Alexis Georgopoulos (American, b. 1974) is a composer and artist based in New York City. As ARP, he makes hypnogogic, minimal music, most often with analog synthesizers and, increasingly, classical stringed instruments. Since 2002, he has performed internationally and has been presented in such spaces as PS1, Deitch Projects, White Columns, MOMA (SF), Yerba Buena Center and Frieze Art Fair. He has released work on DFA, Smalltown Supersound, Troubleman Unlimited, Rong, Eskimo, Lo, Root Strata, White Columns & Deitch Projects imprints. He has remixed Lawrence Wiener, Lindstrom and Shocking Pinks and has been remixed by Hot Chip, Munk, Optimo and Soft Pink Truth. He is also a member of the groups Q&A (DFA), The ALPS (Type/Mexican Summer) and founded the group Tussle, which he departed in 2007.

Most recently, his score for Replica – a Modern Dance piece featuring Jonah Bokaer & Judith Ruiz Sanchez (of Merce Cunningham & Trisha Brown Dance Companies, respectively) – premiered at the New Museum in New York City (December 2009). A number of his pieces were used in the Soundtrack to the film Objectified (Gary Hurstwit, 2009). In late 2008, he composed and performed a live score for Doug Aitken's film Migration. The follow-up to his acclaimed debut album In Light, the forthcoming album The Soft Wave, will be released by Smalltown Supersound in May 2010 and will be accompanied by remixes of his work by Swedish group Studio (Information), French electronic composer Etienne Jaumet (Domino) and the American artist Keegan Mchargue (Metro Pictures).

Anthony Moore (British, b. 1948) composer, media artist and professor at the Academy of Arts (KHM) Cologne in the department of Art and Media Sciences, where he works on the theory and history of sound.

Having studied Indian classical music with Viram Jasani in 1969, he generated his first movie soundtrack for David Larcher's Mare's Tale. As well as acoustic instruments, it involved extensive manipulation of magnetic tape (time/pitch shifts, layering, splicing, loops, feedback). Since then he has created a number of soundtracks for European, independent movies (see films of Werner Nekes, Dore O, Klaus Wyborny, Heinz Emigholz, Rudiger Neumann, Rainer Crone), many of which have won prizes at international festivals.

In 1970 he moved to Hamburg, Germany, where he recorded three albums on Polygram for voices, strings, woodwind and percussion; Pieces from the Cloudland Ballroom, Secrets of the Blue Bag and Reed, Whistle & Sticks. In 1972 he formed the band Slapp Happy with Dagmar Krause and Peter Blegvad and went on to make a number of acclaimed records. From 1973 he worked in Europe and America as a freelance composer experimenting with sound, recording, writing songs and producing soundtracks. He collaborated with Pink Floyd on two of their albums and worked with many other musicians and artists.

His continuing output of electroacoustic composition and vocal music led to a synthesis of these two forms in music-theatre. In 1991 he composed the music for a one-hour television opera, Camera, commissioned and broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK. 1995 was spent writing and recording the album project, Broken China, with Rick Wright of Pink Floyd.

In September 1996 he was appointed Professor for research into sound and music in the context of new media at the Academy of Arts and the Media Cologne. From 2000 to 2004 he was elected Principal of the Academy. Founder of sound events and symposia, per->SON and Nocturnes, besides teaching he continues to write and compose.

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VICTOIRE is a new chamber-rock ensemble founded by composer/pianist Missy Mazzoli. This group, a stirring blend of winds, strings, keyboards and lo-fi electronics, was recently dubbed "an all-star, all-female quintet" by Time Out New York, and was described by Pitchfork as "so good… a pleasingly accessible entrée into the world of pseudo-classical music." Victoire performs Mazzoli's distinct blend of dreamy post rock, quirky minimalism and rich romanticism. Since forming in 2008 they have shared the stage with Tortoise, Twi the Humble Feather, Redhooker, Bing and Ruth, performing at many of New York's top new music venues including The Bang on a Can Marathon, Galapagos, the Tank, The Stone and the Whitney Museum. In spring of 2009 they became the first classical artist to be featured on "eMusic.com Selects". Their debut EP, A Door into the Dark, was released on eMusic.com in March 2009, and was named one of the ten best classical albums of the year by Time Out New York. Victoire will release a full-length album with New Amsterdam Records in 2010.

Missy Mazzoli was recently deemed "one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York" by the New York Times, and "Brooklyn's post-millenial Mozart" by Time Out New York. Her music has been performed all over the world by the Kronos Quartet, eighth blackbird, the Minnesota Orchestra, the South Carolina Philharmonic, NOW Ensemble and many others. Upcoming projects include a performance by the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and performances of her chamber opera, Song from the Uproar, at Bard College and on the New York City Opera's VOX series.

American Composers Orchestra’s Composers OutFront! series put composers on the stage who will have major works performed by the orchestra during the concert season. In keeping with ACO’s eclectic musical programming, featured composers come from diverse backgrounds in jazz, rock and pop, classical, and world music. Composers OutFront! events take place throughout the city in unusual spaces including community centers, museums and galleries, libraries, and other non-traditional venues for classical music.



Victoire is Olivia De Prato-violin, Eileen Mack-clarinet, Lorna Krier and Missy Mazzoli- keyboards and electronics, and Eleonore Oppenheim-bass.

Listen: A Door into the Dark

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