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Saturday, October 27, 2012 8pm
Greenwich House Music School
$15 ($12)

TILT Brass presents the debut of Director Chris McIntyre’s new solo trombone program, Meta Trombone. World premiere performances of works by Anthony Coleman and McIntyre, as well as UK/Berlin composer Richard Barrett’s Basalt (1991) and McIntyre’s realization of Cage’s Variations IV (1963) involving multiple radios.

PROGRAM
John Cage Variations IV (1963, realization by McIntyre ’12)
Richard Barrett Basalt (1991)**
Anthony Coleman The Thingliness of the Thing (2012)*
Chris McIntyre Phono-Marker from Smithson Project (2012)*
*  World Premiere
** US Premiere

Trombonist, composer, and TILT Brass Director Christopher McIntyre presents Meta Trombone, a program of works for solo trombone (unaccompanied and with electronics) that presents a number of radically differing contemporary musical languages, each maintaining focus on the idiomatic sound and mechanisms of the instrument itself. Works include the ecstatically virtuosic Basalt by British “New Complexity” composer Richard Barrett, seminal indeterminate work by American music icon John Cage, and 2 world premiere performances of works by McIntyre himself (a solo live-electronic addition to his burgeoning series of works taking inspiration from American Earth artist Robert Smithson) and legendary “Downtown” New York pianist and composer Anthony Coleman.

Redmond Entwistle Walk-Through
[original score by Chris McIntyre]
Fri 11 May to Sun 17 June, 2012
Open: Wednesday-Sunday 12-6pm

CUBITT
Gallery and Studios
8 Angel Mews
London N1 9HH

Cubitt Gallery presents Walk-Through, a new film by British artist Redmond Entwistle set in the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. The film explores the site, design and philosophy of CalArts as a starting point for posing wider questions about contemporary pedagogical models and their symbiotic relationship to new forms of social, political and economic exchange that have emerged since the 1970s.

Walk-Through is devised as a tour of the CalArts campus, which moves back and forth through the institution’s history, analysing the location, design and function of the building, as well as its life in media reproductions and art history. The studied voiceover articulates the rhetoric of CalArt’s founding mission which, when read through the current moment, pinpoints an early form of cultural capital embedded within the pedagogical institution.

Slowly the tour starts to shift as we see students gather in a classroom to attend a fictional recreation of influential artist and teacher Michael Asher’s ‘Post-Studio’ class. Taking the form of critical group discussions around students’ work, the Post-Studio class pushed CalArt’s mission to ‘haul the teacher from the podium’ and activate the student in the learning process, an approach, which has subsequently become one of the primary models of teaching in art schools today, and emphasises ‘speech’ as an artistic skill.

The forensic-like atmosphere of the staged classroom discussion, which mirrors the intensity of Asher's classes that often extended late into the night, shifts the film into a space of science fiction and allegory. Some students can speak while others can’t, as whispered lines are fed to the principal actors from those at the back of the class. These first person recollections, taken from former students, are increasingly interrupted by the reading out of bureaucratic information, detailing the literal financial and infrastructural underpinning of the institution as if the students have become the mouthpiece for the institution’s memory, also hinting at the institutional critique in Asher’s own work. As the discussion progresses we begin to understand that what is being staged is an exercise in assessing the parameters of the institution’s legitimacy and the legitimacy of the class as a space within which to speak, as well as individual speech itself as a principal tool of democracy.

Borrowing formal and atmospheric motifs from 1970s giallo films by directors such as Mario Bava and Dario Argento, Walk-Through re-imagines CalArts as a site of potential intrigue, subtly calling into the question the artistic and democratic tenets embedded in the school's founding ideology, which were regularly challenged by the critical practices of faculty members such as Asher. Through a style and form that shifts from didacticism to fiction the film expresses some of the complexity of the changing status of the body, memory and language in current educational and political formations, especially at a time when government cuts threaten the viability of arts education, and the marketisation of higher education is taking place worldwide. 

Walk-Through is co-commissioned by Tramway for Glasgow International Festival 2012, International Project Space, Birmingham and Cubitt Gallery, London

More information on Walk-Through at CUBITT

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."

Members of TILT Brass projects gather to perform a wide range of rarely heard chamber works for brass, percussion and electronics by European and NYC-based composers, including the New York premiere of Herakles 2 by acclaimed German composer Heiner Goebbels.

PROGRAM
Heiner Goebbels – Herakles 2 (1992)
brass quintet, percussion, sampler
Richard Barrett – EARTH (1987-88)
trombone and perc.
Peter Zummo – Instruments (1980)
trumpet, trombone, cello, marimba
Chris McIntyre – quartet music (2010)
trumpet, horn, bass trombone, synth/perc.

PERSONNEL
Chris McIntyre – trombone, music director
Dave Shively – percussion; Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpets; Nathan Koci – French horn, synth; Matt Marks - French horn, sampler; Ben Stapp – tuba; Alex Waterman – cello

Christopher McIntyre, trombone and synthesizer
Miguel Frasconi, glass instruments & electronics
$10

These two renowned and versatile improvising composers, and long-time members of the new music ensemble Ne(x)tworks, perform together as a duo for the very first time and explore new timbral combinations and sonic trajectories.

Miguel Frasconi is a composer and improviser who uses electronics, laptop, and an instrumentarium of glass objects to create music from a uniquely imagined tradition. His glass instruments are struck, blown, stroked, smashed and otherwise coaxed into vibration. They have been called “a beautiful menagerie of pealing contraptions” by Time Out NY. Miguel has worked closely with composers John Cage, Jon Hassell, James Tenney, Morton Subotnick, and has collaborated with many choreographers, including modern dance pioneer Anna Halprin. He was a founding member of The Glass Orchestra, the internationally renowned new music ensemble featuring all glass instruments, and presently performs with Ne(x)tworks, an ensemble of “new music all-stars” (Time Out NY). He also teaches electronic music at Bard College. More info at frasconimusic.com

Christopher McIntyre leads a multi-faceted career in the contemporary arts as a solo and ensemble performer, composer, and curator/producer. Time Out New York noted that "...with every passing week, trombonist-composer Chris McIntyre becomes more central to the new-music experience in New York." (Nov. '09) Current projects include leading TILT Brass and 7X7 Trombone Band, and collaborative efforts such as Ne(x)tworks. In his composing, McIntyre has experimented with conceptual elements such as spatialization, recontextualized notated material, and improvisative strategy, along with ideas of scale, symmetrical pitch constructions, and self-similarity. He has contributed work to the repertoire of TILT, Ne(x)tworks, 7X7 Trombone Band (for choreographer Yoshiko Chuma), Flexible Orchestra, and B3+ brass trio. Beyond performing and creating music, McIntyre is also active as a curator and concert producer, with independent projects at venues including The Kitchen, Issue Project Room, and The Stone (June 2007), and as Artistic Director of the MATA Festival (07-10).

This presentation is part of the Well Weathered Music Series.

North River Music Series - Ne(x)tworks

Greenwich House Ensemble-In-Residence Kick-off Event
Ne(x)tworks Live Vol.1 Release Event
Preview of ensemble material from CJM's Smithson Project

Program
Arthur Russell - Singing Tractors (pages 1 & 2) (ca. 1987)
Jon Gibson - Multiples (1972)
Edgard Varese - untitled graphic score (ca. 1957)
Leroy Jenkins - Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America (1979)
Christopher McIntyre - Preview of material from Smithson Project (2010/11)

Personnel
Joan La Barbara (voice), Shelley Burgon (harp, baritone guitar, laptop), Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Miguel Frasconi (keyboard, laptop), Ariana Kim (violin), Stephen Gosling (piano, keyboard), Chris McIntyre (trombone)
Guests: Anthony Coleman (piano [Jenkins]), Ha-Yang Kim (cello), Danny Tunick (percussion)

www.nextworksmusic.net

MATA Sound Works
Tuesday, April 20 - Thursday, April 22

LPR Gallery Bar
6pm – 7:25pm
FREE EVENTS

Matthew Wright – Totem for Gobi-New York [2010] (World Premiere) 2010 MATA Festival Commission
Antye Greie – WORDS ARE MISSING or Six Ears, I’d Like To Have [2010] (World Premiere)
Bjørn Erik Haugen – REGRESS [2008]
Christopher McIntyre – Monuments (I. Alogon, II. Kalimpong Khor) [2010] (World Premiere)

MATA continues its annual presentation of sound works with daily presentations of multi-channel audio and video installations in Le Poisson Rouge’s Gallery Bar.

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.

Friday, January 8th, 6-8PM
Jose Alvarez – Surfaces of Constant Time
(Original music by CJM)
@
Ratio 3 Gallery [website]
1447 Stevenson Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
[gmap]
GALLERY HOURS: WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY; 11am - 6pm, and by appointment.

"The central work in the exhibition is Surfaces Of Constant Time, a new eight-minute video in which an amorphous shape fluidly breaks down into smaller units of color, melding together in constant motion, regrouping, evolving, and transforming into unexpected configurations. Paired with a soundtrack by Chris McIntyre, this video takes Alvarez’s whole concept into a shape-shifting and ever-evolving engagement."
 

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

Counterstream Radio Spotlight Session: Christopher McIntyre
Christopher McIntyre—composer, solo and ensemble performer, and curator/producer—stops by the CS studio to chat about his multifaceted career in the contemporary arts.

Tune in to Counterstream Radio July 23 @ 9 p.m. or July 26 @ 3 p.m. for music and conversation.

The Counterstream Calendar:
7/23/2009 9 p.m. Spotlight Session: Christopher McIntyre
7/26/2009 3 p.m. Spotlight Session: Christopher McIntyre

Tuesday March 31st 7:30 PM: THE KNIGHTS
An evening of chamber works by MATA Commissionee Andrew Hamilton, Ted Hearne, Sarah Snider, Francesco Antonioni, Justin Messina, Mike Block and Joseph Pereira

Wednesday April 1st 7:30 PM: SAWAKO AND NE(X)TWORKS
An electronic set by sound sculptor Sawako; New works for Ne(x)tworks by Cornelius Dufallo, Christopher McIntyre, Shelley Burgon and Kate Moore

Friday, April 3rd 7:30 PM: NOW ENSEMBLE AND BING AND RUTH
NOW Ensemble performs works by Gregory Spears, David Crowell, Missy Mazzoli, Jascha Narveson and Patrick Burke. Bing and Ruth premieres a multi-media work by MATA Commissionee David Moore and filmmaker Sebastian Cros

Saturday, April 4th 7:30 PM: SO PERCUSSION
New works for percussion quartet by MATA Commissionee Nicole Lizée, Cenk Ergün and Jason Treuting

Saturday, April 4th 4:30 PM: PANEL
PLAYING IN THE BAND: PERFORMER/COMPOSERS SPEAK
LPR Gallery Bar
A panel discussion with Sawako, Cornelius Dufallo, Mark Dancigers, Annie Gosfield and Richard Carrick. Moderated by MATA AD Chris McIntyre

Tuesday March 31st - Saturday April 4th
7:00 - 7:30 PM: SOUND INSTALLATION BY MATA COMMISSIONEE MIKE VERNUSKY
free with admission to concert events

For complete program details, composer and performer bios, and extensive sound samples,
please visit:

McIntyre/Waters Duo
&
trumpet and laptop trio
featuring Russ Johnson, Rich Johnson, and Kirk Knuffke

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

McIntyre/Waters Duo
Chris McIntyre - trombone, Nord Lead 2
Charles Waters - alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet

The McIntyre/Waters Duo features two very active New York composer/performers and good friends in a multi-instrumental improvised pairing. Woodwind specialist Charles Waters is a co-founder of comprov ensemble Gold Sparkle Band, a regular member of Adam Rudolf's GO: Orchestra and William Parker's Little Huey Creative Orchestra, and leader of various projects presenting his own compositions. His scored works have been performed by SEM Ensemble, Anti-Social Music, and MATA Micro-orchestra, among others. Chris McIntyre organizes, plays trombone, and composes for projects including TILT Brass, Ne(x)tworks, and 7X7 Trombone Band, and has been heard in groups led by Anthony Coleman, Zeena Parkins, Elliott Sharp, and David First, as well as with SEM Ensemble, The Knights, and Gold Sparkle. He's recently been heard on both trombone and Nord synthesizer playing Stockhausen at The Stone and during the Arthur Russell tribute concerts at The Kitchen.

McIntyre: cmcintyre.com & tiltbrass.org
Waters: myspace.com/goldsparkleband & concertimento.blogspot.com