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Artist: Douglas Henderson |
| Exhibition: silence |
| Date: January 31 2007 - February 24 2007 |
Curator: Galen Joseph-Hunter and Dylan J. Gauthier
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Bio:
Douglas Henderson's current work is focused on multi-channel electroacoustic sound installations, sound-producing sculptural installations, and scores for modern dance. He has been composing and performing in and around New York City for more than 20 years with a variety of musicians, including Elliott Sharp, John Zorn, Zeena Parkins, Ikue Mori and Guy Yarden. He has composed music for numerous modern dance pieces including works by choreographers Jeremy Nelson, David Zambrano, Jennifer Monson, Mia Lawrence, Nina Martin and Tim Feldmann, as well as for Ricochet Dance (London, UK) Phoenix Dance Theatre (Leeds, UK) and Wildadance, Copenhagen DK. He has toured extensively in the U.S. and in Europe performing original work. He studied music composition and theory with Elie Yarden, Joan Tower, Milton Babbitt, Paul Lansky, and J.K. Randall. Henderson received his Doctorate in Music Composition from Princeton University, his Bachelor's degree in Music from Bard College and a classical recording certificate from the Aspen Music Institute. He recently chaired the Sonic Arts Department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and conducts master classes in electroacoustic composition, sound design, multi-channel audio and recording arts.
Henderson is a 2006 and 2002 Artist in Residence at Harvestworks NYC, a 2004 Dance Theater Workshop ARM Fellow, and a guest artist for Cabinet Magazine (NYC) and for Resonance Magazine (London). He received a 2004/2005 Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Program Award for work with choreographer Luis Lara Malvacías, and the New York Dance and Performance Award ("Bessie") for his work on Kriyas (1998). His performances and installations at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Performance Space 122, The Kitchen, Diapason Gallery and the Dance Theater Workshop have enjoyed the support of grants from Meet The Composer, the Mary Flagler Cary Trust, The Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, Creative Time, the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York State Council for the Arts. Henderson has been included in festivals from New Music America in New York, to the Seoul International Festival of Computer Music in South Korea. Douglas Henderson also designs and builds experimental instruments, such as the double-necked and 8-string guitars employed by Elliott Sharp and the electric harps employed by Zeena Parkins.
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