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Qubit’s 2024 Innovator Lab artist-in-residence is the Zurich-based American composer Rama Gottfried. We’re teaming up with the PinkNoise ensemble, spending a week at CPR to workshop a variety of new pieces that involve video, puppetry, and costumes – promising to encompass the true spirit of a Halloween event. Qubit artistic director Alec Hall will join Rama to perform in several pieces, with costume design by Sally Rumble.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Rama Gottfried's recent works aim to increase our sensitivity to the web of relations that connect humans and the other animate and inanimate entities that surround us. His pieces are conceived as scenographic worlds — bodies with voices that move and interact in physical and immaterial environments, constructed from the medias of acoustic and electronic instrumental performance, puppet-, object-, material-theater, live-cinema, and the site-specific performance context. Brought to life through the collaborative actions of human and nonhuman performers, the works attempt to absorb the audience and physical space, subtly expanding our awareness of detail. Born in New York in 1977, Rama grew up in Burlington, VT, where he began instrumental and electronic music training at an early age, and pursued visual art studies before shifting focus to music performance and composition. After moving to NYC in 2001, he joined Ensemble Pamplemousse, collaborating with the group from 2003-2013 on developing approaches to the merging of sound, installation, and performance arts. Rama's works have been featured at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, MaerzMusik, SPOR, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, MATA, Klangwerkstatt, rainy days, and Ultima festivals, among others, and he has created sound installations for the Berliner Congress Center, Complice, Mino Washi Paper Museum, Stadtbad-Wedding, and the Pacific Basin Building.
PinkNoise is a New York-based chamber ensemble dedicated to musical improvisation and compositions in acoustic and electronic mediums. Their upcoming season includes appearances at the Kontrapunkt series in St. Gallen, Switzerland and as the Ensemble-in-Residence at the 2025 Music Biennale Zagreb in Croatia.
Qubit is a contemporary music and performance art initiative founded in 2010. Based in NYC, its principal mission is to foster the development of emergent voices by working with composers whose work has yet to reach wider audiences. We place a particular emphasis on the exploration of new technologies in performance practice, sonic aesthetics, and public engagement.