Amphibian is a new music and video arts site curated by Matthew Greenbaum. During its residency in the former HiArt Gallery, 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, Aaron Stewart, the Momenta Quartet, and the Cygnus Ensemble. The series also features historical music as well, including works transcribed from facsimile.

 Selected Performances

 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 for four snare drums

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

Heidi Jacob:                                          Salome Revisited (electronic. sound)

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 for alto sax

Matthew Greenbaum:                       Bits and Pieces for tenor sax and video animation

William Anderson:                                Autour l’arbre vert

Thomas Morley:                                    Fantasias in Two Parts

George Antheil/Fernand Leger:         Le Ballet Mechanique  (film)

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

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 (1                             

Jeffrey Mumford:                                  wending, for solo viol

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