VENUE: The Austrian Cultural Forum NY, Czech Center NY, Le Poisson Rouge
DATES: THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2 - SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 5
[http://www.argentomusic.org/movingsounds/|Moving Sounds] is a 4-day festival of music, visual media and aesthetic dialogue, produced jointly by the Austrian Cultural Forum, the music information center austria (mica), the Czech Center, and the Argento New Music Project. Moving Sounds will feature a world premiere performance of American composer Edmund Campion. This performance will be the first-ever concerto for Yamaha's new avant-guard electronic keyboard invention, the AvantGrand. On Saturday, September 4th, the ACFNY will host a one-day symposium where the participating composers, artists, and curators will engage in a dialogue with theorists and practitioners from American universities to discuss the phenomenon of "sound" within the context of the presented works.