Small Batch presents: line upon line

Adam Bedell
Cullen Faulk
Matthew Teodori

Program

Mauricio Pauly
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About the Artists

Mauricio Pauly is a composer, improviser and producer of hybrid music. He has collaborated with writers, designers, programmers and theatre-makers. His music has been featured at festivals such as Ultima, Warsaw Autumn, Darmstadt, Le Bruit de la Musique, Images Sonores and Open Ears Festival. Recent releases include The Threshing Floor (w/ scapegoat), Charred Edifice Shining (w/ Distractfold), and The Difference is the Buildings Between Us (w/ No Hay Banda). Upcoming releases include an album of improvised music with pianist Eve Egoyan. He was a Fellow at Civitella Ranieri and Harvard's Radcliffe Institute and Composer-in-Residence at Villa Romana in Florence. Since 2020, he has been an Assistant Professor at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts in Vancouver.

Austin-based trio line upon line has worked with composers in residencies at Harvard University, Stanford University, University of California at Santa Cruz, University of Texas at Austin, Kunstuniversität Graz, University of Huddersfield, University of Liverpool, City University of London and Monash University (Melbourne).

Internationally, the group has performed at the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (Australia), Open Circuit Festival (Liverpool), Novalis Festival (Osijek), in Basel (Hochschule für Musik), Berlin (Unerhörte Musik), Cologne (Loft Köln), Freiburg (Hochschule für Musik), Graz (Open Music), Koper (Koper Biennale) and London (City, University of London), and has taught at the Conservatoriums in Melbourne and Sydney, London (Guildhall School of Music & Drama), Manchester (Royal Northern College of Music) and Tours (Le pôle Aliénor).

Nationally, line upon line has performed and taught in twenty-three different states, at two Percussive Arts Society International Conventions, the Festival of New American Music (Sacramento) and The Myrna Loy Center (Helena). 

In Texas, the group has performed at two Fusebox Festivals, the Menil Collection (Houston), Victoria Bach Festival, and the International Festival-Institute at Round Top.