February 21, 2013 8:00pm, $10

The 12 Houses Festival: Part III 
Charlie Waters Quartet + 2 and The Ryan Sawyer Ensemble

8PM Charlie Waters Quartet + 2
Charlie Waters: Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Andrew Barker: Drums, Chris McIntyre: Trombone
George Rush: Bass, Tuba
+ Special Guests Mick Rossi: Piano and Adam Roberts: Bass

9:30PM The Ryan Sawyer Ensemble

Brooklyn-based contemporary music series, Darmstadt “Classics of the Avant Garde” celebrates its birthdays with a singularly defined interpretation of Terry Riley’s game-changing 1964 composition, In C. This year’s concert will be held in the room where it was first performed eight years ago, at 70 North 6th Street in Williamsburg, currently the home of Public Assembly. Described in 2007 by The New York Times’s Allan Kozinn as “the most vital, audacious, and energizing performance of the score” he had ever heard, Darmstadt's curators invite electric guitarists, singers, and electronicists, alongside orchestral instrumentalists—all key players of the Downtown and Brooklyn new music scenes—and anchors the ensemble with a drummer (Kid Millions of Man Forever and Oneida this year). The results are raucous and dynamic, all the while remaining completely faithful to Mr Riley’s original score. Backed by live visuals, Darmstadt’s In C has become an annual tradition on the contemporary music calendar.

Confirmed musicians for the upcoming performance include David Grubbs, Shahin Motia, Zach Layton (guitars, basses), Conrad Harris, Pauline Kim, Dana Lyn, Jessica Pavone, Alex Waterman (strings), Joe Drew, Gareth Flowers, Sam Kulik, Christopher McIntyre (brass), Jason Cady, Matt Mottel (keyboards), Katie Eastburn, Nick Hallett, Megan Schubert (vocals), Kid Millions (drums)

Event on Public Assembly's website

Bowerbird presents:

Song Books Miniatures 1: Joan La Barbara and Ne(x)tworks
Saturday, December 1, 2012 from 12:00 to 4:00pm
Philadelphia Museum of Art 
26th Street Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19130  

Second of two events featuring Ne(x)tworks. Dec. 1 presents the ensemble in various configurations around the museum playing all Cage repertoire, primarily from Song Books.

Ne(x)tworks
Joan La Barbara - voice;
Shelley Burgon - harp & laptop;
Yves Dharamraj - cello;
Miguel Frasconi - glass & laptop;
Stephen Gosling - piano;
Ariana Kim - violin;
Christopher McIntyre - trombone, electronics

Event page on cagebeyondsilence.com 

Dither's Invisible Dog Extravaganza 2012

Saturday, November 17, 5 - 10 pm
The Invisible Dog Art Center
51 Bergen Street
Brooklyn, NY, 11201
$8 admission

TILT Brass is part of a fantastic line-up (see below) of New Yorkers gathered for Dither's annual bash at Invisibile Dog in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. TILT's performance is solely focused on Lois V. Vierk's epic 1990 work for brass sextet Jagged Mesa. ID's vast industrial interior is perfectly suited to present Vierk's work antiphonally as intended. Not an event to be missed!

PROGRAM
Lois V. Vierk - Jagged Mesa (1990) for brass sextet

PERSONNEL
Tim Leopold, Tom Bergeron - trumpet
Jen Baker, Chris McIntyre - trombone
Will Lang, James Rogers - bass trombone

Performances by:
Dither
Anthony Coleman & Ashley Paul
Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone
Victoire
Peter Evans
Preshish Moments
TILT Brass
Object Collection

Details at  theinvisibledog.org/dither-extravaganza and ditherquartet.com/news.html

Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, 20:15
Theater Dakota
Zuidlarenstraat 57 
2545 VP Den Haag
Tel kassa: 070 326 55 09

‘Handmade Homegrown’ Theater Dakota Studio Concert Series

3 November: Decade
"New Yorker trombonist Chris McIntyre double bill with Kate Moore and RPM Electro. The evening’s event will feature the launch of Kate’s brand new band RPM Electro featuring a grand set-up of e.harp, e.cello, e.guitar, voice/ organs and percussion with some of the hottest performers from the city. The concert will feature 10 pieces by Kate to celebrate 10 years in NL. Trombonist/ composer Chris McIntyre from New York will make a debut appearance in The Hague performing a set of semi improvised and composed works for solo trombone."

About ‘Handmade Homegrown’
‘Handmade Homegrown’ Theater Dakota Studio Concert Series is a monthly concert series featuring a quirky collection of individuals and groups who are unique in their field, genuine and continue to defy expectation who make 100% homegrown original stuff that’s like nothing anywhere else on the planet.

Concentrating on composers and creators who work with sound who make and perform their own work, this concert series is a platform for a generation of independent artists who are out there doing it for themselves in a scene that is raw, earthy, energetic and filled with life and colour.

The series aims to bring international, national and local groups together once a month to perform their latest creations to an audience curious about the voices of today. The series is about personality, originality, honesty and passion.

Handmade Homegrown Concert Series is curated by composer Kate Moore who will be artist in residence at Theater Dakota 2012/13. Being Kate’s tenth season in The Netherlands she wishes to celebrate this by programming a collection of ten portrait concerts featuring people and groups that have been prominent and inspiring characters passing through The Hague during this time. Her band RPM Electro will be resident ensemble: www.rpmelectro.com

The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble:
John Cage’s Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
E. 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, NYC


The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
Joseph Kubera, Piano • Ursula Oppens, Piano • Petr Kotik, Conductor

John Cage Atlas Eclipticalis (1961-62) & Winter Music (1957) performed simultaneously
Christian Marclay Shuffle (2007)

Admission: $25 / $15 Students & Seniors | Buy Tickets
Buy a Festival Pass (includes Morton Feldman: Major Orchestral Works at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center) starting at $50.

Patron Tickets & Preferred Seating available through S.E.M. Ensemble office: 718-488-7650 or pksemsemensemble [dot] org

"Listen to experimental 1950s music by composers such as Earle Brown, John Cage, Giacinto Scelsi, and Karlheinz Stockhausen in the museum’s rotunda while viewing works by Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock, Antoni Tàpies, and more in Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960. Christopher McIntyre directs an all-star ensemble featuring musicians from the International Contemporary Ensemble, Ne(x)tworks, and Either/Or, among others. A talk by composer R. Luke DuBois precedes the performance."

Event page on guggenheim.org/patterns

PERSONNEL:
conductor - Ted Hearne
violin - Cornelius Dufallo
violin - Miranda Cuckson
viola - Anne Lanzilotti
cello - John Popham
clarinet - Josh Rubin
bass clarinet - Christa Van Alstine
English horn - Emily DiAngelo
trumpet - Gareth Flowers
horn - Rachel Drehmann
trombone - Chris McIntyre
percussion - David Shively
electronics (Cage) - R. Luke Dubois

PROGRAM:
Pierre Schaeffer - Cinq études de bruits (5 studies of noise) (1948)
Pre-concert sound work

Edgard Varése - untitled graphic score (ca. 1957)
Hearne, Rubin, Flowers, McIntyre, Cuckson, Dufallo, Lanzilotti, Popham, Shively

Toru Takemitsu - Landscape (1960)
Cuckson, Dufallo, Lanzilotti, Popham

Earle Brown - November '52 ("Synergy") from Folio and Four Systems (1953)
McIntyre, Shively

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Klavierstüke XI (1956)
Gosling

Morton Feldman - Projection 4 (1951)
Dufallo, Gosling

Giacinto Scelsi - Kya (movements 2 & 3) (1958)
Hearne, Rubin (solo), Van Alstine, Farah, Flowers, Drehmann, McIntyre, Lanzilotti, Popham

John Cage - Concert for piano, violins 1 & 2, clarinet, trumpet, and sliding trombone (1958)
& Fontana Mix [realized by R.L. Dubois] (1958/2012)
Gosling, Cuckson, Dufallo, Rubin, Flowers, Drehmann, McIntyre, Dubois

On Thursday, June 14th, at Incubator Arts Project, composer and multi-instrumentalist Chris McIntyre presents the debut performance of his new band project, UllU. This "preview" of the group is a collaborative duo iteration with the extraordinary percussionist David Shively (Either/Or). Also featured for part of the performance is special guests James Fei on sopranino saxophone, Taylor Levine, guitar, and Eli Keszler on percussion.

The music of UllU is a percussive, "harmonic", and textural mix of ideas; a dialectical investigation of pure and damaged symmetry, unified and polyvalent sonic images. Strategic and notated compositional material is used to create audible yet illusive formal structures. Rhythmic and linear content moves in and out of entrainment kaleidoscopically. The use controlled feedback and on-stage multi-channel amplification (outputting instrumental sound and electronics) modulates the shifting dimensionality of UllU's ensemble sound.

More info: www.incubatorarts.org/music.html

David Shively - www.resonantobjects.com

Special Guests:

James Fei - www.jamesfei.com
 



 

Eli Keszler - www.elikeszler.com

Taylor Levine

Event Page on thekitchen.org
Facebook Event Page

Either/Or's 2012 Festival celebrates New York City composers, past and present, with a world premiere quartet from George Lewis, recent works from Anthony Coleman, Elliott Sharp, and John Zorn, and classics from Morton Feldman and John Cage/Max Neuhaus. Representing the margins of Europe are Gérard Grisey's massive Periodes as well as music of Rebecca Saunders and Hans Thomalla.

John Cage/Max Neuhaus - Fontana Mix:Feed
George Lewis - New work written for Either/Or
Rebecca Saunders - stirrings still
Elliott Sharp - new work
Gérard Grisey - Periodes

Aaron Baird - contrabass
Richard Carrick - piano, conductor
Pauline Kim Harris - viola
Margaret Lancaster - flute
Chris McIntyre - trombone
Esther Noh - violin
Josh Rubin - clarinets
Alex Waterman cello
David Shively - percussion, electronics 

TILT Brass at 2012 New Music Bake Sale

On Sunday, March 11th at 10pm, TILT Brass joined the fray as a performing ensemble during the 3rd Annual New Music Bake Sale at Roulette new Brooklyn home. Works on the 20 minute program included Selections from Mauricio Kagel's Ten Marches (to miss the victory) [1978/9] (listen to an excerpt of No.4 here!) and local NYC hero Jon Gibson's Multiples [1972].

Bake Sale Personnel:
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold - trumpet
Chris McIntyre, James Rogers - trombone
Matt Marks - French horn
Ben Stapp - tuba
Dave Shively - percussion

New Music Bake Sale Website

Park Avenue Armory Events
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Choreography by Merce Cunningham
Arranged by Robert Swinston
Music by David Behrman, John King, Takehisa Kosugi, and Christian Wolf
Décor by Daniel Arsham

TILT Brass helps brings 2 of the 4 world premiere compositions to life during the historic final performances of MCDC. John King and David Behrman's new works feature a 6-piece ensemble of trumpets and trombones, filling the enormous Drill Hall space with live and digitally processed sound.

TILT Brass w/ MCDC
Russ Johnson, Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold - trumpets
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang - trombone

Event Page on PAA site

Personnel
Ne(x)tworks: Joan La Barbara (voice), Shelley Burgon (harp, electronics), Miguel Frasconi (glass, electronics), Stephen Gosling (piano), Chris McIntyre (trombone)

JACK Quartet: Chris Otto, Ari Streisfeld (violin), John Pickford Richards (viola), Kevin McFarland (cello)

Zeena Parkins - composer, live electronics
Preshish Moments (Michael Carter) - creative technical director, live electronics
Cynthia Madansky - visual artist


Members of the "new music all-stars" (Time Out NY) ensemble Ne(x)tworks join forces with the "thrillingly vital" (Wash. Post) JACK Quartet to present the world premiere of composer and "renowned player and stretcher of boundaries" (Dusted) Zeena Parkins' Spellbeamed. Commissioned by Ne(x)tworks, Spellbeamed takes inspiration from literary critic Walter Benjamin’s vast Archive. Each musician collects their own archive of quotidian materials then utilized in an animated score developed in collaboration with visual artist collaborator Cynthia Madansky. The resultant sound is further enhanced with live-processing by Preshish Moments and the composer, creating an ecology of inter-relationships developed between improvisers and readers, sound and score, objects and instruments.

Both evenings begin with the premiere of three additional works by Ne(x)tworks composers Joan La Barbara, Miguel Frasconi, and Chris McIntyre. La Barbara's Persistence of Memory explodes with "hammering rhythms, angular jolts, and jagged slashes of percussive attacks", all within an expansive, haunted electronic "atmosphere." Frasconi's Sitting & Standing: A Memoir employs "a physical activity we do without much thought… as the compositional DNA that allows each performer to construct a soundscape unique to their instrument and their own body." Smithson Project: Sites & Nonsites by McIntyre is a set of works ranging in style from ambient/concreté states to brutal, irregular structures. Each segment is a meditation on artist Robert Smithson's "nonsite" concept and the dialectical relationship to the origin "site."

Ben Stapp & the Zozimos Collective perform Eight Houses
Mon Nov 28 - 8:00 PM

$15 General Admission
$10 Members/Students/Seniors

Composer Ben Stapp, leads his ensemble, the Zozimos Collective in the premier of Eight Houses(2011). Eight Houses is a large multi movement work based on the 8 core hexagrams of the I-Ching. It is written for a brass quintet, two guitars/pedals and percussion & piano with electronics. Sonically, Ben Stapp's work is based on his harmonic theory - micro-functional tonality. Noticeable influences by era are Post-Romantic, Impressionist, Minimalist and Spectralist composers. Separate from John Cage's use of the I-Ching, this piece resolves to musically represent the core elements of the I-Ching, NOT the way in which the elements of the oracle were practiced. As the piece progresses each instrumentalist as well as specific formations will be featured as soloists, therein lie moments of chance.

Featuring:
Satoshi Takeishi, Shoko Nagai, Sebastian Noelle, Dustin Carlson, Chris McIntyre, Bryan Drye, Tim Leopold, Nate Wooley and Ben Stapp

Although trained as a classical/orchestral tubist with legendary pedagogues, Tommy Johnson and Roger Bobo, Ben Stapp began his professional career recording for the improvised music label Clean Feed with the likes of Herb Robertson, Alipio Neto, Ken Filiano and Michael T.A. Thompson. His first project as leader took him on tour in Portugal and then finally to New York to record with Tony Malaby and Satoshi Takeishi. With the self release Mr. Stapp was quickly recognized by All About Jazz, as "most certainly one to watch" and "the debut of a fresh new voice." The Village Voice gave it an Honorable mention and the New York Times greeted it as a "rugged trio." Since his move to New York he has been composing and performing with his new mixed ensemble projects - Zozimos, and has played at the Stone, the Tea Lounge and Cornelia Street cafe among others.

http://www.benstapp.com/

Photo by Peter Gannushkin
 

More details soon!

R. Luke DuBois: http://lukedubois.com/
Learn about Prospect.2 here: http://prospectneworleans.org/