Sunday, March 18, 2018 - 1pm
Entry is $25 for a child with an accompanying adult
Entry for additional participant is $10

Tickets - $25 - 20

ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201

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From ISSUE Project Room Event Page:
"March 18th 2018, ISSUE hosts an interactive performance of the rhythmic game and composition Stridulations For The Good Luck Feast with Billy Martin, joined by TILT Brass and fellow musicians as a part of 2018’s Tilt Kids Festival, produced by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF). Stridulations, a study of musical phrasing, counterpoint and improvisation, is a suite of percussion compositions that functions as a collaborative game. The game is not performed to win or lose, but created by players whose primary challenge is collective improvisation.

As the final event of the 2018 Tilt Kids Festival, the event is a celebration of the week’s activities and is designed for children aged 5 through 10 years old. The event shares how rhythmic phrasing contributes to our musical vocabulary and our ability to listen, with musicians from TILT Brass also demonstrating how we apply tonality to these rhythmic patterns. Participants gain a heightened sense and purpose about making music, connecting with others and how to communicate using sound.

Instrumentation includes small bamboo sticks harvested from Martin’s bamboo grove in New Jersey, woodblocks, and recycled bottles as instruments. The event also includes performative demonstrations from Billy Martin’s “Whirlygig Dragons,” a percussion ensemble featuring Martin, Payton MacDonald, Misia Vessio, Kalun Leung, as well as TILT Brass performing a rendition of Stridulations, featuring Chris McIntyre (trombone, Director), Chris DiMeglio (trumpet, voice), Hugo Moreno (trumpet), and Jen Baker (trombone).

Among the most valuable undertakings in Billy Martin’s ongoing artistic exploration is teaching. “When I teach,” he explains, “I learn and discover methods to build my vocabulary and style, and I love to help others do the same.” His experiences as a teacher, student, and musician led him to create and direct Life on Drums, a cinematic exploration of percussion and the creative process with his childhood drum instructor, Allen Herman."

Installation view of Anthony McCall's solid light works

Four Simultaneous Soloists:
A series of performances organized by David Grubbs

Doors: 7PM
Performance: 7:30PM
Tickets: $15

March 2:
Jules Gimbrone – Objects and Electronics
Okkyung Lee – Cello
Chris McIntyre – Trombone and Synthesizer
Yoshi Wada – Bagpipes and Sirens

Full Schedule:
   FRI, JAN 19, 7PM
   FRI, FEB 2, 7PM
   FRI, FEB 16, 7PM
   THU, MAR 2, 7PM

From Pioneer Works' Event Page
"In much the same way that Anthony McCall’s solid light works when exhibited together are experienced individually and as a group, this series of musical performances scheduled to take place within the exhibition imagines four performers—four soloists—experienced individually or as an ensemble.

For each performance, four musicians are dispersed equidistantly throughout Pioneer Works’ 130-foot main hall, each situated adjacent to a solid light piece. The musicians play at a modest volume—either acoustically or with self-contained amplification—such that visitors are compelled to explore the space in order to realize different musical combinations through a succession of aural vantage points. There is no single location from which to garner an all-over sound perspective; visitors must actively bring smaller sounds into focus by approaching them within Pioneer Works’ main hall.

Each of the four musicians on a given performance can be understood alternately as a soloist paired with a solid light work or as part of an ensemble. The selection of musicians, all of whom have extensive experience as improvisers, is motivated by the idea of the first-time encounter—none of the collections of performers will have previously performed in a given configuration.

Each of these performances begins with Anthony McCall’s solid light works already running, and McCall’s pieces continue after the last concertgoer has left. In this way it is established that Four Simultaneous Soloists—not an inaccurate way to describe the four vertical works on display in the main hall—is a performance project in which Anthony McCall’s works function as preexisting entities whose mode of operation imprints itself upon the musicians.

For full schedule:

January 19:
Maria Chavez – Turntables
David Grubbs – Electric Guitar
Sarah Hennies – Percussion
C. Spencer Yeh – Violin and Voice

February 2:
Susan Alcorn – Pedal Steel Guitar
Eli Keszler – Drums and Percussion
Tomeka Reid – Cello
Nate Wooley – Trumpet

February 16:
MV Carbon – Cello
Che Chen – Woodwinds and Tape Machine
Miya Masaoka – Mono Chord, Objects and Koto, Computer
Ben Vida – Electronics

March 2:
Jules Gimbrone – Objects and Electronics
Okkyung Lee – Cello
Chris McIntyre – Trombone and Synthesizer
Yoshi Wada – Bagpipes and Sirens"

Julius Eastman: Femenine + Joy Boy with the SEM Ensemble

The Kitchen
512 W 19th St, New York, New York 10011


The Kitchen Event Page
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Tickets $25 General / $20 Members

In the early 1970s, while still living in Buffalo, Julius Eastman began his long association with Petr Kotik's S.E.M. Ensemble. As a composer-performer with the ensemble, Eastman toured internationally. Femenine and Joy Boy, important transitional works, were performed frequently by the Ensemble, including at The Kitchen in 1975. The evening also includes a performance by poet Tracie Morris and electronic musician Hprizm.

PROGRAM:
Julius Eastman: Joy Boy (1974)
S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, Director; Kamala Sankaram, Soprano; Jeffrey Gavett, Baritone; Nate Repasz, Baritone; Petr Kotik, Flute; Sara Schoenbeck, Bassoon; Chris McIntyre, Trombone / Synthesizer; David Miller, Vibraphone / Marimbaphone; Robert Boston, Piano; Pauline Kim Harris, Violin; Conrad Harris, Viola

A New Work (2017)
Tracie Morris + Hprizm

Julius Eastman: Femenine (1974)
S.E.M. Ensemble with Christopher McIntyre
Petr Kotik, Director; Kamala Sankaram, Soprano; Jeffrey Gavett, Baritone; Nate Repasz, Baritone; Petr Kotik, Flute; Sara Schoenbeck, Bassoon; Chris McIntyre, Trombone / Synthesizer; David Miller, Vibraphone / Marimbaphone; Robert Boston, Piano; Pauline Kim Harris, Violin; Conrad Harris, Viola

The performance is part of Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental curated by Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Dustin Hurt, organized by The Kitchen with the Eastman Estate and Bowerbird. 

Phill Niblock: 6 Hours of Music and Film
Thursday, December 21, 2017 @ 6:00 pm

CJM will perform at approx. 9pm

From Facebook Event Page:
"As the longest night of the year unfolds and the journey of our planet nears the point when Winter commences in the Northern Hemisphere, Phill Niblock’s stages his annual Winter Solstice concert for the 7th consecutive year in Roulette’s Atlantic Avenue theatre space. Starting at 6:00 PM, the performance will comprise of six sublime hours of acoustic and electronic music and mixed media film and video in a live procession that charts the movement of our planet and the progress of ourselves through art and performance at its maximal best.

Niblock’s minimalistic drone approach to composition and music was inspired by the musical and artistic activities of New York in the 1960s, from the art of Mark Rothko, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, and Robert Morris to the music of John Cage and Morton Feldman. Niblock’s music is an exploration of sound textures created by multiple tones in very dense, often atonal tunings (generally microtonal in conception) performed in long durations."  

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. 

Festival Event Page

PROGRAMME:

Julius Eastman – Joy Boy (1972) [Polish premiere]
Petr Kotik – There is Singularly Nothing (1971-72) [Polish premiere]
Julius Eastman – Piano 2 (1986) [Polish premiere]

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John Cage – Song Books I, II (1970)
Julius Eastman – Macle (1971-72) [Polish premiere]
Julius Eastman – Our Father (1989) [Polish premiere]

S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik - Director, flutes, voice, electronics
Joseph Kubera - piano, voice, electronics
Charlotte Mundy - voice
Jeff Gavett - voice, electronics
Chris McIntyre - trombone, voice, electronics
Nathan Repasz - voice, electronics 

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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 Knockdown Center

Details announced soon!

Bowerbird presents:


Stay On It + Femenine
Friday, May 5th, 2017 at 8pm

Sanctuary of The Rotunda
4014 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104
[Bowerbird event page]
 

PROGRAM:
GERRY EASTMAN: IN MEMORY OF JULIUS
Gerry Eastman, solo guitar

JULIUS EASTMAN: STAY ON IT (1973)
Arcana New Music Ensemble
Dynasty Battles - piano; Tara Middleton - violin and voice; David Middleton - electric bass; Aaron Stewart, saxophone; Joseph Dvorak, clarinet; Keir Neuringer, saxophone; Eric Derr, percussion; Andy Thierauf, percussion; special guest Christopher McIntyre, Music Director, trombone 

JULIUS EASTMAN: FEMENINE (1974)
Arcana New Music Ensemble
with Christopher McIntyre (Music Director, synth)

I join several colleagues from Either/Or to pay tribute to the great Pauline Oliveros, performing Four Meditations for Orchestra (1996) and Sound Geometries (2012).

Park Ave Armory Event Page

"Swiss-Austrian composer Beat Furrer is a master of form and texture. His 40-year career spans forays into opera, chamber works, music theater, orchestral pieces, and everything in between; this program focuses in on more intimate works from the last two decades, two of them never before heard in the U.S. Richard Carrick conducts Either/Or in Furrer’s nuanced explorations of percussion, bass flute, piano, strings, and more."

Miller Theater Event Page

La Mama's The Club | 74a East 4th Street (3rd Floor)
Adult: $20 tickets; Kids/Seniors: $15 tickets
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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 Nov 27, 2016 at 1:50pm PST

Cellist Leila Bordreuil and CJM join acclaimed sound aritst and performer Michael J. Schumahcer to spend an hour inside his portable 12-channel sound system at the Sunview Luncheonette in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. 

The event is 8 to 11pm
> Leila/CJM at 9:30pm

sunview.org
michaeljschumacher.com
leilabordreuil.com