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Jakub Ciupinski, creator of Flame Keepers talks about the exploration of time and the intersection of music and technology during a pandemic.
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About the Artist
Jakub Ciupinski is a Polish composer living in New York City. Although his music is often associated with electronics and interactive performances, he has written numerous pieces for traditional acoustic forces, varying in scope from solo miniatures to symphonic works. Jakub has collaborated with Metropolis Ensemble since 2009. More »
What if a concert could go on forever? This fall, we're launching a new digital installation conceived by Jakub Ciupinski.
“Give these young performers points for novelty. “
What makes “Brownstone,” as an evening-long event and as an individual piece of music, different is “that individual audience members have near total control over how they experience and hear the work,”
“Give these young performers points for novelty. “
“The Phillips Collection had an artsy, New York vibe on Sunday when the Metropolis Ensemble took over the place, literally.”
Theremin and violin will take the stage together at the new music venue National Sawdust with Jakub Ciupinski and Kristin Lee.
Jonah Reider is the culinary half of the duo behind “Brownstone,” a food- and music-based pop-up billed as “an experiential treasure-hunt of sound, taste and color.”
In the Upper East Side townhouse that the American Irish Historical Society calls home, a violinist ambled down the stairs while tuning her instrument and a harpist improvised with electronic sounds that came from the walls.
This site-specific electro-acoustic composition living art installation by Jakub Ciupinski will not only be performed this weekend, but it will be performed by Metropolis Ensemble through the historic, Victorian-era Kimball House at the Capitol Center for the Arts.
The New York-based ensemble, with roots in Maine, will perform at the Portland mansion on Oct. 3.
Morning Tale from Metropolis Ensemble on Vimeo.
Encore performance of Jakub Ciupinski’s Morning Tale (2009), performed on September 16, 2009 at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City. Featuring Jenny Lin on piano and electronics. Presented by the Metropolis Ensemble led by conductor Andrew Cyr. Video by Gareth Paul Cox, Kyrié Cox, and Jim Larson; sound by Ryan Streber.
Metropolis Ensemble presents a seductive vision of classical music’s future: young violin virtuosos and guys in jeans playing pieces on laptops.
Hallucinations is being recorded this week at LPR by Q2, the online station of WQXR.
Metropolis composer Jakub Ciupinski introduces an audience to his interactive electronic system using two theremins and a laptop at a private members event on December 11, 2009 at the apartment of Metropolis board member June Wu, with the shimmering holiday lights of the Upper West Side serving as backdrop. Photo by Adi Shniderman.
What if music could be composed and performed simultaneously? Jakub Ciupiński and Cristina Spinei introduce their new project.
Audience members get a front-row seat to performances by Metropolis artists at Brownstone in Clinton Hill.
At moments like this, new music sheds its academic strictures and finds its way back to the era of dinnertime entertainments.