Live performance of IKAS for solo alto saxophone by Hans-Joachim Hespos. 

CMW presents... Hespos. A tribute concert to Hans-Joachim Hespos on the occasion of his 75th birthday. 

10.7.13 Minneapolis, MN

www.JefferyKyleHutchins.com

IKAS by Hans-Joachim Hespos

Julie Herndon is a composer, performer, and sound artist exploring the body’s relationship to sound.  

Her electroacoustic work has been described as “truly brilliant” (Kulturpunkt), “like a signal from another world” (Tages-Anzeiger), and “blended to inhabit a surprisingly expressive space” (SFCV). Her compositions and installations have been presented at MATA Festival and National Sawdust in New York, Artistry Space in Singapore, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca (MACO) in Mexico, Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ), Sogar Theater in Zurich, and by Forest Collective in Australia. Recent collaborations include the Decoder Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente, and Kukuruz Quartet. 

Julie is the recipient of the Elisabeth Crothers Award for Music Composition, American Composers Forum Bay Area Residency, National Sawdust New Works Commission, Chamber Music America Commissioning Grant, New Music America Creator Fund, and Georges Lurcy Fellowship. As an artist in residence, she has collaborated with institutions such as the Cité Internationale des Arts, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Center for Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at Berkeley, Djerassi, and I-Park artist residency programs.

Julie is currently Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Composition at California Polytechnic State University. She holds a DMA from Stanford University, and her writing, “Embodied Composition: Composing the Body with Sound” can be found in Leonardo with MIT Press.

Flora is a violinist, voice artist, teacher and composer. She operates with creative processes around vocal and instrumental poetics and their intersections with experimental and electroacoustic music. Flora has experience as a performer, researcher and composer in music events in Brazil and abroad, such as “Monaco Eletroacoustique Festival” (2013), “FIME (International Festival of Experimental Music)” (2016), “Festival Música Estranha” (2016), “RUMOR” (2017), “IMPRÔ” (2019), and “Frestas Telúricas” (2020). She organized the international conference “Sonologia 2019-I/O”, together with NuSom - USP. Currently, Flora is an Associate Professor in Musical Technology at the Department of Music - DMU, of Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), Brazil. 
Her articles and creative work can be found at: soundcloud.com/flora-holderbaum and https://usp-br.academia.edu/FloraHolderbaum
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