Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Marina Rosenfeld

Lives in New York, NY

Born 1968, New York, NY

Composer, Artist

My work takes the form of both actual music and what I think of as musical situations. My thinking usually takes off from the proposition that we encounter music as a portion of time set off or apart from other time by awareness or agreement, essentially a constellation of ephemeral or temporary conditions, both abstract and circumstantial. I've played with ideas like the cover version, the orchestra as social experiment, the loudspeaker as a kind of diagram of the diffusion of sound into space. I've created choirs and orchestras of single instruments, custom sound systems for my own and others' music, dub plates, resonating objects, and video, among other things. I'm equally interested in mood, spectacle, knowledge, and in the possibility that a kind of unfolding is inherent in time-based work, but one that isn't necessarily narrative or dramatic (though it can be those) but situational. My early training instilled in me a serious reverence for written music-for notation and its almost magical symbolic function. So the score and its possible uses is another area I find I return to. Overall, my work always seems to return to a preoccupation with the situation of music-making and the complexity of what goes on there.

1994 M.F.A. California Institute of the Arts

1991 B.A., Harvard College

Visiting Lecturer, Harvard College

Co-Chair, Department of Music/Sound, Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College

SELECTED WORKS

2009 Sour Mash, in collaboration with George Lewis (Innova, CD and LP)

2009 Plastic Materials (Room 40, CD)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

2010 Public Address no. 2, No Longer Empty at the Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England

2010 Cannons, Faster Than Sound, Aldeburgh Music Festival, Snape Maltings, England

2009 P.A., Performa Biennial of Visual Art Performance, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

2009 Fervent Announcement (fort) / Fervent Announcement (castle), Festival MAPA, Catalonia, Spain

2008 Teenage Lontano, premiered at the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

SELECTED GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS

2010 Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts

2009 New York State Council for the Arts, Grant in Media & New Technology Production

2008-2009 Artist in Residence, Park Avenue Armory

2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Music Composition