AMPHIBIAN

Amphibian is a new music and video arts series curated by Matthew Greenbaum. It has presented over fifty premieres by composers and video artists since its first concerts in 2013. Soloists and ensembles who have performed on the series include Mari Kimura, Felix Del Tredici, the Momenta Quartet, and the Cygnus Ensemble. The series also features historical music as well, including pieces transcribed from facsimile. Housed in the HiArt Gallery at 227 West 29th Street, the series assumed a digital format and for the time being resides on Facebook.

John Cage:                                String Quartet in Four Parts (video art by John Gurrin)

Franz Josef Haydn:                    String Quartet Op. 20 #1

Elizabeth Brown:                       Piranesi (video by Lothar Osterburg)   

Maya Deren:                                         Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

James Tenney:                                     Crystal Canon

Andrew Taylor:                                     On Coming Out

Augusta Reade Thomas:                 Sun Songs: Three Micro-Operas, Cyndie Berthézène, soprano

Heidi Jacob:                                          Salome Revisited

Aaron Einbond:                                   Beside Oneself,  Stephanie Griffin, viola

Andrew Taylor:                                     down/out/through, Priscilla Smith, soprano

Matthew Greenbaum:                          AUTOMAT (music/video)

Randall Woolf:                                      Revenge!

Annie Gosfield:                                     Shoot the Player Piano!

Mari Kimura:                                         ATMOS for recorded tape (1996; rev. 2006)

Luciano Berio:                                      Sequenza IXb

Hayes Biggs:                                          The Trill is Gone

Matthew Greenbaum:                          Bits and Pieces

William Anderson:                                Autour l’arbre vert

Thomas Morley:                                    Fantasias in Two Parts

George Antheil/Fernand Leger:             Le Ballet Mechanique

Matthew Greenbaum:                          Rope and Chasm for mezzo and video animation Re’ut Ben Ze’ev, mezzo

Luigi Boccherini:                                   Quintet for Guitar and Strings No. 2 in E Major, Mak Grgić, guitar

Agustín Fernández: String Quartet No. 2, “Sin tiempo” - commissioned for Momenta by the Koussevitzky Foundation

Tomás Luis de Victoria:                          Quam pulchri sunt in Conceptione Beatæ Mariæ

Claude Debussy:                                   String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10 (1893)

Works by Miguel Andres Pedraza Gualdron and Akira Takaoka

Jeffrey Mumford:                                  wending\

Andrea Falconieri (1585 – 1656)            Battalla de Barabaso yerno de Satanas, Passacalle                                                       

Dietrich Becker (1623 – 1679)               Sonata à 3 no. 2 in G major  from Musicalische Frülings-Früchte

June 2016: Goethe-Haus/Tokyo: Films of Walter Ruttmann, scored by William Anderson, Stephanie Griffin,

 Joshua Hartmann and Heather Mease