Reprising its well-known realization of Julius Eastman's Stay On It, Ne(x)tworks joins a stellar line-up of today's most talked about New Music groups to help kick off the season-long series Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall.

Joan La Barbara - voice
Shelley Burgon - harp, perc.
Cornelius Dufallo - violin
Miguel Frasconi - synthesizer
Steve Gosling - piano
Ariana Kim - violin
Christopher McIntyre - trombone

Guests:
Sara Schoenbeck - bassoon
Danny Tunick - percussion

NY Times Review

"Still, it seemed fitting somehow that the first artists featured during the marathon were outliers. Ne(x)tworks, a new-music collaborative with ties to the New York School of experimentalist composers of the 1950s, performed “Stay on It,” a 1973 work by Julius Eastman, a New York composer who died in 1990. Restored to circulation via a 2005 anthology on the New World label, Mr. Eastman’s once marginalized music has started to find an appreciative new audience.

Here “Stay on It” sounded like a prescient precursor to a sound that has flourished among New Amsterdam-associated composers like Mr. Greenstein and Nico Muhly. Initially bright, affirmative and unanimous in its Minimalist pulsations, the piece grew unruly, with individual musicians breaking away from the dominant ensemble theme for passages of free expression.

As those players rejoined, the sound became increasingly heterodox: distinct voices not fused seamlessly, as in a classical ensemble, but loosely united in joyous common cause. It would be hard to find a more potent metaphor to represent this festival’s intent to celebrate cross-pollination and collaboration." - S. Smith

Darmstadt Essential Rep: Luciano Berio’s Sequenzas I – X (1958 – 1984)
Admission: $10 / $8 for members

Luciano Berio (1925-2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition Sinfonia for voices and orchestra and his series of numbered solo pieces titled Sequenza) and also for his pioneering work in electronic music. Luciano Berio has always looked at his Sequenzas as building blocks among his other compositions. These solo works, sometimes written for specific performers, exist as elements of other, larger works or as platforms upon which he’s built extensive structures.

Line-up includes: Claire Chase (flute), Shelley Burgon (harp), Daisy Press (voice), Stephen Gosling (piano), Chris McIntyre (trombone), John Pickford Richards (viola), James Austin Smith (oboe), Jennifer Choi (violin), Joshua Rubin (clarinet), and Gareth Flowers (trumpet).

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NY Times Review


(Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times)

The evening will include a special performance of First’s “A Bet on Transcendence Favors the House” by Jane Scarpantoni/cello, Christopher McIntyre/trombone, Peter Zummo/trombone & D. First/guitar &...laptop with visuals by Katherine Liberovskaya (approx 9:30pm).

For this evening only the 3-CD set will be available for the special price ...of $20.00

Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009) XI 134
(3 CDs for the price of 2)

Featuring Chris McIntyre and Peter Zummo, trombones; “Blue” Gene Tyranny, keyboards; and The Black Jackets Ensemble.

“This was something unexpected and truly different: pulsing electronic textures that derived their rhythm from the beating patterns of closely-tune pitches – as if Alvin Lucier and Philip Glass had gone on a blind date to CBGBs… David put the beat in beating patterns.”- From the liner notes by composer Nic Collins (on his initial exposure to First’s music in 1987)

http://xirecords.org/134.shtml
http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=6595

A quartet of TILT Brass players will play renown visual and sound artist Christian Marclay's 1985 work "Through the Looking Glass" as well as wall mounted graphic scores on Wed., Sept. 23, Thu., Sept 24, and Fri., 25, through 26 during the exhibition "Christian Marclay: Festival" at the Whitney Museum. The show runs from July 1 to September 26. More info at http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/ChristianMarclay

TILT Brass presents its SIXtet project playing a work by Anthony Coleman as well as the launch of a collaboration with Santa Fe-based composer, saxophonist, and video artist Chris Jonas, previewing music and video from the new intermedia work Cities (GARDEN, Chapter 2). More info at HERE


(L to R - Anthony Coleman, Chris McIntyre, Russ Johnson, John Altieri, Joe Exely, Nate Wooley, Curtis Hasselblring, Chris Jonas)

Ne(x)tworks performs Joan La Barbara
An excerpt from Angels, Demons and other Muses, an opera-in-progress
nextworksmusic.net

Roulette 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand, NYC)
General admission: $15 /$10 students, seniors, Harvestworks & DTW members
Free for Roulette and Location One members
For reservations, call (212) 219-8242.


Joan La Barbara’s new opera-in-progress Angels, Demons, and other Muses is inspired in part by the dreams of Joseph Cornell, intricate word turnings of Virginia Woolf, and psychological twists of Poe. The performance features the ensemble Ne(x)tworks, which includes violist Kenji Bunch, harpist Shelley Burgon, cellist Yves Dharamraj, violinist and director Cornelius Dufallo, glass instrumentalist Miguel Frasconi, pianist Stephen Gosling,violinist Ariana Kim, and trombonist Chris McIntyre.

 

EITHER/OR SPRING FESTIVAL 2010
www.eitherormusic.org

March 26, 2010,8 PM
March 27, 2010, 8 PM

Tenri Cultural Institute
43A W13th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
Tickets: $15 ($10 students/seniors)

Either/Or is proud to announce the line-up for our 5th Annual Spring Festival of New Music. The 2010 Either/Or Festival features two nights of compelling new chamber music from around the world including world premieres from Trevor Baca (US, Jezek Prize Commission), Martin Iddon (UK), and Erik Griswold (US/Australia). US premieres on the two concerts will include music of Richard Barrett (UK), Eve Beglarian (US), Alex Hills (UK), Karin Rehnqvist (Sweden), and Rebecca Saunders (UK/Germany).

Friday, March 26

Richard Barrett – EARTH* for trombone and percussion (1987-1988)

Rebecca Saunders - duo 3, parts i & iii* for viola and percussion (1999/2001)

György Kurtág - Splinters, op. 6c for cimbalom (1973) and other works

Klaus Lang – zwillingsgipfel for flute and piano (2003)

Karin Rehnqvist – Beginning* for piano trio (2003)

Saturday, March 27

Trevor Bača - Mon seul désir** for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello (2010)

Eve Beglarian - Play Nice for cimbalom (1997/2010)

Martin Iddon – Danaë** for violin, viola, and cello (2010)
Louis Andriessen - Workers' Union for ensemble (1977)
Alex Hills - Knight's Move* for cello and percussion (2008/9)
Erik Griswold - New Work** for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello (2010)

** World premiere
* US premiere

Benjamin Baron - clarinet
Richard Carrick - piano, conductor
Stephanie Griffin - viola
Margaret Lancaster - flutes
Chris McIntyre - trombone
Esther Noh - violin
David Shively - cimbalom, percussion
Alex Waterman - cello

This concert is made possible by the generous support of the BMI Foundation,the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation, and Meet the Composer's Cary New Music Performance Fund and the Music Department of New York University (FAS). Either/Or is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
 

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 8pm

To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass [Part 2] feat. 10-piece TILT Creative Brass Band
@
Issue Project Room [website]
232 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY
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On Wednesday, February 10, the 10-piece Brooklyn-based group TILT Creative Brass Band presents the second installment of its on-going series To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass which focuses solely on repertoire written for the organization's distinctive ensembles (CBB and 6-piece SIXtet) at ISSUE Project Room. The program features works by a stellar group of composer/performers including Downtown legend Anthony Coleman, trumpet virtuoso Dave Ballou, avant-cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, Gold Sparkle's Charles Waters (featuring virtuoso improviser Mick Rossi on piano), and TILT Director Chris McIntyre. TILT CBB features an extraordinary line-up of creative musicians including trumpeters Nate Wooley and Gareth Flowers, trombonists Joe Feidler and Jacob Garchik, and and percussionist Kevin Norton.

PROGRAM Anthony Coleman - Set Into Motion (2005) Charles Waters - 3 Mysteries [Concertimento #12] (2007) >>featuring Mick Rossi on piano Taylor Ho Bynum - preharmonic, postchordal, revamped (2007) Chris McIntyre - Foliation (for Suzanne) (2009) Dave Ballou - Concerto for TILT (2003) PERSONNEL Creative Brass Band: Trumpet - Nate Wooley, Gareth Flowers, Andy Kozar French Horn - Rachel Drehmann Trombone - Chris McIntyre Bass Trombone - Jacob Garchik Tuba - Ron Caswell Percussion - Kevin Norton Conductor - Greg Evans Special Guest: Mick Rossi - piano soloist on Waters >>>Listen to Creative Brass Band TILT Creative Brass Band Brooklyn based TILT Creative Brass Band (TCBB) is a beautifully strange combination of military brass band and Downtown repertoire ensemble. The group has presented concerts since January 2003 at venues ranging from Whitney Museum to Barbes in Brooklyn. Since its inception, TCBB has fearlessly taken on works from the fringes of experimental concert music, tongue-in-cheek agitprop, and hybrid scores combining notation and improvisation. The group frequently presents entire programs of original works by its composer/performer members (Kevin Norton, Curtis Hasselbring, Nate Wooley, among others) and colleagues from the field, including legendary pianist Anthony Coleman (released on Tzadik), Doctor Nerve's Nick Didkovsky, multi-instrumentist Charles Waters, and cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum. In addition, the Creative Brass Band is committed to presenting works from the experimental tradition, ranging from a Varése graphic score from the late 50's and selections from James Tenney's Postal Pieces to works by Fredric Rzewski (Les Mounton de Panurge) and early John Adams (Light Over Water). In June '09, TCBB kicked off a new on-going series of programs called New York Noise which presents historical and current works by important composers from the Downtown community and its ancestors such as Elliott Sharp, Lois V. Vierk, and Rhys Chatham. In 2010, the group will present several programs at ISSUE Project Room and will record and release its current To TILT repertoire. Mick Rossi Pianist, percussionist, and composer Mick Rossi’s diverse accomplishments include: being among “the most courageous, gifted, and charismatic musicians" of the New York Downtown scene (AllAboutJazz); a long-time Philip Glass collaborator and member of the ensemble as pianist, percussionist, and conductor; and working with artists from Dave Douglas to Kelly Clarkson to Leonard Cohen. He recently conducted Book of Longing at the Sydney Opera House, and performed Einstein at the Beach at Carnegie Hall and Koyaanisqatsi at the Hollywood Bowl. Recent recordings include One Block From Planet Earth (OmniTone), and They Have A Word For Everything (Knitting Factory). His recent concert at Le Poisson Rouge presenting his latest and ninth recording Songs From The Broken Land (Orange Mountain Music) was featured in the NY Times.

Wednesday, January 13, 8pm

MATA Interval 3.1: Architectures of Sound [website]
David Kant & Cameron Hu, curators
@
Issue Project Room [website]
232 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY
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Every musical event is accompanied by an often unacknowledged and yet not-so-silent partner. The built environment reflects, refracts, and remakes sound, and performer and audience act and listen under the influence of its formal language. Architectures of Sound assembles an evening of unusual performances that attend to this convergence of sound and built space. Artists Casey Thomas Anderson, G. Douglas Barrett, Anthony Ptak, Charles Stankievech, Jacob Sudol, Michael Winter, and curators Cameron Hu and David Kant will present new work that interacts with the singularities of the performance space - its materiality, its geometric form, its historical specters and its vanishing present.


 

Cage "Concert for Piano and Orchestra" @ Mode Records Benefit, Abrons Art Center CJM joins all-star line-up to perform John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchesrta (1957/58) during a benefit event for Mode Records at Abrons Art Center.

The 7x7 Trombones will gather to play Rzewski's the Last Judgement at a memorial for Suzanne Fiol, founder of Issue Project Room.