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Santa Fe Reporter Pick of the Day
CJM (trombone, laptop, composition), Chris Jonas (saxophones, composition), rosS Hamlin (elec. gtr, bass gtr, compositions), J.A. Deane (bass flute), Katie Harlow (cello), Milton Villarrubia (perc)
The Kitchen
Friday, April 11, 8PM
[gmap]
Music of Julius Eastman and Lois V. Vierk
Julius Eastman
Stay On It (full ensemble)
Piano 2 (Joseph Kubera, piano)
Lois V. Vierk
River Beneath the River (string quartet)
Into the Brightening Air (string quartet)
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
Guest:
Danny Tunick - percussion
Dialogics: Ne(x)tworks at Chelsea Art Museum [gmap]
2008 Residency
Saturday, April 5, 2PM
Joan La Barbara - new work
Miguel Frasconi - new work
Alvin Curran - Selections from The Alvin Curran Fake Book
Joan La Barbara - voice, Shelley Burgon - harp/elec, Yves Dharamraj - cello, Cornelius Dufallo - violin, Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec, Stephen Gosling - piano/synth, Chris McIntyre - trombone
PROGRAM:
Either/Or
Richard Carrick - Towards Qualia [15 min]violin, cello, piano, saxophone, flute, cimbalom/percussion
Julius Eastman - Tripodinstrumentation TBD
Andrew Byrne - White Bone Country [15 min]piano, percussion
Newspeak: Missy Mazzoli - In Spite of All This
Voice, Violin, Cello, Clarinet, Synth, Electric Guitar, Drumset, Vibraphone
David T. Little - sweet light crude
Voice, Violin, Cello, Clarinet, Synth, Electric Guitar, Drumset, Vibraphone
Oscar Bettison - Breaking & Entering (with aggravated assault)
Violin, Cello, Clarinet, Synth, Electric Guitar, Drumset, Percussion [junk metal]
INTERMISSION
combined ensemble
Sean Griffin - 2008 MATA Commission premiere
2 vocalists, 3 percussionists, cello, Electric guitar, Synthesizer/Piano
PROGRAM (1-hour each):Al Margolis - What Makes a Sound? (argument)
Stefan Moore - Three Steepings OR In::Out/Out::In
Michael Schumacher - Unintending
Amnon Wolman - Low Ground Clearance
Carl Stone - Kantipur
PROGRAMAaron Gervais - Culture No. 3 (2006)
fl/pic, cl, hn, trb, pno, perc, vn, va, vc, db
Jennifer Fitzgerald - A Thousand Machines (2007)cl, vn, pno
Nico Muhly - I Know Where Everything Is (2007)fl, cl, vn, cl
Judd Greenstein - At the end of a really great day (2007)fl, cl, vn, cl
Ziboukle Martinayite - 2008 MATA Commissionfl, cl, ob, bsn, trb, hn, pno, perc, vn, va, vc, db
Doug Henderson - The Nature of the 102nd Thing (of 10,000)Zeena Parkins/Doug Henderson - Polyphonic Projections
Diapason Gallery [http://www.diapasongallery.org/]
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
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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