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Jane Wang - Composer

About Me

Self-un-employed composer/musician/multi-disciplinary artist
Born in the UK.
Is now a card-carrying member of The MOBIUS Artists Group :
"an interdisciplinary group incorporating a wide range of the visual, performing, and media arts into innovative live performance, video, and installation works."
Seeking to meet other composers, musicians,
performance artists, site-specific performers,
actors, directors, playwrights,
writers, comedians (funny and not so funny),
architects, designers (serious and not),
visual artists, multi-media proponents,
animators, filmmakers, videographers,
aerialists, dancers, movement artists,
butoh artists, choreographers,
friendly foodies, gourmet chefs, passionate cooks, pacifist vegetarians,
avant-garde knitters/crocheters,
cycling enthusiasts, luthiers, inventors, film nuts,
creative thinkers and doers,
people who love the arts.
Notes on Adding Friends/Top Friends:
Please include a note if you want me to add you as a friend.
I wish there were a way to automatically rotate only a portion of your Top Friends List. Since that's not the case, I will try to rotate friends in manually (leaving friends that send me flowers, chocolates and happy wishes on a regular basis at the top - ow ow ow)
Note about Upcoming Shows: The list on this webpage only includes shows for which I have a compositional credit or artistic credit (whatever that means). For the schedule of all shows/events I'm involved in (including as a sideperson), please see: General Schedule .
Oskar Schlemmer's Theme, was composed on toy piano for Das Triadische Ballet, a Bauhaus toy theatre by Hanne Tierney and Gautam Dasgupta which was performed at the 8th International Great Small Works Toy Theater Festival on May 23rd and 24th at St. Anns Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY. This recording was created using a Jaymar toy piano and was utilized as one of the guide tracks for rehearsals.Two Cellos 2 Basses, was composed on January 1st, 2008 - recorded using two tracks of cello and two tracks of doublebass on Garageband 3 with some messing around with a dizzy panning effect. Just a little experiment even if not especially wild or crazy - une amuse bouche before I dive into Reaktor 5.Double Bass Piano 1, was written for One-Minute Wonders, a program of one minute pieces featuring the double bass. It along with another of Ms. Wang's submissions for solo bass using extended techniques premiered on Sunday 17 June 2007 at the William Appleby Music Centre in Doncaster (South Yorkshire, UK) with Sarah Buckley (Db) and Angela Belbin-Wood (Pno).Toys in the Attic, was recorded and improvised as a hidden track of a group piece expressly for ~chromatik_d_zabu.tmp . Wang as angry jane is a member of the CDZabu Collective, an international consortium of electronically minded composers based in Montreal, Canada, who create pieces collectively via the internet. She collaborated on Compilation 3: [3] eso yo kurukurupa, [7] vogel's private hell avec toute la collective, Vol XXIV - From The Outskirts of The Milky Way with Marsmalade, JS, Martouk, Vox , Exorziser, Vol XXII - Funky Industrial Cartoons with Dr Chnolles , JS, Exorziser, and Vol XVIII - The New Voice of Chromatic Disgruntlement with Snvl, Antonino "Eze" Cuscina, JS wherein she provided transformed vocals, double bass, ukelele, clocks, toy piano, keys and various loops.for mike and me is actually part 3 of a suite of double bass duos entitled for mike and me. This work premiered in Boston, Massachusetts at the First and Second Congregational Church with Mike Bullock and Ms. Wang on double basses.The Riddle excerpt premiered at Seully Hall, Boston Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts for Human Connection, a new music collective of composers and musicians. This cut is from a live recording of the last section of the complete work. The Riddle was created specifically to take advantage of the beautiful voice of Daniel Alexander, who also happens to be a brilliant playwright and director. The text is from a poem by Richard Wilbur. Other featured musicians performing here are Grant Smith (percussion, toy piano and children's harp), Yuka Hamano (piano), Kaoru Ishibashi violin and shoes on floor.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 21/08/2007
Band Website: www.haorecords.com/artists/jane.htm
Band Members: me, moi, yo
Influences: anyone i manage to trip over... the list is too long but here's a few (i am excluding personal friends, relatives and, because i'd need a hundred pages, bass players, so please no one feel left out or offended):

claes oldenburg,charles ives,frank zappa,ornette coleman,sun ra,bernard hermann,nino rota,stevie wonder,roberta flack (first take),kirk franklin,mahalia jackson,the staples singers,brahms,frank lloyd wright,stanley kubrick,terry gilliam,fellini's la strada,werner herzog's every man for himself and god against all,robert altman,the burmese harp (the japanese film not a musical group),the president's analyst,alfred hitchcock,orson welles' the magnificent ambersons (a brilliant "failure"),lindsay anderson's o lucky man, bergman's persona,godard's weekend,kurosawa's the seven samurai,bugs bunny because he is cooler than i or anyone else could ever possibly be,kermit the frog for his naive wish to make millions of people happy,sylvester the cat and the coyote for their existential eternal hope in the face of adversity and stubborn refusal to give in to common sense.

quote from a pack of sugar found at a diner:

SUCCESS:
If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded.

11 Septembre a 1 Octobre 2008 TELEVISION en FRANCE
60x60 (2007 / International Mix) Video Collaboration avec Zlatko Cosic

Composition/Art Related Videos:

2009 - angryjane's VIMEO video channel
VIMEO - angryjane's Channel



YOUTUBE - angryjane Channel
Liz Roncka's Preshow w Grant and Jane 8:37 mins
Liz Roncka's Preshow Improvisation with Grant Smith and Jane Wang
@The Dance Complex, Julie Ince Thompson Theater June 28, 2008
for Outbound Dance Concert with chairs, toy piano, piano, drums and percussion



MOVING SOUND Website as of 2008
MYSPACE FILM - movingsound1



MOVING SOUND Youtube Videos 2008-PRESENT
YOUTUBE - MOVING SOUND Channel 1


Doppler Effect 1 - London Shoes 1:31 mins
Grant Smith and Jane Wang in Warwick Square, London, UK - a site-specific Moving Sound performance/improvisation.



MOVING SOUND Youtube Videos 2001-2007
YOUTUBE - MOVING SOUND

Five-OT - Moving Sound at the Ludwig Museum 4:12 min
Five-Ot : Moving Sound ; At the Ludwig Art Museum with coincidentally
the perfect sculpture installation for the five of us: Zsolt Varga and Judit
Balvanyos from Budapest, and Liz Roncka, Grant Smith, Jane Wang from
the US. Supported by a grant from Artslink in 2002. Video by Josh.

MovingSound-Hoginshow 2:01 mins
Clip from live performance at five myles , brooklyn ny
Liz Roncka, Grant Smith, Olivier Besson, myself and offscreen, Zsolt Varga and
Judit Balvanyos from Budapest, Hungary
light design: Trevor Brown, lights: Hanne Tierney
original video shot by Andy Hamilton and his crew

A Horse of Another Color? A Rose By Any Other?
.. or ... you got to my page and meant someone else completely...
His/Her/Their LINK might be one of these:

1. A Moving Sound - Taiwanese World Music Ensemble:
Myspace Music - A Moving Sound and
Youtube - A Moving Sound

2. Moving Sound TM: sound, movement and imagery for personal and professional development; "Music to heal, inspire and uplift" Exeter, Southwest, United Kingdom
Website - Moving Sound TM and
Myspace Music - Christoffer De Graal

3. AnGRY JaNE ArTisT? - visual artist living in Pennsylvnia, USA:
Myspace - AnGRY JaNE ArTisT?


Sounds Like: cats dreaming, trash cans falling
Record Label: Hao Records (not really but it exists)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Anatomy of a Fracture to the Wrist

Abbreviated Diary of an Injury:May 28, 2008 - Fractured right wrist (2 bones - distal radius osteoporodic)in biking accident - walked to emergency room with bike.May 29, 2008 - Saw surgeon Dr. Chandra...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:49:00 GMT

Moving Sound - MYSPACE FILM - how to be visible?

An on-going international movement and sound project.Next Event: September 19th 2008 - 8PM @Mobius725 Harrison Ave, Boston, MAwiththe usual suspects being Liz Roncka, Grantley Smith, Jane Wangand Emi...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:04:00 GMT

Seeking old friends...

well this is a more personal friends who happen to be artists blog.i was thinking that this might be a good way to find old friends -if you happen to run into any of these people in your travels, plea...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:03:00 GMT

Knitting and other obsessions

One of my other obsessions is knitting - how very british of me...But seriously, I have been having to ease up on that activity due to getting that ol' tendonitis feelin' in my arm which means that i ...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:41:00 GMT