September 19, 2013 8:00 pm
music for pianos, pianists, and anti-pianists- Alia Musica
Pittsburgh, Paul Pinto and thingNY
Matt Gillespie and Federico Garcia are founding members of Alia MusicaPittsburgh, a composer consortium and performance ensemble that has become a leader in the cultivation of new music from and in Pittsburgh and beyond. [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. [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]
September 26, 2013 8:00 pm
Kaoru Watanabe’s Bloodlines
Kaoru Watanabe’s Bloodlines [Kaoru Watanabe: Shinobue (Japanese flutes) and Western Flute, Sara Schoenbeck: Bassoon, Marika Hughes: Cello, Mathias Kunzli: Percussion] http://www.watanabekaoru.com/e/
October 3, 2013 8:00 pm
Michaël Attias
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.
October 10, 2013 8:00 pm
Christof Knoche’s DEEP END
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
October 17, 2013 8:00 pm
thingNY Presents: Voice Leading, works by Gregory Cornelius and Erin Rogers
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.
October 24, 2013 8:00 pm
Jason Kao Hwang & Ayman Fanous CD Release
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.
November 7, 2013 8:00 pm
Jacob Garchik, Trombone
November 14, 2013 8:00 pm
tAkE’N sHaDoW Vol. II
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 cotemporary music. With the elements of the contemporary western music, experimental electronic music and improvisations, her compositions with its use of multiple textures and the open sense of time evokes another realm of time and place and a old tale….”The worst curse for a demon who lives between the living and the dead is inability to die. By stepping on a mortal’s shadow, a demon can become a human. And a demon can die. On the other hand, a human who’s shadow has been stepped by a demon, becomes a demon. And he or she, now has to find and step on another mortal’s shadow….”
November 14, 2013 9:30 pm
Mack Goldsbury Quartet
Mack Goldsbury: Saxophone, Mark Minchello: Hammond B3, Maciej Fortuna: Trumpet, Lou Grassi: Drums
November 21, 2013 9:30 pm
Sylvie Courvoisier: Piano
