marina rosenfeld bio:

turntablist, artist and composer marina rosenfeld is based in new york city. her music includes large-scale, multi-player performances involving custom playing techniques, graphic scores, visual elements, costumes and improvisation by both musicians and non-musicians; electro-acoustic sound installations for multiple speakers; and solo and ensemble compositions involving acoustic instruments, turntables and electronics. on turntables marina rosenfeld plays exclusively her own custom acetate records ('dub plates'); in the multi-part work "fragment opera," she juxtaposed turntable compositions with video projections and 3-d photographic images describing a series of imaginary landscapes (see charhizma cd theforestthegardenthesea). marina is also a frequent performer in the improvised music scene in new york, as well as europe. her music has been commissioned and/or presented by numerous galleries, museums and theaters, including by the whitney museum of american art, artists space, creative time, the yerba buena center for the arts, mills college, los angeles contemporary exhibitions, and by many festivals, including donaueschingen, ars electronica, musikprotokoll, pro musica nova, maerz musik, mutek, the wire's adventures in modern music, among others.

marina rosenfeld is the creator of the "sheer frost orchestra," a 17-woman electric-guitar performance, which had many versions between 1995 and 2002 (see charhizma cd "drop, hop, drone, scratch, slide & a for anything"), and the recent "emotional orchestra," a stage work for expanded electric string orchestra, which was premiered in december 2003 at deitch projects in new york city. other recent projects include a commission by the kitchen house blend ensemble to create "bone canopy/tine palace", for 11 players a 1 dancer (premiered november '03); a public sound installation for the reopening of new york's winter garden after 9/11, called "cephissus landscape"; and original sound installations for the whitney biennial exhibition ('02) and new york's diapason gallery. she was a member of the "turntable hell" tour in 2002, sponsored by the london musicians collective.

in 2004 with dieter kovacic, marina premiered bernhard lang's composition "dw8," for 2 turntablists and orchestra, with munich's symphonieorchester des bayrischen rundfunks (col legno, koeln). marina has also recorded with christian marclay, toshio kajiawara and dj olive (djtrio, asphodel, sf); with tim barnes and toshio kajiwara (a water's wake, quakebasket, ny); and has collaborated with many others, including ikue mori, kaffe matthews, alan licht, nels cline, lee ranaldo, martin tetreault, martin ng, otomo yoshihide, philip jeck, tony conrad, kim gordon, christof kurzmann, elliot sharp, norbert möslang, dieb 13, raz mesinai, sonic youth, and many others. performers in her sheer frost and emotional orchestras have included numerous artists and musicians, including laurie anderson, kembra pfahler (aka 'voluptuous horror of karen black'), kaffe matthews, o.blaat, okkyung lee, chiara giovando, 'honeychild', 'shoplifter', jutta koether, josephine meckseper, jacqueline humphries, jennifer baron, and many others. marina's music also appears on the recent compilations melatonin (room 40, melbourne), mono: new york soundtracks remixed (human highway records, tokyo), among others. a dvd of her surround-sound works, from harvestworks/tellus, will come out in 2005.

in december 2004, marina will be performing live with merce cunningham dance company--in an ensemble with ikue mori, george lewis and john king--at new york's joyce theater (15/12/04-19/12/04).