Telemetry @ C'Ville Community Chalkboard
The first in person Telemetry of the 21-22 season will take place Monday September 13th at 7pm at Charlottesville's Community Chalkboard space on the downtown mall located at 605 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902. This is part of the re-dedication week for the space as The Bridge has taken over stewardship of it.
Generator Organ Ensemble (Will Mullany and Amber Bouchard) explores on-site, off-grid human powered generation of electrical energy as a source for / constraint on musical performance.
Alex Christie makes acoustic music, electronic music, and intermedia art in many forms. His work has been called “vibrant”, “interesting, I guess”, and responsible for “ruin[ing] my day”. He has collaborated with artists in a variety of fields and is particularly interested in the design of power structures, systems of interference, absurdist bureaucracy, and indeterminacy in composition. He is currently based in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Carlehr Swanson is a singer, songwriter, and pianist from Richmond, Virginia. As a vocalist, Carlehr has performed with Sheila Jordan, The Manhattan Transfer, and The New York Voices. Through her organization, Music is Unity, Carlehr implements music in her community by taking performances to those who may not experience it otherwise. She has planned and performed more than a dozen virtual events for local nursing homes and schools throughout this year. In 2017, she was named the People's Choice and 3rd Runner-up in the Miss Virginia Pageant.
Varun Kishore is a composer from Kolkata, India. His work explores interdisciplinary approaches to music technology, literature, and the audiovisual, with a focus on designing frameworks for composition and improvisation to investigate what he sees as the ‘apocalyptic’ nature of creative practice. His current areas of interest include drone music, digital instrument and interface design, alternative notation, and video.
Brian Lindgren is a violist and composer based in Charlottesville, VA. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Music Composition and Computer Technologies at the University of Virginia. He holds a BA from the Eastman School of Music and an MFA in Sonic Arts from Brooklyn College.
As a composer, his work has been featured in the 2010 International Computer Music Conference, the Vox Novus 2009 60x60 and 2010 Magenta Mix compilations, the 2021 Earth Day Art Model Festival, and the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. He has been commissioned by Anton Kandinsky, Brian Reed, the Plattsburgh State Sinfonia, and Nelson George. His commercial productions include music for Estée Lauder, Amtrak, NHK/Mosomos, KPMG, Nestle, Fresh Direct, Soka Gakkai, and others.
As a violist, he has performed with Alarm Will Sound, Wordless Music, The Triple Helix Piano Trio, and the Aspen Festival Orchestra. He has recorded for Tyondai Braxton (Warp Records), RA The Rugged Man (Nature Sounds), David Liptak (Bridge Records) and Joe Phillips (New Amsterdam Records).
In addition he is in the process of designing and building an electronic viola, for which he won the 2019 David Wessel Prize in Electronic Music Instrument Building at Brooklyn College.
To learn more about Brian Lindgren, please visit his website at brianlindgren.com or follow his Instagram at @BKLindgren
This event is free and open to the public!
The Telemetry Series, supported by UVA Arts and the Office of the Provost and the Vice Provost for the Arts is always free and open to the public.This monthly music series occurs in partnership with The Bridge, and features UVA faculty, students, locals, and renown experimental performers. They push boundaries of musicianship by offering a unique laboratory to engage new methods of composition and instrumentation. Unlike anything else in the city, Charlottesville artists and audiences connect with new concepts and are continuously inspired towards ingenuity through unique sound experiences.This monthly music series occurs in partnership with The Bridge, and features UVA faculty, students, locals, and renown experimental performers. They push boundaries of musicianship by offering a unique laboratory to engage new methods of composition and instrumentation. Unlike anything else in the city, Charlottesville artists and audiences connect with new concepts and are continuously inspired towards ingenuity through unique sound experiences.
Please call 434.924.3052 for more information.
The Bridge PAI
Phone: 434-984-5669
Email: info@thebridgepai.org
Website: thebridgepai.org
The Bridge is located at 209 Monticello Road, Charlottesville, VA
Supported by UVA Arts & the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts
All events are subject to change.