On Saturday, April 9th, 5-7pm, Glasshouse in New Paltz will host an evening dedicated to sonic performances immersed in the domestic scapes of our premises. An a-cappella aria emerges from the basement, a quartet play on a bed-stage, a duet performance encased in a glass shower- these are some of the mis-en-scenes one could expect to encounter.

DURATIONAL LIVE PERFORMANCES BY:

LINDA MARY MONTANO

PHYLLIS CHEN

NEWBORN TRIO

JOCELYN BEAUSIRE + CASEY ADAMS

PARTICIPATORY INSTALLATION:

BRIAN McCORKLE

Sonic Immersion is part of a series of music performances Glasshouse organizes which examine the domestic surrounding influence on audio-centric performance experiences. This durational performance evening will be opening our 15th season, titled: The Captive Spectator- Performing The Otherhood in Motherhood

Admission is free, suggested donation encouraged (100% of proceeds go to the artists)

Parking is limited, please share rides when possible or use nearby public parking if needed, RSVP is encouraged

BIOS:

LINDA MARY MONTANO is a seminal performance artist, incremental to the evolution of durational performance. Attempting to dissolve the boundaries between art and life, Montano continues to actively explore her unresolved questions through shared experience, role adoption, and intricate life altering ceremonies, some of which last for seven or more years. Her artwork is starkly autobiographical and often concerned with personal and spiritual transformation. Montano’s influence is wide ranging — she has been featured at museums including The New Museum in New York, MoMA, MOCA San Francisco, and ICA in London. Montano created 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART: 1984-1998, A 7 Chakra Experience; and ANOTHER 21 YEARS OF LIVING ART 1998-2019: A FREE ONLINE SCHOOL FOR PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENTATION. She has placed over 60 of her videos free on YouTube.  Montano’s website

PHYLLIS CHEN Described by The New York Times as “spellbinding” and “delightfully quirky matched with interpretive sensitivity,” Phyllis is a composer and sound artist whose music draws from her tactile exploration of object and sound. The toy piano became her grounds to develop her personal voice, one that defies genre and reflects her third-culture kid experience. She was named a 2019 Cage-Cunningham Fellow by the legendary ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and was also the recipient of the Jerome-Roulette Intermedium residency, Fromm Foundation, Pew Heritage Trust, New Music USA and New York State Council for the Arts. Phyllis has received commissions from various ensembles and individuals, including International Contemporary Ensemble , A Far Cry Orchestra, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Claire Chase’s Density Project, Opera Cabal, Singapore International Festival for the Arts, Look & Listen Festival and others. Phyllis was a founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, described as “the gold star for new music” (The New Yorker). With the ensemble, she recorded her original chamber works with composer Nathan Davis in “The Nature of Thingness” (Starkland), which was awarded the 2016 Independent Music Awards for Best Classical Album. Phyllis served as the director and founder of the UnCaged Toy Piano Festival and Competition (2007-2018). She is currently an Assistant Professor of Music Composition at SUNY New Paltz.  (website)

NEWBORN TRIO (Katie Down, Miguel Frasconi and Jeffrey Lependorf ) is a glass percussion ensemble that was recently commissioned by BAM to create a sound-score for the play "Sleep" based on a short story by Murakami (website)

JOCELYN BEAUSIRE is a performance artist, classically-trained musician, and spatial researcher based in Princeton, NJ. Her work creates a queer, multi-sensory ecology to augment perceptions of her body as a place of constructed and performed youth, vulnerability, femininity, and maternal potential as an artifact of her ancestry, and a site of present action. (website)

CASEY ADAMS is a drummer, builder and creator of electro-acoustic noise, based in Seattle. In his work and research he is interested in the de/construction of sound and space, and the exploration of the ambience that exists between. As a performer, Casey attempts to fuse disparate and peripheral sounds while exploring movement, tension, intensity and the materiality of auditory experience; pursuant of a moment that never arrives.

BRIAN MCCORKLE is a composer, performer, and digital artist. He was the co-Director of the Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) for over a decade and a founding member of Varispeed Collective. About McCorkle’s music the Village Voice says “my melting ears are still recovering” and his collaborations with Varispeed have been praised by the New York Times for their ability “to unleash latent potential” and were called “impressive” - Posture Magazine calls his voice “chillingly resonant.” He performs regularly as a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, flouting genre while drawing from decades of experience as a professional musician in a wide array of contexts while also making electronic instruments combined with sculpture. McCorkle has received residencies from Yaddo, Harvestworks, IDEA New Rochelle, Three Phase, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, The Chance House, Independent Resident Theater, The Brick Theater, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Momenta Art, Cora Dance, LMCC Swing Space, chashama, MARSH, Gruentaler9, and has performed at the Venice Biennale, Adelaide Festival, American Repertory Theater, the Guggenheim, the Kitchen, the Whitney, Issue Project Room, Danspace, Roulette, the Stone, PERFORMA, Darling Founderie, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, many types of spaces across North America, Europe, and Australia. (website)

GLASSHOUSE is an art-life-lab dedicated to performance art. Since 2007 Glasshouse regularly organizes, produces and hosts performances, thematic exhibitions, festivals and a residency program alongside an ongoing installation spread throughout the house. Glasshouse is also the art installation of artists Lital Dotan & Eyal Perry. When not hosting performances, an exhibition of performance based works - video installations, works on paper, documentations and sculptures, spread thematically throughout the premises - comes to life. Guided tours can be scheduled by appointment. Glasshouse is liquid. Have Some Soup