EITHER/OR SPRING FESTIVAL 2010
www.eitherormusic.org

March 26, 2010,8 PM
March 27, 2010, 8 PM

Tenri Cultural Institute
43A W13th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
Tickets: $15 ($10 students/seniors)

Either/Or is proud to announce the line-up for our 5th Annual Spring Festival of New Music. The 2010 Either/Or Festival features two nights of compelling new chamber music from around the world including world premieres from Trevor Baca (US, Jezek Prize Commission), Martin Iddon (UK), and Erik Griswold (US/Australia). US premieres on the two concerts will include music of Richard Barrett (UK), Eve Beglarian (US), Alex Hills (UK), Karin Rehnqvist (Sweden), and Rebecca Saunders (UK/Germany).

Friday, March 26

Richard Barrett – EARTH* for trombone and percussion (1987-1988)

Rebecca Saunders - duo 3, parts i & iii* for viola and percussion (1999/2001)

György Kurtág - Splinters, op. 6c for cimbalom (1973) and other works

Klaus Lang – zwillingsgipfel for flute and piano (2003)

Karin Rehnqvist – Beginning* for piano trio (2003)

Saturday, March 27

Trevor Bača - Mon seul désir** for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello (2010)

Eve Beglarian - Play Nice for cimbalom (1997/2010)

Martin Iddon – Danaë** for violin, viola, and cello (2010)
Louis Andriessen - Workers' Union for ensemble (1977)
Alex Hills - Knight's Move* for cello and percussion (2008/9)
Erik Griswold - New Work** for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello (2010)

** World premiere
* US premiere

Benjamin Baron - clarinet
Richard Carrick - piano, conductor
Stephanie Griffin - viola
Margaret Lancaster - flutes
Chris McIntyre - trombone
Esther Noh - violin
David Shively - cimbalom, percussion
Alex Waterman - cello

This concert is made possible by the generous support of the BMI Foundation,the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation, and Meet the Composer's Cary New Music Performance Fund and the Music Department of New York University (FAS). Either/Or is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
 

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 8pm

To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass [Part 2] feat. 10-piece TILT Creative Brass Band
@
Issue Project Room [website]
232 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY
[directions]
 

On Wednesday, February 10, the 10-piece Brooklyn-based group TILT Creative Brass Band presents the second installment of its on-going series To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass which focuses solely on repertoire written for the organization's distinctive ensembles (CBB and 6-piece SIXtet) at ISSUE Project Room. The program features works by a stellar group of composer/performers including Downtown legend Anthony Coleman, trumpet virtuoso Dave Ballou, avant-cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, Gold Sparkle's Charles Waters (featuring virtuoso improviser Mick Rossi on piano), and TILT Director Chris McIntyre. TILT CBB features an extraordinary line-up of creative musicians including trumpeters Nate Wooley and Gareth Flowers, trombonists Joe Feidler and Jacob Garchik, and and percussionist Kevin Norton.

PROGRAM Anthony Coleman - Set Into Motion (2005) Charles Waters - 3 Mysteries [Concertimento #12] (2007) >>featuring Mick Rossi on piano Taylor Ho Bynum - preharmonic, postchordal, revamped (2007) Chris McIntyre - Foliation (for Suzanne) (2009) Dave Ballou - Concerto for TILT (2003) PERSONNEL Creative Brass Band: Trumpet - Nate Wooley, Gareth Flowers, Andy Kozar French Horn - Rachel Drehmann Trombone - Chris McIntyre Bass Trombone - Jacob Garchik Tuba - Ron Caswell Percussion - Kevin Norton Conductor - Greg Evans Special Guest: Mick Rossi - piano soloist on Waters >>>Listen to Creative Brass Band TILT Creative Brass Band Brooklyn based TILT Creative Brass Band (TCBB) is a beautifully strange combination of military brass band and Downtown repertoire ensemble. The group has presented concerts since January 2003 at venues ranging from Whitney Museum to Barbes in Brooklyn. Since its inception, TCBB has fearlessly taken on works from the fringes of experimental concert music, tongue-in-cheek agitprop, and hybrid scores combining notation and improvisation. The group frequently presents entire programs of original works by its composer/performer members (Kevin Norton, Curtis Hasselbring, Nate Wooley, among others) and colleagues from the field, including legendary pianist Anthony Coleman (released on Tzadik), Doctor Nerve's Nick Didkovsky, multi-instrumentist Charles Waters, and cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum. In addition, the Creative Brass Band is committed to presenting works from the experimental tradition, ranging from a Varése graphic score from the late 50's and selections from James Tenney's Postal Pieces to works by Fredric Rzewski (Les Mounton de Panurge) and early John Adams (Light Over Water). In June '09, TCBB kicked off a new on-going series of programs called New York Noise which presents historical and current works by important composers from the Downtown community and its ancestors such as Elliott Sharp, Lois V. Vierk, and Rhys Chatham. In 2010, the group will present several programs at ISSUE Project Room and will record and release its current To TILT repertoire. Mick Rossi Pianist, percussionist, and composer Mick Rossi’s diverse accomplishments include: being among “the most courageous, gifted, and charismatic musicians" of the New York Downtown scene (AllAboutJazz); a long-time Philip Glass collaborator and member of the ensemble as pianist, percussionist, and conductor; and working with artists from Dave Douglas to Kelly Clarkson to Leonard Cohen. He recently conducted Book of Longing at the Sydney Opera House, and performed Einstein at the Beach at Carnegie Hall and Koyaanisqatsi at the Hollywood Bowl. Recent recordings include One Block From Planet Earth (OmniTone), and They Have A Word For Everything (Knitting Factory). His recent concert at Le Poisson Rouge presenting his latest and ninth recording Songs From The Broken Land (Orange Mountain Music) was featured in the NY Times.

Wednesday, January 13, 8pm

MATA Interval 3.1: Architectures of Sound [website]
David Kant & Cameron Hu, curators
@
Issue Project Room [website]
232 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY
[gmap]

Every musical event is accompanied by an often unacknowledged and yet not-so-silent partner. The built environment reflects, refracts, and remakes sound, and performer and audience act and listen under the influence of its formal language. Architectures of Sound assembles an evening of unusual performances that attend to this convergence of sound and built space. Artists Casey Thomas Anderson, G. Douglas Barrett, Anthony Ptak, Charles Stankievech, Jacob Sudol, Michael Winter, and curators Cameron Hu and David Kant will present new work that interacts with the singularities of the performance space - its materiality, its geometric form, its historical specters and its vanishing present.


 

McIntyre/Drungle Duo
Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, 8:30, $10

Ibeam Music
168 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
[gmap]

First duo set with CJM on trombone and composer/pianist/metabolist Pete Drungle on piano.
ibeambrooklyn.com
igniteanoise.com
 

Wednesday, Nov. 11th, 8:30pm

Roulette Intermedium []
20 Greene Street, NYC [g-map]

Chris McIntyre presents
To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass

Composer, trombonist, and producer Chris McIntyre presents New York-based TILT Brass' two projects, TILT SIXtet and TILT Creative Brass Band, with a full evening of extraordinary new Downtown brass music. This event kicks off TILT's on-going concert series To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass. To TILT focuses solely on repertoire written for TILT's distinctive ensembles, with works that often embrace the playerly, composed/improvised hybrid aesthetic developed in New York's Downtown scene over the past 40 years. The Roulette program features 3 world premieres, 2 for SIXtet by the legendary Anthony Coleman and pianist/composer Pete Drungle, and the third by McIntyre for the 10-piece Creative Brass Band. Also featured are pieces by TILT Brass members (Curtis Hasselbring, Nate Wooley) and its esteemed colleagues John King and Nick Didkovsky. The personnel for this special event is filled with some of the best all-around instrumentalist/artists New York City has to offer, including Kevin Norton, Joe Fiedler, Russ Johnson, John Clark, Gareth Flowers, Jacob Garchik, and both Hasselbring and Wooley.

Complete Info (including video of Didkovsky) HERE

PROGRAM
SIXtet
Anthony Coleman - premiere of new work
Pete Drungle - premiere of new work
John King - Baghdad Blues (In Memorium James Tenney)

Creative Brass Band
Nick Didkovsky - Stink Up! (Evolved Form)
Curtis Hasselbring - untitled
Nate Wooley - There was this shadow, this double
Chris McIntyre - premiere of new work

PERSONNEL
SIXtet:
Trumpet - Russ Johnson, Nate Wooley
Trombone - Curtis Hasselbring, Chris McIntyre
Tuba - Joe Exley, John Altieri
>>>Listen to SIXtet

Creative Brass Band:
Trumpet - Russ Johnson, Gareth Flowers, Rich Johnson
French Horn - John Clark, Rachel Drehmann
Trombone - Joe Fiedler, Chris McIntyre
Bass Trombone - Jacob Garchik
Tuba - Ron Caswell
Percussion - Kevin Norton
Conductor - Greg Evans
>>>Listen to Creative Brass Band

Issue Project Room/OA Can Factory Courtyard
Sunday, June 7, 2009
2 Sets @ 7 and 9pm
directions

DARMSTADT presents:
Darmstadt Institute at IPR, June 2009
Curated by Zach Layton & Nick Hallett

Ne(x)tworks presents two sets of music during the Darmstadt Institute in IPR's courtyard


7pm - Fredric Rzewski's Les Mouton de Panurge
>A rare complete reading of this seminal work from 1969 that audaciously combines pure Minimalist additive/subtractive technique with bold inderterminacy.

9pm - Music for and by Ne(x)tworks
Michael Schumacher - isorhythmic variations
Anthony Coleman - Seven at the Golden Shovel
Joan La Barbara - Scatter
Kenji Bunch - selections from Woman in the Dunes
Miguel Frasconi - new work

Ne(x)tworks:
Joan La Barbara - voice
Kenji Bunch - viola
Shelley Burgon - harp/elec
Yves Dharamraj - cello
Cornelius Dufallo - violin
Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec
Stephen Gosling - piano
Chris McIntyre - trombone/synth

Special guests:
Anthony Coleman - Korg organ
Gareth Flowers - trumpet
Christopher Otto - violin
 

SATURDAY, April 18, 8:00PM, $10
TILT SIXtet plays the Ibeam Trombone Festival

Ibeam Music Studio
168 7th Street [street entrance]
Gowanus, Brooklyn
[gmap]

SIXtet
Nate Wooley & Rich Johnson - trumpet
Chris McIntyre & Ben Gerstein - trombone
Joe Exley & Jay Rozen - tuba

TILT SIXtet folds in to Ibeam Music Studio's month-long Trombone Festival this Saturday. The group welcomes some very special guests to help kick off a triple bill with improvisations and works by CJM, John King, and Mauricio Kagel. Trombone Festival and Ibeam impresario Brian Drye's stellar group Bizingas is at 9, and TILT Brass Band's own Joe Fiedler presents his widely acclaimed JF Trio at 10. All 3 sets for 10 bucks! A great night all around...

8 - TILT SIXtet (CJM)
9 - Bizingas (Brian Drye)
10 - Joe Fiedler Trio
 

Saturday, March 28th, 2009
CJM Sounds

Part of IPR's Chamber Music Month

ISSUE Project Room
At the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
directions

CJM Sounds features a set of compositions created by composer/performer Chris McIntyre. morphi studies is an on-going project that situates the trombone's sound and idioms within various types of electronically produced contexts. It is a collection of short works created as both a solo vehicle for the composer and as a way to explore the capabilities of MAX/MSP and conventional "tape piece" techniques. quartet music for trumpet, horn, bass trombone, and Nord Lead 2 was first inspired by a commission from the organization Composer's Concordance and the brass trio B3+. Part 1, since revised, was premiered in March 2008. Tonight's performance is the premiere of the complete three-movement work. Its aesthetic lies somewhere between historical Vareseian "organized sound" and 21st century stylistic inclusivity. quartet music strives to be playerly ensemble music while proffering a distinctive vision of 21st century chamber music.

Program:
morphi studies for solo trombone and sound
McIntyre - trombone & laptop

quartet music: parts 1,2 and 3 for brass trio and Nord synth
Josh Frank - trumpet, Mike Atkinson - French horn, Dave Nelson - bass trombone, McIntyre - Nord Lead 2

Click here to hear part 1 of quartet music

Also on the bill is guitaris and composer Arthur Kampela
 

MATA Interval 2.2
The NEW New Virtuosity: Musicians of New Amsterdam Records
@
ISSUE Project Room
At the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
directions

Curated by composer and NAR co-director Judd Greenstein
Solo Performances by Andrew McKenna Lee and Nadia Sirota
Featuring the music of Andrew McKenna Lee, Marcos Balter, Nico Muhly, and Greenstein
 

@ Serial Underground

Monday, November 10, 8:30PM
Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street,NYC

Russ Johnson & Nate Wooley - trumpet
Curtis Hasselbring & Chris McIntyre - trombone
John Altieri & Joe Exley - tuba
John King - laptop

TILT Brass' SIXtet project performs on Composer Collaborative's Serial Underground series with music from composer, guitarist and Cunningham Co. music co-director John King, and TILT's own Chris McIntyre.