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)

Entitled TILT Brass presents TILT 10: An Anniversary Celebration, our 27 June Roulette event is TILT 10 Festival's flagship concert. In addition to works from TILT's repertoire, this program includes the world premiere of 4 commissioned works by local and international composers. This extraordinary evening of new brass music is being performed by 3 different instrumental combinations: TILT Brass Sextet, the founding 10-piece ensemble TILT Creative Brass Band, and a new group, TILT Zug Septet.

Roulette June 27 Artist Info: Composers | Players

PROGRAM
Lainie Fefferman Big Breath (2013)* - Sextet
Enno Poppe (DE) Zug (2008)** - Zug Septet
Filippo Perocco (IT) new work* - Creative Brass Band
Anthony Coleman Acute Corzya (2009) - Sextet
[Intermission]
Chris McIntyre Dedifferentiation No. 1 (2013)* - Sextet & UllU
Mario Diaz de Leon Bellum (2013)* - Zug Septet
Andrew Hamilton (IR) Love and Goodness (2013)* - Creative Brass Band
Jon Gibson Multiples (1972) - TILT Brass tutti
* = world premiere
** = US premiere

PERSONNEL Conductor: Ted Hearne Trumpet: Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold, Chris DiMeglio Trombone: Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Chris McIntyre, Will Lang Horn: David Byrd-Marrow, Jason Sugata Tuba: Joe Exley, Dan Peck Percussion: Chris Nappi, David Shively UllU: Chris McIntyre & David Shively

Roulette Event Page
Facebook Event Page
TILT 10 Festival Page

On 9 November, CJM makes his Italian debut performing during an all-Cage program in Treviso with local ensemble L'Arsenale. The event includes McIntyre's realization of Variations IV (1963), as well as selections from Freeman Etudes (1977-90) by internationally renowned violinist Marco Fusi, various works for percussion by Simone Beneventi, and selections from Sonatas and Interludes (1948) by Roberto Durante. The concert, along with a lecture by Italian composer and musicologist Marco Lenzi and multi-channel sound presentation by Giorgio Klauer, is being co-presented (with l’Ordine degli Architetti) throughout the Ex Palazzo della Provincia di Treviso, an unused, architecturally beautiful 1960's local government building near the center of "the little Venice." 

From L'arsenale Facebook Event page:
"Una grande festa dedicata a John Cage presso lo spazio sorprendente dell’ex-palazzo della Provincia dove L’arsenale rianimerà le stanze vuote con lavori scritti dal compositore americano o da artisti che a lui si sono ispirati. Installazioni, concerti, elettronica, funghi..."

PERSONNEL
Christopher McIntyre - trombone, Marco Fusi - violino, Roberto Durante - pianoforte, Simone Beneventi - percussioni, Giorgio Klauer - elettronica

All part of the month-long Festival L'arsenale 2012 in Treviso, Italia

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.

"Listen to experimental 1950s music by composers such as Earle Brown, John Cage, Giacinto Scelsi, and Karlheinz Stockhausen in the museum’s rotunda while viewing works by Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock, Antoni Tàpies, and more in Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960. Christopher McIntyre directs an all-star ensemble featuring musicians from the International Contemporary Ensemble, Ne(x)tworks, and Either/Or, among others. A talk by composer R. Luke DuBois precedes the performance."

Event page on guggenheim.org/patterns

PERSONNEL:
conductor - Ted Hearne
violin - Cornelius Dufallo
violin - Miranda Cuckson
viola - Anne Lanzilotti
cello - John Popham
clarinet - Josh Rubin
bass clarinet - Christa Van Alstine
English horn - Emily DiAngelo
trumpet - Gareth Flowers
horn - Rachel Drehmann
trombone - Chris McIntyre
percussion - David Shively
electronics (Cage) - R. Luke Dubois

PROGRAM:
Pierre Schaeffer - Cinq études de bruits (5 studies of noise) (1948)
Pre-concert sound work

Edgard Varése - untitled graphic score (ca. 1957)
Hearne, Rubin, Flowers, McIntyre, Cuckson, Dufallo, Lanzilotti, Popham, Shively

Toru Takemitsu - Landscape (1960)
Cuckson, Dufallo, Lanzilotti, Popham

Earle Brown - November '52 ("Synergy") from Folio and Four Systems (1953)
McIntyre, Shively

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Klavierstüke XI (1956)
Gosling

Morton Feldman - Projection 4 (1951)
Dufallo, Gosling

Giacinto Scelsi - Kya (movements 2 & 3) (1958)
Hearne, Rubin (solo), Van Alstine, Farah, Flowers, Drehmann, McIntyre, Lanzilotti, Popham

John Cage - Concert for piano, violins 1 & 2, clarinet, trumpet, and sliding trombone (1958)
& Fontana Mix [realized by R.L. Dubois] (1958/2012)
Gosling, Cuckson, Dufallo, Rubin, Flowers, Drehmann, McIntyre, Dubois

On Thursday, June 14th, at Incubator Arts Project, composer and multi-instrumentalist Chris McIntyre presents the debut performance of his new band project, UllU. This "preview" of the group is a collaborative duo iteration with the extraordinary percussionist David Shively (Either/Or). Also featured for part of the performance is special guests James Fei on sopranino saxophone, Taylor Levine, guitar, and Eli Keszler on percussion.

The music of UllU is a percussive, "harmonic", and textural mix of ideas; a dialectical investigation of pure and damaged symmetry, unified and polyvalent sonic images. Strategic and notated compositional material is used to create audible yet illusive formal structures. Rhythmic and linear content moves in and out of entrainment kaleidoscopically. The use controlled feedback and on-stage multi-channel amplification (outputting instrumental sound and electronics) modulates the shifting dimensionality of UllU's ensemble sound.

More info: www.incubatorarts.org/music.html

David Shively - www.resonantobjects.com

Special Guests:

James Fei - www.jamesfei.com
 



 

Eli Keszler - www.elikeszler.com

Taylor Levine

A free and open-to-the-public workshop led by composer/performer and former MATA Artistic Director Christopher McIntyre. This inclusive and open discussion will revolve around individual experiences as composing performers within concert music and beyond, isolating and addressing basic nuts and bolts concerns for this expanding field of artists.

With composer/performers from the 2012 MATA Festival and special guest violinist and composer Todd Reynolds.

You must RSVP at infomatafestival [dot] org if you wish to attend.

BMI
7 World Trade Center
250 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10007-0030

More info on matafestival.org

On February 25 & 26, 2012, Greenwich House Music School (GHMS) and North River Music present Ne(x)tworks in Music Without Dance, a festival focusing on recent and historical musical works originally created for performance with choreographed movement. Programed and performed by Ne(x)tworks (GHMS’s Ensemble-In-Residence), Music Without Dance’s two concert programs include music by several ensemble member composers as well as guests such as John King, Jon Gibson, Annea Lockwood, and David Behrman. On the afternoon of the 26th, Ne(x)tworks and North River Music host a panel event with several featured composers and a number of local choreographers including Yoshiko Chuma, among others. Topics for discussion include the evolving dialectic between contemporary dance and music communities, working processes and collaborative models, and how music functions in the context of dance or theater versus the effect of music in concert format.

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."

University Settlement
184 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002

Purchase Tickets ($10) at tiltbrass.org/tickets

At University Settlement on Friday and Saturday, September 30 and October 1, 2011, TILT Brass presents the World Premiere of GARDEN II: House, a newly commissioned intermedia work (music and video) by Santa Fe-based composer, performer, media artist and United States Artists Simon Fellow Chris Jonas. In addition to the integral video and installation production work by Santa Fe-based Littleglobe, GARDEN II: House features local heroes of creative music Herb Robertson on trumpet and Joe Fiedler on trombone, along with the composer on soprano saxophone and TILT Brass Director Chris McIntyre also on trombone. House is staged within the unusual set-up of a cube of transparent video screens that envelop the performing quartet. This innovative blend of acoustic musical interactivity with three dimensional video projection garnered the project a prestigious Meet the Composer Commissioning Music/USA award in 2010.

TILT House Quartet:
Chris Jonas (soprano sax), Herb Robertson (trumpet), Joe Fiedler and Chris McIntyre (trombone).

Complete Press Release for GARDEN II: House
GARDEN page at Littleglobe.org
Soundcloud playlist of GARDEN, others Jonas work

On June 21st, MATA presents TILT Brass performing SWELTER, a large-scale musical event in Central Park as part of Make Music New York. The performance brings together 50+ brass players positioned around Central Park Lake to play a new ambient music-scape by three Australian sound artists Julian Day, Luke Jaaniste and Janet McKay which the audience will experience from row boats on the water.

SWELTER is part of Day, Jaaniste & McKay's ongoing project Super Critical Mass (supercriticalmass.com) which has appeared in various spaces since 2008. In each event they bring together large numbers of the same kind of instrument (eg 30 clarinets, 80 flutes) and use simple instructions to create complex and beautiful site-specific works. The instructions respond to different skill levels so that a wide range of players can participate, from young performers through to world-class professionals.
 

TILT Brass is a Brooklyn-based experimental music organization dedicated to expanding the world of contemporary brass performance by producing innovative concert programs and recording projects, and by commissioning new works for its two ensembles, TILT Creative Brass Band (CBB) and TILT SIXtet. Since forming in 2003, TILT Brass has presented the work of over 50 composers, including group members and local colleagues, as well as established masters. TILT’s repertoire engages its audience with musical experiences ranging from sonorous soundscapes to the raucous strains of a street band, from freely improvised explorations to the precision and clarity of fully notated chamber music (often combining the latter two within a single work).

SUPER CRITICAL MASS (SCM) is a large-scale performance/installation project that explores spatialised masses of musicians playing identical instruments within public places. There is no conductor, scores or music stands -- instead performers execute simple ‘algorithms’ for sounds and often movement that build up complex, evolving textures. The simplicity of means allows for performers of various backgrounds and ages to participate whilst creating complex interactions. The results are immersive and often meditative performance-installations, articulating both instrument and architecture, within which audiences freely move about or simply sit back and take it in. SCM is thus a unique take on the traditional orchestra, community arts, sound installation and public arts projects.

MATA (matafestival.org) is a non-profit organization that has, for the past fourteen years, been dedicated to commissioning and presenting works by young composers from around the world. MATA’s directors are motivated by a desire to create community among young musicians, especially those whose work defies definition and doesn’t fit into existing institutions. By providing young composers with a professional performance of their work, access to first-rate performers and valuable connections to colleagues, MATA nurtures their entry into American musical life.

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.