FESTIVAL AT THE FARM ARTIST AND PROGRAM INFORMATION
113 (One Thirteen), a collection of composers and performers of new music based in the Twin Cities, curates concerts, seminars, and master classes throughout the United States and Europe. Through ambitious programming, community building, educational outreach, and emphasis on extensive interaction between composers and performers, 113 provides a platform for musicians pursuing bold, personalized artistic visions, and helps them to transmit those visions as directly and honestly as possible to a receptive audience, unfettered by university politics, market pressures, or established conventions.
Kyle Hutchins is a visionary experimental performance artist, composer, improviser, and educator forging new sonic frontiers with his saxophone, voice, cutting-edge technology, and an arsenal of unconventional instruments. His work has been hailed as "epic" (Jazz Times). "gripping" (Star Tribune), and "undoubtedly brave" (Issues Magazine). He has served on the faculty of Virginia Tech since 2016.
even if I must go is inspired by this poem by A. R. Ammons death is so persuasive, can't life be: it is fashionable now to mean nothing, not to exist because meaning doesn't hold, and we do not exist forever; this is forever, we are now in it: our eyes see through the round time of nearly all of being, our minds reach out and in ten billion years: we are in so much forever, we pay it no mind, we'd rather think of today's shopping or next week's day off: but we will not be in forever forever, that is the dropout: is it too much to be in forever a while: dead we are out of time and forever, both: I want to get around to where I can say I'm glad I was here, even if I must go: I want to believe that the possibility given me to be here was not a betrayal or trap or hoax but a trial of the possibility -A. R. Ammons, Garbage 
Pamela Z, composer
Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist working primarily with voice, live electronics, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live looping, she processes her voice to create complex sonic layers. Her solo works combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, digital processing, and wireless MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. She has been commissioned to compose scores for dance, theatre, film, and chamber ensembles including Kronos Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, the Living Earth Show, Eighth Blackbird, the Bang on a Can All Stars, Julia Bullock with SF Symphony, and the LA Philharmonic New Music Group. Her interdisciplinary performances have been presented at venues including The Kitchen (NY), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), REDCAT (LA), and MCA (Chicago), and her installations have been presented at such exhibition spaces as MoMA (NY), the Whitney (NY), Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), and the Krannert (IL). Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals including Bang on a Can (NY), Interlink (Japan), Other Minds (San Francisco), La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Dak’Art (Sénégal) and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Festival (Wuppertal). She’s a recipient of numerous awards including the Rome Prize, Berlin Prize, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MIT McDermott Award, United States Artists, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Guggenheim, Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, Herb Alpert Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder. www.pamelaz.com 
Todd Harper, composer/performer
Todd Harper wears many hats: composer, pianist, orator, combo creator, and most recently, as a visual artist. He is now combining these elements into creating a new notational system which he calls “Visual/Intuitive scores”. These scores also function as art and are displayed in art shows. Currently, Todd has three main combos functioning now: his “Euglena groups” which can be called a “eco-chamber” collective; the free funk/jazz quintet Troux Bloux with Matty Harris, Ivan Cunningham (saxophones), Tarek Abdelqader (drums) and Erik Fratzke (bass); and The Eco Boyz, an avant-folk combo with painter/mandola player Joseph Maurer, and special guests. Todd has curated and co-curated many musical events, such as Keys Please (piano stories of three generations) with Carei Thomas and Paul Cantrell; the Art of Sweat Rhythm Festival at Patrick’s Cabaret; and Midwest tours of Musical Ecology with renowned NYC flautist Jun Miyake. As a composer, Todd has written for The Temporal Mechanics Percussion Union of Arkansas City Kansas; baritone Dr. Michael Jorgensen for the Nobel Conference concert at Gustavus Adolphus College; music for video installation by Andrea Thoma in Stuttgart, Germany, and many others. Since 2020, Todd has been studying watercolors, learning the basics, and incorporating them in his music. His work to date includes a solo show (Being Outside) at the Rum River Library in Anoka, a group show in the Summer ’22 Pop up Show at Landmark Center Gallery, group shows “All about Birds” and “Wild about Water” at Rum River Art Center, and a group show at Pablo Center in Eau Claire, WI. Todd has another solo show in September 2023 at Paradise Art Center in Faribault, MN. The key points of Todd’s artistic and musical experiences are collaboration, connection, and celebration of the natural/human world, in all its complexity. All of this with a dash of surprise and humor. 
Oxheart Farm
Oxheart Farm is located in Hager City, Wisconsin. They raise a diverse mix of vegetables, flowers, mushrooms, pastured pork, beef, milk, yogurt and eggs for sale on their farm through Community Supported Agriculture Warm Fields Farm
Warm Fields Farm provides healthful and fresh produce to the local community and nearby marketplace. Organic, free range, and GMO-free. 
Rising Sun Farm and Orchard
Rising Sun Farm and Orchard is a certified organic, diversified family farm located in the St. Croix River Valley of Western Wisconsin. They take pride in providing their community with healthy, nutrient dense food as well as being good stewards to the land. 
Barringer Family Farms is a third generation family farm located in the verdant Trimbelle River valley in western Wisconsin. They grow vegetables, hay, CBD hemp products, present arts and education events, and host community celebrations.
Barringer Family Farms centers the production of healthy and delicious food in a sustainable manner that nourishes our customers, improves our land, and connects with community. Their food can be purchased at local farmer's markets, through a CSA, online, or at the farm. |
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