MISE-EN_PLACE (45 Saint Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY 10026)

Program
Kevin Malone (UK/USA-UK): Your Call is Important to Us (2022)

Yanqi Chen (USA/China): They Have Only Exisitence (2025)

Erich Barganier (USA/USA): All-American Futurity (2025)

Gabriel Araújo (USA/Brazil): chirp (2025)

*The program is subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances. Please note that the listed order is not the concert order.

About the composers

Kevin Malone (UK/USA-UK)
​From electronics, multimedia and installations to harpsichords, choirs and orchestras, Kevin Malone’s music is acutely aware of social concerns and global events. He has composed eight works about the events of 9/11, performed and broadcast internationally, as has his two-hour electronic Mark Twain opera Mysterious 44. He has completed two sets of feminist piano pieces for beginner through concert pianist, and is creating an extensive collection of playfully-serious climate-environment digital works. Malone was a Fulbright Fellow in Paris, and Head of Composition at the University of Manchester UK for over two decades.

Yanqi Chen (USA/China)
Yanqi Chen is a composer, multimedia artist, and sound engineer whose work explores the intersection of instrumental performance, electroacoustic sound, and mixed media works. Drawing inspiration from visual art, social issues, nature, and personal experience, her practice extends from instrumental composition into experimental projects encompassing installations, virtual reality, and cross-disciplinary designs integrating light, motion, dance, real-time visuals, and sound spatialization. Her work has been featured at festivals and conferences including Académie internationale de création musicale avec nouveaux media, Creative Dialogue, NSEME, SEAMUS, and SICPP, among others. She is currently a doctoral fellow in Composition at Columbia University.

Erich Barganier (USA/USA)
Erich Barganier (guitar/violin/electronics) and Ford Fourqurean (clarinets/electronics) are Shutterspeed Duo, a composer/performer ensemble combining contemporary classical composition, diy aesthetics, multimedia electronics, and video art. The group released their debut EP Iris in February 2021 and has since created and performed a new hybrid repertoire of clarinet, guitar, synths, and electronics across the United States and Europe. The Classicyl Vine described Iris as “a kaleidoscope of textural and timbral shifts in the electronic processing of acoustic instrumentals,” and pushes the genre of indie-classical to new realms. They have performed at ClarinetFests in Reno, Denver, and Dublin as well as regularly performing at home in New York. The duo is a proud recipient of Chamber Music America’s Ensemble Forward grant, which has allowed them to receive support from individuals like Todd Reynolds and William Britelle.

Erich Barganier is a composer and multi-instrumentalist hailing from St. Petersburg, Florida who currently resides in Durham, NC. He writes chamber, orchestral, film, solo instrumental and electronic music that explores experimental technology, the edge of noise, improvisation, generative processes, and new forms of notation. Barganier’s work has been presented by organizations including Bang on a Can, The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Gaudeamus, Mostly Modern Festival, and National Sawdust. He is currently pursuing a PhD in music composition at Duke University.

Gabriel Araújo (USA/Brazil)
Gabriel Araújo is a composer, multimedia artist, and educator whose work explores ecological, technological, and cultural models through sound, video, and transmedia pieces. He is Assistant Professor of Music Technology at Texas A&M University–Central Texas. His music has been performed internationally at festivals including ICMC, Ars Electronica Forum Wallis, MA/IN, MUSLAB, Ondes Croisées and more. Gabriel has collaborated with ensembles and soloists across contemporary music and multimedia performance in Europe and the Americas. He received the Funarte Composition Prize from the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, the Rainwater Innovation Grant, and was a finalist at the Prix CIME/ICEM and MA/IN Awards. He also produces new music initiatives, including the Música Íntima concert series and the Plurisons Festival in Brazil.