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L to R: James Tenney, Margret Lancaster, Cornelius Duffalo, James Fei, CJM, Daniel Goode 
2005, ISSUE Project Room, E. 6th St, NYC

A James Tenney Concert: The Postal Pieces and Other Selected Works
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"As part of their current season dedicated to Carolee Schneemann, The Artist’s Institute presents a concert of rarely performed works by composer James Tenney (1934-2006), Schneemann’s romantic and creative partner during the first decade of her career. At the center of the program are selections from Tenney’s Postal Pieces (1965-1971), a series of eleven compositions originally written on postcards to contemporaries including Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, and La Monte Young, among others. Tenney referred to the set as “koans” and like the Buddhist paradoxes these pieces are both rigorously constructed and radically open to interpretation: “Having Never Written a Note for Percussion,” for example, indicates that any piece of percussion play a precise, symmetrical swell for a duration of “very long.” In Tenney’s words, these are sounds “for the sake of perceptual insight” that use their predictable, deductive forms towards a counter-intuitive indeterminacy: pure change without the safety-net of dramatic conventions.

Also included in the program is the early “Improvisation for Cello” (1956), as well as several late instrumental ensemble works and electroacoustic tape pieces. Eric Smigel, associate professor of music at San Diego State University, will introduce the concert with a presentation on the late composer’s life and work with Schneemann.

Organized by Alex Waterman

with special thanks to Larry Polansky

Performers: Shelley Burgon, Richard Carrick, Conrad Harris, Miguel Frasconi, Chris McIntyre, Reuben Radding, and David Shively"

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2015/spring/talea-ensemble

Poppe's words on Speicher:
"Musical phenomena are never abstract. The idea behind Speicher is the search for extremes—extreme condensation, thinning, acceleration, broadening. For the piece to be able to continue and remain interesting, it is important—besides diversity—for the audience to be able to recognize certain parts. Anything can be recognizable—a single sound as well as a complete formal structure. Therefore it seems less important to keep inserting new ideas into the piece but rather to create an unpredictable network of derivations. The next step would be to be able to foresee what will happen next. Thus, an active way of listening would be created. But, in a reservoir [“speicher”], things always get into a mess anyway."

Talea Ensemble: Enno Poppe – Speicher from EMPAC @ Rensselaer on Vimeo.

James Ilgenfritz - bass
Kirsten Carey - guitar
Michael Foster - saxophone
Gisburg - voice
Chris McIntyre - trombone
Dafna Naphtali - voice, electronics
John O'Brien - percussion
Jonah Rosenberg - keyboard
Devin Braja Waldman - saxophone

600 Vanderbilt Ave. (@ St. Marks) Prospect Heights
2/3 to Grand Army Plaza B/Q to 7th Ave C/G to Clinton/Washington

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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.

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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