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Music Activism: Marc Ribot Talks Respecting Artists’ Rights (Interview by The Talk House)

October 14, 2014, posted from The Trichordist

We’re organizing to fight back. We’re going to give value to the ineffable, uncountable and immeasurable beauty being destroyed. We’re going to give voice to the creators whose work — and lives — are being devalued by tech-corporate greed. We’re going to fight for the sustainability of the culture we all enjoy. We don’t have the lobbying millions of the tech-corporate giants, but we’re going to win. Because the truth is a powerful slingshot.

Editor’s note: If you’re in the New York area, by all means go to “Benefit for Content Creators Coalition (c3): Defend Artists’ Rights: Economic Justice in the Digital Domain!” on Saturday, October 18, 2014 at Roulette. The show features: John Zorn, Eric Slick (Dr. Dog), Steve Coleman, Marc Ribot, Henry Grimes, Marina Rosenfeld, Trevor Dunn, Brandon Seabrook, Satomi Matsuzaki (Deerhoof), Amir ElSaffar and more. You can buy tickets here.

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Music Listings – 10/13 through 10/19/2014

1. Tom Johnson + The Dedalus Ensemble

Date: Monday, October 13, 2014
Time:  8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $15
Genre: contemporary music

Counting to Seven is a new large scale work written by Tom Johnson for the Dedalus Ensemble. Seven voices count to seven in about 30 different languages from all over the world. Each piece explores a way of counting as well as a language sonority giving birth to a new musical form. From Okinawa (dialect from Japan) whispering words to Malinke (Africa) rhythmic patterns with additional small percussions, each continent is represented. Counting to Seven received the support from the French Institute, French Government (DRAC), Région Languedoc-Roussillon and SPEDIDAM.

Created in 1996, DEDALUS Ensemble is a contemporary experimental music ensemble based in Montpellier, France. Their repertoire gives a large place to flexible scores from across the United States and European New Music from the 1960′s to today. DEDALUS is a collective where every musician collaborate to orchestration and interpretation. DEDALUS is a leading ensemble in France and performs extensively in festivals and concert series across France and Europe. A noted champion of contemporary American experimental music, the Ensemble has premiered works by Tom Johnson, Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, Frederic Rzewski, James Tenney before French audiences. Continue reading →

Music Listings – 9/29 through 10/5/2014

1. Oliver Coates

Date: Monday, September 29, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, Phone: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $20
Genre: classical/cello music/contemporary music

Oliver Coates makes his NYC debut at Le Poisson Rouge on 9/29/14 with a night of long melodies over cello drones, shimmering textures degrading Chopin samples and a unique collaboration with legends of downtown dance music and minimalism Zummo, Brooks and Ruyle. Coates plays soundtrack music from Under the Skin by Mica Levi, Bach, Xenakis, arrangements of Squarepusher Tommib Help Buss and Messiaen Oraison and drone pieces for polyphonic curved bow and electronics.

He will then perform with composer and trombonist Peter Zummo and his regular collaborators Ernie Brooks and Bill Ruyle. These three have collaborated closely with the late cellist Arthur Russell, and with each other, since the late 1970s, as well as serving time in such legendary outfits as the Lounge Lizards (Zummo), the Modern Lovers (Brooks) and LaMama (Ruyle). The performance serves as a prelude to a UK sextet tour around Zummo’s music with Ralph Cumbers (Bass Clef) and Kevin McIvor (DJ Twitch from Optimo). Continue reading →

Music Listings – 6/23 through 6/28/2014

1. Are We Already Gone? Artists On the Art of Leaving

Date: Monday, September 22 through Sunday, September 28, 2014
Time: 11am to 7pm
Studio: FlickerLab (78 Crosby Street, Suite: #203, NY, NY 10012)
Ticket: free
Genre: exhibition and music

Animation and technology studio FlickerLab is leaving their studios in SoHo and headed to Dumbo, Brooklyn. In celebration of this transformation and farewell, FlickerLab is sponsoring the exhibition Are We Already Gone? Artists On the Art of Leaving, a Time-Mark after their 15 years in Manhattan. Read more here: https://doobeedoobeedoo.info/?p=21614&preview=true

2. New York Gypsy All-Stars

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