Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY

Lea Bertucci & Norbert Rodenkirchen / Chris McIntyre
Wed 15 Apr, 2026, 8pm
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
IPR Event Page
ISSUE Project Room celebrates the 20th Anniversary of its Artists-In-Residence (AIR) program throughout 2026 with performances by current residents and returning alumni. This anniversary season highlights AIRs whose work reflects the ongoing evolution of a much broader community of experimental artists who have helped shape ISSUE for over twenty years.
Wednesday, April 15th, at 8pm, ISSUE presents The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, a new composition for sampled and live early flutes in 8-channel sound by 2015 AIR Lea Bertucci. Written for master flutist, early music scholar, and member of the legendary early music group Sequentia, Norbert Rodenkirchen, this work reaches back through the spans of history and catapults ancient music into the present. Bertucci’s friend and colleague Chris McIntyre (2006 AIR) opens the evening. As recurring collaborators at ISSUE over many years, Bertucci and McIntyre have contributed to the organization’s programs in multiple capacities as both performers and curators.
Steeped in folkloric influences, The Days Pass Quickly is a haunting contemplation of time, duration and memory that evokes the primeval and futuristic simultaneously. It premiered in November 2025 at the ZKM in Karlsruhe Germany and was commissioned for their Gigahertz Prix. Crystalline, minimal and dissonant, pre-recorded sustained pitches and abstracted melodic fragments generated from five of Rodenkirchen’s flutes (Medieval Traverso, Swan Bone, Sheep Bone, Renaissance Tenor and Renaissance Bass) are sampled and deployed across an 8-channel speaker array. Rodenkirchen plays with minimal amplification, in effect expanding and contracting the instrument from its point of live origin to a diffused, spatialized sonic environment. The piece contemplates the depths of human history through the lens of our contemporary upheavals.
Almost exactly 20 years ago, Chris McIntyre presented a multi-channel sound work in ISSUE Project Room’s silo space on the Gowanus Canal. This was opening night of the ensemble Ne(x)tworks’ run as ISSUE’s first Artists-in-Residence. Two decades later, McIntyre returns to summon a fundament of sounds with trombone, voice, synthesizer, and ZOIA box, momentarily suspending and refracting time within the 22 Boerum Pl. theater. He notes: “ISSUE’s residency program afforded me the opportunity to expand my artistic research in a career-altering way. It is still offering me safe haven to try new things, to shine light on new growth in my creative rhizome.”

Stephen Prina. The Top Thirteen Singles from Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles Chart for the Week Ending September 11, 1993. 1993. Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York


CJM revisits his 2015 collaboration with interdiciplinary artist Stephen Prina, music directing and playing trombone throughout the 3 month performance retrospective. Full details TBA in early 2025.
CJM PERFORMANCES:
September 12 & 13
Concerto for Modern, Movie, and Pop Music for 10 Instruments and Voice (2010)
MoMA, Floor 4, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio
> CJM conducts Either/Or & Prina
MoMA Event Page
October 4 & 5
String Quartet for Six Players (1976) and The Way He Always Wanted It XI (2013)
MoMA, Floor 2, The Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium
> CJM conducts Either/Or strings & an all-star flute sextet
MoMA Event Page
October 25
Three Folk Songs in Search of a Fanfare — Palate Cleanser (2003)
MoMA, Floor 1, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden
> CJM on trombone with TILT Brass & Prina
MoMA Event Page
November 6 & 8
The Way He Always Wanted It II, Movement 4 (2008) and A Lick and a Promise (2025) [world premiere]
MoMA, Floor 4, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio
> CJM on trombone with Either/Or, International Contemporary Ensembele, & Prina
MoMA Event Page
December 13
PUSH COMES TO LOVE FEST (2025)
MoMA, Floor 1, The Agnes Gund Garden Lobby
> CJM on trombone with TILT Brass; performing his Quintette (2024-25)
MoMA Event Page

TILT Brass - Quintettes
Sisters Bklyn
Part of Sam Weinberg 2024 Residency
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
8:00pm, $10-30 sliding scale
Sisters
900 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Sisters' Calendar
June 18 lineup
• TILT Brass
• Sam Weinberg solo
• Sam Ospovat with Peter Evans, Brandon Seabrook, and John Hebert
Part of stellar saxophonist/composer Sam Weinberg’s monthly 2024 Residency, TILT Brass samples contemporary work for the conventional brass quintet by composers such as Steve Martland, Reena Esmail, and presents the premiere of a new piece for brass and synth by TB Director Chris McIntyre. This is TILT’s first performance at the excellent bar & restaurant Sisters in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
TILT Brass Quintet
Wayne DuMaine, Hugo Moreno - trumpet
Chris McIntyre - trombone, Kyra Sims - horn
James Rogers - bass trombone & tuba
Other guests TBA

TILT Brass photo by Stefan Raduta

Heather Kravas overly merry
May 3, 4, & 5, 2024
5/3 – 7:00pm
5/4 & 5 – 2:00pm
Chocolate Factory Theater
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City
TILT Brass Kravas Band
Jen Baker, Terry Green II, Sam Kulik, Chris McIntyre – trombone; Kavi McIntyre – trumpet; Ryan Sawyer, Dennis Sullivan – perc.
Drawing by Valentina Starkie, inspired by Remy Charlip
Details TBA
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Saturday, December 14, 2019, 8pm
Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York
Event Page
To attend the free event, RSVP to nyperformance
gagosian [dot] com. Space is limited.
Join Gagosian for a concert featuring new music inspired by Richard Serra’s Reverse Curve (2005/19) and other works that engage with questions of weight, timbre, volume, and form. Some of the compositions will test the acoustical properties of the sculpture within the room, while others will produce sound masses in the shadow of the sculpture, creating dialogues between sound and space. The range of musical strategies will illustrate a historical path from the 1970s through the present day. Musicians Lea Bertucci, Miguel Frasconi, Joan La Barbara, Chris McIntyre, Chris Nappi, and Danny Tunick are all major players in the world of experimental music and collaborate in addition to their solo projects. As well as their own compositions they will perform a 1973 piece by Michael Byron.
McIntyre program note:
Reverses (2019) is a musical response to the Serra piece installed at Gagosian’s 21st Street gallery and the acoustic characteristics of the large, resonant space in which they coexist. Employing the diffusion created by brass and percussion in an extremely reverberant room, Reverses attempts to establish an analogous sonic experience to that of the torqued Cor-Ten steel sculpture and its bisection of the space. It does this by locating a duo of trombone and percussion (playing snare drum) on opposing sides of the sculpture where they exchange material back and forth in an accretional and elided formal system, a sort of simplified prolation canon that acknowledges the lingering resonances of each iterated sound. Many thanks to percussionist and event curator Danny Tunick for his efforts.

Photo: Suzanne Fiol, February 2006 outside ISSUE Project Room Carroll Street Silo; for use on Ne(x)tworks' 2006 SILOMUSIC Artists-In-Residence brochure.
Thursday, October 24th, 2019, New York’s long-running creative music ensemble Ne(x)tworks presents its final performance at ISSUE Project Room, taking place during the exhibition Suzanne Fiol: TEN YEARS ALIVE which presents visual works by ISSUE’S founder Suzanne Fiol. The career-spanning program nods in many of the directions explored since the group’s first concert in June 2003, showcasing graphic and hybrid scores that expose the conceptual root elements of the Ne(x)tworks project.
The October 24th program includes historical graphic works by John Cage (Selections from Song Books [1970]) and Cornelius Cardew (selections from Schooltime Compositions [1968]) and spatialized works by Netherlands-based Australian composer Kate Moore (Sensitive Spot [2005] for solo piano and multi-channel audio, featuring group co-founder Steven Gosling) and co-founder Chris McIntyre (Sigmar [from 0] [2004], re-sited for ISSUE’s Boerum Place location from the original E. 6th St. space). Developing work by its composer-performer membership has been a foundational idea for Ne(x)tworks from its inception. In addition to McIntyre’s piece this concert highlights work by long-time members Miguel Frasconi (selections from his photographic score series Ne(x)traits [2009, rev 2019]), Shelley Burgon (the free flowing, through-composed glass trees [2007]), and Words on Water (shimmer) by esteemed vocalist and co-founder Joan La Barbara, progenitor (with co-founder Cornelius Dufallo) of the composer-performer ensemble concept that became Ne(x)tworks.
Ne(x)tworks’ relationship with ISSUE Project Room began early in both organizations’ histories. A number of seminal concerts in the group’s development were staged at ISSUE’s original East 6th Street and subsequent Carroll Street silo locations, including a collaborative festival event (with Whitney Museum) in 2005 presenting the music of James Tenney that brought new attention to the still-fledgling presenter. A strong bond grew between these musicians and ISSUE Founder Suzanne Fiol. This creative and interpersonal energy led to ISSUE enlisting Ne(x)tworks as one of its first official Artists In Residence (AIR) during the first half of 2006. Taking place in and around the silo on the Gowanus Canal, the group’s four residency concerts were artistically and creatively pivotal and provided focus that led Ne(x)tworks toward much of the acclaimed work they have pursued to this day.
PERSONNEL:
Joan La Barbara - voice, Co-Founder
Shelley Burgon - harp/elec., Member since 2006
Yves Dharamraj - cello, Member since 2006
Cornelius Dufallo - violin, Co-Founder
Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec., Member since 2006
Stephen Gosling - piano/synth, Co-Founder
Stephanie Griffin - viola, long-time collaborator
Ariana Kim - violin, Member since 2006
Chris McIntyre - trombone/elec., Co-Founder
Danny Tunick - percussion, long-time collaborator
PROGRAM (details on IPR Event Page)
John Cage Selections from Song Books (1970) [pre-concert]
Kate Moore Sensitive Spot (Music Out of The City) (2005)
Miguel Frasconi Ne(x)traits (2009, rev 2019)
Chris McIntyre Sigmar [from 0] (2004/19)
Shelley Burgon glass trees (2007)
Cornelius Cardew Selections from Schooltime Compositions (1968)
Joan La Barbara Words on Water (Shimmer) (2008, rev 2019)
Chris McIntyre / Max Kutner
Saturday, September 14⋅7:00 – 10:00pm
Singularity Music Series
DOORS at 7:00
MUSIC at 7:30
$15
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(Contact us through Facebook to confirm your attendance and receive the address. At this time, these events take place in a private space)
CHRIS MCINTYRE
Christopher McIntyre leads a varied career in music as a solo and ensemble performer, composer, and curator/producer. The diversity of his activities led Time Out New York to note that "...with every passing week, trombonist-composer Chris McIntyre becomes more central to the new-music experience in New York."
He performs on trombone and synthesizer in a variety of settings, from chamber music to open improvisation. Current projects include leading TILT Brass and 7X7 Trombone Band, and collaborative efforts such as UllU duo (w/ David Shively), Either/Or, and Ne(x)tworks.
His playing is heard on recordings released by the Tzadik, New World, Mode, POTTR, and Non-Site labels. In his composing, McIntyre experiments with improvisative strategies, serialized rhythmic and formal cycles, and symmetrical pitch construction. He has contributed work to the repertoire of TILT, UllU, Ne(x)tworks, 7X7 Trombone Band (for choreographer Yoshiko Chuma), Flexible Orchestra, and B3+ brass trio.
Beyond performing and creating music, McIntyre is also active as a curator and concert producer, with independent projects at venues including The Kitchen, Guggenheim Museum, Issue Project Room, and The Stone (June 2007), and as Artistic Director of the MATA Festival (07-10). Visit cmcintyre.com for more info.
MAX KUTNER
Max Kutner is a guitarist, composer and instructor originally from Las Vegas, NV. As an instrumentalist, Max’s focus is on new works for the electric guitar as well the promotion of electric guitar in new performance settings. As a composer, Max translates several of his non-musical passions: namely literature and architecture, into a distinctly singular musical language that is neither strictly exclusive or accessible to performers.
Max was responsible for developing, producing and performing multiple instruments in the U.S. premiere performance of Mike Keneally’s The Universe Will Provide (REDCAT). Presently, Max is the lead guitarist of the Magic Band (John French) which performs the music of Captain Beefheart around the world. He has also performed in the Johnny Vatos Boingo Dance Party featuring former members of Oingo Boingo, the Grandmothers of Invention (Frank Zappa alumni Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Napoleon Murphy Brock) and also in the bands of Alphonso Johnson, Henry Kaiser, Daniel Rosenboom and Lili Haydn. Additionally, he leads or co-leads the groups Evil Genius (experimental jazz trio), The Royal US (folk-tronica) and Izela (quintet inspired by music from the Balkans).
His debut solo work, “Disaffection Finds Its Pure Form”, is a quasi-ambient process piece that features Kutner on 30 electric guitars simultaneously. It was jointly released in September 2017 through Silber Records and Records ad Nauseam. He followed that release with a collection of home recorded solo songs and improvisations entitled “Array” in January 2018.
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Mannes website
TILT Brass returns to the annual FONT Festival to present an all-trumpet program featuring Julius Eastman’s recently realized work Trumpet from 1970 and Lois V. Vierk’s rarely heard sextet Cirrus (1987), along with compositions by Jon Gibson and TILT Director Chris McIntyre, and Eastman’s Joy Boy (1974). The performance takes place at Mannes School of Music at The New School. Brass students from the school will participate in a workshop with members of TILT and will join the group in performing Joy Boy and Gibson’s Multiples (1972.)

TILT Brass Trumpets performing Julius Eastman's Trumpet (1970) at The Kitchen[/caption]
TILT Brass Trumpets:
Jaimie Branch
Chris Bubolz
Wayne du Maine
Jonathan Finlayson
Gareth Flowers
Sam Jones
Tim Leopold
Hugo Moreno
Chris McIntyre, conductor & musical director
PROGRAM
Julius Eastman - Joy Boy (1974)
Chris McIntyre - Presencing Piece No.1 (Mannes Siting) (2014/18)
Julius Eastman - Trumpet (1970)
Lois V. Vierk - Cirrus (1987)
Jon Gibson - Multiples (1972)

Ron Hammond's 1970 image of Eastman and the first page of the original score for Trumpet
PRESS for Trumpet
NY Times Review of 2/3/18 performance
Singularity Music Series (Kingston, NY)
Álvaro Domene, Artistic Director
· Christopher McIntyre: solo trombone
· Nick Millevoi (guitar) and Ron Stabinsky (organ) duo


Lea Bertucci and I meet up at Cantina Cenci in Tarzo, Veneto, IT, to revisit material from our Dec. 2016 collaboration at ISSUE Project Room.


Lea Bertucci and I meet up at Standards in Milano, IT, to revisit material from our Dec. 2016 collaboration at ISSUE Project Room.
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Produced by Clocktower
Curated by Lea Bertucci.
Site : Sound Exhibition and Showcase - A sonic portrait and re-telling of the Site : Sound series, with performances by Eli Keszler, Stine Motland, Lea Bertucci, TILT Brass, and Ashcan Orchestra at Knockdown Center in Queens, NY. TILT's performance includes the premiere of a new version of Director Chris McIntyre's Runnegackonck Presencing for spatialized brass and multi-channel fixed media.
Site : Sound is a host of intimate site-specific lectures, sonic-spatial interventions, and performances celebrating the pliancy and tactility of acoustic experience. Taking place across three boroughs of New York City from April 23 to June 25, 2017, twelve contemporary sound artists, composers, and instrumentalists invite the public to channel their curiosity and join in an exploration of the auditory sense.
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Lea Bertucci and I join forces to perform new collaborative works we've created for ISSUE's Year End Party. My piece is called Boerum moraine for bass clarinet, alto saxophone, trombone, synthesizer, and fixed media. The evening also features a rare set by the stellar Maine-based artist Id M Theft Able.
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Bertucci-Mcintyre collab December 10th @issueprojectroom @cjm_bklyn #trombones #cassette
A photo posted by Lea Bertucci (@lilbertucci) on

π=3.14… continues “Dead End, Falling”
by Yoshiko Chuma/School of Hard Knocks
From Yoshiko
"Dead End , Don’t Let Me fall is the latest in a series of multimedia performance π=3.14… which was started in 2007 as a work perpetually in progress. It is a set structure under the concept “the invisible rehearsal". The series has been concerned with borders, displacement and violence. Endless peripheral border makes the notice ”We are not so different from one other."
BKSD website
BKSD Event Pages for 19th / 20th
TILT Brass Sextet participates in the opening ceremony of a new public space at the eastern edge of Brooklyn Navy Yard. A project of Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, Naval Cemetery Landscape is a "publicly-accessible green space which will revitalize the native plant and pollinator populations in the region and its design includes a raised walkway to allow visitors to enter the space without disturbing the hallowed ground (of the former Brooklyn Naval Hospital Cemetery.)"
The Sextet will premiere a new site-specific work by Director Chris McIntyre. The new work, Runnegackonck Presencing, is named after the ancestral creek that meandered around the Hospital and Cemetery grounds on its way to the former Wallabout Bay.
More info: brooklyngreenway.org/naval-cemetery-landscap
Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks
present:
π = 3.14…THREAT
Concept: Dry Tech and Direction by Yoshiko Chuma

Featuring: Heather Litteer and Miriam Parker ( Actresses), Yukio Suzuki and Yoshiko Chuma (Dancer), and Christopher McIntyre (Musician, trombone)
The School of Hard Knocks Under the artistic direction of Yoshiko Chuma, The School of Hard Knocks is a New York-based collective of choreographers, dancers, actors, singers, musicians, designers, and visual artists. Since premiering at the 1980 Venice Biennale, this award-winning company has created and performed over 60 original works in the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The School of Hard Knocks takes its name from the American idiom meaning to learn things the hard way on the proverbial "street," and was first used as the title of a performance at the 1980 Venice Biennale. Over the course of the company's history, more than 2,000 people have performed to wide critical acclaim under Chuma's direction in theatrical dance concerts, street performances, grand parades, large-scale spectacles and
intimate living rooms.
Yoshiko Chuma, Conceptual Artist/Choreographer/Artistic Director of The School of Hard Knocks, has been a firebrand of New York's downtown dance scene since arriving in 1976. She has created more than 60 full-length company works, commissions and site-specific events for venues in 35 countries, constantly challenging the notion of performance for both audience and participant. Her work has been presented in such diverse venues as Pyramid Club, Danceteria, Joyce Theater, the Eiffel Tower, Newcastle Swing Bridge, City Center, Lincoln Center, the former National Theater of Sarajevo, the perimeter of the Hong Kong harbor, World Financial Center, and an ancient ruin in Macedonia, among many others.
Heather Litteer is an actress, performance artist and chanteuse originally from Georgia but now calls NYC her home. She is a member of Caden Manson’s Big Art Group touring internationally and in the states.
She is the recipient of the 2014 Fox Fellowship with The William and Eva Fox Foundation and TCG. La Mama will be her resident company throughout this process and will be presenting her one woman show "Lemonade" at La MaMa 2016.
Her daring film choices include working with directors Mary Harron, Jane Campion and Darren Aronofsky. Most recently playing the sexual revolutionary Queen Bee in John Reed’s Film “ReVo” and Vicky, a killer for hire in “Dumbo” with Brazilian director Gustavo Von Ah’. She is a Member of the legendary Jackie Factory.
Miriam Parker is a New York City born and bred dancer/performance artist and arts organizer. She feels very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with the School of hard knocks for the past 4 years. In recent years she has been building her reputation in collaborative performance art, working with the artist Jo Wood Brown on a interdisciplinary project “InnerCity Projects”
Yukio Suzuki is a dancer and choreographer. In 1997 he began studying Butoh dance and later performed in works by Ko Murobushi and so on. In the year 2000 he founded his own company, "YUKIO SUZUKI Projects". The basic principal of his interpretation is not the technique, but the character of the dance language, for which he has been acclaimed even outside of his native Japan. He has been touring in over 40 cities worldwide, enthralling audiences with his pliant, delicate, and tenacious movements.
Christopher McIntyre leads a varied career as performer, composer, and curator/producer. He interprets and improvises on trombone and synthesizer and composes for TILT Brass, UllU duo, and Ne(x)tworks. He has recorded for Tzadik, New World, POTTR, and Mode. Curatorial work includes projects at The Kitchen, Guggenheim Museum, Issue Project Room, and The Stone, and Artistic Director of the MATA Festival (2007-10).

TILT Brass Sextet
l to r: Tim Leopold, Mike Gurfield, Will Lang, Jen Baker, Gareth Flowers, Chris McIntyre
POP-UP CONCERTS
Wild Ones - TILT BRASS
Tuesday, December 8, 2015, 6pm
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
FREE
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From Miller Theater's Event Page:
"Brooklyn’s “always fun and forward-looking” (The New Yorker) TILT Brass ensemble takes the stage for the final Pop-Up of the fall. TILT presents new works by contemporary composers Anthony Coleman, TILT co-founder Chris McIntyre, and Catherine Lamb, whose “vivid, evocative orchestral colours” (Guardian) have begun to earn her international acclaim. TILT will also provide their interpretations of existing works, such as an all-brass version of James Tenney’s Swell Piece and Australian composer Liza Lim’s Wild Winged One—an aria for trumpet and (aptly-named) wacky whistle.
All concerts start at 6 p.m. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis, and doors open at 5:30 p.m."
PERSONNEL
TILT Brass Sextet
trumpet – Gareth Flowers, Mike Gurfield, Tim Leopold
trombone – Jen Baker, Will Lang, Chris McIntyre
PROGRAM
James Tenney Swell Piece for Alison Knowles (1967)
Sextet
Liza Lim Wild Winged One (2007)
Gareth Flowers, solo trumpet
Anthony Coleman A Fistful of Footfalls (2015) World Premiere
Sextet
Catherine Lamb overlay/smear (2015) World Premiere
Sextet
Chris McIntyre Dedifferentiation for Brass No. 3 (2015) World Premiere
Sextet and sound score

thestonenyc.com
Corner of Ave C & E. 2nd St, Manhattan
8PM, $10
Zeena Parkins and UllU (CJM and David Shively) join forces at The Stone in a first-time collaboration during Zeena's residency week.
Zeena Parkins - electric, acoustic harps, synth, things
UllU duo:
Chris McIntyre - trombone, synths, tapes
Dave Shively - feedback drums, metals, tapes

Dedicated experimental musician Chris McIntyre (TILT Brass, Either/Or, UllU, Ne(x)tworks) performs a rare solo set using trombone, voice, live-electronics, and tapes. Far West Queens audiences will hear an evolving strata of sounds broken into pieces. Interrupted concentricities; the sound of alterania nervina.
Curated by Charles Waters
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"LOW/SOLO"
3 sets of solo exploration for low instruments
8pm Sara Schoenbeck - Solo Bassoon
9pm Chris McIntyre - Solo Trombone, electronics
10pm Jonah Parzen- Johnson- Solo Baritone Saxophone
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TILT Brass, 2014 Look & Listen Festival, Invisible Dog Arts Ctr
TILT Brass presents the 2015 installment of To TILT, its on-going series of concerts and recordings that feature work created for the organization's specific forces and skills. The program at University Settlement includes newly commissioned works written for TILT Brass Sextet by Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, and trombonist/composer and long-time TILT performer Jacob Garchik.
The Sextet will also premiere an expanded version of TILT Director Chris McIntyre's multi-movement work Fabrics (2014-15) and his transcriptions from Arthur Russell's Tower of Meaning, composed in the early 1980's.
This event takes place during a set of concerts co-organized by TILT and our stellar colleagues at Either/Or (performing on June 10th and 13th.) Located on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the excellent acoustics of University Settlement's Speyer Hall is a perfect venue for these not-to-be-missed concerts during NYC's busy Summer season.

Either/Or at Miller Theater
Next iteration of revered director and multimedia artist Yoshiko Chuma's multi-year project π = 3.14. CJM performs live on trombone, synths, and software.

Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times

TILT Brass kicks off its Spring 2015 season at JACK, an intimate neighborhood multi-arts venue located in Clinton Hill. The program revisits TILT's creative music origins with work highlighting the improvisational skill and experience of its players. The program features a wide range of recent and classic graphic and strategic scores. Composers include Berlin-based English composer and electronic musician Richard Barrett, an early composition by legendary composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton, and selections from Cornelius Cardew's touchstone graphic score Treatise.
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[$12.50 advance, $15 door]

Detail from Braxton's "Comp. 18" (1971)
PERSONNEL
Chris McIntyre - Music Director, trombone
trumpet Timothy Leopold, Andrew Kozar, Tom Verchot
trombone Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Will Lang, James Rogers (bass)
Nathan Koci - horn, accordion
PROGRAM
Anthony Braxton 8KN-(J-6) [aka Comp. 18] (1971)
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R10
Cornelius Cardew Selections from Treatise (1963-67)
Richard Barrett Codex XII (2013)
Other works TBA
by Chris McIntyre
In collaboration with TILT Brass, Ed Bear, and David Shively
A site-specific performance and installation at Jacob K. Javits Federal Building Plaza
Chris McIntyre - Composer and Creative Director
Ed Bear - Technical Director
David Shively - feed-back drums
TILT Brass
Trumpet
Garth Flowers, Mike Gurfield, Rich Johnson, Tim Leopold, Stephanie Richards
Trombone
Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Sam Kulik, Will Lang, Matt Melore, James Rogers, Peter Zummo
Contextual information available on the project Tumblr site
Conceived by composer and trombonist Chris McIntyre for SummerStreets, Presencing Piece No.1 (Fed Plaza) is a collaborative, site-specific sonic experience designed for the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building Plaza. Unfolding over a 2-hour period, Presencing Piece... features a 12-piece compliment of Brooklyn-based experimental music group TILT Brass, Either/Or percussionist David Shively, and a state-of-the-art implementation of multiple PA speakers. McIntyre locates the live musicians and the arrayed speakers around the plaza to amplify physical and intangible properties of the site. The PA system and other small devices broadcast sound via infrared transmitters with which the audience is able to interact. The goal for McIntyre and his collaborators (including tech director Ed Bear) is to transform the audience’s sense of aural dimensionality and scale as they are immersed in the simultaneity of sound and spectacle. The piece also aims to create a dialogue between the present and past of the site. One piece of this is the presentation of text-based sounds that tell abstract histories specific to the site and surrounding area. Content ranging from local geologic data, facts about Manhattan’s pre-colonial population, and fragments of other social and political narratives is projected from the on-site speakers while also accessed in earphones from “hidden” online sources (directed via QR-code posters). To many contemporary New Yorkers, “Fed Plaza” is tied to Richard Serra’s site-specific sculpture Tilted Arc (1981), an extremely controversial work that was commissioned for and eventually removed from the site. March 2014 marked the 25th anniversary of its deinstallation. McIntyre and Company’s impressions of the dialogic relationship between Serra’s work and the plaza are found at the core of Presencing Piece No.1 (Fed Plaza).
TILT Brass' Chamber Music Show feat. TILT Brass Trombones
Performers include: Chris McIntyre, Jacob Garchik, Dave Nelson, Will Lang, Jen Baker, James Rogers
Tentative Program:
Jacob Druckman - Animus 1 (for solo trombone and tape) (1966)
Giacinto Scelsi - Three Pieces (for trombone) (1957)
Peter Zummo - work from 1980's
Iannis Xenakis - Keren (for solo trombone) (1986)
Chris McIntyre - premiere of new septet piece
Phill Niblock - A Third Trombone (1979) (live septet version)
Creating sound score for Yoshiko-san's current project