Dust Bowl by Russell Platt
Now a new Brooklyn space, National Sawdust, gets into the game, opening in Williamsburg on Oct. 1. Unlike its recent predecessors, it will operate proudly as a nonprofit, which will allow the creative process to come first.
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National Sawdust Opens in Williamsburg Oct. 1 by Max Jaeger
This opening night will be all crescendo. National Sawdust, the five-years-in-the-making Williamsburg music venue that aims to support emerging artists, will open Oct. 1 with a series of performances that get louder and louder, the venue’s director said.
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Can This Start-up With Cellos Shake Up Classical Music's Business-As-Usual? by Justin Davidson
On a perfect summer night in 2012, the keening of a clarinet ricocheted off the century-old walls of a roofless sawdust factory and plumed out into the streets of Williamsburg. It was the first audible intimation of an unlikely dream: a tiny high-tech clubhouse where composers, musical adventurers, and classical-music performers could make as much noise as they wanted 24 hours a day.
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National Sawdust Prepares for an Oct. 1 Opening by Nate Chinen
National Sawdust, a nonprofit performance space, recording facility and creative hub in the shell of a century-old sawdust factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, opens on Oct. 1. It will be a significant addition to the musical landscape in New York — at least for a broadly defined constellation of artists working in the zone where compositional form, improvisational technique and global or technological savvy find ways to converge.
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Massive Experimental Music Hub National Sawdust to Open in Williamsburg by Carey Dunne
A century-old sawdust factory in Williamsburg has been transformed into National Sawdust, a 13,000-square-foot music venue that will open its doors on October 1st. From the sound of the inaugural lineup, the place could become something of the BAM of Williamsburg.
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Artists in Conversation - Paola Prestini by Helga Davis
Composer, visionary, and mentor Paola Prestini not only fills all of the aforementioned roles but is also founder of her own production company, VisionIntoArt (VIA), which provides opportunities to young composers as well as established performers in the new music world. Prestini also serves as the creative director of the soon-to-open Original Music Workshop (OMW) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Paola Prestini: Following Her Vision by Frank Oteri
Paola Prestini combines wild imagination and controlled practicality on an almost molecular level—it’s as if both are fused together in her DNA. Whether she’s talking about her own multimedia operas or VisionIntoArt, the interdisciplinary arts production company she co-founded 15 years ago, she tends to think big but she always manages to make it happen. Paola Prestini combines wild imagination and controlled practicality on an almost molecular level—it’s as if both are fused together in her DNA.
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Paola Prestini | Founder and Composer
Compositions by Paola Prestini have been called “radiant…amorously evocative.” by The New York Times. Paola Prestini is a composer, director and a co-founder of VisionIntoArt, an interdisciplinary collective/production company that has created over fifty multimedia productions worldwide and garnered the title “Best of 2009″ in classical and opera performances by TimeOut NY. VisionIntoArt has been called “always intriguing and frequently beguiling…” by the New York Times. Paola Prestini’s 2009 Tzadik release Body Maps has been featured on WQXR and Q2 and showcases new music’s great soloists.
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