50th Birthday concert: Terry Riley’s In C
Presented by Darmstadt Essential Repertoire and LPR

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Fifty years to the day after its premiere at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, Terry Riley’s pioneering, free-wheeling composition In C (1964) is celebrated by Gotham’s “most vital, audacious and energizing performance” (New York Times) of the work. Convened by the Darmstadt series (also celebrating its 10th anniversary), the group features members of Ensemble LPR, Hotel Elefant, and a diversity of musicians at the crossroads of New York’s new music scene. Visuals by Victoria Keddie and Scott Kiernan/ESP TV.

VIOLIN
Eli Spindel
Pauline Kim Harris
Conrad Harris

VIOLA
Jeanann Dara
David Handler
Jessica Pavone

CELLO
Rubin Kodheli
Justin Kantor

GUITAR
Jim McHugh
David Grubbs
Elliott Sharp
John King

BASS
Zach Layton

KEYBOARD
Marina Rosenfeld
David Friend

FLUTE
Domenica Fossati
Katie Cox

CLARINET
Isabel Kim

CONTRABASS
Shawn Lovato

TROMBONE
Chris Mcintyre
Sam Kulik

SAXOPHONE
Peter Gordon
Evan Rapport
Matana Roberts
Jeff Tobias

VOICE
Megan Schubert
Daisy Press
Katie Eastburn
Nick Hallett

HARP
Shelly Burgon

KOTO
Miya Masaoka

ACCORDION
Du Yun

PERCUSSION
Mustafa Ahmed

VISUALS
Victoria Keddie and Scott Kiernan

TICKETS: $20/$25/$30 

Ne(x)tworks returns to ISSUE Project Room for an early evening program of new works by New York composers Paul Pinto, Gelsey Bell, and ensemble-member Miguel Frasconi.

TICKETS

PROGRAM
Paul Pinto – Unintelligible Response
La Barbara, Burgeon, Dharamraj, Gosling, Kim
Gelsey Bell – Weight (Premiere)
tutti
Miguel Frasconi - Sun Studies (Premiere)
tutti

Ne(x)tworks
Joan La Barbara – voice; Shelley Burgon – harp & electronics; Yves Dharamraj – cello; Miguel Frasconi - glass & electronics; Stephen Gosling – piano; Ariana Kim – violin; Christopher McIntyre – trombone & electronics

Presencing Piece No. 1 (Fed Plaza) (2014)

by Chris McIntyre
In collaboration with TILT Brass, Ed Bear, and David Shively
A site-specific performance and installation at Jacob K. Javits Federal Building Plaza

Chris McIntyre - Composer and Creative Director
Ed Bear - Technical Director
David Shively - feed-back drums

TILT Brass
Trumpet
Garth Flowers, Mike Gurfield, Rich Johnson, Tim Leopold, Stephanie Richards
Trombone
Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Sam Kulik, Will Lang, Matt Melore, James Rogers, Peter Zummo

Contextual information available on the project Tumblr site

Conceived by composer and trombonist Chris McIntyre for SummerStreets, Presencing Piece No.1 (Fed Plaza) is a collaborative, site-specific sonic experience designed for the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building Plaza. Unfolding over a 2-hour period, Presencing Piece... features a 12-piece compliment of Brooklyn-based experimental music group TILT Brass, Either/Or percussionist David Shively, and a state-of-the-art implementation of multiple PA speakers. McIntyre locates the live musicians and the arrayed speakers around the plaza to amplify physical and intangible properties of the site. The PA system and other small devices broadcast sound via infrared transmitters with which the audience is able to interact. The goal for McIntyre and his collaborators (including tech director Ed Bear) is to transform the audience’s sense of aural dimensionality and scale as they are immersed in the simultaneity of sound and spectacle. The piece also aims to create a dialogue between the present and past of the site. One piece of this is the presentation of text-based sounds that tell abstract histories specific to the site and surrounding area. Content ranging from local geologic data, facts about Manhattan’s pre-colonial population, and fragments of other social and political narratives is projected from the on-site speakers while also accessed in earphones from “hidden” online sources (directed via QR-code posters). To many contemporary New Yorkers, “Fed Plaza” is tied to Richard Serra’s site-specific sculpture Tilted Arc (1981), an extremely controversial work that was commissioned for and eventually removed from the site. March 2014 marked the 25th anniversary of its deinstallation. McIntyre and Company’s impressions of the dialogic relationship between Serra’s work and the plaza are found at the core of Presencing Piece No.1 (Fed Plaza).

On July 25 & 26, TILT Brass joins a stellar cast of New Music stars to give the World Premiere recent Pulitzer Prize winner John Luther Adams' Sila: The Breath of the World. The new piece was commissioned by Mostly Mozart and Lincoln Center Out of Doors.

TILT Brass for Sila:
trumpet – Mike Gurfield, Tom Bergeron, Tim Leopold, Matt Mead, Sam Nester, Stephanie Richards
trombone – Jen Baker, Daniel Linden, Mike Lormand, Chris McIntyre
horn – Wei-Ping Chou, Jenny Ney, Jason Sugata, Cameron West
tuba – John Altieri, Ben Stapp

More details on the Lincoln Center website.

Creating sound score for Yoshiko-san's current project

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In addition to the James Fei Ensemble, the evening features The Trillium Chamber Players performing Anthony Braxton’s Composition No. 46.

James Fei: Hysteresis

James Fei, Josh Sinton - saxophones & contrabass clarinet
Jen Baker, Christopher McIntyre - trombone
Kato Hideki - electric bass
Ed Tomney - analog electronics

Excerpt from Sylva Sylvarum

Elliott Sharp’s SysOrk
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 @ 8:00 pm

SysOrk is a large ensemble dedicated to performing algorithmic scores, graphic notation, and conductions created by composer and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp. For this first NYC concert of SysOrk, the ensemble will premiere the projected graphic score Sylva Sylvarum as well as performing Flexagons, an algorithmic score composed in 2011.

Sharp is the 2015 winner of the Berlin Prize in Music Composition. His recent string quartets Tranzience and Mare Undarum have been premiered by JACK and Sirius quartets and violin virtuoso Hilary Hahn has been performing Storm of the Eye, a work commissioned by her. For this first NYC concert of SysOrk, the ensemble will premiere the projected graphic score Sylva Sylvarum as well as performing Flexagons, an algorithmic score composed in 2011.

SysOrk is neither fixed in personnel nor location but instead is situationally based. SysOrk debuted in December 2012 with concerts in Nagoya and Tokyo performing Sharp’s graphic score Foliage.

SysOrk for this concert will include:
Andrew Drury – drums, percussion
Terry Greene – trombone
James Ilgenfritz – contrabass
Judith Insell – viola
Ron Lawrence – viola
Tim Leopold – trumpet
Jenny Lin – piano
Chris McIntyre – trombone
Oscar Noriega – reeds
Jessica Pavone- viola
Reuben Radding – contrabass
Danny Tunick – percussion, vibraphone
Elliott Sharp - electroacoustic guitar, bass clarinet 

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Experimental Intermedia
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor
New York, NY 10013

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UllU:
Chris McIntyre - trombone, synth, drums, composition
David Shively - feedback-drumkit, combo organ, tapes

TILT Brass:
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpet
Jen Baker, Will Lang, Chris McIntyre – trombone
James Rogers – contrabass trombone

Composer/performer Chris McIntyre brings together two current ensemble projects, UllU and TILT Brass, for a special collaborative evening of ecstatic noise and orchestral bliss at composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock’s venerated Experimental Intermedia loft (celebrating its 40th year of concert presentations).

The first half features an improvised set by UllU ("owl" in Hindi), the duo project of McIntyre and renowned percussionist David Shively (Either/Or). A 6-piece compliment of the adventurous Brooklyn-based brass group TILT Brass joins for the second half including trumpeters Gareth Flowers (ICE) and Tim Leopold (Meridian Arts Ens.), Jen Baker (Asphalt Orchestra) and Will Lang (loadbang) on trombone, and James Rogers (Guidonian Hand) on the rare contrabass trombone.

TILT and UllU will reprise an expanded iteration of "Dedifferentiation with Brass" (2013), the collaborative work initially presented at Roulette in June. The work is conceptualized and composed by McIntyre in close collaboration with Shively (featuring the latter's innovative use of drums and metals as feedback instruments) and uses a seamless combination of conventionally notated and instructional improvising material. The transitive sonic language of "Dedifferentiation" is inspired by artist Robert Smithson’s description of a hotel in the Mexican city of Palenque. Smithson details the rich complexities inherent to the constellation of structures on the hotel grounds which are variously under construction and demolition, investigating the similarity between these states (and also to the Mayan ruins nearby).

The 15 Dec. event is also the official release of UllU’s debut recording "August" on Non-Site Records. The release's three tracks contain material recorded live and edited at Shively's Williamsburg studio. "August" captures the duo in full experimental mode, probing its potential collaborative language from within the sonic syntax emanating from Shively's idiosyncratic feedback instrumentarium and McIntyre's fleshy trombone sound and virtual-analog synth convolutions. Signed CD's will be available at the venue and pre-ordering is available via group's website (www.ullumusic.com).

WEB RESOURCES
Chris McIntyre: www.cmcintyre.com
Dave Shively: www.resonantobjects.com
UllU: www.ullumusic.com
TILT Brass: www.tiltbrass.org
XI: www.experimentalintermedia.org
Non-Site Records: www.nonsiterecords.com

BIOGRAPHIES
UllU (Hindi for “owl”) is Chris McIntyre (trombone, synth, drums) and Dave Shively (drums, feedback, tapes). Sharing both an interest in the ecstatic potential of the drone and a pathological inability to completely disengage from modernism, UllU perform works of extended duration in which practical mechanics of sound production collide with formal concerns. Shows at Incubator Arts Project, The Stone, Experimental Intermedia, and collaborations with TILT Brass. In South Asian tradition, the owl is in fact considered a very foolish bird.

Led by trombonist and composer Chris McIntyre, TILT Brass is a Brooklyn-based organization dedicated to creating new content and contexts for contemporary brass music by producing inventive concert programs, recording projects, and commissioning initiatives. It boldly positions itself as the vanguard presenter, educator, and advocate for new brass music in New York City. Founded 10 years ago by McIntyre and Greg Evans, TILT primarily presents the work of living composers, having premiered nearly 40 compositions thus far. Its personnel includes many of the brightest stars from the local brass community in ensemble configurations ranging from solo and chamber groupings to experimental brass orchestra. TILT’s work is heard on releases by Tzadik, Non-Site, and POTTR.

Christopher McIntyre leads a multi-faceted career as performer, composer, and curator/producer. He interprets and improvises on trombone and synthesizer in projects including TILT Brass, UllU duo (w/ David Shively), Either/Or, Ne(x)tworks, and 7X7 Trombone Band. His playing is heard on recordings released by the Tzadik, New World, Mode, POTTR, and Non-Site labels. He has contributed compositions to TILT, Ne(x)tworks, 7X7 (for choreographer Yoshiko Chuma), Flexible Orchestra, and B3+ brass trio. McIntyre is also active as a curator and producer with independent projects at The Kitchen, Guggenheim Museum, Issue Project Room, The Stone (June 2007), and as Artistic Director of the MATA Festival (07-10). cmcintyre.com

David Shively performs concert and installation works in media ranging from traditional percussion to Hungarian cimbalom to analog electronics and feedback systems. Solo appearances at Dia:Beacon, EMPAC, Miller Theatre, Performa 09, SONiC Festival, the American Academy in Rome, Other Minds 13, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Wittner Tage für neue Kammermusik, Münchener Biennale. Currently based in Brooklyn, NY, he has been co-artistic director of the experimental music ensemble Either/Or since 2004, curating its programming and festivals in New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia. Recordings for Starkland, New World, Tzadik, Mode, Quecksilber, and other labels in addition to works for film, sound installation, and radio broadcast. resonantobjects.com 

TILT Brass is featured during a day-long event celebrating the release of acclaimed violinist Hilary Hahn's CD In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores. One of the 27 commissioned encores on the new disc is by British composer and improviser Richard Barrett. TILT is honored to present this singular artist's work to Ms. Hahn's audience, including the US Premiere of the duo work Aurora for flugelhorn and alto trombone.

TILT PROGRAM
basalt (1990-91)
Chris McIntyre - solo trombone

Aurora (2005-10) (US Premiere)
from CONSTRUCTION: resistance & vision part 8/8
Tim Leopold - flugelhorn; Will Lang - alto trombone

From Greenwich House Music School event page:

"[Hilary] Hahn will host an all-day event at the Greenwich House Music School in the West Village of New York City on November 3.. Composers Nico Muhly, David Lang, Jennifer Higdon, Tina Davidson, Avner Dorman, Paul Moravec, Christos Hatzis and Jeff Myers will hold office hours and participate on panels at the school itself. “The Village,” which features a film score by James Newton Howard performed by Hahn, will be screened. Du Yun will create an immersive sound installation. JACK Quartet, TILT Brass, multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp, pianist Mackenzie Melemed, traditional Japanese instrumentalists Tomoko Sugawara and Ralph Samuelson, and others will perform. Hahn and her recital partner Cory Smythe will play all 27 encores throughout the day."

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