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Philip Mantione’s music has been described as “austerely impressive” (Paris Transatlantic Monthly Nov. 2000) and Innova Recordings calls his Sinusoidal Tendencies, “a searing study in form and color.” He has written music for multimedia performance, experimental video, computer interactive projects, sound installations, and acoustic pieces for orchestra, string quartet, brass quintet, woodwind quintet, piano trio and other chamber ensembles. In 2006, he will complete a new piece called "B", commissioned by Thomas Buckner for baritone voice, string quartet, percussion and computer to be performed in New York City and San Francisco. In 2005, the S.E.M. Ensemble, conducted by Petr Kotik, performed his Traffic for strings at Merkin Hall in NYC and the Willow Place Auditorium in Brooklyn Heights. AcGtr, a computer music piece was included in the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art (2005) at the University of Minnesota. His chamber piece, Assemblage, was broadcast live on KUSC from the Bing Theater at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A computer music piece called Five was included in the Medi@terra Festival 2001 (microMuseum), a traveling exhibition beginning in Greece, moving throughout the Balkans and ending in Germany. His recordings have been heard internationally on new music radio and the web including: Feedback Monitor (Toronto, Canada), Future Static (Bellingham, WA), Brain Ticket Death (Dearborn, MI), Martian Gardens (Amherst, MA), No Other Radio Network (Pacifica)(Berkeley, CA) Inner Space (Croatia), Sonar Map (Seattle), Vast Field (not to scale) (Pacific Grove, CA), FOLDOVER (Oberlin, OH), The Ways and Mistaken Pathways (Lithuania), Delusions and Furies (Dearborn, MI), Fresh Ears (Minneapolis,MN) art@radio (Baltimore, MD),Virtual Concert Hall (Aspen, CO), Difficult Listening (Perth, Australia) and on-line at the Canadian Electro-acoustic Community’s web site (CEC). In 2000, his Sinusoidal Tendencies was released by Innova Recordings on the Sonic Circuits VIII compilation CD of electro-acoustic music. The CD-ROM version of Sinusoidal Tendencies was included in the European Media Arts Festival (Osnabrück, Germany), Immedia 1901 Festival at Michigan University (US) and is included in a CD-ROM Salon organized by Foro Artistico in Hannover, Germany.
He has collaborated with visual artist Alysse Stepanian on numerous projects including performance, installation and experimental video. L.P. Streitfeld, art critic and writer for the New York Times and The Advocate & Greenwich Times, has described their work as “a wry and profound commentary on the conflicted state of America's emotions.“ In 2006, they created two new installations at The Islip Art Museum in New York and Imagine Gallery in Beijing, China. They have exhibited internationally including recent screenings at the Imagine Gallery Residency in Beijing; Art in General, Here, Dixon Place, Void, Ocularis, and Columbia University in NYC; Most Significant Bytes 2000 (Ohio); The Shy Anne Sound and Video Festival (Washington); Sonic Circuits Circus (Minnesota); Fig and Jan Baum Galleries (LA); The Leeds International Film Festival (UK), HAY-ART Cultural Center and The Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (Armenia); on-line at wigged.net; the SEAMUS (Society for Electro-acoustic Music in the US) 2001 Festival at LSU; and the Paris/Berlin International Meetings organized by roARatorio (2000 and 2003). In 2001, their multimedia work liveReal, with live performance, video, computer animation and computer music was broadcast live on MNN (Manhattan Neighborhood Network cable TV) and on the web from DCTV (Downtown Community Television) in NYC. In 2004 they created an interactive installation called Drainage, with video, sound, sculpture and gravity-driven mechanics, which was shown from May to September at Collaborative Concepts in Beacon, New York. A recent work, Utility of Obsession: All Things Orange, an installation which kinetic sculpture and video was shown at the Branchville Gallery Outdoor Project Space in Ridgefield, CT. They have recently adopted the name BOX 1035 and have relinquished their physical address in the US in favor of a post office box. They will be doing international residencies in Europe, Asia and the US for the next several years.
SELECTED RADIO SHOWS TOP
1996 - 2008
- My Mind Is Red (WRCT; Pittsburgh, PA)
- Feedback Monitor (Toronto, CA)
- Future Static (KUGS; Bellingham, WA)
- Brain Ticket Death (WFHR; Dearborn, MI)
- Martian Gardens (WMUA; Amherst, MA)
- No Other Radio Network (Pacifica)(WPFA; Berkeley, CA)
- Inner Space (Zagreb, Croatia)
- FOLDOVER (WOBC; Oberlin, Ohio)
- Sonar Map (Seattle)
- Sonic Stratosphere (Seattle)
- Vast Field (not to scale) (CA)
- The Ways and Mistaken Pathways (Lithuania)
- Delusions and Furie (WFHR; Dearborn, MI)
- Fresh Ears (MN)
- art@radio (MD)
- Virtual Concert Hall (Aspen, CO)
- Difficult Listening (Australia)
- Kalvos&Damian (NH)
- Repeat After Me (CA)
- KUSC simulcast from the Bing Theater, LA County Museum of Art
INTERVIEWS/ARTICLES/DISCUSSIONS TOP
2006
- City Weekend; Editorial Team; “Top 5: Check out City Weekend’s Top 5 Art Exhibits”(“Don’t be afraid, be ready” listed as the #1 exhibit); Vol 6, Issue 17, No. 12; June 22-July 5, 2006, Pg. E5
- Beijing This Month; Charles J. Dukes; “Shadow Series No. 1”; Issue 151; June 2006, Pg. 48
2005
- The Advocate & Greenwich Time; L.P. Streitfeld; “Americans and security: Wanting our cake and eating it”; September 18, 2005, Pg. D3 - review
2004
- Chronogram; Jennifer Wai-Lan Huang; “Drained by Desire”; August 4, 2004, Pg. 207, illus.
- The Putnam County News and Recorder ; “Collaborative Concepts presents in the Concept Room, An Installation with Gravity-driven Mechanics, Sound and Video”; July 14, 2004; on-line archive.
- The New York Times (Westchester Edition); Benjamin Genocchio; “A Backup Plan With Fine Results”; May 30, 2004, Pg. 8; Arts and Entertainment; illus.
1999
- American Composers
Forum; NYU; Invitational video presentation and discussion.
- FYI
(quarterly publication of NYFA; Fall 1999, Volume 15, No. 3) Interviewed
by senior editor, William R. Kaizen regarding Mantione's role as co-founder
of MANY and the approach this group takes towards multimedia and interdisciplinary
arts.
1997
- LA Loft District; Interviewed as
a Los Angeles loft district resident artist in this documentary video
by director Maya Koyo
COMPUTER MUSIC TOP
2006
2005
- Collage Party; based on samples recorded at a Collage Party in Brooklyn
2004
2003
2002
- Crowd (Scattered Music CD107)
- Big Band; based on samples of the big band music of
James Marentic
2001
- Dorr; computer music included on The Door Project CD (Alta 02 CD)
- motel (Scattered Music CD106)
- Equal Form (Scattered Music CD105)
2000
1999
- Radiator; Canadian Electro-acoustic Community (CEC) web site
- Random 26 (Scattered Music 102)
FESTIVALS/EVENTS TOP
2008
- Santa Fe International Festival of Electroacoustic Music;
College of Santa Fe,
Santa Fe, NM
2005
- Spark Festival of Electronic Music
and Art; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- Interpretations 2004/05; Merkin Hall, NYC
2004
- Symposium on the Future (NYC); Chelsea Art Museum
- Zèppelin
2004 (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
- Spain)
- Thailand New Media Art Festival (Thailand)
- DIGIT Festival (Narrowsburg, NY)
2003
- Paris-Berlin International Meetings (FR/GE)
-
Foro Artistico CD-ROM Salon (Hannover, GE)
2001
- Medi@terra Festival 2001 (microMuseum) traveling exhibition
- Greece, Balkans, Germany
-
Seamus Festival 2001 (Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the
US)
- The Parking Lot (art event in Los Angeles, CA)
- European Media Arts Festival (Germany)
- Immedia1901 (University of Michigan)
- Contemporary Music IV (Northwestern University)
- Sonic Circuits (Los Angeles Harbor College)
2000
- Most Significant Bytes 2000 (OH)
- Shy Anne Sound and Video Festival (WA)
- Sonic Circuits VIII (MN)
- The Leeds International Film Festival (UK)
- Paris/Berlin International Meetings (FR/GE)
1999
- Sonic Circuits Circus International Festival of Electronic Music
and Art (MN)
- OnetoMANYthree; multimedia event at Dixon Place (NYC)
1998
- TwoMANYtwo; multimedia event at DCTV (NYC)
- OneMANY; multimedia event at Greenwich House, Hayden Auditorium (NYC)
- Swiss Institute (NYC)
INSTALLATIONS TOP
2007
- Glitter, glamour and glory: HUNDE VERBOTEN; a BOX 1035 installation with kinetic sculpture, video and sound
created with Alysse Stepanian. January/February at Kunsthaus Tacheles in Berlin, Germany (audio excerpt)
2006
- Don't be afraid, be ready; a BOX 1035 installation with kinetic sculpture, video and sound
created with Alysse Stepanian. June at Imagine Gallery, Beijing, China (audio excerpt)
- ...until you slip; a BOX 1035 installation with kinetic sculpture, video and sound
created with Alysse Stepanian. June/July at the Islip Art Museum, New York
- Fierce; a BOX 1035 installation with video and sound
created with Alysse Stepanian. Imagine Gallery Residency; Beijing, China
(audio excerpt)
2005
- Utility of Obsession: All Things Orange; a collaborative installation with kinetic sculpture and video
created with Alysse Stepanian. August 26 through October 9 at Branchville Gallery, CT.
2004
- Drainage; an interactive
installation created in collaboration with Alysse Stepanian, with video,
sound, sculpture, and gravity-driven mechanics.
(audio)
2001
- White, pink, regular and unknown; Sound installation in One
Night Stand, Farmer's Daughter Motel,
Los Angeles, CA
- video car; video installation in The Parking Lot Show,
Los Angeles, CA
1998
- Fierce; Armenian Center for Contemporary Art, Yerevan, Armenia; computer music for slide projection and video (audio excerpt)
- Music for Corridor; Factory Place Gallery, LA; Site-specific sound installation.
MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE TOP
2001
- liveReal; a multimedia event in NYC broadcast live on television and the web
1999
- auditionherefreebeer; a collaborative performance piece with Alysse Stepanian aboard the Staten Island Ferry as part of cremolata flotage, a show curated by Sue Spaid (audio excerpt)
- Ten or So; Dixon Place and Columbia University, NYC; computer music for a collaborative work with Steve Cohn (shakuhachi), Doug Geers (computer music), and Alysse Stepanian (video)
- scourge.org; Dixon Place, NYC; sound for a collaborative multimedia performance piece
by Alysse Stepanian and Sue Spaid
1998
- E Pluribus, Pluribus; Renee Weiler Concert Hall, NYC; music for five musicians and tape
- Music for Typist; Hayden Auditorium (Greenwich House) NYC; interactive computer music for typist with projected visuals
- Out of Line; Hayden Auditorium (Greenwich House) NYC; Music for Alysse Stepanian’s multimedia performance piece.
- Steps; DCTV, NYC; music for alto sax, video tape and computer music. Premiered by Styliani Tartsinis (alto sax) with video Alysse Stepanian.
- 50/50; DCTV and Here, NYC; Computer music for slide projection;
invitational performance through Composers Collaborative Inc.
The following videos were collaborations with Alysse Stepanian. Screenings include: The Paris-Berlin International Meetings, The Leeds International Film Festival, Sonic Circuits, Shy Anne Sound and Video Festival, Paris/Berlin International Meetings, Most Significant Bytes 2000, Mississippi State University, wigged.net, Jan Baum and Fig Galleries (Los Angeles), Void and Ocularis (NYC)
2003
2001
2000
1999
1998
- 72 Hours: Acrobat’s Little Leap; DCTV and Art in General, NYC;
soundtrack for video by Alysse Stepanian
1997
- LA Loft District; Excerpts from Assemblage used in this documentary by Maya Koyo
CD-ROMs TOP
2003
- Relativity;
Thailand New Media Art Festival (Thailand)
2000
- Sinusoidal Tendencies;
European Media Arts Festival (Germany),
Immedia1901 (University of Michigan),
Foro Artistico CD-ROM Salon (Hannover, GE)
ACOUSTIC MUSIC CONCERTS TOP
2005
- Traffic for strings; Merkin Hall (NYC), performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble and conducted by Petr Kotik
- Traffic for strings; Willow Place Auditorium (Brooklyn Heights, NY), composers workshop concert with the S.E.M. Ensemble and conductor, Petr Kotik
2004
- Traffic, for brass quintet,
New Music Ensemble (CSULA), Los Angeles, CA
1999
- Random 25; Dixon Place, NYC; string quartet performed by the
Kaleidoscope Ensemble
1996
- Ochlokratia for orchestra; CSULA, LA; conducted by Hannah
Park and performed by members of the CSULA Orchestra
- Assemblage; LA County Museum of Art; music for flute,
clarinet, string quartet and harp
- Draw; Pacific Contemporary Music Center Annual Festival;
Los Angeles, CA;
performed by the Whole Bean Woodwind Quintet
- Monads; Composers Forum; CSULA, Los Angeles; music for
baritone voice, piano, two percussionists and five actors
1995
- Brass Quartet; Pacific Composers’ Forum Concert;
Los Angeles, CA; performance by the Crown City Brass Quintet.
- Random 7; Movements in Music; Los Angeles; music for piano
trio; concert featuring composers living in downtown, LA.
1994
- Random 2 and Absolute; Downtown Lives 94’,
and Downtown Lives 93’; Los Angeles;
electronic music for two art events sponsored by DADA (Downtown Artists Development Association)
ARTIST RESIDENCIES TOP
2006 - 2007
COMMISSIONS TOP
2005 - 2006
- "B" for baritone voice, string quartet, percussion and computer; Commissioned by Thomas Buckner for performances in New York City and San Francisco.
ARTS COMMUNITY TOP
1997 - 2005
- MANY
(Musicians and Artists in New York): Co-founder
of this artist-run nonprofit multimedia performing and presenting organization
which focuses on the creation and presentation of contemporary music,
art performance, experimental video, spoken word and dance. Co-produced
several events in the NYC area in which the work of over fifty artists
has been presented.
1996 - 1997
- Pacific Composers Forum; Assistant Producer for several concerts
for this Los Angeles
based group.
1996
- Factory Place Gallery; Volunteer work for this artist-run
gallery in Los Angeles including role as Exhibition Coordinator for
the Chalk show, curated by Sue Spaid.
LIST OF WORK TOP
2007
- Glitter, glamour and glory: HUNDE VERBOTEN; a BOX 1035 installation with Alysse Stepanian
(audio excerpt)
2006
- B; music for baritone voice, string quartet, percussion and computer
- Don't be afraid, be ready; a BOX 1035 installation with Alysse Stepanian (audio excerpt)
- ...until you slip; a BOX 1035 installation with Alysse Stepanian
- Solution to Pollution; computer music based on voice samples
2005
- Utility of Obsession: All Things Orange; a collaborative installation with Alysse Stepanian
- Collage Party; computer music
2004
- Hex; music for orchestra
- Drainage; a collaborative installation with A. Stepanian
- Drainage Music; music
for the Drainage installation
2003
2002
- big band; computer music based on big band samples recorded by James Marentic
- crowd; collection of computer music
2001
2000
1999
- auditionherefreebeer; sound-track for video by A. Stepanian
- based on a collaborative performance of the same name (audio excerpt)
- Random 26; computer music
- Ten or So; collaboration with Doug Geers, Alysse Stepanian,
Steve Cohn
- The Field; video of the same name by A. Stepanian
- scourge.org; music for art performance
- Random 25; for string quartet
- Radiator; computer music
1998
- 72 Hours: Acrobat’s Little Leap; sound-track for
video by A. Stepanian
- Steps; for alto sax and video tape
- 50/50; computer music with slides
- Music for Typist; interactive for typist and computer
- Out of Line; for tape, violin, viola, cello, shakuhachi,
hichriki, and shofar
(written for Alysse Stepanian’s, Out of Line, a multi-media art
performance)
1997
1996
1995
- XVII e Carrousel; for string quartet
- Monads; for baritone voice, piano, percussion I and II,
and five actors
- Draw; for woodwind quintet
1994
- Brass Quartet
- Random 7; for piano trio
- Random 2; electronic music
1993
- One Around, One Across; for flute and clarinet
- Duet for Violin and Cello
1992
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