MATA Interval 5.1

MATA INTERVAL Concert Series

MATA Interval is a concert series dedicated to small-scale performances by emerging performers and composersbased in New York City. Except where noted, all concerts take place at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn.

MATA Interval 5.1Toby Driver & Ryan Lott, curatorsWednesday, October 26thIssue Project Room, 232 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn8pm, $10, BUY TICKETS ONLINE

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Composer/performers Ryan Lott, a.k.a. Son Lux, and Toby Driver (Kayo Dot) jointly curate an October 26th performance as part of MATA's INTERVAL concert series, joining such esteemed former curators as SO Percussion, the Calder Quartet, and The Knights Chamber Orchestra. Held at 8:00 p.m. at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, the concert will feature new works by composer/performer/sound designer Terran Olson, and a new collection of synaesthetic audiovisual environments by Thicket, the audiovisual software authored by Joshue Ott and Morgan Packard.Terran Olson will premiere a new composition for clarinet and piano that explores various ways in which meter, and rhythmic relationships between instruments, can be bent. Particular inspirations include Bulgarian music via Béla Bartók and Persian music via Trey Spruance (Mr. Bungle/Secret Chiefs 3). The piece will be performed by Daniel Means on clarinet and Olson on piano.Thicket will simultaneously generate sound and picture using a combination of custom algorithms, its own inscrutable whim, and the guiding hand—literally—of artist/programmer Joshue Ott. The performance will move through roughly ten distinct pieces, each using the densely tangled visual lines and subtly varying musical patterns Ott and Packard have embraced, but each clearly distinct from the others. Because the systems controlling the audio and the visuals are so tightly connected, audience members can expect a uniquely unified sensory experience — abstract sound and image moving, dancing as one.Ott will also perform with composer/producer and co-curator Son Lux using a visual instrument he designed called superDraw. The pair will perform unique, integrated audiovisual arrangements of selections of Son Lux's latest record We Are Rising, the 2011 release sparked by the RPM Challenge, an international open call to create an album in 28 days, from NPR's All Songs Considered.The featured composers will also be participating in a collaborative piece together, with Olson electronically manipulating audio input from Means and cocurator Toby Driver via a custom SuperCollider patch of Olson’s own design, which will then be processed visually by Ott and SuperDraw.

ABOUT THE CURATORS

Toby Driver is a 32-year old composer and multi-instrumentalist from New England and currently residing in New York City. Probably best known as the "mastermind" behind the progressive/avant rock groups Kayo Dot and maudlin of the Well, his career as an individual musician has spanned almost twenty-four years, including twenty of those as a songwriter, starting with home recording when he was twelve or thirteen, continuing through several bands in college and to today. Over the years, he's explored an enormous spectrum of styles, including rock, metal, electronica, soundtrack, weird pop, jazz, ambient, funk, folk, new age, modern classical, noise, and experimental, and has always had great enthusiasm for progression (individual) and the avant-garde tradition (the worldwide musical lattice). Driver's primary interest in music has always been escapism and the power of music to completely remove the mind and soul from the physical world. Dreams have forever played an integral role in his aesthetic, a fact which has led him to passionately explore that world scientifically and spiritually through literature and practice. Driver has received commissioned from the new music ensemble/rock band Newspeak, has curated a month of events at The Stone, has released a full-length solo album on Tzadik Records, and was most recently a featured performer at Roulette with his ensemble Tarter Lamb II.Ryan Lott is mercurial composer/remixer/producer Son Lux. He found a label home at Anticon Records in 2008, when he released his debut under the moniker. At War With Walls and Mazes earned him critical praise, and the title of NPR's "Best New Artist." His latest record, We Are Rising, was made from start to finish in February 2011. A sought-after arranger and remixer, he has remained the music of Beirut, Nico Muhly, My Brightest Diamond, and many others. His chamber arrangements are featured on These New Puritans' Hidden, NME magazine's 2010 Album of the Year. Feature film credits include arranging and programming for the scores for The Brothers Bloom (2008), Et soudain tout le monde me manque (2010) and Looper (in post-production). Recent commissions for dance include Atlanta Ballet, and three works for NYC choreographer Stephen Petronio, cocommissioned by Ballet de Lorraine, National Dance Company Wales, and OtherShore NYC. Ryan lives in NYC and LA, and is a composer at Butter Music + Sound in NYC.