Central to the new-music experience in New York.
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Central to the new-music experience in New York.
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EITHER/OR: TOMBEAU FOR ANA-MARIA AVRAM
From IPR Event Page:
"Romanian composer, pianist, and conductor Ana-Maria Avram (1961-2017) died at the age of 55 on Tuesday, August 1st, 2017. Avram was a truly gifted idiosyncratic composer and musician, co-conductor of The Hyperion Ensemble, and Artistic Director of the Spectrum XXI festival (which she founded to showcase innovative Romanian music).
In tribute and commemoration of her artistic contributions, ISSUE presents a “tombeau” program of Avram’s works performed by Either/OR, who produced a week-long festival of Romanian Spectralism in 2016 which brought Ana-Maria Avram and Iancu Dumitrescu to New York City for the first time. The ensemble features Mario Diaz de Leon (Electric Guitar), Vasko Dukovski (Clarients), Yarn/Wire member and former ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Russell Greenberg (Percussion), Margaret Lancaster (Flutes), and Zach Rowden (Bass).
Since 1988, Ana-Maria Avram had been a member and co-conductor of Hyperion Ensemble with her husband Iancu Dumitrescu, who together pushed the Romanian avant-garde into the hyper-spectral realm. She has composed somewhere around 150 works and over 300 combined with Dumitrescu, including compositions for soloists, orchestras, and chamber ensembles, as well as works based in electronics and computers.
Avram explained the concept of spectralism to Philip Clark in The Wire 308: “Spectralism is not just a trend but a specific attitude towards sound,” she told Philip. “There isn’t one spectral approach, but many different viewpoints. Radulescu’s sound plasma, the music of the French spectralists, and our music are often defined as post-spectral or hyperspectral: but above anything it is transformational music.”
PROGRAM:
Penumbra (III) (2016) for bass clarinet
Quatre études d’ombre (1992) for bass flute
Axe VII (2004) for double bass
Intermission
Metalstorm (IV) (2016) for ensemble and computer sounds
Textures Liminales (I) (2013) electronic music
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
S.E.M. Ensemble:
Petr Kotik - flute, voice
Christopher McIntyre - trombone, voice
Joseph Kubera - piano, voice
Jeffrey Gavett, Charlotte Mundy, Nathan Repasz - voice
From S.E.M's Facebook Event Page:
"Ahead of its September 27th performance at the Sacrum Profanum Festival in Krakow, Poland, SEM will present a free (donations appreciated) preview concert nearly identical to those from the ensemble’s early days in the 1970s, when founding members Petr Kotik, Julius Eastman, and Jan Williams presented avant-garde performances in Buffalo, Albany, and later New York and began collaborating extensively with John Cage. Included in this program is Cage’s "Song Books" (1970), the first extended ensemble performance of which was realized by SEM, and several early works by Eastman.
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P R O G R A M
Julius Eastman ----- Macle (1971 -72)
Petr Kotik ---------- There is Singularly Nothing (1971 -72)
I n t e r m i s s i o n
Julius Eastman ----- Joy Boy (1972)
John Cage ---------- Song Books I, II (1970)
Julius Eastman ------ Piano 2 (1986)
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Post-concert panel moderator with the stellar participating artists (Stephan Moore, Suzanne Thorpe, and Scott Smallwood) along with Anne Guthrie (wearing her Arup hat) and Risha Lee (curator of Rubin Museum of Art's "The World Is Sound" exhibit.)
3D Sound Object
WORLD LISTENING DAY 2017: LISTENING TO THE GROUND WITH STEPHAN MOORE, SCOTT SMALLWOOD & SUZANNE THORPE
"ISSUE Project Room and Harvestworks are pleased to present two performances featuring acoustician Paul Geluso’s immersive 3D Sound Object, a speaker system capable of reproducing complex directional sound radiation. As part of a series of commissions and outreach activities that feature the operation of the 3D Sound Object, these performances highlight key techniques and listening strategies in approaching sound within unique acoustic spaces.
Tuesday, July 18th sees Stephan Moore, Scott Smallwood and Suzanne Thorpe each presenting new work as a part of World Listening Day, which pays homage to the experimental legacy of Pauline Oliveros. Together, these artists “sound out” the sonic qualities of ISSUE’s historic McKim, Mead and White Theater at 22 Boerum Place using Geluso’s invention. Developed by Geluso while in residence at Harvestworks, the Object has become a platform for new experimental compositions by contemporary composers, specifically exploring the model radiation of acoustic instruments, the spatialization of existing recorded sound, and the creation of synthesized sound in three dimensions. Described as “painting with sonar,” the Object catalyzes the collaborative construction of a 3D soundscape as well as the scanning and exploring of ISSUE’s unique sonic environment."
From ISSUE Event Page
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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Clocktower Event Page
Facebook Event Page
Knockdown Event Page
Doors 8:00pm, Show at 8:30pm
$10.00 (or donation, all to performers)
2 blocks from the Halsey L train stop.
Enter at Houdini's Pizza, and go down the stairs.
From Work #29 FB Event Page:
Brooklyn based composer Dan Joseph will perform “Mountain Music” for hammer dulcimer, electronics and tape.
Jessica Ackerley is a Canadian guitarist and composer based in New York City. Her solo guitar music draws from angular knotty melodies and long distorted drones with nods to metal and noir soundscapes. She's currently playing with GOLD DIME and Jazz Bra's Dot Com.
Chris McIntyre is a performer, composer, and curator/producer. He performs on trombone and synthesizer with UllU, Ne(x)tworks, Either/Or, and in composer-led projects with Zeena Parkins, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Coleman, Elliott Sharp, Nate Wooley, David Behrman, James Fei, and John King. cmcintyre.com
Chris Cochrane has been playing guitar in and around NYC since 1982. Chris has worked with Marc Ribot, Zeena Parkins, Fast Forward, Eszter Balint, Tim Hodgkinson, Gelsey Bell, Gordon Beeferman, Kato Hideki, Billy Martin, Dennis Cooper and Ishmael Houston-Jones et el...Currently he plays in Collapsible Shoulder and BEE LINE.
WORK ØØ organized by David Watson and Ian Douglas-Moore
Nate Wooley's 'Seven Storey Mountain IV' (2013) (L.Rinehart)
Festival Event Page
On Saturday, May 20th, an 8-piece iteration of TILT Brass (led by Director Chris McIntyre) rejoins composer and trumpeter Nate Wooley and an all-star lineup to present Seven Storey Mountain V during the 2017 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV) in Victoriaville, Quebec, CA. The program begins with the premiere of a new work by Wooley for TILT Brass' octet instrumentation.
Seven Storey Mountain page on Nate's website<a href="http://natewooley.bandcamp.com/album/seven-storey-mountain-v" _cke_saved_href="http://natewooley.bandcamp.com/album/seven-storey-mountain-v">Seven Storey Mountain V by Nate Wooley</a>
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
Launch event for my good friend trombonist and composer Jen Baker's new book Hooked on Multiphonics featuring the performance of William Dougherty's trombone quintet work Three Formants (2014).
Spectrum NYC
121 Ludlow St #2, New York, NY 10002
"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
From ISSUE Project Room's Event Page
"Drawing its participants from the first 10 years of ISSUE Project Room’s Artists-In-Residence Program, AIR Alumni Collaborations is a performance that brings together former ISSUE resident artists in striking new combinations. Eccentric, interdisciplinary, and deeply experimental, the new collaborations showcase the wide-range of approaches found within the ISSUE community, amplifying each artist’s personal aesthetics while drawing unexpected parallels between their work.
Thursday, January 19th, ISSUE presents three first-ever collaborative performances by former ISSUE Artists-In-Residence focusing on highlighting their parallel and divergent performance strategies. Cellist, vocalist, and electronics producer Audrey Chen performs alongside two key members of the collaborative ensemble Ne(x)tworks: renowned vocalist Joan La Barbara and composer, improviser and electro-acoustician Miguel Frasconi. Berlin-based composer and synthesist Doron Sadja pairs his particular style of multi-channel spatialized sound, pristine electronics, dense noise, and immersive light projections with multimedia artist Rauel De Nieves’ encompassing narrative and multimedia performance style. MV Carbon performs a new collaboration with media artist Bradley Eros sharing the role of manipulating sound and image on a new project called The Mystery of Spiders -- a sound & projection performance conceptualizing scores based on spider webs.
Curated by Lea Bertucci and Chris McIntyre
Electronics and trombone in M. Lamar's Funeral Doom Spiritual (music by M. Lamar & Hunter Hunt-Hendrix.) 2 shows per night (7 & 10pm.)
Prototype/HERE Event Page
La Mama's The Club | 74a East 4th Street (3rd Floor)
Adult: $20 tickets; Kids/Seniors: $15 tickets
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Memory City is a new ensemble work by cellist and composer Leila Bordreuil. This is Leila's third event as Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room. The performance features Nate Wooley (trumpet), Anne Guthrie (French horn), Chris McIntyre (trombone), Michael Foster (saxophone), Ben Bennett (percussion) and Leila Bordreuil (cello).
ISSUE Project Room's Event Page
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.
ISSUE Project Room Event Page
Facebook Event Page
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
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
Co-organized by Chris McIntyre & Lauren Rosati
From IPR's Festival Page
"From September 25th to October 1st, 2016 ISSUE Project Room presents After 9 Evenings: A 50th Anniversary Celebration, a dynamic series of performances, talks, screenings, and workshops to mark the 50th anniversary of 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering (1966). This historic project, organized by Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan, featured collaborations among avant-garde artists, dancers, and musicians and engineers from Bell Telephone Laboratories. After 9 Evenings considers the event’s impact on contemporary performance and explores E.A.T. as an important prototype for integrating new technologies into current artistic practices."
Jennifer Monson/iLAND: in tow (premiere)
Members of TILT Brass Sextet perform material composed for them by composer and harpist Zeena Parkins on Saturday Sep. 24th and Thursday Sep. 29th.
From Dancespace Project's Event Page:
"Initiated in 2013 by award-winning choreographer Jennifer Monson, in tow is an ongoing performance research project bringing together 10 artists from 4 different decades. in tow straddles location, discipline, and aesthetic to create an evolving working process driven by what each artist brings to it. The performance itself is a site for destabilizing the familiar, testing new ground, defining difference, and creating a shared practice that resonates with layers of experience, points of view, and perspective."
From My Ocean website:
"My Ocean is an outdoor, site-specific sound and performance installation at Ordway Prairie Nature Preserve, in Pope County, MN, taking place on August 13 & 14, 2016. Performance Artist Bethany Lacktorin leads audiences on an hour-long walk through a carefully composed environment of sound, music and storytelling. The pathway runs through a diverse range of ecological habitats, as well as the ruins of Fort Lake Johanna, and the site of Lacktorin’s childhood home, which had previously been her great-grandmother’s General Store. Along the walk, Lacktorin shares stories ranging from her family history and personal memoir, to naturalist interpretations of the local ecology, Dakota history and Immigrant legends."
Apartment Series on Chauncey Street
Ben Gerstein / Ben Bennett / Michael Foster Trio
Frantz Loriot / Leila Bordreuil Duo
Tristan Shepherd
Christopher McIntyre / Sara Schoenbeck Duo
Contact me for exact location info.
More details here soon!
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
On May 7th, 2016, at the inspiring venue Knockdown Center in Maspeth, Queens, Ne(x)tworks gives the world premiere of Song by composer and electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick for spatialized acoustic ensemble and speaker system.
Also on the event is Ne(x)tworks Co-Founder and vocalist Joan La Barbara’s CYCLONE (1977/2016), a quadraphonic sound performance/installation of the newly restored multichannel work scored for multiple voices, percussion and Arp 2600 synthesizer sounds, for “semi-live” performance on multiple speakers with the original light panning device custom designed by Ralph Jones.
Knockdown Center’s Event Page
Morton Subotnick’s Website
Joan La Barbara’s Website
Travel info to Knockdown