Department of Music

The UVA McIntire Department of Music and The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative kicks off the Fall 2018 Telemetry concert series on Saturday, September 22 at 8pm at The Bridge with Concert II of the Technosonics XIX: Voices. This concert will include a performance from featured guest Dan Joseph as well as works by Becky Brown, Alex Christie, Omar Fraire, Heather Frasch, Heather Mease and Ben Robertson.

Dan Joseph is a free-lance composer, curator and writer based in New York City. He began his career as a drummer in the vibrant punk scene of his native Washington, DC. During the late 1980s, he was active in the experimental tape music underground, producing ambient-industrial works for independent labels in the U.S. and abroad. He spent the ‘90s in California where he studied at CalArts and Mills College. His principal teachers include Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran and Mel Powell. Equally influential were his studies with Terry Riley during several workshops in California and Colorado.

A New York resident since 2001, Dan’s work has been presented at Merkin Concert Hall (NYC), Diapason Gallery for Sound (NYC), Roulette (NYC), Issue Project Room (NYC) The Kitchen (NYC) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (CA), New Langton Arts (CA), Headlands Center for the Arts (CA) and other venues. He has received commissions from several ensembles and performers, including Gamelan Son of Lion, the sfSoundGroup, baritone Thomas Buckner, and clarinetist Matt Ingalls. Dan has held residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center.

As an artist who embraces the musical multiplicity of our time, Dan works simultaneously in a variety of media and contexts, including instrumental chamber music, free improvisation, and various forms of electronica and sound art. Since the late 1990s, the hammer dulcimer has been the primary vehicle for his music. As a performer he is active with his own chamber ensemble, The Dan Joseph Ensemble, as well as in various improvisational collaborations and as an occasional soloist. He has collaborated with a variety of creative artists including Miya Masaoka, Pamela Z, Loren Dempster, JD Parran, India Cooke, Andrea Williams, William Winant and Miguel Frasconi and John Ingle.

The Bridge PAI is located at 209 Monticello Road in Belmont, just across the Belmont Bridge from the Downtown Mall. It is the one-story brick building beside Lampo Pizzeria. The Bridge can be reached by calling (434) 218-2060 or e-maling info@thebridgepai.org

These events are free and open to the public. All events are subject to change.  Please call 434.924.3052 for more information.