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Ear Heart Music: Makers, Nathan Davis
Nathan Davis, composer
Ear Heart Music : Makers opens discussions about the art-music of now with the people who are creating it. Taking the work of interviewed composers as a starting point, the series aims to roam broadly over the cast surface of modern making in our world. The series is hosted by Nicholas deMaison, a freelance composer and conductor residing in New York City.
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Nathan Davis is a percussionist and composer based in NYC. His music-making is inspired by many sources, beginning with a simple fascination for acoustic phenomena and embracing American experimentalism, Balinese Gamelan, and Karnatic music. In playing and composing, he is drawn to make music that revels in sound, has a narrative and visceral trajectory, and often makes use of computer processing.
With cellist Ha-Yang Kim, he co-founded Odd Appetite, an electroacoustic duo performing their own works and select commissions across North America, Europe, and Asia. In Boston he began playing new and traditional Balinese music with Gamelan Galak-Tika. He is a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and has played and recorded with Evan Ziporyn, Christian Wolff, Larry Polansky, and Lee Hyla, among others.
Nathan has received commissions from the International Contemporary Ensemble, Ethos Percussion Group, the Ojai Festival (for a collaboration with kinetic sculptor and MacArthur Award recipient Trimpin), the Meehan/Perkins Duo, the Jerome Foundation, Concert Artists Guild, the American Music Center, and received awards from ASCAP, the Look and Listen Festival, American Composers Forum, the Argosy Foundation, Meet the Composer, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, and the ISCM.
Nathan has served on the faculty of Dartmouth and Franklin Pierce Colleges, and has been an artist in residence at Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Brandeis, CalArts, Baylor, Longy, UMass, and at the Walden School. He earned Bachelors degrees in composition and percussion at Rice University, was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the Rotterdams Conservatorium in Holland, and subsequently received a Masters in Music from Yale University. He additionally studied Karnatic rhythm and microtonality at the Amsterdam Conservatorium.
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354 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036
United States
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