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Either/OR: Transpositions - Music by Braxton, Obadike map
Sunday, December 8, 2024 - 8:00pm
Transpositions: Music by A. Braxton, M. & K. Obadike
Sunday, December 8, 2024
8:00 PM 9:30 PM
Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew
520 Clinton Avenue Brooklyn, NY, 11238
Either/Or presents an evening of works that situate the players and their audience in a compelling dialogic relationship between notation and improvisation, featuring Anthony Braxton's pivotal and rarely heard Composition No.98 (1981) for quartet and selections from Mendi + Keith Obdike's graphic score collection Big House/Disclosures (2007).
Composition No.98Braxton's Composition No.98 (1981) is a pivotal work in the prolific composer/performer's oeuvre, fully realizing the total fusion of conventional and visual notation. EO brings together a special quartet to revive this rarity, featuring James Fei (long-time Braxton collaborator) on woodwinds, Jonathan Finlayson on trumpets, Chris McIntyre on trombones and euphonium, and Richard Carrick on keyboards.
Excerpt from Big House/Disclosures
At the excellent new Brooklyn venue Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew, EO is also revisiting Mendi + Kieth Obadike's Big House/Disclosures (2007), the fecundated collection of graphic scores “...inspired by Nigerian nsibidi writing, European music notation, and architectural drawings.” Big House/Disclosure was the inaugural work in the Obadike's ongoing series of multimedia works entitled The Americana Suites.
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James Fei (woodwinds), Johnathan Finlayson (trumpets), Chris McIntyre (trombones, euphonium), Richard Carrick (keyboards)
Either/Or - Anthony Braxton composer portrait at Miller Theatre (Sep. 2019)
L to R: Chris Mcintyre, richard carrick, james fei, jonathan finlayson
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SEM Ensemble: Preview of 12/18 Paula Cooper Gallery program // Willow Space Auditorium map
Monday, December 16, 2024 - 8:00pm
Preview at Willow Place Auditorium of December 18th program at Paula Cooper Gallery
The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
Joseph Kubera, Piano
Kamala Sankaram, Soprano
Petr Kotik, ConductorJohn Cage Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1958)*
Rudolf Komorous Olympia (1962)
Anna Heflin The Man who Owned the Forest... (2023)
Luboš Mrkvička Quartet, Part A (2021)
Morton Feldman Structures (1951)
Petr Kotik Why Melody? (2024 – premiere)*
* CJM on trombone
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SEM Ensemble: Winter Concert (Cage & Kotik) // Paula Cooper Gallery map
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 - 8:00pm
The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
Joseph Kubera, Piano
Kamala Sankaram, Soprano
Petr Kotik, ConductorJohn Cage Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1958)*
Rudolf Komorous Olympia (1962)
Anna Heflin The Man who Owned the Forest... (2023)
Luboš Mrkvička Quartet, Part A (2021)
Morton Feldman Structures (1951)
Petr Kotik Why Melody? (2024 – premiere)** CJM on trombone
Tickets
$19 in advance, RSVP
$25 at the door
UllU (duo with David Shively)
UllU (Hindi for “owl”) is Chris McIntyre (trombone, tapes, synths, drums) and Dave Shively (feedback, drums, tapes, combo organs, siren). Sharing both an interest in the ecstatic potential of the drone and an inescapable engagement with 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, Eli Keszler, Taylor Levine, and James Fei. August, UllU’s debut recording, is available on Non-Site Records (www.non-siterecords.bandcamp.com). In South Asian tradition, the owl is in fact considered a very foolish bird.