On June 21st, MATA presents TILT Brass performing SWELTER, a large-scale musical event in Central Park as part of Make Music New York. The performance brings together 50+ brass players positioned around Central Park Lake to play a new ambient music-scape by three Australian sound artists Julian Day, Luke Jaaniste and Janet McKay which the audience will experience from row boats on the water.

SWELTER is part of Day, Jaaniste & McKay's ongoing project Super Critical Mass (supercriticalmass.com) which has appeared in various spaces since 2008. In each event they bring together large numbers of the same kind of instrument (eg 30 clarinets, 80 flutes) and use simple instructions to create complex and beautiful site-specific works. The instructions respond to different skill levels so that a wide range of players can participate, from young performers through to world-class professionals.
 

TILT Brass is a Brooklyn-based experimental music organization dedicated to expanding the world of contemporary brass performance by producing innovative concert programs and recording projects, and by commissioning new works for its two ensembles, TILT Creative Brass Band (CBB) and TILT SIXtet. Since forming in 2003, TILT Brass has presented the work of over 50 composers, including group members and local colleagues, as well as established masters. TILT’s repertoire engages its audience with musical experiences ranging from sonorous soundscapes to the raucous strains of a street band, from freely improvised explorations to the precision and clarity of fully notated chamber music (often combining the latter two within a single work).

SUPER CRITICAL MASS (SCM) is a large-scale performance/installation project that explores spatialised masses of musicians playing identical instruments within public places. There is no conductor, scores or music stands -- instead performers execute simple ‘algorithms’ for sounds and often movement that build up complex, evolving textures. The simplicity of means allows for performers of various backgrounds and ages to participate whilst creating complex interactions. The results are immersive and often meditative performance-installations, articulating both instrument and architecture, within which audiences freely move about or simply sit back and take it in. SCM is thus a unique take on the traditional orchestra, community arts, sound installation and public arts projects.

MATA (matafestival.org) is a non-profit organization that has, for the past fourteen years, been dedicated to commissioning and presenting works by young composers from around the world. MATA’s directors are motivated by a desire to create community among young musicians, especially those whose work defies definition and doesn’t fit into existing institutions. By providing young composers with a professional performance of their work, access to first-rate performers and valuable connections to colleagues, MATA nurtures their entry into American musical life.

PROGRAM
Robert Ashley - Outcome Inevitable (1991)
George Lewis - Signifying Riffs: Unison (1998)
Richard Carrick - new work for guitars (2011, premiere)
Andrew Byrne - new work for string quartet (2011, premiere)
Steve Reich - Four Organs (1970)

PERSONNEL
Anthony Burr - clarinets, organ
Jennifer Choi - violin
Richard Carrick - guitar, organ
Michael Ibrahim - saxophones
Chris McIntyre - trombone, organ
Esther Noh - violin
Jane Rigler - flutes
David Shively - percussion
Alex Waterman - cello, organ
Erin Wight - viola

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Christopher McIntyre, trombone and synthesizer
Miguel Frasconi, glass instruments & electronics
$10

These two renowned and versatile improvising composers, and long-time members of the new music ensemble Ne(x)tworks, perform together as a duo for the very first time and explore new timbral combinations and sonic trajectories.

Miguel Frasconi is a composer and improviser who uses electronics, laptop, and an instrumentarium of glass objects to create music from a uniquely imagined tradition. His glass instruments are struck, blown, stroked, smashed and otherwise coaxed into vibration. They have been called “a beautiful menagerie of pealing contraptions” by Time Out NY. Miguel has worked closely with composers John Cage, Jon Hassell, James Tenney, Morton Subotnick, and has collaborated with many choreographers, including modern dance pioneer Anna Halprin. He was a founding member of The Glass Orchestra, the internationally renowned new music ensemble featuring all glass instruments, and presently performs with Ne(x)tworks, an ensemble of “new music all-stars” (Time Out NY). He also teaches electronic music at Bard College. More info at frasconimusic.com

Christopher McIntyre leads a multi-faceted career in the contemporary arts as a solo and ensemble performer, composer, and curator/producer. Time Out New York noted that "...with every passing week, trombonist-composer Chris McIntyre becomes more central to the new-music experience in New York." (Nov. '09) Current projects include leading TILT Brass and 7X7 Trombone Band, and collaborative efforts such as Ne(x)tworks. In his composing, McIntyre has experimented with conceptual elements such as spatialization, recontextualized notated material, and improvisative strategy, along with ideas of scale, symmetrical pitch constructions, and self-similarity. He has contributed work to the repertoire of TILT, Ne(x)tworks, 7X7 Trombone Band (for choreographer Yoshiko Chuma), Flexible Orchestra, and B3+ brass trio. Beyond performing and creating music, McIntyre is also active as a curator and concert producer, with independent projects at venues including The Kitchen, Issue Project Room, and The Stone (June 2007), and as Artistic Director of the MATA Festival (07-10).

This presentation is part of the Well Weathered Music Series.

Hans Tammen's Third Eye Orchestra

Hans Tammen uses Earle Brown's open form composition idea as a starting point to create a large multi-movement piece, thoroughly composed and purely improvised at the same time, inspired by west african roots of Jazz, Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, Steve Coleman, and Stravinsky's layering or Steve Reich's phase techniques. Drawing from a repertoire of numerous pre-conceived musical units, the conductor is free to choose which one to play next, and in which instrumental combination. Merging improvisational aspects with open form composition, the conductor uses the orchestra as an instrument, while each performer shapes the music through virtuosic improvisation and the individual stylization of musical performance.

Tammen gets his thrill out of exploring the world of sounds, by utilizing technology from his hybrid guitar/computer setup to planetarium projectors, guitar robots and disklavier pianos. His Third Eye Orchestra concept was first presented in 2004 on Canada's Sound Symposium Festival, with a take on Miles Davis' Bitches Brew period. From the first original work presented on 2005's "Jazz on the Volga" Festival in Yaroslavl, Russia, numerous works for various kinds of ensembles were presented in the US, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Mexico and Germany.

Hans Tammen received composer commissions for the Third Eye Orchestra from the American Composers Forum, underwritten by the Jerome Fondation, and the New York State Council On The Arts (NYSCA). The CD was produced with funds from the New York State Music Funds.

The core ensemble in New York City consists of string quartet, wind/brass quartet, two pianos/keyboards, bass, percussion, voice and live sound processing, often enhanced by one or more guests. The ensemble released a CD of a 2006 Roulette performance as "Antecedent / Consequent" on the Innova label. All About Jazz called the music "nothing short of breathtaking", and "a masterpiece of musical evocation".

CJM joins Ne(x)tworks members Joan La Barbara and Miguel Frasconi to perform various pieces by John Cage on DJ Kurt Gottschalk's Miniature Mintaurs show on WFMU. CJM will play Solo for Sliding Trombone, Variations II, and other works simultaneously with La Barbara and Frasconi.

North River Music Series - Ne(x)tworks

Greenwich House Ensemble-In-Residence Kick-off Event
Ne(x)tworks Live Vol.1 Release Event
Preview of ensemble material from CJM's Smithson Project

Program
Arthur Russell - Singing Tractors (pages 1 & 2) (ca. 1987)
Jon Gibson - Multiples (1972)
Edgard Varese - untitled graphic score (ca. 1957)
Leroy Jenkins - Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America (1979)
Christopher McIntyre - Preview of material from Smithson Project (2010/11)

Personnel
Joan La Barbara (voice), Shelley Burgon (harp, baritone guitar, laptop), Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Miguel Frasconi (keyboard, laptop), Ariana Kim (violin), Stephen Gosling (piano, keyboard), Chris McIntyre (trombone)
Guests: Anthony Coleman (piano [Jenkins]), Ha-Yang Kim (cello), Danny Tunick (percussion)

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Members of Ne(x)tworks, including Shelley Burgon (harp, elec.), Stephen Gosling (synth), and Chris McIntyre (trombone, synth) come together to support the Brooklyn-based online arts magazine Triple Canopy. The trio will present a selection from Karlheinz Stockhausen's legendary text works Aus Den Sieben Tagen

Steady Orbits

a benefit for Triple Canopy

177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY · 7 pm · October 15, 2010

Premier support: $45, entry at 7 p.m.
Buy Tickets
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Donation includes a limited-edition print by Dexter Sinister, cocktails, light fare, and all performances.

Join us for a night of performances to benefit Triple Canopy. Steady Orbits will feature an interactive scale model of the solar system by Matt Mullican; a storytelling and lightbox performance by Ellie Ga; a video program organized by curator Gary Carrion-Murayari; DJ sets by Javelin and Jon Santos; performances by the ensemble Ne(x)tworks, which will play a selection from Karlheinz Stockhausen's Aus den sieben Tagen (1968), and the band Psychobuildings, with a set designed by Ryan Johnson and Kevin Zucker. Steady Orbits also marks the launch of Triple Canopy issue 10 and the magazine's redesign.

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JOHN KING’S “10 MYSTERIES” CD RELEASE AT ROULETTE NYC, MAY 15, 2010

Members of TILT Brass (Russ Johnson, trumpet; Rachel Drehmann, horn; Chris McIntyre, trombone; Joe Exley, tuba) join the string quartet Crucible (Cornelius Dufallo and Chris Otto, violins; John King, viola; and Alex Waterman, cello) to perform the music of composer John King at NYC’s Roulette.
Roulette (www.roulette.org) is located at 20 Greene Street, NYC, between Canal and Grand.
Tickets are $15/$10 and can be reserved at 212.219.8242.
Admission is free to Roulette members.

Earlier this year, John King released his second CD, “10 Mysteries” on John Zorn’s Tzadik label. King has 2 previous CD releases of music for string quartet; AllSteel (Tzadik) and Ethel (Cantaloupe). Featuring passionate and inspiring performances by the remarkable quartet Crucible with King himself on viola, the music on 10 Mysteries jumps from moment to moment with lightening speed and an organic sense of form. In his second CD on Tzadik he again embraces rock, jazz, blues and other popular styles in an energetic and colorful program for string quartet.

Crucible will also be joined by the TILT Brass and Charlotte Dobbs, soprano, for the world premiere of SAPPHO presto chango. These 12 short arias are based on the poem fragments of Sappho which are to be performed as an independent layer to the instrumental ensemble. To end the evening, pianist Jenny Lin will perform King's petite ouverture en forme de mErCE CunninGHAm, a piece written for Merce in honor of his 90th birthday.

Crucible features New York string luminaries Cornelius Dufallo, Chris Otto and Alex Waterman, who perform with such groups as Ethel, the JACK Quartet and the Either/Or Ensemble.

Led by trombonist and composer Chris McIntyre, Brooklyn-based TILT Brass is a versatile collective of brass and percussion artists that present works ranging from the historical avant garde to commissioned works by composers such as James Tenney, Anthony Coleman, and Lois V. Vierk.
 

MATA Sound Works
Tuesday, April 20 - Thursday, April 22

LPR Gallery Bar
6pm – 7:25pm
FREE EVENTS

Matthew Wright – Totem for Gobi-New York [2010] (World Premiere) 2010 MATA Festival Commission
Antye Greie – WORDS ARE MISSING or Six Ears, I’d Like To Have [2010] (World Premiere)
Bjørn Erik Haugen – REGRESS [2008]
Christopher McIntyre – Monuments (I. Alogon, II. Kalimpong Khor) [2010] (World Premiere)

MATA continues its annual presentation of sound works with daily presentations of multi-channel audio and video installations in Le Poisson Rouge’s Gallery Bar.