The Electric Café Series is dedicated to presenting new and cutting-edge art music with a particular emphasis on digital music and interactive inter-media performance.
Two concerts this season will be presented under the direction Mark Zaki, an assistant professor of music at Rutgers–Camden, and co-sponsored by the Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts and the Rutgers Electro-Acoustic Lab (REAL).
Both concerts will be presented at the Stedman Art Gallery on the Rutgers–Camden campus.
On Tuesday Oct. 25 at 12:20 p.m., electric violist Martha Mooke will present a demo-performance titled Beyond Virtual Corridors. Mooke is considered a pioneer on the electric five-string viola. Her music transcends musical boundaries by synthesizing classical music training with extended techniques, digital effects, processing, and improvisation.
Mooke is a founder and violist of the electro-acoustic Scorchio Quartet, which has performed and recorded with artists such as David Bowie, Philip Glass, Trey Anastasio, and Iggy Pop.
On Tuesday Nov. 29 at 12:20 p.m., cellist Madeleine Shapiro will present music for cello and electronics by Morton Subotnick and Anthony Cornicello. Her program will also feature the world premiere of a new work by Dorothy Hindman.
Shapiro has long been a recognized figure in the field of contemporary music. She was the founding director of The New Music Consort, an internationally known ensemble, and presently directs ModernWorks, an ensemble that performs and commissions recent chamber works.
A graduate of Rutgers University and Princeton University, Zaki joined the Rutgers–Camden faculty in 2008. He has worked on more than 50 films, TV programs, theater, and other projects, including writing an original score for the PBS documentary “The Political Dr. Seuss,” which was nominated for a Peabody Award.
The Stedman Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Complex on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Camden Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
For more information on the concert series, call (856) 225-6176.
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Media Contact: Ed Moorhouse
(856) 225-6759
E-mail: ejmoor@camden.rutgers.edu