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Yuval Gabay has been a composer since the eruption of DanceKUMIKOKIMOTO in 1986. As
a renowned virtuoso drummer, his approach to composition derives from his very own rhythm
sensibility and his willingness to work with the concept of the choreography in depth. His
understanding of dance revealed in interactive compositions, which are always performed live. He
plays the drums and uses samplers, effects, and original recorded sound. His dynamic
performances lift the dances off the ground. He has received numerous grants, including support
from the New York State Council On the Arts Music Commission and Meet The Composer. He is a
member of the band Soul Coughing.
Gabay has composed music for Dream or Bomb Party (1987),
lost maps/walking like a velvet cloud (1988),
Children Scream (1990), Askew Veto (1990),
cease, still i see (1992), and Incomplete Disaster (1994).
Paul D. Miller
has created music for MASAO in 1995. He is a
writer and conceptual artist who frequently
DJs under the persona "DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid." Recognized as a
founder of the "Illbient" scene, his music derives its core elements from a
cross-section of urban youth culture, and ranges over musical territory
that includes hip hop,
ambient, dub, and drum & bass. The DJ Spooky records "Songs of a Dead
Dreamer",
"Necropolis" and the new EP "Synthetic Fury" have been commercial
and critical successes. Those records; his widely disparate series of
remixes (from Metallica to Xenakis!); and his live performing have put him
at the forefront of new music. This summer, his music will be featured in
the award-winning film SLAM, and In September 1998, DJ Spooky will release
his much anticipated debut album for Outpost/Geffen.
As a writer, Miller has several full length projects in the works. He
writes regularly for Rap Pages and Paper, and his articles have appeared in
Artforum, The Village Voice, Spin's Guide To Alternative Music, The Source,
Parkett Magazine, Trans, Arude Magazine, The Portable Lower East Side,
Paper Magazine, and Tribes Magazine. As a visual/conceptual artist, Miller
was included in the Whitney Museum Biennial in 1997, and has exhibited at
the Annina Nosei Gallery in New York. He has given talks and been on panel
discussions at universities, film festivals and other settings, and has
written dance music for choreographer Ralph Lemon's Geography, among
others.
Koosil-ja Hwang
Composer/Song writer
- 1986
- Co-founded a band called "Bosho" as a percussionist and later
became a vocalist as well
- Wrote a song for her dance "Chedu-do" presented at Performance Space
122
- 1987
- Wrote a song for Koosil-ja's piece "Dream or the Bomb Party"
presented at Performance Space 122
- 1988
- Released first album "Chop Socky" from DCA Record Germany
-Began touring in Europe extensively
- 1989
- Wrote a song for Koosil-ja's piece "The Butchers" presented at
Performance Space 122
- 1990
- Toured Europe, 28 cities in 32 days
- Wrote a song for Koosil-ja's piece "Children Screams" presented at the
Performing Garage and performed a reworked version entitled "Askew Veto" at
La Mama
- 1991
- Performed in Okayama, Japan, with Takehisa Kosugi, who is currently
the music director of Merce Cunningham Dance Company
- 1992
- Arranged a song for Koosil-ja's piece "ceases, still i see"
premiered at The Kitchen and performed in Theater Artaud, San Francisco, and at Dance
Place, Austin, TX
- 1994
- Wrote a song for Koosil-ja's piece "Incomplete Disaster" presented
at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church
- 1996
- Wrote a song for Koosil-ja's piece "Masao" co-commissioned by
Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, Theater Artaud San Francisco, CA,
On The Board Seattle, WA, and Dance Place in Washington, DC in team with
the Washington DC Performing Society.
- 1998-2000
- Composed music for Koosil-ja's piece "memoryscan" with Yoshihide
Otomo and performed at Miami Project in Miami, Florida
- 2001
- Composed music for Koosil-ja's piece "RENDER" presented at the
Whitney Museum at Philip Morris. The music was performed by Kacy D. Wiggins.
- 2002
- Released music "Like Us" in CD from The Agriculture Label NYC
- Wrote songs for The Wooster Group's most recent work "To you, The
Birdie!" and released CD from Bully Record
- Performed music concert "Zero Church" with Suzy Roche and her band at St. Ann's Brooklyn, NY
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As a choreographer, Koosil-ja has never used recorded music because it
neither changes with nor reacts to the flow of the heightened states of mind
and body of the performers. Even though her compositional material is
precisely organized through computer software, the sounds will be
interpreted by the person who performs the music and influenced by his/her
quality, which will be heightened by the energy of the other artists and of
the audience.
Koosil-ja came to New York to study dance with Merce Cunningham in 1989. By
chance she formed a musical group called "BOSHO". Working with this band,
she was exposed to the higher form of communication on stage, facing the
audience, and exchanging dialogues through her energy with each band member
without a single word. She lives with this experience forever.
Koosil-ja now writes songs using computer software and sings them during her
dance performances. Her songs resonate with pop sensibility, although the
sounds are strange in a way that they encompass her own geography and
liberty. Her melody abandons you in the moon light, her rhythm track makes
your blood run the other way around, her words are nomadic over the world's
order, and her voice sounds like a child screaming for a new treat. Her work
ranges from composing soundtracks for film, songs for theater, and music for
her dances to producing CDs and concerts. Her representative works/projects
include "DRENCH" , a project for The Wooster Group's play "TO YOU, THE
BIRDIES!" with Kate Valk and Suzzy Roche, as well as a soundtrack to the
film "Circle's Short Circuit" by Caspar Stracke (US/Germany, 1997). The
dancers' minds quietly perspire through their bodies, leaving sounds around
them, sounds of the immediate world. The controlled and uncontrolled energy
that flows inherently in them will come into Koosil-ja's projects, as the
world is replete with people seeking their own place.
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Geoff Matters
Geoff Matters uses his own software "GDAM" along with innovative homemade and repurposed physical controllers in live and interactive music performances, under his real name or the aliases GeoffGDAM and Lance Blisters.
His interests include interfaces between people and software, adopting techniques used in the production of popular music into computer algorithms suitable for spontaneous use, and reflecting/subverting techniques from the world of vinyl DJ's.
As a founder of "Share" forum and open jam for audio and video artists, he helps provide a weekly opportunity to explore developments in live, collaborative, and experimental art, as well as a venue for performances by local and touring artists.
GeoffGDAM does DJ and live remixing of hip-hop, electronic, and ambient music, as well as his own audio experiments, utilizing innovative techniques such as live editing and remixing, digital scratching and beat juggling, and live vocal scratching. Controllers including a dancepad, rangefinder motion interface, and a repurposed toy turntable add a visual and physical dimension to his performances.
LANCE BLISTERS performs LIVE Jungle, Breakcore, Punk, and Noise using MIDI Guitar and Microphone, using custom software to create cutup political anthems - a new and unique blend of songwriting, live performance, and electronic music.
Under his various monikers, Geoff has performed in New York, Los Angeles, and Europe at such venues as Baktun, Openair, Remote Lounge, The Kitchen, Chashama, and the Knitting Factory, sharing bills with artists including U-Ziq, Jega, Venetian Snares, and Soundmurderer.
Geoff has performed in festivals including Electroluxe (US) Phonotaktik (US) Transfert (US, France) and Mixology (US).
Geoff presented interactive music entirely driven by guests at a recent warehouse party, and contributed to an installation at the American Museum of the Moving Image. Geoff designed interactive dance music for Family Matters program at Dance Theater Workshop.
Geoff has given presentations and workshops on Share, collaborative art, and his software GDAM in the US and Europe.
Geoff has composed and performed music and video for several dance pieces by koosil-ja/dance KUMIKOKIMOTO, including mech[a](2003) deadmandancing EXCESS(2004) public sleep/Sleepover(2004,2005) and Live Processing (2006). The choreographer received a Bessie award for the creation of mech[a] and deadmandancing EXCESS. He has received a commission from American Music Center Live Music for Dance and a grant from Rockefeller Foundation Multi Arts Production Grant to create music for a new dance piece Dance Without Body scheduled for premiere at The Kitchen in December 2006. Geoff has also received grants from Experimental Television Center numerous times to support his dual talent for creating video works.
