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A short dizzying stew of music and narrative -- quantum physics, languages, chants, stories, scientists, banquets, distant galaxies, songs, objects, and desire. Based on text fragments from the writings of the late Italian writer and Nobel Prize winner, Italo Calvino. Composed and performed by Moss with additional voice inserts spoken by Maldwyn and Ichi Ikeda. Co-commissioned by Harvestworks, Inc., the Wexner
Center for the Visual Arts., and NEW AMERICAN RADIO. More David MossBiography BiographyDAVID MOSS (Berlin, Germany) is one of the most innovative percussionists playing today. His solo performances combine drums, metal, strings, plastic, wood, and electronics, with provocative and extreme vocals. Moss has worked with Fred Frith, Shelley Hirsch, Heiner Goebbels, Christian Marclay, Carles Santos, Hans Peter Kuhn, Henning Christiansen, Tom Guralnick, Jon Rose, Sergei Kuryokhin, Z'EV, Malcolm Goldstein, Anthony Coleman, Peter Hollinger et.al. He has collaborated with dancers Steve Paxton, Kei Takei, & Kenneth King.As a soloist MOSS has been featured at: The Kitchen, Public Theater, Knitting Factory, Whitney Museum, Roulette, Musica '88/92 (Strasbourg/Bonn), Walker Art Center, The Ijsbreker, New Music America ('83-88), Wien Festwochen, Taktlos Festival, PS 122, Tokyo New Music, American Center (Paris), ICA (London), Milano Poesia, Alte Opera (Frankfurt), WDR (Koln), Kunst Museum (Bern). He is the leader of "DenseBand", "Direct Sound" (5 Voices), and is the Musical Director of "Survival Songs" a new opera for Leipzig Oper. His most recent prizes and honors include the Horspeil
des Monats for "Moss Tales" awarded by the Deutsche Akademie des Darstellenden
Kunste in October 1995, the Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik,
1992 and 1994; a 1991 Guggenheim Fellowship and a DAAD Kunstlerprogram
stipend for a one-year residency in Berlin, Germany. Moss has lived
in Berlin since 1991. He has completed two works for NEW AMERICAN RADIO:
Conjure (1991) and Language Linkage (1986).
Other Radio Works and RecordingsLanguage Linkage (1986)An OpeRadio that revels in the playful world of the late Italian writer and Nobel Prize winner, Italo Calvino. Moss uses selected texts from Calvino's Invisible Cities and his own inimitable vocal and percussion style. Commissioned by NEW AMERICAN RADIO. |