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  • Either/OR: Transpositions - Music by Braxton, Obadike   map

    Sunday, December 8, 2024 - 8:00pm

    Transpositions: Music by A. Braxton, M. & K. Obadike
    Sunday, December 8, 2024
    8:00 PM 9:30 PM

    Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew
    520 Clinton Avenue Brooklyn, NY, 11238

    Either/Or presents an evening of works that situate the players and their audience in a compelling dialogic relationship between notation and improvisation, featuring Anthony Braxton's pivotal and rarely heard Composition No.98 (1981) for quartet and selections from Mendi + Keith Obdike's graphic score collection Big House/Disclosures (2007).



    Composition No.98

    Braxton's Composition No.98 (1981) is a pivotal work in the prolific composer/performer's oeuvre, fully realizing the total fusion of conventional and visual notation. EO brings together a special quartet to revive this rarity, featuring James Fei (long-time Braxton collaborator) on woodwinds, Jonathan Finlayson on trumpets, Chris McIntyre on trombones and euphonium, and Richard Carrick on keyboards.

    Excerpt from Big House/Disclosures

    At the excellent new Brooklyn venue Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew, EO is also revisiting Mendi + Kieth Obadike's Big House/Disclosures (2007), the fecundated collection of graphic scores “...inspired by Nigerian nsibidi writing, European music notation, and architectural drawings.” Big House/Disclosure was the inaugural work in the Obadike's ongoing series of multimedia works entitled The Americana Suites.

    PERSONNEL
    James Fei (woodwinds), Johnathan Finlayson (trumpets), Chris McIntyre (trombones, euphonium), Richard Carrick (keyboards)



    Either/Or - Anthony Braxton composer portrait at Miller Theatre (Sep. 2019)
    L to R: Chris Mcintyre, richard carrick, james fei, jonathan finlayson
    detail of photo by Anthony creamer  

  • Stephen Prina "A Lick and a Promise" // MoMA   map

    Monday, September 1, 2025 - Saturday, December 20, 2025


    Stephen Prina. The Top Thirteen Singles from Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles Chart for the Week Ending September 11, 1993. 1993. Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York




    CJM revisits his 2015 collaboration with interdiciplinary artist Stephen Prina, music directing and playing trombone throughout the 3 month performance retrospective. Full details TBA in early 2025. 

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The Kitchen

A Power Stronger Than Itself: A Celebration of the AACM (Oct. '08)
> Co-Curator with George Lewis
> NY Times review

Let's Go Swimming: A Tribute to Arthur Russell (May '08)
> Co-Curator with Matthew Lyons
> NY Times review

Assciate Music Curator - 2003 to 2005
> Live Event Curator - New Sound, New York Festival (April '04)
> > > NY Times review, Tune (In))) 
> Kitchen House Blend, Director (see below)

Music Intern (under John King) - 2000 to 2003

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Kitchen House Blend
Commissioned Repertoire List

Under CJM

KHB 8
Vijay Iyer
Four Cycles for Said
i. Elaborations
ii. Discrepant Experience
iii. Objectivity
iv. Seductive Degradatioin (Now perhaps more than before)
John King - Checkerboard Blues
Marina Rosenfeld - bone canopy/tine palace

KHB 9
Min Xiao-Fen - The Loneliest Monk
Susie Ibarra - Golden Dream
Lee Hyla - Zurek

KHB 10
Geraldine Celérier
Canto Atlante
Rumbos
Obsidiana
Renacimiento
Joe McPhee - A Song For Beggars
Elliott Sharp - Ripples and Heats
 

Under John King

KHB 1
Craig Harris – Sound Sketches
Kitty Brazelton – Consider the Carving Knife
David Krakauer
Klezmer á la Bechet
Love Song for Lemberg/Lvov
Table Pounding/Terkish Bulgarish

KHB 2
Zeena Parkins – Pan-Acousticon
William Parker – Untitled
Roy Nathanson – The Swinging Sounds of Big Bill's Band

KHB 3
Derek Bermel – Three Rivers
Ikue Mori – Aphorisms
Marty Ehrlich – Paint People No.1

KHB 4
Kato Hideki
Mystic Ship of Life - Part 1
Mystic Ship of Life - Part 2
Mystic Ship of Life - Part 3
Bluiett – Untitled
Charles Gayle – Unto I am

KHB 5
Matthew Shipp – circles
Mary Ellen Childs – Music of the House
Frank London – The Unanswered Question...

KHB 6
Anthony Coleman – Lapidation
Lois V Vierk – In Memory
Daniel Bernard Roumain – Voodoo Violin Concerto

KHB 7
Tiyé Giraud
Opening - After Dark (Baubo's Children)
Sungodown - After Dark (Baubo's Children)
Ballad of Shiney Mae - After Dark (Baubo's Children)
Lullady for Daddy - After Dark (Baubo's Children)
Awitchin - After Dark (Baubo's Children)
Evan Ziporyn
Iris in Furs - More Songs About Telephones and Dogs
Jubilee of Indifference - More Songs About Telephones and Dogs
...no messages... - More Songs About Telephones and Dogs
Dog Heaven - More Songs About Telephones and Dogs
Roy Campbell
Part I - Homage to the Wilbur Force
Part II - Homage to the Wilbur Force
Part III - Homage to the Wilbur Force