Stefan Tcherepnin and Amir Mogharabi Performance
Lisa Cooley Fine Art
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Stefan Tcherepnin is a New York-based composer and performer whose live electronic soundscapes incorporate elements of noise, indeterminacy, and improvisation, as well as aspects of traditional composition. Tcherepnin writes that he "thought of how (avant-garde composer) David Tudor would leave the radios and televisions on in his apartment while he was practicing piano," while he was composing Sweeping Noise, a piece that joins classical piano composition with the sound of static, a work which was recently performed at the New Museum. Tcherepnin has performed, recorded and toured with several bands throughout the last decade, including collaborations with Amy Granat and Brian Chase. Recent performances in NYC have been at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Diapason, The Tank, Tonic, The Knitting Factory, and Columbia University.
Amir Mogharabi is an artist and the editor of Farimani, a new critical journal. Highly influenced by the Oulipo and Georges Bataille’s notion of heterology, his pieces apply literary constraints to the text, as conditioned by artistic methods like detournement and collage. With a degree in philosophy from the University of California, Irvine, and a master's degree from the Critical Studies division of Columbia University’s Art History department, Mogharabi’s background allows for an informed analysis of theory in relation to aesthetics, while simultaneously motivating his departure from their predetermined modes of institution. His writing was included in last year's Frieze Fair London. He has published alongside authors like Wayne Koestenbaum and Roberto Bolano. He will publish a book in late 2009 edited by Sylvere Lotringer.
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October 05, 2008 from 19:00