listening links
Transit of Venus for electric guitar & live computer processing (2008)
[listen]
heterogeneous for toy piano & live computer processing (2007)
[listen] | [ performance
materials ]
Lacan for string quartet & electronic sound (2006)
[listen] | [program
notes] | [score as pdf]
Escaping
the Delta for flute and cello (2005)
[listen] | [score
as pdf]
Cyan-Magenta-Yellow for flute, viola and cello (2005)
[listen] | [score
as pdf]
To Have Done With for cello & live computer processing (2004)
[listen] |
[program notes] | [score
as pdf]
The Well of Fancy Dry for flute & live computer processing (2003)
[listen] (second
movement only) | [score
as archive]
Matthew Malsky's (b. 1961) compositional style is characterized by its rhythmic vitality, dramatically crafted gestures, melodic angularity, and irony. His music has been described as economical and elegant in both its technical and intellectual rigor, and in the way cutting-edge electronics are fully integrated with live performance. Malsky's compositions speak with intensity, seriousness and an underlying inquisitiveness about the boundaries between a complex world and a searching interior voice.
His compositions have been performed and acclaimed internationally, most recently at the Ultima Festival in Oslo, Norway, the Bytes of Art Festival @ Ylem in San Francisco, the En red 0-2000 Festival in Barcelona, the iChamber performing series at Arizona State University, national Society for Electro Acoustic Music-US conferences, the Australasian Computer Music Conference in Wellington, New Zealand, the International Computer Music Festival in Kobe, Japan, and the Bowling Green New Music and Art Festival . His virtuosic compositions for acoustic instruments with live computer processing have attracted the interest of outstanding soloists including John Bruce Yeh (Chicago Symphony), Esther Lamneck (NYU), Frank Cox (c-squared), and Patti Monson (Sequitur). His second string quartet, Lacan, was premiered by the Penderecki String Quartet in the winter of 2007.
He has studied composition with Conrad Pope, Harold Shapero, Ralph Shapey, Shulamit Ran and Howard Sandroff. His work has been recognized with awards and grants from ASCAP, Brandeis University, Kurt Weill Gesellschaft, the Hillery Family Charitable Trust, NSF/Chicago Materials Research Center, Hultgren Solo Cello Works Biennial, American Composer's Forum, and others.
As a scholar, his research examines, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the intersections of American music, technology and culture in the post-World War II period. His articles are published in the areas of ethnomusicology, cultural studies and film studies by Wesleyan University Press , the online journal Reconstructions , and University of Illinois Press . He has participated in national meetings as diverse as Feminist Theory and Music, the Music/Image in Film and Media conference at NYU, the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the US (SEAMUS), the International Computer Music Conference, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US and the Society of American Music. Most recently he presented in Dessau, Germany at an interdisciplinary symposium organized by the Kurt Weill Gesellschaft.
Matt Malsky is an Associate Director of Publications with the Electronic Music Foundation . He is on the faculty at Clark University , where he is an Associate Professor of Music, Director of the Computer Music /Recording Studio, and chair of the interdisciplinary program in Communication and Culture.
University Bio Page or Research Page (old)
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:
March 11, 2009
heterogeneous (toy
piano & live electronics)
Isabel Ettenauer , toy piano
The Essl Museum , Vienna
June 5, 2008
heterogeneous (toy piano & live
electronics)
selected as a Finalist in the
unCaged Toy
Piano Composition Competition
Phyllis Chen , toy piano
showcase of contest winners @ Christpher
Henry Gallery
127 Elizabeth Street, NY
RECENT PERFORMANCES/RELEASES:
2007-08
4/10
The Discontents of Orpheus (for solo viola)
The
Art of the Solo Viola
Peter Sulski, viola
Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts
Clark University, Worcester MA
4/4-5
The Transit of Venus(for electric guitar with live computer processing)
The
Extensible Electric Guitar Festival
Clark University, Worcester MA
3/19
heterogeneous (toy piano & live
electronics)
Claudia
Birkholz , toy piano
'toytoytoy'
Dampfzentrale Bern
Bern, Switzerland
2/24
awful vegetables (electroacoustic)
as part of the Clairaudience project
Rhode Island College
Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts, room 198 @ 3pm
10/26
heterogeneous for
toy piano & live computer processing
'joy of toy'
Claudio Birkholz, toy piano & piano
Hochschule für Künste, Bremen
on CD
awful vegetables (electroacoustic)
[listen to excerpt/purchase at CDeMusic]
on Clairaudence: New Music from Electronic Voice Phenomena
from BohnMedia
3/22 & 24
Escaping the Delta for flute and cello
c-squared (Lisa Cella & Franklin Cox)
University of San Diego & University of California, Riverside
3/4
The Last Piano for toy
piano & live computer processing
[listen]
Nancy Newman, toy piano
Music from
the Extensible Toy Piano Festival , University at Albany, NY
Press Notices: Times-Union (Albany,
NY), UAlbany
Alumni Magazine , Metroland (Albany, NY)
2/9, 13 & 16
Lacan for string quartet & electronic
sound
Penderecki String Quartet
Clark University (Worcester, MA); Wilfred Laurier (Kitchner,Ontario); University
of Western Ontario (London, Ontario)
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