Telemetry: Popebama, Jordan Perry & Heather Mease, Becky Brown, Trash Cats
The UVa Department of Music and The Bridge PAI present the first ever streaming Telemetry event featuring performances from Popebama, Jordan Perry & Heather Mease, Becky Brown and Trash Cats Music begins at 7:30pm streaming from https://www.twitch.tv/thebridgepai
About the performers:
Popebama is a New York-based experimental duo that focuses on exciting performances of unconventional works. Described as “Noisily Virtuosic” (clevelandclassical.com), Erin Rogers (saxophone) and Dennis Sullivan (percussion) are composer-performers who apply text, electronics, and high-energy instrumental writing to freshly-squeezed sounds.
Specializing in works conceived by Rogers and Sullivan, Popebama has championed composers such as Paul Pinto, Matthew Shlomowitz, Jenna Lyle, Rick Burkhardt, Kittie Cooper, Daniel Silliman, and Alex Christie. The duo has collaborated with yarn/wire (NYC), Tøyen Fil Og Klafferi (Oslo), Brandon Lopez (Brooklyn), Anne La Berge (Amsterdam), Hochschule fur Musik (Freiburg), Jessica Pavone (Queens), Ogni Suono (Cleveland), Rage Thormbones, and DECODER (Hamburg). Popebama has been featured at the Elbphilarmonie (Hamburg), NYmusikk Bergen (Norway), Edmonton Fringe Festival (Canada), Splendor (Amsterdam), Diabolical Records (Salt Lake City), VU Symposium (Park City), Bodies-As-Technology (Brooklyn), ReSound Festival (Cleveland), The Stone (NYC), SPLICE Festival (Kalamazoo), New School of Music (Boston), Studio Loos (Den Haag), Chance & Circumstance Festival (Long Island City), and The Walden School (New Hampshire), with lauded performances at the 2017 New Music Gathering, Photo Credit: Nate May and NASA 2018 Biennial (Cincinnati).
Educational engagements include student workshops, masterclasses, and performances at Hochschule fur Musik (Freiburg), UMass Amherst, University of Minnesota (Duluth), the Collaborative Composition Initiative, CCI (Stony Brook University), St. Cloud State, and The Walden School Young Musicians Program (New Hampshire). Popebama was the featured artist at the 2019 Ball State Festival of New Music which included five evening-length performances and an international call-for-scores. Popebama returned to Hamburg in March 2020, for the premiere of Fight Songs a collaboratively-composed, evening-length work as part of the Elbphilharmonie’s ‘Unterdeck’ Series, featuring Decoder
Heather Mease & Jordan Perry
turntable+guitar+images
https://jordanpperry.com/
https://www.hmmease.com/
Becky Brown is a composer, harpist, artist, and web designer, interested in producing intensely personal works across the multimedia spectrum. She focuses on narrative, emotional exposure, and catharsis, with a vested interest in using technology and the voice to deeply connect with an audience, wherever they are. Some of her works don't need to mean anything at all. She is currently a doctoral student in Composition and Computer Technologies at the University of Virginia.
Trash Cats - Experimental duo of Kittie Cooper and Alex Christie play lots of things with wires, knobs and strings.
https://www.kittiecooper.com/
https://alexchristie.org/
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.
All events are subject to change.
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