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Mick Barr
Event
Mick Barr and Judith Berkson
14 Nov 2016
Event times
8pm
Cost of entry
TICKETS: $20/15 ONLINE $25/20 DOORS
Address
- 509 Atlantic Ave
- New York
New York - 11217
- United States
Travel Information
- 2/3/4/5/A/C/G/D/M/N/R/B/Q/LIRR
Mick Barr and Judith Berkson share a program of premieres written by each other. Judith will premiere Mick Barr’s piece Wethantheld (2015) for voice and organ. Mick will premiere a new work for electric guitar and Judith premiere her new work for piano and 72-tone microtonal voice.
About
Active since the mid-1990s, Mick Barr is known primarily for his angular, fleet guitar playing and intricate avant-garde compositions. He straddles the worlds of heavy metal and experimental music and his distinctive voice is always present no matter what the context. Barr was active in the math-punk outfit duo Crom-Tech and his technical duo Orthrelm, and has also since written chamber music for Wet Ink Ensemble and ACME: American Contemporary Music Ensemble. He has worked with Jonathan Bepler Music and Matthew Barney and is featured in their 2014 film River of Fundament.
Judith Berkson is a soprano, pianist and composer living in Brooklyn. She studied voice with Lucy Shelton and composition with Joe Maneri at New England Conservatory. She has presented work at Picasso Museum, Malaga, (le) poisson rouge, Joe’s Pub at The Public, The Stone, and 92nd Street Y. Her solo album Oylam was released on ECM Records in 2010. Her latest release “Liederkreis” features electronic music for synthesizer, voice and effects.
