), Ray Anderson (trombone), David Taylor (bass trombone), Denman Maroney (piano), Mark Dresser (bass), Gerry Hemingway (percussion), Kieran Maraj (electronics), Stephan Moore (electronics), Doug Van Nort (electronics/sonifications)
Network Arts Technology and Post Production:
Woroman Jamjod, Ben Manley, Jay Rothman, Edgar Tejada, Sarah Weaver
REALITY AXIS
for Solo Percussion
Reality Axis (2011-2018) is a collection of solo works I composed for percussionist Gerry Hemingway. The pieces Node 111, Reality Axis, and Nexus Expanse are based on concepts of my specialization in network music applied to Hemingway’s innovative language on the drum set, technical capacity for processing simultaneous layers, intuitive ability for synthesizing complex structures, and raw expressiveness. The works utilize pluralism structures such as multiplicity, polyrhythm, and simultaneity, together with nodal intersections, alignments, and attention strategies, to result in multidimensional resonance through integral synthesis.
Composer: Sarah Weaver
Performer/Improviser: Gerry Hemingway
Production: Gerry Hemingway, Woramon Jamjod, Jay Rothman
SOURCE
SLM Ensemble
The SLM Ensemble is a New York City based experimental music large ensemble (2014-2017) created by co-artistic directors bassist/composer Mark Dresser and conductor/composer Sarah Weaver. The name SLM is an acronym “Source Liminal Music” as well as a tri-consonantal root of words from several languages that mean “peace”.
Spectral Syn Composers: Mark Dresser, Sarah Weaver
Cycles of Awakening Composer: Sarah Weaver
Performers/Improvisers: Jen Shyu (voice), Robert Dick (flutes), Julie Ferrara (oboe), Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon), Jane Ira Bloom (soprano saxophone), Oliver Lake (alto saxophone), Marty Ehrlich (woodwinds), Ned Rothenberg (bass clarinet, shakuhachi), Amir ElSaffar (trumpet, voice, santur), Ray Anderson (trombone), David Taylor (bass trombone), Min Xiao-Fen (pipa), Miya Masaoka (koto), Ursel Schlicht (piano), Gerry Hemingway (percussion), Mark Dresser (bass), Sarah Weaver (conductor)
Production: Kevin Schinstock, Alain Paradis, Marc Goodman, Alex DeTurk