Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
The Flexible Orchestra—a 15 piece ensemble that has an orchestral sound because of its strategic instrumentaion—presents its 4th season with premieres by M. Buzzarté, J.Fox, Goode, W. Hellermann. For 10 trombones, 2 clarinets, 2 contrabasses, piano. Plus gamelan instruments, viola, marimba. Instrumentation changes every two years. Conductor: Tara Simoncic.
2007 MATA Benefit
..::Celebrating MATA's 10th Anniversary and honoring co-founder Philip Glass during his 70th Birthday year. An amazing musical gathering: Jenny Lin performing Julia Wolfe's toy piano juggernaut East Broadway, Lukas Ligeti offering a sample of his electronic hybrid instrument Marimba Lumina, Carla Kihlstedt singing and bowing Lisa Bielawa's powerful Kafka Songs, and Annie Gosfield playing her gorgeous sounds, and a lot more.
,:Program:.Julia Wolfe: East Broadway for toy piano and toy boombox
Jenny Lin - toy piano
Lukas Ligeti: Great Circle's Tune for electronic percussion
composer - percussion & electronics
Daniel Bernard Roumain: Hip-Hop Study and Etude in F Minor
composer - violin, Wynne Bennett - piano
Annie Gosfield: The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory, part II
composer - keyboard, sampler
Theo Bleckmann: anteroom (excerpt)
composer - voice and electronics
Gordon Beeferman: MATA Sonata
composer - piano
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Philip Glass: Knee Play No.5 from Einstein On The Beach
Patrick Stewart, Joan La Barbara, Grethe Holby - speakers;
Lisa Bielawa, Katie Geissinger - voice; Carla Kihlstedt - violin;
Eleonor Sandresky - keyboard
Derek Bermel: Thracian Sketches for solo clarinet
composer - clarinet
Carla Kihlstedt: The Squonk & Hold My Own
composer - violin/voice, Lisa Bielawa - voice
Nick Brooke: You Feel This from Tone Test
Genevieve Belleveau - voice
Eleonor Sandresky: Conversation 1
composer - piano, computer playback
Lisa Bielawa: Selections from Kafka Songs
Carla Kihlstedt - voice & violin
Phil Klin:e Near-Perfect Clarity & The Funeral of Jan Palach
Theo Bleckmann - voice, Kathy Supové - piano
The Relay 07: Brooklyn (Williamsburg)part of Conflux Festival
..::A trio improvises in each space while the others travel between them. A welcome bit of thoughtful whimsy in this seriously hipsterized part of the borough. Really great group of players too!
The Relay musicians:
Shelley Burgon, harp
Julianne Carney, violin
Michel Doneda, soprano sax
Andrew Drury, percussion
Miguel Frasconi, glasses
Kyoko Kitamura, voice
Christopher McIntyre, trombone
Jessica Pavone, viola
Matana Roberts, sax
Sara Schoenbeck, bassoon
Alex Waterman, cello
Nate Wooley, trumpet
Jack Wright, soprano sax
Jane Rigler, flute
The setting is a 50 foot red runway in 1967. Come and see what can happen. Two trombones, one double bass and a shiny black grand piano. Dancers will pass by in 1967 fashionwear.
The presentation will begin at 6 pm and extend into the darkness. Yoshiko Chuma's "Red Carpet 1967" will alternate with 15-minute pieces by Gus Solomons, Merian Soto and Elaine Summers. (The works by Chuma, Solomons and Soto will appear twice; the work by Summers will apppear once, at the close.) The works would be site specific in the South Plaza.
Free103point9 celebrates 10 years of transmission arts at their Upstate locale. Highlights include the premiere of a site-specific iteration of CJM's piece Metaxis involving members of Stars Like Fleas, Gold Sparkle Band, among others. CJM joins Gold Sparkle for a barn burner set later in thd day as well.
View images of CJM's site-specifity performance piece Metaxis 3
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
Innerlogics
8 pm
Joan La Barbara - in the shadow and act of the haunting place (full ensemble)
Iannis Xenakis - Keren (trombone solo)
Andrew Byrne - Dragnet (piano solo)
10 pm
Cornelius Dufallo - new work (full ensemble)
Peter Zummo - Instruments (trumpet, marimba, cello, trombone)
Michael Schumacher - new work (full ensemble)
Dialogics
8 pm Music of Jon Gibson [with composer performing]
Song 1 (saxophone, string quartet)Untitled (flute, trombone, violin)
Multiples (full ensemble)
10 pm
Leroy Jenkins - Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America (violin, trombone, keyboard, electronics, perc.)
Arthur Russell - The Singing Tractors (full ensemble)
Julius Eastman - Stay On It (full ensemble)
PROGRAM* indicates first-performances
15th
8:00
Kevin Norton - Enduring Heart
Charles Waters - Concertimento #12*
Taylor Ho Bynum - preharmonic, postchordal, revamped*
10:00
Anthony Coleman - Set Into Motion
Curtis Hasselbring - Brass Piece*
Nate Wooley - There was this shadow, this double*
16th
8:00
Kevin Norton - Folk Medicine
Taylor Ho Bynum - preharmonic, postchordal, revamped*
Charles Waters - Concertimento #12*
10:00
Dave Ballou - Concerto for TILT
Nate Wooley - There was this shadow, this double*
Curtis Hasselbring - Brass Piece*
PERSONNEL
Russ Johnson, Shane Endsley, Sycil Mathai - trumpet
Joe Fiedler, Chris McIntyre, Jacob Garchik - trombone
John Clark, Ann Ellsworth - French horn
Ron Caswell - tuba
Kevin Norton - percussion
Greg Evans - conductor
Special Guest
Pandelis Karayorgis - solo piano on Water's Concertimento #12
COMPOSERS
Dave Ballou, Taylor Ho Bynum, Anthony Coleman, Curtis Hasselbring, Kevin Norton, Charles Waters, Nate Wooley
The Stone
Corner of E. 2nd St & Ave C, NYC
Taking place over two night in June 2007, ALL TILT was four sets of music written specifically for its unique instrumentation and aesthetic, including the first performance of four commissioned works. In addition to previously premiered works by TILT family members and composer friends, including such luminaries as Anthony Coleman, Kevin Norton, and Dave Ballou, ALL TILT will feature the premiere of four newly commissioned works. Commissionees include frequent TILT participants Curtis Hasselbring and Nate Wooley, and two colleagues from the field, Charles Waters and Taylor Ho Bynum.
PROGRAM
* indicates first-performances
15th
8:00
Kevin Norton - Enduring Heart
Charles Waters - Concertimento #12*
Taylor Ho Bynum - preharmonic, postchordal, revamped*
10:00
Anthony Coleman - Set Into Motion
Curtis Hasselbring - Brass Piece*
Nate Wooley - There was this shadow, this double*
16th
8:00
Kevin Norton - Folk Medicine
Taylor Ho Bynum - preharmonic, postchordal, revamped*
Charles Waters - Concertimento #12*
10:00
Dave Ballou - Concerto for TILT
Nate Wooley - There was this shadow, this double*
Curtis Hasselbring - Brass Piece*
PERSONNEL
Russ Johnson, Shane Endsley, Sycil Mathai - trumpet
Joe Fiedler, Chris McIntyre, Jacob Garchik - trombone
John Clark, Ann Ellsworth - French horn
Ron Caswell - tuba
Kevin Norton - percussion
Greg Evans - conductor
Special Guest
Pandelis Karayorgis - solo piano on Water's Concertimento #12
COMPOSERS
Dave Ballou, Taylor Ho Bynum, Anthony Coleman, Curtis Hasselbring, Kevin Norton, Charles Waters, Nate Wooley
Ne(x)tworks Composers Series
[All first performances]
8 pm
Kenji Bunch - Sand Castle #2 (full ensemble)
Miguel Frasconi - Telling Time #2 (full ensemble)
Yves Dharamraj - Waiting for 950... (string quartet)
10 pm
Shelley Burgon - Four Days (full ensemble)
Ariana Kim - new work (full ensemble)
Joe Fiedler, Ben Gerstein, Curtis Hasselbring, Richard Marriott, Chris McInytre, Steve Swell, Peter Zummo (trombone)Formed to play McIntyre's music with choreographer Yoshiko Chuma, 7X7 has performed at the River To River and Fall For Dance Festivals and Issue Project Room. This set features McIntyre's stuplimity series pieces for multiple trombones and a full ensemble reading of Fredric Rzewski's Last Judgement (subtitled "for solo trombone or any number of echoing trombones not quite in unison")
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.
CJM introduces a portion of SoHo SoLo, a program of solo pieces on trombone. This set features works by by Phil Niblock, Fredric Rzewski, Philip Glass. Also, he'll present his own stuplimity no.3 for trombone and laptop. All of this takes place during the opening set of the month-long festival Trombonophilia, which presents nearly 20 trombonist/composer/bandleaders (mostly) on Tuesday's and Thursday's in June.
PROGRAM
improvisation
CJM - stuplimity no.3
Philip Glass - 1+1
Fredric Rzewski - Last Judgment
improvisation
Listen to entire performance on Archive.org
PROGRAM:
Chris McIntyre - Metaxis 2
John King - Baghdad Blues - in memoriam James Tenney
John King - Trilogic Unity pieces
Fredric Rzewski - Les Mouton de Panurge
PERSONNEL:
Russ Johnson & Nate Wooley - trumpet
Curtis Hasselbring & Chris McIntyre - trombone
John Altieri & Joe Exley - tuba
Guests
John King - laptop, amplified viola
Michael Schumacher - analog synthesizer
Listen to entire performance on Archive.org
Ne(x)tworks celebrates both the release of Tracer, a new CD/DVD on MODE Records, and the 80th birthday of the revered American composer Earle Brown with a full program of chamber works at Chelsea Art Museum (CAM). The program, entitled An Earle Brown Retrospective, will highlight Ne(x)tworks' singular approach to Brown’s music, and features the ensemble and several of its stellar members.
CJM is Co-Curator of the festival, and he's creating and premiering a new work for solo trombone and electronics.
In preparation to record this work in May for New World Records, a truly stellar group of musicans gather for a workshop performance. Commissioned by the Kitchen for the House Blend, CJM played on the premiere of Lapidation.
Personnel:
Anthony Coleman - composition & conductor
Steve Gosling - piano
Cornelius Dufallo - violin
Dan Barrett - cello
Sean Conly - bass
Marty Ehrlich - tenor sax
Doug Wieselman - E flat clarinet
CJ Camerieri - trumpet
Chris McIntyre - trombone
Kevin Norton - percussion
Jim Pugliese - percussion
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).
Ne(x)tworks reconvenes at IPR for 2nd Hearing of Kenji Bunch's opera Woman in the Dunes. Read Alex Ross' New Yorker review of our April performance.
Part of IPR's 2nd Hearings Festival, which gives composers a chance to retry works that haven't been performed since their premiere. CJM presents two Ne(x)tworks pieces: VOIDS (2003), featuring the uncanny trompette of Peter Evans, and silOM (2006), a site-specific sound installation created for the groups residency SILOMUSIC. In additon, members of the 7X7 Trombone Band will perform material from Sundown, the critically acclaimed collaboration with choreographer Yoshiko Chuma that premiered at IPR in late July.
PERFORMERSMembers of the CJM's 7X7 Trombone Band
Jacob Garchik, Curtis Hasselbring, Richard Marriott, Stephen Swell, Peter Zummo - trombonePeter Evans - trumpet
Chris McIntyre - trombone, electronics, and compositions
PROGRAMsilOM [March 2006]
site-specific sound installation
stuplimity no.2 (music for Sundown) [July 2006]folio of collaborative pieces for five or more trombones
VOIDS [June 2003]for trumpet, trombone and sound
Quarks Swim Free is E#'s algorithmic piece for Orchestra Carbon. For 11 or more musicians and based on prime numbers, Quarks Swim Free creates a dense primordial soup filled with high-energy collisions, gnashing grooves, and warped melodies. Quarks Swim Free premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2003. This performance will be captured by noted documentarian Bert Shapiro for his film on E#'s work.
Michael J. Schumacher and CJM reconvene as cjMjs to perform during the monthly {R}AKE series at the Williamsburg restuarant & A/V fun house known as Monkey Town.