Chris McIntyre / Max Kutner
Saturday, September 14⋅7:00 – 10:00pm
Singularity Music Series

DOORS at 7:00
MUSIC at 7:30
$15

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CHRIS MCINTYRE
Christopher McIntyre leads a varied career in music as a solo and ensemble performer, composer, and curator/producer. The diversity of his activities led Time Out New York to note that "...with every passing week, trombonist-composer Chris McIntyre becomes more central to the new-music experience in New York."

He performs on trombone and synthesizer in a variety of settings, from chamber music to open improvisation. Current projects include leading TILT Brass and 7X7 Trombone Band, and collaborative efforts such as UllU duo (w/ David Shively), Either/Or, and Ne(x)tworks.

His playing is heard on recordings released by the Tzadik, New World, Mode, POTTR, and Non-Site labels. In his composing, McIntyre experiments with improvisative strategies, serialized rhythmic and formal cycles, and symmetrical pitch construction. He has contributed work to the repertoire of TILT, UllU, 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, Guggenheim Museum, Issue Project Room, and The Stone (June 2007), and as Artistic Director of the MATA Festival (07-10). Visit cmcintyre.com for more info.

MAX KUTNER
Max Kutner is a guitarist, composer and instructor originally from Las Vegas, NV. As an instrumentalist, Max’s focus is on new works for the electric guitar as well the promotion of electric guitar in new performance settings. As a composer, Max translates several of his non-musical passions: namely literature and architecture, into a distinctly singular musical language that is neither strictly exclusive or accessible to performers.

Max was responsible for developing, producing and performing multiple instruments in the U.S. premiere performance of Mike Keneally’s The Universe Will Provide (REDCAT). Presently, Max is the lead guitarist of the Magic Band (John French) which performs the music of Captain Beefheart around the world. He has also performed in the Johnny Vatos Boingo Dance Party featuring former members of Oingo Boingo, the Grandmothers of Invention (Frank Zappa alumni Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Napoleon Murphy Brock) and also in the bands of Alphonso Johnson, Henry Kaiser, Daniel Rosenboom and Lili Haydn. Additionally, he leads or co-leads the groups Evil Genius (experimental jazz trio), The Royal US (folk-tronica) and Izela (quintet inspired by music from the Balkans).

His debut solo work, “Disaffection Finds Its Pure Form”, is a quasi-ambient process piece that features Kutner on 30 electric guitars simultaneously. It was jointly released in September 2017 through Silber Records and Records ad Nauseam. He followed that release with a collection of home recorded solo songs and improvisations entitled “Array” in January 2018.

Trio, Solo, Ensemble
Organized by James Ilgenfritz

An evening of improvisations:

7pm: Dan Joseph (solo dulcimer)

7:45: Miyama McQueen-Tokita, James Ilgenfritz, Jessie Cox
koto/bass/drums

8:30: Mixed Ensemble Improvisations
Chris McIntyre - trombone
Josh Sinton - baritone saxophone
Judith Berkson - voice
Dan Joseph - hammer dulcimer
Miyama McQueen-Tokita - koto
Jessie Cox - percussion
James Ilgenfritz - bass

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MY DIARY: SECRET JOURNEY TO TIPPING UTOPIA
YOSHIKO CHUMA AND THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS

Yoshiko Chuma (conceptual artist, choreographer/artistic director of The School of Hard Knocks) has been a firebrand in the post-modern dance scene of New York City since the 1980s, has been consistently producing thought-provoking work that is neither dance nor theater nor film nor any other pre-determined category. She is an artist on her own journey, a path that has taken her to over 40 "out of the way" countries and collected over 2000 artists, thinkers and collaborators of every genre since establishing her company in New York City in 1980. The School of Hard Knocks was founded as a company of diverse backgrounds. 

Score detail from Merche Blasco's Bardenas

Curated by Chris McIntyre, Either/Or presents Interactions, a program of works that focus on essentialized forms of communication. Compositions include graphic scores by Merche Blasco (Bardenas) and Zeena Parkins (Lace Pieces), Gérard Grisey’s ecstatic Solo pour Deux for bass clarinet and trombone (Vasko Dukovsky and McIntyre respectively), and the US Premiere of Johan Svensson’s Marionette for cello (John Popham) and electro-mechanical devices.

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Finola Merivale; Mary Kouyoumdijan;
Bethany Younge; William Dougherty

On May 4th at DiMenna Center in NYC, TILT Brass is excited to share an evening with our friends in Yarn/Wire. A mixed octet compliment of TILT Brass will premiere brand new works by Columbia University graduate composers William Dougherty, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Finola Merivale, and Bethany Younge.

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Either/Or presents Pop-Up Concerts: Music of Richard Carrick. Performed by Margaret Lancaster (flutes), Jennifer Choi (violin), Vasko Dukovski (clarinets), Christopher McIntyre (trombone), and Richard Carrick (piano.) Includes several compositions by Carrick and a composite work by Anthony Braxton.

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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

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NY Times Review of 2/3/18 performance

McIntyre NY Times interview

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Singularity Music Series (Kingston, NY)
Álvaro Domene, Artistic Director

· Christopher McIntyre: solo trombone
· Nick Millevoi (guitar) and Ron Stabinsky (organ) duo

 

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> CJM performed on Paraskevaídis' trombone quartet Magma II with Will Lang, Daniel Linden, and James Rogers 

This concert will draw from the experimental chamber music composed in the 1960s by fellows at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) of the Instituto Di Tella in Buenos Aires, which was a major meeting point for composers from Latin America. Composer Alberto Ginastera founded the center in 1962 and directed it until it closed in the early '70s. The program is co-curated by Americas Society's Music Director Sebastián Zubieta and musicologist Laura Novoa (Buenos Aires), and will feature performances by Momenta Quartet, among others.

Program
Graciela Paraskevaídis (Argentina, 1940–2017) Magma II (1968) for four trombones
Jorge Sarmientos (Guatemala, 1931–2012) String Quartet no. 1, op. 37 (1966)
Mariano Etkin (Argentina, 1943–2016) Entropías (1965) for two horns, trumpet, two trombones, and tuba
Estáticamóvil II (1966) for string trio

CJM playing trombone on a new work by composer Max Dulaney.

St. Peters Chelsea
346 W 20th St
New York, NY 10011

Talea In New York
Courtney Bryan: new work (2018) *World Premiere
Max Dulaney: new work (2018) *World Premiere
Rebecca Saunders: murmurs (2009) 

Sunday, March 18, 2018 - 1pm
Entry is $25 for a child with an accompanying adult
Entry for additional participant is $10

Tickets - $25 - 20

ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201

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From ISSUE Project Room Event Page:
"March 18th 2018, ISSUE hosts an interactive performance of the rhythmic game and composition Stridulations For The Good Luck Feast with Billy Martin, joined by TILT Brass and fellow musicians as a part of 2018’s Tilt Kids Festival, produced by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF). Stridulations, a study of musical phrasing, counterpoint and improvisation, is a suite of percussion compositions that functions as a collaborative game. The game is not performed to win or lose, but created by players whose primary challenge is collective improvisation.

As the final event of the 2018 Tilt Kids Festival, the event is a celebration of the week’s activities and is designed for children aged 5 through 10 years old. The event shares how rhythmic phrasing contributes to our musical vocabulary and our ability to listen, with musicians from TILT Brass also demonstrating how we apply tonality to these rhythmic patterns. Participants gain a heightened sense and purpose about making music, connecting with others and how to communicate using sound.

Instrumentation includes small bamboo sticks harvested from Martin’s bamboo grove in New Jersey, woodblocks, and recycled bottles as instruments. The event also includes performative demonstrations from Billy Martin’s “Whirlygig Dragons,” a percussion ensemble featuring Martin, Payton MacDonald, Misia Vessio, Kalun Leung, as well as TILT Brass performing a rendition of Stridulations, featuring Chris McIntyre (trombone, Director), Chris DiMeglio (trumpet, voice), Hugo Moreno (trumpet), and Jen Baker (trombone).

Among the most valuable undertakings in Billy Martin’s ongoing artistic exploration is teaching. “When I teach,” he explains, “I learn and discover methods to build my vocabulary and style, and I love to help others do the same.” His experiences as a teacher, student, and musician led him to create and direct Life on Drums, a cinematic exploration of percussion and the creative process with his childhood drum instructor, Allen Herman."

Installation view of Anthony McCall's solid light works

Four Simultaneous Soloists:
A series of performances organized by David Grubbs

Doors: 7PM
Performance: 7:30PM
Tickets: $15

March 2:
Jules Gimbrone – Objects and Electronics
Okkyung Lee – Cello
Chris McIntyre – Trombone and Synthesizer
Yoshi Wada – Bagpipes and Sirens

Full Schedule:
   FRI, JAN 19, 7PM
   FRI, FEB 2, 7PM
   FRI, FEB 16, 7PM
   THU, MAR 2, 7PM

From Pioneer Works' Event Page
"In much the same way that Anthony McCall’s solid light works when exhibited together are experienced individually and as a group, this series of musical performances scheduled to take place within the exhibition imagines four performers—four soloists—experienced individually or as an ensemble.

For each performance, four musicians are dispersed equidistantly throughout Pioneer Works’ 130-foot main hall, each situated adjacent to a solid light piece. The musicians play at a modest volume—either acoustically or with self-contained amplification—such that visitors are compelled to explore the space in order to realize different musical combinations through a succession of aural vantage points. There is no single location from which to garner an all-over sound perspective; visitors must actively bring smaller sounds into focus by approaching them within Pioneer Works’ main hall.

Each of the four musicians on a given performance can be understood alternately as a soloist paired with a solid light work or as part of an ensemble. The selection of musicians, all of whom have extensive experience as improvisers, is motivated by the idea of the first-time encounter—none of the collections of performers will have previously performed in a given configuration.

Each of these performances begins with Anthony McCall’s solid light works already running, and McCall’s pieces continue after the last concertgoer has left. In this way it is established that Four Simultaneous Soloists—not an inaccurate way to describe the four vertical works on display in the main hall—is a performance project in which Anthony McCall’s works function as preexisting entities whose mode of operation imprints itself upon the musicians.

For full schedule:

January 19:
Maria Chavez – Turntables
David Grubbs – Electric Guitar
Sarah Hennies – Percussion
C. Spencer Yeh – Violin and Voice

February 2:
Susan Alcorn – Pedal Steel Guitar
Eli Keszler – Drums and Percussion
Tomeka Reid – Cello
Nate Wooley – Trumpet

February 16:
MV Carbon – Cello
Che Chen – Woodwinds and Tape Machine
Miya Masaoka – Mono Chord, Objects and Koto, Computer
Ben Vida – Electronics

March 2:
Jules Gimbrone – Objects and Electronics
Okkyung Lee – Cello
Chris McIntyre – Trombone and Synthesizer
Yoshi Wada – Bagpipes and Sirens"

Julius Eastman: Femenine + Joy Boy with the SEM Ensemble

The Kitchen
512 W 19th St, New York, New York 10011


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Tickets $25 General / $20 Members

In the early 1970s, while still living in Buffalo, Julius Eastman began his long association with Petr Kotik's S.E.M. Ensemble. As a composer-performer with the ensemble, Eastman toured internationally. Femenine and Joy Boy, important transitional works, were performed frequently by the Ensemble, including at The Kitchen in 1975. The evening also includes a performance by poet Tracie Morris and electronic musician Hprizm.

PROGRAM:
Julius Eastman: Joy Boy (1974)
S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, Director; Kamala Sankaram, Soprano; Jeffrey Gavett, Baritone; Nate Repasz, Baritone; Petr Kotik, Flute; Sara Schoenbeck, Bassoon; Chris McIntyre, Trombone / Synthesizer; David Miller, Vibraphone / Marimbaphone; Robert Boston, Piano; Pauline Kim Harris, Violin; Conrad Harris, Viola

A New Work (2017)
Tracie Morris + Hprizm

Julius Eastman: Femenine (1974)
S.E.M. Ensemble with Christopher McIntyre
Petr Kotik, Director; Kamala Sankaram, Soprano; Jeffrey Gavett, Baritone; Nate Repasz, Baritone; Petr Kotik, Flute; Sara Schoenbeck, Bassoon; Chris McIntyre, Trombone / Synthesizer; David Miller, Vibraphone / Marimbaphone; Robert Boston, Piano; Pauline Kim Harris, Violin; Conrad Harris, Viola

The performance is part of Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental curated by Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Dustin Hurt, organized by The Kitchen with the Eastman Estate and Bowerbird.