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FEASt (Florida Electro-Acoustic STudent) Festival!!!
Friday, November 13 - Saturday, November 14
Wertheim Performing Arts Center & Frost Museum of Art
The FEASt Festival showcases series of exciting, fresh new works and performances of electro-acoustic works from students throughout Florida. Spearheaded entirely by FIU students, this festival is a culmination of their research and creative work and initiative to collaborate with others.
Events included are the following:
Friday, Nov 13, 8:00 p.m.:: Concert I (Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center Concert Hall)
Saturday, Nov 14, 12:00 p.m.:: Guest lectures by Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Juraj Kojs, and Nathan Wolek (Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center Recital Hall)
Saturday, Nov 14, 8:30 p.m.:: Concert II (Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center Concert Hall)
Saturday, Nov 14, 10:30 p.m.:: Late-Nite Set! (Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center Rotunda)
BOTH DAYS: 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.:: Juke-Box (Frost Museum of Art)
For complete details, visit www.feastfest.org
Concert: FLEA @ the Wolfsonian for Sleepless Night!
Saturday, November 7, 6:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
The Wolfsonian-FIU (1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach)
FLEA (FIU Laptop & Electronic Arts) Ensemble plays at Sleepless Night at the Wolfsonian (1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach)! As part of the all-night festival, FLEA will be performing from 6:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m., performing works by Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Elliott Sharp, Samuel Pluta, Paula Matthusen, Jaclyn Heyen and individual members Daniel Lepervanche, Nayla Mehdi, Andrew Brugat, and Jonatan Mendieta will do solo performances!
Guest Lecture: Elliott Sharp
Friday, October 23, 12:00 p.m.
Electronic Music Studio (WPAC 169)
Elliott Sharp discusses his work as part of the Composition Forum and in anticipation of his performance as part of 12 Nights at the Dorsch Gallery (8:00 p.m.). FLEA performs his work "Hammer Anvil Stirrup". Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer central to the avant-garde experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years. He has released over 200 recordings spanning the musical spectrum, all with his personal stamp. He leads the projects Carbon and Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction. (read more)
Guest Lecture: Henry Vega
Wednesday, October 21, 1:00 p.m.
Electronic Music Studio (WPAC 169)
Composer Henry Vega discusses his work with live electronics and ensembles. In a handful of years he has been involved as teacher, technician, composer and performer on productions of theatre, dance and concert music that focus solely on modern artistic trends. As a composer Vega has received commissions to work with choreographers, theatre directors and video artists while his devotion is focused on computer interactive performance. (read more)
The call for works for the 2009 FEASt (Florida Electro-Acoustic STudent) Festival is out! The deadline for submission is September 25th. The festival will run from Nov. 13th - 14th in the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center. Visit www.feastfest.org for more information.
The FEASt Festival "Appetizers" CD has been released! This CD has been released in anticipation of the 2009 FEASt Festival and features one-minute works from students and alumni of schools in Florida.
Featured composers include David Mendoza, Jaime Reveles, Pedro De Faria, Jaclyn Heyen, Erick Bolivar, Liza Seigido, Daniel Lepervanche, Nayla Mehdi, Lina Borda, Juan Espinosa, Erik DeLuca, Edrick Subervi, Tim Reed, Katie Paternel, Ignacio Centeno, Wil Smith, Juraj Kojs, and Kristina Wolfe.
For more information, or to request a CD, please send an email to feastfest@gmail.com.