Music:
Member Since: 9/16/2006
Band Website: ksense.org
Band Members: Artistic Director
Alison Rootberg
Musical Director
Margaret Schedel
Visual Director
Trinidad MacAuliffe
Theatrical Director
Jennifer Timm
Designers
Abra Brayman
E.B. Brooks
Nick Fox-Gieg
Roz Fulton
Noah Keesecker
Aubrey Laufer
Stephanie Loveless
April Renae
Barry Threw
Dancers
Marisa Cleghorn
Joana DaCosta
Pam Gonzales
Meghan McCoy
Katiana Rush
Mindy Upin
Influences: Alison Rootberg is an interdisciplinary artist whose primary focus is in dance and video. She completed her MFA in Dance and Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts. Rootberg also has a BFA in Dance and a BS in Inter-Arts and Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Furthermore, she was selected and attended the Sydney Kahn Summer Institute at the Kitchen in New York, the Music and Dance Exchange at Dartington College of Art in Devon (United Kingdom), and STEIM in Amsterdam (Netherlands) for a residency in the Electronic Performance Arts.
Her work has been presented by Aalborg University Esbjerg (Copenhagen, Denmark), ADaPT (Association for Dance and Performance Telematics), Alterna Professional Haircare (CA), The Apple Store SOHO (NY), The Blankenship Ballet Company (CA), Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival (WA), The California Institute of the Arts, The El Rey Theatre (CA), H & H Entertainment (IL), the International Computer Music Conference, The International Consumer Electronics Show (NV), the International Digital Media and Arts Conference, The Kitchen (NY), the MacWorld Conference, the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts (Morelia, Mexico), NIME (the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression), Pochron Studios (NY), Rivolta (Venice, Italy), Roulette (NY), San Diego State University (CA), The Southern Theater (MN), St Mark's Church (NY), Stony Brook University (NY), the University of Arizona – Tucson, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Colorado – Boulder, the University of Wisconsin – Madison, the Wisconsin Union Theater, Workspace Limited (CA), and Zentrale Randlage (Berlin, Germany).
Alison is a board member of the New West Electronic Arts and Music Organization (NWEAMO) and the Dance Resource Center (DRC). In addition to all of this, she continues to serve as Artistic Director of Kinesthetech Sense, creating new work and traveling the world with it.
Sounds Like: Margaret Anne Schedel, an assistant professor of music at Stony Brook University, is a composer and cellist specializing in the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media. While working towards a DMA in music composition at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, her thesis, an interactive multimedia opera, A King Listens, premiered at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and was profiled by apple.com. She is a founding member of NeXT Ens, an ensemble with the unique mission to perform and support the creation of interactive electroacoustic works. She serves as the musical director for Kinesthetech Sense and sits on the boards of the BEAM Foundation, the International Computer Music Association, the New West Electro Acoustic Music Organization, Organised Sound, and the Womens Audio Mission; in conjunction with running workshops for Cycling 74 and Making Things.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None
