Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
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.
Hocketed Brass StructuresRichard Marriott - trombone, Balinese suling, compositions, Fawzia Afzal Khan - Hindustani vocals, Rajika Puri - South Indian dance rhythms, CJM, Curtis Hasselbring & Peter Zummo - trombone, Kenny Wollesen - drums
7-hour installation performances of Sundown. Includes our 7 trombones, 7 dancers, Yoshiko's 7X7 ft. cubes, video projections, all within the urban industrial oasis of IPR's Carroll Garden's site.
SILOMUSIC: Ne(x)tworks 2006Final installment of Ne(x)tworks' residency at IPR:
Ne(x)tworks CollaboratesNe(x)tworks delves into the disparate world of open and graphic scores created after the innovations of Earle Brown and the New York School of the 1950's.
Ne(x)tworksJoan La Barbara - voice, Yves Dharamraj - cello, Cornelius Dufallo - violin, Ariana Kim - violin, Chris McIntyre - trombone
Special Guest Performers:Shelly Burgon harp/electronics, Anthony Coleman - piano, Miguel Frasconi glass instruments/electronics, Stephanie Griffin - viola, Sycil Mathai trumpet, Jane Rigler flute/electronics
6:30pm, Pre-concert Panel:
Open Scores Beyond The New York School
Moderated by CJM. Panelist's include Joan La Barbara, Anthony Coleman, Cornelius Dufallo, and Wadada Leo Smith
8:00PM Performance:
Wadada Leo Smith
In The Diaspora (2005)
Kim, Dufallo, Griffin, Dharamraj
John Zorn
Hockey (1977)
Coleman, Dufallo, McIntyre
Cornelius Cardew
Octet '61 for Jasper Johns (1962)
full ensemble
James Tenney
Swell Piece No. 2 (1971)
full ensemble
Christian Wolff
For 1,2, or 3 People
for any sound producing means (1964)
Julius Eastman
Stay On It (1973)
full ensemble
Rehearsal (5/26) and workshop performance (6/4) of CJM's new collaborative work with Yoshiko Chuma titled Sundown, which was awarded a Live Music For Dance grant.
Quarks Swim Free is E#'s latest algorithmic piece for Orchestra Carbon. For 11 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.
E# - guitar/electronics, CJM - trombone, Rudresh Mahanthappa - alto sax, Kinan - clarine, Rachel Golub - violin, Tomas Ulrich - cello, Kevin Ray - bass, Danny Tunnick - perc, Jenny Lin - piano
Co-Curated by CJM with Matthew Lyons
Aki Onda performs his extended solo performance-installation, Cassette Memories, in which he plays back and manipulates selections from his vast collection of taped field-recordings he has made for more than fourteen years.
Co-Curated by CJM with Matthew Lyons
Japanese musician and composer Aki Onda, known for his work with hand-held cassette recorders and electronics, presents a concert evening with Aki Onda’s Invisible Ensemble, a largely improvisational group that generates imaginary sonic landscapes featuring Onda, Miguel Frasconi on glass percussion, and Marina Rosenfeld on turntables, as well as a duet with vocalist/performer Shelley Hirsch.
Composer/guitarist David First will present Rocking Pipeline Witness Apologies to Dennis – a new drone-field work dedicated to the memory of his teacher Dennis Sandole, featuring Peter Zummo (trombone,) “Blue” Gene Tyranny (harmonically-tuned keyboards,) Christopher McIntyre (trombone) and First (guitar/laptop.)
SILOMUSIC: Ne(x)tworks 2006Ne(x)tworks residency at IPR continues:
Selections from Joan La Barbara's opera WoolfSong
Premiere of Elements (for Tenney), a commission work by CJM for 11 trombones and mixed quartet. Also featured on the program are new or revised works by Daniel Goode, Barbara Benary, and Peter Zummo, as well as the "resurrection" of Fredric Rzewski's Last Judgment (subtitled for solo trombone, or several echoing trombones not quite in unison).
Flexible Orchestra personnel:
trombones:
Monique Buzzarte
Darryl Gregory
Curtis Hasselbring
Ben Herrinigton
Kevin James
Bridget Macdonald
CJM
Steve Swell
Dave Taylor
Deborah Weisz
Peter Zummo
Barbara Benary - viola
Daniel Goode - Bflat clarinet
JD Parran - Bflat and alto clarinet, alto saxophone
Mustafa Ahmed & Chris Nappi - percussion
SILOMUSIC: Ne(x)tworks 2006
The ensemble's residency at IPR continues:
Selections from Kenji Bunch's opera Woman in the Dunes
TILT makes its BAMcafé debut taking cues from many areas of compositional thought. The evening includes Anthony Coleman's Set Into Motion and TILT member Chris McIntyre's written and improvised hybrid work Stitch No.2 (both created for the ensemble). Set Into Motion is "a fantasy on associations with brass instruments" that puts Gil Evans with Gustav Mahler with ongo (from the Central African Republic). Also on the program is Swell Piece and Swell Piece No. 2 from legendary composer James Tenney's seminal late 60's/early 70's process work Postal Pieces. Light Over Water, a little-known early work by composer John Adams is fashioned into a TILT-specific realization from manuscript sketches and features Anthony Coleman and Stephen Gosling on keyboards.
Greg Evans (cond.); CJ Camerieri, Taylor Haskins, Charlie Porter (trumpet); John Clarke, Ann Ellsworth (horn); Joe Fiedler, Chris McIntyre (trombone), Mike Boschen (bass trombone); Andrew Bove (tuba); Chris Nappi (perc.); Anthony Coleman, Stephen Gosling (synth)
SILOMUSIC: Ne(x)tworks 2006
Ne(x)tworks embarks on a season-long residency at the new Brooklyn home of IPR in Carrol Gardens, featuring a different program each month,
New and revised works for the group by violinist/composer Cornelius Dufallo and CJM, including a collaborative work that features a multi-channel sound installation by McIntyre within which Dufallo presents a new ensemble work.
The small-band version of GSBB gathers in the 'Burg for a Mardi Gras hang.
Charles Waters - clarinet, alto & soprano sax, Sabir Mateen - clarinet, tenor sax, CJM - trombone, Ron Caswell - tuba, Ryan Sawyer - drums