IRL RECORDING 18 DECEMBER 2021 @ 4—9P (EST)

NEW YORK INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES & SOCIAL STUDIES, VESSELS TO MOTHERLAND × MIDHEAVEN STUDIO PROUDLY PRESENT THE 1st ANNUAL NYC KEYBOARD FEST AT GALLERY MC

NYC Keyboard Fest is a 1-day festival containing music performances for any keyboard instrument, electronic and acoustic (synthesizers, piano, piano+electronics, toy piano), with a program ranging from contemporary piano works past 1950 to original electronic music and improvisation.

Objectives of the festival are to erase the boundaries between musical styles in keyboard/piano music, usually kept contained in its own venues, crowd, audiences and performers. NYC Keyboard Fest will attempt to attract performers of varied musical and cultural backgrounds and ages, and provide an experience that reflects the complexity of time and space we all equally occupy today.

Together we intend to dismantle the barriers between what is usually considered a professional composer and a self taught/nonacademic composer. NYC Keyboard Fest will purposely disobey the usual requirements of formal compositional education/ higher degree in accepting submissions and look for innovation and personal musical language.

+ + +

4p — KIDS ON SYNTHS + CONTEMPORARY KIDS

Children ages 6-11 performing their own electronic and electroacoustic music

+ + +

5:30p — CONTEMPORARY PIANO AFTER 1950

Adam Tendler, piano — Talib Rasul Hakim, “Sound-gone”; Ann Southam, “Simple Lines of Enquiry”; Julius Eastman, “Piano 2”; Philip Glass, How Now

+ + +

7p — ELECTROACOUSTIC AND BEYOND

Vessels to Motherland — Nikita Morozov + Danica Borisavljevic

+ + +

Executive Producer, Broadcast/ Technical Director + Lighting Designer — GEORGE DEL BARRIO

Sound Engineer — ADRIAN MARTINEZ

Steadicam Operator — IAN CHEN

Festival Director & Founder — DANICA BORISAVLJEVIC

All ages invitation to IRL performance recording — REGISTRATION HERE

MIDHEAVEN NETWORK is a brave, generative space of healing and for the building — not “rebuilding” — of a fully inclusive society. MIDHEAVEN EXISTS IN PARADOX: FROM MANY, ONE.

THROUGH live arts programming from A GLOBAL phalanx OF performance, visual art, social justice, human development and cinema/ digital/ VR voyagers, MIDHEAVEN will ADVANCE COURAGEOUS, loving & possibility-driven VISIONS to the world.

CREATIVE DIRECTOR × EXECUTIVE PRODUCER GEORGE DEL BARRIO

art director AL-KHABIR RICHMAN

DIRECTOR OF AUDIO ADRIAN MARTINEZ

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY BRIAN GONZALEZ

CAMERA OPERATOR IAN CHEN

COMPOSER + ASSOCIATE PRODUCER bandit lu

©2021 MIDHEAVEN NETWORK

“Remember the Power of the Pause”