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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>April 22nd, 2013<br> <br><br>Eszter Sápi<br><a href="mailto:indigo.coop@gmail.com" target="_blank">indigo.coop@gmail.com</a><br><a href="tel:217-898-4646" value="+12178984646" target="_blank">217-898-4646</a><br>
<br><br><u>Finished Production Exhibition</u><br>April 29th – May7th<br>
Opening reception: May 3rd, 5pm<br><br><br>Graphic Design is more than just little jpg images you see on your computer screens. Graphic designers have many different ways of generating ideas and solving problems through various mediums and forms. The variety can be ranged from manual analogue screen prints to digital interactive program for an iPad. <br>
<br>Finished Production Exhibition allows you to explore a variety of mediums used to create works by graphic design students in University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. We are also showcasing a collaboration between University of Illinois students and University of Iowa!<br>
<br>This is an open exhibition for all University of Illinois Graphic Design students who are interested in showcasing their work. If you wish to submit your work please email <a href="mailto:hong106@illinois.com" target="_blank">hong106@illinois.com</a>. Submissions accepted until April 27th. Art works need to be dropped off at Indi go, April 28th from 1-3pm.<br>
<br> <div> *******************************************************************************************************<br><br><u>SUONO MOBILE 81: Distant Counterpoint</u><br>May 2nd, Thursday, 7:30 pm</div><div> <br><br>SUONO MOBILE USA was founded in 2012 by co-directors Nathan Mandel (saxophone) and Philipp Blume (composer and vocalist). We are affiliated with the international SUONO MOBILE initiative, which was started in 1995 in Freiburg, Germany, and is currently active in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany; and now in Champaign-Urbana, IL.<br>
<br>SUONO MOBILE is not primarily an ensemble, but rather a kind of think tank, dedicated to producing integrated, themed concert programs rather than merely growing a repertoire. The goal of our music-making is threefold:<br>
<br>• to inform our audiences about works and composers whom they haven’t encountered before;<br><br>• to pursue projects that situate sound and music within an infinitely flexible, open, vital, and interdisciplinary context where anything is possible; and<br>
<br>• to increase the visibility of contemporary music in Champaign-Urbana’s already rich cultural landscape, while also raising the profile of Champaign-Urbana in the eyes of the national and international contemporary music community.<br>
<br>Our performances are marked by heightened sensitivity, historical awareness, unexpected juxtapositions, and the engagement with, rather than suspension of, disbelief and skepticism.<br><br>SUONO MOBILE USA aims to produce 1-2 new concert programs per calendar year and to bring these programs to other cities whenever feasible.<br>
<br>Our inaugural program, “SUONO MOBILE 81: Distant Counterpoint”, presents pieces that question assumptions about simultaneity: how do sounds come together, how do they provide context for one another, how can they be imagined apart? In addition to works by Philipp Blume and Vin Calianno written specifically for this program, we will present pieces by Benjamin Britten, Ondrej Adàmek, Kristian Twombly, and Gregory Wanamaker.<br>
<br><br>Personnel:<br><br>Philipp Blume, voice and objects<br>Frank Horger, audio and video media<br>Nathan Mandel, saxophone<br>Aaron Romm, trumpet<br>Kyra Saltman, cello<br>Sun-Young Gemma Shin, violin<br>Drew Whiting, saxophone<br>
<br>Philipp Blume is a composer of new chamber music whose works have been featured in cities throughout Europe and the Americas, including New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Caracas, Odessa, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Freiburg, Stuttgart, Darmstadt, and the Banff Centre for the Arts.In 1999 Philipp was a participant at the Voix Nouvelles Festival in Royaumont, France, and in 2003 he took part in the first Summer Workshop for Young Composers hosted by Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. Philipp spent the first five months of 2000 at the Herrenhaus Edenkoben on a composition stipend under the mentorship of Peter Eötvös, and in 2009 acted as composer-in-residence with the Ensemble-Akademie Villa Musica in Mainz. Philipp was the recipient of the 2005 Ferruccio Busoni promotional prize in Composition. Since 2000, Philipp has also worked as a translator at the biennial Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music.<br>
Past collaborators include the composers slide quartet (West German Radio commission), duo Contour, Ensemble dal Niente, Argento Chamber Ensemble, Ensemble Villa Musica, Ensemble Ictus, Ensemble SurPlus, the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, sfSound Group, the modern art sextett, the Ensemble Spinoff, saxophonists Nathan Mandel and Kevin Juillerat, trombonist Andrew Digby, and pianist Sebastian Berweck. In January 2011 DeutschlandRadio Berlin produced a one-hour broadcast on Philipp’s recent compositional work.<br>
Philipp was a student of Mathias Spahlinger in Freiburg until 1999, and in 2006 completed his doctoral studies under Cindy Cox at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also recognized for outstanding work as an instructor. Since 2005, Philipp is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.<br>
<br>Reveling in contemporary and new music, saxophonist Nathan Mandel has performed across the country and abroad. Recent engagements has included the premiere of a new works for soprano saxophone and computer by Philipp Blume in May 2010 at the University of Illinois; a faculty recital at McKendree University, St. Louis; and the premiere of a work specially commissioned from Steven Rice. Mandel continues to be an active member in the North American Saxophone Alliance, with invitations as a soloist and chamber musician at national conferences in South Carolina, Illinois, Minnesota, Arizona, and Texas. He has premiered new works by Philipp Blume, Marilyn Shrude, Keith Manlove, Steven Rice, and many others. He also worked closely with composers in creating works for saxophone and electronics at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana, IL, in 2008.<br>
Mandel has won numerous awards as a classical saxophonist and chamber musician, including the gold medal at the 2005 Fischoff Chamber Competition and 3rd prize at the Music Teacher's National Association Chamber Music Competition with the Blue Square Saxophone Quartet.<br>
Mandel's principal teachers include Debra Richtmeyer, John Sampen, and Dr. Eric M. Nestler. He participated in master classes with Fredrick L. Hemke, Eugene Rousseau, Jean-Marie Londeix, Jean-Michel Goury, and James Riggs. Mandel earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009, and holds degrees from Bowling Green State University (M.Mus.) and the University of North Texas (B.S.). Mandel is an Associate Faculty member at McKendree University in Lebanon, IL.<br>
<br>Join us for our Champaign-Urbana debut. Though this is a free concert, it's also a fundraiser for SUONO MOBILE, so donations are welcome and encouraged!<br><br>********************************************************************************************************</div>
<div><br><u>Archaea Tree Ensemble : “After the Light”</u><br>May 5th, Sunday, 3pm<br><br> <br>The Archaea Tree Ensemble represents a new collective of musicians interested in performing contemporary music and crossing genres between composed, improvised, and traditional music along the way. The ensembles inaugural concert, “After the Light” will feature music for harp, flute and percussion by composers John Luther Adams, Lou Harrison and Toru Takemitsu as well as new works by Jason Cress (USA) and Gabriel Mora Betancur (Colombia).<br>
<br> <br>Andy Miller- Artistic Director; vibraphone and percussion<br>Erin Brooker- Harp<br>Jennifer Shanahan- Flutes<br>Jeff Zahos- Percussion<br> <br>Cover: Sliding scale $1-$7.<br><br>********************************************************************************************************<br>
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