*itsnotyouitsme

*Mark Dancigers

*Timberbrit

*Alex Sopp

*Matt Marks and the Li’l Death Band

itsnotyouitsme

“The four works on “walled gardens” are instrumental meditations that draw heavily on early Minimalist techniques, most notably repetition and gradual expansion. Repeating figures often continue without transformation and gradually melt into the ambient haze as new layers of violin, guitar and electronic sound are added.” (Allen Koznin, New York Times review of walled gardens)

Website/audio: http://www.myspace.com/inyimband

NY Times review: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/arts/music/13reco.html

Mark Dancigers

“The New York Youth Symphony premiered his Snow in Carnegie Hall in 2006. The Cabrillo Festival Orchestra performed his Liquid Song in August 2006, and the Minnesota Orchestra read the same piece in May 2006. The Yale Philharmonia Orchestra premiered Liquid Song in March 2005. NOW Ensemble performed Cloudbank at the 2006 Carlsbad Festival and and Hanging There at the 2005 Look and Listen Festival in New York. Other performances of his work have been at the Music at the Anthology Festival, Merkin Hall, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Percussive Arts Society International Conference, and venues throughout New York, Boston, New Haven, and Philadelphia.”

Website: http://www.markdancigers.com

Timberbrit

“Straight from her latest barely clothed fiasco, Britney Spears is coming to New York. On Sunday, March 16, “TimberBrit,” an opera telling the (as yet) fictional story of the rekindled love between Spears and her former beau Justin Timberlake, will receive its world premiere. To create the songs, composer Jacob Cooper listened to hits from Spears’s oeuvre at a very slow speed, eliminating the hooks from the slickly produced tracks, and wrote his own songs inspired by the experience.” (Adam Rathe, The Brooklyn Paper)

Website/audio: http://www.myspace.com/timberbrit

Press: http://www.jacobcoopermusic.com/press.html

Brooklyn Paper article: http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/11/31_11_hes_a_slave_4_u.html

Alex Sopp

“New York-based flutist Alex Sopp performs all different genres of music and was recently called “outstanding” and “an admired new music mainstay” by Time Out New York. Alex has commissioned, premiered, and recorded with some of the most exciting composers and songwriters of our time, including Björk, Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens, Philip Glass, Judd Greenstein, The National, and makes professional appearances with The New York Philharmonic and The Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Alex is a member of NOW Ensemble, The Knights, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), AXIOM, and has performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble and Continuum. In the not-so-distant future Alex will make her solo recording debut with an album on the newly-minted New Amsterdam label.”

Website/audio: http://www.myspace.com/alexsopp

Matt Marks and the Li’l Death Band

“I attended the Eastman School of Music for undergrad, the Royal Academy of Music for a bit of the Post-Grad, and am currently attending Stony Brook University for my Master’s. I am an active performer in New York City, also playing and composing wacky electronic music, and occasionally performing on piano. Oh and I’m a Doggo virtuoso. I live in Kensington, Brooklyn and enjoy reading, listening to my CDs/mp3s/records, walking around New York, and writing zany bios.” (from his Alarm Will Sound bio)

Website/audio: http://www.myspace.com/mattmarksmusic

Blog: http://mattmarksmusic.blogspot.com/

Alarm Will Sound’s page: http://www.alarmwillsound.com/about/members/marks.html

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