INTERPRETATIONS SERIES SEASON 32
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Contact: Dan Joseph, 718-930-2286, info@interpretations.info

The Interpretations Series 32nd season continues on Thursday November 18th, 2021 with a split program featuring violinist/composer Mari Kimura performing a program of instrumental works that utilize her motion sensor invention MUGIC®; and a recital by noted pianist Joseph Kubera with works by Peter Gena, Daniel Goode, Tom Johnson and Daniel Rothman. The concert will take place at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students & seniors, available at Roulette.org and Interpretations.info.

An accomplished violinist, composer and educator, Kimura developed MUGIC®, a small, versatile and affordable motion sensor to expand the capabilities and sonic potential of the violin for improvisational and interactive computer music. The sensor enables performers to use movement to control software, and her program will showcase exclusively works that utilize MUGIC®, including own Iron Bird for cymbal and MUGIC® performed by percussionist Aiyun Huang (US premiere), Motion Notions by Dai Fujikura (US premiere) performed by Kimura on violin and MUGIC®, and Kimura’s KISMET for MUGIC® and ensemble, performed by Ensemble Decipher (American premiere).

A longtime champion of contemporary music and frequent guest on Interpretations, pianist Joseph Kubera will perform a wide-ranging program of recent solo piano works including Block Design by Tom Johnson (US premiere), Queens Plaza by Daniel Rothman (NY premiere), Daniel Goode’s Piano Sonata No. 2:  Memories of Pre-Minimalism, 1959 and Now; and Vaccinum à 5: SARS-coronavirus 2 (spike protein), Region 5 by Peter Gena (World premiere).

PLEASE NOTE:  Prior to entering Roulette, everyone aged 12 and older must show proof of having received at least one dose of an approved COVID-19 vaccine. We also ask that everyone please wear a mask.

About the artists:

Mari Kimura is at the forefront of violinists who are extending the technical and expressive capabilities of the instrument. As a musician, she is renowned for her mastery of subharmonics–the production of pitches that sound up to an octave below the violin’s lowest string–as well as for her dynamic performances as an improviser and interpreter of many notable compositions by today’s composers.  She is the developer of “MUGIC®,” a prototype motion sensor for interactive performance, making her a leading figure in the field of interactive computer music.  She has been a soloist with such orchestras as the Tokyo Symphony and the Hamburg Symphony and has received numerous awards including Guggenheim Fellowship, Fromm Award, residency at IRCAM in Paris, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund. She has been founding chair of Future Music Lab at the Atlantic Music Festival since 2013. A faculty member at The Juilliard School since 1998, she was appointed in 2017 as a Professor of Music at the Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT) program at UC Irvine.  In 2020, she received the Certificate of Congressional Recognition from the US House of Representatives and California Legislature for being nominated as the Entrepreneur Leader of the Year award at UCI.

Joseph Kubera “may be this era’s David Tudor,” wrote Robert Carl recently in Fanfare. A leading new-music interpreter for four decades, recent activities include concerts and master classes at New England Conservatory, direction of Julius Eastman multi-piano performances in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York, and CDs of music by Daniel Goode, Lejaren Hiller  and John Becker.  He has worked closely with such luminaries as Morton Feldman, La Monte Young, and Robert Ashley. Composers who have written for him include Larry Austin, Michael Byron, Anthony Coleman, David First, Alvin Lucier, Roscoe Mitchell, and “Blue” Gene Tyranny. 

A longtime Cage advocate, Kubera has made definitive solo Cage recordings and toured widely with the Cunningham Dance Company.  He has worked with S.E.M. Ensemble, Steve Reich, and myriad other ensembles in New York City.  He has recorded for Wergo, O.O. Discs, New Albion, Mutable Music and many other labels.
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The Interpretations series, now in its 32nd season, is a New York-based concert series focusing on the relationship between contemporary composers and their interpreters. Sometimes the interpreters are the composers themselves; more often, the series features performers who specialize in the interpretation of new music. Since its inception in 1989, Interpretations has featured leading figures in contemporary music and multimedia, including Muhal Richard Abrams, Robert Ashley, Anthony Braxton, Thomas Buckner, FLUX Quartet, Joseph Kubera, Annea Lockwood, and Alvin Lucier, Roscoe Mitchell, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Ursula Oppens, and Morton Subotnick.

Interpretations began as a collaboration with Robert and Helene Browning and the World Music Institute, presenting concerts at Merkin Concert Hall, then at Roulette, at its Greene Street location in Soho. When Roulette moved to the current space in Brooklyn, Interpretations moved with it. Interpretations is thrilled to co-produce at Roulette, which has developed into a premiere venue for new and innovative music, with excellent acoustics and world-class technical facilities.

UPCOMING:

THURSDAY OCTOBER 28TH:  ROSCOE MITCHELLTHURSDAY DECEMBER 2ND:  AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS / DOUGLAS EWART

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ROULETTE:
509 Atlantic Ave. Downtown Brooklyn
2, 3, 4, 5, C, G, D, M, N, R, B & Q trains & LIRR.
Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students & seniors, available at Roulette.org and Interpretations.info.  ​All concerts begin at 8pm unless otherwise noted.