Join us for NEEM FEST 2024 in Homer, New York

Friday, September 13th through Sunday, September 15.

It will feature performances, workshops and YOU.

NEEM FEST 2024 WORKSHOPS

At the Center for the Arts of Homer, New York

FRYDAY September 13th 3:30 PM

Percussion applications in electronic music by Richard DeCarlo Jr.

SATURDAY September 14 th 10:00 AM

MULTICLOCK SEQUENCING by Joel Izquierdo

Joel Izquierdo is a multi-instrumentalist, a songwriter and an electronic musician. I has released two albums focused on live Electronic Music. One is called Electronic Warfare and the other one is called Joel Izquierdo: Live. Both albums were released 2023. He will be releasing an electronic album soon called My Electronic Offspring as well as an indie rock album called Time in 2024. Joel has played in numerous bands in his lifetime including an electronic music duet called Euphoria in the 1980s with his brother. Currently he’s a solo artist, performing Live at NEEM Fest 2024 from Laredo, Texas.

With the workshop presentation, Joel Izquierdo will demonstrate on how to incorporate sequencing using both analog and digital synths using a multiclock. And will also talk about musical arrangements with the use of electronic instruments.

SATURDAY September 14 th 10:30 AM

FIRST SOUNDS The oldest recordings from before the Civil War by Howard Moscovitz

Howard Moscovitz has graduate degrees in both music composition and electrical engineering. He began working on electronic music in 1967 with William Hoskins at Jacksonville University. He received an MFA in electronic music from Mills College where he studied with Robert Asheley, Stanley Lunetta, Darius Milhaud and John Cage. While working as a free lance composer, Howard earned a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981. He then moved to Pennsylvania to work as a designer of the first DSP micro-circuit at Bell Labs. Howard started electro-muisc.com in 2002. The community has produced dozens of festivals in the USA and Europe.

Howard will perform as a solo performer as MOSC and with Bill Fox as: Twyndyllyngs, which have been performing improvised electronic chamber music since 2003. They have performed at electronic music festivals in Europe and North America. They perform weekly on the internet radio station electro-music.com on most Saturday evenings at 6 PM Eastern USA time. Twyndyllyngs' experimental work is in many diverse styles ranging from neoclassical to experimental 

12:30 PM TE-MP0 The Electro-Music Performers Organization by Gianni Intili

A yearly report of TE-MP0, a non profit 501(c)3 Organization, and future goals, by the founder and President.

TE-MP0 foster and promote the Development of the Electro-Music ethos through the organization and presentation of Live Performances, Seminars, Lectures, Exhibits and gatherings. These activities open to musicians, performers, teachers and students of Music, music producers, as well as video artists for the communities in the State of New Jersey, and the US. TE-MP0 supports the enhancement of Electro-Music as an “Art in our Age” and contributing to the Cultural, Educational, Spiritual and Emotional content of our communities.

Italian-born Gianni Intili has been involved with the fine arts throughout his life. Starting as a painter, color theorist, sculptor and poet, he would infuse his art into architecture, planning and interior design. As a teen, Hendrix guitar riffs and distortions were music to GI; the sound of the Moog as played by Keith Emerson, ecstasy. Jazz Rock Fusion, ProgRock and Electronic Music, was the music he enjoyed and transmitted in his radio show at FDU 440 AM College Radio.

He wanted to play an instrument, but it was not until his early 50’s that he got his first Yamaha keyboard.

Guided by many of his seasoned musician friends, that he jammed and learned improvisation, he decided to learn Music and Piano under the tutelage of Andrew Kadin.

GI played with SPARSE, an Avant-garde Abstract Quartet who played the MusiXplore Summer Solstice Concert in Paterson NJ, along with ATONAL, Symmetry and ArtCrime. And other projects like the ‘NONAME’ Trio, the duets of Bellagio and Tremezzo.

Gianni has been involved in collaborations: ’LA ELECTRONICA‘ with Mario-Enrique Paoli, ‘CANOPUS RESONANCE’ with Ed Clark Cornell, and ME! Aka MONTCLAIR ELECTRIC! with Simon Pride.

As a solo act, VISHWANATH_GI is where the Music exploration relates to Architecture in its structure and spatial construction, Painting with sounds colors and Poetry with its message of consonance and dissonance. 

https://soundcloud.com/gi1-2

https://gi1music.bandcamp.com/

SUNDAY September 15th

10:30 AM

Creating music for a Documentary by Dave Heineman

An overview of the process of creating music for the documentary, the responses gotten to the Documentary ‘NEPADOC’ at the screenings that were held, and the value of using improvisational synth performances as the foundation for a film score. 

NEPADOC is the acclaimed feature-length documentary about intersections of environment, industry, and identity in Northeastern Pennsylvania over the past 300 years. Inspired by non-verbal documentary film landmarks such as "Koyaanisqatsi" and "Baraka," NEPADOC blends 4K cinematography, local historical footage, and a sweeping analog synthesizer score into a dizzying and contemplative meditation on culture, place, and public memory.

Website www.nepadoc.com

11:30 AM eeemfest and NEEM Fest in RETROSPECTIVE by Robert Dorschel

Sourcing performance spaces for events like eeemfest and NEEMFest and/or smaller gatherings. This isn't a presentation-led workshop; it is a 5-to-10 minute retrospection into all the places eeemfest and NEEM Fest has been, and what it took to get there, followed by an open brainstorming session on what can be done to grow the number of gatherings per year. Bring your thinking cap.

Robert Dorschel is an eclectic multi-instrumentalist.

Robert does a fair job at creating detailed melodic soundtrack and synth-based compositions. Yet, he is haunted by the fact that he failed his “Piano for Non-Music Majors” course in college; as a result he plays “Chopsticks” for a few hours straight each night while chuckling quietly to himself. In 2016, he did manage to compose original music and sound effects for the Auburn Players’ (Auburn, NY) performance of “TheGiver.” Robert also performs in music festivals from time to time.

His Live performance for NEEM Fest 2024 will be: Two Notes + One Rest = One Song Melodic themes played for movies that haven't even been scripted yet 

soundcloud.com/robertdorschel

youtube.com/robertdorschel

https://www.facebook.com/robert.dorschel.68

12:00 PM

AI MUSIC by Jeremy dePrisco

Artificial Intelligence (AI) music generators will be demonstrated through software programs that use machine learning algorithms to produce music. They are designed to analyze existing music data and use that information to generate new musical compositions in real-time. 

Jeremy dePrisco (Shivasongster) is a Pennsylvania musician, composer, performer, and sound artist using improvisation, collaboration, and noise to examine and recontextualize the alienation inherent in media influence, socially constructed reality, conspiracy, and myth.

He works with field recordings, guitar, electronics, synthesizers, radios, found sounds, home-made gadgets, and processed video. 

His Live performance for NEEM Fest 2024 will be : Sonic conspiracy theories and generative madness

Website

https://www.jeremydeprisco.com/

Tickets

$15 per day, $25 for two days, and $30 for a three day pass

Tickets can also be purchased at the door the day of show.

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Festival Date: September 13-15, 2024

Location: Center for the Arts of Homer

72 S Main St, Homer, NY 13077

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