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The "Author Project" by the band One Ring Zero

November 3rd at the World Financial Center's Winter Garden

THE AUTHOR PROJECT
by the band One Ring Zero
Featuring authors Paul Auster, Rick Moody, and Siri Hustvedt

World Financial Center Winter Garden
Wednesday, November 3rd at 7PM
Battery Park City ››› Directions
Admission FREE

» New Sounds Live 2004-2005 Concert Season

» New Sounds Live Concert Broadcasts on New Sounds One Ring Zero press photoOne Ring Zero presents music from their “Author Project,” a bit of literary and musical mischief featuring lyrics written for the band by Jonathan Lethem, Dave Eggars, Margaret Atwood, and Daniel Handler, a.k.a. Lemony Snickett. ORZ’s unusual instruments, claviola and toy piano, Theremin and kitty litter, help create a kind of alt-klezmer-circus music that sounds as if it’s been invaded by interlopers from the indie rock record bins. The band varies in size but will be at least a quintet for this occasion, making sweet and haunting eclectic “‘uncool’ music in the coolest possible way,” according to author Rick Moody. Rick Moody, Paul Auster, and Siri Hustvedt will be performing with the band at the World Financial Center.

About One Ring Zero
One Ring Zero is Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp. Based in New York City, they perform regularly at venues around the city including The Knitting Factory, Joe's Pub, Barbès, and Tonic. They have also performed at music venues and cultural institutions in the U.S. and Canada including the Whitney Museum of Art, Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park, Central Park Summer Stage with George Plimpton and Paul Auster, Book Expo America in Chicago, the Calgary Folk Festival, and Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre. One Ring Zero has shared billings with Cibo Matto; Medeski, Martin, and Wood; The Magnetic Fields; and Thurston Moore among others. One Ring Zero has received grants from The Virginia commission for the Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts. The music has been featured in dance concerts, films and animations, fashion shows, and NPR programming including This American Life, Fresh Air, and The Next Big Thing. Their most recent album, As Smart As We Are, a book-cum-CD, features songs with lyrics contributed by such authors as Jonathan Lethem, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Dave Eggers, A.M. Homes, Rick Moody, Neil Gaiman, and Denis Johnson.

Paul Auster photoAbout Paul Auster
Paul Auster, born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1947. He is the author of nine novels, including The New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, The Invention of Solitude, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Leviathan, Mr Vertigo Timbuktu, and The Book of Illusions. His screenplay Smoke and Blue in the Face was published in April 1996 to coincide with the release of the film, and in 1999 Faber published the screenplay Lulu on the Bridge. His poetry and essays have appeared in various magazines, and The Art of Hunger (a collection of essays, interviews and prose) and his Selected Poems were published in November 1998. He also edited the best-selling True Tales of American Life, the NPR National Story Project anthology. He is married with two children and lives in Brooklyn.

Rick MoodyAbout Rick Moody
Rick Moody is the author of Demonology, Purple America, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven, The Ice Storm and Garden State, which won the Pushcart Press Editors' Book Award. He is a past recipient of the Addison Metcalf Award and a Guggenheim fellowship. Moody has contributed fiction and essays to most major publications and has been widely anthologized. He lives in New York.

Rick MoodyAbout Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt was born and raised in Minnesota, and her work has been published in The Paris Review and Fiction, The Best American Short Stories 1990 and 1991. She is also the author of a book of poetry and three novels, The Blind Fold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl and most recently, What I Loved. Siri Hustvedt lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and teenage daughter and is more or less working on her next novel.
Additional Resources:
» One Ring Zero’s website
» New Sounds Live 2004-2005 Concert Season
» World Financial Center



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