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Alternating Currents Live Archive Alternating Currents Live: Making Sounds Musical |
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| Sunday, February 8th, at 7 p.m. Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee $6.00 General/$5.00 Advance tickets and Members Alternating Currents Live presents: Mary Oliver Violinist/violist Mary Oliver was born in La Jolla, California, and studied at San Francisco State  University , Mills College, and the University of
California, San Diego where she received her Ph.D in 1993 for her
research in the theory and practice of improvised music.Her work as a soloist encompasses both composed and improvised contemporary music. She has premiered works by John Cage, Chaya Czernowin, Brian Ferneyhough, Joëlle Léandre, George Lewis, Richard Teitelbaum, and Iannis Xenakis. As an improviser Mary Oliver has worked alongside musicians such as Ab Baars, Han Bennink, Tristan Honsinger, Joëlle Léandre, George Lewis, Misha Mengelberg and Phil Minton. As a soloist and ensemble player she has performed in numerous international festivals including October Meeting (Amsterdam), DuMaurier Vancouver and Toronto Jazz Festivals, Ars Electronica (Linz), Ars Musica (Brussels), and the London Musicians Collective Festival, Copenhagen. In 1993-94 she was a resident artist at Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, where she added the Norwegian hardanger fiddle (a violin with four extra sympathetic strings in addition to the four playing strings) to her instrumentarium of violin and viola. For the past eight years she has been based in Amsterdam where she has worked locally and internationally with various ensembles such as Instant Composer's Pool, Magpie Music and Dance Company, and the Xenakis Ensemble. Currently she is a professor of music at the Hogeschol voor Kunst and a member of Instant Composer's Pool and musical director of Magpie Music Dance Company. Her 1992 CD titled Witchfiddle (ICP) features her improvised works for violin, viola and hardanger fiddle and she performs with the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra (ICP) on the ensemble’s most recent collection Oh, My Dog!  This concert is brought to you by the Alternating Currents Live series,
broadcast on WMSE (91.7) FM, Milwaukee.
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