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
Date: Monday, March 25, 2013
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217, 917-267-0363)
Ticket: $15
Genre: human voice in its solo and ensemble forms
VITAL VOX: A VOCAL FESTIVAL explores the myriad power of the human voice in its solo and ensemble forms across a multitude of genres. It celebrates composer-performers in the vocal arts who stretch and expand the voice in new and original ways, continuing a strong contemporary tradition developed in the United States.
Over the course of two diverse evenings VITAL VOX explores “Vox Electronics.” Performances draw from wide-ranging international influences and genres including jazz, experimental, contemporary, free improvisation, world music, interactive electro-acoustic and audio sampling.
PHILIP HAMILTON – Vocalscapes: Solitude
Vocal explorer Philip Hamilton takes audiences on a journey of sounds using his voice, percussion and electronics. Hamilton, creator of the hit acapella show “VOICES”, uses vocal styles from across the globe to expand the imagination.
LOOM TRIO – ‘Erosion: A Fable’
Works for vocal trio, halo & electronics
Loom Trio consists of vocalists: Raphael Sacks, Kate Hamilton & Sasha Bogdanowitsch. They will perform excerpts from their upcoming CD release, ‘Erosion: a Fable,’ which is taken from the Loom Ensemble’s 2012 interdisciplinary theater production of the same name and composed by Sasha Bogdanowitsch. www.loomensemble.com
SARAH BERNSTEIN – UNEARTHISH
UNEARTHISH is the duo of Sarah Bernstein (voice, violin, electronics) with Satoshi Takeishi (percussion), performing Bernstein’s compositions. Minimalist motifs meet avant-jazz formations, integrating sung and spoken poetry with acoustic and electric sound sculpture.
3. Vital Vox Festival | Vox Electronics: Lisa Karrer / Sasha Bogdanowitsch with Loom Ensemble / Pamela Z
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217, 917-267-0363)
Ticket: $15
Genre: human voice in its solo and ensemble forms
LISA KARRER – Collision Theory: Works and Premieres for Voice & Multi-Media
Lisa Karrer (in collaboration with composer/multi-instrumentalist David Simons) will present works for voice, electronics, interactive video, triggered theremin and keyboard, including premieres of Karrer’s “Meeting Max: Vocal Experiments with Interactive Video Mixer”, and Simons’ “The Opera Within the Opera”.
Sasha Bogdanowitsch with Loom Ensemble ‘Timbre Tree’
A new song cycle for solo voice, vocal trio & instruments that explores the ‘reflecting glass’ of live looping & processing. The work delves into the intersection between sung text and vocables and is accompanied by an assortment of original instruments, such as wind instruments like the fujara & koncovka and the tenori-on, a unique visual electronic instrument. The work will also feature unique dance and vocals from interdisciplinary theatre group, Loom Ensemble: Andrew Broaddus, Helen Joyce, Raphael Sacks, Kate Hamilton and Michael Bauer on Cyr Wheel.
PAMELA Z – Works for Voice, Live Processing, and Video
Pamela Z will perform short works for voice, live processing, gesture-controlled samples and interactive video, including excepts from Memory Trace.
4. Festival of Iraqi Culture Event: Book Reading, Signing and Discussion: “We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War”
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2013
Time: 7:00pm – 11:00pm
Location: Alwan for the Arts (16 Beaver Street (between Broad and Broadway), 4th floor, New York, NY 10004, 646-732-3261)
Ticket: $5
Genre: book reading
We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War, Edited by Nadje Al-Ali and Deborah Al-Najjar (Syracuse University Press, 2012)
Eloquence: A Festival of Iraqi Culture
The Book Reading of “We Are Iraqis” is an Alwan-sponsored and hosted event that is part of a multi-disciplinary Festival of Iraqi Culture that will take place in New York City in March of 2013. Curated by Alwan for the Arts and hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Festival will celebrate Iraq’s contributions to world heritage and living Iraqi cultural producers of international importance, including world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid, poet Saadi Yusef, and [other names].This Festival coincides with the ten-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, and will showcase the richness and beauty of Iraq’s cultural heritage at a time of heightened public awareness and consciousness about Iraq, and offering a vision for Iraq’s future.
Book Reading and Discussion: We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War
While the occupation of Iraq and its aftermath has received some media and political attention, we know very little about the everyday lives of Iraqis. Iraqi men, women, and children are not merely passive victims of violence, vulnerable recipients of repressive regimes, or bystanders of their countries destruction. In the face of danger and trauma, Iraqis continue to cope, preparing food, sending their children to school, socializing, telling jokes, and dreaming of a better future. Within the realm of imagination and creative expression, the editors find that many Iraqi artists have not only survived, but also have sought healing.
In We Are Iraqis, Al-Ali and Al-Najjar showcase the written and visual contributions by Iraqi artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, and activists. Contributors explore the way Iraqis retain, subvert, and produce art and activism as ways of coping with despair, resisting chaos and destruction. The first anthology of its kind, We Are Iraqis brings into focus the multitude of ethnicities, religions, and experiences that are all part of Iraq.
5. Landlady
Date: Friday, March 29, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: PIANOS (158 Ludlow St., New York, NY 10002
Ticket: $8
Genre: indie rock
A 6 piece dynamic pop explosion. Adam Schatz plays farfisa and sings. Renata Zeiguer plays casio, violin, guitar and sings, Indigo Street plays guitar and sings, Ian Davis plays bass and sings, Ian Chang plays drums and guitar, Booker Stardrum plays drums and drums.
6. EMEFFE / Superhuman Happiness / Live Footage
Date: Friday, March 29, 2013
Time: 7pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $15
Genre: elctronica/afro beat
The group is currently mixing their second full length record, collaboratively composed over the course of a year using various theater/music games to develop a potent and fresh style of performing music.
EMEFE has only one intention: to play music that frees everybody in the audience, everybody listening at home, and everybody in the band. The band was created by drummer Miles Arntzen in 2009 to explore and share the afrobeat music pioneered in the 1970′s and 80′s by Fela Anikulapo Kuti and carried on today by Antibalas. In the same way that Fela used afrobeat music as a confrontation against corrupt politics, EMEFE uses its music to fight the inner authorities that we put on ourselves, each for our own specific reasons. EMEFE draws heavy influence from the funk music of Sly Stone, James Brown and Earth Wind and Fire, as well as hip hop and neo-soul influences. Mixed with a rock and roll edge, the powerful and exciting EMEFE sound never fails to get audiences jumping. EMEFE hopes to spread awareness of the healing power of music, dancing and smiling, which explains their reputation as one of the most exciting and engaging live bands in New York. EMEFE consists of a drummer, a bassist, 2 guitarists, a keyboardist, two percussionists, and a 4-piece horn section. Members of EMEFE have played with and studied with artists such as Antibalas, Sharon Jones & the Dapkings, Soulive, Charles Bradley, Menahan Street Band, TV on the Radio, Tower of Power, Medeski Martin and Wood, and many more. EMEFE – it’s the way!
In 2008 a humble basement apartment in Brooklyn became the laboratory for the Brooklyn-based electro acoustic duo, Live Footage. Mike Thies and Topu Lyo first met at a Halloween party, unaware that years later they would be described as some of the finest “surrealist soundtrack composers” in the making by scoring some of the most eclectic contemporary pieces on air, in dance and in tune composing their own music. Conceived through the art of improvisation,Lyo plays cello, incorporating the use of live loops and a handful ofelectronics with no pre-recorded samples of any kind. Thies plays drums and keyboards, often simultaneously. Live Footage’s formula is unique songs are structured in such a way that enables them to actually build loops without disaster, all while keeping the music’s integrity and allowing ample room for improvisation even when covering the likes of Jay-Z, Dr. Dre and Squarepusher.
7. HAZMAT MODINE
Date: Saturday, March 30, 2013
Time: 7pm
Venue: TERRA BLUES (149 Bleecker Street, NY, 212.777.7776)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: nu blues/ New Orleans brass
One of New York’s most original bands, HAZMAT MODINE delivers a rustic, deliriously Dionysian blend of whorehouse Blues, Reggae, Klezmer, Country and Gypsy-tinged music.
8. Underground Horns & Brown Rice Family
Date: Saturday, March 30, 2013
Time: 9pm
Venue: 92YTribeca (200 Hudson Street, New York City)
Ticket: $12
Genre: Afro Funk, Bhangra & New Orleans grooves & reggae, hip-hop, dancehall, afro beat, jazz, rock, Brazilian, Latin and funk.
Underground Horns is a Brooklyn-based brass band playing Afro Funk, Bhangra & New Orleans grooves and beyond. AllAboutJazz called their 2009 debut record Funk Monk“kick-ass dance music…that brushes up against psychedelia…with shots of funky brass juice.” In 2010 they recorded their second album Big Beat which The New York Jazz Record’s Ken Waxman called “an unapologetic party band with brains…with tonal inflections from the Big Easy, central Africa, the Maghreb and the Baltic states.” Underground Horns has performed internationally in Egypt and Germany. Here in New York they’ve made people dance in subway stations, parks and at their numerous dates at venues ranging from Nublu to Lincoln Center, Barbes to Brooklyn Bowl, not to mention last year’s sold out show at 92YTribeca. The band has also played as a marching band, namely at the spectacular NYC Village Halloween Parade.
Brown Rice Family is today’s freshest world roots band jamming towards global solidarity and organic happiness. Guided by a strong belief in the natural flow of things, BRF provides the masses with a distinctively organic world roots music encompassing reggae, hip-hop, dancehall, afro beat, jazz, rock, Brazilian, Latin and funk. Brown Rice Family is WNYC’s the Battle of the Borough: Brooklyn Champion 2012 and the Ultimate Battle NYC Champion 2012.
9. IgBo Duet & Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures
Date: Saturday, March 30, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz
IgBo Duet (Joseph Bowie and Adam Rudolph duet) CD release concert plus Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures
ADAM RUDOLPH (handrumset (kongos, djembe, tarija, zabumba) thumb pianos, sintir, multiphonic vocal, percussion)
JOSEPH BOWIE (trombone, vocal, harmonica, congas, djembe, percussion)
ALEX MARCELO (fender rhodes, electric keyboards, percussion)
KENNY WESSEL (electric and acoustic guitars, banjo, percussion)
JEROME HARRIS (acoustic bass guitar, slide guitar, vocal, percussion)
MATT KILMER (hand drums, frame drums, percussion)
10. Manu Koch & Filtron M
Time: 12;30am
Ticket: $10
Genre: latin jazz/west African music
