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.

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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.

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.

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.)

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 

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) 

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

CWQ revisits Chroma Colossus, a 13 movement musical transliteration of author Colson Whitehead's book Colossus of New York. In Waters' words, "The suite mixes cinematic interludes, antique jazz and hard swinging free bop to create a musical soundscape of the city."

Charles Waters (alto sax/clarinet), CJM (trombone), George Rush (bass), Andrew Barker (drum kit).

TILT convenes at Tonic in its full-blown 10-piece configuration for an evening of new and challenging works. The program includes premieres from New York Noise pioneer Anthony Coleman (Set Into Motion) and co-leader Chris McIntyre (Stitch No.2), a dynamic comprovisational piece written for the group by TILT’s acclaimed percussionist Kevin Norton (Folk Medicine), and Mr. Coleman’s a tone? a note? anto-e?, a “gutbucket free reading of some moments out of Iannis Xenakis' great work for Piano and Brass Instruments, Eonta,” featuring AC on piano.

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TILT plays classic American maverick Carl Ruggles's Angels and an improvisation based on various bits of Edgar Varese's music. Part of an entire program of Ruggles and Varese organized by Whitney curator Limor Tomer.

3rd Annual Howl Festival of East Village Arts

Curated by CJM, Kitchen House Blend revisits three pieces from its repertoire of commissioned works created since 2000. A "grand finale" performance of this stellar group of 10 NYC musicans, the evening includes works by Kitty Brazelton, Matthew Shipp, and Lee Hyla.

Premiere of a new comprovisational work by CJM entitled stuplimity: river. In collaboration with choreographer Yoshiko Chuma. The evening includes performances along the Hudson Promenade by AOTB alumi Jane Comfort/Jon Gibson, Butch Morris, Marta Renzi and David Van Tieghem.

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Ne(x)tworks gears up for its June recording session of Earle Brown's music, performing several of his open scores and new works from Neil Dufallo, Kenji Bunch, Joan La Barbara, and CJM (entitled Conversions).