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New! Gosfield receives the Foundation for Contemporary Arts prestigious “Grants to Artists” Award
New! Merkin Hall concert featured in the New York Times Best of 2007:
“The Sound of the New is Heard All Over”
Latest Release:
LOST
SIGNALS AND DRIFTING SATELLITES
click here to purchase: Annie
Gosfield, Tzadik 8007
click here for more information about the CD & listen to musical excerpts
"A major figure of the downtown scene with pieces that use nonmusical sounds (warped records, satellite signals, and more) in a strikingly expressive manner." –The New Yorker
Click here to watch (and read) an interview in New Music Box
Click here to read four essays from The New York Times' TimesSelect
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"Her music is unlike anything in the current European chamber spectrum, coupling zest and imaginative poetics with a warming textural glow underlying the spikiness."
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Rob Young, The Wire
"Only
two or three people use the sampler distinctively enough to be instantly
recognizable, and Gosfield may be chief in that respect"
– Kyle Gann, The Village
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"EWA7
is a machineshop throwdown that could reduce angstridden
'industrial' poseurs to sobbing heaps."
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David Sprague,
The Village Voice
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"A wonderful disc, beautifully
performed and produced. Perhaps more than any other composer of
her generation Gosfield has taken up the challenge of Edgard Varèse,
writing music which addresses forthrightly the aesthetic challenge
of mechanization, technology, and science."
– Robert Carl, Fanfare,
reviewing the CD "Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery" |
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Hailed as ”a star of the downtown scene” by the New Yorker magazine,
Annie Gosfield lives and works in New York City, where she divides her
time between performing on piano and sampler with her own group and composing for many ensembles and soloists. Her music often explores the inherent beauty of non-musical sounds, and is inspired by diverse sources
such as machines, destroyed pianos, warped 78 records, and detuned radios.
She often combines acoustic instruments with electronics, resulting in pieces like Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites for violin and satellite sounds, and The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory for prepared piano samples with mixed ensemble. Gosfield uses traditional notation, improvisation, and extended techniques to create a sound world that eliminates the boundaries between music and noise, while emphasizing the unique qualities of each performer.
Click here to read an unedited interview from The Wire with Julian Cowley
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