July 9, 2010
11 Ideas Airs on WHMT TvFILM (repeat - see June 27)
10:00pm
WMHT TV, New York Capital Region
Digital 17.2 and TimeWarner Channel 200
Regular series airs every Sunday evening
TvFILM at www.wmht.org

Watch full episodes online at www.wmht.org/program and see extended filmmaker interviews on the TvFILM blog.

June 27, 2010
11 Ideas Airs on WHMT TvFILM
WMHT TvFILM Season 2 begins June 27
June 27
10:30pm
WMHT TV, New York Capital Region
(Series airs every Sunday evening)
TvFILM at www.wmht.org

The Capital Region's WMHT TvFILM series launches its 2nd season this Sunday, June 27 at 10:30pm. This season's opening episode will feature Chase's collaborative film 11 Ideas (About People and Stuff) with an interview and commentary by Chase about the making of the film, its concept and its future. More about 11 Ideas here.

WMHT's TvFILM looks at what filmmaking is happening in the region. Guided by host Brandon Bethmann, TvFILM features short films to documentaries to animated shorts, and leaves no cinematic stone unturned.

WMHT and TvFILM will be airing extended filmmaker interviews on the TvFILM blog.

May 30, 2010
60x60 Dance "Order of Magnitude" Mix
10:59-21:00
FoFA Gallery
Concordia University
1515 Catherine Street West
EV 1.715
Montreal, Québec,
Canada, H3G 2W1
www.voxnovus.com

"Vox Novus is proud to present ten hours of music, dance, and video, featuring one-minute works by 600 composers, the most ever to be programmed in a single show." Chase's Broken Spaces and Paper Construction No. 1a have been featured works in Robert Voisey's 60x60 2008 International Mix played around the globe. In 2007 Broken Spaces was selected as one of the works for dance at the World Financial Center's Winter Garden Dance Collaboration. Broken Spaces appears again with dance in this unique day-long mix of 600 micro-pieces with improvised movement.

May 16, 2010
Reel Preview of Ngoma Lungundu
6:30 PM
Arts Center of the Capital Region
265 River St.
Troy, NY 12180
518/273-0552
www.artscenteronline.org

As part of the Supernature group show vernissage, Ngoma Lungundu - 3rd Movement will be shown in the Blackbox Theater, 6:30pm.

April 30-May 2, 2010
International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place
Towson University
Baltimore, MD
www.towson.edu

Chase will attend the IASESP 2010 conference to talk on a new paper on medial space and artistic practices entitled Unboxing Infinity. Details TBA.

April 17, 2010 Lovely Isomers: Ngoma Lungundu 8pm EMPAC Theater Troy, NY Tickets free! empac.rpi.edu Chase reprises Ngoma Lungundu (Voice That Thunders) with new interactive video and extended musical passages. The concert will pair with Anna Lindemann's Bird Brain. Ngoma Lungundu for solo laptop in 4-channel sound with interactive video [blog about it] premiered in 2008 at the Janaceck Academie in the Czech Republic and has since toured and been released on iTunes (Get it now). This revisitation expands the studio recording with new interactive video and expanded musical passages. A preview of Lovely Isomers is available here. See below for another performance of Chase's work at EMPAC.

April 17, 2010
RPI Orchestra and Pauline Oliveros' Tintinnabulate
give World Premiere of Uuq
2pm
EMPAC Main Stage
Troy, NY
Tickets free!
empac.rpi.edu
www.myspace.com/tintinnabulate

The RPI Orchestra teams for the first time ever with Pauline Oliveros' improvising research ensemble Tintinnabulate to premiere Chase's Uuq, an extravaganza of noise, energy and madness!

October 3, 2009 2-9PM Re:Soundings' A Festival of Firsts The Brick Elephant 12 Emily Street Valley Falls NY 12185 Admission by donation Potluck dinner from 7 to 8PM Chase performs at 3pm on the festival roster www.resoundings.net

Chase gives the World Premiere of the newly revised Songs of the Thirsty Sword Part I (For Lucky Mosko) as part of Re:Soundings' A Festival of Firsts at the Brick Elephant in Valley Falls New York.

A Festival of Firsts is a music and multi-media extravaganza featuring 8 premiere performances facilitated by Damian of Kalvos and Damian and composer Mary Jane Leach. Chase continues his exploration of of dynamic, spontaneously composed visual narratives and music with the haunting Songs of the Thirsty Sword Part I (For Lucky Mosko) for solo piano with interactive electronics and video. Preview the piece here (scroll to the bottom of the page).

OUT NOW, EXCLUSIVELY AS MP3 DOWNLOAD!*
Twin Recording Release:
Ngoma Lungundu (voice that thunders): the Velvet Watt Vol. 1
Blue Sky Over Buchenwald: Original Music Soundtrack

The Summer brings two new studio albums from Nicholas Chase, the first full-length commercial releases since 1993. These feature Chase's most recent musical explorations, brand new material premiered and toured last fall in Europe and the US.

Ngoma Lungundu (Voice That Thunders), features the studio premiere of the epic 4-movement title track, originally created for live, multi-channel electronics, mastered here for home stereo and iPod, and comes alongside Seventh Sense, the half-hour opus for bass and electronics featuring a tour-de-force performance by contrabassist Cristin Wildbolz. Seventh Sense was originally released on STV/Unit records in Switzerland on 5.1 Surround Sound DVD, but is available in the US for the first time in this specially re-mastered stereo edition - and includes 3 minutes of material not issued on the Swiss release! Get it now on iTunes!

Also appearing this Summer, Blue Sky Over Buchenwald, the electronic soundtrack to the Alternativer Medienpreis nominated documentary Wie kann es so schoen in Buchenwald sein? by Gabriele Rabe. The recording features original tracks produced for the documentary as well as a selection of originally composed and performed acoustic tracks that provided the basis for the electronic soundtrack. Get it now on iTunes!

Ngoma Lungundu (Voice That Thunders) and Blue Sky Over Buchenwald will be digitally available internationally on iTunes other online music stores. (*Hardcopy CD of these recordings is NOT available - purchase your music online, download it now, play it instantly!)

April 4, 2009
60x60 2008 International Mix
Outside the Box New Music Festival
Southern Illinois University, Carbondalel, Illinois
www.voxnovus.com

60x60 is annual project including 60 works from 60 different composers where each work is 60 seconds (or less) in length. Featured amongst the 2008 International Mix will be Chase's Broken Spaces recently premiered with dance (see below) and Paper Construction No. 1a.

March 11, 2009
+60x60 at the EARFEST
8pm
SUNY Stony Brook
www.voxnovus.com

+60x60 features the 60x60 2008 International Mix plus composers from SUNY Stony Brook in Long Island, NY. 60x60 is an annual project made up of 60 works from 60 different composers where each work is 60 seconds (or less) in length. Featured in the 2008 International Mix will be Chase's Broken Spaces recently premiered with dance (see below) and Paper Construction No. 1a. 60x60 is produced by Robert Voisey.

January 22, 2009
60x60 2008 International Mix
8pm
United Christian Fellowship
313 Thurstin Ave.
Bowling Green, OH
www.voxnovus.com

BGSU Electronic Music Studios presents 60x60 2008 International Mix. 60x60 is an annual project made up of 60 works from 60 different composers where each work is 60 seconds (or less) in length. Featured in the 2008 International Mix will be Chase's Broken Spaces recently premiered with dance (see below) and Paper Construction No. 1a. 60x60 is produced by Robert Voisey.