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
 

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.

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.

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L to R: CJM, John King (back), Curtis Hasselbring, Nate Wooley (back),
John Altieri, Russ Johnson, Chris Jonas, Joe Exley

Trombonophilia Finale - A Stone BenefitThe rousing closing event of the month long trombone festival featuring many of NYC's stellar practitioners of the posaune!

Steve Swell, CJM, Johannes Lauer, Scott Reeves - trombone

Composer and impresario John Zorn has invited CJM to curate the month of June at The Stone. More details will be available in the coming weeks, but several events are already in the works:

• Trombonophilia - Month-long series/festival featuring an amazing roster of projects by NYC's extraordinarily deep pool of trombonist/composer/band leaders

• TILT Brass Band: ALL TILT - Newly commissioned works by band memebers and composer friends receive first performances over two nights.

• Ne(x)tworks Residency - 10th, 17th, & 24th. Includes premieres by group members Shelley Burgon, Yves Dharamraj, Miguel Frasconi, and Ariana Kim.

PROGRAM

improvisation
CJM - stuplimity no.3
Philip Glass - 1+1
Fredric Rzewski - Last Judgment
improvisation

Listen to entire performance on Archive.org

CJM is Co-Curator of the festival, and he's creating and premiering a new work for solo trombone and electronics.

NY Times Review of 3/20 concert

Composer and trombonist Christopher McIntyre has been developing a number of large ensemble projects in the past few years, both as a leader and collaborator. Several of them will fill Roulette's stage during this event, including TILT Brass Band, Lotet and Ne(x)tworks. A thread that carries through each group is both technical and spiritual: mapping the space between composition and improvisation. In the process of making pieces for these bands, an immersive and colorful aesthetic has emerged in McIntyre's work. Tonight's program offers a full evening of this repertoire, as well as new works commissioned by Roulette with support from the Jerome Foundation and performed by an impressive array of new music’s heaviest-hitters. 

The first half of the performance features scores written for the composer/performer band Ne(x)tworks, including the premiere of Herkimer [string_sets], a set of dynamic "rhythmicles" for strings and electronics.

Ne(x)tworks is Joan La Barbara (voice), Stephen Gosling (synthesizer), Kenji Bunch (viola), Yves Dharamraj (cello), Cornelius Dufallo & Ariana Kim (violins), Shelley Burgon (harp & electronics), Miguel Frasconi (glass instruments & electronics) Peter Evans (trumpet) and McIntyre (trombone & director).

Members of the McIntyre-led ensembles TILT Brass Band and Lotet, along with some very special guests, join forces on the second half to perform a set of isomorphic & abstracted musical structures. In addition to expanded works from the Lotet repertoire, "LoTILT's" set includes Metaxis, an electro-acoustic environment that uses a hybrid score of cellular and strategic notation. Grouped in pairs, the instrumentation on hand fuses the timbral bliss of TILT with the low frequency undulations of Lotet's live-electronics.

With: Nate Wooley & Peter Evans (trumpet), Curtis Hasselbring & Steve Swell (trombone), Ron Caswell & Joe Exely (tuba), Charles Waters (bass clarinet), Colin Stetson (bass saxophone), Kato Hideki (bass & live-electronics), John King (live-electronics & guitar), Ryan Sawyer & Mick Rossi (percussion), and McIntyre (trombone & director).
 

7-hour installation performances of Sundown. Includes our 7 trombones, 7 dancers, Yoshiko's 7X7 ft. cubes, video projections, all within the urban industrial oasis of IPR's Carroll Garden's site.

NY Times Preview

NY Times Review

Village Voice Review

NY Theater Wire Review

Gay City News Review

Premiere of Elements (for Tenney), a commission work by CJM for 11 trombones and mixed quartet. Also featured on the program are new or revised works by Daniel Goode, Barbara Benary, and Peter Zummo, as well as the "resurrection" of Fredric Rzewski's Last Judgment (subtitled for solo trombone, or several echoing trombones not quite in unison).

Flexible Orchestra personnel:

trombones:
Monique Buzzarte
Darryl Gregory
Curtis Hasselbring
Ben Herrinigton
Kevin James
Bridget Macdonald
CJM
Steve Swell
Dave Taylor
Deborah Weisz
Peter Zummo

Barbara Benary - viola
Daniel Goode - Bflat clarinet
JD Parran - Bflat and alto clarinet, alto saxophone
Mustafa Ahmed & Chris Nappi - percussion 

SILOMUSIC: Ne(x)tworks 2006

Ne(x)tworks embarks on a season-long residency at the new Brooklyn home of IPR in Carrol Gardens, featuring a different program each month,

New and revised works for the group by violinist/composer Cornelius Dufallo and CJM, including a collaborative work that features a multi-channel sound installation by McIntyre within which Dufallo presents a new ensemble work.

PRESS RELEASE 

2005 Fall For Dance Festival
City Center, NYC

Repeat performance of Chuma's 2005 River To River Festival site-determined intermedia work 7x7x7x7x7, featuring CJM's trombone septet score Stuplimity No.1.

 

DEBUT PERFORMANCE

7x7 members: CJM, Joe Fiedler, Jacob Garchik, Ben Gerstein, Richard Marriot, Steve Swell, and Peter Zummo

Detailed 7x7 information

As part of the River to River Fest 2005