Experimental & Electronic Music Studio (EEMS)

Januibe Tejera de Miranda, director
Natacha Diels, guest composer
Jay Campbell, cello

Program

Geli Li
The Embrace of the Wind and the Memories

Tanner Jones
PUNCTURE SPILLS AND VISCERA SCRAPES

Natacha Diels
Flight Patterns

Catherine Lamb
cross/collapse

About the Guest Artists

Currently the only musician ever to receive two Avery Fisher Career Grants — in 2016 as a soloist and in 2019 as a member of the JACK Quartet — cellist Jay Campbell has brought his eclectic artistic interests both as a performer and curator to the New York Philharmonic, Deutsche-Symphonie Orchester, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Ojai Festival, Lucerne Festival and many others. Deeply committed to collaborative music, Jay is a member of the JACK Quartet, as well as the Junction Trio with violinist Stefan Jackiw and composer/pianist Conrad Tao, multidisciplinary artist collective AMOC, and frequently works with visionary composers and performers like Helmut Lachenmann, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, John Zorn, Tyshawn Sorey, and many more from his own generation.

Natacha Diels’ work combines choreographed movement, video animation, instrumental practice, and cynical play to create worlds of curiosity and unease. Recent work includes Papillon and the Dancing Cranes, for construction cranes and giant butterfly (Borealis Festival 2018, Dear Antwerp 2021), a collaborative work with Ensemble Pamplemousse (Darmstadt 2021), and an ongoing 6-part TV-style miniseries with the JACK quartet (TIME:SPANS, Banff Centre for the Arts, Barlow Foundation). With a focus on collage, collaboration, and the ritual of life as art, Natacha’s compositions have been described as “a fairy tale for a fractured world” (Music We Care About) and “the liveliest music of the evening” (LA Review of Books). Natacha is a founding member of the composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse (est. 2003). Pamplemousse specializes in unique aspects of new music composition, from complex virtuosic instrumental performance to experimental theatre to electronic and robotic performance. Natacha’s work has been performed globally by Ensemble Adapter, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Nadar Ensemble, hand werk, Ensemble Decoder, TAK Ensemble, Quatuor Impact, JACK Quartet; and soloists Jay Campbell, Laura Cocks, Samuel Favre, Ross Karre, Rane Moore, and Charlotte Mundy, among others. She has also created several short films and music videos, notably for Elena Moon Park & Friends recent album Unhurried Journey. Natacha holds degrees in performance, digital media, and composition from New York University and Columbia University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of composition and computer music at the University of Pennsylvania.