Jessica
Feldman
feldman[dot]jm[at]gmail[dot]com
http://www.jessicafeldman.org
http://www.myspace.com/jessmedia
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Worcester, MA, 1979
Lives and works in New York City
EDUCATION
M.F.A. 2007 Intermedia Art Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School
for the Arts (Fellowship Student)
M.A. 2005 Experimental Music & Composition Wesleyan University (Fellowship
Student)
M.A. 2002 Music Theory and Composition Brandeis University (Merit Scholarship)
B.A. 2001 Music Columbia University, Columbia College (Dean’s List)
RESIDENCIES,
AWARDS, HONORS, GRANTS
2008 Artist in Residence, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
2007 Meet the Composer MetLife Creative Connections Grant
2006 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Studio Residency, New
York, NY
2005 Baden-Württemberg Exchange Grant (to ZKM / die Hochschule für
Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Germany) (declined)
2004 Graduate Student Association Grant, Wesleyan University
2004 Thesis-Development Grant, Wesleyan University Music Department
2003-2005 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Wesleyan University Music Department
2002 Max Kade Travel Grant to Germany
1999 Richard and Brooke Rapaport Summer Music Fellowship
FESTIVALS,
SUMMER RESIDENCIES
2004 The Kitchen, Summer Institute in Site-Specific Performance, New York,
New York
2002 Stockhausen Composition and Interpretation Courses, Kürten,
Germany
1999 Aspen Music Festival and School, Aspen Center for Composition Studies,
Aspen, CO
1997 Tanglewood Institute, Young Artists Composition Program and Flute
Seminar, Lenox, MA
SELECTED
INSTALLATIONS/EXHIBITIONS
2008
Live
& Active, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
Assembly, potentially interactive sculptural installation, in
two-person show with John Movius. Curated by Jose Ruiz.
2007
The
Public Sounds, New York, NY
Overheard in a group show of outdoor, public sound installations,
sponsored by a grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
MFA
Thesis Exhibition, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard
College, UBS Warehouse, Red Hook, NY
Projecting
Roulette,
New York, NY
Final Statement, interactive installation/sound sculpture
Red
Festival: Sound Bar, Lula Lounge, Toronto, Ontario
Softsounds in group show of sound art for headphones. Curated
by Lisa Pijuan-Nomura with Jascha Narveson.
College
Art Association NY Area MFA Exhibition, Hunter College/Times Square
Gallery, New York, NY
For Beth (installation version) selected to represent the Milton
Avery Graduate School for the Arts, Bard College.
2006
Museum of
Contextual Amputations (ongoing online project)
Concert Piece for Live Performers, chosen as “Trustee.”
Curated by Sreshta Rit Premnath. http://www.museumofcontextualamputations.org
Sounds
Before the Lamp, Olin Memorial Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown,
CT
Softsounds, electronic installation for headphones in a group
show of sound art for headphones and small speakers. Curated by Jonathan
Chen.
Fluxbox,
The Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
Collaborative sound installation in the form of a giant, room-sized music
box. Curated by Stefany Anne Goldberg
2005
Movement
Research Festival, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, New
York, NY
FLOW, interactive installation for dancers, Max/MSP, four speakers,
two resonating snare drums with contact mics and subwoofer. Curated by
and made in collaboration with choreographer Koosil-Ja Hwang.
M.F.A.
First-Year Show, Fisher Center for the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,
NY
Room in a Room, sound and light sculpture/installation.
2004
“for
a long time…” Festival of Sound Art, The Center for the
Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Location Study, Interactive, outdoor, site-specific sound installation.
Curated by Ron Kuivila.
SELECTED
PERFORMANCES
2008
Gallery Artists Studio Projects, Brookline, MA
thebodyisaportthebodyisaportintomassivedarkness, interactive
live video and live sound piece. Curated by Neil Leonard. (upcoming)
MonkeyTown, Brooklyn,
NY
new live, interactive four-channel video piece incorporative real-time
surveillance footage. Curated by David Jensenius. (upcoming)
Nicholas Roerich Museum,
New York, NY
8 speakers, 4 languages, 1 amp, commissioned site-specific piece
for live spoken voices and electronics.
2007
Roulette
Intermedium, New York, NY
with Gisburg
video for I have a contract on myself, video, music and theatre
piece, by composer/performer Gisburg
The Stone,
New York, NY (solo show)
thebodyisaportthebodyisaportintomassivedarkness, interactive
live video and live sound piece. Curated by Jerimiah Cymerman. (upcoming)
The Medicine Show Theatre,
New York, NY
Performance/staging of John Cage’s Songbooks
2006
The Stone, New York,
NY
For Beth, for video, Max/MSP/Jitter and vocalist Beth Griffith.
The work explores relationships among video monitoring, the surveilled
body and sound. Curated by Miya Masaoka
FARSpace, New York,
NY
Improvised flute performance with Jessica Ray (movement) and Maria Mykolenko
(violin)
Roulette @ Location
One, New York, NY (solo show/feature concert)
Premieres of: For Beth, Improv with Air (for midi-controlled
box fans, electronics and feedback) & Stations (for improvising
dancers & responsive radios)
2005
Transmissions,
The Tank @ chashama, New York, NY
Improvised flute performance of Jascha Narveson’s Kaleidoscope
(for improvising soloist and live electronics.) In ‘Transmissions,’
a group show of sampled sound work.
Tenri Cultural Institute,
New York, NY
JND, for spatialized string quartet
Milton and
Sally Avery Center for the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Listening Aid, interactive, public performance piece, using self-made,
custom-built circuitry that is attached to the performers’ ears
and that responds to surrounding conversation.
Olin Library,
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Rail Piece, site-specific sound and movement performance piece
resonating the piping that serves as railings in Wesleyan University’s
Olin Library
2004
Memorial
Chapel, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Difference, for MIDI-controlled organ
Crowell Concert Hall,
The Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
JND, for spatialized string quartet. Written for and performed
by the Flux Quartet.
Chelsea Waterside
Park, New York, NY
“…in the porches of their ears I pour.” Site-specific,
interactive performance piece. Part of a group showing organized by The
Kitchen and curated by Christina Yang.
The Kitchen,
New York, NY
Self-Portrait, Site-specific performance piece.
2003
– 1999 (select performances listed by work title)
Surrounding
Sounds, For laptop performer and Supercollider 2. Performed by the
composer. World Music Hall, The Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT, December 2003
Concert
Piece for Live Performers, Performed in Crowell Concert Hall, The
Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, November 2003
Ensemble
Piece, For soprano, violin, ‘cello, piano and participating
audience. Read and recorded by the Cabrini Quartet, Slosberg Hall, Brandeis
University, Waltham, MA, April 2002
Etude
for Piano, Performed by Shuann Chai. Slosberg Hall, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA, March 2002
slow moving song of anguish from Baritone Songs, Performed by Brian Church
(baritone) & Shuann Chai (piano.) Slosberg Hall, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA, October 2001
Etude
for Piano, Performed by Blair McMillen with the counter)induction
group. Philosophy Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY, May 2001
Sappho
Songs, Performed by Lisa Pierce (soprano,) Elizabeth Weintrob (soprano)
and Christine Chu (‘cello.) Milbank Hall, Barnard College, New York,
NY, December 2000
Trio
Number 2, Performed by Lisa Licare (flute,) Brian Snow (‘cello)
and Antonia Eliason (piano.) Recital Hall, Aspen Music Festival, Aspen
CO, August 1999
COMMISSIONS
2008 8 speakers, 4 languages, 1 amp, new site-specific work for
the Nicholas Roerich Museum, commissioned by the Neighborhood Composers
Project with funding from Meet the Composer, New York, NY
2007 RadioWork, commissioned by Chris Delaurenti for Flotation
Device on KBCS 91.3 FM, Seattle, WA
2006 For Beth, commissioned by soprano Beth Griffith
2001 Baritone Songs, commissioned by baritone Chris Leake
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jo-Anne Greene, “Live Stage: Contribute a Secret,” Networked
Music Review, August, 2007
Helen Thorington, “Live Stage: Roulette: The Public Sounds,”
Networked Music Review, August 2007
“2007 Thesis Exhibition at Milton Avery Graduate School,”
ArtDaily.org, August 13, 2007
Noah Davis, “Crank It Up: Flux Factory makes beautiful music with
the interactive FluxBox” Time Out New York, March 23-29
2005 issue
Sarah Elzas, “Into the Head of a Composer,” Public Radio
Exchange, 21 April 2006
CURATING/ORGANIZING
August 2007 The Public Sounds: New York, NY
Chief curator for group show of outdoor, public sound art works. Artists
include: Kaffe Matthews, Stephen Vitiello and Kabir Carter. Funded by
a grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
March 2007
Three Thursdays: Roulette Intermedium, New York, NY
Curator of new experimental sound and intermedia art by young artists.
Artists include: Jessica Rylan, Chiara Giovando, Kevin Davis, Andrew Raffo
Dewar, James Rouvelle and Blithe Riley.
December
2005 Transmissions: The Tank at Chashama, New York, NY
Curator for a group show of sampled sound work, presented by Transonic
Arts.
1999-2001
Works and Process (now Columbia New Music): Columbia
University, New York, NY
Organized numerous premier concerts of music by Columbia students through
a two year-long concert series that sought to offer a vibrant, open-minded
venue for students to write and perform new music.
LECTURES
Nicholas Roerich Museum: “Sound, Language and Translation in Our
Community”: bilingual lecture/demonstration on language, translation,
misunderstanding and the issues of communication and immigration in the
Upper West Side/Harlem neighborhood, as explored in 8 speakers, 4
languages, 1 amp. New York, NY, 2008
Columbia University:
“Post-Compositional, Post-Studio: Recent Pieces by Jessica Feldman”:
lecture/demonstration presented to Columbia New Music, a group ofColumbia
University undergraduate artists, composers and faculty. Dodge Hall, Columbia
University, New York, NY, 2007
Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council: “Recent Work by Jessica Feldman” as part of a panel
of five representative ‘Generation Y’ artists working in New
York City, presented to a group of international journalists, organized
by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, March 2007
Bard College: “Sounding
Bodies, Embodied Sound: The Physical Presence of Sound in Selected Works
of Sound-as-Art” Language of Practice: Sound/Music Presentation,
Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts, Bard College, 2006
Lincoln Center: “Experimental
Performance Practices in Contemporary Composition” presentation
at the Special Music School, the Kaufman Center at Lincoln Center, New
York, NY, 2006
BOARDS, PANELS
The Fund for Creative Communities
Music Grant review panelist, 2007
Manhattan Community
Arts Fund
Music Grant review panelist, 2007
“Generation-Y
Artists in New York City”
One of five representative artists in a panel discussion with a group
visiting of ‘generation-y’ international journalists. Selected
and hosted by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2007
COMPUTERS
& TECHNOLOGY SKILLS
Audio: Max/MSP, SuperCollider, ProTools, Digital Performer, AudioSculpt,
OpenMusic, Audacity
Video: Jitter, FinalCut Pro
Photo: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop
Physical computing: sensors, circuit building, circuit bending, chip programming
(CMOS, etc), Arduino microcontroller programming |
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