Big Timber Trio traces their roots back to the good old days of 2011, trudging across northern US trucking route 90 with a van full of instruments on their way to Banff. After plundering North Dakota of their video game resources, the sun was going down and the boys were tired. Rain sprayed across the window shield as they took exit 70 and barreled down to the Big Timber, MT campsite. With the tent up, bellies full, and the river rising, it didn’t take long for those boys to visit dreamland and heck, word is they’re still there. One can only expect original improvised music from the Big Timber Trio with Ethan Helm on saxophone, Ben Thomas on bass, and Matt Honor with drums (more…)

The Immediacies Series continues with an evening of contemporary vocal music from the Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble and thingNY‘s Gelsey Bell.  Quince previews their upcoming album, Realign the Time, with a quartet from Amanda Feery and solos, duos and trios by Lang, Scelsi, Bielawa, Monte Weber and others.  Gelsey Bell presents her 2011 song cycle SCALING, which explores the relationship between vocal performer and piano, with fellow thingNY compatriot Paul Pinto. Both groups of artists offer diverse approaches to contemporary music anchored in the voice. (more…)

This evening, we will present a rare solo set by one of Brooklyn’s most original and in-demand improvising musicians, Mary Halvorson. This program also features improvised chamber music by a new ensemble compiled by Bay Area bassist and improviser Lisa Mezzacappa. This exciting ensemble brings together some of New York’s most striking and singular instrumentalists in an unusual and compelling instrumentation (more…)

thingNY‘s Immediacies Series continues with an evening of music from Jonathan Zorn and thingNY’s Dave Ruder. Zorn presents his three-part work Language as Dust, an essayistic sound poem exploring the consequences of electronic mediation within spoken and written language. thingNY performs a short, mostly absurd vocal sextet by Ruder, who additionally offers up an extended piece for strings based on relative time frames of reading the English language off a page (more…)

The Eje is an instrument that was created to allow one musician to play all the parts of a Latin ensemble simultaneously. Abraham Gomez-Delgado will perform original compositions and improvisations on this instrument. He will also tell the story of the origins of the Eje, which takes place on Mona Island off the coast of Puerto Rico (more…)

The Dead Sea Horns are Dan Blake, Ras Moshe, Yoni Kretzmer on saxophones and other woodwind instruments, and Bob Hovey on trombone. Hans Tammen plays the cyclebox. Their performance follows Cicero’s advice that “The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destroy one’s spirit by worrying about them too far in advance”, they can be amusing and entertaining conversationalists, ready with a clever comeback when they fail, and are able to tell unlikely but convincing stories that cast themselves in a good light. (more…)

Ben Stapp, an in-demand tubist in New York City and a composer and improviser that continues to turn heads, has built up a versatile and extensive resume over the years. As a tubist he is a coveted sub in groups such as Red Baraat, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Anti-Social Music, Alarm Will Sound, Banda de Los Muertos, Slavic Soul Party, Oran Etkin’s Trio, High and Mighty Brass and several more. His recent recordings have been with Joel Harrison’s 19, Stephen Haynes Quintet featuring, Warren Smith, William Parker and Joe Morris, (more…)

Ned Rothenberg: Alto Sax, Bass Clarinet, Shakuhachi, Sylvie Courvoisier: Piano, Mark Feldman: Violin

Composer/Performer Ned Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music, presented for the past 33 years on 5 continents. He performs primarily on alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, and the shakuhachi – an endblown Japanese bamboo flute. His solo work utilizes an expanded palette of sonic language, creating a kind of personal idiom all its own. Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and violinist Mark Feldman (more…)

Mack Goldsbury: Saxophone, Mark Minchello: Hammond B3, Maciej Fortuna: Trumpet, Lou Grassi: Drums

Program description from Mack Goldsbury: “Maciej Fortuna and I have been performing together in Europe, America, and Mexico for the past six years. We have recorded three CDs together. Lou Grassi and I are old friends and have played together in America and Europe. We recorded a new CD for CIMP that will be out next year. Mark Minchello and I worked together many years ago in New Jersey. We started playing together again (more…)

Fung Chern Hwei: Violin, Electronics, Jonathan Goldberger: Electric Guitar, Stomu Takeishi: E.Bass, Shoko Nagai: Composer, Piano, Moog

New York based composer/pianist Shoko Nagai’s new project, tAKE’N sHADOW explores the essence of contemporary music. With the elements of the contemporary western music, experimental electronic music and improvisations; her compositions with their use of multiple textures and the open sense of time evoke another (more…)