Kala Pierson (1977- )
Kala
Pierson is a sound/media artist and composer. Her work is fluid,
focused on gesture and momentum rather than steady rhythms. Its
"seductive textures and angular harmonies" (Washington Post) are
"intricately structured, both mathematical and lyrical" (Dnevnik). She
studied at Eastman School of Music (with Joseph
Schwantner, Augusta Read Thomas, David Liptak and Robert Morris), where
she held a George Eastman Scholarship; Bard College at Simon's Rock,
where she won the Dean's Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts;
and Tanglewood Institute/BUTI. At Eastman, she also played in the
Balinese gamelan, sang in the Eastman Chorale, and co-founded the
new-music groups Ossia and Alarm Will Sound. Later, she co-founded the
South Oxford Six composers'
collective. She has taught, led workshops,
read at conferences, and published in music journals in the U.S. and
Germany; and for two years, she taught media design in Fordham
University's journalism program at Lincoln Center. Her works have been
performed and installed in 16 countries; in festivals including Musica
Viva, ICMC, SEAMUS, Contemporanea (Citta di Udine), Spark, and Canaan
Downs; and in venues ranging from a forest to a medieval fortress to
the World Financial Center Winter Garden. As a finalist for the Kraft
Media Prize, she had sound-art work performed at the Smithsonian
Institution's Hirshhorn Gallery and The Phillips Collection. U.S.-born
and primarily NYC-based since 2000, she focuses on multi-country
projects and collaborations. Since 2004, her Axis of Beauty
project has collected texts by living Middle Eastern writers, combining
these texts with both notated music and audio/installations, in an
ongoing response to "Axis of Evil" wartime propaganda. In 2012, her
site-specific audio installation series Singing Stones
will travel in Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands. She co-founded
Summer in Sombor, an international composition seminar held each July
since 2007 in northern Serbia. She has been an Artist in Residence at
Tribeca Performing Arts Center and a resident composer in the Composers
and the Voice series at American Opera Projects.COMPOSITIONS Kala Pierson Links ~ ~ ~ Works by Genre
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Axis of Beauty, multimedia work (2004) [in collaboration with instrumentalist Sukato]
Gather These Mirrors, [????] (2008?)
Singing Stones, sound installation (2008?)
Liberty Flickering, [ensemble] (2008?)
Chilling Effects, tape (2008?)
Stunning Sun, [voice and string quartet] (2008)
Torno al Foco, [chorus?] (2008?)
Floating Point, violin and cello (2008?)
Remember Water, fixed electronic media (2009?)
Shahida, tape (2009?)
A Little Piece of the Sun, incidental music, tape (????)
Chikatilo Arc, [tape] (2009?)
Circle of Ice, [soprano and piano] (2010?)
Esam Pasha, [chorus?] (2010?)
Metallic Focusing, [????] (????)
Nada ansío de nada, [video score] (????)
Cumulus, cello (????)
Three Ripples, for soprano and piano (????)
and online collaborations with author Christine Boyka Kluge and artist/designer Rick Mullarky
WORKS BY GENRE Kala Pierson Links ~ top of page ~
[under construction]
Dramatic/Theater
Orchestra
Band
Soloist(s) w/Orchestra
Chorus w/Orchestra
Choral
The Turning Earth, [chorus?] (2009?)
Chamber
Solo Instrument
Piano
Vocal
Incidental/Film
Electronic/Multimedia
KALA PIERSON LINKS Works by Genre ~ top of page ~
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Composer's website . . . contact Kala Pierson:
Composer's Blog
Kala Pierson @ American Opera Projects
Kala Pierson @ ArtSlant
Kala Pierson @ CCi (Composer Collaborative, Inc.)
Kala Pierson @ Cultural Centre of Novi Sad (in Serbian)
Kala Pierson @ Facebook
Kala Pierson @ Greg Smith Singers
Kala Pierson @ International Alliance for Women in Music
Kala Pierson @ Silver Sounds/The Sound Artists
Kala Pierson @ 60x60 VermilionMix
Kala Pierson @ South Oxford Six
Kala Pierson @ Syracuse University also here
Kala Pierson @ Vox Novus
Publisher
Kala Pierson @ [????]
Streaming Audio
Kala Pierson @ Silver Sounds/The Sound Artists
Recordings
[none at the moment?]
Video
Kala Pierson @ YouTube
Kala Pierson @ Google Video
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