Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
Either/Or (EO) initiates its 2021-22 Season with a special concert at Tenri Cultural Institute in Manhattan. On Tuesday, November 23, the group is proud to present a portrait concert of extremely rare music by African-American composer, educator, and community organizer Talib Rasul Hakim (1940-88) (né Stephen A. Chambers). This event is the opening salvo of an extensive investigation by Either/Or and its Curator Chris McIntyre into the life and music of Mr. Hakim.
Press Release
EO Event Page
Performers
Narek Arutyunian - clarinet; Jennifer Choi - violin; Jonathan Finlayson - trumpet; Pala Garcia - violin; Margaret Lancaster - flute; Hannah Levinson - viola; Chris McIntyre - trombone; John Popham - cello; Adam Tendler - piano
Program
Talib Rasul Hakim Prelude (ca. 1966)
trombone & piano
TRH Four (1965)
clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano
Tania León Alma (2007)
flute, piano
TRH Profiles (1964)
clarinet, trumpet, trombone, cello
TRH Sound-Gone (1967)
solo piano
TRH Currents (1967)
string quartet
Harlem Chamber Players
Julius Eastman
Harlem Stage Event
Olga Neuwirth: Die Stadt ohne Juden (2017) *US premiere
With live film screening
Film by Hans Karl Breslauer (1924)
Talea Ensemble
James Baker, conductor
Marianne Gythfeldt, Clarinet
Erin Rogers, Saxophone
Sam Jones, Trumpet
Chris McIntyre, Trombone
Matthew Gold, Percussion
Oren Fader, E-guitar
Imri Talgam, Kybd/synth
Hannah Levinson, Viola
Chris Gross, Cello
David Adamcyk, Electronics
Talea performs the US premiere of Olga Neuwirth's film score "Die Stadt ohne Juden" (2017) with a live screening of the 1924 silent film
The School of Hard Knocks
A Blind Eye Cast Unknowing
“the worst thing is that we cast a blind eye to catastrophes that aren’t even what we think they are”
Concept , design, direction by Yoshiko Chuma
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Zürcher Gallery 33 Bleecker Street, NYC
Doors open at 8:00PM
Performance begins at 8:30 PM
Zürcher Event Page
Admission: $20 at the door
(All proceeds go to the artists.)
Featuring
Kyle Dacuyan (monologue)
Wendy Perron (Dance )
Miriam Parker (dance)
Jason Kao Hwang (violin)
Yoshiko Chuma (dance)
Christopher McIntyre (trombone)
Mizuho Kappa (Dance )
Ryuji Yamaguchi (dance)
Devin Brahja Waldman (Saxophone)
Andrew Kim (documentation/video)
Mickey Ono (documentation/ video)
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 70 “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. Its purpose is to create, perform, encourage and sponsor experimental and multi-disciplinary and multi-media work. The School of Hard Knocks is an ongoing phenomenon—its shape as diverse as the situations the company performs in—from street performances to formal theatre/dance concerts to large scale spectacles. Company activities include an annual New York season, ongoing development and rehearsal of new works, and performances/residencies and collaborations with local artists on tour throughout the United States, East and Central Europe, Asia, Middle East, and South America. Over the course of the company's history, more than 2,000 people have performed under Chuma's direction. Notable international performers have been involved in the School of Hard Knocks over its 40 year history.
Either/Or: 2021 Spring Festival
June 21, 3:00pm EST
LIVE at Seaport District Pier 17 [Part of Make Music New York]
June 24, 8:00pm EST
Streamworks: Part 1 [online event]
June 26, 8:00pm EST
Streamworks: Part 2 [online event]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New York experimental music ensemble Either/Or emerges from the pandemic hiatus with the 2021 iteration of its acclaimed Spring Festival programming. The Festival features three events during the last week of June.
First, on Monday, June 21, EO presents an in-person, outdoor concert on the Upper Square of the Seaport District’s Pier 17. As part of the annual Make Music New York extravaganza, tellar EO members (Margaret Lancaster, Richard Carrick, and Chris McIntyre) are joined by special guests Jonathan Finlayson and Zeena Parkins to perform works by renowned composers Anthony Braxton, Ms. Parkins, EO Director Carrick, and Julius Eastman. The closeness of EO to these creators’ music adds to the auspiciousness of the group’s return and is a heartfelt offering of joy to all citizens of our beloved city.
Either/Or - Live at Seaport District Pier 17
Part of Make Music New York
June 21, 3:00pm
Location:
Pier 17 - 89 South St, New York, NY 10038 [map]
Program:
Anthony Braxton - No. 40(O) (1975)
Zeena Parkins - Selections from Lace Pieces (2008 - ongoing)
Richard Carrick - Graphic Series:Lead Sheets (2021)
Julius Eastman - Joy Boy (1974)
Personnel:
Richard Carrick - e. guitar & keyboard; Jonathan Finlayson - trumpet; Margaret Lancaster - flute; Chris McIntyre - trombone; Zeena Parkins - harp & electronics
EO’S Spring Festival continues with two internet presentations on June 24th and 26th, featuring two of Either/Or’s most adventurous players, Vasko Dukovski (clarinets) and Margarget Lancaster (flute). Both artists have explored the possibilities of the online context during the pandemic period, developing videographic skills along the way. These events feature the results of this research, offering wide swath of musical and visual thought: Lancaster gathering several works created in collaboration with composer colleagues, Dukovski (along with EO Director Carrick) assaying and selecting newly discovered works from an international call-for-scores in April, both deeply involved in each video realization. That call gives these two online experiences their title: Streamworks Vols. 1 & 2.
Each of the two events will be followed by a live discussion of the music with the composers and performers. Carrick and EO Curator Chris McIntyre will host, taking and directing questions from the audience. A Zoom link will be distributed at the end of each presentation.
Streamworks - vol. 1
June 24, 8:00pm EST [online event]
Inga Chinilina (Providence, Moscow) sky every day [Dukovski - bass clarinet]
Nina Fukuoka (NYC, Japan/Poland) 13<x & x<11 [Dukovski - bass clarinet]
Elizabeth Hoffman (NYC) for margaret: bloom back brighter [Lancaster - flute]
Elizabeth Hoffman (NYC) deep dark dive (world premiere) [Lancaster - flute]
Ryan Carraher (Seattle) i wanted to fly from the roof and i fell, monodrama for solo clarinetist [Dukovski - clarinet]
Streamworks - vol. 2
June 26, 8:00pm EST [online event]
Yuma Uesaka (NYC, Detroit) Dual Duel [Dukovski - clarinet]
Jacob TV (Netherlands) Farewell Feathered Friends [Lancaster - piccolo]
Irene Tanuwidjaja (Indonesia) Stocks [Dukovski - bass clarinet]
Juraj Kojš (Miami, Slovakia) The Foyer from The Apartment of Earthly Delight [Lancaster - flute] Tianyu Zou (Beijing) two shameful moments of my day [Dukovski - bass clarinet]
Both Streamworks programs are free and will be broadcast on Either/Or’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/eitherorensemble
Either/Or's Concert Seasons are made possible by the generous support of the BMI Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts (a New York State agency), and by our private donors. Either/Or is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
Heather Littier (monologue), Wendy Perron (Dance ), Ursula Eagly (dance), Jason Kao Hwang (violin), Yoshiko Chuma (dance, director) , Christopher McIntyre (trombone)
RESCHEDULED FOR MAY 9 (due to weather)
Facebook Event
Merche Blasco
Weston Olencki
CJM plays pages pages 139-156 of Cornelius Cardew's Treatise with Miguel Frasconi, Dan Joseph, and David First.
…with Chris McIntyre, Miguel Frasconi, Dan Joseph, David Rothenberg, Nicola Hein, Hans Tammen, Saman Samadi, Melissa Grey, David Morneau, Sarah Manning, Gisburg, Briggan Krauss, Glenn Cornett, David Rothenberg, Stuart Diamond, Ras Moshe, Laura Feathers, Andrew Drury, Josh Sinton, Giacomo Merega, Joe Hertenstein, David Watson, Sarah Bernstein, Prof. David Hyman, Michael Evans, Andrew Neumann, Marcus Cummins, Kurt Ralske, Damien Olsen, David First
KINETIC MIRRORS
by Yoshiko Chuma Elizabeth Kresch
at
HACO NYC
31 Grand St Brooklyn, NY 11249
Elizabeth Kresch Portraits caught from Yoshiko Chuma's School of Hard Knocks & live action
Eventbrite Page
Sun 2/9
Gallery Open 11am-4:30pm
Doors Open with admission 4:30pm
3D Live Show 5:30pm & 6:15pm
Dancers: Ursula Eagly, Ryuji Yamaguchi
Musician: Christopher McIntyre
Conductor: Yoshiko Chuma
Painter: Elizabeth Kresch
Videographer: Andrew Kim
Director of Haco Gallery: Yoko Suetsugu
Admission for 3D Live Show
$20 at door
$18 advance
Audience max 20 per show
Directions: J,M TO MARCY AVE. Q59 TO KENT AVE/1ST ST
Terry Riley’s “In C”
presented by Darmstadt
(16th Annual Performance)
at
le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012
LPR Event Page
Doors Open: 7:00PM
Show Time: 8:00PM
Event Ticket: $20 / $25
Day of Show: $25 / $30
For 16 years straight, Brooklyn’s Darmstadt ensemble has performed its unique interpretation of Terry Riley’s 1964 masterwork, In C, to celebrate its birthday. Cited more than once by the New York Times for its energy and audaciousness, Darmstadt’s version brings together some of the city’s most vital practitioners of experimental music.
FEATURING:
Percussion
Bobby Previte
Jeff Lipstein
Chris Nappi
Strings
Pauline Kim Harris
Conrad Harris
Sarah Bernstein
MV Carbon
Laura Ortman
Jeanann Dara
Brass/Woodwinds
Jen Baker
Petr Kotik
Ben Neil
Lea Bertucci
Josh Rubin
Chris Mcintyre
Peter Hess
Ka Baird
Guitar
David Grubbs
James Moore
Elliott Sharp
Zach Layton
Bass
Brandon Lopez
Keyboard
Kathy Supove
Luciano Chessa
Sitar
Neel Murgai
Electronics
Lori Scacco
Voices
Raquel Klein
Nick Hallett
Gelsey Bell
Katie Eastburn
Details TBA
Limited Resources on FB
Roulette Event Page
CJM performance time TBD
As the longest night of the year unfolds and the journey of our planet nears the point when Winter commences in the Northern Hemisphere, Phill Niblock stages his annual Winter Solstice concert for the 9th consecutive year in Roulette’s Atlantic Avenue theatre space. Starting at 6:00 PM, the performance will comprise of six sublime hours of acoustic and electronic music and mixed media film and video in a live procession that charts the movement of our planet and the progress of ourselves through art and performance at its maximal best.
The artist’s minimalistic drone approach to composition and music was inspired by the musical and artistic activities of New York in the 1960s, from the art of Mark Rothko, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, and Robert Morris to the music of John Cage and Morton Feldman. Niblock’s music is an exploration of sound textures created by multiple tones in very dense, often atonal tunings (generally microtonal in conception) performed in long durations.
Saturday, December 14, 2019, 8pm
Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York
Event Page
To attend the free event, RSVP to nyperformancegagosian [dot] com. Space is limited.
Join Gagosian for a concert featuring new music inspired by Richard Serra’s Reverse Curve (2005/19) and other works that engage with questions of weight, timbre, volume, and form. Some of the compositions will test the acoustical properties of the sculpture within the room, while others will produce sound masses in the shadow of the sculpture, creating dialogues between sound and space. The range of musical strategies will illustrate a historical path from the 1970s through the present day. Musicians Lea Bertucci, Miguel Frasconi, Joan La Barbara, Chris McIntyre, Chris Nappi, and Danny Tunick are all major players in the world of experimental music and collaborate in addition to their solo projects. As well as their own compositions they will perform a 1973 piece by Michael Byron.
McIntyre program note:
Reverses (2019) is a musical response to the Serra piece installed at Gagosian’s 21st Street gallery and the acoustic characteristics of the large, resonant space in which they coexist. Employing the diffusion created by brass and percussion in an extremely reverberant room, Reverses attempts to establish an analogous sonic experience to that of the torqued Cor-Ten steel sculpture and its bisection of the space. It does this by locating a duo of trombone and percussion (playing snare drum) on opposing sides of the sculpture where they exchange material back and forth in an accretional and elided formal system, a sort of simplified prolation canon that acknowledges the lingering resonances of each iterated sound. Many thanks to percussionist and event curator Danny Tunick for his efforts.
pioneerworks.org/programs/luc-ferrari-stereo-spasms
“Luc Ferrari: Stereo Spasms” celebrates the French composer in what would have been his 90th year, bringing together a range of musicians to mark the U.S. publication of the book Luc Ferrari: Complete Works (Ecstatic Peace Library).
Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) was one of the progenitors of musique concrète and a pioneer of and resonantly idiosyncratic voice within electroacoustic music. Ferrari was an early participant in the Groupe de Musique Concrète and, with Pierre Schaeffer and François-Bernard Mâche, co-founded the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in 1958. In the mid-1960s, largely unaltered environmental recordings began to work their way into his compositions, a process that culminated in the tremendously influential Presque rien No. 1 (Le Lever du jour au bord de la mer) (1970), a work whose source material was comprised exclusively of recordings made from a point overlooking a beach on the Dalmatian coast. Throughout his career, Ferrari worked in multiple forms: instrumental works, vocal music, text scores, electronic and electroacoustic music, and Hörspiele, and together with Gérard Patris he realized a series of short documentary films about musicians in rehearsal entitled Les Grands Répétitions.
The many stylistic shifts within Ferrari’s work paired with his wily, idiosyncratic aloofness from post-war music ideologies made him an especially appealing figure to younger musicians and composers, many of whom are participating in the Luc Ferrari: Stereo Spasms festival. It’s little surprise that Ferrari’s final decades were marked by encounters with musicians who knew him first from recordings but then were amazed to make the meaningful acquaintance of an ever-vital, generous, hilarious, wonderfully social artist who didn’t hesitate to throw himself into friendships and collaborative working relationships with those he recognized as kindred spirits.
“Luc Ferrari: Stereo Spasms” complements “Recherches Filmiques,” a series of Ferrari’s films at Anthology Film Archives (Nov 21-27).
Program One, November 18
Et tournent les sons dans la garrigue (1977)
Stereo tape and free instrumentation
Tania Caroline Chen: piano
David Grubbs: electric guitar
Eli Keszler: percussion
Jon Leidecker: electronics
Thurston Moore: electric guitar
Matana Roberts: alto saxophone
Les ProtoRythmiques (2004-5)
For two DJs
Jon Leidecker
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Program Two, November 19
Catherine Marcangeli and David Grubbs in conversation
Ephémère (1974)
Tape alone or to be played with various instruments (free instrumentation)
Four-channel recorded realization by Jim O’Rourke (2019)
Keith Fullerton Whitman: Redactions, after Luc Ferrari (2019)
Tautologos III (1969; Chicago Version, 2001)
For any group of instruments
Tania Caroline Chen: electronics
Keith Fullerton Whitman: piano
David Grubbs: electric guitar
Eli Keszler: percussion
Jon Leidecker: electronics
Chris McIntyre: trombone
Thurston Moore: electric guitar
Photo: Suzanne Fiol, February 2006 outside ISSUE Project Room Carroll Street Silo; for use on Ne(x)tworks' 2006 SILOMUSIC Artists-In-Residence brochure.
Thursday, October 24th, 2019, New York’s long-running creative music ensemble Ne(x)tworks presents its final performance at ISSUE Project Room, taking place during the exhibition Suzanne Fiol: TEN YEARS ALIVE which presents visual works by ISSUE’S founder Suzanne Fiol. The career-spanning program nods in many of the directions explored since the group’s first concert in June 2003, showcasing graphic and hybrid scores that expose the conceptual root elements of the Ne(x)tworks project.
The October 24th program includes historical graphic works by John Cage (Selections from Song Books [1970]) and Cornelius Cardew (selections from Schooltime Compositions [1968]) and spatialized works by Netherlands-based Australian composer Kate Moore (Sensitive Spot [2005] for solo piano and multi-channel audio, featuring group co-founder Steven Gosling) and co-founder Chris McIntyre (Sigmar [from 0] [2004], re-sited for ISSUE’s Boerum Place location from the original E. 6th St. space). Developing work by its composer-performer membership has been a foundational idea for Ne(x)tworks from its inception. In addition to McIntyre’s piece this concert highlights work by long-time members Miguel Frasconi (selections from his photographic score series Ne(x)traits [2009, rev 2019]), Shelley Burgon (the free flowing, through-composed glass trees [2007]), and Words on Water (shimmer) by esteemed vocalist and co-founder Joan La Barbara, progenitor (with co-founder Cornelius Dufallo) of the composer-performer ensemble concept that became Ne(x)tworks.
Ne(x)tworks’ relationship with ISSUE Project Room began early in both organizations’ histories. A number of seminal concerts in the group’s development were staged at ISSUE’s original East 6th Street and subsequent Carroll Street silo locations, including a collaborative festival event (with Whitney Museum) in 2005 presenting the music of James Tenney that brought new attention to the still-fledgling presenter. A strong bond grew between these musicians and ISSUE Founder Suzanne Fiol. This creative and interpersonal energy led to ISSUE enlisting Ne(x)tworks as one of its first official Artists In Residence (AIR) during the first half of 2006. Taking place in and around the silo on the Gowanus Canal, the group’s four residency concerts were artistically and creatively pivotal and provided focus that led Ne(x)tworks toward much of the acclaimed work they have pursued to this day.
PERSONNEL:
Joan La Barbara - voice, Co-Founder
Shelley Burgon - harp/elec., Member since 2006
Yves Dharamraj - cello, Member since 2006
Cornelius Dufallo - violin, Co-Founder
Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec., Member since 2006
Stephen Gosling - piano/synth, Co-Founder
Stephanie Griffin - viola, long-time collaborator
Ariana Kim - violin, Member since 2006
Chris McIntyre - trombone/elec., Co-Founder
Danny Tunick - percussion, long-time collaborator
PROGRAM (details on IPR Event Page)
John Cage Selections from Song Books (1970) [pre-concert]
Kate Moore Sensitive Spot (Music Out of The City) (2005)
Miguel Frasconi Ne(x)traits (2009, rev 2019)
Chris McIntyre Sigmar [from 0] (2004/19)
Shelley Burgon glass trees (2007)
Cornelius Cardew Selections from Schooltime Compositions (1968)
Joan La Barbara Words on Water (Shimmer) (2008, rev 2019)
25 September, 2019: Miller Theatre
COMPOSER PORTRAITS: Anthony Braxton
Either/Or returns to Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts to present COMPOSER PORTRAITS: Anthony Braxton. In collaboration with JACK Quartet and in celebration of Braxton’s 75th year, EO perform a range of this iconoclastic composer and virtuoso performer’s compositions that span 40 years of his illustrious career as a creator. Visit Miller’s Event Page for more details on the Sep. 25 program, and Tri-Centric Foundation website for information about Anthony’s musical world.
EO Personnel:
Conductor/Piano - Richard Carrick; Clarinet - Vasko Dukovski; Perc - Russell Greenberg; Bass - James Ilgenfritz; Horn - Nicolee Keuster; Flute - Margaret Lancaster; Trombone - Chris McIntyre; Bass Trombone - James Rogers
EO Guests:
Electronics/Reeds - James Fei; Trumpet - Jonathan Finlayson; Bassoon - Sara Schoenbeck; Sax/Clarinets - Josh Sinton
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Either/Or
Chris McIntyre / Max Kutner
Saturday, September 14⋅7:00 – 10:00pm
Singularity Music Series
DOORS at 7:00
MUSIC at 7:30
$15
Facebook Event Page
(Contact us through Facebook to confirm your attendance and receive the address. At this time, these events take place in a private space)
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.
New Composition for Brass Sextet and Improvisers
Zeena Parkins (harp)
James Fei (custom analog synth)
TILT Brass Sextet (3 trombones, 3 trumpets)
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TILT Brass Event Page
Zeena’s Website
James Fei’s Website
The Stone at The New School
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.
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.
Tortoise: TNT / Emily Wells with Metropolis Ensemble
SAT, JUN 22, 2019
6:30PM Gates / 7:30PM Show
FREE
The legendary experimental rock band TORTOISE will play its “weirdly beautiful and impossible to pin down” (Pitchfork) 1998 masterpiece TNT start to finish.
Tortoise, comprised of multi-instrumentalists Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Doug McCombs, John McEntire, and Jeff Parker, has spent nearly 25 years making music that defies description. While the Chicago-based instrumental quintet has nodded to dub, rock, jazz, electronica, and minimalism throughout its revered and influential six-album discography, the resulting sounds have always been distinctly, even stubbornly, their own. The band has always thrived on sudden bursts of inspiration. TNT, its third record and the first after Parker joined, has a more organic and groove-oriented sound than the earlier efforts—interestingly so, as it was also the product of a new approach in the studio for the band that embraced early digital recording technologies. Produced by McEntire, TNT was recorded and mixed over the course of a year from November 1996 to November 1997 using Pro Tools, the now ubiquitous digital editing system that among other things allows for easy editing and re-assembling of songs from diverse recorded parts. The outcome was a tour de force of a record that solidified Tortoise’s place as trailblazers of post-rock.
EMILY WELLS “works in the space between art-pop and neoclassical chamber music.” (New Sounds with John Schafer) The Brooklyn-based singer and multi-instrumentalist is here with the GRAMMY Award-nominated METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE, who appear on her ethereal new album This World Is Too _____ For You.
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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Secret Journey, Duo – Stop Calling Them Dangerous
Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks
Yoshiko Chuma: dance
Miriam Parker: dance
Jason Kao Hwang: violin
Devin Waldman: alto sax
Christopher McIntyre: trombone
Steve Swell: trombone
Dane Terry: piano
Dan Peeples: voice
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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SYNCRETICS SERIES:
HPRIZM: PRESSURE WAVE / JOSH SINTON: KRASA
Fri 15 Mar, 2019, 8pm
($15 - 12) ALL-ACCESS
ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Friday, March 15th, ISSUE continues its Syncretics Series with acclaimed composer and performer Hprizm (Kyle Austin) performing PRESSURE WAVE, an evening length audio/visual piece. Saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and creative musician Josh Sinton also presents krasa, a series of investigations exploring the amplification and sound magnification of the contrabass clarinet.
Curated by Chris McIntyre, Syncretics Series is a programming platform that unites differentiated musical practices on each concert event. Comprised primarily of solo and duo performances by artists culled from a wide swath of the field, Syncretics presents a manifold range of work including virtuosic improvisations, immersive audio/visual environments, and keenly focused programs of recent and contemporary repertoire.
Recently staged in Philadelphia by Bowerbird, Hprizm’s PRESSURE WAVE uses the amplified resonance of urban spaces and the intersectional place between Sonic Activism, Musique Concrète, and Rap’s early roots to examine the dense environments and circumstances that birthed Hip Hop. Scored with generative programming and degenerative tape loops PRESSURE WAVE is the magnetic memory of era long past.
Hprizm adds:
“Nam June Paik, Steve Reich, and Public Enemy were all working with burgeoning tape-based technologies to make overtly political statements. Most of my remembrances of the Black Nationalists struggle are also informed by the tape medium. Building on the works of my chief influences helped me to re-contextualize the sounds and images of Black Nationalism and present them in a nuanced, non-linear form.”
Josh Sinton provides context for his work, krasa:
“krasa is the name I’ve applied to a series of investigations… of the creative potential of the electric amplifier... I decided right away that this work would be done with a contrabass clarinet, an instrument I rarely play and have limited facility on... I deliberately wanted to use an instrument that I was familiar with but not overly so… [to avoid] habits built from muscle memory and over-familiarity… I immediately discovered [that] I was able to put very, very small sounds under a kind of audio microscope… Small inhalations of breath, a key click, tiny perturbations in an expelled air stream, all these things could be magnified and therefore distorted… Inconsequential, “boring” sounds could be made the center of my imaginative focus. The detritus of my musical practice became the very stuff I used for extended, improvised performances.
I’ve used this Rube Goldberg of a biofeedback system (to quote Evan Parker) as a springboard for extended improvisations… I alternate between barren, Beckett-esque soundscapes and walls of sound that seem to be conjuring some kind of Jungian archetypes from our collective unconscious. In fact, all I am doing is examining the sounds that spontaneously occur. It is very much like Isaac Newton’s boy on the beach diverting himself with the vast quantity of pebbles he finds before him.”
Because of the “draconian conditions” Sinton places on the process (i.e. a purposefully unfamiliar amplifier, limited mic-ing, etc.), he characterizes the krasa material as:
“…a methodical and deliberate act of boxing myself into a tight corner and seeing what spontaneous creative solutions occur when asked to perform."
Hprizm (Kyle Austin) is a American composer/performer hailed as an innovator by the likes of TIME, NY TIMES and Rolling Stones. His pioneering synthesis of Hip Hop, Avant Jazz and Electronic Composition often draws comparison to Afrofuturist visionary Sun Ra. As the founder of the seminal collective [Antipop Consortium] he has shared the stages and spaces with the like of Public Enemy, Radiohead, Ornette Coleman, Roscoe Mitchell and many more. His pieces have been presented in the Met, The Whitney, Lincoln Center, The Philadelphia Museum Of Modern Art, The African American Museum, Venice Biennale, Sharjah UAE, The Walker Museum, The Penn ICA, & Theatre Du Chatelet.
Josh Sinton is a creative artist, composer and musical performer. Based in Brooklyn since 2004, he has collaborated with some of the brightest lights of the current NYC creative music scene including Nate Wooley, Ingrid Laubrock, Anthony Braxton, Jon Irabagon, Mary Halvorson and Tom Rainey to name just a few. He has worked as a composer, sound designer and actor in Chicago with Steppenwolf Theater, Bailiwick Theater and the choreographer Julia Mayer and traveled throughout the world performing in small villages in Western India as well as on large stages in Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro and Milan. His current research has led him to investigate the creative potential of the baritone saxophone as well as contemplating the various cul de sacs of improvised music here in New York City. He has led the bands Ideal Bread, musicianer and holus-Bolus and currently leads his Predicate Trio as well performing regularly with the trio What Happens in a Year and clarinetist and composer Guillermo Gregorio. His most recent projects are the albums “making bones…,” the essay “Four Hypotheses” for SoundAmerican.org and the solo document, “krasa.” You can find out more about Sinton and his work at joshsinton.com
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FEB 5–9
Saturday, 2/9
illy B’s Improvisers Orchestra
Billy Martin (percussion) Tomas Fujiwara (drums) Mary Halvorson (guitar) Chern Hwei Fung (violin) Dana Lyn (violin) Ned Rothenberg (reeds, flutes) Sylvain Leroux (flutes) Anthony Coleman (piano) Douglas Wieselman (flutes, clarinet) Chris McIntyre (trombone) Frank London (trumpet)
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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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