Jane Wang is a composer, music improvisor, and plays the

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

, toy piano,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

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, and various other

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. She is also an

installation artist Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often calle ...

performance artist Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

, pedestrian movement artist and a former member of the Mobius Artists Group and part of the collaborative record company Hao Records She participated in the ~chromatik d zabu.tmp vs.

Vox Novus Vox Novus is a New York City-based organization consisting of composers, musicians, and music enthusiasts which presents and supports new music. Vox Novus was founded by Robert Voisey to promote contemporary composers in 2000. This organizatio ...

project and is a member of CDZ. She has also been selected for the

60x60 60x60 is a collection of 60 electroacoustic or acousmatic works from 60 different composers/artists, each work 60 seconds or less in duration. 60x60 project showcases sixty new works, each sixty seconds or less, by sixty composers in a continuous ...

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 Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal ...

. Jane Wang composed and performed solo bass pieces for Hanne Tierney including in 2019, ''18 Stanzas Sung to a Tatar Whistle'' at FiveMyles Performances have been presented at the

Wanas Exhibition Saint Wanas (, ) was a Coptic child martyr born to poor parents from Thebes (now Luxor), Egypt. He is venerated as the patron saint of lost things. Life and Martyrdom St Wanas was an only son and a servant in the church. He lived during a period ...

in Sweden, the

International Festival of Puppet Theatre International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The T ...

, BAM Next Wave Festival, the Sculpture Center and FiveMyles Gallery in

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the U ...

, the Beograd International Theatre Festival in Yugoslavia, and Ms. Tierney's

Obie The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards originally given by ''The Village Voice'' newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City. In September 2014, the awards were jointly presented and administered with the A ...

-award-winning Salome (with

Sabir Mateen Sabir Mateen (born April 16, 1951) is an American musician and composer from Philadelphia. His musical style is primarily avant-garde jazz. He plays tenor and alto saxophone, B♭ and alto clarinet, and flute. As a young man, Mateen was orig ...

) 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 The Cherry Lane Theatre is the oldest continuously running off-Broadway theater in New York City. The theater is located at 38 Commerce Street between Barrow and Bedford Streets in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, N ...

(NYC) and Jump-Start (San Antonio). 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 Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original c ...

Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is a performing arts complex on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. The facility, which opened in 2001, houses six performance venues; the UM School of Music; and the UMD School of The ...

and the

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (formally known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the Potom ...

, and including ''Going Viral'' at Dance Place, in 2014, ''The Weight of Square'' at the Somerville Dancing in the Streets Festival and in 2017, ''Or...'' at Judson Church in NYC and a showing at the 2017 International Dance Day Festival in Lebanon. In 2013, Ms. Wang was nominated for a ''

Drama Desk Award The Drama Desk Award is an annual prize recognizing excellence in New York theatre. First bestowed in 1955 as the Vernon Rice Award, the prize initially honored Off-Broadway productions, as well as Off-off-Broadway, and those in the vicinity. Fo ...

Outstanding Music in a Play'' - Hanne Tierney's Strange Tales of Liaozhai at

HERE Arts Center HERE Arts Center is a New York City off-off-Broadway presenting house, founded in 1993. Their location includes two stages specializing in hybrid performance, dance, theater, multi-media and puppetry in addition to art exhibition space and a cafe ...

. In 2018, Ms. Wang curated the one month set of live performances, ''dadamobile an
dadabloge
a blog in homage to Tristan Tzara's DADAGLOBE''. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she joined the NowNet Arts Hub, an international virtual contemporary arts performance group conducted by Sarah Weaver. She also continues to participate in the annual Maudslay State Park Outdoor Sculpture Exhibitions with her wire sculptures.

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 ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

''Art in Review; 'Man, the Flower of All Flesh' ''
by

Holland Cotter Holland Cotter is an art critic with ''The New York Times''. In 2009, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Life and work Cotter was born in Connecticut and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He earned his A.B. from Harvard College in 1970, ...

Published: May 6, 2005,

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''Hanne Tierney's String Theory''
By Alexis Sottile Published: October 30, 2001,

The Village Voice ''The Village Voice'' is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newspaper, alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf (publisher), Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock, and Norman Mailer, th ...

''Collaboration and Performance: an Interview''
with Jane Wang B
Chelsea Coon
Published November 29, 2018

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) -

*"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

*"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

External links

Jane Wang Hao Records
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