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Jane Wang


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Jane Wang is a composer, music improvisor, and plays the double bass, toy piano, piano, cello, and various other musical instruments. She is also an installation artist, performance artist, pedestrian movement artist and a member of the Mobius Artists Group. Born in Oxford, England she now resides in Massachusetts. She participated in the ~chromatik d zabu.tmp vs. Vox Novus project and is a member of CDZ. She has also been selected for the 60x60 project. Jane Wang composed and performed music for Hanne Tierney’s How Wang-Fo Was Saved and Ms. Tierney’s Man, the Flower of All Flesh The design team, including Jane Wang, were nominated for the 2005 Henry Hewes Design Award. Jane Wang composed and performed solo bass pieces for Hanne Tierney. Performances have been presented at the Wanas Exhibition in Sweden, the International Festival of Puppet Theatre, BAM Next Wave Festival, the Sculpture Center and five myles in New York City, the Beograd International Theatre Festival in Yugoslavia, and Ms. Tierney’s Obie-award winning Salome (with Sabir Mateen) at five myles and the International Festival of Puppet Theatre. She composed the music for Danny Swain's 3000 Miles to Blue and Renita Martin's Five Bottles In A Six Pack at The Theater Offensive (Boston), Cherry Lane Theatre (NYC) and Jumpstart (San Antonio).

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In 2009, Ms. Wang began her collaboration with choreographer Nathan Andary starting with Intervals which they created and performed as a duo at Boston University, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and including Going Viral at Dance Place and in 2014, The Weight of Square at the Somerville Dancing in the Streets Festival.

In 2013, Ms. Wang was nominated for a Drama Desk Award Outstanding Music in a Play - Hanne Tierney's Strange Tales of Liaozhai at HERE Arts Center.

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Articles and reviews

  • Strange Tales of Liaozhai at HERE (Hanne Tierney.) September 11, 2012 The 22 Magazine
  • Feats of abandon and ambiguity By Karen Campbell, Globe Correspondent, April 8, 2008 Boston Globe
  • Art in Review; 'Man, the Flower of All Flesh' by Holland Cotter Published: May 6, 2005, New York Times
  • Hanne Tierney's String Theory By Alexis Sottile Published: October 30th 2001, The Village Voice
  • Discography

  • "And Then You Heard Tales" - Ryo Hashizume - Hao Records 428 - 1997
  • "In A Stranger’s Hand" - Ryo Hashizume - Hao Records 429 - 1998
  • "Somewhere In The Universe" - Takeshi Asai - Hao Records 430 - 1999
  • "Invisible" - Osamu Moriyama - Hao Records 431 - 2000
  • "The Sabir Mateen Quartet: Other Places Other Spaces" - 2008 Nu Bop Records CD 05
  • "Numero Uno" - 60x60 (2006-2007) - Vox Novus
  • "Vol XXIV - From The Outskirts of The Milky Way" - 2007 CDZ
  • "Vol XXII - Funky Industrial Cartoons" - 2006 CDZ
  • "Vol XVIII - The New Voice of Chromatic Disgruntlement" - 2006 CDZ and Vox Novus
  • "First Time Out - Waterfront Park String Band" - 2004
  • "More Than A Dream - Soul Station Live in Baltimore" - 2004
  • "Legend of the Sea" - SOLARIS - Luna Records - 2003
  • "Bethlehem COUNTERPOINT" - Aardvark Jazz Orchestra - 2002 - Aardmuse Recordings CD102
  • Sabir Mateen: Secrets of When - Bleu Regard CT 1961 - 2001
  • "Twoubadou Sek" - Gifrants - Gaeta Records - 2001
  • "Invention Box" - Binary System - Atavistic ALP127CD - 2001
  • "Vattel Cherry’s bassrespänse" 2001 - Owlsong Records - OWL2001-
  • "The Already and The Not Yet" - James Falzone - 2000
  • "Live on Boston Radio WGBH: Eric In the Evening" - Who She Be - promo CD - 1999
  • "Slow Dance At The Asylum" - Molly Flannery Quintet - 1999
  • "Serenade by Gifrants" - Gifrants - Gaeta Records 3323 - 1996
  • "Laundry for the Nineties" - The Lydian People’s Front - Lydian1 - 1996
  • References

    Jane Wang Wikipedia