Amy X Neuburg

Amy is a composer and performer of works for voice, electronics and chamber ensembles.

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May 23, 2012 by Peter McDowell

Compositions


AVANT-CABARET SONGS
Major body of solo performance pieces for voice, text, live looping/processing, live electronic percussion, unusual electronic instruments; performance highlights include Other Minds, Bang on a Can, Berlin Intl. Poetry Festival, Wellington & Christchurch Jazz Festivals (NZ), Warsaw Philharmonic chamber hall, numerous music & text festivals, live looping festivals, clubs, schools, concert series in U.S., New Zealand, Europe.


MAJOR CONCERT WORKS
(lyrics by Amy unless specified)

2016: Hunger Strike for San Francisco Chamber Orchestra – 30-min. song-based work for orchestra, electronically processed string quartet, voice and live electronics; now in progress, performances April 2016.

2015: Song Drapes – a new commissioned interpretation; Jerry Hunt’s pre-recorded sound beds designed to accompany voice/lyrics/percussion compositions; 1 hour, reiheM / Cultural Department of Cologne, Germany.

2014: Is it conflict free and were any animals harmed in the making of it? for Paul Dresher Ensemble with voice, live looping & electronic percussion; Cal Performances.

2014: Crowd Source for Truman State University Percussion Ensemble (10 inst.) and voice, based on crowd-sourced lyrics from facebook.

2012: Inbred Kisses site-specific choral work (30 vc.) for the multi-tiered Berkeley Art Museum; [email protected] series.

2010: Circle of Lullabies: Songs for children and planets born and unborn — 30-min. site-specific song cycle for Pacific Mozart Ensemble chorus with electric toy piano and 2 guitars, designed for Ann Hamilton acoustic tower (Geyserville, CA), on themes of earth, birth, and childlessness.

2009: Fill as Desired — 30-min. song cycle for female vocal ensemble with live looping, based on recipes collected at Terezin concentration camp, w/ addl. original text; commissioned 2006 by Jewish Music Festival, expanded and re-staged 2009; Freight & Salvage, 2010 Women on the Way Festival (ODC), East Bay JCC, more.

2006: The Secret Language of Subways — 1-hr. song cycle on love and war and New York; for voice, cello trio, live looping/processing and electronic percussion; Dance Mission SF, LA Philharmonic Left Coast Festival, SF Symphony After-Hours, Project Artaud, Great American Music Hall, YBCA New Frequencies, Churchill Arts Council (NV), The Independent (opening for The Tubes!), more; featured on KQED’s Spark.


SELECT CHAMBER WORKS

2015: Gehim Vaa for Solstice vocal ensemble (6 singers and 6 cell phones), in made-up language Vleesk; to premiere spring 2016.

2015: Spiderette for Indiana University Purdue Arts & Technology ensemble and voice.

2013: Synnnaaa for Sideband laptop ensemble (6 laptops, 6 voices) in made-up language Synnnaaanian; Roulette NYC.

2012: She Got Away for Sqwonk bass clarinet duo and voice; also on 2014 CD release Sqwonk +1.

2011: Why? for pianist Cory Smythe, voice, live looping of both instruments; commissioned by Present Music (Milwaukee).

2011: Lonely. Strange hats. 4-mvmnt. work for Del Sol String Quartet with voice, at YBCA, other SF & NY venues.

2011: Nonette for Kate Stenberg — solo violin with eight tracks of spatially specific recorded violin, for Kate’s CD Scenes from a New Music Séance (Other Minds), and numerous live performances.

2008: The Dude Trilogy – 15-min. solo song/poem on cross-cultural miscommunication; for voice and Blippoo Box custom analog synth created by Rob Hordijk (Netherlands), played using knobs and Theremin-like antenna.

2008: Zenonos Khoros (Dance of Zeno) for Robin Cox Ensemble (LA) — violin, cello, bass clarinet, two percussionists, electronic playback of layered voices.

2006: The Traveler site-specific music-theater work for 12 wandering vocalists; Christchurch Art Museum, NZ.

2006: The Metaphor for Present Music (Milwaukee) — voice, violin, cello, clarinet, piano, percussion, live looping of entire ensemble.

2004: Five Distractions for Santa Cruz New Music Works — voice, violin, cello, dbl. bass, flute, percussion, looping of voice and select instruments.


SELECT WORKS FOR THEATER, DANCE, INSTALLATIONS, VISUAL MEDIA

2015: These knobs voice/electronics audio work for installation of women’s sound work at Brown University.

2007: Unbalanced Output collaboration w/ dancers Nicole Richter, Cynthia Adams, Ken James; live vocal looping and dancing (simultaneously!); Oberlin College TIMARA Festival.

2006: Self-Talk live on-stage vocal looping for choreographer Claudine Naganuma, Dance Mission.

2000-02: For choreographer Nina Haft, live electronics-interactive singer/dancer/composer in major works including The Ring and The Making of Americans (based on Gertrude Stein); Oakland and Berkeley.

2000-01: Composer for Mondomedia’s Piki & Poko in Starland sci-fi animé webisodes.

2000-01: Scored plays for St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA — Ellen McLaughlin’s Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Constance Congdon’s Tales of Lost Formicans.

1997-98: Composed themes for Xerox PARC’s Nightfall audience-interactive soap opera installation (YBCA San Francisco) and for their Sunset drive-by interactive soap opera on Sunset Blvd., LA.

1992-96: Resident composer for AXIS Dance Company, major evening-length works included Hidden Histories (electronics, tape collage, viola, cello) and The Way In (chamber ensemble and 4 vocalists, site-specific for Berkeley Art Museum).

Dance commissions and sound design for Cynthia Adams, Berkeley Ballet, Sonya Delwaide, Jeanne Hughes, Thaïs Mazur, Randee Paufve, Patricia Reedy, Terry Sendgraff, Ellen Webb.

Overheard....

“Wow! That was the one simple word that best described the one-woman musical hurricane that was Amy X Neuburg last night. If diversity, creativity, and flat-out ability were all crimes, Neuburg would have been locked up years ago.”

— Otago Daily Times, New Zealand

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