Join bespoken and the International Contemporary Ensemble for a free online discussion focusing on the intersection of technology and art featuring Adele Fournet and TYGAPAW. How does technology and art come together in performance? How can artists discover, experiment, and take risks in the realm of digital collaboration and distribution? Presentations by Fournet and TYGAPAW will be followed by short workshops. Please feel free to bring questions related to your own work/projects you are working on! This event is not only educational but also a platform for empowerment, breaking down the barriers to using technology in an artist’s practice.
Presented by bespoken and the International Contemporary Ensemble
Speakers: Adele Fournet (Music Producer, Video Ethnographer) and Dion McKenzie aka TYGAPAW (Artist)
letsbespoken.org (Gina Izzo & Eunbi Kim, Co-founders)
ADELE FOURNET
Music Producer and Video Ethnographer
She/Her/Ella
http://www.adelefournet.com/ | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitrosie/
Adele Fournet is a music producer/engineer and video director based in Brooklyn. She is also a music scholar and holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from New York University. She writes about the intersections of gender, technology, labor, and aesthetics in popular music production. Adele has received support for her research from Fulbright, the NYU McCracken Foundation, Humanities New York, and the NYU Center for the Humanities. Adele’s women-led media organization, Bit Rosie, supports the work of female and gender nonconforming artists. The Bit Rosie web series (www.bitrosie.com) is an inaugural component of the NYU library's first music-related video streaming web archive.
DION MCKENZIE - TYGAPAW
Artist
She/They
TYGAPAW is a multi-disciplined musician, producer and dj, born and raised in Mandeville, Jamaica, based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Tygapaw infuses her Jamaican ancestry into a lush and aggressive musical styling perfect for the inclusive spaces she so often curates. Her versatile production is a clear representation of her individuality: queer, black, and fearless. She's the founder of Fake Accent, which started in 2014 as a monthly queer club night based in Brooklyn and has been developed into a record label in 2019 centering black electronic music artists. Paper Magazine listed her as one of the "50 LGBTQ Artists you should prioritize" in 2018 and she is one of shesaid.so Alternative Power 100 Music List 2019 honorees. Tygapaw sets the bar high for the first release on her Fake Accent imprint with her latest EP "Handle With Care". Visceral noise, relentless club rhythms, and intimate vocal samples collide across five tracks of uncompromising body music. A searingly bold statement from one of NYC's and Jamaica's finest.
Social Media Handles Instagram: @tygapaw Facebook: @tygapawmusic Twitter: @mebetygapaw Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNMlwuHnk0dlLBDu4W8Xo_g?view_as=subscriber
Credits:
We are grateful for the support of the NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund in The New York Community Trust in making this program possible.
Performances and commissioning activities during the 2020-21 concert season are made possible by the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, A.N. and Pearl G. Barnett Family Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc., Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Amphion Foundation, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Pacific Harmony Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, The Casement Fund, BMI Foundation, as well as public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council for the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency. The International Contemporary Ensemble is the Ensemble in Residence of the Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for ICEensemble.