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2009-11-09T11:20:08Z

UCSC/ISIM Improvisation Festival/Conference 2009:

Thursday, December 3
4:00pm: Pamela Z
5:00pm: Soraya Murray’s Panel on Electronic Media and Improvisation
6:30pm: Art Jones
7:00pm: UCSC/ISIM Opening Ceremony (at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center)
Featuring:
- David Cope’s Algorithmic Improvisation Program
- Syncline/Anticline: Ben Leeds Carson
- Freddy Redd
- ISIM Open Jam Session

Friday, December 4
With Keynote Speaker: George Lewis
3:30: George Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell Duet (with Yamaha Disklavier piano)
5:00: Rob DZ’s Freestyle 101
7:00pm: Featured Headliner Charles Lloyd Concert with Geri Allen (Opening)

Saturday, December 5
1:30pm: David Anthony’s Film Series
3:00pm: Jin Hi Kim’s Electric Komungo
7:00pm: 21st-Century Musicism: Improvisation for your Imagination
Featuring:
- India Cooke
- Ashwin Batish
- Karlton Hester’s The Divine Particle’s Vision #2

MoHa! + JEFF CAREY + KRUBE. + DJ MAT POGO @ DIENSTBAR – BERLIN -2009/11/13

2009-11-09T11:19:46Z

DIENSTbar presents a night of obscure and loud noise

Jeff Carey

Krube
MoHa!

Afterparty - DJ Matpogo (Jealousy Party, B-Unit, Sistemi Audiofobici Burp)

13th of November – 22:00

@ Raum 18
Ziegrastr. 11 – Berlin-Neukölln
S-Bhf Sonnenallee

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MECÁNIQUE DES CORDES 28 Novembro

2009-11-09T11:18:55Z

MECÁNIQUE DES CORDES
[Ciclo GRANULAR NO PERFORMAS]

Todo e qualquer espectáculo do aXe Ensemble (Kamal Hamadache e Sigrid Gassler) associa movimento e som, duas das coordenadas fundamentais da arte intermedia. Esculturas cinéticas e máquinas robotizadas constituem os pilares do trabalho musical e cénico, gerido este por meio de um sistema informático baseado no cálculo de probabilidades. No caso específico de Mécanique des Cordes verifica-se tal em interacção com um performer humano, o violinista Carlos “Zíngaro”. Entre o movimento e o som há uma relação física, sustentada na vibração das estruturas mecânicas, sendo esta amplificada para tornar audível o mínimo sobressalto. Compositor com actividade no domínio das músicas electrónica e electroacústica, as obras de Hamadache são como que fotografias sonoras dos mundos geológico, vegetal e animal. Gassler é uma instalacionista e cenógrafa especialmente interessada na construção de mecanismos que parecem ter uma vida própria e que tanto se dão a ver como a ouvir. “Zíngaro”, por sua vez, é uma das mais importantes figuras da improvisação internacional, situado algures entre a matriz referencial do free jazz e o experimentalismo, se bem que a todo o momento evidenciando a sua formação clássica.

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Sons of God Live on Rare Frequency

2009-11-09T11:17:39Z

This podcast features a live set by legendary Swedish sound artists (and illustrious representatives of the Royal Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland), Sons of God. Sons of God is Leif Elggren and Kent Tankred. They are joined for the tour by Joachim Nordwall of Alvars Orkester and Skull Defekts fame.

Sons of God: Live on Rare Frequency

Rare Frequency

Avant Garde Project 158: LaMonte Young I

2009-11-09T11:17:05Z

I was going to continue with the US Electronc Music series this week, but I stumbled upon a cache of out-of-print CDs by the legendary pioneering minimalist composer La Monte Young, and so AGP158 is the first of (probably) three devoted to his work. These CDs are so rare that used copies of some of them sell for hundreds of dollars each.

This week’s installment features The Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer, from The Four Dreams of China (1962), from a 1991 Gramavision CD (R2-79467). The recording features The Theatre Of Eternal Music Brass Ensemble led by trumpeter Ben Neill. Here the sustained tones produced by the brass section eerily imitate the sounds of the electrical power transformers that Young remembers listening to as a child in Bern, Idaho. This is music stripped down to its bare essentials–just four notes, in fact–so that the harmonic relationships between the complex timbres of those notes can be relished. This work makes the more austere passages in Horatiu Radulecu’s Inner Time II (AGP109) sound in comparison like piece by Conlon Nancarrow. It’s not for everyone.

I was only given the data files from these CDs, so I have no scans of the liner notes. For more information on La Monte Young, see the Wikipedia article on him.

NOTE: To the best of my knowledge, these recordings are not currently available commercially. If you know otherwise, please let me know ASAP, as I do not wish any artists to be deprived of the royalties that they so richly deserve.

The Avant Garde Project is a series of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic torrents digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. This is wild stuff, so check it out if you’ve never heard this sort of music before. The analog rig used to extract the sound from the grooves is near state-of-the-art, producing almost none of the tracking distortion or surface noise normally associated with LPs.

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Mario de Vega at Today’s Art

2009-11-08T13:50:40Z

STEIM AT TODAYSART09
Date & Time:
Sep 25 & 26 at 21:00h

Featuring:
Mario de Vega (MX), Blippoo Extravaganza (Rob Hordijk (NL), Joke Nies (DE), Kassen (NL)), Emile Zile (AU), Byungjun Kwon (KR), dj sniff (JP)

Mario de Vega at Today’s Art from STEIM Amsterdam on Vimeo.

Location:
Bed eLZE Spui 24-26, Den Haag, opposite of Asta and next to Tempo team within the TAG CRASH~CRUSH Exhibition space

Week at Roulette! 9/14.11.09

2009-11-08T13:50:01Z

Kaufmann – Gratkowski – De Joode
Mon Nov 9 – 8:30 PM
“The three spontaneously weave compact pieces full of intricate, multi-threaded interaction. (…) The group can construct spare, riveting music from the quiet hush of bristling detailed textures. They can also shape improvisations that build to a full-bore rush of heated intensity. But what stands out most is how they do this with such a highly-developed group sound…” Michael Rosenstein, Signal to Noise magazine. This Trio of Achim Kaufmann (piano), Frank Gratkowski (clarinets, alto saxophone), and Wilbert De Joode (bass) present improvised chamber music at its finest in this rare US appearance!

Jessica Pavone
Tue Nov 10 – 8:30 PM
Brooklyn based string instrumentalist/composer Jessica Pavone, has been active in New York City for the past eight years. She is best known for her work performing all over the world with Anthony Braxton in his current Septet and Twelve+1tet and for her duo project with guitarist, Mary Halvorson, which has been described as “distinct and beguiling…its core is steely, and its execution clear.” (The New York Times). As a composer, Pavone has received grants from the American Music Center and commissions to write chamber music from the MATA Foundation, and the chamber music collectives; Till by Turning and The Eastern Winds. She has been noted as having “the ability to transform a naked tonal gesture into something special” (The Wire).

Chris McIntyre presents To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass
Wed Nov 11 – 8:30 PM
Composer, trombonist, and producer Chris McIntyre presents New York-based TILT Brass’ two projects, TILT SIXtet and TILT Creative Brass Band, with a full evening of important new Downtown brass music. This event kicks off TILT’s on-going concert series To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass. To TILT focuses solely on repertoire written for TILT’s distinctive ensembles, with works that often embrace the playerly, composed/improvised hybrid aesthetic developed in New York’s Downtown scene over the past 40 years. The Roulette program features the world premiere of 3 new additions to this body of work, 2 for SIXtet by the legendary Anthony Coleman, and pianist/composer Pete Drungle, and the third by McIntyre for the 10-piece Creative Brass Band. Also featured are pieces by TILT Brass members (Curtis Hasselbring, Nate Wooley) and its esteemed colleagues John King and Nick Didkovsky. The personnel for this special event features a number of the creative music community’s strongest players, including Kevin Norton, Joe Fiedler, Russ Johnson, and both Hasselbring and Wooley.

INTERPRETATIONS: Earl Howard / Edmund Campion
Thu Nov 12 – 8:00 PM
Saxophonist, composer and electronic sound constructionist Earl Howard performs solo works for saxophone and electronics and will also be joined by Koto player Miya Masaoka for an inspired duet improvisation. Mixing formal composition, improvisation and interactive instrument design, Edmund Campion’s music reaches towards the fully articulated sensory experience. Real-time interactive computer and instrument environments will be the focus of the evening, with the composer performing with invited guests including saxophonist Susan Fancher. Related technologies have been developed in collaboration with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at UC Berkeley where Campion serves as the Co-director.

The Angsudden Song Cycle with Mike McGinnis and the Angsudden Ensemble
Fri Nov 13 – 8:30 PM
Saxophonist/clarinetist/composer Michael McGinnis has making music with some of the most innovative and creative musicians in New York City since the mid-90’s. The Angsudden Song Cycle is a collaborative project between the composer Michael McGinnis and Stockholm-based artist MuKha. MuKha created a cycle of paintings and poems inspired by Ängsudden, a point in the Swedish archipelago that juts into the Baltic Sea where sea collides with sky in dramatic ways. The poems were then set to music and will be performed by voice and a seven piece chamber ensemble comprised of wooden instruments that are either blown, plucked or struck. The music was composed specifically for musicians who along with being great chamber music players are also great improvisors and explorers on their instruments.

TROPHIES: Alessandro Bosetti w/ Audrey Chen, Kenta Nagai, and Ches Smith

Sat Nov 14 – 8:30 PM
Composer and sound artist. He works on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication and produced text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published recordings. In his work he moves on the line between sound anthropology and composition often including translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Field research and interviews often build the basis for his abstract compositions along with electro-acoustic and acoustic collages, relational strategies,trained and untrained instrumental practices, vocal explorations and digital manipulations. Tonight Alessandro is joined with Audrey Chen, Kenta Nagai, and Ches Smith for TROPHIES.

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Sonidos pintados: Mark Rothko.Ars sonora 31/10/09

2009-11-08T13:49:34Z

Músicas inspiradas por el artista visual Mark Rothko (1903-1970). En este programa, primero de la serie “sonidos pìntados”, escuchamos obras de compositores como Morton Feldman (1926-1987), Monty Adkins (n. 1972) y Joan LaBarbara (n. 1947). Al igual que sucede en los grandes paneles de Rothko -aparentemente monocromos, pero que albergan una enorme variedad de sutiles variaciones de color y textura-, todas estas composiciones presentan, bajo una superficie estática, universos enteros de microperturbaciones rítmicas, melódicas y tímbricas.

Miguel Alvarez-Fernandez
Ars Sonora

AN OUTSIDER’S GUIDE TO SAXOPHONE with John Butcher, Hans Koch, and Jack Wright

2009-11-08T13:49:03Z

November 13th
(friday)

bowerbird @ landmarks
JOHN BUTCHER
HANS KOCH + JACK WRIGHT

@ Powel House Museum
244 S. Third Street
8pm; $12, $8 in advance
For tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/87245

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AN OUTSIDER’S GUIDE TO SAXOPHONE
Bowerbird returns to the stately ballroom of the Powel House for an intimate evening of new and unusual acts of musical creativity. In this installment of the popular Bowerbird@Landmarks series, three trail blazing saxophonists, John Butcher (Great Britain), Hans Koch (Switzerland), and Jack Wright (United States), showcase the amazing sonic palate available on their instrument and inventive sonic language they have explored over the course of each of their prolific careers. For more information, please visit: http://www.bowerbird.org/newsite/events/091113/
bowerbird@LANDMARKS is an ongoing curatorial partnership that expands cultural offerings in Philadelphia by bringing experimental and improvisational music, film, dance and other creative, genre-defying performing arts to historic sites in the region. Showcasing the newest performing arts is nothing new for Landmarks’ four historic, 18th century houses—Grumblethorpe, Physick House, Powel House and Waynesborough. These houses would often have been the locations for recitals of the most “fashionable” music of their time. Powel House which was the one of the most significant cultural and social centers of colonial and revolutionary Philadelphia. Events in the bowerbird@LANDMARKS series revive this long-lost tradition of intimate concerts, and provide an intelligent alternative for contemporary audiences.

What can you expect if you attend a bowerbird@LANDMARKS performance? You can expect to hear some of the most innovative, avant-garde music being produced by local, national and international artists. You can expect to be challenged to expand your definitions of music, and to leave behind your preconceptions. Each performance will involve some risk-taking by both the performer and the audience member, but if you come with an open mind, and we promise to provide you with a uniquely stimulating experience.

The Powel House was built in 1765 by merchant and businessman Charles Stedman, this elegant Georgian brick mansion was purchased by Samuel Powel in 1769 at the time of his marriage to Elizabeth Willing. Samuel Powel, an important, educated man who had toured the Continent for seven years before settling down, served as the last mayor of Philadelphia under the Crown and was the first mayor of the city after the creation of the United States. Mayor Powel was later dubbed the “Patriot Mayor”. Mayor Powel and his wife were well known for their hospitality and frequently entertained such notable guests as George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, and the Marquis de Lafayette.

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Concierto LIPM

2009-11-08T13:48:24Z

CONCIERTO Y PRESENTACIÓN DEL CD “CONVOCATORIA O8”

(GANADORES DE LA CONVOCATORIA A COMPOSITORES 08)
Organizado por el LIPM (Laboratorio de Investigación y Producción Musical) del Centro Cultural Recoleta, con el apoyo de la Fundación Música y TecnologíaMartes

10 de noviembre,
20: 30 hs
Centro Cultural Recoleta- Sala Villa Villa
Entrada Libre y gratuita

Obras de: Fernando Laub, Daniel Rugonyi, Cristina Kasem, Santiago Diez Fischer, Manuel Estrada y Pablo Chimenti
Compositor invitado: JORGE SAD
Intérpretes: Enrique Entenza, Martín Devoto y Matías Nieva

Con el propósito de fomentar la creación de música con medios, la Fundación Música y Tecnología lanzó una convocatoria a jóvenes compositores argentinos para que realizaran obras mixtas y electroacústicas. Es así que durante 2008 y 2009 siete compositores seleccionados desarrollaron sus proyectos en el LIPM-Centro Cultural Recoleta y trabajaron con instrumentistas de primer nivel tanto en la grabación de muestras como en la preparación de las obras en un género que exige una estrecha colaboración entre compositor e intérprete.Estos trabajos fueron grabados y editados en un CD

Programa:
Jorge Sad – Teatro Astral (11: 02)
Intérpretes: Enrique Entenza, Martín Devoto y Matías Nieva
Jorge Sad nació en Buenos Aires en 1959. Es compositor e investigador. Realizó estudios en la Facultad de Música de la UCA (Buenos Aires) y en la Universidad de Montreal. Obtuvo numerosas Becas de creación y de investigación como las de la FundaciónPhonos y la del Ministerio de Cultura (España), del Gobierno de Canadá (Faculty Enrichment Program), del Fondo Nacional de las Artes, de la Fundación Antorchas, entre otras. Obtuvo varios primeros premios nacionales, entre los que se destacan el Premio Municipal de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y el Premio Juan Carlos Paz en dos oportunidades. A nivel internacional, ha obtenido el segundo Premio en el concurso Internacional de composición Xicoatl (Austria) y ha sido finalista en las competencias internacionales “Métamorphoses d Órphée “; (Bélgica) y “Pierre Schaeffer “(Italia). Actualmente enseña Composición en el Conservatorio Provincial de Música Alberto Ginastera.

Fernando Laub -Bestiario (5:49)
Fernando Laub es músico, compositor, artista visual. Desde 1996 sus trabajos recibieron menciones y premios en varios concursos nacionales e internacionales. Asimismo su música es programada en numerosos festivales y conciertos. Fernando diseña y produce sus propios instrumentos musicales con los cuales compone sus piezas electroacústicas (www.fernandolaub.com.ar)

Daniel Rugonyi -Las orgías del Sol y la Luna (9:54)
Intérprete: Matías Nieva
Daniel Rugonyi nació en Morón, en el año 1985. Estudió piano y luego composición en el Conservatorio Provincial de Morón, donde actualmente es alumno de Jorge Sad. Ha asistido a cursos con Francisco Kröpfl, Francisco Colasanto, Juliana Moreno y Jorge Sad; entre otros.María

Cristina Kasem – MUNDUS IMAGINALIS (11: 25)
Maria Cristina Kasem nació el 16 de marzo de 1980 en Buenos Aires. Es violinista y compositora. Estudio con los maestros Gintolliy Robuschi el violín y con los maestros Iglesias Rossi y Mandolini la composición instrumental y electroacústica. Como compositora ha recibido numerosas distinciones; entre ellas, el premio de Motus – Acousma por su obra LO INEFABLE (2007) y la Mención de Honor de la Tribuna Nacional de Compositores de la Argentina por su obra NIEBLA Y LUZ (única obra seleccionada representando a la Argentina en los Word Music Days de Suecia en 2009). Últimamente recibió el primer premio del Concurso Internacional de Música Electroacústica de Bourges 2009, en la categoría “Música de estética formal”, por su obra LAS AGUAS ABISMALES. Este trabajo fue realizado en el estudio de música electroacústica del Norte de la Universidad de Lille III, Francia. Su obra MUNDUS IMAGINALISfue finalista en el concurso de Bourges 2009.Actualmente se encuentra estudiando el Master en Estética, Teoría y práctica de las Artes Contemporáneas de la Universidad Lille III.

Santiago Diez – Le bruit involontaire (9:13)
Intérprete: Martín Devoto
Santiago T. Díez Fischer estudió composición con diferentes maestros, Jorge Sad, Francisco Kröpfl, Julio Viera, François Bayle,Denis Dufour, Christine Groult y Philippe Leroux. Ha ganado diferentes concursos Nacionales e internacionales: Juan Carlos Paz, Música Viva (Portugal) Imeb (Francia), Scrime (Francia) entre otros. Sus obras han sido estrenadas por ensambles cómoTM+,Ensemble Cairn, Ensemble Syntax. Recibió diferentes encargos del Conservatorio de Blanc Mesnil (Francia), Perpignan (Francia),Ensemble Chiasmo (EEUU). Ha sido seleccionado por Ircam para realizar el Cursus I durante los años 2009-2010. Sus obras han sido editadas en 3 países diferentes.

Manuel Estrada – desidia y decadencia (12:45)
Manuel Estrada es Licenciado en composición con medios electroacústicos UNQ. Compositor
e intérprete de música electroacústica, instalaciones sonoras, piezas radiofónicas y diseño de sonido para teatro y danza que han sido estrenadas en Buenos Aires, Maputo (Mozambique), Barcelona y Gerona (España). Es integrante de la compañía Mute (música y teatro), de Buenos Aires Sonora (BAS) y del Proyecto sur-sur de cooperación Mozambique- Argentina

Pablo Chimenti – Kaften, Altare Privilegiatum (Versión de concierto 15:30)
Pablo Chimenti es Licenciado en Composición con Medios Electroacústicos de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, donde se desempeña como docente e investigador. Desde 2008 realiza tareas de doctorado en la UNQ investigando la articulación entre texto verbal y música electroacústica. Es docente del Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte. Su producción artística vincula lo instrumental y lo electroacústico con eje en lo experimental. Compone música para teatro y la escena audiovisual. Es miembro fundador del grupo `Buenos Aires Sonora´.

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