Composer and trombonist Christopher McIntyre has been developing a number of large ensemble projects in the past few years, both as a leader and collaborator. Several of them will fill Roulette's stage during this event, including TILT Brass Band, Lotet and Ne(x)tworks. A thread that carries through each group is both technical and spiritual: mapping the space between composition and improvisation. In the process of making pieces for these bands, an immersive and colorful aesthetic has emerged in McIntyre's work. Tonight's program offers a full evening of this repertoire, as well as new works commissioned by Roulette with support from the Jerome Foundation and performed by an impressive array of new music’s heaviest-hitters. 

The first half of the performance features scores written for the composer/performer band Ne(x)tworks, including the premiere of Herkimer [string_sets], a set of dynamic "rhythmicles" for strings and electronics.

Ne(x)tworks is Joan La Barbara (voice), Stephen Gosling (synthesizer), Kenji Bunch (viola), Yves Dharamraj (cello), Cornelius Dufallo & Ariana Kim (violins), Shelley Burgon (harp & electronics), Miguel Frasconi (glass instruments & electronics) Peter Evans (trumpet) and McIntyre (trombone & director).

Members of the McIntyre-led ensembles TILT Brass Band and Lotet, along with some very special guests, join forces on the second half to perform a set of isomorphic & abstracted musical structures. In addition to expanded works from the Lotet repertoire, "LoTILT's" set includes Metaxis, an electro-acoustic environment that uses a hybrid score of cellular and strategic notation. Grouped in pairs, the instrumentation on hand fuses the timbral bliss of TILT with the low frequency undulations of Lotet's live-electronics.

With: Nate Wooley & Peter Evans (trumpet), Curtis Hasselbring & Steve Swell (trombone), Ron Caswell & Joe Exely (tuba), Charles Waters (bass clarinet), Colin Stetson (bass saxophone), Kato Hideki (bass & live-electronics), John King (live-electronics & guitar), Ryan Sawyer & Mick Rossi (percussion), and McIntyre (trombone & director).
 

Part of IPR's 2nd Hearings Festival, which gives composers a chance to retry works that haven't been performed since their premiere. CJM presents two Ne(x)tworks pieces: VOIDS (2003), featuring the uncanny trompette of Peter Evans, and silOM (2006), a site-specific sound installation created for the groups residency SILOMUSIC. In additon, members of the 7X7 Trombone Band will perform material from Sundown, the critically acclaimed collaboration with choreographer Yoshiko Chuma that premiered at IPR in late July.

PERFORMERSMembers of the CJM's 7X7 Trombone Band
Jacob Garchik, Curtis Hasselbring, Richard Marriott, Stephen Swell, Peter Zummo - trombonePeter Evans - trumpet
Chris McIntyre - trombone, electronics, and compositions

PROGRAMsilOM [March 2006]
site-specific sound installation

stuplimity no.2 (music for Sundown) [July 2006]folio of collaborative pieces for five or more trombones

VOIDS [June 2003]for trumpet, trombone and sound

Email invitation

Michael J. Schumacher and CJM reconvene as cjMjs to perform during the monthly {R}AKE series at the Williamsburg restuarant & A/V fun house known as Monkey Town. 

Hocketed Brass StructuresRichard Marriott - trombone, Balinese suling, compositions, Fawzia Afzal Khan - Hindustani vocals, Rajika Puri - South Indian dance rhythms, CJM, Curtis Hasselbring & Peter Zummo - trombone, Kenny Wollesen - drums

SILOMUSIC: Ne(x)tworks 2006Final installment of Ne(x)tworks' residency at IPR:

Ne(x)tworks CollaboratesNe(x)tworks delves into the disparate world of open and graphic scores created after the innovations of Earle Brown and the New York School of the 1950's.

Ne(x)tworksJoan La Barbara - voice, Yves Dharamraj - cello, Cornelius Dufallo - violin, Ariana Kim - violin, Chris McIntyre - trombone

Special Guest Performers:Shelly Burgon harp/electronics, Anthony Coleman - piano, Miguel Frasconi glass instruments/electronics, Stephanie Griffin - viola, Sycil Mathai trumpet, Jane Rigler flute/electronics

6:30pm, Pre-concert Panel:
Open Scores Beyond The New York School
Moderated by CJM. Panelist's include Joan La Barbara, Anthony Coleman, Cornelius Dufallo, and Wadada Leo Smith

8:00PM Performance:
Wadada Leo Smith
In The Diaspora (2005)
Kim, Dufallo, Griffin, Dharamraj

John Zorn
Hockey (1977)
Coleman, Dufallo, McIntyre

Cornelius Cardew
Octet '61 for Jasper Johns (1962)
full ensemble

James Tenney
Swell Piece No. 2 (1971)
full ensemble

Christian Wolff
For 1,2, or 3 People
for any sound producing means (1964)

Julius Eastman
Stay On It (1973)
full ensemble 

Quarks Swim Free is E#'s latest algorithmic piece for Orchestra Carbon. For 11 musicians and based on prime numbers, Quarks Swim Free creates a dense primordial soup filled with high-energy collisions, gnashing grooves, and warped melodies. Quarks Swim Free premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2003.

E# - guitar/electronics, CJM - trombone, Rudresh Mahanthappa - alto sax, Kinan - clarine, Rachel Golub - violin, Tomas Ulrich - cello, Kevin Ray - bass, Danny Tunnick - perc, Jenny Lin - piano

SILOMUSIC: Ne(x)tworks 2006Ne(x)tworks residency at IPR continues:

Selections from Joan La Barbara's opera WoolfSong

SILOMUSIC: Ne(x)tworks 2006

The ensemble's residency at IPR continues:

Selections from Kenji Bunch's opera Woman in the Dunes

SILOMUSIC: Ne(x)tworks 2006

Ne(x)tworks embarks on a season-long residency at the new Brooklyn home of IPR in Carrol Gardens, featuring a different program each month,

New and revised works for the group by violinist/composer Cornelius Dufallo and CJM, including a collaborative work that features a multi-channel sound installation by McIntyre within which Dufallo presents a new ensemble work.

PRESS RELEASE 

A much anticipated second outing for McIntyre's low frequency acoustelectric ensemble LOTET, kicking off BAMcafÈ's month-long series called Fort Greene Scene [CJM is indeed a new FG constituent!]. McIntyre's compositions for the group apply its diverse, bass-heavy ensemble colors to canvas' of pulsing and visceral music from the bottom up. CJM has generated an entirely new repertoire for this group of hyper-talented New York musicians, ranging in style from propulsive groove charts · la Big Fun-era Miles, to graphic score and improvised soundscapes.

Andrew Barker (cello, percussion), Kato Hideki (electric bass, EH bass synth), Raz Mesinai (percussion, electronics), Marcus Rojas (tuba), and Charles Waters (bass clarinet).

BARKER, BEMKEY, CASWELL, DORR, MATEEN, MCINTYRE, LAVELLE, STETSON, and WATERS.

2005 Fall For Dance Festival
City Center, NYC

Repeat performance of Chuma's 2005 River To River Festival site-determined intermedia work 7x7x7x7x7, featuring CJM's trombone septet score Stuplimity No.1.

 

Performance artsit Michael Portnoy folds a 5-piece version of the 7X7 trombonophiles for this avant parade traveling down Grand Street. Participants range from visual artists, choreographers, Hungry March Band, and many others.

Art Parade info - Deitch website

Joining 111 other instrumentalists, 3 electronic musicians, and 15 dancers to perform the Cunningham/Cage/Tudor work Ocean.

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