AMY X NEUBURG & CORY SMYTHE December 13, 2011

Avant-Cabaret Electronic songstress Amy X Neuberg performs with special guest Cory Smythe on piano and electronics, in a concert of duets and solo works at Brooklyn’s hottest new venue.

The evening will consist of new compositions for voice, piano and live electronics, improvisational duets, and solos from Amy and Cory -- including Amy’s spirited ‘avant-cabaret’ songs for voice and drum-controlled looping, and works from Cory’s recent release “Pluripotent” for piano with live processing.
Amy and Cory met in June 2011 where they performed with the venerable Present Music Ensemble in Milwaukee, and Cory premiered Amy’s “When” for live-looped piano and voice -- a fully scored song in which both performers are recorded in real time, then instantly played back and layered in interlocking parts. Amy’s evocative, haunting “When,” which uses few words to sum up nearly a whole life, was paired with her 2001 voice and piano piece “What he Was” -- a clever, tongue-twisting wordplay exercise that uses many words to say very little.
At Roulette Amy and Cory will recreate this duet of songs as well as present new compositions for voice, piano and electronics -- partly composed and partly improvised, and created by both artists expressly for this concert. In addition, Amy will perform several of her classic “avant-cabaret” solo songs for voice with electronic drums and live looping/processing, and Cory will perform selections from his recently released “Pluripotent” recording of solo piano works with electronic processing, about which composer Jason Moran said: “The music is captivating, and hands down one of the best solo recordings I’ve ever heard.”