Elise Kermani Resume

 

Education:

PhD (ABD) in Media Philosophy, European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland, 2007.

M.A. Interdisciplinary Arts Education, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, 1986.

B.A. Music Composition, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, 1983.

Additional instruction at the Vienna Hochschule fur Musik, AUSTRIA (Piano Performance and Music Theory, 1981).

Graduate courses at Roosevelt University (Electronic Music Composition, 1983); California State University Northridge (Computer Music Composition, 1985), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Multimedia Arts, 2000), Bard College (Sound Art MFA Program, Summer 2001).

Production Work Credits:

Producer of Jocasta: a performance video and audio DVD. http://elisekermani.com/jocasta.html, forthcoming in 2008.

Producer of the dice Project http://elisekermani.com/dice3.html, October, 2002.

Executive Producer of the Electronic Arts Performance Series at iEAR Studios, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,Troy, NY, Fall 1996-2000. Managed the iEAR Music Residency Program; curated and managed over 80 events of video screenings, workshops, lectures and performances.

Assistant to Director of the Book/Ends Conference, SUNY Albany, Fall 2000.

Founder and Artistic Director of MiShinnah Productions, various locations since 1985. Projects include the production of Compact Discs on the Ishtar Records label and the production and promotion of original theatrical work which integrates the use of new technologies in live performance. http://ishtar.cdemusic.org.

Curator and Producer of the Sonic Works-extending the instrument, new music festival, Houston, TX, 1991- 1992. Co-sponsored by DiverseWorks Artspace.

Produced the World Peace through World Music Festival, as Director of Music at the Baha'I House of Worship, Wilmette, IL., 1984-1986.

Educational Workshops and Lectures:

Digital Media and Music Composition Mentor, Empire State College, SUNY, Fall '05-present.

Adjunct professor of digital media at Hunter College, (NYC), Fall '02-Spring '04.

Adjunct professor of 4D/Time Art Design at Pratt (Utica extension) Fall '03-Spring '04.

Gave performance workshops and composition lectures at Northwestern University (Performance Department); Columbia College (Inter-Arts Graduate Division); The Art Institute of Chicago (Art and Technology and Performance Depts); Roosevelt University (Music Composition, in conjunction with the SEAMUS National Conference); Cleveland State University (in conjunction with the Cleveland Performance Art Festival).Teaching Artist for Houston Public Schools, Texas Institute for Arts in Education (1988-1992).Private Teacher of Piano (1985-1996)

Panelist for the Illinois State Council for the Arts Individual Artists Grant (Music Composition,1999), and the New York Foundation for the Arts Special Opportunity Stipend (New Media, 2000).

Commissions, Grants and Affiliations :

Commission from DownTown Ensemble for "Wak Auf", NYFA SOS Grant (2001); Franklin Furnace Artist-in-Exile Grant (1995); The Puffin Foundation Grant (1993); Meet The Composer Fund (several); The Grand Marnier Foundation (1993); Electronic Arts Grants Program (1993); NEA/Cal Arts Composer-in-Residence (1988); Who's Who in American Music (1986); Beatrice Foods’Äô Audience Development Grant (1985); BMI composer and publisher since 1985. Worked with State funding agencies (New York and Illinois) to develop new arts programming.

Selected Recordings of Compositions:

Sonic Designs, IshtarCD302, 2003.

Breath III, on Homo Sonorus: an international anthology of sound poetry, published by the National Center of Contemporary Art, Kalingrad, Russia, 2001.

Solos for Air, solo album, Ishtar CD301, 1999.

DREADmonad, with Don Malone. Ishtar CD101, 1997.

Anonymous Love Song on dice2 CD, Ishtar CD002, 1996.

TROUSERS, xCellar CD101, 1997.

Priscilla's Call on the dice CD, Ishtar001, 1993.

Spiral on The Aerial Sound Journal #4, distributed by Nonsequitor Foundation, Sante Fe, NM, Aerial CD 1991.

 

 

Original Sonic Performance Credits:

Blur/Ear, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, July 2003.

The HESTIA Project, Tonic, NYC, 2001.

Toured with new music ensemble TROUSERS to Eastern Europe, 1996, 1997.

ANNE, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, NYC, 1996.

Private Eye/Public Hand, The Roulette; P.S. 122; Cleveland Public Theatre, 1994-1995.

Artem(Is) Rising, The Kitchen; DCTV, NYC, 1993.

THe HearTH, DiverseWorks Artspace; The Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, 1991.

Crystal Mass, Bahai House of Worship, Wilmette, IL, 1985.

Mandala, Randolph St. Gallery, performed by the American Women Composers Chicago Chapter, 1984.

 

 

Music for Theater:

Wild Nights Burning Desire written and performed by Marty New at Cap21, NYC, April 10, 2000.

Women in History produced by riverrun Theater, at Asphalt Green Theater, NYC, March, 1998.

123sumthing, produced by riverrun Theater at One Dream Theater, NYC, February, 1997.

When We Dead Awaken- a Modern Opera, produced by riverrun Theater and workshop performed at the Knitting Factory, NYC, May, 1995.

TWISTERS directed by Tom Ferriter and performed at the Nat Horne Theatre, NYC, November, 1992.

 

 

Music for Dance:

Plum House, Vicky Shick, Choreographer, Dance Theater Workshop, NYC, February, 2007.

Repair, Vicky Shick, Choreographer, St. Mark's Church, NYC, March 2005.

Memory House, Melli Hoppe, Choreographer, Site Specifc Theater, Indianapolis, April, 2005.

Undoing, Vicky Shick, Choreographer, Dance Theater Workshop, NYC, March 2003.

The AVA Project, Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY, May 2002.

Music for Shimmer, Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, The Egg, Albany, May, 2001.

Music for Beating a Path, Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, Troy, NY,1999, Schenectady, NY, March, 2001.

Sacred Spaces 2 choreographed by Melli Hoppe, performed in the Madame Walker Theatre by the Susurrus Dance Company, Indianapolis, IN, November, 1998.

It's Not What You Think choreographed and performed by Laura Stanton at DIA Center for the Arts, NYC, October, 1994.

ROOMS, choreographed by Sarah Irwin and performed at DiverseWorks in Houston, TX, May, 1992.

 

 

Music for Film and Television:

Jocasta with Kevin James, (trombone) Marty New (voice), Tom Chiu (violin), Daniel Goode (clarinet). 52 minute Experimental Film with Cinematogarphy by Alan McIntyre Smith. Forthcoming, 2008.

Damnage with Elaine Kaplinsky, film by Bradley Eros. Screening at Here Theater, NYC August 18-19,1999 and at Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY, May 8, 2000.

Opening and closing credit music"Nymphs of Midnight" for Fresh Water Institute’Äôs Cable TV Lecture Series, 1999-2000.

Lullaby for 18 pc orchestra, in Common Miracles a film by Sky Schultz,1983.

 

Multimedia Poems for the Internet:

http://elisekermani.com/gallery.html

 

http://elisekermani.com/mp3/hestiaweb.mov

 

Sonic Exhibitions and Screenings:

Venus Hum (DVD video and sound) - with Barbara Kilpatrick, New Art Project, PA, May 2006.

The Aleph Project (multimedia installations) with Barbara Kilpatrick, Gallery at Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY, December 2002.

Screening of The Hestia Project, Interactive CD-romAlbany Center Galleries,October 6, 2000.

Private Eye/Public Hand performance photographs, at the "EarArt Sound Media Exhibit". 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA, May 9-31, 1997.

Artem(Is) Rising video screening (excerpt) at the EarArt Sound Media Exhibit.

Private Eye/Public Hand interactive sound installation with surveillance cameras, infrared motion sensors, synthesizer, video and and glass marble walkway. Cleveland State University Gallery, April 5-28, 1995.

 

Reviews and Publications:

Disquiet.com, New York Times; Los Angeles Times, High Performance Magazine, Option, San Francisco Weekly, Chicago Reader, The Chicago Tribune, P-Form Magazine, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Attitude, Your Flesh, Curio, Cadence, The Improvisor, Sonic Striations, ND Magazine, Music Works, The Houston Press, Houston Public News, Texas Monthly, Houston Chronicle, Cleveland Free Times, Electric Shock Treatment, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, Melodiva, The Resident, Journal SEAMUS, Metroland, Schenectady Daily Gazette, www.pinknoises.com.

Writings:

Electronic Book Review: "The Sonic Spectrum"

Unpublished: "The Fall of Hestia and the Rise of the Alphabet (Or, the Story of A)

http://elisekermani.com/hestia.html

"The dice Project: an international community of women in new music"

http://elisekermani.com/diceessay.html