Sounding Serra
Music in Conversation with Reverse Curve

Saturday, December 14, 2019, 8pm
Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York
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Join Gagosian for a concert featuring new music inspired by Richard Serra’s Reverse Curve (2005/19) and other works that engage with questions of weight, timbre, volume, and form. Some of the compositions will test the acoustical properties of the sculpture within the room, while others will produce sound masses in the shadow of the sculpture, creating dialogues between sound and space. The range of musical strategies will illustrate a historical path from the 1970s through the present day. Musicians Lea Bertucci, Miguel Frasconi, Joan La Barbara, Chris McIntyre, Chris Nappi, and Danny Tunick are all major players in the world of experimental music and collaborate in addition to their solo projects. As well as their own compositions they will perform a 1973 piece by Michael Byron.

McIntyre program note:
Reverses (2019) is a musical response to the Serra piece installed at Gagosian’s 21st Street gallery and the acoustic characteristics of the large, resonant space in which they coexist. Employing the diffusion created by brass and percussion in an extremely reverberant room, Reverses attempts to establish an analogous sonic experience to that of the torqued Cor-Ten steel sculpture and its bisection of the space. It does this by locating a duo of trombone and percussion (playing snare drum) on opposing sides of the sculpture where they exchange material back and forth in an accretional and elided formal system, a sort of simplified prolation canon that acknowledges the lingering resonances of each iterated sound. Many thanks to percussionist and event curator Danny Tunick for his efforts.  

Chris McIntyre / Max Kutner
Saturday, September 14⋅7:00 – 10:00pm
Singularity Music Series

DOORS at 7:00
MUSIC at 7:30
$15

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CHRIS MCINTYRE
Christopher McIntyre leads a varied career in music as a solo and ensemble performer, composer, and curator/producer. The diversity of his activities led Time Out New York to note that "...with every passing week, trombonist-composer Chris McIntyre becomes more central to the new-music experience in New York."

He performs on trombone and synthesizer in a variety of settings, from chamber music to open improvisation. Current projects include leading TILT Brass and 7X7 Trombone Band, and collaborative efforts such as UllU duo (w/ David Shively), Either/Or, and Ne(x)tworks.

His playing is heard on recordings released by the Tzadik, New World, Mode, POTTR, and Non-Site labels. In his composing, McIntyre experiments with improvisative strategies, serialized rhythmic and formal cycles, and symmetrical pitch construction. He has contributed work to the repertoire of TILT, UllU, Ne(x)tworks, 7X7 Trombone Band (for choreographer Yoshiko Chuma), Flexible Orchestra, and B3+ brass trio.

Beyond performing and creating music, McIntyre is also active as a curator and concert producer, with independent projects at venues including The Kitchen, Guggenheim Museum, Issue Project Room, and The Stone (June 2007), and as Artistic Director of the MATA Festival (07-10). Visit cmcintyre.com for more info.

MAX KUTNER
Max Kutner is a guitarist, composer and instructor originally from Las Vegas, NV. As an instrumentalist, Max’s focus is on new works for the electric guitar as well the promotion of electric guitar in new performance settings. As a composer, Max translates several of his non-musical passions: namely literature and architecture, into a distinctly singular musical language that is neither strictly exclusive or accessible to performers.

Max was responsible for developing, producing and performing multiple instruments in the U.S. premiere performance of Mike Keneally’s The Universe Will Provide (REDCAT). Presently, Max is the lead guitarist of the Magic Band (John French) which performs the music of Captain Beefheart around the world. He has also performed in the Johnny Vatos Boingo Dance Party featuring former members of Oingo Boingo, the Grandmothers of Invention (Frank Zappa alumni Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Napoleon Murphy Brock) and also in the bands of Alphonso Johnson, Henry Kaiser, Daniel Rosenboom and Lili Haydn. Additionally, he leads or co-leads the groups Evil Genius (experimental jazz trio), The Royal US (folk-tronica) and Izela (quintet inspired by music from the Balkans).

His debut solo work, “Disaffection Finds Its Pure Form”, is a quasi-ambient process piece that features Kutner on 30 electric guitars simultaneously. It was jointly released in September 2017 through Silber Records and Records ad Nauseam. He followed that release with a collection of home recorded solo songs and improvisations entitled “Array” in January 2018.

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Singularity Music Series (Kingston, NY)
Álvaro Domene, Artistic Director

· Christopher McIntyre: solo trombone
· Nick Millevoi (guitar) and Ron Stabinsky (organ) duo

 

Lea Bertucci and I meet up at Standards in Milano, IT, to revisit material from our Dec. 2016 collaboration at ISSUE Project Room. 

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Lea Bertucci and I join forces to perform new collaborative works we've created for ISSUE's Year End Party. My piece is called Boerum moraine for bass clarinet, alto saxophone, trombone, synthesizer, and fixed media. The evening also features a rare set by the stellar Maine-based artist Id M Theft Able.

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Bertucci-Mcintyre collab December 10th @issueprojectroom @cjm_bklyn #trombones #cassette

A photo posted by Lea Bertucci (@lilbertucci) on Nov 27, 2016 at 1:50pm PST

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Yoshiko Chuma's School of Hard Knocks at La Mama, June 2015

TILT Brass Sextet participates in the opening ceremony of a new public space at the eastern edge of Brooklyn Navy Yard. A project of Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, Naval Cemetery Landscape is a "publicly-accessible green space which will revitalize the native plant and pollinator populations in the region and its design includes a raised walkway to allow visitors to enter the space without disturbing the hallowed ground (of the former Brooklyn Naval Hospital Cemetery.)"

The Sextet will premiere a new site-specific work by Director Chris McIntyre. The new work, Runnegackonck Presencing, is named after the ancestral creek that meandered around the Hospital and Cemetery grounds on its way to the former Wallabout Bay. 

More info: brooklyngreenway.org/naval-cemetery-landscap

TILT Brass Sextet
l to r: Tim Leopold, Mike Gurfield, Will Lang, Jen Baker, Gareth Flowers, Chris McIntyre

POP-UP CONCERTS
Wild Ones - TILT BRASS
Tuesday, December 8, 2015, 6pm
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
FREE

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PERSONNEL
TILT Brass Sextet
trumpet – Gareth Flowers, Mike Gurfield, Tim Leopold
trombone – Jen Baker, Will Lang, Chris McIntyre

PROGRAM
James Tenney Swell Piece for Alison Knowles (1967)
Sextet
Liza Lim Wild Winged One (2007)
Gareth Flowers, solo trumpet
Anthony Coleman A Fistful of Footfalls (2015) World Premiere
Sextet
Catherine Lamb overlay/smear (2015) World Premiere
Sextet
Chris McIntyre Dedifferentiation for Brass No. 3 (2015) World Premiere
Sextet and sound score
 

Dedicated experimental musician Chris McIntyre (TILT Brass, Either/Or, UllU, Ne(x)tworks) performs a rare solo set using trombone, voice, live-electronics, and tapes. Far West Queens audiences will hear an evolving strata of sounds broken into pieces. Interrupted concentricities; the sound of alterania nervina.

Curated by Charles Waters
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"LOW/SOLO"
3 sets of solo exploration for low instruments

8pm Sara Schoenbeck - Solo Bassoon
9pm Chris McIntyre - Solo Trombone, electronics
10pm Jonah Parzen- Johnson- Solo Baritone Saxophone

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Next iteration of revered director and multimedia artist Yoshiko Chuma's multi-year project π = 3.14. CJM performs live on trombone, synths, and software.


 Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times
 

Presencing Piece No. 1 (Fed Plaza) (2014)

by Chris McIntyre
In collaboration with TILT Brass, Ed Bear, and David Shively
A site-specific performance and installation at Jacob K. Javits Federal Building Plaza

Chris McIntyre - Composer and Creative Director
Ed Bear - Technical Director
David Shively - feed-back drums

TILT Brass
Trumpet
Garth Flowers, Mike Gurfield, Rich Johnson, Tim Leopold, Stephanie Richards
Trombone
Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Sam Kulik, Will Lang, Matt Melore, James Rogers, Peter Zummo

Contextual information available on the project Tumblr site

Conceived by composer and trombonist Chris McIntyre for SummerStreets, Presencing Piece No.1 (Fed Plaza) is a collaborative, site-specific sonic experience designed for the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building Plaza. Unfolding over a 2-hour period, Presencing Piece... features a 12-piece compliment of Brooklyn-based experimental music group TILT Brass, Either/Or percussionist David Shively, and a state-of-the-art implementation of multiple PA speakers. McIntyre locates the live musicians and the arrayed speakers around the plaza to amplify physical and intangible properties of the site. The PA system and other small devices broadcast sound via infrared transmitters with which the audience is able to interact. The goal for McIntyre and his collaborators (including tech director Ed Bear) is to transform the audience’s sense of aural dimensionality and scale as they are immersed in the simultaneity of sound and spectacle. The piece also aims to create a dialogue between the present and past of the site. One piece of this is the presentation of text-based sounds that tell abstract histories specific to the site and surrounding area. Content ranging from local geologic data, facts about Manhattan’s pre-colonial population, and fragments of other social and political narratives is projected from the on-site speakers while also accessed in earphones from “hidden” online sources (directed via QR-code posters). To many contemporary New Yorkers, “Fed Plaza” is tied to Richard Serra’s site-specific sculpture Tilted Arc (1981), an extremely controversial work that was commissioned for and eventually removed from the site. March 2014 marked the 25th anniversary of its deinstallation. McIntyre and Company’s impressions of the dialogic relationship between Serra’s work and the plaza are found at the core of Presencing Piece No.1 (Fed Plaza).

Creating sound score for Yoshiko-san's current project

Ne(x)tworks Residency at Cornell University
Ne(x)tworks visits Cornell in Ithaca, NY for a 3-day residency including graphic score investigations, ensemble and local composer works, and a performance of its signature realization of John Cage's Song Books (1970)

Experimental Intermedia
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor
New York, NY 10013

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UllU:
Chris McIntyre - trombone, synth, drums, composition
David Shively - feedback-drumkit, combo organ, tapes

TILT Brass:
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpet
Jen Baker, Will Lang, Chris McIntyre – trombone
James Rogers – contrabass trombone

Composer/performer Chris McIntyre brings together two current ensemble projects, UllU and TILT Brass, for a special collaborative evening of ecstatic noise and orchestral bliss at composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock’s venerated Experimental Intermedia loft (celebrating its 40th year of concert presentations).

The first half features an improvised set by UllU ("owl" in Hindi), the duo project of McIntyre and renowned percussionist David Shively (Either/Or). A 6-piece compliment of the adventurous Brooklyn-based brass group TILT Brass joins for the second half including trumpeters Gareth Flowers (ICE) and Tim Leopold (Meridian Arts Ens.), Jen Baker (Asphalt Orchestra) and Will Lang (loadbang) on trombone, and James Rogers (Guidonian Hand) on the rare contrabass trombone.

TILT and UllU will reprise an expanded iteration of "Dedifferentiation with Brass" (2013), the collaborative work initially presented at Roulette in June. The work is conceptualized and composed by McIntyre in close collaboration with Shively (featuring the latter's innovative use of drums and metals as feedback instruments) and uses a seamless combination of conventionally notated and instructional improvising material. The transitive sonic language of "Dedifferentiation" is inspired by artist Robert Smithson’s description of a hotel in the Mexican city of Palenque. Smithson details the rich complexities inherent to the constellation of structures on the hotel grounds which are variously under construction and demolition, investigating the similarity between these states (and also to the Mayan ruins nearby).

The 15 Dec. event is also the official release of UllU’s debut recording "August" on Non-Site Records. The release's three tracks contain material recorded live and edited at Shively's Williamsburg studio. "August" captures the duo in full experimental mode, probing its potential collaborative language from within the sonic syntax emanating from Shively's idiosyncratic feedback instrumentarium and McIntyre's fleshy trombone sound and virtual-analog synth convolutions. Signed CD's will be available at the venue and pre-ordering is available via group's website (www.ullumusic.com).

WEB RESOURCES
Chris McIntyre: www.cmcintyre.com
Dave Shively: www.resonantobjects.com
UllU: www.ullumusic.com
TILT Brass: www.tiltbrass.org
XI: www.experimentalintermedia.org
Non-Site Records: www.nonsiterecords.com

BIOGRAPHIES
UllU (Hindi for “owl”) is Chris McIntyre (trombone, synth, drums) and Dave Shively (drums, feedback, tapes). Sharing both an interest in the ecstatic potential of the drone and a pathological inability to completely disengage from modernism, UllU perform works of extended duration in which practical mechanics of sound production collide with formal concerns. Shows at Incubator Arts Project, The Stone, Experimental Intermedia, and collaborations with TILT Brass. In South Asian tradition, the owl is in fact considered a very foolish bird.

Led by trombonist and composer Chris McIntyre, TILT Brass is a Brooklyn-based organization dedicated to creating new content and contexts for contemporary brass music by producing inventive concert programs, recording projects, and commissioning initiatives. It boldly positions itself as the vanguard presenter, educator, and advocate for new brass music in New York City. Founded 10 years ago by McIntyre and Greg Evans, TILT primarily presents the work of living composers, having premiered nearly 40 compositions thus far. Its personnel includes many of the brightest stars from the local brass community in ensemble configurations ranging from solo and chamber groupings to experimental brass orchestra. TILT’s work is heard on releases by Tzadik, Non-Site, and POTTR.

Christopher McIntyre leads a multi-faceted career as performer, composer, and curator/producer. He interprets and improvises on trombone and synthesizer in projects including TILT Brass, UllU duo (w/ David Shively), Either/Or, Ne(x)tworks, and 7X7 Trombone Band. His playing is heard on recordings released by the Tzadik, New World, Mode, POTTR, and Non-Site labels. He has contributed compositions to TILT, Ne(x)tworks, 7X7 (for choreographer Yoshiko Chuma), Flexible Orchestra, and B3+ brass trio. McIntyre is also active as a curator and producer with independent projects at The Kitchen, Guggenheim Museum, Issue Project Room, The Stone (June 2007), and as Artistic Director of the MATA Festival (07-10). cmcintyre.com

David Shively performs concert and installation works in media ranging from traditional percussion to Hungarian cimbalom to analog electronics and feedback systems. Solo appearances at Dia:Beacon, EMPAC, Miller Theatre, Performa 09, SONiC Festival, the American Academy in Rome, Other Minds 13, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Wittner Tage für neue Kammermusik, Münchener Biennale. Currently based in Brooklyn, NY, he has been co-artistic director of the experimental music ensemble Either/Or since 2004, curating its programming and festivals in New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia. Recordings for Starkland, New World, Tzadik, Mode, Quecksilber, and other labels in addition to works for film, sound installation, and radio broadcast. resonantobjects.com