Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
Thursday, June 18, 2009, 8pm
ISSUE Project Room
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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
Issue Project Room/OA Can Factory Courtyard
Sunday, June 7, 2009
2 Sets @ 7 and 9pm
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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
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, 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 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:
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
MATA Interval 2.3
Dither Electric Guitar Quartet
Curated by James Moore and Taylor Levine
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ISSUE Project Room
At the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
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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.
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
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.
MATA Interval 2.2
The NEW New Virtuosity: Musicians of New Amsterdam Records
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ISSUE Project Room
At the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
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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
Darmstadt's 4th Annual performance of Terry Riley's In C
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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
TILT SIXtet
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@ 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.
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
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."
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
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.
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
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
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)
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
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.