MATA Presents

MATA Presents: VAPOURS + Charmaine Lee (solo) + Lea Bertucci (solo)

Saturday, March 8, 2025
Public Records
233 BUTLER ST.
BROOKLYN, NY 11217

Vapours by Lea Bertucci  is a piece for string quartet and electronics commissioned by Quartetto Maurice and premiered in Italy at the group's Musica in Prossimita Festival in 2021. Vapours uses shifting states of fluid dynamics as a metaphor for perception and truth in the age of unknowing. With electronics, the ensemble expands and contracts between acoustic instruments and sound system, creating a dynamic and mesmeric meditation on the nature of perception. Although performed widely throughout Europe over the past five years, this performance at Public Records will be the New York premiere of the piece.

Featuring:

Conrad Harris (violin)
Pauline Kim Harris (violin)
Joanna Mattrey (viola)
Alex Waterman (cello)
Lea Bertucci (electronics)

2025 MATA Presents Artists

Charmaine Lee

Charmaine Lee (b. 1991) is an Australian vocalist based in New York. Using the voice, feedback, and live processing, Lee's practice is primarily concerned with risk-taking, playfulness, and improvisation. She has been recognized as “extraordinary” by New Yorkerand has been featured in New York Times, Washington Post, and Wire Magazine.


As a composer, Lee has been commissioned by leading institutions including the Kronos Quartet and the Wet Ink Ensemble. Lee is an Emergent Ventures winner (2024) and was an Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room (2019) and a Van Lier Fellow at Roulette (2021). Her long-standing collaborators include Conrad Tao and Ikue Mori (MacArthur Fellow).

Lee frequently guest lectures on building a personal language and creative agency at undergraduate and graduate-level composition programs including Columbia University, Princeton University, Stanford, and the New School. Lee serves on the
Artistic Advisory Council at ISSUE Project Room and runs a record label, Kou Records,
dedicated to pioneering artists in music & sound.

Lea Bertucci

Lea Bertucci is an experimental musician whose works revolve around electronic and spatial extensions of instrument and voice. In addition to her longstanding practice performing with woodwinds, she has created compositions for strings, brass, percussion and other instruments, often incorporating electronics and multichannel sound. With an ear toward site-responsiveness and acoustics, her work has expanded toward installation and non-linear presentations of her music.

Her discography spans over a decade, with a number of full-length solo works and collaborative projects, most recently with Lawrence English, Olivia Block, and Ben Vida. She has performed both within the US and internationally with presenters such as The Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art New York, The Metropolitan Museum, Blank Forms, Gagosian Gallery, Pioneer Works, The Kitchen, The Walker Museum, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Tempo Reale in Florence, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, ReWire Festival and Unsound Festival Krakow.

In 2018, she was awarded a Jfund for New Music grant from the American Composers’ Forum and a commission for a brass octet from the Levy Gorvy Gallery in New York. Lea has attended artist residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art,
The MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts and ISSUE Project Room.
She has received commissions from the INA GRM in Paris, Quartetto Maurice in Turin,
and ARS Nova Workshop in Philadelphia. She is a 2024 recipient of the Gigahertz
Production Prize from the ZKM in Karlsruhe. She is currently enrolled in the MA program
at Wesleyan University studying music composition.

Music at the Anthology (MATA) was founded in 1996 by Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa and has become the world’s most sought-after performance opportunity for adventurous emerging music artists experimenting with composition, multimedia, and collaborative performance art. MATA presents, supports, and commissions new music by early-career composers at an internationally recognized concert festival each spring in NYC.

MATA’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Tickets:

$20 in advance/$30 at the door

 

Watch a glimpse of the performance of “Vapours” at the Up to Date Festival in Poland and immerse yourself in the sonic world of shifting textures and evolving sounds.