The Fuse Factory | Columbus, Ohio

At our May Frequency Fridays event, taking place on May 6 2011 at the Wild Goose Creative we are delighted to present Rocco do Pietro, Anthony Vine, and Kevin Holland. Doors open 8pm; admission $5. Our Frequency Fridays series is supported by a generous grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council.

About the performers:

Rocco Di Pietro was born in Buffalo, New York in 1949. He studied composition and piano with Hans Hagen and Lukas Foss in Buffalo and at the Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood. He studied in New York and Darmstadt with Bruno Maderna and was a freelance composer for twenty years before earning degrees from SUNY Buffalo and Vermont College.He became an interdisciplinary adjunct professor teaching in prisons and on many college campuses throughout New York, Ohio, and California. He toured California prisons as artist-in-residence and conducted four years of interviews in Chicago with Pierre Boulez. The resulting book, DIALOGUES WITH BOULEZ, was recently published by Scarecrow Press. He composed Prison Dirges I for the Kronos String Quartet. Di Pietro’s music has been performed by many musicians in venues throughout the world, and his work has developed on several fronts. Sound text radio works have developed simultaneously with his teaching at Columbus State College of electronic music and other courses in the Humanities. These works have been broadcast on radio stations in Seattle, Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, New York and around Europe, including Naples, Rome, Vienna, Prague, and Budapest. For more information about Rocco, please visit his web site.

Anthony Vine was born in Warren, Ohio in 1988. He currently lives in Columbus, Ohio where he is enrolled in the bachelor’s program in music composition at The Ohio State University, studying with Thomas Wells and Marc Ainger. At Ohio State, Anthony has received numerous awards, scholarships, and honors for his work as a composer. Most recently, Anthony has received the OSU Symphony Orchestra residency in 2010 – 2011. Along with his compositional studies, Anthony is the associate manager of the OSU New Music Collective where he is active as a performer, improviser, and conductor. For more information, please visit http://soundcloud.com/anthony-vine and http://anthonyvine.blogspot.com/.

Kevin Holland is a multi-intrumentalist, electronic musician, amateur programmer, and DIY enthusiast. He received his degree in Music from OSU in 1999, and has spent over a decade in the electronic and computer music fields. A guitarist of 22 years, he co-owns a teaching studio with his wife in Grandview, Ohio. Under the moniker “sineqube”, he has written over 500 electronic works, produced three studio albums, and released 6 music applications for the Macintosh platform. His recent work combines original software, live looping, homemade electronic instruments, generative systems, and audience interactivity. His latest album, Qbloop Selections I, is similar to his recent live performances. Albums are available through iTunes, Amazon, and CDBaby. Kevin has been releasing software built with Max/MSP for almost a decade. Much of it freeware, he believes that budget should not be a constraint on artists’ creativity, and enjoys providing interesting, quirky tools for the computer musician. More information can be found at his website: www.sineqube.com.