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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.98Braxton'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.
MATA
From 2007 to 2010, I was Artistic Director of MATA, a non-profit organization that commissions and presents the work of young composers. During my tenure, I conceived and launched the successful concert series Interval (co-presented with Issue Project Room) with friend and colleague Missy Mazzoli, a program that "has kept the franchise in view and virtually doubled the amount of music presented under MATA’s imprimatur" (NY Times, Nov. 08). I also curated and co-produced (with Mazzoli) three of MATA's annual Festival's, featuring groups such as Argento Chamber Ensemble, Calder Quartet, So Percussion, NOW Ensemble, Either/Or, and Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
CJM on matafestival.org
MATA Festivals with CJM as AD:
2008 - Brooklyn Lyceum
March 31 - April 4 Sound Installation
April 1 Boston Modern Orchestra Project
April 2 The Knights Chamber Orchestra
April 3 Christoph Cox Lecture
April 4 Either/Or & Newspeak
2009 - (le) Poisson Rouge
March 31 - April 4 Mike Vernusky sound and video work
March 31 The Knights Chamber Orchestra
April 1 Sawako & Ne(x)tworks
April 3 NOW Ensemble & Bing and Ruth
April 4 Playing In The Band: Performer/Composers Speak
April 4 SO Percussion
2010 - (le) Poisson Rouge
April 19 Matthew Wright & Evan Parker
April 20 - April 22 MATA Sound Works
April 20 Calder Quartet
April 21 Ensemble Pamplemousse & Lisa Moore
April 22 Argento & Friends
MATA Interval under CJM:
Volume 1
Interval 1.1 November 30, 2007
The Music of Jessica Pavone & Ray Sweeten - Zach Layton, curator
Interval 1.2 January 25, 2008
Odd Appetite and FLUX Quartet - Ha-Yang Kim, curator
Interval 1.3 March 31, 2008
iO Quartet and Symbol - Mario Diaz de Leon, curator
Volume 2
Interval 2.1 September 17, 2008
Music of Grúpat Collective - Jennifer Walshe, curator
Interval 2.2 November 19, 2008
The NEW New Virtuosity: Musicians of New Amsterdam Records - Judd Greenstein, curator
Interval 2.3 January 21, 2009
Dither Electric Guitar Quartet - Taylor Levine & James Moore, curators
Interval 2.4 March 18, 2009
PLAY! Music for Toys - Angélica Negrón, curator
Volume 3
Interval 3.1 January 13, 2010
Architectures of Sound - David Kant & Cameron Hu, curators
Interval 3.2 March 10, 2010
poweRed Line - Baljinder Sekhon, II, curator
