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GOSFIELD TO BERLIN FOR A 2012 FELLOWSHIP AT THE AMERICAN ACADEMY AND A CONCERT AT MAERZMUSIK
"LIGHTNING SLINGERS AND DEAD RINGERS", PIANO MUSIC PLAYED BY LISA MOORE OUT NOW ON CANTALOUPE Read about it here
NEW VIDEOS FROM THE KITCHEN, HUDDERSFIELD,
AND MORE Gosfield Channel
NEWS AND UPCOMING CONCERTS: TZADIK CD IN 2012:
click here to read about upcoming concerts and soon to be released CD's
NEW REVIEW IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
"DAUGHTERS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION" AT THE KITCHEN read it here
REVIEW FROM AUGUST AT THE STONE IN THE NYT
"Making Music Out of Uncracked Codes and a Factory's Din" read it here
LATEST ARTICLE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES "OPINIONATOR"
click here to read Gosfield's "Advice to Young Composers" in the Times
LOST
SIGNALS AND DRIFTING SATELLITES
click here to purchase: Annie
Gosfield, Tzadik 8007
click here for more information about the CD & listen to musical excerpts
"A major figure of the downtown scene with pieces that use nonmusical sounds (warped records, satellite signals, and more) in a strikingly expressive manner." –The New Yorker
Click here to watch (and read) an interview in New Music Box
Click here to read four essays from The New York Times' TimesSelect
Gosfield receives the Foundation for Contemporary Arts prestigious “Grants to Artists” Award and a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation
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"Her music is unlike anything in the current European chamber spectrum, coupling zest and imaginative poetics with a warming textural glow underlying the spikiness."
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Rob Young, The Wire
"Only
two or three people use the sampler distinctively enough to be instantly
recognizable, and Gosfield may be chief in that respect"
– Kyle Gann, The Village
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"EWA7
is a machineshop throwdown that could reduce angstridden
'industrial' poseurs to sobbing heaps."
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David Sprague,
The Village Voice
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"A wonderful disc, beautifully
performed and produced. Perhaps more than any other composer of
her generation Gosfield has taken up the challenge of Edgard Varèse,
writing music which addresses forthrightly the aesthetic challenge
of mechanization, technology, and science."
– Robert Carl, Fanfare,
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Hailed as ”a star of the downtown scene” by the New Yorker magazine,
Annie Gosfield lives and works in New York City, where she divides her
time between performing on piano and sampler with her own group and composing for many ensembles and soloists. Her music often explores the inherent beauty of non-musical sounds, and is inspired by diverse sources
such as machines, destroyed pianos, warped 78 records, and detuned radios.
She often combines acoustic instruments with electronics, resulting in pieces like Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites for violin and satellite sounds, and The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory for prepared piano samples with mixed ensemble. Gosfield uses traditional notation, improvisation, and extended techniques to create a sound world that eliminates the boundaries between music and noise, while emphasizing the unique qualities of each performer.
Click here to read an unedited interview from The Wire with Julian Cowley
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