REGULAR LINE 2015
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS COLLABORATION PROJECT
San Francisco 11/02/15 — 11/13/15
Ivan Siller and Fero Kiraly are the founders and core members of Slovak intermedia group Cluster Ensemble, established in 2008, the most interesting and inspiring art collective in Slovakia. The ensemble currently works on recordings of early works by Philip Glass, which will be released on Orange Mountain Music label. Ivan Siller (http://ivansiller.com/) is an internationally acclaimed concert pianist and conductor from Slovakia. He studied piano in Slovakia (Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava) and Belgium (Royal Conservatory, Gent). He received numerous fellowships (Tanglewood Music Center, Boston, USA; Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada and Internationales Musikinstitut, Darmstadt, Germany) and awards (European Music Prize for Youth, Hamburg). He is dedicated to interpretation of contemporary music and visual art, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. He founded Cluster ensemble and is a member of Ensemble Ricercata and Prague Modern. He is a teacher at the Music Education Department of Comenius University in Bratislava. He has created various non-formal educational institutions focused on improvisation, graphic scores and experimental music (college students’ project Veni Academy, children’s music workshop SoundOrchestra). He is the author of numerous musical projects, festivals and concert cycles and a chairman of the Slovak section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM - Slovak section). Fero Kiraly (www.ferokiraly.com) graduated from the Music Faculty of Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava where he studied piano. He is interested in musical projects overlapping performance, sound art, installation, interpretations of contemporary music and musical reinterpretation of visual art. He is also involved in educational projects where he experiments and often tests his own limits by creating own software and collaborating with other artists from different disciplines. He created a series of workshops for children called Soundring in which he uses self-made music instrument Zvukodrom. He is the author of interactive book for music teachers PIANORA that consists of musical and sound games and experimental music. As a chamber player he is a member of various international ensembles (Cluster Ensemble, VENI ensemble, Kiraly & Zabkova, Namestie Republiky, Dirt Ensemble, Urban Hudak and others). |
David Molina (www.drmsound.com ) is an Award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer, music producer, sound artist, and recording engineer.
He has created music and soundscapes for theatre, video, film, dance, performance art, radio, television, installation, and multimedia productions for the past 20 years. His work in theater has allowed him to collaborate with companies across the country, and garnered him many awards, including an LA Ovation in sound design for Lydia, at the Mark Taper Forum (2009), and a Creative Capital Grant (2009) with his interdisciplinary troupe Secos Y Mojados. He frequently provides music for video installations by Cause Collective. In 2010 he began inventing instruments and interactive sound sculptures which have been displayed at galleries and festivals, including a solo exhibit Transience: The Work of David Molina, at Asterisk Gallery SF (2013), and The McLoughlin Gallery (2015). As a musician he has performed throughout North and South America and his recorded music has been presented in Europe and Japan. He also performs with jazz legend Idris Ackamoor and The Pyramids, and as Ackamoor/Molina Duo. The later has been commissioned by Gilles Peterson to create a new piece for the upcoming album "Havana Club Rumba Sessions-Remixed". Molina's music and bands (Ghosts and Strings, Transient, and Impuritan) are available on Resting Bell (Berlin,) Dorog Records (Peru,) Black Note Music (USA,) Distant Spore (USA,) or through his own D.I.Y. releases. Shikha Malaviya (www.shikhamalaviya.com) is a poet & writer, born in the U.K. and raised in Minnesota and India. Her book, Geography of Tongues, was launched in December 2013, in India, to acclaim and featured in The Times of India Literary Carnival, Poetry with Prakriti & other festivals.
Shikha is a co-founder of The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective, a literary press. Shikha’s poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and published in journals such as Prairie Schooner, Drunken Boat & The Missing Slate. She is passionate about poetry & social change and involved in the poetry community through events/initiatives such as: organizing ‘100 Thousand Poets for Change—Bangalore’, in 2012 and 2013; co-founding ‘Poetry in Public India’, a movement to bring powerful verse by Indian women to public places across India; giving a TEDx talk on ‘Poetry in Daily Life’ at TEDx Golf Links Park, Bangalore, 2013. Shikha graduated from the University of Minnesota with degrees in liberal studies, creative writing and mass communications. She calls both the San Francisco Bay area & Bangalore, India, home.
Frances Teves Sedayao, native of the Philippines, is a SF/ Bay area based multi-disciplinary performer and dance artist. She studied at the Alvin Ailey American Dance School in New York, an alumnus and now a lecturer of Dance and KPE at Cal State University East Bay. Frances has performed w/ many Bay Area notables, and done collaborative & independent work in the United States & internationally for the past 17 years. Frances has toured with Nina Haft and Co. to Amman and Ramal...lah Contemporary Dance Festivals in Jordan, and to Vostok International in Yaroslavl, Russia with ABD Productions. Frances is a Serpent Source grant recipient, 360 Degrees Dance Awardee, Featured Dance Artist for SF Apature, & Art Resident Alum of Art OMI International in NY. She is deeply honored to be in collaboration with the artists and organizers of Regular Line 2015. |