"An Ellington fiend who likes to get his computerized space-dub on, the trombonist has lots of sound sculpture in him. His rather dramatic art music is both texturally rich and compositionally engaging."
- The Village Voice
Brett Sroka is a composer, trombonist and electronic/computer musician based in Brooklyn, NY. He studied at Manhattan School of Music, and has performed at BAMcafe, the Sonic Circuits Festival, the Guggenheim Museum and the Teatro Fondamenta Nueve in Venice, Italy. His first record, "Hearsay" from the Fresh Sound-New Talent label, featured Jason Moran, Eric Harland and Avishai Cohen. Since then he's led the minimal, electro-acoustic trio Ergo on three releases, most recently "If Not Inertia" from Cuneiform records, with guest guitarists Mary Halvorson and Sebastian Krueger. He co-leads a noise/drone duo called Cherubim, and has scored a variety of films that have appeared at festivals in Maine, Texas, Paris, Hamburg and Beijing. Sroka has recieved grants from the Queens Council on the Arts and has twice been a fellow at I-Park Foundation. In 2013 he will develop his first sound installation at the Institute of Electronic Arts at Alfred University in New York State, and be a resident at the Nida Art Colony in Lithuania.
UPCOMING EVENTS
February 4-8, 2013
Institute of Electronic Arts
Alfred University
Alfred, NY
December 6-9
Music Factory
EYEBEAM Art + Technology Center
540 W. 21st St.
NYC, NY
Sunday, December 2, 3-7pm
Daniel Reyes Llinas
Drom
Composers Concordance Festival
85 Avenue A, NYC
NYC, NY
$15
Wednesday, November 14, 8pm
Cherubim
Vaudeville Park
26 Bushwick Ave
Brooklyn, NY
Friday, November 2, 830pm
Cherubim
The Red Room
425 E. 31st St.
Baltimore, MD
ALSO: He Can Jog, Audrey Chen
$6
Thursday, October 25, 915pm
Kaoru Watanabe-flutes, Brett Sroka-laptop
Shapshifter Lab
18 Whitwell Place (btwn 1st & Carroll, Park Slope)
Brooklyn, NY (map)
$5
Saturday, October 20
12000 Trees
FREECANDY
905 Atlantic Ave, 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY (map)
Saturday, September 29 8pm
Ergo
The Sonic Circuits Festival
Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H Street NE, Washington DC, 20002
ALSO: Otomo Yoshihide
Thursday, September 27 530pm
Ergo performance/masterclass
University of Pennsylvania
Music Building rm 101
Philadelphia, PA
Sunday, August 12, 12pm
I-Park Open Studios
East Haddam, CT
Wednesday, July 18, 830pm
Ergo
SEEDS::Brooklyn
617 Vanderbilt Ave (between Bergen & St Marks) - ground floor
Brooklyn, NY
ALSO: Ryan Keberle
Friday July 6, 8pm
Cherubim (Yuko Shimizu and Brett Sroka)
La Sala
58 N. 3rd st
(Williamsburg)Brooklyn, NY
Friday June 15, 8pm
Outer Dark from choreographer Jessica Patz with music by Brett Sroka
La Guardia Performing Arts Center - Little Theater
LIC, Queens
7 train to 33rd street (it's only 1 stop past QBPlaza)
FREE!!!
Phone: 718-482-5151
email/rsvp: lpac@lagcc.cuny.edu
Sunday May 27, 7pm
Jackson Moore - the Language of Moss
Holidays For The Future
16 Beaver Street, 4th floor
New York, NY
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