8pm: Amar Chaudhary
Electronics, combining custom software with hardware
analog and digital synthesizers. Dark and playful, combining noise, rich harmonies, strange rhythms and a sense of humor.
9pm: Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble
Jack Curtis Dubowsky, Fred Morgan, Hall Goff
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Amar Chaudhary is a longtime composer and performer specializing in contemporary and electronic music, as well as a developer of advanced software for sound synthesis and music composition. Amar studied composition first with Ruth Schonthal at the Westchester Conservatory of Music in New York from 1983 to 1991, and then at Yale University from 1991 to 1995. Amar had his music performed internationally and has received several honors for his musical work, including a 1992 premier of his clarinet quartet Conversational Impromptu at Weill Recital Hall in New York and the 1990 NGCSA Young Composers Award for Earth Songs.
Amar received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. While at Berkeley, Amar was a researcher at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) and developed advanced software for music composition and performance, including Open Sound Edit, an advanced 3D graphical editor for sound representations and Open Sound World, a programming environment for real-time music and audio applications. He has published several research papers related to these and other projects.
Amar remains actively involved in local electronic and experimental music in the San Francisco Bay Area, and performs regularly. His recent music involves experimentation with new sounds and sound-synthesis/processing techniques and new modes of musically expressive performance. He is also interested in the use of folk instruments and toy instruments in electro-acoustic music.
In addition to his musical work, Amar maintains a deep interest in modern and contemporary art in several media as a creator, consumer and supporter.
Jack Curtis Dubowsky is an active composer, conductor, writer, educator, and filmmaker. Dubowsky has composed three chamber operas and scored four feature films, including That Man: Peter Berlin, Rock Haven, and Under One Roof. The short film NYC Dilemma about this working composer premiered at BFI in London in 2006. Dubowsky's choral music has been performed internationally by groups including the San Francisco Choral Artists, the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco, and the Mount Eden Chorus. His orchestral music has been performed by the Castro Valley Chamber Orchestra. His chamber music has been performed by the Snopea Chamber Ensemble, the Organic Sound Experiment, Collaborata, and the Paradigm Brass. Dubowsky has received grants from Meet the Composer, Inc., the Zellerbach Family Fund, and the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Dubowsky has produced recordings by The Winsome Griffles, Glen Meadmore, and the Virgin Whore Complex. His award winning "Mr Jones" parody is a highlight of the Momus album Stars Forever. Dubowsky received his MM in Composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and also studied at the Aspen School. He has studied conducting with Sonja Neblett, and composition with David Conte, Conrad Susa, Elinor Armer, and Michael Czajkowski. Dubowsky writes for Film International and teaches at Film Arts Foundation and NYU.
Cost: $6-10 sliding scale