Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
Pete Drungle (piano, electronics), George Rush (upright and elec. bass), Fred Kennedy (drums), Chris McIntyre (trombone, Nord Lead2)
A new Brooklyn-based collective made up of composer/performers working in various avant and otherwise musical realms. In addition to leading their own groups, collaborative experiences include Slavic Soul Party!, Guignol, Michael Portnoy, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Ne(x)tworks, and Klezmer Madness, among many others.
Description
5/15 - Screenings at 7 and 9pm of Wild Combination, a new documentary about AR by Matt Wolf
5/16 & 17 - Songs and other things by Nick Hallett & Alex Waterman + Nat Baldwin + Rebecca Gates + Joel Gibb
Instrumental music:
5/16 - Tower of Meaning
Bill Ruyle (perc/conductor), Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Okkyung Lee (cello), Peter Hess (alto sax/clarinet), Shelley Burgon (harp), Matt Bauder (tenor sax/clarinet), Chris McIntyre (trombone)
5/17 - The Singing Tractors
Peter Zummo (Music Director/trombone), Bill Ruyle (perc), Ernie Brooks (bass gtr), Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Okkyung Lee (cello), Shelley Burgon (harp), Chris McIntyre (trombone)
More info at thekitchen.org
Dialogics: Ne(x)tworks at Chelsea Art Museum [gmap]
2008 Residency
Saturday, May 3, 2PM
Joan La Barbara - voice, Kenji Bunch - viola, Shelley Burgon - harp/elec, Yves Dharamraj - cello, Cornelius Dufallo - violin, Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec, Stephen Gosling - piano/synth, Ariana Kim - violin, Chris McIntyre - trombone
Music by Ne(x)tworks
Shelley Burgon - glass trees (2007)
Cornelius Dufallo - Concerto Grosso (2004)
Yves Dharamraj - Waiting for 950 (2007)
Joan La Barbara - Scatter*
Miguel Frasconi - Tasks & Objects (2007)
Chris McIntyre - Raster for quintet*
Ariana Kim - Patterns*
Kenji Bunch - Contingencies*
* = world premiere
Santa Fe Reporter Pick of the Day
CJM (trombone, laptop, composition), Chris Jonas (saxophones, composition), rosS Hamlin (elec. gtr, bass gtr, compositions), J.A. Deane (bass flute), Katie Harlow (cello), Milton Villarrubia (perc)
The Kitchen
Friday, April 11, 8PM
[gmap]
Music of Julius Eastman and Lois V. Vierk
Julius Eastman
Stay On It (full ensemble)
Piano 2 (Joseph Kubera, piano)
Lois V. Vierk
River Beneath the River (string quartet)
Into the Brightening Air (string quartet)
Joan La Barbara - voice, Kenji Bunch - viola, Shelley Burgon - harp/elec, Yves Dharamraj - cello, Cornelius Dufallo - violin, Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec, Stephen Gosling - piano/synth, Ariana Kim - violin, Chris McIntyre - trombone
Guest:
Danny Tunick - percussion
Dialogics: Ne(x)tworks at Chelsea Art Museum [gmap]
2008 Residency
Saturday, April 5, 2PM
Joan La Barbara - new work
Miguel Frasconi - new work
Alvin Curran - Selections from The Alvin Curran Fake Book
Joan La Barbara - voice, Shelley Burgon - harp/elec, Yves Dharamraj - cello, Cornelius Dufallo - violin, Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec, Stephen Gosling - piano/synth, Chris McIntyre - trombone
PROGRAM:
Either/Or
Richard Carrick - Towards Qualia [15 min]violin, cello, piano, saxophone, flute, cimbalom/percussion
Julius Eastman - Tripodinstrumentation TBD
Andrew Byrne - White Bone Country [15 min]piano, percussion
Newspeak: Missy Mazzoli - In Spite of All This
Voice, Violin, Cello, Clarinet, Synth, Electric Guitar, Drumset, Vibraphone
David T. Little - sweet light crude
Voice, Violin, Cello, Clarinet, Synth, Electric Guitar, Drumset, Vibraphone
Oscar Bettison - Breaking & Entering (with aggravated assault)
Violin, Cello, Clarinet, Synth, Electric Guitar, Drumset, Percussion [junk metal]
INTERMISSION
combined ensemble
Sean Griffin - 2008 MATA Commission premiere
2 vocalists, 3 percussionists, cello, Electric guitar, Synthesizer/Piano
PROGRAM (1-hour each):Al Margolis - What Makes a Sound? (argument)
Stefan Moore - Three Steepings OR In::Out/Out::In
Michael Schumacher - Unintending
Amnon Wolman - Low Ground Clearance
Carl Stone - Kantipur
PROGRAMAaron Gervais - Culture No. 3 (2006)
fl/pic, cl, hn, trb, pno, perc, vn, va, vc, db
Jennifer Fitzgerald - A Thousand Machines (2007)cl, vn, pno
Nico Muhly - I Know Where Everything Is (2007)fl, cl, vn, cl
Judd Greenstein - At the end of a really great day (2007)fl, cl, vn, cl
Ziboukle Martinayite - 2008 MATA Commissionfl, cl, ob, bsn, trb, hn, pno, perc, vn, va, vc, db
Doug Henderson - The Nature of the 102nd Thing (of 10,000)Zeena Parkins/Doug Henderson - Polyphonic Projections
Diapason Gallery [http://www.diapasongallery.org/]
PROGRAMLisa Bielawa - Double Violin Concerto
NY PremiereColin Jacobsen, violin
Carla Kihlstedt, violin
Ken Ueno - On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific HypothesisNY Premiere
Ken Ueno, throat singer
Alejandro Rutty - The Conscious Sleepwalker LoopsNY Premiere
Derek Hurst - CladesWorld Premiere
Firebird Ensemble
Program:Doug Henderson - The Nature of the 102nd Thing (of 10,000)
Zeena Parkins/Doug Henderson - Polyphonic Projections
Co-producer:Diapason Gallery [http://www.diapasongallery.org/]
Orchestra Carbon performs Quarks Swim Free
Elliott Sharp and Orchestra Carbon
10pm, $10
This is the latest of E#'s algorithmic compositions for large ensemble based on genetic models, bird flocking drum choirs, and recombinant RNA.
The Stone E 2nd St & Ave C NY, NY
S.E.M Ensemble @ Experimental Intermedia
224 Centre Street, NYC [gmap], 9pm
Petr Kotik - Solos and Incidental Harmonies
Petr Kotik - String Quartet
Mary Bellamy - String Quartet
Elliott Sharp - String Quartets (2)
Petr Kotik (flute), Karl Resnick, Terry Szor (trumpet), Julie Josepheson, Chris McIntyre (trombone), Peter Wise, Joe Bergen (percussion), Conrad Harris, Lynn Bechtold (violin), Lev Zhurbin (viola), Ludmila Konstantinova (cello)
An evening of all works for the brass trio B3+ (Dave Taylor - bass trombone, John Clark - horn, Franz Hackl - trumpet) with the composer/performers. CJM premiere's his work quartet music: part 1, performing on Nord synth and laptop.
Dialogics: Ne(x)tworks at Chelsea Art Museum [gmap]
2008 Residency
Saturday, March 1, 2PM
Shelley Burgon - Josephine's Tiger
Cornelius Dufallo - H/A
NxW Trio - Emergences
Jon Gibson - Multiples & Anthem for Relative Calm
Shelley Burgon - Harp/Electronics, Yves Dharamraj - Cello, Cornelius Dufallo – Director, Violin, Miguel Frasconi - Glass Instruments/Electronics, Joan La Barbara – Voice, Chris McIntyre – Curator, Trombone/Electronics
guest artist:
Sylvie Courvoisier, piano
CJM (trombone, Nord Lead, laptop), Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon), Members of Ne(x)tworks - Shelley Burgon (harp, electronics), Miguel Frasconi (glass, electronics)
First performance of selections from morphi studies for trombone with and without electronics, along with new graphic & strategic works for improvisers. Zeena Parkins, curator.
TILT SIXtet & Chris Jonas' the Sun Spits Cherries
Issue Project Room
Opening night of Horn Week, co-curated by Chris McIntyre
TILT SIXtet
Russ Johnson & Nate Wooley - trumpet
Curtis Hasselbring & Chris McIntyre - trombone
John Altieri & Joe Exley - tuba
John King - laptop
Chris Jonas - soprano sax & conduction
TILT Brass' SIXtet project reconvenes for opening night IPR's Horn Week with music from composer, guitarist and Cunningham Co. music co-director John King, TILT's own Chris McIntyre, and a new work by soprano sax phenom Chris Jonas.
www.tiltbrass.org
L to R: CJM, John King (back), Curtis Hasselbring, Nate Wooley (back),
John Altieri, Russ Johnson, Chris Jonas, Joe Exley
Feb 6 - 9, 2008
Issue Project Room
A week of music made with wind, including TILT SIXtet, co-curated with Suzanne Fiol.
Wed 6 >TILT SIXtet >Chris Jonas' Sun Spits Cherries Thu 7 Solo|Trio >Sara Schoenbeck >Herb Robertson >Matt Bauder |
Fri 8 |
Friday, Jan 25, 2008
MATA Interval 1.2
Issue Project Room
232 3rd Street, 3rd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215
INTERVAL 1.2 Friday, January 25, 2008, 8 pm, $10 featuring Ha-Yang Kim, Matt Welch, Lukas Ligeti and Marco Cappelli with performances by Odd Appetite and Flux Quartet Curated by Ha-Yang Kim as part of the MATA Interval Curatorial Associates Program
Anthonly Coleman Music @ Brecht Forum’s Neues Kabarett
CJM performs on a piece written earlier in '07 for Ne(x)tworks called Seven at the Golden Shovel. The event features a new commissioned work for strings, performed by Jennifer Choi & Cornelius Duffalo (violins), Stephanie Griffith (viola), Alex Waterman (cello).
Neues Kabarett Myspace
Kick-off of MATA's new bi-monthly series. In co-production with IPR, the debut features the music and video with Jessica Pavone, Zach Layton and Ray Sweeten. Check the Interval page for more info.
Zach Layton's series celebrates its 4th anniversary with the annual performance of Terry Riley's In C. Featuring a real who's who, this will be the Darmstadt in Galapagos' the Williamsburg space prior to moving to DUMBO.
Ne(x)tworks traces the course of graphic scores from the 1960s to the present. This compelling array of works includes a 1961 score by Cornelius Cardew, groundbreaking works from by innovators Wadada Leo Smith and ensemble member Joan La Barbara, and Michael Shcumacher's Isometric Variations, commissioned by Ne(x)works in 2007. These scores will also be exhibited as part of the Kitchen's graphic score exhibition Between Thought and Sound: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music. Concieved by Alex Waterman, co-curated with Deb Singer and Matthew Lyons.
Wadada Leo Smith :: In the Diaspora (2005)Joan La Barbara :: Circular Song (1975)
Joan La Barbara :: in the shadow and act of the haunting place (1995)Michael Schumacher:: Grid (2007)
Cornelius Cardew :: Octet '61 for Jasper Johns (1961)
The Flexible Orchestra—a 15 piece ensemble that has an orchestral sound because of its strategic instrumentaion—presents its 4th season with premieres by M. Buzzarté, J.Fox, Goode, W. Hellermann. For 10 trombones, 2 clarinets, 2 contrabasses, piano. Plus gamelan instruments, viola, marimba. Instrumentation changes every two years. Conductor: Tara Simoncic.