1. Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (from SoSaLa)
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Time: 8:30pm til 9:30
Venue: Cafe Nadery – Manhattan (16 W8th Street, New York, New York 10011)
Ticket: donation
Genre: nu world trash
2. The Tri-Centric Orchestra
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $20
Genre: jazz/nu music/contemporary
The Tri-Centric Orchestra, the resident ensemble of Anthony Braxton’s Tri-Centric Foundation, will present the world premiere of Braxton’s Composition No. 27 (1973), and three newly commissioned works by composers Taylor Ho Bynum, Ingrid Laubrock, and Mark Taylor, for a 35-piece orchestra and 10-voice choir conducted by Bynum.
Jason Hwang, Scott Tixier, Sarah Bernstein, Skye Steele, Gwen Laster, Curtis Stewart, Julianne Carney, Brenda Vincent, violin
Jessica Pavone, Erin Wright, Brian Thompson, viola
Tomas Ulrich, Marika Hughes, Chris Hoffman, cello
Carl Testa, Ken Filiano, bass
Josh Sinton, Mike McGinnis, Oscar Noriega, reeds
Katie Scheele, Libby Van Cleve, oboe/English horn
Sara Schoenbeck, Dana Jessen, bassoon
Michel Gentile, Yukari, flute
Nate Wooley, Stephanie Richards, trumpet
Vincent Chancey, Rachel Drehmann, French horn
Curtis Hasselbring, trombone
Jay Rozen, tuba
Chris Dingman, David Shively, percussions
Amy Crawford, piano
Kyoko Kitamura, Kamala Sankaram, Anne Rhodes, Yoon Sun Choi, K. Fung, Tomas Cruz, Nick Hallett, Roland Burks, Michael Douglas Jones, Peter Stewart, voices
Taylor Ho Bynum, conductor
The Tri-Centric Orchestra was founded by Anthony Braxton for the recording of the opera Trillium E in the spring of 2010. The project brought together an extraordinary community of creative artists: a family of artists 60-musicians strong, equally comfortable improvising and interpreting the most rigorous notation, wholly committed to pursuing a new American music. The positive energy of the ensemble inspired the Tri-Centric Foundation to recognize the group needs to be a permanent entity, dedicated to performing the large ensemble works of Braxton and similarly forward-thinking composers, as well as developing the composers and conceptualists within its own ranks.
tricentricfoundation.org
Anthony Braxton has boldly redefined the boundaries of American music for more than 40 years. Drawing on such lifelong influences as jazz saxophonists Warne Marsh and Albert Ayler, innovative American composers John Cage and Charles Ives and pioneering European Avant-Garde figures Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis, he created a unique musical system, with its own classifications and graphics-based language, that embraces a variety of traditions and genres while defying categorization of its own. From his early work as a pioneering solo performer in the late 1960’s through his eclectic experiments on Arista Records in the 1970’s, his landmark quartet of the 1980’s, and more recent endeavors, such as his cycle of Trillium operas, a piece for 100 tubas and the day-long, installation-based Sonic Genome Project, his vast body of work is unparalleled.
3. Terry Dame’s Weird Wednesday’s Episode 5 – Weird Strings
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Time: 8pm 10:30pm
Venue: BrandedSaloon (603 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11238)
Ticket: $ t.b.a.
Genre: electronics/improv
The next Weird Wednesday is coming up on September 25th and it’s WEIRD DUET month! Yep, it’s gonna be a virtual merry-go-round of weird duets performed on invented instruments created by a host of weirdos including Ed Potokar, Ken Butler, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Lee Free, Kelly Horrigan and yours truly, chief weirdo Terry Dame. From bike wheels to sewing machines, hockey sticks, rubber bands, air pumps and beyond, you will not want to miss this. Stay tuned for links to the artists websites, teasers and other juicy details. See you there.
4. Ayelet Rose Gottlieb Quintet
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Time: 8pm to 11pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: unique blend of jazz, middle-eastern & jewish music
Line Up:
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb – Voice
Carmen Staaf – Piano
Michael Bates – Upright Bass
Ronen Itzik – Drums
“The stunning Gottlieb possesses a powerful voice” JazzTimes
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb is an international performer, an explorer of sound and seeker of musical adventures. With her unique blend of jazz, middle-eastern & jewish music, combined with her innovative approach to composition and improvisation, she performs globally, including recent performances at the Vancouver Intl’ Jazz Festival, San Sebastian’s Jazzaldia Festival and London’s The Forge, music and arts venue.
A member of John Zorn’s a-cappella quartet Mycale, she is about to perform at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sept 28th, as part of “John Zorn – A Museum-Wide Celebration”.
Tonight Ayelet will will be sing in Hebrew, English and Ladino. She will perform music from her upcoming release Roadsides, featuring her compositions to Israeli and Palestinian contemporary poetry, as compositions and arrangements from her previous albums.
5. Theo Bleckmann
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Time: 9:30pm
Venue: Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-967-7555)
Tickets: $20
Genre: electronic vocal/sound scapes/nu music
Songs in the key of d is vocalist Theo Bleckmann’s newest project. After his recent “Hello Earth – the music of Kate Bush” which the NY Times called “of inventive instinct and assiduous musicality”, Bleckmann has now written and curated a collection of songs surrounding the delicate subject of death and transcendence. After a car accident in 2012, Bleckmann was temporarily blinded and has, over the course of the past year re-gained his vision. This traumatic experience sparked his interest into songs that deal with our mortality.
Songs in the key of d takes a celestial look at the inevitable journey of death through song and sound, with Bleckmann employing his electronic live wizardry, creating soundscapes of ethereal voices in his own compositions and arrangements of songs by Metallica, Henry Purcell, Hank Williams a.o.
One of the essential elements in this music is harpist Zeena Parkins , best known for her work with Icelandic pop icon Björk.
Theo Bleckmann: voice, live electronic processing
Zeena Parkins: harp (Björk a.o.)
Henry Hey: piano & keyboards (George Michael a.o.)
Mark Guiliana (Brad Mehldau a.o.).
6. Experi-MENTAL Festival 5, Day 1
Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $10-20 dollar floating donation
Genre: electronics/soundscapes
Experi-MENTAL Festival 5 : Presented by PAS Musique and Alrealon Musique: www.alrealonmusique.com and http://
Opening Party at Spectrum – Painting Exhibition by Robert L. Pepper
Party/Opening Starts at 6:30
Visuals by Jim Tuite all evening!
Music:
Luciernaga 7:45-8:15
PAS Musique with action painter Jung Nam Lee and special guest 8:35-9:05
JOHN 3:16 9:25-9:55
David First’s The Western Enisphere 10:15-10:45
Public Speaking 11:05-11:35
7. The Get Down feat. Globesonic’s Fabian Alsultany, Natasha Blank, Sascha Lewis, BEAT NYC
Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013
Time: 7pm to 10pm
Venue: Cielo (18 Little West 12th Street, New York NY 10014, 212-645-5700)
Ticket: $10 $15
Genre: electronics/dance
Natasha Blank is a movement catalyst, beat curator and the founder of Get Your Dance On. She provides sonics for everything from underground warehouse parties to Fashion Week. Known for her high energy dance antics behind the DJ booth, she infuses all her work with the desire to fill up this world with more truth and beauty than there was just a second ago.
Culture vulture/co-founder of Flavorpill Sascha Lewis is also secretly a DJ. He specializes in old school hip hop and funky classics, but isn’t afraid of some good minimal tech house.
Globesonic DJ Fabian Alsultany drops in from LA to dj at Cielo for the very first time!
8. TriBeCaStan
Date: Friday, September 27, 2013
Time: 7:15pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $5
Genre: fusion of Balkan, Middle Eastern, Indian, Latin American, and African
Radically multicultural and poly-stylistic to the marrow, TriBeCaStan are one of contemporary music’s most musically diverse bands. Nestled in the heart of New York’s bustling urban sprawl lies a sonic oasis in which the sounds of the Indian sarod meet surf rock, West African kora merges with Appalachian mountain tunes, and traditional Afghan melodies mingle with East Coast loft jazz. Here Swedish nykelharpas and Pakistani taxi horns coexist in harmony (and mayhem) alongside thoroughbred jazz horns, driving grooves, exotic strings, and buzzing reeds.
TriBeCaStan is:
Jeff Greene – yayli tambor, tarhu, morsing, dutar, flutes, rubab, aqua drum, halo
John Kruth – mandolin, mandocello, banjo, sitar, flutes, harmonica, voice
Matt Darriau – kaval, clarinet, alto sax, gaida
Kenny Margolis – accordion, harmonium
Ray Peterson – double bass
Boris Kinberg – timbales, gongs, percussion
Rohin Khemani – tablas, hand percussion
John Turner – trumpet
Chris Morrow – trombone
TriBeCaStan: “…….are the Sex Pistols not folk music?”
The tune smugglers and artistic immigrants “TriBeCaStan” are back with their 2nd album!
9. Marjan Moghaddam’s Work “David & Goliath Can’t Fight” in Dumbo Arts Festival Gallery
Date: Friday, September 27, 2013 through Sunday, September 29, 2013
Time: 6pm to 9pm (on Friday)
Venue: gallery space at 85 Washington Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: animation/video
Marjan Moghaddam is an award-winning, pioneering, New York City-based computer artist and animator, who works primarily with 3D CG for print, screen, installation and performance. She has exhibited in numerous galleries, festivals, and museums internationally, and has curated exhibits at the Armory Show in New York City and Art Basel Miami. In recognition of the groundbreaking nature of her computer art, her work has been the official selection of the prestigious Siggraph Conference a total of 5 times. She is a recipient of many grants such as New York Department of Cultural Affairs, The Rockefeller Fund, and BAC. She is listed in the Internet Pioneer Hall as one of the first 100 people to do GIF89a animation on the internet.
Description of David & Goliath Can’t Fight
Two computer-generated, motion-captured figures engage in a mock battle, subverting the classic myth of David and Goliath, in a commentary about the political standstill of our world. In this stunningly beautiful animated painting with special effects, the figures loosely reference video game style characters and Transformers. They perform a slowed dance and battle sequence, against a mesmerizing background of explosions, smoke, paint and blood splatters, evoking the revolutions and upheavals of history. The unresolved conflict leaves both standing ambivalently as equals at the end, without a resolution to the classic myth. The piece is set to a hypnotic and cinematic musical score by Kyle Bobby Dunn.
10. Kneebody
Date: Saturday, September 28, 2013
Time: 8pm to 11pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $20
Genre: jazz
Kneebody formed in 2001, consisting of Adam Benjamin on keyboards, Shane Endsley on trumpet, Ben Wendel on tenor sax, Kaveh Rastegar on bass, and Nate Wood on drums. They are “a resolutely un-pindownable band” acclaimed for their eclectic style, which “uses a common jazz instrumentation to make a somewhat less common amalgam of urban-signifying genres, from electro-pop to punk-rock to hip-hop.”
Kneebody have a new album called The Line coming out on Concord Music Group in just a few weeks.
11. Fucked Up and Dope Body
Date: Saturday, September 28, 2013
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $20
Genre: indie rock/punk
Fucked Up have the most perfect name for any band in rock history. In two words it bluntly states the truth that lies at the heart of the white noise maelstrom – things are different from what you expect.
Right from the start this Toronto band has been pushing musical and conceptual boundaries. Forming ostensibly as a punk band, they swiftly took on hardcore and twisted it into their own version, with a psychedelic edge, unexpected instrumentation like flute and keyboards, and songs stretched to perverse lengths.
They initially released a series of impossible to find 7” singles, all with related artwork that sometimes landed them in trouble, and sometimes looked like they came from the late 60s, when minds were melting with possibilities. There were also albums that continued this theme, each one more bold and adventurous.
Meanwhile, the band’s gigs took on legendary status. Frontman Damian Abraham’s nude stage dives and blood-strewn face were becoming a lunatic motif for a take on the hardcore genre that constantly upended assumptions: lyrics about plants and rebirth, moneys to charities for battered women. All the time, there was a sense of a narrative, and even in their loudest moments there was a deep intelligence to their music.
12. Cathy Heyden, Chris Pitsiokos, Jason Nazary, Richard Lenz
electronics/sounds-noise/improv/free music/singer-song writer
Visionary Shredders and Heavy (Sounds Like!) Elvis in Platforms waving Fare-thee-well, Carrilon Bellz, Mementori Mori – Chicken Wings – Hubba Hubba – Hell Yes.
Jason Nazary is a drummer/producer from Atlanta, GA. Moving to New York in 2005, Jason has already begun to make an impact on the improvised music scene. His raw approach to improvisation blends a variety of influences from Tony Williams to J Dilla to Morton Feldman to Lightning Bolt. Jason plays in a variety of different projects, most notably free jazz/punk/soul band Little Women, who have toured North America and Europe extensively and released three records, the latest of which being Lung, on AUM Fidelity. He also is featured on recordings with Joe Morris, Darius Jones, Dave Crowell, Olga Bell, Travis Reuter, to name a few.
Chris Pitsiokos (b.1990) is a composer and improviser who performs primarily on alto saxophone. His improvisation and composition draws on the work of Evan Parker, Jack Wright, John Cage, Richard Barrett, Helmut Lachenmann, Peter Evans, Weasel Walter, and the early work of John Zorn. Since moving to Brooklyn in the summer of 2012 he has had the pleasure and privilege of performing or recording with many older members of the avant-garde such as Elliott Sharp, Weasel Walter, Marc Edwards, Kevin Shea, Ron Anderson, Frank Gratkowski, and Tim Dahl. During some of his college years, jazz bassist Alex Blake was a mentor to Chris. This led to performances not only with Alex, but also with Arturo O’Farrill, Casey Benjamin, and Chris Hunter. In addition to performing and composing music, Chris runs his own record label, Eleatic Records.
Richard Lenz was the mastermind of the Berlin indie-pop-trio “Lenz.” After disbanding he became a singer-song writer
http://chrispitsiokos.com/
https://soundcloud.com/
http://jasonnazary.com/
13. The Puppetheads play at DUMBO Arts Festival
Date: Sunday, September 29 and September 30, 2013
Times: 2pm to 9pm on Saturday and 2pm to 6pm on Sunday
Venue: Front Street Pizza (80 Front St, Brooklyn, New York 11201-1005)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre:
The Puppetheads return to the DUMBO Arts Festival, playing outside Front Street Pizza at Front And Washington in Brooklyn. Founding members Bruce (guitar, keyboards, vocals) and Amy (drums, vocals) Spears are joined by Joel Petler on guitar and Matt Cole on bari sax. Saturday, the band will be playing from 2pm until about 9pm, Sunday from 2pm until 6. Come down to DUMBO, enjoy the Arts Festival, and take in some Puppetheads and pizza. The best subway option is the F train to York.
