The Collaboration Issue

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Page 01NEW YORK IssUE 98 SEPTEMBER 2024 KARJAKANY.COM SYMPHONY O. HAN SEN LIEBE COLLABORATION THE NEDITION GUARINO FOLMERHANSEN HEGO

Page 02KARJAKA Issue No. 98 FOLMER HANSEN GUARINO unit7noise.bandcamp.com SEPTEMBER 2024 KARJAKA.COM emilioguarino.com

Page 03WHEN EMILIO APPROACHED ME FOR A KARJAKANEWYORK DESIGN OF HIS UP COMING CONCERT AT ROULETTEWITH CONTEMPORANEOUSFEATURING HISCOLLABORATIVEWORKSWTTH COMPOSER MICHAEL FOLMER HANSEN,I IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF AN EVENINGWITH EMILIO GUARINO CONSIDERING I ALREADY HAD THE PHOTOS FROM JUST UNDER A DECADE AGO.BUT THEN I GOT THE DETAILS AND THE PICTURE START ED COMING INTO FOCUS MUSIC IS ALL ABOUT COLLAB- ORATION.YOU'RE CONSTANT- LY PERFORMING WITH OTHERS WHETHER IN PERSON OR SOLO. COMPOSERS DEAD AND ALIVE AND THE LIKE.THROW THE LEGENDARY ARTIST HEGO AND CONTEMPORANEOUS IN THE MIX. AND NOW IT'S A PARTY. THIS STORY STARTS AS STORIES OFTEN DO, OVER AN ENDPIN..: 4 SEPTEMBER 2024 KARJAKA.COM

Page 04JARI G! Sim PLE LiFe ，So TO DEATH FROmBIrtHa PHOTOGRAPHED BY KARJAKA 50K 5-EXTRAB AUy LAN E CHAN CONCERT. MICHAEL FOLMER HANSEN AND I MET THROUGH CO poSitioNs MY BASS ENDPIN PROJECT AROUND 2016-20I7 AND THAT RELA- BY: END GANE MiCHAEL FOLMER HAYSEN TIONSHIP EVENTUALLY GREW INTO A LOT OF WRITING AND RELEASING MUSIC TOGETHER WHICH HE RELEASES EmiLio GUARiNO ON STREAMING SERVICES UNDER THE ALIAS FOLMR. - GUARINO HEGO SEPTEMBER 2024 KARJAKA.COM 7

Page 05info what So should relay we in this edition?", I asked Emilio. Me, Aleks, person- ally, I hate reading inter- views, in all honesty, I'd rather watch. See the ex- pression and inflections. Reading, he said this and she said that blah blah, and suddenly no one is reading in today's world. So here's the information the gents would like to convey... The Boilerplate Long story short I have a pretty big concert com- ing up in September at Roulette with Contempo- raneous performing about an hour of music I've writ- ten with an Australian/ Danish composer named Michael Folmer Hansen. It started with a bunch of music we wrote during covid using Ableton Live, never thinking it would actually be played live. But we were able to come up with the money to do it for real. The gig is Sept 24, 8pm at Roulette. Tickets are free but there's a pay what you want option, so if you choose to buy the pro- ceeds get donated to Free Arts NYC which provides arts programs for under- served youth. The compositions for the Roulette concert be- gan as melodic and har- monic sketches Michael came up with using Able- ton Live and hardware synthesizers. Most of that is up on streaming and band- camp and was done in the depths of lock- downs when live music was closed everywhere on earth and we had no idea when it would be back. SEPTEMBER 2024 KARJAKA.COM

Page 06KARJAK SEPTEMBER 2024 KARJAKA.COM For the concert, Michael and ! picked 4 pieces each (a total of 8) across a variety of these projects that would make a good eoncert program, represent the work, and would be practical to orchestrate, Although one of the pieces for the show originally used a string plugin with about 4oo people playing pizzicato that we're taking a big leap in trying to translate dod oEJo dnoaf e o1 The collaborative process with us is a bit varied. Sometimes Michaeljust throws me a basie idea and r'l run with it. A couple of the other pieces were more finalized and I mostly or. chestrated from what he sent. When I say "finalized" in the last point it's fun to point out that Michael never sends me tradlitional scores, it's mostly in MIDI form or sometimes just record- ed audio As you know I did the whole music school thing and studied it for. mally in an academic setting, Michael did not. So he'll often experiment with recording hardware synih arpeg- giators or generating material in the computer, then send an Ableton ses- sion over with a bunch of tricks con- taining some wild piano rolls feeding synths or plugins. Tickets are free with an option to purchase, which will be donat. ed to Free Arts NYC to help fund programs for under. after school served youth. Michael and I did this for opposite reasons. I eredit a lot of my involvement in music to luck1 happened to have really good music tured my interest and talents in a big. Michael says he had terrble music teachers growing up and is on a mis- sion to prove them wrong. Meanwhile FolmR writes, "I got talking years ago with our local Mel- barista. In Mel. boune [Australia) boume aaou au,nod folmR and Sthurmovik. barista than your partner! Any- Co-producer of the Phillip way he did multidiseiplinary vi- Glass Buddha Machine, Michael sual art, I did musie, so a friend. is also a life member of Mel. ship developed., His amazing drawings were based on nu- bourne Electronic Sound Stu- merous discussions and a stick dio. After more than a hundred drawing from me. We've done a couple of joint visual music albums on his .own and with collaborators Michael's output shows in Australia. HEGO is probably best is equal parts prolific and ecle- murals of In. know for his. tic, hard and sof,and in the neo digenous soldiers from World classical output includes 2 op- War I, but is represented in eras, a chorai work, a piano con. Australian certo, a collection of etudes and museums." 4 symphonies. EMILIO GUARINO is CONTEMPORANEOUS per is an ensemble of a5 musicians and former prodlucer with experience that ranges from whose mission is to bring to life orchestral performanee to con- the most transformative musie temporary music, by living composers through improvisation, performances, modern and commissions, multi-disciplinary collaborative recordings_ and, educational works. programs. Deseribed as "exact As a bassist, he has per. and detailed, but also lively and formed or collaborated with a openly dancing" (The New York wide variety of creative person- Times and "leading new musie towards its better self" (I Gare If alities that include conductors, composers,_ soloists, and You Listen), Contemporaneous pro- ducers. Highlights inelude per. particularly champions the cre- formanees with Sir Simon Rat. ation of large-seale works and tle, Matthias Pintscher, Renee *dream projects," which com- Fleming, Anne-Sophie Mutter. posers might not otherwise have opportunities to realize due to Lah, and Glenn Kotche of Wil scale. Based in New York City and 0o. Emilio has also been invit. active. throughout the Unit. States, Contemporaneous ed to appear at major festivals including the Stavanger Kam- has_ premiered _over 2oo new mermusikk Festival , (Norway). works, and has been presented The Lucerne Festival (Switzer. by such institutions as Garne- gie Hall, Lincoln Genter, Park land), The Inteational Society of Bassists biennial conference, Avenue Armory, the Los Ange- and the Philadelphia Orches- les Philharmonic, Walt Disney PROTOTYPE tra's contemporary ensem. ConcertHall. ble-in-residence, SoundLAB, at Festival, Merkin Concert Hall, the Barnes/Stokowski Festival.. MATA Festival, St. Ann's Ware- MICHAEL FOLMER house, and Bang on a Gan and HANSEN is a Danish eomposer has worked with such artists as living in the Australian Alps. David Byrne, Donnacha Den- Michael's Roland‘SH-2 nehy, larla O Lioniird, Dawn and MC-202 synths, Boss DR- Upshaw, and Julia Wolfe. Con- programming 5 drum machine and fretless temporaneous" Rickenbacker knock-off were has also received acclaim from stolen in ig84. The items were community members, artists. uninsured and he is still seek- and press of all kinds, with the ensemble's recent performance ing revenge, doing a Gauguin in 2o15 and dropping his suit and of Stranger Love being listed as tie for the life of an artist. He one of 2023's ~best classical mu- is having fun and exacting re- sic performances" by the New venge by creating music under his own name and the monikers Gua RIND / HANSEN IL NOME SCELTO DABRGTE GPRBo / HAI SEN LE SYOIPHoY II. HA N S eN OBStACVLOS DIEZ

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Page 08The Ensemble KARJAKA ADVERTISEMENT Life So Simple: From Birth To Death Compositions by: Michael Folmer Hansen & Emilio Guarino Performed by Contemporaneous Tuesday, September 24 - 8 - 9pm Roulette Intermedium CONTEM PORA NES 509 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/life-so-simple-from-birth-to-death-tickets-971231358137?aff=karjaka (CLICK HERE) Tickets are Pay-What-You-Want Proceeds will be donated to Free Arts NYC Providing Arts and Mentorship Programming for youth in www.contemporaneous.org underserved communities.

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