2023 MATA FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Found Sound Nation (FSN) presents a four-evening festival in celebration of new musical ruminations and voices, as Artists in Residence of the 2023 MATA Festival. Inspired by over a decade of gathering people for collaborative creation and exchange across geographic borders, ages and disciplines, this year’s MATA festival features composers from a range of geographic and stylistic backgrounds, embracing the many ways in which new musical compositions are created, shared and passed down. Each evening of composer works follows a theme, with a culminating night of works by Found Sound Nation that delve into spaces of our subconscious—memories, dreams, and rituals—created in collaboration with local and global artists through a series of workshops, conversations and exchanges.

DAY 1
May 31, 2023 @ 8:00PM
Roulette | Brooklyn, NY

Sound, Space, Ritual

This evening features pieces that set intentional and even ritualistic space for deep listening, meditation and improvisation.

PROGRAM:

Yiheng Yvonne Wu: Sound-Body/Sound-Space

Akari Komura: Moon Greeting

Che Buford: I have been here before

Maja Linderoth: Mouthpiece

Isabel Crespo Pardo: la línea será

Kristofer Svensson: Av Hav

Dion Nataraja: Postmortem

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Musicians curated by Found Sound Nation

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DAY 2
June 1, 2023 @ 8:00PM
Roulette | Brooklyn, NY

Plug In, Turn Up

In this evening’s performance we turn it up, recontextualizing and harnessing elements of live band shows of all kinds to transform the energy of the contemporary classical listening space.

PROGRAM:

Aaron Edgcomb: L'amour: La Mort

Jennifer Grossman: Meridian

Ivy Alexander: Pacha

Ben Richter: P A N T H A L A S S A (Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean)

DM R: Let It Burn (MATA Festival 2023 Commission World Premiere)

Alexander Noice: Ambit

Corie Rose Soumah: SPINNING, TOUCHED, UNDREAMT; SNOW-

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Musicians curated by Found Sound Nation

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DAY 3
June 2, 2023 @ 8:00PM
Roulette | Brooklyn, NY

*Attendees are requested to wear masks for this performance*

Voice, Lineage, Humanness

This evening features works about people and the nuances of our collective humanity. We examine lineages, histories and voice, confronting human beauty, human pain, and the connections in between.

PROGRAM:

Che Buford: I said...

Jaehoon Choi: Brushing Improvisation

Yan Ee Toh: Of Celestial Dreams

Jimena Maldonado: Repeat their names - Mvt. II. Feminicidios & Mvt. III. Resistencia

Jessica Pavone: Hidden Voices

Lila Meretzky: All mute things speak today

Molly Joyce: The End

Sofia Scheps: I come from afar (MATA Festival 2023 Commission World Premiere)

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Musicians curated by Found Sound Nation

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DAY 4
June 3, 2023 @ 8:00PM
Roulette | Brooklyn, NY

MATA Artist-In-Residence Headline Concert

The final night of the MATA Festival will feature a night of works by Found Sound Nation that delve into spaces of our subconscious, created in collaboration with local and global artists through a series of workshops, conversations and exchanges.

PROGRAM:

Mosaic: Memories is an experiential and performative mythology of the hidden cosmologies expressed in the stories, song traditions, home rituals, and relationships of women. It is drawn from two years of collected interviews, song archiving, recipe exchanges, portrait studios, and film footage of Kurdish women in Turkey and women in central Appalachia, as well as the voices of the artists themselves.

Orbiting Topographies is a collaboration and active dialogue between visual musician Xuan and percussionist Jess Tsang, connecting their respective mediums through an invented visual and sonic improvisational language. Using indeterminacy as a mode of transportation, this exploratory work combines elements of experimental animation, object anthropology, material culture, and nature in search of symbiosis.

Mosaic: Dreams is a collection of short pieces that take us into the dreams of a group of children who live under the shadow of a separation wall, near the Qalandia checkpoint in Ramallah, Palestine. Blending music, film, animation, and photo-journalism, these pieces explore how the unbound imaginative world of children washes up against and over the physical wall that surrounds them.

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Musicians from Found Sound Nation

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Music at the Anthology (MATA) is an incubator for adventurous emerging artists experimenting with composition, multimedia, collaborative performance art, and every imaginable sound in between. We present, support, and commission the music of early-career composers, regardless of their stylistic views or aesthetic inclinations. Founded by Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa in 1996 as a way to address the lack of presentation opportunities for unaffiliated composers, MATA has since developed into the world’s most sought-after performance opportunity for young and emerging composers. MATA presents an internationally-recognized festival each spring in New York City of new music by early-career composers selected from a free global call for submissions; MATA Presents, commissioned projects presented at venues and non-conventional spaces throughout New York; and MATA Jr., an evening of music by pre-college composers, mentored by MATA Alumni, and performed by top performers in new music.

Found Sound Nation is the artist-in-residence and resident ensemble for the festival. Found Sound Nation is a creative agency and artist collective that uses music-making to connect people across cultural and societal divides. We believe that collaborative music creation is a deeply effective way to become aware of the beauty, trauma, and hidden potential in our communities. Our work emphasizes a mobile approach to creating and producing music, combining traditions of musique concréte, hip hop, audio journalism, and contemporary composition.