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Music listings – 4/15 through 4/21

1. Spectrum Event—James Nares’s “Street,” Featuring Thurston Moore

Date: Monday,  April 15, 2013
Time:  6:30pm until 9:00pm
Venue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (82nd Street at 5th Avenue, New York, New York 10028)
Ticket: $22
Genre: video & music

Join Spectrum as Thurston Moore, co-founder of Sonic Youth, performs live in front of a projection of “Street,” a video by British-born artist James Nares that features Moore’s original music.

Over the course of a week in September 2011, Nares—a New Yorker since 1974—recorded sixteen hours of footage of people on the streets of Manhattan from a moving car. He then greatly slowed his source material, editing down the results to one hour of steady, continuous motion and scoring it with music for a twelve-string guitar composed and performed by Moore. Nares’s video forms the centerpiece of the exhibition “Street,” on view at the Museum through May 27, 2013.

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Music listings – 4/8 through 4/14

1.The Dissident Arts Orchestra w. SANA SHABAZZ

Date: Monday, April 8, 2013
Time: 8 pm
Venue: Sycamore (1118 Cortelyou Rd, Brooklyn, near the Q train)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improv

The Dissident Arts Orchestra is now in the process of establishing gigs beyond improvised film scores and beyond the walls of their original base at 17 Frost. This ensemble engages not with film this time but the art of spoken word!

SANA SHABAZZ (spoken word)
JOHN PIETARO (vibraphone, percussion, musical direction)
CHERYL PYLE (flute)
NICK GIANNI (bass flute, baritone saxophone)
ROCCO JOHN IACOVONE (soprano and alto saxophones)
RAS MOSHE (tenor and soprano saxophones, flute)
STEVE BLOOM (electric guitar)
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Music listings – 4/1 through 4/7

1. Ambient-Chaos SPECIAL APRIL FOOL’S DAY Event

Date: Monday, April 1, 2013
Time: 7:30pm – 11:30pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $10-20 dollar floating donation
Genre: crazy music

Robert L. Pepper (PAS) and Damien Olsen present: Ambient-Chaos Night – A SPECIAL APRIL FOOL’S DAY Event. Short but sweet 10-15 minute sets! The event starts early. So please be there by 7:30 to settle in and enjoy the frequencies.

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Music listings: 3/25 through 3/31

1. GO: ORGANIC ORCHESTRA

Date: Monday, March 25, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz/jazz orchstra improv

Composer Adam Rudolph returns with another series of Go: Organic Orchestra to Shapeshifter. In concert he will conduct between 20 – 35 musicians in a spontaneous way, using a newly created score of music/letter grids, language themes, tone rows, traditional and synthetic scales, diadic and intervalic harmonies, The compositions will also utilize Rudolph’s rhythm concept of “Cyclic Verticalism” to generate form and weave what he calls an “audio syncretic music fabric”. The music is “organic” in the sense that the compositions and conducting exist as an inspiration and context for the musicians to express themselves by using their instruments as an amplifier for their inner voice.

2. Vital Vox Festival | Vox Electronics: Philip Hamilton / Loom Trio / Sarah Bernstein

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