Julius Eastman: Femenine + Joy Boy with the SEM Ensemble

The Kitchen
512 W 19th St, New York, New York 10011


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Tickets $25 General / $20 Members

In the early 1970s, while still living in Buffalo, Julius Eastman began his long association with Petr Kotik's S.E.M. Ensemble. As a composer-performer with the ensemble, Eastman toured internationally. Femenine and Joy Boy, important transitional works, were performed frequently by the Ensemble, including at The Kitchen in 1975. The evening also includes a performance by poet Tracie Morris and electronic musician Hprizm.

PROGRAM:
Julius Eastman: Joy Boy (1974)
S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, Director; Kamala Sankaram, Soprano; Jeffrey Gavett, Baritone; Nate Repasz, Baritone; Petr Kotik, Flute; Sara Schoenbeck, Bassoon; Chris McIntyre, Trombone / Synthesizer; David Miller, Vibraphone / Marimbaphone; Robert Boston, Piano; Pauline Kim Harris, Violin; Conrad Harris, Viola

A New Work (2017)
Tracie Morris + Hprizm

Julius Eastman: Femenine (1974)
S.E.M. Ensemble with Christopher McIntyre
Petr Kotik, Director; Kamala Sankaram, Soprano; Jeffrey Gavett, Baritone; Nate Repasz, Baritone; Petr Kotik, Flute; Sara Schoenbeck, Bassoon; Chris McIntyre, Trombone / Synthesizer; David Miller, Vibraphone / Marimbaphone; Robert Boston, Piano; Pauline Kim Harris, Violin; Conrad Harris, Viola

The performance is part of Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental curated by Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Dustin Hurt, organized by The Kitchen with the Eastman Estate and Bowerbird. 

Phill Niblock: 6 Hours of Music and Film
Thursday, December 21, 2017 @ 6:00 pm

CJM will perform at approx. 9pm

From Facebook Event Page:
"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’s stages his annual Winter Solstice concert for the 7th 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.

Niblock’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."  

Lea Bertucci and I meet up at Cantina Cenci in Tarzo, Veneto, IT, to revisit material from our Dec. 2016 collaboration at ISSUE Project Room. 

EITHER/OR: TOMBEAU FOR ANA-MARIA AVRAM


From IPR Event Page:
"Romanian composer, pianist, and conductor Ana-Maria Avram (1961-2017) died at the age of 55 on Tuesday, August 1st, 2017. Avram was a truly gifted idiosyncratic composer and musician, co-conductor of The Hyperion Ensemble, and Artistic Director of the Spectrum XXI festival (which she founded to showcase innovative Romanian music).

In tribute and commemoration of her artistic contributions, ISSUE presents a “tombeau” program of Avram’s works performed by Either/OR, who produced a week-long festival of Romanian Spectralism in 2016 which brought Ana-Maria Avram and Iancu Dumitrescu to New York City for the first time. The ensemble features Mario Diaz de Leon (Electric Guitar), Vasko Dukovski (Clarients), Yarn/Wire member and former ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Russell Greenberg (Percussion), Margaret Lancaster (Flutes), and Zach Rowden (Bass).

Since 1988, Ana-Maria Avram had been a member and co-conductor of Hyperion Ensemble with her husband Iancu Dumitrescu, who together pushed the Romanian avant-garde into the hyper-spectral realm. She has composed somewhere around 150 works and over 300 combined with Dumitrescu, including compositions for soloists, orchestras, and chamber ensembles, as well as works based in electronics and computers.

Avram explained the concept of spectralism to Philip Clark in The Wire 308: “Spectralism is not just a trend but a specific attitude towards sound,” she told Philip. “There isn’t one spectral approach, but many different viewpoints. Radulescu’s sound plasma, the music of the French spectralists, and our music are often defined as post-spectral or hyperspectral: but above anything it is transformational music.”

PROGRAM:
Penumbra (III) (2016) for bass clarinet
Quatre études d’ombre (1992) for bass flute
Axe VII (2004) for double bass

Intermission

Metalstorm (IV) (2016) for ensemble and computer sounds
Textures Liminales (I) (2013) electronic music

S.E.M. Ensemble:
Petr Kotik - flute, voice
Christopher McIntyre - trombone, voice
Joseph Kubera - piano, voice
Jeffrey Gavett, Charlotte Mundy, Nathan Repasz - voice

From S.E.M's Facebook Event Page:
"Ahead of its September 27th performance at the Sacrum Profanum Festival in Krakow, Poland, SEM will present a free (donations appreciated) preview concert nearly identical to those from the ensemble’s early days in the 1970s, when founding members Petr Kotik, Julius Eastman, and Jan Williams presented avant-garde performances in Buffalo, Albany, and later New York and began collaborating extensively with John Cage. Included in this program is Cage’s "Song Books" (1970), the first extended ensemble performance of which was realized by SEM, and several early works by Eastman.

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P R O G R A M

Julius Eastman ----- Macle (1971 -72)

Petr Kotik ---------- There is Singularly Nothing (1971 -72)

I n t e r m i s s i o n

Julius Eastman ----- Joy Boy (1972)

John Cage ---------- Song Books I, II (1970)

Julius Eastman ------ Piano 2 (1986)

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Produced by Clocktower
Curated by Lea Bertucci.

Site : Sound Exhibition and Showcase - A sonic portrait and re-telling of the Site : Sound series, with performances by Eli Keszler, Stine Motland, Lea Bertucci, TILT Brass, and Ashcan Orchestra at Knockdown Center in Queens, NY. TILT's performance includes the premiere of a new version of Director Chris McIntyre's Runnegackonck Presencing for spatialized brass and multi-channel fixed media.

Site : Sound is a host of intimate site-specific lectures, sonic-spatial interventions, and performances celebrating the pliancy and tactility of acoustic experience. Taking place across three boroughs of New York City from April 23 to June 25, 2017, twelve contemporary sound artists, composers, and instrumentalists invite the public to channel their curiosity and join in an exploration of the auditory sense.

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Details announced soon!

Bowerbird presents:


Stay On It + Femenine
Friday, May 5th, 2017 at 8pm

Sanctuary of The Rotunda
4014 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104
[Bowerbird event page]
 

PROGRAM:
GERRY EASTMAN: IN MEMORY OF JULIUS
Gerry Eastman, solo guitar

JULIUS EASTMAN: STAY ON IT (1973)
Arcana New Music Ensemble
Dynasty Battles - piano; Tara Middleton - violin and voice; David Middleton - electric bass; Aaron Stewart, saxophone; Joseph Dvorak, clarinet; Keir Neuringer, saxophone; Eric Derr, percussion; Andy Thierauf, percussion; special guest Christopher McIntyre, Music Director, trombone 

JULIUS EASTMAN: FEMENINE (1974)
Arcana New Music Ensemble
with Christopher McIntyre (Music Director, synth)

I join several colleagues from Either/Or to pay tribute to the great Pauline Oliveros, performing Four Meditations for Orchestra (1996) and Sound Geometries (2012).

Park Ave Armory Event Page

"Swiss-Austrian composer Beat Furrer is a master of form and texture. His 40-year career spans forays into opera, chamber works, music theater, orchestral pieces, and everything in between; this program focuses in on more intimate works from the last two decades, two of them never before heard in the U.S. Richard Carrick conducts Either/Or in Furrer’s nuanced explorations of percussion, bass flute, piano, strings, and more."

Miller Theater Event Page

Electronics and trombone in M. Lamar's Funeral Doom Spiritual (music by M. Lamar & Hunter Hunt-Hendrix.) 2 shows per night (7 & 10pm.)

Prototype/HERE Event Page


 

Memory City is a new ensemble work by cellist and composer Leila Bordreuil. This is Leila's third event as Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room. The performance features Nate Wooley (trumpet), Anne Guthrie (French horn), Chris McIntyre (trombone), Michael Foster (saxophone), Ben Bennett (percussion) and Leila Bordreuil (cello).

ISSUE Project Room's Event Page

π=3.14… continues “Dead End, Falling”
by Yoshiko Chuma/School of Hard Knocks

From Yoshiko
"Dead End , Don’t Let Me fall is the latest in a series of multimedia performance π=3.14… which was started in 2007 as a work perpetually in progress. It is a set structure under the concept “the invisible rehearsal". The series has been concerned with borders, displacement and violence. Endless peripheral border makes the notice ”We are not so different from one other."

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Co-organized by Chris McIntyre & Lauren Rosati

From IPR's Festival Page
"From September 25th to October 1st, 2016 ISSUE Project Room presents After 9 Evenings: A 50th Anniversary Celebration, a dynamic series of performances, talks, screenings, and workshops to mark the 50th anniversary of 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering (1966). This historic project, organized by Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan, featured collaborations among avant-garde artists, dancers, and musicians and engineers from Bell Telephone Laboratories. After 9 Evenings considers the event’s impact on contemporary performance and explores E.A.T. as an important prototype for integrating new technologies into current artistic practices."