NWEAMO FESTIVAL
New West Evolving Art & Music Organism brings new and different music to several venues a year. Improvisation and interaction are especially encouraged.
Founded in 1998, NWEAMO is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to the promotion of music that involves the creative use of computers and electronics, and to the development of a diverse community of electro-acoustic composers and performers throughout the world. We embrace all styles of electronic music as well as performance and hybrid arts. With this in mind, each year NWEAMO organizes an in
01/01/2024
On January 26th, 7PM, NWEAMO's Exclusive public viewing of “The Magic Hummingbird – El Colibrí Mágico” will be held at the Digital Gym. 1100 Market St, San Diego, California 92101.
This post has directions to the location.
Admission: A $20 suggested donation at all events.
Directions & Parking Our new address is 1100 Market St, San Diego, California 92101. The entrance to our parking garage is...
01/01/2024
On January 27th at 7PM NWEAMO will be held on the San Diego State Campus. This map has directions to parking structure 12, the closest parking to the Smith Recital Hall, School of Music & Dance.
Come a bit early if you've never been so you can find the concert location in time!
Admission: A $20 suggested donation at all events.
SDSU Parking Structure 12 · Aztec Bowl, San Diego, CA 92182 ★★★★☆ · Parking garage
01/01/2024
Melody, Magic, Song and Strife
Day 1: Thursday, January 25, 2024
Event: Ljiljana Winkler Interprets Songs of Joseph Martin Waters
Ljiljana Winkler Bio
Venue: Smith Recital Hall, School of Music & Dance, SDSU
Time: 7 PM
Parking: Parking Structure 12, SDSU
Highlights: Based in Augsberg, Germany, active internationally, and known for passionate delivery and dazzling technique, vocalist and band leader Ljiljana Winkler performs songs by Joseph Martin Waters, accompanied by the Swarmius ensemble. The repertoire bridges pop, classical, jazz, and rock, featuring arching melodies and lush harmonies. The ensemble includes flutes, saxophones, cello, piano, drums, and electric bass – a unique blend of a classical orchestra and a rock band.
Performers: Ljiljana Winkler – soprano; Antonina Styczen & David Ramirez – flutes; Todd Rewoldt & Brian Levy – saxophones; Isadora Flores & Peter Ko – cello; Sergio Bocanegra – synthesizer; Karen Follingstad – piano; Andrew Michel – bass; David Sullivan – Drums; Backing vocal ensemble: Miguel Zazueta (conductor), Karen Garcia, Cerah Rodriguez, Philip Gomez, Israel Rodriguez.
Admission: A $20 suggested donation at all events.
01/01/2024
San Diego, CA – Esteemed German Vocalist Ljiljana Winkler makes her west coast debut at the NWEAMO Festival 2024, set to take place on January 25, 26, and 27,
offering an eclectic mix of musical performances, musical theater, and community engagement.
Joining NWEAMO will be NYC-based Composers Concordance.
This year’s festival promises an immersive experience, blending genres and cultures.
New West Evolving Arts and Music Organism Founded in 1998, NWEAMO is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to the promotion of music that involves the creative use of computers and electronics, and to the development of a diverse community of electro-acoustic composers and performers throughout the world. We embrace all styles of electron...
04/29/2022
NWEAMO 2022 – Concert number one
Benefit for the victims of Ukraine
Friday, April 29, 2022
7:00 PM Smith Recital Hall
San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr, San Diego, CA 92182
04/29/2022
04/13/2022
NWEAMO 2022 Concert ONE
Curated by Composer’s Concordance (NYC)
Friday, April 29
7:00 P.M.
Venue: Smith Recital Hall
The Music Building
San Diego State University
Admission: benefit for Ukraine. $20 suggested. Payments will go directly via QR code to UNICEF.
04/13/2022
NWEAMO 2022
The NWEAMO festival is proud to announce the 2022 lineup will include two concerts. The first, at SDSU Smith Recital Hall, will feature the prize winning New York based Ensemble Composer’s Concordance. Led by virtuoso composer/electric guitarist Gene Pritsker, The Ensemble also features esteemed Vancouver-based violinist Petro Krysa and San Diego virtuoso alto sax player Todd Rewoldt.
The Friday, April 29 concert will feature works from the just released CD featuring works by Gene Pritsker and performed in collaboration with Todd Rewoldt.
Concert #1
Curated by Composer’s Concordance (NYC)
Friday, April 29
7:00 P.M.
Venue: Smith Recital Hall
The Music Building
San Diego State University
Admission: benefit for Ukraine. $20 suggested. Payments will go directly via QR code to UNICEF.
Concert #2
Sunday, May 1
7:00 P.M.
Works by:
Maile Pacumio
Nakul Tiruviluamala
Jordan Kuspa
plus selections fromThe Magic Hummingbird (El Colibrí Mágico)
Venue: The Jazz Lounge
6818 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego, CA, 92115
Music@TheJazz lounge.Live
Admission: benefit for Ukraine. $20 suggested. Payments will go directly via QR code to UNICEF
The NWEAMO festival is proud to announce the 2022 lineup will include two concerts. The first, at SDSU Smith Recital Hall, will feature the prize winning New York based Ensemble Composer’s Concordance. Led by virtuoso composer/electric guitarist Gene Pritsker, The Ensemble also features esteemed Vancouver-based violinist Petro Krysa and San Diego virtuoso alto sax player Todd Rewoldt.
The Friday, April 29 concert will feature works from the just released CD featuring works by Gene Pritsker and performed in collaboration with Todd Rewoldt.
Gene Pritsker & Todd Rewoldt "Duets For The End Of The World"
Also on the program will be works by Debra Kaye & Da Cooper as well as Southern California composers Texu Kim, Madelyn Byrne, Aaron Alter
The Sunday, May 1 program at Leonard Patton‘s hip new venue The Jazz Lounge, The Jazz Lounge
will feature eclectic works by three Southern California based composers: Maile Pacumio, Jordan Kuspa & Nakul Tiruviluamala, as well as songs from NWEAMO’s Artistic Director Joseph Martin Waters border breaking fantasy-opera “The Magic Hummingbird - El Colibrí Mágico”. The concert is a warm-up for the full production of the fantasy-opera in New York City this summer at the prestigious midtown night club The Cutting Room.
The Magic Hummingbird at The Cutting Room, NYC
Bringing Waters’ songs to life, at Nweamo and New York City, are an eclectic group of singers including the amazing, versatile Leonard Patton, whose three octave range, from Baritone through Countertenor, is put to full use in Waters’ score. Breakout soprano Karen Garcia, who has been working with Waters over the last six years in the germination and development of the work. Ms. Garcia has a luminous upper range that blooms above the staff. She performs the role of Apollonia, a mystical creature, half human and half plant in the opera. At the Nweamo concert she will be performing “We“ based on the sacred poetry of Mexican curandera Maria Sabina.
Joining in duets with Patton will be Cat Rojo, performing the role of Clara, based on St. Clara from the Saint Francis mythology upon which the opera is loosely based. Patton plays Franklin, tortured and talented friend and sometimes frenemy of Saint Francis. The opera is about breaking borders, set equally in Tijuana and San Diego, and between a group of refugees and a white separatist cult, led by an insane, Trump-like sociopath The Preacher.
The full fantasy opera is available as a Podcast in 6 episodes:
Podcast: "The Magic Hummingbird"
Several of the NWEAMO May 1 selections are available as videos and singles:
Saint Children
We
The Border (Featuring Leonard Patton & Rebecca Jade) (The May 1 concert will feature Leonard Patton and Cat Rojo)
Underground (Featuring Leonard Patton & Rebecca Jade). (The May 1 concert will feature Leonard Patton and Cat Rojo)
05/08/2021
https://youtu.be/lz7x6o-MPGY
Julie Arlene Spencer composer/vocalist/
videographer Avi Béla Spencer-Blume composer/videographer/producer
EXTR^CLUSION” is a story of breaking out of the “Seclusion of hours and the inversion of days (that) sing still and slowly” during these pandemic times, and being carried “forward in a common wakelit haze” seemingly randomly, “but not really.”
EXTRACLUSION Julie Spencer Avi Béla Spencer Blume Music and Film by Julie Spencer & Avi Béla Spencer-BlumeJulie: composition, vocals, videography, poemAvi: composition, mixing, videography, productionAdditio...
05/05/2021
It was a great assortment of fascinating pieces!
Online NWEAMO 2021 Festival Offers Bountiful Array of Music Styles and Visual Invention – San Diego Story Online NWEAMO 2021 Festival Offers Bountiful Array of Music Styles and Visual Invention By Ken Herman | May 4, 2021 | 0 Prior to the current pandemic, a typical NWEAMO new music festival would unspool leisurely over a three-day weekend at San Diego State University. Each concert in Smith Recital Hal...
05/02/2021
NWEAMO 2021 is now open for all visitors. A Youtube playlist plays all the pieces in order, or you can pick & choose. an artist page gives more information on the participants. Enjoy
http://nweamo.org/
New West Evolving Arts and Music Organism Founded in 1998, NWEAMO is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to the promotion of music that involves the creative use of computers and electronics, and to the development of a diverse community of electro-acoustic composers and performers throughout the world. We embrace all styles of electron...
04/29/2021
May 2nd from 1 to 6.
Don’t miss it!
If you do, visit later because it will still be there.
Virtual concerts are persistent!
Compassion: The New Colossus NWEAMO is seeking music videos of all types to feature in our 2021 curated festival. Submission deadline is April 1. The festival will take place May 1 – 3. All…
04/28/2021
To tune in, go to the NWEAMO homepage at 1 PM Sunday, May 2.
The festival lineup continues to grow in diversity and strength. This year Raya Yarbrough, who you may know as the singer of the theme song from The Hobbit and Outlander, and who is also a wonderful composer, is featured. We also have Tavo Alcoser, who is Tijuana-San Diego based singer and bandleader, and a wide collection of stuff... all over the map as is our mission. Other works range from virtuosic to ambient to wildly eclectic and impossible to characterize. Half are animated or fully produced videos, half are performances.
There are 23 works on the festival curated from artists the world over, organized into 3 sets.
The 3 sets are asynchronous, but will be released at 1 PM, 2:30 PM and 4 PM Sunday, May 2 to give a sense of agency.
You can experience the pieces one by one, or explore them as three boxes of chocolates: sampling, taking a bite, putting it back, coming back later, trying something and moving on, or coming back multiple times. Most range in duration from 3 minutes to 10 minutes, a few go a little longer. The final set is reserved for extended works, and only contains a couple!.
The theme this year is a response to the tumultuous divisions that have seared our cultural fabric since prehistory and which were fanned by unscrupulous sociopaths to intense levels during the past four years. We are now in a period of calm and it is up to us to do whatever we can to heal by reaching out, forgiving, accepting and letting go. This is the central work of artists in a healthy culture and we are privileged to be part of this work. The theme is “Compassion: The New Colossus”, named after the poem that rests at the Statue of Liberty.
We will have an after party on zoom at 6 PM. The link will be published later this afternoon. Everybody is invited.
To tune in, go to the NWEAMO homepage at 1 PM Sunday, May 2
http://nweamo.org/
After the openings all three sets will remain available. There will be an zoom after party at 6 PM open to the public.
Founded in 1998, the mission of NWEAMO is to present recent time-based art that represents the widest possible spectrum of genre, culture and place. The goal is to break down barriers and introduce the curious to explore new concepts, bring diverse artists together, and recognize emerging ideas…
NWEAMO 2021 Trailer NWEAMO 2021 begins May 2nd at 1 PM Pacific Standard time.The second segment drops at 2:30. The 3rd extended play portion starts at 4 PM. A zoom party will fo...
04/13/2021
“Technicallly” the submission period is closed.
BUT, if you’ve got something please fill out the short little form and send us the information on it! Let the world hear your creativity!
Www.NWEAMO.org
New West Evolving Arts and Music Organism Founded in 1998, NWEAMO is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to the promotion of music that involves the creative use of computers and electronics, and to the development of a diverse community of electro-acoustic composers and performers throughout the world. We embrace all styles of electron...
01/20/2021
Consider submitting your works to NWEAMO 2021.
NWEAMO 2021 Call For Works | NEW WEST EVOLVING ARTS & MUSIC ORGANISM NWEAMO 2021 Call for Works from john young on Vimeo. Compassion: The New Colossus NWEAMO is seeking music videos of all types to feature in our 2021 curated festival. Please send links via email form below. Submission deadline is April 1. The festival will take place May 1 – 3. All styles and genr...
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