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.

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!

CJM performance recordings

NY Times review of Festival

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

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

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)

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) 

Richard Marriott (trombone, compositions) Doug Lima (piano) Bella Marriott (vocals) David Teague (filmmaker) CJM (trombone) Members of Gamelan Dharma Swara

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")

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:
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 

CJM is Co-Curator of the festival, and he's creating and premiering a new work for solo trombone and electronics.

NY Times Review of 3/20 concert

Improvised set based loosely on material from CJM's stuplimity no.2.

Yoshiko Chuma - danceCJM, Ben Gerstein, Peter Zummo - trombone

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).
 

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

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