Jacob Garchik: Trombone and Electronics, Jonathan Goldberger: Guitar, Kate Gentile: Drums

Jason Kao Hwang: Violin and Viola  Ayman Fanous: Guitar and Bouzouki

From Innova Records:

Zilzal is the Arabic word for “earthquake,” and there couldn’t be a more fitting word to describe the collision of musical worlds on the debut album by the duo of guitarist Ayman Fanous and violinist Jason Hwang. Forged in New York’s downtown music scene of the late 1990s, this duo has developed a unique improvisational language that spans many streams of musical culture, aesthetics, and compositional philosophy. In its intercultural egalitarianism, it could only have been made in America. (more…)

Composer Gregory Cornelius (from Boston, MA, co-director of Amp New Music) and composer/saxophonist Erin Rogers (of experimental music ensemble thingNY) bring a program of works for voice, chamber ensemble, electroacoustic and fixed media to Brooklyn’s coziest space for a complete evening. Featuring musicians of thingNY and New Thread Quartet.

Gregory Cornelius: Composer/Electronics, Erin Rogers: Composer/Saxophones, Gelsey Bell: Voice, Andrea Smith: Flute

Dave Ruder: Clarinet, Paul Pinto: Percussion, Jeffrey Young: Violin, Andrew Livingston: Bass, Geoffrey Landman: Soprano Saxophone

Kristen McKeon: Alto Saxophone, Zach Herchen:  Baritone Saxophone

This program features music inspired by the great, late Butch Morris

Christof Knoche: Bass/Clarinet Sax, Carolin Pook: Violin, Simon Jermyn: Bass, JP Carletti: Drums

The product of migrations spanning North Africa, the Middle East, Western Europe and the American Midwest, saxophonist Michaël Attias settled in New York City in 1994, where he currently enjoys a multifaceted activity as bandleader, sideman, composer, and improviser. Exposing himself to a wide range of collaborations, he has created a supple passionate and uncompromising language in which to render the richness of his imagination and commitments. (more…)

Matt Gillespie and Federico Garcia are founding members of Alia Musica Pittsburgh, a composer consortium and performance ensemble that has become a leader in the cultivation of new music from and in Pittsburgh and beyond. In addition to producing performances of its own (from duo or trio recitals to sinfonietta productions), Alia Musica regularly collaborates and presents other ensembles and artists (Cliff Colnot, Arabesque Winds, Freya Quartet, Robert Dick, New York’s RAM…), and it has recently secured funding for a Pittsburgh New Music Festival 2014—whose highlights include Varispeed’s version of Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives, John Luther Adams’s Inuksuit, and a performance by Frederic Rzewski. [www.alia-musica.org]

Composer and performer Paul Pinto creates and produces experimental music and theatrical works, is a member of Varispeed, and the artistic director of thingNY. His music has been performed in the International Istanbul Film Festival, Glasgow’s Shakespeare in the City Festival, and by performers such as Pauline Oliveros, the BBC Scottish Symphony, the Cuarteto Latinoamericano, loadbang, and Iktus Percussion. His recent work has focused on new experimental opera, and has been praised in the New York Times, NewMusicBox, WQXR’sOperavore, and on Time Out New York’s “Best of 2011” List. Paul has chosen to work equally with traditional instruments, unconventional sound-makers and amateur musicians, has recorded four albums and his scores are published by Deep Listening Institute. [www.pfpinto.com]

thingNY is a 501c3 not-for-profit collective of composer-performers who create and perform theatrically charged experimental music, champion the work of avant-garde and contemporary classical composers, and collaborate across disciplines, media and genres. [www.thingny.com]

Program:

Alia Musica

“an authentic, raw joy of new music and composition” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Ayo Oluranti – Ol’ómo Kìlò F’ómo Rè

Simon Eastwood – Interference

Federico Garcia – Livre pour deux pianos

Chris Arrell – Icarus

          Matt Gillespie and Federico Garcia, pianos

Paul Pinto

“cult-leader magnetism” - Operavore, WQXR

Chord Poem No. 3

mini_006 (Robert Ashley) [live version]

mini_008

Every Note on the Piano [electronic version]

Dennis Bathory-Kitsz – Spammung

Hammered dulcimer virtuoso Max ZT
Master percussionist Luke Notary
Brilliant bassist Moto Fukushima

Satoshi Takeishi: Curator