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  • Either/OR: Transpositions - Music by Braxton, Obadike   map

    Sunday, December 8, 2024 - 8:00pm

    Transpositions: Music by A. Braxton, M. & K. Obadike
    Sunday, December 8, 2024
    8:00 PM 9:30 PM

    Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew
    520 Clinton Avenue Brooklyn, NY, 11238

    Either/Or presents an evening of works that situate the players and their audience in a compelling dialogic relationship between notation and improvisation, featuring Anthony Braxton's pivotal and rarely heard Composition No.98 (1981) for quartet and selections from Mendi + Keith Obdike's graphic score collection Big House/Disclosures (2007).



    Composition No.98

    Braxton's Composition No.98 (1981) is a pivotal work in the prolific composer/performer's oeuvre, fully realizing the total fusion of conventional and visual notation. EO brings together a special quartet to revive this rarity, featuring James Fei (long-time Braxton collaborator) on woodwinds, Jonathan Finlayson on trumpets, Chris McIntyre on trombones and euphonium, and Richard Carrick on keyboards.

    Excerpt from Big House/Disclosures

    At the excellent new Brooklyn venue Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew, EO is also revisiting Mendi + Kieth Obadike's Big House/Disclosures (2007), the fecundated collection of graphic scores “...inspired by Nigerian nsibidi writing, European music notation, and architectural drawings.” Big House/Disclosure was the inaugural work in the Obadike's ongoing series of multimedia works entitled The Americana Suites.

    PERSONNEL
    James Fei (woodwinds), Johnathan Finlayson (trumpets), Chris McIntyre (trombones, euphonium), Richard Carrick (keyboards)



    Either/Or - Anthony Braxton composer portrait at Miller Theatre (Sep. 2019)
    L to R: Chris Mcintyre, richard carrick, james fei, jonathan finlayson
    detail of photo by Anthony creamer  

  • Stephen Prina "A Lick and a Promise" // MoMA   map

    Monday, September 1, 2025 - Saturday, December 20, 2025


    Stephen Prina. The Top Thirteen Singles from Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles Chart for the Week Ending September 11, 1993. 1993. Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York




    CJM revisits his 2015 collaboration with interdiciplinary artist Stephen Prina, music directing and playing trombone throughout the 3 month performance retrospective. Full details TBA in early 2025. 

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Ne(x)tworks Residencies 2006 - 2008

As curator for Ne(x)tworks from 2006 to 2009, I was responsible for programming concerts for this stellar group of "new music all-stars" (TIme Out), including three annual multi-event residencies:

SILOMUSIC // Residency at ISSUE Project Room, Spring 2006
> Works by Cornelius Dufallo & Chris McIntyre / March 22
> Kenji Bunch's Confessions of the Woman in the Dunes (premiere) / April 19
> WoolfSong (excerpt from opera-in-progress) / May 17 
> Ne(x)tworks Collaborates / June 7

Ne(x)tworks 2007 // Residency at The Stone, June 2007
Ne(x)tworks Composers / June 10
> 8 pm - Works by Kenji Bunch, Miguel Frasconi, Yves Dharamraj
> 10 pm - Works by Shelley Burgon, Ariana Kim, Shelley Burgon
Dialogics / June 17
> 8 pm - Works by Jon Gibson [with composer performing]
> 10 pm - Works by Leroy Jenkins, Arthur Russell, and Julius Eastman
Innerlogics / June 24
> 8 pm - Works by Joan La Barbara, Iannis Xenakis, Anthony Coleman, Andrew Byrne
> 10 pm - Works by Cornelius Dufallo, Peter Zummo, Michael Schumacher 

Dialogics // Residency at Chelsea Art Museum, Spring 2008
March 1
Works by Shelley Burgon, Cornelius Dufallo, NxW Trio, Jon Gibson
April 5
Works by Joan La Barbara, Miguel Frasconi, and Alvin Curran
May 3
Works by Shelley Burgon, Cornelius Dufallo, Yves Dharamraj, Joan La Barbara, Miguel Frasconi, Chris McIntyre, Ariana Kim, Kenji Bunch