THE EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA FOUNDATION CELEBRATES 35TH ANNIVERSARY WITH VIRTUAL REALITY AND MUSIC

The ASA Art and Technology announced today that on Sunday, December 14, 2003, at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation, the composer Emanuel D. M. Pimenta will perform an unexpected, three overlapped concerts to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Foundation.

NEW YORK, NY - The ASA Art and Technology announced today that on Sunday, December 14, 2003, at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation, located at 224 Centre Street, in New York City, the composer Emanuel D. M. Pimenta - who has created music for Merce Cunningham since the 1980's - will perform an unexpected, three overlapped concerts. Pimenta's concert is part of a series of events to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation.

The Experimental Intermedia Foundation (EI), based in New York City, was created in 1968 by Elaine Summers to provide organizational support for artists working in intermedia forms. Throughout its history, EI has produced more than one thousand events in its New York lofts. EI has also produced many intermedia events in other cities in the U.S. and other countries. EI now produces twenty events each season; manages its compact disc label, XI; develops and implements international projects in collaboration with similar organizations in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and Portugal among other countries.

During the concert celebration, Pimenta will play a piece entitled "BHLEG", a name extracted from a pre-historical word that is the root of the word "flute". Composed in 2004, it is a concert for transversal flute, digital systems and virtual reality. Also to be performed is "SETI", which, composed in 2002, is music of extraterrestrial sounds captured by astronomical observatories and "YARNAM", which was composed in 2001. Each of the pieces also include computer art projection.

During the week long event taking place from December 15 to 21, 2003, the Experimental Intermedia Foundation will host a series of concerts by Kaffe Matthews, Peter Zummo, Tom Hamilton, Mary Jane Leach, David Behrman, Thomas Buckner, Ralph Samuelson, Eric Barsness, Okkyung Lee and Phill Niblock. For more information about the EI anniversary celebration or the composer Emanuel D. M. Pimenta, please contact Mr. Pimenta at +351 213873251 or email edmp@asa-art.com.

About the Composer

Emanuel Pimenta is a composer who has developed music and Virtual reality. He began to collaborate with John Cage and Merce Cunningham in the 80s. Since them he has received several prizes. With 17 compact discs, his works, books, and projects have been present and integrated the collections of important organizations like the Biennial of Venice, Triennial of Milan, Biennial of Sao Paulo, the Contemporary Art Museum of Rovereto and Trento, the ARS AEVI Contemporary Art Museum and the Durini Collection among many others.

Emanuel Pimenta has lived between New York City, Lisbon and Milan.