Launch event for my good friend trombonist and composer Jen Baker's new book Hooked on Multiphonics featuring the performance of William Dougherty's trombone quintet work Three Formants (2014).

Spectrum NYC
121 Ludlow St #2, New York, NY 10002


 

Electronics and trombone in M. Lamar's Funeral Doom Spiritual (music by M. Lamar & Hunter Hunt-Hendrix.) 2 shows per night (7 & 10pm.)

Prototype/HERE Event Page


 

Memory City is a new ensemble work by cellist and composer Leila Bordreuil. This is Leila's third event as Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room. The performance features Nate Wooley (trumpet), Anne Guthrie (French horn), Chris McIntyre (trombone), Michael Foster (saxophone), Ben Bennett (percussion) and Leila Bordreuil (cello).

ISSUE Project Room's Event Page

π=3.14… continues “Dead End, Falling”
by Yoshiko Chuma/School of Hard Knocks

From Yoshiko
"Dead End , Don’t Let Me fall is the latest in a series of multimedia performance π=3.14… which was started in 2007 as a work perpetually in progress. It is a set structure under the concept “the invisible rehearsal". The series has been concerned with borders, displacement and violence. Endless peripheral border makes the notice ”We are not so different from one other."

BKSD website
BKSD Event Pages for 19th / 20th

Jennifer Monson/iLAND: in tow (premiere)



Members of TILT Brass Sextet perform material composed for them by composer and harpist Zeena Parkins on Saturday Sep. 24th and Thursday Sep. 29th. 

From Dancespace Project's Event Page:
"Initiated in 2013 by award-winning choreographer Jennifer Monson, ​in tow is an ongoing performance research project bringing together 10 artists from 4 different decades​. in tow​ straddles location, discipline​,​ and aesthetic to create an evolving working process driven by what ​each artist bring​s​ to​ it. The performance itself is a site for destabilizing ​the familiar, testing new ground, defining difference​,​ and creating a shared practice that resonates with layers of experience, points of view​,​ and perspective."

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

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Event Page
 

Met Muesum Event Page
Analog Arts Klang Page

Klang (Die 24 Stunden des Tages) 
by Karlheinz Stockhausen (U.S. Premiere)

CJM performs during Glanz (Brilliance), the 10th hour in the Klang cycle.

Glanz personnel:
Bryan Young, bassoon
Alexandrina Boyanova, viola
Vasko Dukovski, clarinet
Joe Drew, trumpet
Chris McIntyre, trombone
Kemp Jernigan, oboe
Jay Rozen, tuba

Karlheinz Stockhausen's fiercely original KLANG (meaning "sound" in German) is an acoustic and electronic work so massive that it requires all day and all three of the Met's iconic buildings to stage. This twenty-one-part, unfinished composition was originally envisioned by Stockhausen as consisting of twenty-four individual compositions (one for each hour of the day), but the work was left unfinished at the time of his death. This performance will mark the U.S. premiere of Klang in its entirety, and will be performed at the Metropolitan Museum's Fifth Avenue building, The Met Breuer, and The Cloisters museum and gardens in Fort Tryon Park. More details will follow."

TILT Brass Sextet reprises the recently premiered A Fistful of Footfalls during this evening-length celebration of Anthony Coleman's 60th Birthday. 

Roulette event page
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Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks
present:

π = 3.14…THREAT
Concept: Dry Tech and Direction by Yoshiko Chuma

Featuring: Heather Litteer and Miriam Parker ( Actresses), Yukio Suzuki and Yoshiko Chuma (Dancer), and Christopher McIntyre (Musician, trombone)

The School of Hard Knocks Under the artistic direction of Yoshiko Chuma, The School of Hard Knocks is a New York-based collective of choreographers, dancers, actors, singers, musicians, designers, and visual artists. Since premiering at the 1980 Venice Biennale, this award-winning company has created and performed over 60 original works in the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The School of Hard Knocks takes its name from the American idiom meaning to learn things the hard way on the proverbial "street," and was first used as the title of a performance at the 1980 Venice Biennale. Over the course of the company's history, more than 2,000 people have performed to wide critical acclaim under Chuma's direction in theatrical dance concerts, street performances, grand parades, large-scale spectacles and
intimate living rooms.

Yoshiko Chuma, Conceptual Artist/Choreographer/Artistic Director of The School of Hard Knocks, has been a firebrand of New York's downtown dance scene since arriving in 1976. She has created more than 60 full-length company works, commissions and site-specific events for venues in 35 countries, constantly challenging the notion of performance for both audience and participant. Her work has been presented in such diverse venues as Pyramid Club, Danceteria, Joyce Theater, the Eiffel Tower, Newcastle Swing Bridge, City Center, Lincoln Center, the former National Theater of Sarajevo, the perimeter of the Hong Kong harbor, World Financial Center, and an ancient ruin in Macedonia, among many others.

Heather Litteer is an actress, performance artist and chanteuse originally from Georgia but now calls NYC her home. She is a member of Caden Manson’s Big Art Group touring internationally and in the states.
She is the recipient of the 2014 Fox Fellowship with The William and Eva Fox Foundation and TCG. La Mama will be her resident company throughout this process and will be presenting her one woman show "Lemonade" at La MaMa 2016.
Her daring film choices include working with directors Mary Harron, Jane Campion and Darren Aronofsky. Most recently playing the sexual revolutionary Queen Bee in John Reed’s Film “ReVo” and Vicky, a killer for hire in “Dumbo” with Brazilian director Gustavo Von Ah’. She is a Member of the legendary Jackie Factory.

Miriam Parker is a New York City born and bred dancer/performance artist and arts organizer. She feels very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with the School of hard knocks for the past 4 years. In recent years she has been building her reputation in collaborative performance art, working with the artist Jo Wood Brown on a interdisciplinary project “InnerCity Projects”

Yukio Suzuki is a dancer and choreographer. In 1997 he began studying Butoh dance and later performed in works by Ko Murobushi and so on. In the year 2000 he founded his own company, "YUKIO SUZUKI Projects". The basic principal of his interpretation is not the technique, but the character of the dance language, for which he has been acclaimed even outside of his native Japan. He has been touring in over 40 cities worldwide, enthralling audiences with his pliant, delicate, and tenacious movements.

Christopher McIntyre leads a varied career as performer, composer, and curator/producer. He interprets and improvises on trombone and synthesizer and composes for TILT Brass, UllU duo, and Ne(x)tworks. He has recorded for Tzadik, New World, POTTR, and Mode. Curatorial work includes projects at The Kitchen, Guggenheim Museum, Issue Project Room, and The Stone, and Artistic Director of the MATA Festival (2007-10). 

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