WHERE AND WHEN:
October 10, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Tenri Cultural Center, 43A West 13th Street, Manhattan
CD Launch Conccert by Violinist Mari Kimura
Running Time: 70 minutes. Critics are invited.
Tickets: $15 general admission; $25 with signed CD. Box office: Smarttix, www.smarttix.com, (212) 868-4444.
Artist's Website: www.marikimura.com

NEW YORK, August 27 -- Mari Kimura (www.marikimura.com), the revolutionary musician and composer who has invented new sonic worlds for the violin, will perform "The World Below G and Beyond: Works for Violin Subharmonics and Interactive Computer" on October 10, 2010 at 7:00 PM at Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street. This solo concert will feature compositions to be released on her upcoming CD of the same name, which will be issued in October by Mutable Music (www.mutablemusic.com).

The New York Times has written, "Ms. Kimura is a viruoso playing at the edge" and All Music Guide has described her as "A plugged-in Paganini for the Digital Age." New Music Conoisseur asserted, "Mari Kimura is to the violin what perhaps Henry Cowell and later John Cage were to the piano in the 1920's and 30's--taking it into the future with extended techniques and sounds." Ms. Kimura is also well known for developing the extended technique of "Subharmonics"--playing notes below the open-G string without lowering the tuning. This has put her at the forefront of violinists who are extending the technical and expressive capabilities of the instrument. She is also a pioneer in the field of interactive computer music and has earned international acclaim as a soloist and recitalist in both standard and contemporary repertoire.

Immediately preceding this concert, Ms. Kimura will complete a three-month residency at IRCAM in Paris where, as a 2010 Music Composition Fellow, her work has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation. She will give her "exit" presentation September 2, demonstrating new techniques and various compositional and performance applications using Augmented Violin system in collaboration with the Real Time Musical Interaction Team at IRCAM.  The program will include previews of her new works for violin including "Canon Élastique," "Pédalez-Pédalez," "Viomax" (integrating Omax and Augmented Violin), and her new work in progress, a violin/cello duo with Joel Krosnick, the cellist of the Juilliard Quartet. 

Mari Kimura's forthcoming CD, "The World Below G and Beyond: Works for Violin Subharmonics and Interactive Computer" (October, 2010 on Mutable Music) is devoted entirely to her own compositions. As the title suggests, it focuses primarily on works using Subharmonics, including the premiere recording of "ALT: Three Movements for violin solo," the piece with which she introduced Subharmonics in concert halls for the first time at a New York solo debut recital in 1994.

Subharmonics has drawn international attention from both the musical and scientific communities. It has been mentioned in Physics and Physics Today, Kimura has demonstrated the technique at a meeting of Acoustical Society of America and more than a dozen articles about Subharmonics have appeared in musical and scientific journals, including several authored by Kimura herself. The technique is used prominently in "Schemes," a work for violin and orchestra composed for her by Jean-Claude Risset, which will be Ms. Kimura's next worldwide touring project. The work was commissioned by the Suntory Music Foundation and debuted in 2007 in Tokyo.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
For Mari Kimura's forward to the album and program notes, including a first-person account on how she discovered and developed the techniques used in Subharmonics, please visit: www.jsnyc.com/season/mari_album.htm.

For an extended biography of Mari Kimura, please visit: www.jsnyc.com/mari_bio.htm.

Audio files of Mari Kimura’s subharmonics can be found on her website, http://www.marikimura.com.

Her Paris blog, "Extended Violin Diary," describing her activities at IRCAM this summer, is found at: http://subharmonics.blogspot.com.

For an article on "Schemes" in All About Strings Magazine, including downloads of sheet music, visit: http://www.stringsmagazine.com/article/default.aspx?articleid=24421

PRESS CLIPPINGS ON MARI KIMURA:
"Mari Kimura is the the violin what perhaps Henry Cowell and later John Cage were to the piano in the 1920's and 30's--taking it into the future with extended techniques and sounds." (Barry L. Cohen, New Music Connoisseur)

"Ms. Kimura created a series of musical worlds at the border of the technically possible. The major promise of the recital was to reveal Ms. Kimura's 'revolutionary bowing technique' that allowed her to sound notes a full octave below the instrument's G-string, reaching into the realm of the viola and the cello. This was an astonishing effect....Ms. Kimura is a viruoso playing at the edge." (Edward Rothstein, New York Times)

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NOTES TO REVIEWERS AND EDITORS:
Captioned, high-resolution photos of Mari Kimura are available for download from the Picassa Gallery of Jonathan Slaff (Press Representative): http://picasaweb.google.com/jslaff/jsnyc#

CRITICS ARE INVITED to the launch concert October 10, "The World Below G and Beyond: Works for Violin Subharmonics and Interactive Computer."

CDs will be available about October 1.

PRESS CONTACT: Jonathan Slaff, js@jsnyc.com, (212) 924-0496.