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PROGRAMLisa Bielawa - Double Violin Concerto
NY PremiereColin Jacobsen, violin
Carla Kihlstedt, violin
Ken Ueno - On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific HypothesisNY Premiere
Ken Ueno, throat singer
Alejandro Rutty - The Conscious Sleepwalker LoopsNY Premiere
Derek Hurst - CladesWorld Premiere
Firebird Ensemble
Program:Doug Henderson - The Nature of the 102nd Thing (of 10,000)
Zeena Parkins/Doug Henderson - Polyphonic Projections
Co-producer:Diapason Gallery [http://www.diapasongallery.org/]
Orchestra Carbon performs Quarks Swim Free
Elliott Sharp and Orchestra Carbon
10pm, $10
This is the latest of E#'s algorithmic compositions for large ensemble based on genetic models, bird flocking drum choirs, and recombinant RNA.
The Stone E 2nd St & Ave C NY, NY
S.E.M Ensemble @ Experimental Intermedia
224 Centre Street, NYC [gmap], 9pm
Petr Kotik - Solos and Incidental Harmonies
Petr Kotik - String Quartet
Mary Bellamy - String Quartet
Elliott Sharp - String Quartets (2)
Petr Kotik (flute), Karl Resnick, Terry Szor (trumpet), Julie Josepheson, Chris McIntyre (trombone), Peter Wise, Joe Bergen (percussion), Conrad Harris, Lynn Bechtold (violin), Lev Zhurbin (viola), Ludmila Konstantinova (cello)
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.
Dialogics: Ne(x)tworks at Chelsea Art Museum [gmap]
2008 Residency
Saturday, March 1, 2PM
Shelley Burgon - Josephine's Tiger
Cornelius Dufallo - H/A
NxW Trio - Emergences
Jon Gibson - Multiples & Anthem for Relative Calm
Shelley Burgon - Harp/Electronics, Yves Dharamraj - Cello, Cornelius Dufallo – Director, Violin, Miguel Frasconi - Glass Instruments/Electronics, Joan La Barbara – Voice, Chris McIntyre – Curator, Trombone/Electronics
guest artist:
Sylvie Courvoisier, piano
CJM (trombone, Nord Lead, laptop), Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon), Members of Ne(x)tworks - Shelley Burgon (harp, electronics), Miguel Frasconi (glass, electronics)
First performance of selections from morphi studies for trombone with and without electronics, along with new graphic & strategic works for improvisers. Zeena Parkins, curator.
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.
www.tiltbrass.org
L to R: CJM, John King (back), Curtis Hasselbring, Nate Wooley (back),
John Altieri, Russ Johnson, Chris Jonas, Joe Exley
Feb 6 - 9, 2008
Issue Project Room
A week of music made with wind, including TILT SIXtet, co-curated with Suzanne Fiol.
Wed 6 >TILT SIXtet >Chris Jonas' Sun Spits Cherries Thu 7 Solo|Trio >Sara Schoenbeck >Herb Robertson >Matt Bauder |
Fri 8 |
Friday, Jan 25, 2008
MATA Interval 1.2
Issue Project Room
232 3rd Street, 3rd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215
INTERVAL 1.2 Friday, January 25, 2008, 8 pm, $10 featuring Ha-Yang Kim, Matt Welch, Lukas Ligeti and Marco Cappelli with performances by Odd Appetite and Flux Quartet Curated by Ha-Yang Kim as part of the MATA Interval Curatorial Associates Program
Anthonly Coleman Music @ Brecht Forum’s Neues Kabarett
CJM performs on a piece written earlier in '07 for Ne(x)tworks called Seven at the Golden Shovel. The event features a new commissioned work for strings, performed by Jennifer Choi & Cornelius Duffalo (violins), Stephanie Griffith (viola), Alex Waterman (cello).
Neues Kabarett Myspace
Kick-off of MATA's new bi-monthly series. In co-production with IPR, the debut features the music and video with Jessica Pavone, Zach Layton and Ray Sweeten. Check the Interval page for more info.
Zach Layton's series celebrates its 4th anniversary with the annual performance of Terry Riley's In C. Featuring a real who's who, this will be the Darmstadt in Galapagos' the Williamsburg space prior to moving to DUMBO.
Ne(x)tworks traces the course of graphic scores from the 1960s to the present. This compelling array of works includes a 1961 score by Cornelius Cardew, groundbreaking works from by innovators Wadada Leo Smith and ensemble member Joan La Barbara, and Michael Shcumacher's Isometric Variations, commissioned by Ne(x)works in 2007. These scores will also be exhibited as part of the Kitchen's graphic score exhibition Between Thought and Sound: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music. Concieved by Alex Waterman, co-curated with Deb Singer and Matthew Lyons.
Wadada Leo Smith :: In the Diaspora (2005)Joan La Barbara :: Circular Song (1975)
Joan La Barbara :: in the shadow and act of the haunting place (1995)Michael Schumacher:: Grid (2007)
Cornelius Cardew :: Octet '61 for Jasper Johns (1961)
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
INT
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)