VisionIntoArt

21c Liederabend

Paola — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:57:44 +0000

a 21st century “LIEDER-PALOOZA” – WQXR, New York City Classical Radio, April 2011

The next 21c Liederabend will be held at BAM’s Next Wave festival in 2013! We are thrilled by this, and are actively curating now.

Here are some accolades!

“BEST of 2009″ Time Out NY.

“Beth Morrison Projects, in league with Opera on Tap and VisionIntoArt, REINVENT THE ART OF THE SONG RECITAL for GENERATION Y” -The New Yorker, April 2011

“Producer Beth Morrison (dubbed by Zachary Woolfe of The New York Observer as “the opera lady who likes it crazy”) along with Opera on Tap and VisionIntoArt have created a series devoted to contemporary opera and art song that is continually satisfying — and continually ambitious.”
- The New Yorker, April 2011

VisionIntoArt is thrilled to co-produce (alongside Beth Morrison Projects and Opera on Tap) 21c Liederabend, an evening of 21st century post-classical song featuring “a starry constellation”
(Time Out New York) of living composers.

21c Liederabend is the most ambitious comprehensive art song festival of the NY season, with 20 new pieces of vocal music (and 8 world premieres!) over 3 nights at the Kitchen. It featured an explosive array of styles, and a visual palate of projection design. Newly commissioned films and sculptural lighting design were included.

“The composers involved in this new Liederabend…span New York’s vibrant, inclusive new-music scene. Some…have shaped tastes for decades. Others like Sarah Kirkland Snider, David T. Little and Matt Marks are among the brightest lights to emerge in recent seasons… Joining those composers…is an equally starry constellation of vocalists, actors, stage directors and video artists.”
- Time Out New York, April 2011

Liederabend 2009 and 2011 artists and much more information is listed here below.

www.21cliederabend.com

Oceanic Verses-a folk opera

matthew — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:18:55 +0000

A Folk Operaby VisionIntoArt co-founder and director, Paola Prestini. Commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Official Selection New York City Opera VOX 2010, excerpts performed on 21c Liederabend 2011 at the Kitchen with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Oceanic Verses is currently being expanded from a 35′ oratorio to an evening length production to premiere at the Kennedy Center and River to River summer 2012 and the Barbican Centre with the BBC orchestra.

ilm by Ali Hossaini. Libretto by Donna Di Novelli.
OCEANIC VERSES follows four separate arcs as a Sailor (folksinger Claudio Prima) casts his net for lost songs; a Scholar (improviser Helga Davis) investigating immigration loses a suitcase filled with research; a Peasant (soprano Hila Plitmann) seeks a better life for her future children; and a Soldier (Chris Burchett) crawls over land to bury what he loves. All four characters are joined by their yearning to uncover a fading past in Southern Italy.

Commissioned by VisionIntoArt; produced by Beth Morrison Projects.

21c Liederabend Day 3

matthew — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:25:59 +0000

Final performance of our run of 21c Liederabend at The Kitchen.

www.21cliederabend.com

21c Liederabend Day 2

matthew — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:14:27 +0000

Day 2 of our run of 21c Liederabend at The Kitchen.

www.21cliederabend.com

21c Liederabend Day 1

matthew — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:01:31 +0000

21c Liederabend is VIA’s collaborative bi-yearly production with Beth Morrison Project and Opera on Tap. Check out our new website!

This years festival will be a three day extravaganza at the Kitchen. This is day 1…

www.21cliederabend.com

Inverted Sky and the Labyrinth Installations

matthew — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 06:12:59 +0000

INVERTED SKY – KITE PROJECT 2012
VisionIntoArt will co-present Erika Harrsch’s Inverted Sky project, composed by Julian Wachner: this interactive work places banknotes shaped as butterflies circulating in patterns that represent a vital connective system. Specimen-banknotes of currency from many countries will mimic the delicate beauty of butterflies in migratory flight, reflecting the transformative power of global mobility and the volatility of currency markets.

The inverted sky project alludes the relationship between art and playfulness, the double twist associated with gaming and the illusion of possession. By creating Kites as butterflies, fluttering banknotes attached to a string could be pulled and handled by the public. Inverted Sky will address methods of controlling money flow and exchange: the giving and receiving.

By bringing this interactive art project into the public space, Harrsch will observe and
document how people relate to their own concept of money, when money is placed in a
poetic or ludicrous context. A playful appreciation derived from the lightness of a kite, that gives space to reflect on the somber heaviness of the worldwide financial events.

The inaugural flight will be with a flute ensemble concert summer 2012 close to the world’s financial epicenter.

VisionIntoArt will also commission LABYRINTH, two conjoined installation concertos for violinist Cornelius (Neil) Dufallo, and cellist Maya Beiser, with music by Paola Prestini. Each half is visually represented by different artists; video artist Carmen Kordas and visual artist Erika Harrsch are the collaborators for this project.

This work will tightly incorporate sound, costume, lighting design, and projected visuals, with the musicians’ performance
through the use of the K-Bow, (a sensor bow that can wirelessly transmit detailed real-time
information to a computer). This level of integration was inspired by the concept of solitude within the
labyrinth of life; the physical performances will be the sole and direct cause of all that occurs onstage.
This 70 minute work will premiere in its full multimedia version at the Krannert Center in 2013-14, and will be performed in segments as a work in progress over 2011-2013 at California State at Fullerton Strings in the 21st Century Festival, the Krannert Center, River to River festival in NY, SUNY Fredonia, and the Harare International Festival in Zimbabwe, Africa.