Composers Larry Austin and Annea Lockwood present new and recent multiphonic works, including two world premieres: Larry Austin's Redux Two, with Joseph Kubera, piano; In Our Time, a collaboratively composed work by Annea Lockwood and Thomas Buckner, based upon poems by four of the detainees at the US Military Detention Center, Guantanamo Bay. The program also includes two New York premieres by Larry Austin: Redux, with Patricia Strange, violin; and John explains.... based upon Richard Kostelanetz's interview with John Cage in 1966, plus two works written for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Austin's Beachcombers video, and Lockwood's Jitterbug for improvising musicians and aquatic insects. Featuring: Thomas Buckner, baritone; David Behrman, psalter/zither/electronics; Stephen Duke, saxophone; Kevin Evensen, video; John King, viola/electronics; Joseph Kubera, piano; Theodore Mook, cello; Stephen Moore, electronics; Patricia Strange, violin. Annea Lockwood Born in New Zealand in 1939 and living in the US since 1973, Annea Lockwood is known for her explorations of the rich world of natural acoustic sounds and environments, in works ranging from sound art and installations, through text-sound and performance art to concert music. She was recently the 2008 Composer-in-Residence at the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, and her installation, A Sound Map of the Danube, is running at Schloss Orth, Austria through 2009. The score for Jitterbug was included in the exhibition of contemporary scores, The Possibility of Action, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona. Larry Austin Composer Larry Austin, born in Oklahoma 78 years ago, studied with Canadian composer Violet Archer in Texas and with French composer Darius Milhaud and American composer Andrew Imbrie in California, with extended associations in the 60s with Cage, Tudor, and Stockhausen. Austin's works have been performed and recorded widely by North American and European orchestras, ensembles, and soloists. Since 1964, he has composed over eighty-five works incorporating electroacoustic and computer music media. In 1996, Austin was awarded the prestigious MagistŁre (Magisterium) prize/title in the 23rd International Electroacoustic Music Competition, Bourges, France, for his work BluesAx (1995-96), for saxophonist and computer music/electronics and for his work and influential leadership in electroacoustic music genres through the past forty years. He has recently been awarded the signal 2009 SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States. Austin served on the music faculties of the University of California, Davis (1958-72), University of South Florida (1972-78), and University of North Texas (1978-1996), retiring from his academic career in 1996. www.music.unt.edu/cemi/larry_austin/index.htm * * * * * * * The Interpretations series, now in its twentieth season, is a New York-based concert series focusing on the relationship between contemporary composers and their interpreters. Sometimes the interpreters are the composers themselves; more often, the series features performers who specialize in the interpretation of new music. Since its inception in 1989, Interpretations has featured leading figures in contemporary music and multimedia, including Muhal Richard Abrams, Robert Ashley, Anthony Braxton, Thomas Buckner, FLUX Quartet, Annea Lockwood, and Alvin Lucier, Roscoe Mitchell, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Ursula Oppens, and Morton Subotnick.