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Theresa Wong

theresawong

About Me

I am an improviser and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a cellist and vocalist, my current work spans the areas of improvisation, composition, video, performance art and large scale performance pieces. After studies in music and design, I was inspired towards an art form where I could unite the visual arts with sound and performance. My work has been presented at the Fondation Cartier in Paris in 2005, the Other Minds Brink series in San Francisco, the Radio France broadcast, "A L'improviste", the Seattle Improvised Music Festival, The Stone in New York City and Festival Unlimited XXI in Wels, Austria. In 2006 I wrote, directed and performed an improvised opera,“L( )VE”, which was presented at Mills College. I have collaborated and performed with such artists as Fred Frith, Tatsuya Nakatani, Joelle Leandre, Gianni Gebbia, Kanoko Nishi, Ellen Fullman, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Joan Jeanrenaud, Mark Dresser, June Watanabe, Gino Robair, Bob Marsh, Moe!Staiano, Devin Hoff, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, Meredith Monk, Luciano Chessa and Florentine Dance Company Secondo Taglio. I completed an MFA at Mills College where I studied with Fred Frith, Joelle Leandre, Alvin Curran, Annie Gosfield and cello with Joan Jeanrenaud.************************************************* ************ TRACKS: "Il Giornalaio" is with: Giorgio Occhipinti (piano, voice), Emanuele Primavera (drums, voice), Antonio Mainenti (voice, percussion), Filippo Portera (saxophones/flute/voice), Angelo Scelfo (boudzouko, voice) and Giuseppe Guarella (bass, voice). "Mr.Mungle" is with: Kanoko Nishi (bass koto, koto)."solo cello improvisation" is just acoustic cello, "bicycle improvisation" is two tracks of amplified and processed bicycle, "What Orbs!" is performed by Luciano Chessa on piano and "Map 1" is an improvisation by Gianni Gebbia (sax) and TW (cello with preparations).

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/3/2007
Band Website: theresawong.org
Band Members: A sudden coalescence of dance projects for the summer of 2008 include: Element Dance Theater and Navarrete x Kajiyama Companies' "The Mapping Project",with Karen Guzman, Debby Kajiyama, Ayako Kataoka, Daria Kaufman, Eric Kupers, Jose Navarrete, Kristen Quok, Anne-Lise Reusswig, Stacz Sadowski, Chris Lanier and Ilya Noe. www.sfiaf.org ************************************* Floor of Sky project with dancers: Isak Immanuel, Yuko Kaseki & Luigi Coppola. Music by Kanoko Nishi (keyboard) Zachary Watkins (electronics) and Theresa Wong (bicycle). www.floorofsky.org ************************************* Collaboration with Jess Rowland and SHIFT Dance Company. Performance with Jess Rowland (keyboard + electronics), Carrie Jahde (drums + electronics) and Theresa Wong (cello + electronics). www.shiftdance.org ************************************** Other projects include: "Necessary Monsters", a theater set song cycle led by violinist Carla Kihlstedt, based on Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Imaginary Beings, performed with Matthias Bossi, Chris Fisher-Lockhead, Nina Rolle, Michael Mellender and Freddi Price. Photos from the 2008 performance at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art are at: http://www.redlinski.net/necessarymonsters/ *************************************** Collaborating with Ellen Fullman on songs and improvisations for long string instrument and cello. This work has been presented at the Maybeck House in Berkeley, CA, as well as in Fort Worth, Texas. *************************************** Songs and improvisations with Kanoko Nishi, koto player extra-ordinaire. *************************************** Collaboration with Sicilian sax player Gianni Gebbia. A self released demo "Night Mapping" has just been finished and is hot off my home press. *************************************** Recent compositions include "What Orbs!", a miniature for solo piano written for Luciano Chessa and "Call It Culture", a cello duo written for and performed with Joan Jeanrenaud.
Record Label: lastvisibledog
Type of Label: Indie