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  • Sunday, June 21, 2009 - 12:00pm - 8:00pm   map

  • Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm   map

    TILT Brass Band @ Darmstadt/IPR

    Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm   map


    Thursday, June 18, 2009, 8pm
    ISSUE Project Room

    directions


    DARMSTADT presents:
    Darmstadt Institute at IPR, June 2009

    Curated by Zach Layton & Nick Hallett

    New York Noise
    TILT Brass Band convenes for a set of music by four Downtown icons. Includes works for smaller forces, and the first performance by the full 10-piece band since June 2007. Not to be missed!

    Nick Didkovsky - Stink Up!
    full ensemble

    Rhys Chatham - Waterloo No.2
    2 trp, 2 trb, solo perc

    Lois Vierk - Jagged Mesa
    
2 trp, 2 tnr trb, 2 bs trb

    Elliot Sharp - Coriolis Effect
    full ensemble

    PERSONNEL
    Trumpet - Shane Endsley, Russ Johnson, Gareth Flowers
    French Horn - Ann Ellsworth, Mark Taylor
    Trombone - William Lang, Chris McIntyre
    Bass Trombone - Jacob Garchik, Dave Nelson
    Tuba - Ron Caswell
    Percussion - Garrett Brown
    Conductor - Greg Evans
     

  • Sunday, June 7, 2009 - 7:00pm - 11:00pm   map

    Ne(x)tworks at Darmsatdt/IPR [2 sets!]

    Sunday, June 7, 2009 - 7:00pm - 11:00pm   map


    Issue Project Room/OA Can Factory Courtyard
    Sunday, June 7, 2009
    2 Sets @ 7 and 9pm

    directions


    DARMSTADT presents:
    Darmstadt Institute at IPR, June 2009

    Curated by Zach Layton & Nick Hallett

    Ne(x)tworks presents two sets of music during the Darmstadt Institute in IPR's courtyard


    7pm - Fredric Rzewski's Les Mouton de Panurge
    >A rare complete reading of this seminal work from 1969 that audaciously combines pure Minimalist additive/subtractive technique with bold inderterminacy.

    9pm - Music for and by Ne(x)tworks
    Michael Schumacher - isorhythmic variations
    Anthony Coleman - Seven at the Golden Shovel
    Joan La Barbara - Scatter
    Kenji Bunch - selections from Woman in the Dunes
    Miguel Frasconi - new work


    Ne(x)tworks:
    Joan La Barbara - voice
    Kenji Bunch - viola
    Shelley Burgon - harp/elec
    Yves Dharamraj - cello
    Cornelius Dufallo - violin
    Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec
    Stephen Gosling - piano
    Chris McIntyre - trombone/synth

    Special guests:
    Anthony Coleman - Korg organ
    Gareth Flowers - trumpet
    Christopher Otto - violin
     

  • Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm   map

    Darmsatdt w/ Hans Tammen's Third Eye Orchestra

    Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm   map

    CJM performs with HANS TAMMEN'S THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA
    WEDNESDAY, May 27th, 8pm, $10
    Galapagos Art Space
    16 Main Street (at Water Street)
    Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY 11201
    Subway: F York St, A High St, 2/3 Clark St, G Smith/9th St.
    [gmap]

    8pm: HANS TAMMEN & THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA
    10pm: JASON KAO HWANG & SPONTANEOUS RIVER


    HANS TAMMEN & THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA
    Mari Kimura (vio), David Soldier (vio), Jason Hwang (vla), Tomas Ullrich (cel), Marty Ehrlich (bcl, as, fl), Briggan Krauss (as, bari), Chris McIntyre (tb), Robert Dick (fl, cbfl), Dafna Naphtali (voice, live sound processing), Denman Maroney (p/kb), Ursel schlicht (p/kb), Stomu Takeishi (b), Satoshi Takeishi (perc), Hans Tammen (composer, conductor, concept).

    tammen.org/ens_teo.html

    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 single repertoire of around 100 pre-conceived musical units, the conductor uses the orchestra as an instrument, while each performer shapes the music through virtuosic improvisation and the individual stylization of musical performance. "Everything about Third Eye Orchestra... indicates mastery and control" (Howard Mandel / CD Liner Notes)
     

  • Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 8:00pm - 9:00pm   map

    TILT SIXtet @ Ibeam

    Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 8:00pm - 9:00pm   map


    SATURDAY, April 18, 8:00PM, $10
    TILT SIXtet plays the Ibeam Trombone Festival


    Ibeam Music Studio
    168 7th Street [street entrance]
    Gowanus, Brooklyn
    [gmap]

    SIXtet
    Nate Wooley & Rich Johnson - trumpet
    Chris McIntyre & Ben Gerstein - trombone
    Joe Exley & Jay Rozen - tuba


    TILT SIXtet folds in to Ibeam Music Studio's month-long Trombone Festival this Saturday. The group welcomes some very special guests to help kick off a triple bill with improvisations and works by CJM, John King, and Mauricio Kagel. Trombone Festival and Ibeam impresario Brian Drye's stellar group Bizingas is at 9, and TILT Brass Band's own Joe Fiedler presents his widely acclaimed JF Trio at 10. All 3 sets for 10 bucks! A great night all around...

    8 - TILT SIXtet (CJM)
    9 - Bizingas (Brian Drye)
    10 - Joe Fiedler Trio

     

  • Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 12:00pm - Saturday, April 4, 2009 - 11:45pm   map

    2009 MATA Festival @ Le Poisson Rouge

    Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 12:00pm - Saturday, April 4, 2009 - 11:45pm   map

    2009 MATA FESTIVAL
    March 31 - April 4

    Le Poisson Rouge
    [website]

    158 Bleecker Street
    New York, NY 10012
    [map]


    Tuesday March 31st 7:30 PM: THE KNIGHTS
    An evening of chamber works by MATA Commissionee Andrew Hamilton, Ted Hearne, Sarah Snider, Francesco Antonioni, Justin Messina, Mike Block and Joseph Pereira

    Wednesday April 1st 7:30 PM: SAWAKO AND NE(X)TWORKS
    An electronic set by sound sculptor Sawako; New works for Ne(x)tworks by Cornelius Dufallo, Christopher McIntyre, Shelley Burgon and Kate Moore

    Friday, April 3rd 7:30 PM: NOW ENSEMBLE AND BING AND RUTH
    NOW Ensemble performs works by Gregory Spears, David Crowell, Missy Mazzoli, Jascha Narveson and Patrick Burke. Bing and Ruth premieres a multi-media work by MATA Commissionee David Moore and filmmaker Sebastian Cros

    Saturday, April 4th 7:30 PM: SO PERCUSSION
    New works for percussion quartet by MATA Commissionee Nicole Lizée, Cenk Ergün and Jason Treuting

    Saturday, April 4th 4:30 PM: PANEL
    PLAYING IN THE BAND: PERFORMER/COMPOSERS SPEAK
    LPR Gallery Bar

    A panel discussion with Sawako, Cornelius Dufallo, Mark Dancigers, Annie Gosfield and Richard Carrick. Moderated by MATA AD Chris McIntyre

    Tuesday March 31st - Saturday April 4th
    7:00 - 7:30 PM: SOUND INSTALLATION BY MATA COMMISSIONEE MIKE VERNUSKY
    free with admission to concert events

    For complete program details, composer and performer bios, and extensive sound samples,
    please visit:


  • Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 8:00pm - 11:00pm  

  • Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm   map

    CJM Sounds @ ISSUE Project Room

    Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm   map

    Saturday, March 28th, 2009
    CJM Sounds

    Part of IPR's Chamber Music Month

    ISSUE Project Room
    At the Old American Can Factory
    232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
    Brooklyn, NY 11215
    directions

    CJM Sounds features a set of compositions created by composer/performer Chris McIntyre. morphi studies is an on-going project that situates the trombone's sound and idioms within various types of electronically produced contexts. It is a collection of short works created as both a solo vehicle for the composer and as a way to explore the capabilities of MAX/MSP and conventional "tape piece" techniques. quartet music for trumpet, horn, bass trombone, and Nord Lead 2 was first inspired by a commission from the organization Composer's Concordance and the brass trio B3+. Part 1, since revised, was premiered in March 2008. Tonight's performance is the premiere of the complete three-movement work. Its aesthetic lies somewhere between historical Vareseian "organized sound" and 21st century stylistic inclusivity. quartet music strives to be playerly ensemble music while proffering a distinctive vision of 21st century chamber music.

    Program:
    morphi studies for solo trombone and sound
    McIntyre - trombone & laptop

    quartet music: parts 1,2 and 3 for brass trio and Nord synth
    Josh Frank - trumpet, Mike Atkinson - French horn, Dave Nelson - bass trombone, McIntyre - Nord Lead 2

    Click here to hear part 1 of quartet music

    Also on the bill is guitaris and composer Arthur Kampela
     

  • Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 8:30pm - 10:00pm   map

  • Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 8:30pm - 10:00pm   map

    MATA Interval 2.3 - Dither Electric Guitar Quartet

    Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 8:30pm - 10:00pm   map

    MATA Interval 2.3
    Dither Electric Guitar Quartet

    Curated by James Moore and Taylor Levine
    @
    ISSUE Project Room
    At the Old American Can Factory
    232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
    Brooklyn, NY 11215
    directions

    On January 21st, 2009, MATA presents a gloriously loud and eclectic program featuring Dither, a versatile electric guitar quartet and a rising force in New York. Curated by guitarists James Moore and Taylor Levine, Interval 2.3 showcases a whole set of new works by young composers for electric guitars in duos, quartets, and finally a 10-piece hearing-deprived electric guitar orchestra!

    Composers include Eric km Clark, Lisa R. Coons, Bryce Dessner, Florent Ghys, Joshua Lopes, Paula Matthusen, and Wil Smith.
     

  • Friday, January 9, 2009 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm   map

    McIntyre/Waters Duo at IBeam Brooklyn

    Friday, January 9, 2009 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm   map

    McIntyre/Waters Duo
    &
    trumpet and laptop trio
    featuring Russ Johnson, Rich Johnson, and Kirk Knuffke

    Ibeam Music
    168 7th Street
    Brooklyn, NY 11215
    [gmap]

    McIntyre/Waters Duo
    Chris McIntyre - trombone, Nord Lead 2
    Charles Waters - alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet

    The McIntyre/Waters Duo features two very active New York composer/performers and good friends in a multi-instrumental improvised pairing. Woodwind specialist Charles Waters is a co-founder of comprov ensemble Gold Sparkle Band, a regular member of Adam Rudolf's GO: Orchestra and William Parker's Little Huey Creative Orchestra, and leader of various projects presenting his own compositions. His scored works have been performed by SEM Ensemble, Anti-Social Music, and MATA Micro-orchestra, among others. Chris McIntyre organizes, plays trombone, and composes for projects including TILT Brass, Ne(x)tworks, and 7X7 Trombone Band, and has been heard in groups led by Anthony Coleman, Zeena Parkins, Elliott Sharp, and David First, as well as with SEM Ensemble, The Knights, and Gold Sparkle. He's recently been heard on both trombone and Nord synthesizer playing Stockhausen at The Stone and during the Arthur Russell tribute concerts at The Kitchen.

    McIntyre: cmcintyre.com & tiltbrass.org
    Waters: myspace.com/goldsparkleband & concertimento.blogspot.com
     

  • Monday, December 8, 2008 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm   map

    Music With A View - Host

    Monday, December 8, 2008 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm   map

    Host of post-concert discussion for Kathy Supové's music series at The Flea Theater.

  • Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 8:30pm - 10:00pm   map

  • Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm   map

    Elliot Sharp's Orchestra Carbon & documentary screening @ TriBeCA 92nd St Y

    Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm   map

    Doing the Don't: An Evening with Elliott Sharp & Friends
    92YTribeca
    200 Hudson Street [corner of Canal & Hudson]

    Sharp will be performing with his regular collaborators in Orchestra Carbon, including Jenny Lin and others. In addition to the live performances, the night will feature a screening of selections from documentary film maker Bert Shapiro’s Doing the Don’t, which examines Sharp’s journey from a would-be scholar of the physics to one of the most internationally acclaimed composers of the modern avant-garde.

  • Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 8:00pm - 10:30pm   map

    MATA Interval 2.2: The NEW New Virtuosity - Musicians of New Amsterdam Records

    Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 8:00pm - 10:30pm   map

    MATA Interval 2.2
    The NEW New Virtuosity: Musicians of New Amsterdam Records
    @
    ISSUE Project Room
    At the Old American Can Factory
    232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
    Brooklyn, NY 11215
    directions

    Curated by composer and NAR co-director Judd Greenstein
    Solo Performances by Andrew McKenna Lee and Nadia Sirota
    Featuring the music of Andrew McKenna Lee, Marcos Balter, Nico Muhly, and Greenstein
     

  • Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm   map

    Darmstadt's annual In C @ Galapagos Art Space DUMBO

    Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm   map

    Darmstadt's 4th Annual performance of Terry Riley's In C
    @
    Galapagos Art Space DUMBO
    16 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn [gmap]

    "...the most vital, audacious and energizing performance of the score I've ever heard." Alan Kozinn, NY Times 12/1/07
     

  • Monday, November 10, 2008 - 8:30pm - 10:00pm   map

    TILT SIXtet - Serial Underground @ Cornelia St Café

    Monday, November 10, 2008 - 8:30pm - 10:00pm   map

    TILT SIXtet

    @ Serial Underground

    Monday, November 10, 8:30PM
    Cornelia Street Café

    29 Cornelia Street,NYC

    Russ Johnson & Nate Wooley - trumpet
    Curtis Hasselbring & Chris McIntyre - trombone
    John Altieri & Joe Exley - tuba
    John King - laptop

    TILT Brass' SIXtet project performs on Composer Collaborative's Serial Underground series with music from composer, guitarist and Cunningham Co. music co-director John King, and TILT's own Chris McIntyre.
     

  • Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 8:30pm - Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 10:30pm   map

    Zeena Parkins: right after @ Roulette

    Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 8:30pm - Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 10:30pm   map

    Zeena Parkins
    right after

    For two evenings in a row Zeena Parkins presents the debut of her new piece: right after, a dense array of crisp contours, sophisticated color studies and deskilled gestural marks for four loudspeakers and large ensemble, including: Christine Bard, Anthony Coleman, Erin Cornell, Miguel Frasconi, Christopher Mcintyre, Loren Parkins, Jim Pugliese, Josh Quillein, Ned Rothenberg, Jane Rigler, Jim Staley, Christopher Tignor, and Zeena Parkins on harps/accordion/synth/objects/composer

    Graciously presented by Roulette Intermedium, Inc.
    Commissioned by Roulette with funds made possible from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust
     

  • Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - 8:30pm - 10:30pm   map

    Ne(x)tworks plays NY School @ Darmstadt/ISSUE Project Room

    Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - 8:30pm - 10:30pm   map

    DARMSTADT presents ESSENTIAL REPERTOIRE at ISSUE PROJECT ROOM, October 22 - 26
    Wed, Oct 22: Ne(x)tworks performs music of the New York School

    Christian Wolff: Nos. 10 & 12 from from Exercises 1-14 (1973-74)
    La Barbara, Frasconi, Kim, McIntyre

    Morton Feldman: Projection 4 (1951)
    Coleman, Kim

    Earle Brown: selections from Folio (1953-54)
    Four Systems
    Frasconi, Burgon
    November 1952
    Coleman, McIntyre
    December 1952
    La Barbara, Kim

    INTERMISSION

    John Cage: Variations II (1962)
    full ensemble

    Ne(x)tworks
    Joan La Barbara - voice
    Shelley Burgon - harp
    Miguel Frasconi - glass/electronics
    Ariana Kim - violin
    Chris McIntyre - trombone/electronics
    Cornelius Dufallo - director
    Special Guests: Anthony Coleman (keyboards)

    Time Out New York says:
    "Yes, we’re prone to hyperbole on occasion, but trust us when we say that Darmstadt’s Essential Repertoire series, which runs through Oct 26, is one of the most significant musical presentations of the season. In each concert, prominent interpreters explore an aspect of contemporary-classical music past or present; the series gets underway with a program devoted to music of the New York School—John Cage, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman and Christian Wolff—and no one illuminates this realm with more sympathy and conviction than the players of Ne(x)tworks."
     

  • Saturday, October 11, 2008 - 8:00pm - 11:00pm   map

    MATA Benefit feat. Meredith Monk

    Saturday, October 11, 2008 - 8:00pm - 11:00pm   map

    MATA's Annual Benefit
    join us as we honor
    MEREDITH MONK


    The Paula Cooper Gallery
    521 West 21st Street
    2nd floor
    New York, New York

    Featuring Performances by
    Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble
    with
    string quartet led by violinist Todd Reynolds

    Featuring selections from Ms. Monk's
    Songs of Ascension

    Additional works performed by members of
    The M6: Meredith Monk Music Third Generation

    8:00 pm Cocktails, Hors d'Oeuvres
    8:30 pm Performance
    9:30 pm Cocktails

    A rare opportunity to hear the visionary composer/performer Meredith Monk perform her latest work, Songs of Ascension, in an intimate gallery space.

    Songs of Ascension explores the spiritual, vocal, and physical notions of ascension across geography and time. Meredith Monk and her Vocal Ensemble will perform selections from this new work, accompanied by maverick violinist Todd Reynolds and his string quartet.

    Purchase tickets HERE
     

  • Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 8:00pm - Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 8:00pm   map

    AACM Festival @ The Kitchen

    Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 8:00pm - Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 8:00pm   map

    A Power Stronger Than Itself:
    A Celebration of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians

    Co-curated by George Lewis & Chris McIntyre

    October 9 and 11, 2008
    The Kitchen
    512 West 19th Street, New York NY 10011

    www.thekitchen.org

    October 9, 8 pm

    Muhal Richard Abrams: Trio for Violin, Clarinet, and Cello (2004)

    Henry Threadgill: He Didn’t Give Up/He Was Taken (1990), for voice, piano, alto saxophone, and violin, with text by Thulani Davis

    Leroy Jenkins: Wonderlust (2000), for chamber ensemble

    Roscoe Mitchell: White Tiger Disguise (2006), for voice and string quintet, with text by Daniel Moore

    Muhal Richard Abrams and Amina Claudine Myers, duo piano

    October 11, 5 pm

    Panel Discussion: The Meaning and Legacy of the AACM

    With Brent Hayes Edwards, George E. Lewis, Nicole Mitchell, Amina Claudine Myers, Ted Panken, and Matana Roberts; Christopher McIntyre, moderator.

    Following the discussion, Lewis will sign copies of A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press, 2008)

    October 11, 8 pm

    Nicole Mitchell: Waterdance (2003), for flute, cello, and percussion

    Wadada Leo Smith: Loving - Kindness (1997), for clarinet/bass clarinet, cello, piano, trombone/tuba

    George Lewis: Hello Mary Lou (2007), for chamber ensemble and live electronics, with video by Kate Craig

    Ritual and Rebellion (2008), a collaborative multi-movement program by Matana Roberts and Nicole Mitchell, with Craig Taborn and Chad Taylor

    About the AACM

    Since its founding on the virtually all-black South Side of Chicago in 1965, the African-American musicians' collective known as the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) has played an unusually prominent role in the development of American experimental music. The composite output of AACM members explores a wide range of methodologies, processes and media. AACM musicians have developed new ideas about timbre, sound, collectivity, extended technique and instrumentation, performance practice, intermedia, the relationship of improvisation to composition, form, scores, computer music technologies, invented acoustic instruments, installations and kinetic sculptures.

    In a 1973 article, two early AACM members, trumpeter John Shenoy Jackson and co-founder and pianist/composer Muhal Richard Abrams, asserted that, "The AACM intends to show how the disadvantaged and the disenfranchised can come together and determine their own strategies for political and economic freedom, thereby determining their own destinies.” The AACM's goals of individual and collective self-production and promotion challenged racialized limitations on venues and infrastructure, serving as an example to other artists in rethinking the artist/business relationship.

    The musical influence of the AACM has extended across borders of race, geography, genre, and musical practice and must be confronted in any nonracialized account of experimental music. To the extent that AACM musicians challenged racialized hierarchies of aesthetics, method, place, infrastructure and economics, the organization's work epitomizes the early questioning of borders by artists of color that is only beginning to be explored in serious scholarship on music.

    The internationally prominent and ongoing example of the AACM expanded the range of thinkable and actualizable positions for a generation of experimental musicians, and challenged conventional understandings of American experimental music, obliging the recognition of a multicultural, multi-ethnic reality, with a variety of perspectives, histories, traditions and methods. These evenings of AACM music at the Kitchen, presented in conjunction with the emergence of George E. Lewis’s important new book, A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Contemporary Music (University of Chicago Press, 2008) are intended to give listeners a notion of the diversity of musical thinking and cultural influence that has emerged from this groundbreaking artists’ collective.

    For more on the AACM, see aacm-newyork.com and aacmchicago.org.
     

  • Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - 8:00pm - 11:00pm   map

    Phil Niblock 75th Birthday Celebration @ ISSUE Project Room

    Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - 8:00pm - 11:00pm   map

    Phill Niblock 75th Birthday Celebration @ ISSUE Project Room
    Wed. Oct. 8 - Works from the 60s and 70s

    A Third Trombone (June 1979, recording revised 1994; 20:54),
    Jon English, trombone, recorded; Chris McIntyre, trombone live

    Four Arthurs (April 1978, 22 Min) Arthur Stidfole, bassoon, recorded;
    Leslie Ross, bassoon live

    Tenor (1969, 13 minutes) Martin Bough, recorded tenor saxophone

    3 to 7 - 196 (December 1974, 23:40), David Gibson, cello, recorded

  • Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm   map

    Waters Horn Quartet @ Monkey Town

    Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm   map

    Waters Horn Quartet
    Charles Waters - alto saxophone, clarinet
    Matt Bauder - tenor saxophone
    Nate Wooley - trumpet
    Chris McIntyre - trombone

    Monkey Town
    718.384.1369
    58 N 3rd St
    (btw. Kent & Wythe)
    Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211

  • Friday, September 26, 2008 - 7:00pm - Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 5:00pm   map

    Waters Horn Quartet @ Art Under The Bridge Fest [DUMBO]

    Friday, September 26, 2008 - 7:00pm - Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 5:00pm   map

    Waters Horn Quartet
    Charles Waters - alto saxophone, clarinet
    Matt Bauder - tenor saxophone
    Nate Wooley - trumpet
    Chris McIntyre - trombone

    Art Under The Bridge Festival, DUMBO, Bklyn
    Friday Sept 26
    7pm Performance
    Location: Water St & Adams St, DUMBO Brooklyn

    Saturday Sept. 27
    3:00 pm Performance
    Location: "Green" Triangle @ Anchorage Place
    (near Anchorage Place & Pearl St, DUMBO, Brooklyn)
     

  • Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 8:30pm - 10:30pm   map

    Jocasta screening & performance @ Anthology Film Archive

    Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 8:30pm - 10:30pm   map

    Screening of Elise Kermani's film Jocasta, and experimental adaptation of Euripides' The Phoenician Women. Includes a live performance by a quartet of trombones featured in the film, with Steve Swell, Mike Seltzer, Kevin James, and CJM

  • Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm   map

    MATA Interval 2.1 - Grúpat/Jenny Walshe & Object Collection

    Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm   map

    MATA Interval 2.1
    Music of the Dublin collective Grúpat
    Performed by Object Collection and curator Jennifer Walshe
    Doors Open at 8PM

    MATA kicks off the second season of its bi-monthly series Interval with a program of music by the radical and enigmatic South Dublin collective Grúpat. Curated by Irish vocalist and composer Jennifer Walshe, Grúpat's greatest champion, Interval 2.1 features the collective's eclectic blend of textural and playful music, performed by Ms. Walshe and up-and-coming New York interdisciplinary group Object Collection

    Grúpat collective
    “So what is sound? Is it stillness? Does it shock flesh, the drums, the mind squealing? Is it the resolution or the tension? The silence or the not silent? So we sit or stand and even to hear the wildest anti-musical noise or nothing—it is still a creature in a jar. We want to free the creature. This is the point of everything you’ve heard before. The point, the sharpness of it, the moment where the idea takes shape and enters the flesh, drawing blood, opening bodies to air, not a penetration but a commingling, an embrasure, a knitting together, spillage and contamination—to set the creature free. Sound is the creature. Sound is a thing with feathers.” — Grúpat

    For individual Grúpat Composer bios, please visit http://www.matafestival.org/interval/?p=31

    Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1974. She studied composition with John Maxwell Geddes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Kevin Volans in Dublin and graduated from Northwestern University, Chicago, with a doctoral degree in composition in June 2002. Her chief teachers at Northwestern were Amnon Wolman and Michael Pisaro. In 2003-2004 Jennifer was a fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; during 2004-2005 she lived in Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm. From 2006 to 2008 she is the composer-in-residence in South Dublin County for In Context 3. In 2007 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York. She frequently performs as a vocalist, specialising in extended techniques. Many of her recent compositions were commissioned for her voice in conjunction with other instruments, and her works have been performed by her and others at festivals such as RTÉ Living Music (Dublin), Donaueschinger Musiktagen, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Composer’s Choice (Dublin), SoundField (Chicago) the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt, Stockholm New Music, and BELEF (Belgrade). Jennifer is also active as an improviser, performing regularly with musicians in Europe and the U.S.

    For a more extensive biography of Walshe, please visit www.matafestival.org/interval/?p=32

    Object Collection was founded in 2004 by director/writer/designer Kara Feely and composer/instrumentalist Travis Just as a collaborative theater-music performance group solidly rooted in the experimental tradition. Dedicated to new artistic work in hybrid forms, Object Collection constructs performances using a unique palette of live sound, composed music, and found text. Based in New York City, the group presents collaborative projects and curated series both at home and abroad using an expanding network of local and international affiliated artists.

    Began during the 2007-08 season, MATA Interval is a bi-monthly series produced in conjunction with Issue Project Room (IPR). Interval features emerging composers and performers in programs developed and produced by young participants in MATA’s Curatorial Associate program. Presented at IPR in Gowanus, Brooklyn, the series is committed to presenting various streams of thought and aesthetics from the field, mapping areas in which the traditional and the experimental coexist.
     

  • Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 8:00pm - 11:00pm   map

  • Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 8:30pm - 10:00pm   map

    SEM Ensemble @ Roulette

    Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 8:30pm - 10:00pm   map

    SEM Ensemble @ Roulette
    20 Greene Street NY, NY

    Program:
    Roscoe Mitchell - Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City
    Muhal Abrams - Mergertone
    Petr Kotik - Asymmetric Landing
     

  • Sunday, June 15, 2008 - 8:00pm - 9:30pm   map

    SEM Ensemble @ Willow Place Auditorium (Bklyn)

    Sunday, June 15, 2008 - 8:00pm - 9:30pm   map

    SEM Ensemble @ Willow Place Auditorium
    26 Willow Place Brooklyn, NY

    Program:
    Roscoe Mitchell - Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City
    Muhal Abrams - Mergertone
    Petr Kotik - Asymmetric Landing

  • Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 8:00pm - 11:00pm   map

    Elliott Sharp's Orchestra Carbon @ The Stone

    Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 8:00pm - 11:00pm   map

    8pm - Quarks Swim Free

    10pm - Syndakit