Stop. Watch. Listen. Transform.
Event Information
Description
Stop Watch Listen Transform - is a launch event introducing the community to The Universe of MEND™ (Click Here for Trailer)
Presented by the New York Association of Realtors and Managers (NYARM), at the General Society Library, this event showcases executive producer Mardi-Ellen Hill in a Composer’s Now Festival featured presentation and live demonstration of the epic tale’s core mechanic - a musical encode / decode technology.
The live analog performance by violinist Marissa Licata will transport the audience into the digital mainframe, blurring the lines between fiction and reality, introducing the audience to a new epic adventure - the Universe of MEND™.
Following the performance will be a discussion with a panel of experts on the topics uncovered during the presentation.
Come for lunch. Unlock a thrilling puzzle for the digital age. Panelists are Rosalind Murphy (moderator), John Kiehl, Jose Martinez, Paris Cheffer, Peter Lurie and Davie R. Iannone Jr.
The Composers Now Festival celebrates living composers, the diversity of their voices and the significance of their musical contributions to our society. Composers Now is a project partner of The Fund for the City of New York. Composers Now gratefully acknowledges the support of the ASCAP Foundation, the BMI Foundation, the Cheswatyr Foundation, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Organizer Mardi-Ellen Hill
Organizer of Stop. Watch. Listen. Transform.
Mardi-Ellen Hill is a groundbreaker in the world of business synergy and integration. She has won international acclaim in multiple fields.
In 2002, she was the recipient of an award from the American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) for her work as a pioneer in the world of music invention and application in multiple markets.
In 2000, as a professor at LIU, Ms. Hill was selected to represent the University in Washington D.C., at the definitive educational/literacy conference on "Intellectual Property and Distance Learning", sponsored by the PEW Charitable Trust. She also developed/executive produced a Leadership Symposium where she introduced Kenneth K. Fisher, Brooklyn Representative to the New York City Council, as the keynote speaker.
In 1995, Banque Nationale de Paris tapped her technical talents as business analyst by sending her to review and oversee their systems dissemination at the International Monetary Fund Conference in Washington, D.C.
During the 90's Ms. Hill received numerous other grants and awards as composer/writer, including two awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Annette Kade Fulbright Grant, Works in Process at the Guggenheim Series, She received several international commissions, including being the first woman commissioned by the Group Musiques de Vivantes in Lyon France, the French Consulate, the Canadian Consulate General and the Royal Bank of Canada. She has served as judge and panelist of several international competitions, and state and federal arts programs, including the Brooklyn Arts Council.
Ms. Hill has had front page stories and other articles written about her in The Brooklyn Heights Press, The Music Connoisseur, Newsday, Artspeak, and The Boston Herald, and she has been interviewed on National Television and is a WSJ Woman of Note.
A graduate of Bard College, Ms. Hill's graduate work was completed at Longy School of Music. She taught at New York University, LIU, Marymount Manhattan College, and she has lectured at Bard College, Mount Holyoke College, State University at Stoneybrook and other universities.
Currently, she is completing a book/game series as a business vehicle; and a legal thriller, "Star Child", about a child's DNA code musically encrypted in a city plan, as a new entertainment franchise model that presents an innovative platform for copyright in a wireless world.
