MATA's Annual Benefit
join us as we honor
MEREDITH MONK

The Paula Cooper Gallery
521 West 21st Street
2nd floor
New York, New York

Featuring Performances by
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble
with
string quartet led by violinist Todd Reynolds

Featuring selections from Ms. Monk's
Songs of Ascension

Additional works performed by members of
The M6: Meredith Monk Music Third Generation

8:00 pm Cocktails, Hors d'Oeuvres
8:30 pm Performance
9:30 pm Cocktails

A rare opportunity to hear the visionary composer/performer Meredith Monk perform her latest work, Songs of Ascension, in an intimate gallery space.

Songs of Ascension explores the spiritual, vocal, and physical notions of ascension across geography and time. Meredith Monk and her Vocal Ensemble will perform selections from this new work, accompanied by maverick violinist Todd Reynolds and his string quartet.

Purchase tickets HERE
 

Phill Niblock 75th Birthday Celebration @ ISSUE Project Room
Wed. Oct. 8 - Works from the 60s and 70s

A Third Trombone (June 1979, recording revised 1994; 20:54),
Jon English, trombone, recorded; Chris McIntyre, trombone live

Four Arthurs (April 1978, 22 Min) Arthur Stidfole, bassoon, recorded;
Leslie Ross, bassoon live

Tenor (1969, 13 minutes) Martin Bough, recorded tenor saxophone

3 to 7 - 196 (December 1974, 23:40), David Gibson, cello, recorded

Waters Horn Quartet
Charles Waters - alto saxophone, clarinet
Matt Bauder - tenor saxophone
Nate Wooley - trumpet
Chris McIntyre - trombone

Art Under The Bridge Festival, DUMBO, Bklyn
Friday Sept 26
7pm Performance
Location: Water St & Adams St, DUMBO Brooklyn

Saturday Sept. 27
3:00 pm Performance
Location: "Green" Triangle @ Anchorage Place
(near Anchorage Place & Pearl St, DUMBO, Brooklyn)
 

MATA Interval 2.1
Music of the Dublin collective Grúpat
Performed by Object Collection and curator Jennifer Walshe
Doors Open at 8PM

MATA kicks off the second season of its bi-monthly series Interval with a program of music by the radical and enigmatic South Dublin collective Grúpat. Curated by Irish vocalist and composer Jennifer Walshe, Grúpat's greatest champion, Interval 2.1 features the collective's eclectic blend of textural and playful music, performed by Ms. Walshe and up-and-coming New York interdisciplinary group Object Collection

Grúpat collective
“So what is sound? Is it stillness? Does it shock flesh, the drums, the mind squealing? Is it the resolution or the tension? The silence or the not silent? So we sit or stand and even to hear the wildest anti-musical noise or nothing—it is still a creature in a jar. We want to free the creature. This is the point of everything you’ve heard before. The point, the sharpness of it, the moment where the idea takes shape and enters the flesh, drawing blood, opening bodies to air, not a penetration but a commingling, an embrasure, a knitting together, spillage and contamination—to set the creature free. Sound is the creature. Sound is a thing with feathers.” — Grúpat

For individual Grúpat Composer bios, please visit http://www.matafestival.org/interval/?p=31

Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1974. She studied composition with John Maxwell Geddes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Kevin Volans in Dublin and graduated from Northwestern University, Chicago, with a doctoral degree in composition in June 2002. Her chief teachers at Northwestern were Amnon Wolman and Michael Pisaro. In 2003-2004 Jennifer was a fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; during 2004-2005 she lived in Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm. From 2006 to 2008 she is the composer-in-residence in South Dublin County for In Context 3. In 2007 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York. She frequently performs as a vocalist, specialising in extended techniques. Many of her recent compositions were commissioned for her voice in conjunction with other instruments, and her works have been performed by her and others at festivals such as RTÉ Living Music (Dublin), Donaueschinger Musiktagen, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Composer’s Choice (Dublin), SoundField (Chicago) the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt, Stockholm New Music, and BELEF (Belgrade). Jennifer is also active as an improviser, performing regularly with musicians in Europe and the U.S.

For a more extensive biography of Walshe, please visit www.matafestival.org/interval/?p=32

Object Collection was founded in 2004 by director/writer/designer Kara Feely and composer/instrumentalist Travis Just as a collaborative theater-music performance group solidly rooted in the experimental tradition. Dedicated to new artistic work in hybrid forms, Object Collection constructs performances using a unique palette of live sound, composed music, and found text. Based in New York City, the group presents collaborative projects and curated series both at home and abroad using an expanding network of local and international affiliated artists.

Began during the 2007-08 season, MATA Interval is a bi-monthly series produced in conjunction with Issue Project Room (IPR). Interval features emerging composers and performers in programs developed and produced by young participants in MATA’s Curatorial Associate program. Presented at IPR in Gowanus, Brooklyn, the series is committed to presenting various streams of thought and aesthetics from the field, mapping areas in which the traditional and the experimental coexist.
 

SEM Ensemble @ Roulette
20 Greene Street NY, NY

Program:
Roscoe Mitchell - Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City
Muhal Abrams - Mergertone
Petr Kotik - Asymmetric Landing
 

8pm - Quarks Swim Free

10pm - Syndakit

8 & 10pm sets

Personnel: John Zorn, Anthony Coleman, Brad Jones, Daniel Carter, Shanir Blumenkrantz, Louis Belogenis, Marty Ehrlich, Doug Weiselman, Sara Schoenbeck, Sean (sax), CJM.

Dialogics: Ne(x)tworks at Chelsea Art Museum [gmap]
2008 Residency
Saturday, May 3, 2PM

Joan La Barbara - voice, Kenji Bunch - viola, Shelley Burgon - harp/elec, Yves Dharamraj - cello, Cornelius Dufallo - violin, Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec, Stephen Gosling - piano/synth, Ariana Kim - violin, Chris McIntyre - trombone

Music by Ne(x)tworks
Shelley Burgon - glass trees (2007)
Cornelius Dufallo - Concerto Grosso (2004)
Yves Dharamraj - Waiting for 950 (2007)
Joan La Barbara - Scatter*
Miguel Frasconi - Tasks & Objects (2007)
Chris McIntyre - Raster for quintet*
Ariana Kim - Patterns*
Kenji Bunch - Contingencies*

* = world premiere
 

The Kitchen
Friday, April 11, 8PM
[gmap]

Music of Julius Eastman and Lois V. Vierk

Julius Eastman
Stay On It (full ensemble)
Piano 2 (Joseph Kubera, piano)

Lois V. Vierk
River Beneath the River (string quartet)
Into the Brightening Air (string quartet)

Joan La Barbara - voice, Kenji Bunch - viola, Shelley Burgon - harp/elec, Yves Dharamraj - cello, Cornelius Dufallo - violin, Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec, Stephen Gosling - piano/synth, Ariana Kim - violin, Chris McIntyre - trombone

Guest:
Danny Tunick - percussion
 

PROGRAM:

Either/Or
Richard Carrick - Towards Qualia [15 min]violin, cello, piano, saxophone, flute, cimbalom/percussion

Julius Eastman - Tripodinstrumentation TBD

Andrew Byrne - White Bone Country [15 min]piano, percussion

Newspeak: Missy Mazzoli - In Spite of All This

Voice, Violin, Cello, Clarinet, Synth, Electric Guitar, Drumset, Vibraphone

David T. Little - sweet light crude
Voice, Violin, Cello, Clarinet, Synth, Electric Guitar, Drumset, Vibraphone

Oscar Bettison - Breaking & Entering (with aggravated assault)
Violin, Cello, Clarinet, Synth, Electric Guitar, Drumset, Percussion [junk metal]

INTERMISSION

combined ensemble
Sean Griffin - 2008 MATA Commission premiere
2 vocalists, 3 percussionists, cello, Electric guitar, Synthesizer/Piano 

PROGRAM (1-hour each):Al Margolis - What Makes a Sound? (argument)

Stefan Moore - Three Steepings OR In::Out/Out::In

Michael Schumacher - Unintending

Amnon Wolman - Low Ground Clearance

Carl Stone - Kantipur

Program:Marina Rosenfeld - anti-Warhol movement (in 16 cues) OR cephissus landscape
Stephen Vitiello - Dolly Ascending OR Rush and LullabyMiguel Frasconi - Intensive Care

PROGRAMLisa Bielawa - Double Violin Concerto
NY PremiereColin Jacobsen, violin
Carla Kihlstedt, violin

Ken Ueno - On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific HypothesisNY Premiere
Ken Ueno, throat singer

Alejandro Rutty - The Conscious Sleepwalker LoopsNY Premiere

Derek Hurst - CladesWorld Premiere
Firebird Ensemble

Program:Doug Henderson - The Nature of the 102nd Thing (of 10,000)
Zeena Parkins/Doug Henderson - Polyphonic Projections

Co-producer:Diapason Gallery [http://www.diapasongallery.org/]