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A new multi-channel sound installation by Mr. Joseph, with live musicians appearing "periodically" as part of the installation

CJM - trombone, Loren Dempster - cello, Chris Woltmann - electric guitar

Elliott Sharp's
Orchestra Carbon

Performing Quarks Swim Free. Composed for the Venice Bienalle 2003, QSF transforms the ensemble into an organism that builds massive grooves and textures by recombining and chaining the musical molecules at its core.

Ne(x)tworks

Premiering a new score, Landscape Over Zero, by Joan La Barbara for the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Co.

Members of TILT brass band, Ne(x)tworks, Downtown Ensemble, pianist Jenny Lin, others.

James Tenney: Postal Pieces

Kick off to a semi-festival of legendary composer James Tenney’s music. Program includes the Postal Pieces for multiple instruments (1965-71), Collage #1 ("Blue Suede") for tape (1961), and Three Piano Rags (1964).

Members of TILT brass band, Flux Quartet, and Downtown Ensemble, others.

Whitney Museum at Altria

A Portrait of James Tenney

North American Premiere of the complete Forms I-IV [1993] as well as two world premieres: 4 Inventions for piano solo [1953/4] and For piano and... [2005] for piano, string quartet, and an ensemble of 15+ musicians. In preparation for the Whitney program, the ensemble will work with Mr. Tenney during open rehearsals on May 9 and 10.

Ne(x)tworks

Ne(x)tworks gears up for its June recording session of Earle Brown's music, performing several of his open scores and new works from Neil Dufallo, Kenji Bunch, Joan La Barbara, and CJM (entitled Conversions).

CJM's 7x7 Trombone Band

DEBUT PERFORMANCE

7x7 members: CJM, Joe Fiedler, Jacob Garchik, Ben Gerstein, Richard Marriot, Steve Swell, and Peter Zummo

Detailed 7x7 information

CJM's 7x7 Trombone Band
with School of Hard Knocks
(Yoshiko Chuma, choreographer)

Art On The Beach Revisited
World Financial Center Plaza
River to River Festival

Premiere of a new comprovisational work by CJM entitled stuplimity: river. In collaboration with choreographer Yoshiko Chuma. The evening includes performances along the Hudson Promenade by AOTB alumi Jane Comfort/Jon Gibson, Butch Morris, Marta Renzi and David Van Tieghem.

Detailed 7x7 information

Ne(x)tworks recording music of Earle Brown

The band comes together upstate to record a number of this seminal composers works, including Folio, Four Systems, and several smaller chamber works.

Curated by CJM, Kitchen House Blend revisits three pieces from its repertoire of commissioned works created since 2000. A "grand finale" performance of this stellar group of 10 NYC musicans, the evening includes works by Kitty Brazelton, Matthew Shipp, and Lee Hyla.

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

New York Times preview

School of Hard Knocks
(Yoshiko Chuma, choreographer)

3rd Annual Howl Festival of East Village Arts

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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

CJM's 7x7 Trombone Band
with School of Hard Knocks
(Yoshiko Chuma, choreographer)

Repeat performance of Chuma's River To River Festival work 7x7x7x7x7, featuring CJM's score stumplimity: river.

TILT plays classic American maverick Carl Ruggles's Angels and an improvisation based on various bits of Edgar Varese's music. Part of an entire program of Ruggles and Varese organized by Whitney curator Limor Tomer.

TILT convenes at Tonic in its full-blown 10-piece configuration for an evening of new and challenging works. The program includes premieres from New York Noise pioneer Anthony Coleman (Set Into Motion) and co-leader Chris McIntyre (Stitch No.2), a dynamic comprovisational piece written for the group by TILT’s acclaimed percussionist Kevin Norton (Folk Medicine), and Mr. Coleman’s a tone? a note? anto-e?, a “gutbucket free reading of some moments out of Iannis Xenakis' great work for Piano and Brass Instruments, Eonta,” featuring AC on piano.

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

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CWQ revisits Chroma Colossus, a 13 movement musical transliteration of author Colson Whitehead's book Colossus of New York. In Waters' words, "The suite mixes cinematic interludes, antique jazz and hard swinging free bop to create a musical soundscape of the city."

Charles Waters (alto sax/clarinet), CJM (trombone), George Rush (bass), Andrew Barker (drum kit).

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LOTET

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).

The small-band version of GSBB gathers in the 'Burg for a Mardi Gras hang.

Charles Waters - clarinet, alto & soprano sax, Sabir Mateen - clarinet, tenor sax, CJM - trombone, Ron Caswell - tuba, Ryan Sawyer - drums

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Ne(x)tworks

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.

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TILT makes its BAMcafé debut taking cues from many areas of compositional thought. The evening includes Anthony Coleman's Set Into Motion and TILT member Chris McIntyre's written and improvised hybrid work Stitch No.2 (both created for the ensemble). Set Into Motion is "a fantasy on associations with brass instruments" that puts Gil Evans with Gustav Mahler with ongo (from the Central African Republic). Also on the program is Swell Piece and Swell Piece No. 2 from legendary composer James Tenney's seminal late 60's/early 70's process work Postal Pieces. Light Over Water, a little-known early work by composer John Adams is fashioned into a TILT-specific realization from manuscript sketches and features Anthony Coleman and Stephen Gosling on keyboards. 

Greg Evans (cond.); CJ Camerieri, Taylor Haskins, Charlie Porter (trumpet); John Clarke, Ann Ellsworth (horn); Joe Fiedler, Chris McIntyre (trombone), Mike Boschen (bass trombone); Andrew Bove (tuba); Chris Nappi (perc.); Anthony Coleman, Stephen Gosling (synth)

Ne(x)tworks

SILOMUSIC: Ne(x)tworks 2006

The ensemble's residency at IPR continues:

Selections from Kenji Bunch's opera Woman in the Dunes

DownTown Ensemble's
Flexible Orchestra

St. Peter's Church
Chelsea

Premiere of Elements (for Tenney), a commission work by CJM for 11 trombones and mixed quartet. Also featured on the program are new or revised works by Daniel Goode, Barbara Benary, and Peter Zummo, as well as the "resurrection" of Fredric Rzewski's Last Judgment (subtitled for solo trombone, or several echoing trombones not quite in unison).

Flexible Orchestra personnel:

trombones:
Monique Buzzarte
Darryl Gregory
Curtis Hasselbring
Ben Herrinigton
Kevin James
Bridget Macdonald
CJM
Steve Swell
Dave Taylor
Deborah Weisz
Peter Zummo

Barbara Benary - viola
Daniel Goode - Bflat clarinet
JD Parran - Bflat and alto clarinet, alto saxophone
Mustafa Ahmed & Chris Nappi - percussion

Ne(x)tworks

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

Selections from Joan La Barbara's opera WoolfSong

Composer/guitarist David First will present Rocking Pipeline Witness Apologies to Dennis – a new drone-field work dedicated to the memory of his teacher Dennis Sandole, featuring Peter Zummo (trombone,) “Blue” Gene Tyranny (harmonically-tuned keyboards,) Christopher McIntyre (trombone) and First (guitar/laptop.)

Co-Curated by CJM with Matthew Lyons

Japanese musician and composer Aki Onda, known for his work with hand-held cassette recorders and electronics, presents a concert evening with Aki Onda’s Invisible Ensemble, a largely improvisational group that generates imaginary sonic landscapes featuring Onda, Miguel Frasconi on glass percussion, and Marina Rosenfeld on turntables, as well as a duet with vocalist/performer Shelley Hirsch.

Co-Curated by CJM with Matthew Lyons

Aki Onda performs his extended solo performance-installation, Cassette Memories, in which he plays back and manipulates selections from his vast collection of taped field-recordings he has made for more than fourteen years.

Rehearsal (5/26) and workshop performance (6/4) of CJM's new collaborative work with Yoshiko Chuma titled Sundown, which was awarded a Live Music For Dance grant.

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

June 7 (Wed)
Panel - 6:30pm
Performance - 8pm

Ne(x)tworks

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

Ne(x)tworks Collaborates
Ne(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)tworks
Joan 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

7-hour installation performances of Sundown. Includes our 7 trombones, 7 dancers, Yoshiko's 7X7 ft. cubes, video projections, all within the urban industrial oasis of IPR's Carroll Garden's site.

NY Times Preview
NY Times Review
Village Voice Review
NY Theater Wire Review
Gay City News Review

August 2 (Wed)
8pm

Hocketed Brass Structures
Richard 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

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We're joining forces in our home borough!

Sep. 13 (Wed)
time TBD

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.

Quarks Swim Free is E#'s algorithmic piece for Orchestra Carbon. For 11 or more 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. This performance will be captured by noted documentarian Bert Shapiro for his film on E#'s work.

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.

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

PROGRAM
silOM [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

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Ne(x)tworks
2nd Hearings Fest

Ne(x)tworks reconvenes at IPR for 2nd Hearing of Kenji Bunch's opera Woman in the Dunes. Read Alex Ross' New Yorker review of our April performance.

Dec. 8 (Fri)
8:30pm

Roulette interview with McIntyre

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).

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In preparation to record this work in May for New World Records, a truly stellar group of musicans gather for a workshop performance. Commissioned by the Kitchen for the House Blend, CJM played on the premiere of Lapidation.

Personnel:
Anthony Coleman - composition & conductor
Steve Gosling - piano
Cornelius Dufallo - violin
Dan Barrett - cello
Sean Conly - bass
Marty Ehrlich - tenor sax
Doug Wieselman - E flat clarinet
CJ Camerieri - trumpet
Chris McIntyre - trombone
Kevin Norton - percussion
Jim Pugliese - percussion

Feb 23, 2007
8:30PM

Improvised set based loosely on material from CJM's stuplimity no.2.

Yoshiko Chuma - dance
CJM, Ben Gerstein, Peter Zummo - trombone

March 3 , 2007
6pm - midnight

CJM reenters MJS' Room Piece at Diapason with cellist Alex Waterman and Schumacher himself on piano and electronics.

CJM is Co-Curator of the festival, and he's creating and premiering a new work for solo trombone and electronics.

NY Times Review of 3/20 concert

Ne(x)tworks celebrates both the release of Tracer, a new CD/DVD on MODE Records, and the 80th birthday of the revered American composer Earle Brown with a full program of chamber works at Chelsea Art Museum (CAM). The program, entitled An Earle Brown Retrospective, will highlight Ne(x)tworks' singular approach to Brown’s music, and features the ensemble and several of its stellar members.

Read NY Times review

PROGRAM
Chris McIntyre - Metaxis 2
John King - Baghdad Blues - in memoriam James Tenney
John King - Trilogic Unity pieces
Fredric Rzewski - Les Mouton de Panurge

PERSONNEL
Russ Johnson & Nate Wooley - trumpet 
Curtis Hasselbring & Chris McIntyre - trombone 
John Altieri & Joe Exley - tuba
Guests
John King - laptop, amplified viola
Michael Schumacher - analog synthesizer

Listen to entire performance on Archive.org

iQuit Music Series
@ Rogue Buddha Gallery
357 13th ave NE
Minneapolis, MN

PROGRAM
improvisation
CJM - stuplimity no.3
Philip Glass - 1+1
Fredric Rzewski - Last Judgment
improvisation

Listen to entire performance on Archive.org

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CJM curator

The Stone
Corner of 2nd St & Ave C
NYC
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Composer and impresario John Zorn has invited CJM to curate the month of June at The Stone. More details will be available in the coming weeks, but several events are already in the works:

• Trombonophilia - Month-long series/festival featuring an amazing roster of projects by NYC's extraordinarily deep pool of trombonist/composer/band leaders

• TILT Brass Band: ALL TILT - Newly commissioned works by band memebers and composer friends receive first performances over two nights.

• Ne(x)tworks Residency - 10th, 17th, & 24th. Includes premieres by group members Shelley Burgon, Yves Dharamraj, Miguel Frasconi, and Ariana Kim.

The Stone
Corner of 2nd St & Ave C
NYC
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Saturday, June 2
8 & 10PM

Tuesday, June 5
8PM

TILT Brass Band:
ALL TILT

Trombonophilia Finale - A Stone Benefit
The rousing closing event of the month long trombone festival featuring many of NYC's stellar practitioners of the posaune!

Steve Swell, CJM, Johannes Lauer, Scott Reeves - trombone

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Free103point9 celebrates 10 years of transmission arts at their Upstate locale. Highlights include the premiere of a site-specific iteration of CJM's piece Metaxis involving members of Stars Like Fleas, Gold Sparkle Band, among others. CJM joins Gold Sparkle for a barn burner set later in thd day as well.

View images of CJM's site-specifity performance piece Metaxis 3

3 different venues
in Williamsburg, Bklyn
[gmap]

2007 MATA Benefit
..::Celebrating MATA's 10th Anniversary and honoring co-founder Philip Glass during his 70th Birthday year. An amazing musical gathering: Jenny Lin performing Julia Wolfe's toy piano juggernaut East Broadway, Lukas Ligeti offering a sample of his electronic hybrid instrument Marimba Lumina, Carla Kihlstedt singing and bowing Lisa Bielawa's powerful Kafka Songs, and Annie Gosfield playing her gorgeous sounds, and a lot more.

,:Program:.
Julia Wolfe: East Broadway for toy piano and toy boombox
Jenny Lin - toy piano

Lukas Ligeti: Great Circle's Tune for electronic percussion
composer - percussion & electronics

Daniel Bernard Roumain: Hip-Hop Study and Etude in F Minor
composer - violin, Wynne Bennett - piano

Annie Gosfield: The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory, part II
composer - keyboard, sampler

Theo Bleckmann: anteroom (excerpt)
composer - voice and electronics

Gordon Beeferman: MATA Sonata
composer - piano

INT

Philip Glass: Knee Play No.5 from Einstein On The Beach
Patrick Stewart, Joan La Barbara, Grethe Holby - speakers;
Lisa Bielawa, Katie Geissinger - voice; Carla Kihlstedt - violin;
Eleonor Sandresky - keyboard

Derek Bermel: Thracian Sketches for solo clarinet
composer - clarinet

Carla Kihlstedt: The Squonk & Hold My Own
composer - violin/voice, Lisa Bielawa - voice

Nick Brooke: You Feel This from Tone Test
Genevieve Belleveau - voice

Eleonor Sandresky: Conversation 1
composer - piano, computer playback

Lisa Bielawa: Selections from Kafka Songs
Carla Kihlstedt - voice & violin

Phil Klin:e Near-Perfect Clarity & The Funeral of Jan Palach
Theo Bleckmann - voice, Kathy Supové - piano

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A week of music made with wind, including TILT SIXtet, co-curated with Suzanne Fiol.

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