SoundArt.NYC

"The Analogue and Digital Electro-Acoustic Ensemble"

Musicians

UndoEDM/ Edmundo Ramírez

Edmundo Ramirez multi-instrumentalist, composer producer and electronic musician performs in a wide range of stylistic music styles collaborations at major concert halls around the world including the Alice Tully Hall, Bellas Artes in México, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and Berlin, Carnegie Hall and The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to name some. His ensemble collaborations include the Absolute Ensemble, the Ensemble Intercontemporaine, Fine Arts String Quartet, the Bremen Kammerphilarmonie, the Menninger Hofkapelle Orchestra, Dorian Baroque Orchestra, Rebel Baroque Orchestra and Youth Orchestra of the Americas ins addition to other several groups in Europe, the US and Latin America. His collaborations in the classical, Jazz and World Music genres include working with noted artists such as Pierre Boulez, Goran Bregovich, Hector del Curto, Kent Nagano, Mikhail Muntyan, Paquito de Rivera, Bassam Saba, Saleem Adbud-Askar, Pablo Ziegler and Joe Zawinul among others. Edmundo multi-instrumentalist performs on his major instrument the viola and violin, the baroque violin and viola, the viola d’amore, the Indian Sitar and hardware analogue vintage and modular synthesizers. Recordings include the Sony, Enya, Composers Concordance and Arco labels.  

MegmanMusic

MegManMusic Is a producer, composer, DJ and multi instrumentalist, he has collaborated, made records and performed with Barrett Martin, DJ Spooky and the seminal experimental hip hop group Anti Pop Consortium to name a few.  As a founding member of Byzar He was an integral part to creating the Sub genre called illbient has had Music and Videos featured on M.T.V and the B.B.C’s Radio 1 and. has composed and performed music compositions at the Whitney Biennial and the Brooklyn Museum.

MegManMusic is a Teaching Artist, teaching music production and urban music history at Dr.Richard Izquierdo Health and Science Charter School where he facilitates a highly enriching music program to the inner city youth of the South Bronx.

The Bleecker String Quartet

The Bleecker StQ was founded by four musicians who wanted to perform and extend the possibilities of the string quartet repertoire. Well-versed in various musical styles, as well as being open to all the new possibilities of evolving music of the 21st century, the members enjoy performing all genres: Contemporary, World, Pop, Improvisational, Classical, and Electro-Acoustic (iPads, laptops, hardware analogue, and digital Synthesizers). Their debut performance drew four-star critiques and offered them opportunities to perform more works of living composers. The quartet features Machiko Ozawa & Lynn Bechtold on violins; Edmundo Ramirez on viola;  & Jisoo Ok on cello.http://bleeckerstringquartet.com