Eric and mary Ross show, Meida Art Festival, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, September 28
2007-08-25 by Lunette Records
Hi all, details of a show in Netherlands with Eric and Mary Ross,* Eric and Mary Ross at Media Arts Festival ,NL* Composer* *and Thereminist*, ERIC ROSS* with video artist *Mary Ross* (USA) is performing at the Media Art Festival '07 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, on Friday, September 28, 2007 at 9:30pm They'll present a special concert of original music with video and will also conduct an afternoon workshop discussing their "Ultimedia Concept - 30 Years of Music and Video." *BIOGRAPHIES* *ERIC ROSS *(www.ericross.info)* *"has excited audiences with his fiery virtuosity and innovative work" � *Washington. Post.* He's performed his original works at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Newport, North Sea, Montreux, Berlin Jazz Festivals, Gilmore Keyboard Festival among others worldwide. For over twenty years he's led his ensemble featuring jazz giants John Abercrombie, Larry Coryell, Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, Leroy Jenkins, New Music virtuosos Youseff Yancy, Lydia Kavina, Robert Dick and others*. The New York Times *calls his music "a unique blend of classical, jazz, serial and avant-garde." *ERIC ROSS *performs on guitar, synthesizer and piano and is a master of the Theremin, one of the earliest electronic instruments. He began playing the Theremin in 1975, and has performed on radio, film and TV. He's written and recorded an *Overture for 14 Theremins *playing simultaneously, and gave the world premiere of Percy Grainger's *Free Music No.1 *in New York City in 1997. Since 1976, with his wife, Mary Ross, he has presented multimedia performances with video, music, dance, film and computer art. He's also played with blues legends Champion Jack Dupree, Lonnie Brooks, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. In 2006, he was guest artist on No.1 Best-Selling CD album in Japan, Aqi Fzono's *Cosmology*. Eric Ross was a friend of theremin virtuoso, Clara Rockmore, and electronics pioneer, Robert Moog. In 1991, he met and played for the inventor of the instrument, Professor Lev Termen. He's drawn inspiration from them to continue developing the Theremin as a voice in his own compositions. *MARY ROSS* (www.maryross.info) is a fine art photographer and visual artist. In 1976, she began using video and computers to produce still images on film. As one of the first fine art photographers to do so, her photographs provide some of the earliest examples of how photography, video and computer technology converged in the 1970's, emerged in the 1980's, and eventually evolved into contemporary digital photography. Her video and computer generated still photographs and video arts have been featured in hundreds of multimedia performances in collaboration with composer/performer Eric Ross , and his ensemble and dancers. She has exhibited extensively at galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, Israel and Japan. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Kunsthaus, Zurich; International Polaroid Collection; Herbert Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University; King's Library, Copenhagen; Biblioth�que Nationale; Paris; Lincoln Center Library Dance Collection, New York City; and private collections worldwide. *MARY ROSS* has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Broome County, NY Arts Council. Articles about her work, and those she has written, have appeared in numerous publications including *Popular Photography, the British Journal of Photography Annual*, *Videography* and *Digital Imaging* magazines. She's the author of *Video in the Artroom*, a resource book for art educators and curator of the exhibition *Pioneers of Digital Photography*. Video Sample: 2006 Prague Festival video= http://www.tdtstudio.cz/Festival%20Alternativa%202006_3_12_1.html<http://www.tdtstudio.cz/Festival+Alternativa+2006_3_12_1.html> -- Susi O'Neill Lunette Records www.lunette.co.uk - sales@... Tel: 07981 222799 Hypnotique "The Hanging Garden" - soothing and uplifting music for the impending apocalypse - out now! http://www.hypnotique.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]