The 7th Annual OME New Music Festival is four days of creative music
making and performance in PHOENIX, AZ. LOADBANG: New York City-based
new music chamber group loadbang is building a new kind of music for
mixed ensemble of trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone
voice. Since their founding in 2008, they have been praised as
‘cultivated’ by The New Yorker, ‘an extra-cool new music
group’ and ‘exhilarating’ by the Baltimore Sun, ‘inventive’
by the New York Times and called a 'formidable new-music force' by
TimeOutNY. Creating 'a sonic world unlike any other' (The Boston
Musical Intelligencer), their unique lung-powered instrumentation has
provoked diverse responses from composers, resulting in a repertoire
comprising an inclusive picture of composition today. loadbang has
premiered more than 300 works, written by members of the ensemble,
emerging artists, and today's leading composers.
EMILY MEHIGH, clarinet: Emily Mehigh is a freelance musician based in
Chicago, Illinois. She is best known for creating a series of calls
for scores that are free and inclusive to all composers. Her most
recent call for scores asked for clarinet works of all kinds, but
preference was given to composers who were women, transgender, or
those whose gender does not conform to the binary. A sampling of these
works will be performed at the Oh My Ears festival and The College
Music Society conferences in Flagstaff, Arizona and Rochester Hills,
Michigan. Although mostly a solo performer she has collaborated with
many musicians in the Chicago area. Most recently she worked with
musicians as part of the UnTwelve organization to perform music by
composers who are women, non-binary, genderqueer,
gender-non-conforming (GNC), or agender. She recently has attended
festivals such as SPLICE, Fresh Inc., Orford Contemporary Workshop,
and PRISMA.
DEVON OSAMU TIPP, shakuhachi and electronics: Shaped by sonic
sensitivity from a young age, Pittsburgh based composer/performer
Devon Osamu Tipp creates unorthodox musical environments from
ostensibly incompatible realms. A PhD student at the University of
Pittsburgh, Tipp’s music draws influence from his Japanese and
Eastern European roots, his experiences as a jeweler and painter, and
his studies of gagaku and hogaku in Japan and the US. His compositions
focus on rhythmic and timbral transmutation of cyclical materials,
ranging from the orchestral, to string basses prepared with honey
stirrers, to concerti for traditional Japanese instruments. He
received his BMus from Montclair State University, where he studied
composition and microtonal music with Dean Drummond, and shakuhachi
with Elizabeth Brown. His compositions have been featured at the
Soundscape Festival, Bowdoin Festival, Atlantic Music Festival,
Sävellyspaja Summer Composition Masterclasses, and the Tokyo
International Double Reed Society Conference.
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