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Photo: Suzanne Fiol, February 2006 outside ISSUE Project Room Carroll Street Silo; for use on Ne(x)tworks' 2006 SILOMUSIC Artists-In-Residence brochure.

Thursday, October 24th, 2019, New York’s long-running creative music ensemble Ne(x)tworks presents its final performance at ISSUE Project Room, taking place during the exhibition Suzanne Fiol: TEN YEARS ALIVE which presents visual works by ISSUE’S founder Suzanne Fiol. The career-spanning program nods in many of the directions explored since the group’s first concert in June 2003, showcasing graphic and hybrid scores that expose the conceptual root elements of the Ne(x)tworks project.

The October 24th program includes historical graphic works by John Cage (Selections from Song Books [1970]) and Cornelius Cardew (selections from Schooltime Compositions [1968]) and spatialized works by Netherlands-based Australian composer Kate Moore (Sensitive Spot [2005] for solo piano and multi-channel audio, featuring group co-founder Steven Gosling) and co-founder Chris McIntyre (Sigmar [from 0] [2004], re-sited for ISSUE’s Boerum Place location from the original E. 6th St. space). Developing work by its composer-performer membership has been a foundational idea for Ne(x)tworks from its inception. In addition to McIntyre’s piece this concert highlights work by long-time members Miguel Frasconi (selections from his photographic score series Ne(x)traits [2009, rev 2019]), Shelley Burgon (the free flowing, through-composed glass trees [2007]), and Words on Water (shimmer) by esteemed vocalist and co-founder Joan La Barbara, progenitor (with co-founder Cornelius Dufallo) of the composer-performer ensemble concept that became Ne(x)tworks.

Ne(x)tworks’ relationship with ISSUE Project Room began early in both organizations’ histories. A number of seminal concerts in the group’s development were staged at ISSUE’s original East 6th Street and subsequent Carroll Street silo locations, including a collaborative festival event (with Whitney Museum) in 2005 presenting the music of James Tenney that brought new attention to the still-fledgling presenter. A strong bond grew between these musicians and ISSUE Founder Suzanne Fiol. This creative and interpersonal energy led to ISSUE enlisting Ne(x)tworks as one of its first official Artists In Residence (AIR) during the first half of 2006. Taking place in and around the silo on the Gowanus Canal, the group’s four residency concerts were artistically and creatively pivotal and provided focus that led Ne(x)tworks toward much of the acclaimed work they have pursued to this day.

PERSONNEL:
Joan La Barbara - voice, Co-Founder
Shelley Burgon - harp/elec., Member since 2006
Yves Dharamraj - cello, Member since 2006
Cornelius Dufallo - violin, Co-Founder
Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec., Member since 2006
Stephen Gosling - piano/synth, Co-Founder
Stephanie Griffin - viola, long-time collaborator
Ariana Kim - violin, Member since 2006
Chris McIntyre - trombone/elec., Co-Founder
Danny Tunick - percussion, long-time collaborator

PROGRAM (details on IPR Event Page)
John Cage Selections from Song Books (1970) [pre-concert]
Kate Moore Sensitive Spot (Music Out of The City) (2005)
Miguel Frasconi Ne(x)traits (2009, rev 2019)
Chris McIntyre Sigmar [from 0] (2004/19)
Shelley Burgon glass trees (2007)
Cornelius Cardew Selections from Schooltime Compositions (1968)
Joan La Barbara Words on Water (Shimmer) (2008, rev 2019)
 

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TILT Brass returns to the annual FONT Festival to present an all-trumpet program featuring Julius Eastman’s recently realized work Trumpet from 1970 and Lois V. Vierk’s rarely heard sextet Cirrus (1987), along with compositions by Jon Gibson and TILT Director Chris McIntyre, and Eastman’s Joy Boy (1974). The performance takes place at Mannes School of Music at The New School. Brass students from the school will participate in a workshop with members of TILT and will join the group in performing Joy Boy and Gibson’s Multiples (1972.)

TILT Brass Trumpets performing Julius Eastman's Trumpet (1970) at The Kitchen[/caption]

TILT Brass Trumpets:
Jaimie Branch
Chris Bubolz
Wayne du Maine
Jonathan Finlayson
Gareth Flowers
Sam Jones
Tim Leopold
Hugo Moreno
Chris McIntyre, conductor & musical director

PROGRAM
Julius Eastman - Joy Boy (1974)
Chris McIntyre - Presencing Piece No.1 (Mannes Siting) (2014/18)
Julius Eastman - Trumpet (1970)
Lois V. Vierk - Cirrus (1987)
Jon Gibson - Multiples (1972)

Ron Hammond's 1970 image of Eastman and the first page of the original score for Trumpet

PRESS for Trumpet
NY Times Review of 2/3/18 performance

McIntyre NY Times interview

Lea Bertucci and I meet up at Cantina Cenci in Tarzo, Veneto, IT, to revisit material from our Dec. 2016 collaboration at ISSUE Project Room. 

Produced by Clocktower
Curated by Lea Bertucci.

Site : Sound Exhibition and Showcase - A sonic portrait and re-telling of the Site : Sound series, with performances by Eli Keszler, Stine Motland, Lea Bertucci, TILT Brass, and Ashcan Orchestra at Knockdown Center in Queens, NY. TILT's performance includes the premiere of a new version of Director Chris McIntyre's Runnegackonck Presencing for spatialized brass and multi-channel fixed media.

Site : Sound is a host of intimate site-specific lectures, sonic-spatial interventions, and performances celebrating the pliancy and tactility of acoustic experience. Taking place across three boroughs of New York City from April 23 to June 25, 2017, twelve contemporary sound artists, composers, and instrumentalists invite the public to channel their curiosity and join in an exploration of the auditory sense.

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 Knockdown Center

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."

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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). 

thestonenyc.com
Corner of Ave C & E. 2nd St, Manhattan
8PM, $10

Zeena Parkins and UllU (CJM and David Shively) join forces at The Stone in a first-time collaboration during Zeena's residency week.

Zeena Parkins - electric, acoustic harps, synth, things
UllU duo:
   Chris McIntyre - trombone, synths, tapes
   Dave Shively - feedback drums, metals, tapes

FB Page for Zeena's Stone Residency

TILT Brass, 2014 Look & Listen Festival, Invisible Dog Arts Ctr

TILT Brass presents the 2015 installment of To TILT, its on-going series of concerts and recordings that feature work created for the organization's specific forces and skills. The program at University Settlement includes newly commissioned works written for TILT Brass Sextet by Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, and trombonist/composer and long-time TILT performer Jacob Garchik.

The Sextet will also premiere an expanded version of TILT Director Chris McIntyre's multi-movement work Fabrics (2014-15) and his transcriptions from Arthur Russell's Tower of Meaning, composed in the early 1980's.

This event takes place during a set of concerts co-organized by TILT and our stellar colleagues at Either/Or (performing on June 10th and 13th.) Located on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the excellent acoustics of University Settlement's Speyer Hall is a perfect venue for these not-to-be-missed concerts during NYC's busy Summer season.


Either/Or at Miller Theater

TILT Brass kicks off its Spring 2015 season at JACK, an intimate neighborhood multi-arts venue located in Clinton Hill. The program revisits TILT's creative music origins with work highlighting the improvisational skill and experience of its players. The program features a wide range of recent and classic graphic and strategic scores. Composers include Berlin-based English composer and electronic musician Richard Barrett, an early composition by legendary composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton, and selections from Cornelius Cardew's touchstone graphic score Treatise.

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Detail from Braxton's "Comp. 18" (1971) 

PERSONNEL
Chris McIntyre - Music Director, trombone
trumpet Timothy Leopold, Andrew Kozar, Tom Verchot
trombone Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Will Lang, James Rogers (bass)
Nathan Koci - horn, accordion

PROGRAM
Anthony Braxton 8KN-(J-6) [aka Comp. 18] (1971)
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                                       R10
Cornelius Cardew Selections from Treatise (1963-67)
Richard Barrett Codex XII (2013)
Other works TBA

TILT Brass' Chamber Music Show feat. TILT Brass Trombones
Performers include: Chris McIntyre, Jacob Garchik, Dave Nelson, Will Lang, Jen Baker, James Rogers

Tentative Program:
Jacob Druckman - Animus 1 (for solo trombone and tape) (1966)
Giacinto Scelsi - Three Pieces (for trombone) (1957)
Peter Zummo - work from 1980's
Iannis Xenakis - Keren (for solo trombone) (1986)
Chris McIntyre - premiere of new septet piece 
Phill Niblock - A Third Trombone (1979) (live septet version)