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."

http://www.millertheatre.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?nid=1626

π = 3.14…Ramallah-Fukushima-Bogota
Endless Peripheral Border
Concept, Design, & Choreography by Yoshiko Chuma

Performance Installation
July 11, 12, 13, & 14, 2013
Thu-Sat, 7:30pm; Sun 5pm (Seating starts at 6pm/Thu-Sat; 4pm/Sun)
Admission: $15
July 11 Opening Night with Salsa Dance Party: $20

Exhibition
July 11, 12, 13, & 14, 2013
Gallery Hours: Thu-Sat, 1-7pm; Sun, 1-5pm (free admission)

Featuring Rebecca Medina, Coque Salcedo, Mina Nishimura, Tatyana Tenenbaum, Felipe Gomez Ossa, Yoshiko Chuma with special guest Aska Kaneko (violin)

Cutting-edge choreographer/ director/ performer Yoshiko Chuma continues a lifetime obsession with the mythology of danger. In π =3.14…Ramallah-Fukushima-Bogota, she intentionally confuses documentation with history, recreating steep segments from her own documented events in Ramallah, Fukushima, and Bogota. Chuma assembles a mosaic of dancers, images, filmed interviews and musical selections whose content has the effect of framing theater with barbed wire.

Daguerreotype - Takashi Arai
Video Installation - Kit Fitzgerald
Sound Composition - Christopher McIntyre
Costumes - Gabriel Berry

π =3.14 was originally presented at La MaMa Club in 2002 based on a mountain of correspondence and miscommunications between Hiroshima, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Kabul, and The School of Hard Knocks.

Exhibition
Takashi Arai, Robert Flynt, Dona Ann McAdams, Hugh Burckhardt, Gabriel Berry

Production Director Kaya Nakamura
Production International Liaison, GOH Productions: Bonnie Stein

TILT Brass completes its month-long TILT 10 Festival as resident brass ensemble for New Amsterdam Presents' Ecstatic Summer 2013, an evening of premieres presented on the Hudson River at Brookfield Place Plaza (part of 2013 River To River Festival).

From the River To River website:

"...organized by New Amsterdam Presents in association with Kaufman Music Center, Ecstatic Summer 2013 features two full sets of newly commissioned, collaboratively-based music; one for brass and the other for percussion. Part concert and part “happening,” the two sets will be completely acoustic, site-specific events, designed specifically to fill the stunning waterfront plaza of Brookfield Place with over a dozen musicians involved in each set. Composers include Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Dave Douglas, Susie Ibarra, Seth Olinsky (Akron/Family)."

TILT PERSONNEL
Chris McIntyre - trombone, Director
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold, Tom Bergeron, Chris DiMeglio – trumpet
Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Will Lang, James Rogers – trombone
David Byrd-Marrow, Jason Sugata - horn
Joe Exley - tuba

Ecstatic Summer 2013 on R2R website
TILT 10 Festival Page

Entitled TILT Brass presents TILT 10: An Anniversary Celebration, our 27 June Roulette event is TILT 10 Festival's flagship concert. In addition to works from TILT's repertoire, this program includes the world premiere of 4 commissioned works by local and international composers. This extraordinary evening of new brass music is being performed by 3 different instrumental combinations: TILT Brass Sextet, the founding 10-piece ensemble TILT Creative Brass Band, and a new group, TILT Zug Septet.

Roulette June 27 Artist Info: Composers | Players

PROGRAM
Lainie Fefferman Big Breath (2013)* - Sextet
Enno Poppe (DE) Zug (2008)** - Zug Septet
Filippo Perocco (IT) new work* - Creative Brass Band
Anthony Coleman Acute Corzya (2009) - Sextet
[Intermission]
Chris McIntyre Dedifferentiation No. 1 (2013)* - Sextet & UllU
Mario Diaz de Leon Bellum (2013)* - Zug Septet
Andrew Hamilton (IR) Love and Goodness (2013)* - Creative Brass Band
Jon Gibson Multiples (1972) - TILT Brass tutti
* = world premiere
** = US premiere

PERSONNEL Conductor: Ted Hearne Trumpet: Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold, Chris DiMeglio Trombone: Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Chris McIntyre, Will Lang Horn: David Byrd-Marrow, Jason Sugata Tuba: Joe Exley, Dan Peck Percussion: Chris Nappi, David Shively UllU: Chris McIntyre & David Shively

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Chris Jonas' Sun Spits Cherries
Wednesday, June 19 @ 8pm

Neighborhood House
Christ Church Philadelphia
20 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
(Between 2nd and 3rd just north of Market Street)

TICKETS: $10

Chris Jonas, soprano saxophone
Chris DiMeglio, trumpet and voice
Christopher McIntyre, tenor trombone
Andrew Barker, percussion

From the choral group The Crossings event page: 

"To introduce Santa Fe composer Chris Jonas (whose new work for The Crossing will be premiered June 23) we offer his ensemble Sun Spits Cherries, a remarkable combination of instruments – saxophone, two trombones, and percussion – treated masterfully in his compositional hands to the affect that they seem to form a much larger group. Chris’ style combines energetic outbursts with soft and sentimental passages; neither pure improvisation, nor entirely composed, Sun Spits Cherries braids written music, cues and conducting techniques to layer and juxtapose different subtle and startling notions of space, color, timbre and a interaction.

Started in NYC in 1997, the Sun Spits Cherries consists of soprano saxophone, trumpet, trombone and percussion. Neither pure improvisation, nor entirely composed, these pieces braid cues and conducting techniques to layer and juxtapose composed materials, improvisations, and scored forms in order to disrupt and modify habits and place focus on space, color, timbre and interaction." 
 

TILT Brass Sextet again joins forces with long-time TILT associate Nate Wooley at ISSUE Project Room for the first complete iteration of his leviathan Seven Storey Mountain project (also featuring drummers Chris Corsano and Ryan Sawyer, C. Spencer Yeh, Ben Vida, others).

PERSONNEL
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold, Chris DiMeglio – trumpet
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang - trombone

IPR Event Page
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TILT 10 Festival page

E/O @ FIREHOUSE SPACE BROOKLYN
May 3, 2013, 8:00PM, $10
246 Frost St., Brooklyn NY 

Steve Reich - Four Organs (1970)


2nd half features Iktus Ensemble 

  512 W. 19th St (btw 10th & 11th Ave)
  Saturday, March 23, 8pm
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Making its Kitchen debut, TILT Brass' Sextet joins cellist Okkyung Lee in revisiting legendary composer and computer musician David Behrman's work Open Space for brass at The Kitchen in Chelsea.

The work was first heard during the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's final performances in December 2011 at Park Avenue Armory.  They again join forces as part of the Synth Nights, an

"...intergenerational electronic music series features recent and vintage works by... Behrman, including Runthrough (1968, for homemade synthesizers and light-controlled mixers), Cello with Melody-driven Electronics (1974, for cello with pitch-sensors and triangle-wave generators), Interspecies Smalltalk (1984, for violin, keyboard, Apple II computer and accessories)... and Ben Vida collaborates with Greg Davis to present a new work, Tripartite Node, utilizing a hybrid computer/analog synthesizing setup designed for real-time composition and centralized control-source improvisations."       [from The Kitchen website]

TILT Brass Sextet at The Kitchen
Dave Ballou, Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpets
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombone

A CONTEMPORARY EVENING FOR RALPH
Monday, February 04 | 8:00pm
tickets

Alarm Will Sound
TBA

Argento Ensemble
Georg Friedrich Haas: Nacht Ruf ent Gleitend (1999)

Either/Or
Giacinto Scelsi: Pranaam II (1973) [CJM on analog organ]

International Contemporary Ensemble
Marc-Andre Dalbavie: Fantasies (2009)

JACK Quartet
Matthias Pintscher: Study IV for Treatise on the Veil (2009)

Talea Ensemble
Olga Neuwirth: Hooloomooloo (1997)

From Merkin Concert Hall website:
"Ralph Kaminsky (1926-2012) was one of the greatest advocates for contemporary music that New York City has ever known. To honor Ralph's singular passion, six groups with whom he was closely affiliated (with a total of over 50 musicians) will perform works by composers whom Ralph championed -- the first time these groups have ever appeared in concert together. The evening will also mark the creation of the Ralph Kaminsky Fund for New Music, a new nonprofit designed to commission works from composers both emerging and established.

John King, composer, guitarist and violist, has received commissions from the Kronos Quartet, Red {an orchestra}, ETHEL, the Albany Symphony/”Dogs of Desire”, Bang On A Can All-Stars, Mannheim Ballet, New York City Ballet/Diamond Project, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballets de Monte Carlo, as well as the Merce Cunningham Dance Co. His string quartets have also been performed by the Eclipse Quartet (LA) and the Mondriaan Quartet (Amsterdam). His quartet Crucible has premiered many of his compositions at The Stone (June 2007) and The Kitchen (April 2009).

PROGRAM
Kosmos (World Premiere) with live electronics
for Crucible Quartet
Conrad Harris, Cornelius Dufallo – violins
John King – viola
Yves Dharamraj – cello

Astral Epitaphs 
for TILT Brass
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombones
Thomas Bergeron, Garreth Flowers, Timothy Leopold – trumpets
> featuring the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Dianne Berkun director

Work written for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s final concerts at the Park Ave. Armory

(climax in) The Deserts of Love
For large ensemble and soprano, featuring Melissa Fogarty. A poetic reduction of the Arthur Rimbaud text.

More info on roulette.org
Event on tiltbrass.org

Bowerbird presents:

Song Books in Concert 1: Joan La Barbara and Ne(x)tworks
Friday, November 30, 2012 at 8:00pm
Christ Church Philadelphia 
20 North American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

First of two events featuring Ne(x)tworks. Nov. 30 is a full evening-length version of Song Books presented in historic Christ Church. 

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

Event page on cagebeyondsilence.com