Adama Bilorou/Rufus Cappadocia/Pete Drungle

Tuesday, 3/10/20, 7:00 pm

Adama Bilorou (balofon, djembe, kora), Rufus Cappadocia (cello) and Pete Drungle (piano) explore the intersection of past and future musics, live in solos, duos and trio.

ADAMA BILOROU is one of the most talented musicians of his generation. Wielding both the Djembé and the Balafon, he is one of the few to play the chromatic balafon, an instrument readapted by his family, which allows the full range of Western scales to be played. Born in Burkina Faso, Adama Bilorou comes from a caste of griots. He was introduced at a very young age to the techniques and knowledge of his caste. At the age of 13, he entered Djolem* in Abidjan, becoming the soloist of the troupe as well as that of the National Ballet of Côte d'Ivoire. In 1999, he created the Djélikan troupe and participated in the Masa festival (Côte d’Ivoire) as the conductor of the Binkadisso troupe. He was recognized as the best drummer of his generation in Côte d'Ivoire. Adama collaborates with big names such as: Salif Keïta, Alpha Blondy, Ray Lema, Cheick Tidiane Seck, Ibrahim Malouf, Paco Séry, Manu Dibango, Touré Kounda, Seckou Keïta, Trilok Gurtu, Mamadi KeÏta and Marcus Miller.

RUFUS CAPPADOCIA is a Canadian-American cellist. He is best known for his cross cultural recordings and performances. He has released albums in collaboration with guitarist David Fiuczynski, Stellamara with Sonja Drakulich, multi instrumentalist Ross Daly and The Paradox Trio with Matt Dariau. Rufus’ musical style blends "...the similarities between seemingly diverse music forms such as blues, Sufi, Middle Eastern and even Gregorian chant. To him they are all compatible, microtonal modes of music." Rufus is based in New York.

PETE DRUNGLE is an award-winning composer, pianist and producer living in New York City. He has made music with Ornette Coleman, Yoko Ono, Les Claypool, The Kronos Quartet, Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Sean Lennon, Craig Harris and many others. As pianist, Drungle is an intrepid, adventurous improviser - possibly best known for his 24-HOUR CONTINUOUS SOLO PIANO IMPROVISATION. Wire magazine's Alan Licht remarked, "...Drungle's epic event pushed well beyond the limits usually imposed by the customary concert timetable; that he was still functioning at a high level of creativity after 23 hours of continuous playing pays new testimony to the improvisational mindset." Pete's music compositions, performances and sound installations have been exhibited at Centre Georges Pompidou (Fr), MoCA (Los Angeles), the Whitney Biennial (NYC), The Cannes Film Festival (Fr), The Serpentine Gallery (UK), Wundergrund Festival (Dk), TransArt Festival (It), Chapter Arts, Wales (UK), Le Confort Moderne (Fr), The Kitchen (NYC), Performa Biennials 07, 09, 11 and 13 (NYC), Merce Cunningham Theatre (NYC), The Warsaw Jazz Festival (Pl), Alterna Jazz Festival (Mx), The United Nations (NYC), and many other music festivals worldwide.

 Laura Thompson, violin/Medina, clarinet/Kristin Samadi, piano

Saturday, 2/29/20, 8:00 pm

The trio performs works by Milhaud, Khatchaturian, and Bartok.

Pathos Trio

Friday, 2/28/20, 7:30 pm

Committed to engaging contemporary music, Pathos Trio (percussionists Marcelina Suchocka, Felix Reyes, and pianist/composer Alan Hankers) aims to bring adventurous music to audiences through collaborations with young, living new music composers. A Night of Premieres presents a year long project of culminating commissions that have been written exclusively for Pathos Trio by composers Alison Yun-Fei Jiang, Evan Chapman, Alyssa Weinberg, and Finola Merivale. Each piece is planned to be recorded throughout the Spring and released later this year for Pathos Trio's very first LP. This program will consist of all world premiere performances of each work. We hope you can join us for an eventful night of new music!

Program:

Delirious Phenomena Alyssa Weinberg (b. 1988)

Fiction of Light Evan Chapman (b. 1991)

INTERMISSION

Oblivious Oblivion Finola Merivale (b. 1987)

Prayer Variations Alison Yun-Fei Jiang (b. 1992)

With special guest: Peter White

$12 Student Tickets $15 General Admission

“What is New Music?” II:

Dave Ruder with Cory Bracken

Thursday, 2/27/20, 8:00 pm

The "What is 'New Music'?" series is curated by Brian McCorckle

"New music. New listening. Just an attention to the activity of sounds." - John Cage "If a composer dies, throw it out." - Robert Ashley "Music thus stages its own postconceptual structure as the crisis and disintegration of the concept of music itself." - Peter Osborne, "The Terminology is in Crisis"

The term "New Music" has been around since the 1940s, and has become the banner behind which anyone working in the "classical" "contemporary" "tradition" can rally. Gone are the modernist movements of form which defined the structure of what one expected to hear, now all we know is that it will be "New" (with a capital N), and by "New" it is usually meant: not written before the Prussian Revolution (1848). But how does it feel be a part of the "New Music" community? Why is the term useful? What sort of things can it describe beyond "Newness"? Inspired by the Peter Osborne essay "The Terminology in is Crisis" - how do composers and performers of this "New Music" understand their practice and work in relation to this term, which flies the flag of "music" in the face of beautiful work that problematizes its identification as such? Composer and performer of "New Music" Brian McCorkle (Panoply Performance Laboratory, Varispeed Collective) invites friends, collaborators, and interested strangers to Areté for an evening of music and discussion surrounding this delightfully ambiguous term which encompasses such a variety of sounds.

Notes from a Biscuit Tin: Philosophy, Poetry, Music

Friday 2/21/20, 8:00 pm

A celebration of the philosophical vision of Mary Midgley ft. Claire Chase, Laura Mullen, Jenny Judge

'Notes from a Biscuit Tin' is a yearlong celebration of the centenary of philosopher Mary Midgley, in the form of a series of public exchanges between philosophers and poets on various themes from Midgley's work. The New York instalment will feature philosopher Jenny Judge in conversation with poet Laura Mullen, as well as MacArthur 'genius' and Avery Fisher prizewinner Claire Chase (flute), about Midgley's philosophical vision. Mullen will read a new poem commissioned for the event, and Chase will perform improvisatory works by pioneering electronic musician Pauline Oliveros (among others).

Tickets are free (though limited), and available here.

Supported by the New York Institute of Philosophy

Balducci/Gondek/Woodhead

Thursday, 3/20/20, 7:30 pm

The music of Puerto Rican guitarist and composer Federico Balducci can be described as a mixture of classical and ambient music with unusually intricate harmonies. Federico Balducci has a Bachelor’s Degree in Film Scoring from the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Currently, Federico mostly works on film score for short films and documentaries.

Greg Gondek is a songwriter and musician from a small town in New York. His music draws from alternative and art rock, while also blending elements of ambient and electronic sounds.

Vern Woodhead has been singing all his life, dabbling with instruments and writing songs since he was 15. In addition to his band Woodhead which is releasing a new album in spring of 2020, Vern plays bass with Skulk the Hulking, Martin Bisi and plays guitar with Johnny Scuotto.

Steve Long and DoYeon Kim

Monday, 2/17/20, 8:00 pm doors

Long time collaborators Steve Long and DoYeon Kim present a concert on improvised music which draws on aspects of Ssitkimkut music (traditional Korean shaman funeral music) as well as the work of Alan Shorter and Cecil Taylor.

Steve Long - prepared piano, radios, objects DoYeon Kim - gayaguem, voice

General Admission: $10 Student Admission: $5

“ EARLY SHOW”

featuring many artists doing what you’d never expect

Saturday, 2/15, 5:00 pm doors

Join us at Arete for an early concert featuring eight unique improvisers exploring various media such as text, physical theater, noise, and jazz. The bill will include a solo set by violist Joanna Mattrey, a cello duo including Lester St. Louis, another solo set by flutist and poet Taiga Ultan, closing with a quartet involving saxophonist Yuma Uesaka, trombonist Daniel Ivan Bruno, bassist Matthew Frerck, and percussionist Lesley Mok.

Joanna Mattrey (solo viola set)

Lester St. Louis and Aliya Ultan (cello duo)

Taiga Ultan (solo set)

Matthew Frerck, Yuma Uesaka, Lesley Mok, and Daniel Ivan Bruno (quartet - tenor sax, bass, percussion, trombone)

$5-15 suggested donation!

Melaine Dalibert

CD release concert

Thursday, 2/13/20, 7:30 pm

The CD release concert of French composer/pianist Melaine Dalibert, who has recently released two solo piano albums on Elsewhere Music: his 2019 album Cheminant (elsewhere 007) and his 2020 album of Anastassis Philippakopoulos: piano works (elsewhere 010). In this concert, Dalibert will play some of Philippakopoulos’ works as well as his own solo works from Cheminant, and also his newest compositions, which will be included in his next solo album on Elsewhere for autumn 2020 release. Melaine Dalibert (born 1979) has been increasingly recognized for his compositional piano works as well as his interpretations of works by Gérard Pesson, Giuliano D’Angiolini, Tom Johnson, Peter Garland, and many others. Trained as a classical pianist in Rennes (where he teaches now), Dalibert studied a large repertoire of contemporary composers' works at the Paris Conservatories. Being involved with experimental music at his young age, Dalibert found a way to compose music through mathematical concepts. Fascinated by natural phenomena which are both expected and unpredictable, and also inspired by the work of the Hungarian-born French media artist Véra Molnar, Dalibert has developed his own algorithmic procedures of composition which contain the notion of stretched time evoking Morton Feldman, minimal and introspective, adopting a unique concept of fractal series. His piano music has been released on four CD recordings to date: Quatre pièces pour piano, self-released in 2015, Ressac (2017) on Another Timbre, Musique pour le lever du jour (2018) and Cheminant (2019) on Elsewhere Music. His next solo album with his newest compositions for solo piano is scheduled to be released on Elsewhere Music in autumn 2020. His creations have been radio transmitted (France Musique, BBC, RAI, KEXP, RTBF) and played in many French and foreign festivals, museums and contemporary art centers.

PROGRAM

Anastassis Philippakopoulos - five piano pieces 1-5, piano pieces 2018a, 2018b, 2019

Sébastien Roux - Canons de Vuza

Michael Vincent Waller - Aim, Flashes II

Melaine Dalibert - percolations, Etude II, litanie, maelström, and some more new works

Admission $10

Nanaco Tarui and Pete Drungle

Wednesday, 2/12/20, 7:30 pm

Nanaco Tarui (violin) and Pete Drungle (piano) navigate a vast spectrum of sounds, from avant-garde and free jazz to neo-baroque and beyond.

Pete Drungle is a Bessie Award-winning composer and pianist who has made music with Ornette Coleman, The Kronos Quartet, Yoko Ono, the Decoding Society and many others; he has composed scores for theater, television, film and video, and has collaborated with visual and performance artists including Michael Portnoy, Rudolf Stingel, Marianne Vitale, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Agathe Snow and others. His music compositions, performances and sound design have accompanied exhibitions in Art-Basel Miami, the Whitney Biennial, and Performa 07, 09 and 11. As a pianist, Drungle is an intrepid, adventurous improviser - possibly best exemplified by his legendary 24-HOUR CONTINUOUS SOLO PIANO IMPROVISATION; Wire magazine's Alan Licht remarked, "...In as much as free improvisation can be a real-time, stream of consciousness expression, Drungle's epic event pushed it well beyond the limits usually imposed by the customary concert timetable…That he was still functioning at a high level of creativity after 23 hours pays new testimony to the improvisational mindset. Drungle contributed the truest experiment in concert as performance art that PERFORMA had to offer." Recent accolades include a Bessie Award for Best Composer, a Meet The Composer Commissioning Music/USA commission, an American Music Center grant, and composer residencies at UCross, Wyoming and Chapter Arts, Cardiff Wales.

QUOTES ABOUT PETE DRUNGLE “...an evolved sound.” - Ornette Coleman “...Incredible ...the most important solo piano record I've heard in a decade.” - Sean Lennon “...I was swept away by Pete Drungle’s amazing talent. His breadth and depth of improvisation and creativity at the piano are truly unique. Pete is a true musician and artist above and beyond being a fabulous pianist.” - Philip Lasser, Julliard Professor of Music Composition “...Pete Drungle is a cosmically wondrous pianist, composer, arranger and visionary. He bridges so many formidable gaps in this fracture-ridden world in which we struggle to live today.” - Daniel Carter, musician / writer "...a brilliant composer.." - TimeOut NY "...intensely cinematic.." - New York Times

Double Take

Argento New Music Project
Tuesday, 2/4/20, 8:00 pm

Vocalist/composer Charmaine Lee and clarinetist Carol McGonnell embody the theme of the evening of duality by performing a structured improvisation. Both performers are known for their intensity, and the mix of voice, text, sound, and breath will form the basis of their performance. Argento then juxtaposes different iterations of the same musical material, performing Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht (translation: transfigured night) alongside its original prototype sketch entitled Toter Winkel (translation: Blind Spot). Then we perform Erin Gee’s Mouthpiece 29 (2016), originally for voice, violin, viola, and bass, juxtaposed Mouthpiece 29b (2020), for voice and spatialize string septet.

PROGRAM

Structured improvisation by Charmaine Lee (vocalist) and Carol McGonnell (clarinet)

Arnold Schoenberg Totel Winkel (1899)

Erin Gee Mouthpiece 29 (2016)

Arnold Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht (1899)

Erin Gee Mouthpiece 29b (2020) WORLD PREMIERE: Erin Gee, voice, Carol McGonnell, clarinet Charmaine Lee, composer/vocalist Argento Chamber Ensemble Michel Galante, conductor​​​

Suggested Donation at Door: $20 General $10 Students/Seniors

Double Standard and hear|say

Saturday, 2/1/20, 8:00 pm

New York-based duos Double Standard (Jennifer Gersten, violin; Laura Davey, piano) and hear|say (Iva Casián-Lakoš, cello; John Ling, percussion) will suspend their historic rivalry in the interest of mutual music-mongering. Music by Sky Macklay and Sarah Hennies, as well as premieres by Erika Dohi, John Ling, and Ed RosenBerg III.

 "What is 'New Music'?"

Thursday, 1/23/20, 8pm

Featuring: Sugar Vendil, Jean Carla Rodea, Popebama (Erin Rogers and Dennis Sullivan)

Curated by Brian McCorkle. Post concert discussion at 9:00 pm

"New music. New listening. Just an attention to the activity of sounds." - John Cage "If a composer dies, throw it out." - Robert Ashley "Music thus stages its own postconceptual structure as the crisis and disintegration of the concept of music itself." - Peter Osborne, "The Terminology is in Crisis" The term "New Music" has been around since the 1940s, and has become the banner behind which anyone working in the "classical" "contemporary" "tradition" can rally. Gone are the modernist movements of form which defined the structure of what one expected to hear, now all we know is that it will be "New" (with a capital N), and by "New" it is usually meant: post-World War II, almost 100 years ago now. But how does it feel be a part of the "New Music" community? Why is the term useful? What sort of things can it describe beyond "Newness"? Inspired by the Peter Osborne essay "The Terminology in is Crisis" - how do composers and performers of this "New Music" understand their practice and work in relation to this term, which flies the flag of "music" in the face of beautiful work that problematizes its identification as such? Composer and performer of "New Music" Brian McCorkle (Panoply Performance Laboratory, Varispeed Collective) invites friends, collaborators, and interested strangers to Areté for an evening of music and discussion surrounding this delightfully ambiguous term which encompasses such a variety of sounds.

Ensemble in Process: Migration in Sounds

Sunday, 1/19/20, 7:00 pm

Three of New York's most exciting pianists—-Brian Mark, Isabelle "Izzy" O’Connell, and Kathleen Supové—-come together to explore the subject of migration and human struggle in a multidisciplinary setting. Special guest: flutist Tessa Brinckman. Program includes works by Meredith Monk, Missy Mazzoli, Randall Woolf, Howie Kenty, and Mary Kouyoumdjian, among others. World premieres by Valerie Coleman and Raymond Deane.

Hotel Elefant / Bearthoven

Saturday, 1/18/20, 7:00 pm

Hotel Elefant and Bearthoven share an evening of music by Fjóla Evans (Shoaling, Warped Threads) and Leaha Maria Villarreal, including the world premiere of Villarreal's Crossing the Rubicon.

HOTEL ELEFANT IS A CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE DEDICATED TO THE WORKS OF INNOVATIVE, LIVING COMPOSERS. ​

Hotel Elefant brings an awareness of todayʼs music to the general public through commissions, performances, and moderated discussions between composers, performers, and audiences. Committed to modern sounds and sonic explorations, this "audacious and unafraid" (New Music Box) ensemble highlights living composers who are blurring lines, pushing boundaries, and fostering creativity. With a flexible roster of musicians, Hotel Elefant works with a broad spectrum of progressive artists including John Luther Adams, Richard Carrick, Michael Gordon, David T. Little, Angélica Negrón, and Chinary Ung. Past performances include Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Bang on a Can Marathon; collaborations with Kronos Quartet and The Nouveau Classical Project; partnerships with BalletCollective, Experiments in Opera, and Ear Heart Music; and a debut Carnegie Hall performance praised by The New York Times as “deeply felt.”

Bearthoven [ \'bâr-toh-vən\ ] is a piano trio creating a new repertoire for a familiar instrumentation by commissioning works from leading young composers. Karl Larson (piano), Pat Swoboda (bass), and Matt Evans (percussion) have combined their individual voices and diverse musical backgrounds, coming together to create a versatile trio focused on frequent and innovative commissioning of up-and-coming composers. Bearthoven is rapidly building a diverse repertoire by challenging composers to apply their own voice to an instrumentation that, while common amongst jazz and pop idioms, is currently foreign in the contemporary classical world.

PROGRAM

Fjóla EVANS: Warped Threads – Hotel Elefant

Leaha Maria VILLARREAL: The Crossing* – Bearthoven

EVANS: Shoaling – Bearthoven

VILLARREAL: Crossing the Rubicon* – Hotel Elefant *world premiere

Admission: pay what you will

 SORA Quartet

Wednesday, 1/15/20, 7:00pm

Brooklyn-based SORA Quartet has been presenting performances of 19th, 20th and 21st century chamber music since 2015, in accessible and diverse locations including Endicott College's Summer String Music Festival, an unveiling of Jae Rhim Lee's sustainable mushroom burial suit at the Ace Hotel, and theaters and salons throughout the City. For this performance, SORA Quartet presents a recital that explores two well known 20th century works, on January 15 at Areté Venue & Gallery:

String Quartet #1 in A minor by Béla Bartók (1909)

String Quartet #5 in by Philip Glass (1991)

Will Sing for Wine Live!

Sunday, 1/12/20, 5:30 pm

This intimate live event will be a feast for the senses as we indulge in "old world" musical repertoire and vintages. In this hour-long program, Rebecca Richardson, soprano and pianist Felix Jarrar will be performing both well-known and less performed classical vocal works with piano by composers such as Debussy, Verdi, Obradors, and more! Each musical set will be paired with a carefully selected wine representing the country from which the music originated.

Tickets are $20/ person up until 12 hours before the event

After that, tickets can be purchased at the door for $25 (cash only).

The price of the ticket includes entry to the event, all wines paired with the concert, and light snacks before and after the concert. There are no assigned seats; all seating is first come, first served. Only 40 seats available!

WISE: Women Innovating Sound Experience

Thursday, 1/9/20, 8:00 pm

A night of live experimental performances by women-identified artists working with handmade electronics/instruments, live coding, sound objects, and audiovisual performance. Hosted by WISE: Women Innovating Sound Experience; A community supporting women-identified artists working in sonic & media arts; expanding use of technology, time and space.

Thessia Machado is a visual/sound artist, instrument builder and performer. Her work plumbs the materiality of sound and its effect on our shifting perceptions of space. She creates circumstances in which to mine the matter of her pieces for their innate physical properties and the sonic and visual relationships that can arise from their interactions. In the performed works, the ensemble of things is augmented by a dynamically responsive and intentionally unpredictable human element. Electronics are almost always implicated. Thessia’s sculptures, drawings and sound installations have been broadly exhibited in the US and Europe.

Melody Loveless is a musician, performer, educator, and multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work ranges from livecoding performance, generative sound installations, multisensory performance, and more. Past honors include artist residencies with KH Messen, Holes in the Wall Collective, and Gamli Skoli, a performance at the International Live Coding Conference 2019 with Codie, and Best Short Score by the Seattle Composers Alliance Awards. She has had performances in venues around New York City including (le) poisson rouge, Performance Space New York, Alvin Ailey, the New York Hall of Science, and Eyebeam. In the upcoming Spring 2020 semester, she will be teaching Livecoding at the New School and Creative Coding at Hunter College.

A Native of Hong Kong, Viola Yip is a New York-based experimental composer, performer, sound artist and instrument builder. Trained as a composer, her interest in unorthodox sonic materiality, performativity, relationality and affect in music brought her to building instruments. Through building circuits and hacking daily life objects, it stimulates her to rethink the definition and potentiality of our instruments and explore the full capacity that our musical bodies could offer in musical performances.

Roberta Michel Brooklyn-based flutist Roberta Michel is dedicated to the music of our time. Praising her “extreme adventurousness,” New York Concert Review said she “riveted with her performance, inspiring one to want a repeated hearing.” Michel is the Co-artistic Director of Wavefield. A founding member of Duo RoMi and Cadillac Moon Ensemble, Michel has also performed with: Ecce Ensemble, Portland String Quartet, Newspeak, SEM Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, Argento, Iktus, Wordless Music Orchestra, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Ensemble LPR, and Cygnus Ensemble among others.

 Epiphany Concert

Monday 1/6/20, 8:00 pm

Mick Rossi - piano
Jeremy Wilms - guitar
Charles Waters - clarinets, saxophones

Trio of Rossi, Wilms, and Waters celebrate the upcoming release of their live recording “Semblance of Normalcy - Live @ WFMU.” This group balances chamber jazz and improvisational material in a finely tuned array of new music collections. Music from the new record and other new material.

A Very George Crumb Christmas 2

Saturday, 12/21/19, 5:00 – 7:00 pm

Behold, the resurrection of A Very George Crumb Christmas, an intimate, casual gathering of musicians and friends sharing works by George Crumb during the darkest days of the year.

This solstice program will include A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979, performed by Adam Marks, Makrokosmos Volume 1, performed by Adam Tendler, and Crumb's Three Early Songs performed by Kayleigh Butcher.

Tickets at the door: $10. Bring cookies?

Locations

Sean Miller and Lily Taylor

Thursday, 12/19/19, 9:30 pm

Locations is a visual/audio project by Dallas, TX based new media artist and educator, Sean Miller, and musician Lily Taylor. Sound and video are generated and manipulated in a real time, structured improvisation. Locations utilizes max/msp jitter along with analog video/audio feedback, voice, synthesis, and live looping creating intense, ambient, droning soundscapes. Locations is slated to perform at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton, TX Nov 1. They are also featured in the Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase on Dec 7th in Deep Ellum, Dallas, TX, and at Arete Venue in Brooklyn, NY Dec 19th, 2019.

More about the artists:

https://cargocollective.com/seanpmiller/bio-cv

https://www.lilytaylormusic.com/about

Brandon Lopez, solo bass // Drew Wesely/Eli Wallace/Weston Olencki

Thursday, 12/19/19, 8:00 pm

Drew Wesely, guitar

Eli Wallace, piano

Weston Olencki, low brass and electronics

Drew Wesely and Eli Wallace have collaborated as an improvising duo over the past two years, with an interest in fusing linear musical language with noise and sounds generated through unconventional playing techniques. They have recently expanded their duo, inviting guests such as Ingrid Laubrock, Joe Moffett, Darío Bernal, and Germán Bringas to create trios. They are thrilled to be joined by Weston Olencki in a trio format for this performance.

ThingNY

Wednesday, 12/18/19, 7:30 pm

Jessie Marino – The Whale Is a Capital Fish (2016) U.S. Premiere

Sam Scranton – Baleen (2017)

Paul Pinto – mini_007: Music for a Recession (2015)

Jennifer Walshe – Language Ruins Everything (2013) U.S. Premiere

Robert Ashley – Tap Dancing in the Sand (2004) U.S. Premiere.

Hello. My name is thingNY. (Me llamo thingNY.) I identify as _______. But I'm flexible about it. I'll be your performer this evening. We've probably met before. This is not the first concert. This probably won't be the last. [pause] Who here likes attention?

A night of audio-visual chamber music and sonic theaters performed by the sextet of Jeffrey Young, Dave Ruder, Erin Rogers, Paul Pinto, Andrew Livingston, and Gelsey Bell. The program explores the sounds of language through its obscuration and translation. Rome Prize fellow Jessie Marino's multimedia The Whale Is a Capital Fish is part video lecture, part ritualistic absurdity, with instruments frenetically trying to keep up with rapid-fire translations and “incorrect” supertitles, and then Sam Scranton's meditative Baleen utilizes the mouth as a filter for digestion, language and harmony, with the skillful employment of decorative vases. A quartet of desperate job interviewers struggles to get words-in-edgewise in Paul Pinto's joyfully awkward mini_007, and Irish humorist Jennifer Walshe implores us to consider that Language Ruins Everything through tai chi, falsetto and mime. Finally, the bilingual oracular statements of Hector Berlioz, as played by Alvin Lucier imitating Dr. Chicago, “translated” into the creamy poetry and instrumental lilts of Robert Ashley, in his stunning, rarely performed work, Tap Dancing in the Sand.

Three (3) U.S. Premieres. Multiple (?) costume changes. One (1) night only. Come early to take part in Arete's new audio-visual installation by thingNY.

 Tickets doors 7pm, music 7:30pm

Ultrafizz: Since 1500

Tuesday, 12/17/19, 8:00 pm

Lucy Dhegrae, voice

Nathaniel LaNasa, piano

What might happen when the past and future collide? Sacred chants by Pauline Oliveros and an unknown 13th-century singer-composer rub elbows with monodies by Guillaume de Machaut, and John Cage. Playful hockets by Meredith Monk and antique cadences by Hayes Biggs delight the ear with unexpected harmonic dance. Since 1500 explores paths Western music might have taken, had it evolved along different lines.

Steven Long, Amanda Ekery, Jacob Shulman / PRNCX

Monday, 12/16/19, 8:00 pm

Join us at Arete Gallery for the reconfiguration of music by Carla Bley, Steve Lacy, Morton Feldman, and much more.

Steven Long - piano, Amanda Ekery - voice, Jacob Shulman - tenor saxophone

Steve Long is a composer, pianist, improviser and native Brooklynite. He holds an M.A. from the New England Conservatory of Music. His work explores the relationship between composition and improvisation. As pianist and composer he leads PRNCX, a group dedicated to playing his improvisation-based compositions.

Saturday 12/14/19, 4:00 pm

2 back to back sets of improvised music.

**Early Show**

Eli Wallace - Piano

Jessica Ackerley - Guitar

Frank Meadows - Bass

Sarah Bernstein - Violin

S.A.W:

Zach Swanson - Bass

Mike Alfieri - Drums

James Wengrow - Guitar

doors: 3:30pm

show: 4pm

 Gerald Cleaver/Brandon Lopez/Fred Lawless

Thursday, 12/12/19, 8:00 pm

The three are experienced sidemen as well as seasoned leaders, coming together to freely improvise and to create a unique soundscape.

JP Schlegelmilch, piano

Sunday, 12/8/19, 8:00 pm

In a special solo performance pianist/composer JP Schlegelmilch explores a collection of songs by David Bowie, St. Vincent, Bob Dylan, Robyn, Stevie Wonder, and others, searching for the emotional essence of each song through improvisation.

"When I play solo I've always felt drawn towards playing songs that I like and that have a particular meaning for me. I guess I wish I could write songs myself, and playing music by my favorite artists lets me connect with the feeling of a song." - JP Schlegelmilch

 No Signal Album Release

Friday, 12/6/19, 8:00 pm

Aaron Novik – A clarinet

Jeremiah Cymerman – B flat clarinet

Nick Millevoi – guitar

Matt Hollenberg – guitar

Another early New York experiment, this was written while reading Kim Gordon's "Girl in a Band" and really tries to channel the 80s downtown noise rock and experimental jazz scenes that were happening at the time.

The instrumentation of two clarinets a half step apart (b flat and A clarinet) and two guitars tuned a half step apart, relying heavily on overtones creates a unique sonic dissonance that channels bands like Sonic Youth and Swans, but with an improvisational freedom more akin to noise jazz pioneers like John Zorn and Elliot Sharp.

John McCowen will be opening with a set of solo contra bass clarinet.

Giacomo Baldelli, guitar

Thursday, 12/5/19, 7:30 pm

Guitarist Giacomo Baldelli comes back to Arete’ to present an electric guitar solo set featuring a 1981 David Byrne/Brian Eno work - to be soon released as a single, an improv set for electric guitar and electronics and the premiere of “Lost in Dull Time” by Walden School student-composer Kayenne Charles-Pierre, 2019 ASCAP Irving Berlin Scholarship recipient.

24 Strings

duoSG + Luke Schwartz & Greg McMullen

Wednesday, 12/04/19, 8:00 pm

duoSG is Geoff Gersh on guitar/effects and Steve Blanco on bass/effects. They create rich layers of earthy sonic textures & technology-based noises, whilst maintaining a minimal approach to their sounds. Acoustical and electronic all at once duoSG combines urban decay with natural wonder. MORE

Greg McMullen and Luke Schwartz met during their tenure in the Glenn Branca Ensemble, where they instantly connected on alt- guitar centric Avant music-making. Together, McMullen and Schwartz offer a haunting and genre-defying sonic product indicative of music from another planet.

FIDOqrtet

11/26/19, 8:00 pm

FIDOqrtet is a free improvising ensemble that draws from the musicians' many varied musical influences.

FIDO experiences a wide spontaneous, emotional range. The outcome is often very compositional, within its constantly free, beginner's mind approach. The ensemble started playing together in December of 2012, and is looking forward to it's first recorded release late Fall or early Winter of 2019/2020.

Maryanne de Prophetis, voice

Shoko Nagai, piano/processor

Ron Horton, trumpet/flugelhorn

Dean Johnson, bass

You can listen to excerpts here.

FLUX Quartet

Monday, 11/25/19

** TIME CHANGE** =>> 9:30 pm

The FLUX Quartet, "one of the most fearless and important new-music ensembles around" (San Francisco Chronicle), has performed to rave reviews in venues worldwide, including the Tate Modern with BBC Radio3, Park Avenue Armory, Kennedy Center, Mount Tremper Arts, EMPAC, Walker Art Center, Carnegie's Zankel Hall, as well as international festivals in Australia, Europe and Asia. It has also premiered new works on numerous experimental incubators, including Roulette, The Music Gallery, and Mount Tremper Arts. FLUX's radio appearances include NPR's All Things Considered, WNYC's New Soundsand Soundcheck, and WFMU's Stochastic Hit Parade. The group's discography includes recordings on the Cantaloupe, Innova, New World, Passin Thru, and Tzadik labels, in addition to two acclaimed releases on Mode encompassing the full catalogue of Morton Feldman's output for string quartet.

Strongly influenced by the "anything-goes" philosophy of the fluxus art movement, violinist Tom Chiu founded FLUX in the late 90's. The quartet has since cultivated an uncompromising repertoire that combines late twentieth-century iconoclasts such as Cage, Nancarrow, Scelsi, and Ligeti with today's visionaries, including Oliver Lake, Michael Hersch, David First, Alvin Lucier, Michael Schumacher, Sean Shepard, Wadada Leo Smith, Julia Wolfe, Matthew Welch, and others. Having premiered over 100 new works, FLUX has been awarded grants from the American Composers Forum, Aaron Copland Fund, Meet-The-Composer, New Music USA, and Chamber Music America. FLUX also discovers emerging composers from its many college residencies, including Wesleyan, Dartmouth, Williams, Princeton, Bard, and the College of William and Mary.

The spirit to expand stylistic boundaries is a trademark of the FLUX Quartet, and to that end the quartet avidly pursues interdisciplinary projects, resulting in acclaimed new works with choreographers Pam Tanowitz and Christopher Wheeldon, avant balloonist Judy Dunaway, digital collective The OpenEnded Group, and visual artist Matthew Barney. In the upcoming season, FLUX will perform and record the full string quartet output of Toshi Ichiyanagi, widely acknowledged as an influential pioneer of the Japanese avant-garde.

GHOST ENSEMBLE: Universe Sings

Sunday, 11/24/19, 8:00pm

Ghost Ensemble presents an evening of music exploring the physicality and spirituality of sound, with four works new to the ensemble, including two world premieres.

Kevin Kay’s The Universe is Vibrating (2016), a winner of Ghost Ensemble’s 2018 Call for Scores, creates spacious and sensuous resonances, illuminating shimmering swaths of the harmonic series from deep harp rumbles up to delicate high harmonics and whistle tones. The piece surprises and delights when these aperiodic textures erupt into sparkling bursts of repetition. Pauline Oliveros’s Horse Sings from Cloud (1975), a classic sonic meditation for ensemble, asks performers to sustain tones or sounds until any desire to change them subsides, at which point the time for change has come. A slowly morphing drone emerges that guides audience and ensemble alike toward altered modes of listening and consciousness. The concert further features new works composed for Ghost Ensemble in 2019 by Assaf Gidron (for flute, harp, and viola) and Ben Richter (for solo bass flute). Assaf Gidron is a composer, sound designer, and performer on cello, guitar, and electronics, and a member of the New York musician and artist group LCollective. Ben Richter is a composer, accordionist, and director of Ghost Ensemble.

Program, in concert order:

Ben Richter: new work*

Kevin Kay: The Universe is Vibrating

Assaf Gidron: new work*

Pauline Oliveros: Horse Sings from Cloud

* World premiere

TICKETS: $15 general / $10 students

Press: contact ben@ghostensemble.org for press tickets

 ALKEMIE WITH ELLIOT COLE

Beautee & Bountee: An Arthurian Refraction

11/24/19, 4:00 pm

Medieval ensemble ALKEMIE joins forces with composer ELLIOT COLE to reanimate the ancient tales of King Arthur in their new program “Beautee & Bountee: An Arthurian Refraction.” In this new project – a co-commission between 5BMF and Alkemie – Cole combines old words and new music through settings of episodes from 14th-century Middle English texts that weave together spoken word, monophonic and poly-textual song, and instrumental commentary. Materials and methods inspired by the Worcester Fragments – one of the very few extant musical records of medieval England – punctuate the program. Flashes of transmuted melodies act as points of light that are variously refracted and recombined by Alkemie’s collection of period and modern instruments, including medieval fiddles and reeds, recorders, harps, harmonium, and electric bass.

“King Arthur is a baffling mythological chimera. If he was even a real person (and that’s a big ‘if’) he was probably not a king, but a prodigious warrior, as he’s referenced in the earliest 9th century sources. His legend also carries hints of Celtic, Welsh, and pagan deities, from whom, through retelling after retelling, he may have morphed from a god into a human. He is admirable – known as a precocious youth and a wise, even-handed ruler – but also pitiable: a betrayed husband, and often inert and hamstrung, a second fiddle to his entourage. Alkemie and Elliot Cole’s Bountee and Beautee is a dramatic setting, through spoken word, song, and tone poem, of the anonymous “Stanzaic” Morte Arthur, from the mid-14th century. The concert’s subtitle, “An Arthurian Refraction,” could describe any interpretation of the myth, each and every one a variant perspective; but this is one you’ll want to know. Elliot Cole, the work’s composer and narrator, is a modern-day bard if ever I knew one; his writing eloquent, clear, and impactful. Matched with Alkemie, the dynamic is that of a musical family: expertly and unified, sincere and welcoming, all so they can melt your heart from the inside out.” – Michael Unterman, Artistic Director

TRACY COWART › voice, harp

DAVID MCCORMICK › viele

ELENA MULLINS › voice, percussion

NICCOLO SELIGMANN › viele, viola a chiavi, percussion

SIAN RICKETTS › voice, recorders, douçaines

With guest artists:

ELLIOT COLE › composer; voice, harmonium, electric bass

BEN MATUS › voice, dulcian

TICKETS

Austin Wulliman SOLO (violins)//

Jessica Ackerley SOLO (guitar) // Austin Wulliman/Marina Kifferstein/Weston Olencki TRIO (violins & synths)

Monday, 11/18/19, 8:00 pm

As violinist in the JACK Quartet, hailed as “the nation’s most important quartet” by the New York Times, Austin Wulliman has played in such renowned venues as Wigmore Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, and the Wiener Konzerthaus, and featured on such festivals as Tanglewood, Ojai, Spoleto, and Lucerne. Work with JACK has included premieres by John Luther Adams, Philip Glass, Georg Friedrich Haas, Clara Iannotta, Tyshawn Sorey and John Zorn, as well as collaborations with the likes of Chaya Czernowin, Helmut Lachenmann, George Lewis, and Julia Wolfe.  He has received awards from Musical America (JACK Quartet “2019 Ensemble of the Year”), the Darmstadt Ferienkurse Kranichstein Prize (Ensemble Dal Niente, 2012), and was presented with Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2019.

Marina Kifferstein is a violinist and composer based in NYC. Equally comfortable in major international venues and DIY spaces, she enjoys a diverse performance career with a focus on contemporary chamber music. She is a founding member of TAK ensemble and The Rhythm Method string quartet, and regularly performs as a guest with the Lucerne Festival, International Contemporary Ensemble, Wet Ink, and Talea.
Marina is currently a DMA candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center.

In the past decade, Jessica Ackerley has already established herself on the Canadian and American rock and jazz scene as a unique guitarist, composer and band leader. Born and raised in Alberta, Canada; Jessica now resides in New York city where she has worked alongside notable musicians such as Tyshawn Sorey and Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Herbie Hancock, John Zorn). Her musical palette is diverse, drawing from highly refined compositional structure to free improvisation and jazz, with a slight nod to no wave and Avant Garde soundscapes. 

Weston Olencki is a South Carolina-born musician working at the intersections of improvisation, contemporary composition & extended instrumental performance, new media technologies, and noise-based practices. His work is concerned with material conditions sound and its diffusion, using experientially-driven structures to examine sonic relationships with metaphor/signification, informational complexity, technological mediation, psycho-acoustic perception, and geographical identity.

The Wonderland Series Premiere and Party

Sunday, 11/17/19, 7:00 pm

The Wonderland Series by Anna Heflin is a 38-minute solo opera for singing, speaking, and acting violinist Shannon Reilly. Reilly is joined onstage by accompanying pre-recorded audio and video, all of which features her portraying the various characters. There are three layers to the piece: the music which is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s writings, scholarly research about the work and Charles Dodgson, and the character of Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson which uses quotes from the author. After falling into Wonderland, the listener will encounter Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson, The Scholar, Alice, The Queen, the Garden of Live Flowers, the Playing Cards, Dinah and others over the course of their journey. Themes in the work include the law, Dodgson’s obsession with 42 and its relevance to Christianity and the Jabberwocky, the Carroll/Dodgson split identity, how Darwin’s work influenced Alice in Wonderland and more. This all may sound dreadfully confusing, but that’s the effect of living backwards! Reilly will perform the work memorized at Areté Venue in Greenpoint Brooklyn on November 17 (a very important date) at 7pm.

“WatersWorks” - Scorpio Variations

Sunday, 11/17/19, 5:00 pm

Mary Cherney -flute

Charles Waters - clarinet, bass clarinet

Tonight’s version of “WatersWorks” - an infrequent presentation by composer and performer Charles Waters. Tonight in special duo formation with fabulous Mary Cherney (flutes), they are recreating the “inside” premiere of “Red Shed Garden” for flute and bass clarinet. This work, in long form and slow motion style, runs almost 50 minutes! Presenting the initial conception of a trilogy of works composed and site-specifically presented at Red Shed Garden in East Williamsburg of which Waters has curated a number of concert as “Citimusic@RedShed”. This concert will also present several new and old solo and duo works. The second part of this trilogy was released last year

Looking For The Bells

Paul Steven Ray/Sandy Pliego

Thursday, 11/14/19, 7:00 pm

Paul Steven Ray is a composer/improviser/sound artist who has been a fixture of the NYC experimental music scene for years.  With Looking for the Bells, he and graphic designer Sandy Pliego collaborate to create a poetic soundscape for electronics, guitar, laptop, and voice with recorded and live video.

The Nouveau Classical Project presents

Line : Voices

Wednesday, 11/13/19, 8:00 pm

Featuring the world premiere of the Nouveau Classical Project’s latest commission, mini_014 by Paul Pinto, Line: voices inhabits the physicality of text and emotional intimacy of collective performance through three non-traditional works that explore group chant, verbalization, and reactive impulses, and instructive scores. The Nouveau Classical Project (NCP) is a New York-based contemporary classical music ensemble that is "bringing a refreshing edge to the widely conservative genre" (VICE). It began by collaborating with fashion designers for its concerts and has expanded to creating multidisciplinary performances. Its mission is to engage new audiences and show that classical music is a living, breathing art form. 

To provide opportunities for composers, NCP holds annual Calls for Scores, Calls for Proposals, and commissions new work via the NCP Commissioning Fund. The collaborative nature of its work also allows the ensemble to create opportunities for artists from a variety of disciplines. 

NCP has performed at exciting venues such as Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Fisher, (le) poisson rouge, Galapagos Art Space, Symphony Space, The Center for Fiction, and Issue Project Room as part of MATA’s Interval series. Fashion shows include CFDA winner Pamela Love, Project Runway winner Gretchen Jones, Kempner Collection, Ecco Domani winner Novis, Tanya Taylor, and more. Its projects are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), and other generous foundations and individual donors.

Program: 

mini_014 by Paul Pinto (World Premiere)

She Lapsed 12 Times Into Feigned Lines by Bethany Younge (New York Premiere)

Boundary Music by Mieko Shiomi

Admission: $15 advance / $20 door

Information:

Contact

Georgia Rae with Rose Kow Xiu Yi and Karl Henry

Sunday, 11/10/19, 8:00 pm

November 8th through the 10th three string players with varying musical backgrounds all come together for an eclectic night of “futuristic folk, funk, hip hop, and jazz”. But how did so many sounds come together in one place? Karl Henry(cello), Rose(violin) and Georgia Rae(violin) met at Creative Strings Workshop, where musicians from around the world come together to learn and collaborate. The night will be filled with music from Karl Henry from Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Rose, born in Singapore and now based in New York, and Georgia Rae, from Richmond, Illinois. Each artist brings their own individual flavor and style and you won’t want to miss them twisting it all together

The 8 Houses: Night River

Sunday, 11/10/19, 5:00 pm

The Night River is an attempt to capture the soul of the river as she dreams at night moving from perfect stillness and quiet to urgent and turbulent flow. At the center of the ensemble alto and bass flute represent the core of her essence while the alto clarinet reveals songs that only rivers can sing at night

Mary Cherney- Flute
Cheryl Pyle- alto Flute
Nick Gianni- Bass Flute
Matt Lavelle- Alto Clarinet
Charles Waters- Bass Clarinet
Jack DeSalvo-Guitar
Chris Forbes- Piano
Tom Cabrera- Hand Drums

Black is the Colour, by and with Alwynne Pritchard and Alpaca Ensemble

Tuesday, 11/5/19, 8:00 pm

Qubit presents the renowned British experimentalist, Alwynne Pritchard, as she returns to New York this November. Performing together with the Norwegian Alpaca Ensemble, Pritchard will give the US premiere of a major new work, Black is the Colour (and I still hope).

“Over the past six years, I have developed a strong working relationship with the Alpaca Ensemble. The trio has undertaken a lot of new approaches to performance, including playing from inside supporting pulley mechanisms (designed by artist Vigdis Haugtrø and the Trøndelag orthopaedic workshop), playing from audio scores (diffused through headphones), wearing ear plugs and ear protectors during performance (to focus attention towards internally directed breathing and other exercises) and exploring touch and smell as performance initiators. And most importantly for this new project, the final piece in We, three is one in which the trio’s performance is determined by the direction of their visual focus and the function of peripheral vision on stage.” – Alwynne Pritchard

TICKETS

Dario Fariello

with Michelle Yom, Matt Mottel, Paul Feitzinger, Lucie Vitkova

Monday, 11/4/19, 8:00 pm

Dario Fariello is a saxophonist devoted to improvised music. He lived and worked in Naples, Bologna, Milan, Berlin and Oslo, founding Multiversal, a nomad festival series featuring a wide international network of improv and noise musicians. He has collaborated with: Gino Robair, Eugene Chadbourne, Butch Morris, James Brown, Calle Neumann, Tristan Honsinger, Alexei Borisov, Tomomi Adachi, Alexander Chernyshkov, Marina Poleukhina, Harri Sjöström, Steve Heather and many others. With Norbert Stammberger he organizes the yearly Tubax Festival in Munich, dedicated to the tubax saxophone, the contrabass clarinet and other special instruments manufactured by Benedikt Eppelsheim. Dario is visiting New York to take part in the Unit Structures festival dedicated to the work of Cecil Taylor, and decided to team up with some excellent local improvisers for a musical evening at Areté featuring two sets and several different constellations.

ingredients:

Dario Fariello - alto and soprillo saxes, vcv rack

Michelle Yom - flutes

Matt Mottel - keyboards

Paul Feitzinger - percussion

Lucie Vítková

MOVEMENT ON FILM

October 25th – November 6th

MOVEMENT ON FILM highlights the dialogue between the camera and body as well as celebrating embodiment, women in interdisciplinary arts, dance on film, and lineage. Featuring the work of dancer/choreographer/vocalist Janis Brenner and interdisciplinary artist Muyassar Kurdi, MOVEMENT ON FILM will present video installations by both Brenner and Kurdi, as well as original and limited edition 35mm photographic prints by Kurdi, featuring Ms. Brenner and others. On October 25th and November 6th, the artists will present performances to compliment the exhibit, as well as special screenings of “Where She Is” (2018) the experimental short by Janis Brenner and artist Bahar Behbahani as well as selections from Kurdi’s 16mm film trilogy.

Opening Reception and Performance: October 25th 7–10 PM

Gallery Hours:

Oct 25th 7–10 PM

Oct 26th 6-9 PM

Oct 28th 6-9 PM

Oct 29th 6-9 PM

*Gallery hours also available by appointment

PERFORMANCES

October 25th, 8:00 PM

Screenings of Muyassar’s 16mm film trilogy:

​A Song for Many Women ​(9m21s, 2018) is a short 16mm movement film exploring gravity, perception, and subtlety. A woman’s dance in the aftermath of war and destruction.

Field Dances (9m17s, 2019) is a short 16mm dance film ruminating on space, scale, micromovements, and anatomy.

“Where She Is” (19m39s, 2018) the experimental short by Janis Brenner and artist Bahar Behbahani

Playing continuously:

Travelling​ (10m9s, 2017) is a short 16mm movement film, a pilgrimage, a ritual: exploring gravity, vulnerability, spaces between spaces, visual rhythm, and presence.

Where She Is (2018) the experimental short by Janis Brenner and artist Bahar Behbahani

November 6th, 8:00 PM

Muyassar Kurdi’s voice/electronics duo performance with Lucie Vítková

Janis Brenner’s solo excerpts of the movement-voice-theatre work Inheritance: A Litany AND screening of “Where She Is” (19m39s, 2018) the experimental short by Janis Brenner and artist Bahar Behbahani

GREENPOINT GALLERY NIGHT
locations throughout Greenpoint
Friday, October 25, 2019 • 6-9 PM

G Train to Greenpoint Ave or Nassau Ave
www.greenpointgalleries.org
greenpointgalleries@gmail.com

We are pleased to announce the 15th edition of Greenpoint Gallery Night, a neighborhood gallery crawl spotlighting exhibition spaces and other venues that host exhibits throughout Greenpoint. Select neighborhood galleries and businesses that feature art will be participating on Friday, October 25th, from 6-9pm. Please join us in celebrating the diverse and unique art scene in this corner of Brooklyn!

Participating locations for October 25th include:

Areté • 67 West St #103

The Java Project • 252 Java St

Auxiliary Projects • 212 Norman Ave

Calico • 67 West St #203

The Yard • 33 Nassau Ave

Dusty Rose • 67 West St #216

Soft Opening • 570 Manhattan Ave

Brouwerij Lane • 78 Greenpoint Ave

Some exhibition details include: 

The opening of Movement on Film at Areté featuring the work of dancer/choreographer/vocalist Janis Brenner and interdisciplinary artist Muyassar Kurdi;  Masquerade, featuring photography, drawings, and other works by Miles Ladin at The Java Project;  paintings by Christian DeFilippo at Calico;  textile works by Frank Locke at Dusty Rose;  Greenpoint-based paintings by Greenpoint-based artist, Steve Wasterval, at Brouwerij Lane;  Paper Trail, an exhibition of sculpture and installation by painter Allison Gildersleeve at Auxiliary Projects;  ...and more to be announced!

Greenpoint Gallery Night is a grassroots neighborhood event established in 2013, organized by Scott Chase of Calico.

 Peach&Tomato The Ultimate Pairing CD Release Concert

Fung Chern Hwei’s Fungal Bloom

10/23/19, 8:00 pm

8pm Fung Chern Hwei's Fungal Bloom

-Fung Chern Hwei, violin

-Colin Hinton, drums

-Shawn Lovato, bass

9pm Peach and Tomato

-Sana Nagano, violin

-Leonor Falcon, viola

piano+ensemble

Sunday, 10/20/19, 8:00 pm

Den Haag Tribute

Germaine Sijstermans: Jasminum

Vladan Kulišić: new work

Grzegorz Marciniak: melodica duets

Assaf Gidron: Group + Teodora Stepančić: Trumpet

with LCollective

Germaine, Vladan, Grzegorz, Assaf and Teodora met at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (Netherlands). There they played, composed, drank and also lived together at the legendary Stevinstraat house. Now they still play, compose and drink together.

Piano+ is a concert series dedicated to new and recent music for piano with other instruments and media, inviting composers, performers and audiences into an intimate listening experience, a space for sharing sounds, ideas and music, for open minds and ears. Curated by composer and pianist Teodora Stepančić.

doors open 7:30pm - music starts 8pm - $15

Canvasounds

10/19/19, 8:00 pm

Canvasounds, a collective of international composers, artists, and sound designers acting as curators in the United States, will present a multi-disciplinary concert of (7) new works of music, rendered by Amalgama (www.amalgamaensemble.com), for various configurations of the ensemble, in tandem with movement, live painting, and shadow projection.

The musical component of the event features the works of Diana M. Rodriguez, Aidi Shirazi, Hesam Abedini, George Katehis, Gabriel Bouche Caro, Lee Gilbao and Stylianos Dimou.

The artists working adjancently/in antithesis with these pieces (during, in-between, and at the various peripheries of pauses, breaks, breaths) are Deniz Khateri (dance, theatre, shadow), and Maryam Khosrovani (paint). The goal of this concert, as in all of the events we curate, is an attempt at establishing a kind of polyrhythmic interdisciplinarity: drawing points of connection between the peripheries of noise and shadow, sound and light, musical performance and bodily movement. In drawing these connections, we envision a social responsibility of culture by curating a body of contemporary and experimental works by artists and composers of different backgrounds internationally as projected onto the United States.

ACUTE trio

10/19/19, 5:00 pm

Kyle Hutchins | Bera Romairone | Sara Zazo

Acute Trio is a modular saxophone trio with members Kyle Hutchins (USA), Bera Romairone (Argentina), and Sara Zazo (Spain) who met at the 2016 Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Germany. Their program will consist of new works written for them by 113 (One Thirteen) Composer’s Collective members Joey Crane, Benjamin J Mansavage Klein, Sam Krahn, Joshua Musikantow, Tiffany M. Skidmore, and Adam Zahller.

jefferykylehutchins.com

beraromairone.com

www.sarazazo.eu

113collective.com

SORA Quartet, with Emile Blondel and Shawn Barnett

10/18/2019, 7:30pm

Brooklyn-based SORA Quartet has been presenting performances of 19th, 20th and 21st century chamber music since 2015, in accessible and diverse locations including Endicott College's Summer String Music Festival, an unveiling of Jae Rhim Lee's sustainable mushroom burial suit at the Ace Hotel, and theaters and salons throughout the City. For this performance, SORA Quartet is joined by two guests — pianist Emile Blondel and violinist Shawn Barnett — for a chamber music recital that spans Romanticism, Impressionism and Modernism.

The evening’s program includes:

Piano Quartet #1 in C minor, by Gabriel Faure (1879)

Piano Trio in A minor by Maurice Ravel (1914)

“Already it is Dusk” (String Quartet No. 1) by Henryk Górecki 1990)

Cadence Fest Preview and David Haney CD Release

10/13/19, 7-9:00 pm

with Warren Benbow, Daniel Carter, Matt Lavelle, Melanie Dyer, Reggie Sylvester, Tomas Ulrich, Jorge Sylvester, Blaise Siwula, Jack DeSalvo, Adam Lane, Nora McCarthy, and David Haney.

Birth of a City: Jason Kao Hwang violin, Melanie Dyer viola, Adam Lane bass, Tomas Ulrich cello, Julian Priester trombone, Steve Swell trombone, Dave Storrs percussion, Bernard Purdie percussion

Birth of a City is in that third-stream universe that brings in aspects of classical chamber music with jazz for a more cerebral experience of musical material... Certainly an album worth exploring. Cinemusical August 2019

DAVID HANEY studied composition with Czech American composer Tomas Svoboda and piano with jazz pianist Eddie Wied. The following artists have worked and recorded with David: Roswell Rudd, Julian Priester, John Tchicai, Steve Swell, Roy Campbell, Bud Shank, Wolter Weirbos, Han Bennink, Andrew Cyrille, Bernard Purdie, Marvin Bugulu Smith, Ger-ry Hemingway, Dylan Van de Schiff, Buell Neidlinger, Dominic Duval, Adam Lane, Michael Bisio, Paul Blaney, Perry Robinson, Johannes Bauer. As a leader, Haney has over 20 albums on CIMP-USA, Cadence-USA, SLAM-UK, NoSe-So-Argentina, La Gorda-Argentina, Canada Jazz Studio-Canada.

Press:

“Mr. Haney is a pianist drawn to experimental settings, and he creates a promising one here.” The New York Times

“One of the most inventive pianists in the USA...” Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery

“a pianist whose accomplishments far outranks his public profile..” Peter Monaghan, Earshot Jazz

“...one of the very few post-Cecil Taylor pianists on record.” Nic Jones, Jazz Wise

“Pianist Haney has played inside and out, from Bud Shank to John Tchicai.” The Village Voice

“At times, Haney’s dexterity can sound like piano for four hands, or more accurately music for piano and percussion, though never in overwhelming fashion.” Laurence Donohue-Greene

Post Moves (solo pedal steel guitar) / Sandy Ewen (solo guitar) / Emilie Weibel (improv vocals)

10/13/19, 4:00 pm

Post Moves is the name for the evolving musical output by NY-based multi-instrumentalist Sam Wenc. Today's show marks the release of his latest album, "No Dignity in Haste" released by Louisville-based label Obsolete Staircases. The album is his first foray into solo guitar compositions; embodying the avant-garde hillybilly philosophies of Henry Flynt, with additional cues from the likes of Susan Alcorn, Tom Ze, and Olivier Messiaen.

Sandy Ewen is a sound artist, visual artist and architect who has recently relocated to NYC from Houston, TX. Ewen’s audio practice focuses on extended guitar techniques, improvisation, graphic scores and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her unique approach to guitar incorporates a wide array of implements – railroad spikes, sidewalk chalk, threaded bolts, steel wool and other items become an arsenal of abstraction.

Moonmoon is an improvisational ambient sound and dance performance duo. Through their use of contact mics and looping pedals, they co-create baroque visual and sonic landscapes. Emilie creates textural vocal scores in dialogue with Melodie’s movement, while Melodie uses contact mics on her body to amplify her motion - the soundscape and dance both accompanying and informing each other.

Sputterbox: Music for 8x11 Rug

10/10/19, 7:30 pm

Sputter Box presents their first premieres concert! Music for 8x11 Rug is the culmination of a true collaborative experience between performer, composer, and choreographer.

After working in collaborative composition intensives with three composers and a choreographer, Sputter Box will present a premieres concert of interdisciplinary art pieces. Kathryn Vetter (clarinet/bass clarinet), Alina Tamborini (voice), and Peter White (percussion) will perform pieces by Alan Hankers, Joe Krycia, and Christopher Lucius Newman, and choreographed by Neil Parsons. These pieces range from an exploration of a soundworld inspired by the physical act of writing to a satirical commentary on the contemporary classical music field in relation to the Millennial generation.

Tickets are $15/$10 student at the door. (Cash only)

Large Furniture

10/8/19, 8:00 pm

Large Furniture is a quartet of bass players from Brooklyn, NY (Greg Chudzik, Tristan Kasten-Krause, Evan Runyon and Pat Swoboda) that decided what the world really needed was a bass quartet. Their 2019-2020 season opener features the music of Julia Wolfe, Veronika Krausas, Robert Honstein and Larry Polansky, and since they've rehearsed it now you have to listen to it.

Program:

Robert Honstein, Alone Together (2012)

Veronika Krausas, Sillages (2013)

Larry Polansky, Movement for Lou Harrison (1976/1988)

Julia Wolfe, Stronghold (2008)

HOTEL ELEFANT: 2019 OPENING NIGHT

Friday, 9/27/19, 7:00 pm

Hotel Elefant, "one of New York's fastest rising new music outfits" (Time Out New York) opens its season on Friday, September 27, at Areté Venue & Gallery, with a program of music by Carlos Bandera and Sean Harold, selected from a recent call for scores; Patrick Castillo, Alexandra Gardner, and Kaija Saariaho (Oi kuu); and culminating in Lois V Vierk’s iconic 1989 masterpiece, Red Shift, for cello, electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion.

PROGRAM

Carlos BANDERA (b. 1993): Spirare

Patrick CASTILLO (b. 1979): The Way Things Work (2016)

Alexandra GARDNER (b. 1967): Spotted Jasper (2001)

Kaija SAARIAHO (b. 1952): Oi kuu (1990)

Sean HAROLD (b. 1984): Nachtlied (2014)

Lois V VIERK (b. 1951): Red Shift (1989)

 Ricardo Gallo solo piano

9/26/19, 9:30pm

Ricardo Gallo presents in this format compositions from his repertoire for other groups in solo-piano versions, and improvised pieces. As pianist-composer, Gallo looks to minimize the distinction between improvisation and composition. Or, in other words, to present in a distilled and direct way the creative process of his music that has been known mainly through his work with other groups and collaborations with other musicians.

$15 at the door

Sly Horizon - ‘The Anatomy of Light’ CD Release

with Briggan Krauss, saxophone

9/26/19, 7:30pm

Join SLY HORIZON on this special evening to celebrate the release of the group's first album, "The Anatomy Of Light" out on Iluso Records.

7:30 - Briggan Krauss solo saxophone performance

8:00 - Sly Horizon

Downloads/Streaming/CDs Available here:

SLY HORIZON is a brand new group founded by a trio of well-seasoned New York based creative musicians: Rick Parker (trombone, electronics, synths), Álvaro Domene (7 string electric guitar and electronics), and Jeremy Carlstedt (drums/electronics). Rick Parker’s processed trombone functions as a focal point of enthralling lyricism, while Domene’s haunting soundscapes and metallic expressions provide the playground for Carlstedt, whose approach to drumming constantly enhances the groove and forward motion of the group’s music.

BRIGGAN KRAUSS

Saxophonist Briggan Krauss has been an internationally recognized key player in New York City's downtown and creative music scene for more than twenty years. He connects the extreme edges of technique with the unexplored tonal possibilities of the instrument while making his work as much about shape as it is about his unique signature sound.

$15 at the door

Ambient Lullabies

Wednesday, 9/25/19, 7:30pm

Ambient Lullabies is a music series curated by Concetta Abbate. It showcases music around a concept rather than a genre. The series features music that falls between categories, leaves space for contemplation, meditation and reflective thoughts. It explores Music as Medicine; as a daily practice. The shows calls for a listening room. Audience is invited to bring drawing, journals, sketchbooks, painting and any silent creative work that compliments listening to music.

$20 suggested

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Charlotte Mundy, voice // Weston Olencki & Ted Moore, laptops/synths/tables //
Nick Dunston, bass/compositions Anna Webber, saxophone, Rahrah Saucy, ?!???!?!?!

Monday, 9/23/19, 8:00 pm

 ARTE VIVO

Featuring Eudy Fernandez’ E’s Sound Ensemble plus special guests

Saturday, 9/14/19, 8:00pm

Eudy Fernandez is a world-renowned Cuban Trumpet player. He has played with top Cuban bands for more than 20 years. His playing is often compared to that of the great jazz and Latin trumpet players of all time.Opening special guest Mamady Kouyate (Mandingo Ambassadors) who represents a musical tradition that stretches back hundreds of years Guinean griot, Mamady plays with a melodic virtuosity that pulls in listeners who love great guitar players.

$15 suggested donation

Catalyze EP Release Show

New Performance features Installation, Live Piano, and Meditation

Saturday, 9/14/19, 4 - 5:00 pm

Join Angelica Olstad, a classically trained pianist and founder of Pop Up Yoga NYC for an afternoon of introspection, live music, and meditation. Artist and Founder of Pop Up Yoga NYC asks audiences to find calm in the midst of chaos

Part installation piece, live performance, and featuring a meditation session, Catalyze is the live embodiment of Olstad's EP which was recorded during a music residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in January of 2019. Her artistic work focuses on creating imaginative, story-driven pieces that are deconstructed from classical repertoire and reworked into new and fully immersive experiences.

As the founder of Pop Up Yoga NYC, Olstad has been working on creating accessible yoga classes to the public since 2011. As a practitioner of yoga and meditation, she is dedicated to helping more New Yorkers find affordable opportunities to improve their happiness, health, and live more enriching lives.

Catalyze brings Olstad's two worlds together for the first time. The theme of the performance is designed to “find calm in the midst of chaos” by highlighting themes of mental health, wellness, philosophy, and neuroscience through recordings of excerpts from new and ancient texts, a soundscape of New York city sounds, a live performance from Olstad's EP, and a guided meditation from Olstad herself.

Suggested donation $12, buy tickets HERE

 Oasi Trio Presents: Post-Cortona Premieres Concert

Saturday, 9/7/19, 7:30pm

6 World Premieres

Kathryn Vetter (clarinet), Claire Niederberger (violin), and Magnus Villanueva (piano) as the Oasi Trio present six world premieres by composers Will Healy, Paul Hwang, Clark Hubbard, Chelsea Komschiles, and Diana M. Rodriguez. All composers and performers are alumni of the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Cortona, Italy. The commissioned pieces vary in instrumentation with two trios, one trio with electronics, a solo violin piece, a solo clarinet piece, and a duo for clarinet and piano. These premieres showcase diverse styles including electroacoustic elements, music paired with an olfactory experience, and genre-mixing art-pop.

$15/$10 students at the door (cash only) $12 in advance here with promo code “oasi"

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Cellista’s Transfigurations

A multimedia work & book release

9/6/19, 8:00 pm

Music by Cellista

Dance by Ransom Dance & Mojo DeVille Film accompaniment by Jennifer Gigantino Book by Cellista & Frank Seeburger

Groundbreaking experimental cellist and multimedia artist​ ​Cellista​ ​presents her new ‘Transfigurations’​ album and the release of its accompanying book ‘A Listener’s Guide to Transfigurations’ co-written with the philosopher Frank Seeburger. As a stage poem, this entails a multi-media work that includes dance, poetry, original classical compositions, noise and sound textures. The evening features post-ballet performances by Ransom Dance and Mojo DeVille.

'Transfigurations’ is a response to the world we inhabit. It is meant to allow us all, singularly and as a community, to see the ruptures that punctuate our place in the present – The ache of Oakland's Ghost Ship fire that points to greater ruptures interwoven like veins; the call to resist the deadening of our world by institutions and false power, and the violence of gentrification and displacement. Above all, for Cellista, it is a way of seeing and sharing an awareness of her own impact within this shared place.

Engineered by longtime collaborator Maryam Qudus and Grammy-winner Nahuel Bronzini, ‘Transfigurations’ features original compositions and arrangements by Cellista and other Bay area composers. The movements are composed and curated in a suite-like manner with genres ranging from thrash metal, noise, hip-hop and classical music.

The work is presented in one act with a run time of one hour.

$12 at the door

No one turned away for lack of funds.

Shoko Nagai/ Satoshi Takeishi’ s Abysm

8/27/19, 8:30 pm

Shoko Nagai (compositions, piano, electronics)/ Satoshi Takeishi(compositions, drums, prepared hammered dulcimer, modular synth)

ABYSM" is a series of compositions by New York based Satoshi Takeishi and Shoko Nagai incorporating Piano, Accordion, Percussion and several other acoustic instruments with electronics to explore the possibilities of the sound texture as well as the musical elements. Their goal is to express the "abyss" of the fundamental elements of the sound. The style of compositions includes Jazz, contemporary classical music and free improvisation. They music has been described as "almost visible to the listener.”

$15 at the door

iT Boy/Benjamin Louis Brody/Zachary Paul

8/22/19, 8:30 pm

 A night of Deep Listening with:

iT Boy

Benjamin Louis Brody

Zachary Paul

Featuring

Aimée Niemann (Violin)

Nick Lenchner (Double Bass)

$10 at the door

ABIDING DAWN Album Release Show

8/22/19, 7:00 pm

Rema Hasumi (piano, analogue synthesizer, vocal)

"Abiding Dawn," Hasumi's first solo album,
is a continuation of her improvisational work with a heavy influence by Alice Coltrane. Songs in the album were developed by finding natural shapes in initial improvisations, placing compositional frames around the raw materials, and layering a careful tapestry with her pristine piano sound, the warmth of vintage synthesizers and Hasumi's singular voice. After critically successful appearances in Japan, this will be her first public performance of the project in the U.S.,
a rare and raw musical offering for the listener.

$15 at the door

 BEN GOLDBERG/INGRID LAUBROCK + RYAN FERREIRA

8/19/19, 8:00 pm

Clarinetist Ben Goldberg and saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock present a set of improvised duets.

Opening will be master of the electric guitar Ryan Ferreira.

$15 entry at the door

 Ron Stabinsky/Shayna Dunkelman/Ava Mendoza

8/17/19, 3:00 pm

RON STABINSKY released his debut album, Free for One in June 2016, after more than a decade of the evolution of his improvised solo language. In addition to continuing to pursue this ongoing interest in solo piano improvisation, he enjoys working on music in a stylistically diverse array of situations throughout the United States and Europe with many other musicians and ensembles, including free-improvising saxophonist Jack Wright, bass trombone virtuoso David Taylor, Meat Puppets bassist Cris Kirkwood, and NEA Jazz Master David Liebman. Recent festival appearances include Newport Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Moers Festival (Germany), and Jazz and More Festival Sibiu (Romania).

Born and raised in Tokyo Japan, SHAYNA DUNKELMAN is a musician, an improviser, and a percussionist based in Brooklyn, NY. Dunkelman the founding member of theretro-future band Peptalk and played in the band Xiu Xiu for 6 years. Dunkelman’s musical activities span a wide spectrum. She has performed classical and contemporary pieces with numerous contemporary music ensembles such as the William Winant Percussion Group and the Wordless Music Orchestra, and has recorded/performed with pioneers of avant-garde experimental musicians such as John Zorn, Yoko Ono, Thurston Moore and many others.

AVA MENDOZA is a Brooklyn-based guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. Born in 1983, she started performing her own music, and as a sidewoman and collaborator in many different projects, as soon as she was old enough to get into 18+ venues. As a guitarist, Mendoza has received acclaim for her technique and viscerality. Her most ongoing work is as leader of experimental rock band Unnatural Ways, and as a solo performer on guitar/voice. In any context she is committed to bringing expressivity, energy and a wide sonic range to the music. Mendoza has toured throughout the U.S. and Europe and recorded or performed with musicians including Carla Bozulich, Fred Frith, Mick Barr, Nels Cline, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Mike Watt, Matana Roberts, Ikue Mori, Matt Mitchell, Adele Bertei, William Hooker, Jon Irabagon, members of Caroliner, the Violent Femmes, and more. Recordings are available on labels Tzadik, Weird Forest, Clean Feed, NotTwo, Resipiscent, and New Atlantis.

$15 at the door

 Shots / Melkings / Remnants

8/16/19, 8:00 pm

Shots celebrate the release of Private Hate, the group’s first full length LP. Their work aims to document and tamper with environments, impose mundane objects under meditative scrutiny, and portray anomalous situations through audio. Props, fragments of percussion, concealed microphones, and oddly employed playback devices set the stage for what could be an unknown game, a happening, an inside joke. Live and on record, a remarkably confrontational and transfixing experience. Melkings, the duo of Jim Strong and Thomas DeAngelo, will venture up from Philadelphia to show support with similar methods of conducting hardheaded forensic surveys of raw sound material created with uncommon means. A custom toolkit of invented instrumentation and salvaged junk is sure to confound. As Remnants, New York’s own Ryan Marino will treat us to to an exhibition of his high-wire tape music, excelling at the formation of fluid and visceral temporal sculptures rising well above the limitations of a loop. All the makings of a memorable night venturing into the enticing briar patch of art and sound.

$12 at the door

A Small Dream In Red 

Avant-Garde Voice and Saxophone Duo // The Art of NOW

8/15/19, 8:30 pm

The Art of NOW!

Nora McCarthy and Jorge Sylvester achieve the unique immediacy of music in abstract visual form in their duo performances, an innovative form of musical expression wherein each work reveals a self-contained world of content, form, improvisation, and - above all - balance.

A Small Dream In Red debuted at the Knitting Factory in NYC on September 10, 2001 and conducts performances and workshops worldwide.

In March, 2003, they recorded their first CD, A Small Dream In Red, a live performance captured at Cleveland State University at the Sundown Jazz Series. The CD, a compilation of original compositions and standards, garnered wonderful reviews and established them as one of the world’s most unique and innovative duos performing in this format and instrumentation. Joining them on this special performance will be world renowned visual artist, Fernando Natalici - MundoFernando

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The Pieces That Fall to Earth

Christopher Cerrone Album Release Event

8/2/19, 8:00 pm

Composer Christopher Cerrone joins forces with some of his favorite collaborators his new album "The Pieces That Fall to Earth." The disc features three lushly beautiful song cycles performed by soprano Lindsay Kesselman, vocalist Theo Bleckmann, and a chamber choir, accompanied by Wild Up under Christopher Rountree.

Theo Bleckmann will sing "The Naomi Songs" in an arrangement for piano and voice, accompanied by Timo Andres, who also wrote liner notes to the album. Rachel Lee Priday will perform Cerrone’s propulsive Violin Sonata with Andres, and percussionist Andy Meyerson of The Living Earth Show will play a solo version of Cerrone’s meditative "A Natural History of Vacant Lots." To close the hourlong show, the composer will accompany soprano Alexandra Smither in his tender song "I will learn to love a person."

"Absolutely ravishing vocal harmonies, shot through with streaks of sonic light and shadow..." – John Schaefer, New Sounds.

"The Pieces That Fall to Earth" comes out July 26 on New Amsterdam Records.

$20 entry includes a copy of the CD

 "Subtle Life Forms" (Live Electronic Improvisations)

Andrew Neumann, Tom Hamilton, Matthew Ostrowski

7/30/19, 8:00 pm

Concert will consist of three solo improvisations for electronics, concluding with a trio improvisational set.

 Daniel Meyer / Rob Cosgrove, OTHER PLASTICS, Victoria Cheah, Gleb Kanasevich

7/29/19, 7:00 pm

Daniel Meyer, Rob Cosgrove, Dominic Coles, Hunter Brown, Victoria Cheah, Gleb Kanasevich

A night of experimental music.

$15 at the door

“Trinity Vector” (for Ornette) 

Sunday 7/21/19, 4pm

World Premiere

For Alto Saxophone, Trumpet, Violin

Charles Waters (alto sax) Tom Chiu (Violin)

Matt Lavelle (trumpet)

This work “Trinity Vector” is a tribute work dedicated to late master Ornette Coleman utilizing his three principle instruments and composed using hybridized harmolodic system conceived by Coleman. The work was composed by Waters specifically for these players who all have associations with Ornette and his work. Refracted in slow motion tempos and gradual flow harmonics exploring improvisational spaces through composed chamber jazz. The work is presented as one complete set with run time from 1-2 hours.

$15 at the door

Goldfiishie

7/20/19, 8:30 pm

Goldfiishie, a Filipinx artist based in Chicago IL, is saying sayonara to the US (for now). The despedida tour, which means farewell in Tagalog, is to celebrate the good times and amazing people she's met throughout her journey here. Join us for a night of great music at Areté Venue and Gallery on 7/20/19 830-1030pm with performances from Daniel Durst and Unknown Caller. Tickets are $5 online and $8 at the door.

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 Tammy Evans Yonce + Melissa Keeling: SLIDING LIFE

7/18/19, 7:00 pm

Tammy Evans Yonce is associate professor of music at South Dakota State University and a Powell Flutes Artist. Melissa Keeling is an International Trevor James Flute Artist known for using effects pedals such as delay and looping. Both of their latest solo albums include music for flute with Glissando Headjoint, a headjoint with a sliding mechanism which radically expands the sonic and expressive possibilities of the flute. For this concert, they team up to present SLIDING LIFE, featuring premieres of new music for solo flute, flute with Glissando Headjoint, and flute with effects pedals.

Tammy Evans Yonce

Melissa Keeling

$15 entry at the door

 if.else

7/12/19, 7:30 pm

if.else is organized by flutists Philip Snyder and Jenny Davis. They are interested in finding creative space at the intersections of installation art, audience agency, musical concert, and improvisation. Their performance seeks to create a shared space of discovery by inviting visitors to create sounds with simple electronic instruments, their voices, and their phones while the duo improvises in response to the sounds of the room. Visitors to the performance space are welcome to experiment with the shared sound world by playing with the provided oscillators or by simply listening.

 Matt Nelson / Ron Stabinsky Duo

7/9/19, 7:30 pm

Matt Nelson, soprano and tenor saxophones

Ron Stabinsky, piano

After years of playing together in other larger projects, Matt Nelson (​GRID, Battle Trance, Elder Ones, Flying Luttenbachers) ​and Ron Stabinsky (Peter Evans Ensemble, MOPDtK, Meat Puppets) have finally decided to collaborate on their own. This performance is the debut of this duo, and it also represents their first time playing together in a completely acoustic setting--just two saxophones and a grand piano in an intimate setting with no effects or amplification.

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 Nick Millevoi / Ron Stabinsky Duo

7/3/19, 7:00 pm

Nick Millevoi and Ron Stabinsky play a new set of music composed by Millevoi that references American popular music from the middle of the 20th century. Leaning heavily on surf, country, and rock and roll, this guitar and organ duo reconstructs elements of those genres through a lens indebted to artists as far out as Thelonious Monk and Captain Beefheart.

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SWIR: LET LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE

6/27/19, 7:30 pm

David Taylor, Felix Del Tredici – bass trombones Kalun Leung, David Whitwell – tenor trombones

So Wrong It’s Right presents: Let Light Perpetual Shine

With works by Bartòk, Berio, Bhagwati, Faure, Globokar, Leung, Taylor, Schubert, and Schnyder

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 Either/Or Ensemble

6/18/19, 8:00pm

Winner of the 2015 CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, Either/Or is a flexible chamber ensemble based in New York City that presents a repertoire of new and recent chamber music informed equally by American Experimentalism and European avant-garde practice, with special emphasis on artists outside the institutional mainstream and on works exploring nontraditional ensemble formations.  Directors Richard Carrick (conductor/piano) and David Shively (percussion/cimbalom) curate its programming, drawing on a broader collective of 17 regular soloists (and guests) to realize the unique requirements of each project.  Since its founding in 2004, Either/Or has premiered more than 125 works (as well as dozens of student compositions), toured throughout the US and Sweden, and recorded for labels such as New Focus, New World Records, Starkland, and Sterling Classics.

On Tuesday, June 18th, Either/Or presents Interactions, a program of works that focus on essentialized forms of communication. Compositions include graphic scores by Merche Blasco (Bardenas) and Zeena Parkins (Lace Piece) , Gérard Grisey’s ecstatic Solo pour Deux for clarinet and trombone (Vasko Dukovsky and Chris McIntyre respectively), and the US Premiere of Johan Svensson’s marionette for cello (John Popham) and electro-mechanical devices.
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“The excellent New York ensemble Either/Or…gave a well-honed, riveting reading of this piece” — Alex Ross, The New Yorker

“Either/Or, an ensemble that plays by its own rules” — Allan Kozinn, The New York Times

“Either/Or, a new and first-rate new-music ensemble” — Bernard Holland, The New York Times

“Either/Or, one of the most prominent new-music ensembles in New York, opened with a hallucinatory account of Giacinto Scelsi’s “Pranam II,” a work of haunting intensity and breathy flow.” — Steve Smith, The New York Times

$15 entry at the door

In Dreams

6/16/19, 8:00pm

This program dives into the hope and discomfort of dreams, the moments when we let go and imagine a thing wouldn't name when we're awake. When we started thinking about this program, we began with Houtaf Khoury's "Apres un reve" (2008), a modern nightmare reacting to the terror of relentless war in the Middle East: a dream of hope amidst the fatigue of fear. Hasan Ucarsu's "...the city of anachronistic nostalgia, Istanbul..." (2003) celebrates his and Derin's hometown of Istanbul, a city rich in contradictions and layers. Our adaptation of Claude Debussy's "Bilitis", a collection of 12 sensual poems attributed to Sappho, dreams of desire. Finally, Michael Fiday's "Nine Haiku" (2007) is one of our favorite pieces to perform and sets works by 8th century poet Basho with flashes of powerful images, dreams that come into focus for only a moment before they vanish.

$15 entry at the door

Ken Thomson Sextet//Bearthoven

6/16/19, 5:00pm

“​Few​ ​musicians​ ​travel​ ​as​ ​assuredly and​ ​meaningfully​ ​between​ ​jazz​ ​and​ new​ ​music​ ​as saxophonist​ ​Ken​ ​Thomson​.” -​ ​Chicago​ ​Reader. Ken Thomson’s (Bang on a Can, Gutbucket, Asphalt Orchestra) Sextet performs a rare Brooklyn show featuring music written since the group’s debut CD, released Fall 2018, which was listed as Best of 2018 by Second Inversion and AnEarful, and of which WNYC writes, “they manage to create a sound much bigger and juicier than the sum of their parts” and the NYC Jazz Record calls “immensely enjoyable, thrilling.”

Bearthoven [ \'bâr-toh-vən\ ] is a piano trio creating a new repertoire for a familiar instrumentation by commissioning works from leading young composers. Karl Larson (piano), Pat Swoboda (bass), and Matt Evans (percussion) have combined their individual voices and diverse musical backgrounds, coming together to create a versatile trio focused on frequent and innovative commissioning of up-and-coming composers. Bearthoven is rapidly building a diverse repertoire by challenging composers to apply their own voice to an instrumentation that, while common amongst jazz and pop idioms, is currently foreign in the contemporary classical world.

$15 entry at the door 

Saman Samadi / Hans Tammen / Sarah Manning

6/15/19, 8:00 pm

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AZUMI OE / JOE MOFFETT / TANIA CAROLINE CHEN

6/13/19, 8:30 pm

Tania Caroline Chen and Joe Moffett create environments of sound and kinetic energy. Utilizing piano, trumpet, and a wide array of other instruments, toys, and household objects, the duo makes improvised pieces with a spirited, absurdist bent. Each performance is a new work. Each moment within a performance is a chance for something unexpected to occur.

Azumi Oe projects her body through scenes in sound and memory, these may induce a momentary reflex activity of cells and nerves on the precipice of survival.

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 Sarah Bernstein VEER Quartet

6/12/19, 8:30pm

Sarah Bernstein – violin/compositions Sana Nagano – violin
Leonor Falcón – viola
Nick Jozwiak – cello

The VEER Quartet presents compositions by Sarah Bernstein for improvising string quartet. Four inventive and soloistic musicians create a sound that cuts across jazz and chamber music to avant-free expression. With Sarah Bernstein, violin, Sana Nagano, violin, Leonor Falcón, viola, Nick Jozwiak, cello.

SARAH BERNSTEIN is a New York-based composer and violinist whose work incorporates vocals, electronics, improvisation and original text. She is known for her fiery multidisciplinary performances, and has garnered international acclaim for her distinctive recordings. She leads bands, performs solo, and collaborates with numerous artists in avant-jazz, chamber music, experimental pop and noise. Nominated "Rising Star" in the DownBeat Critics Poll for the past four years, Bernstein is a recognized innovator in forward-thinking jazz. Her approach merges post-tonal and polyrhythmic melody with sonic exploration and raw emotion. In addition to live performance, Bernstein's music is featured on radio programs, podcasts, and film scores. Her poetry has been published by Red Ceilings Press and Sensitive Skin Magazine. She is originally from San Francisco, CA. http://sarahbernstein.com

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 Gallo<>Flórez Duo: Algo Más Melódico CD Release Party

6/12/19, 7:00pm

Ricardo Gallo, piano

Alejandro Flórez, tiple and bandola

In this new release by Gallo<>Flórez the clear allusions to Colombian Andean musical folklore from the previous album are artfully shrouded by layers of rhythmic and harmonic richness, rendering the music more expansive and visceral. Lyricism is present throughout, whether in the angular twists of Emisarios or Algo Más Melódico, the colorful and irregular phrases of Hermetismo (inspired by Hermeto Pascoal's similarly virtuosic melodies and harmonies), the unlikely, dystopian soundscape of Acueducto or their heartfelt rendition of Andrew Hill's Nefertiti, the only cover of the album, which ironically reminds the listener of the primary influences of the duo. This is a mature effort by a team of composers/improvisers who move effortlessly in the worlds of jazz, contemporary and South American music, creating an intriguing and enchanting aesthetic.

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 One-Eleven Heavy: Album Release Event

6/11/19, 7:00pm

Composer Matt Frey celebrates the release of his conceptual operatic EP album, One-Eleven Heavy, about the 1998 plane crash of Swissair Flight 111.  Please join us at 7:00pm Tuesday, June 11th 2019 for a listen-through of the album accompanied by refreshments, conversation with the artists, and live music from soprano Jenny Ribeiro and Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman.

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 Piano+ #15

6/9/19, 8:30pm

piano+electronics -new works by Laura Cetilia, Eugene Kim, Young Eun Kim, Matt Lau and Cecilie Arditto

Piano+ is a concert series dedicated to new and recent music for piano with other instruments and media.An intimate listening experience, a space for sharing sounds, a place for open minds and ears. Curated by composer and pianist Teodora Stepančić

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Teodora Stepančić, Douglas Farrand, Jesse Greenberg, Assaf Gidron, Matt Lau, Laura Cetilia, Mark Cetilia

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Shepherdess

6/9/19, 6:00pm

Shepherdess is a duo based in New York City, featuring violinist, Hajnal Pivnick, and mezzo soprano, Kayleigh Butcher. Hajnal and Kayleigh are both contemporary classical performers dedicated to commissioning and disseminating new works by living American composers. For this concert, Shepherdess will be showcasing a few new works from NYC based composers Lester St. Louis and Mary Prescott as well as some pieces by Bethany Younge, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Annika Sokolofsky, Luis Amaya, and more!

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Desdemona

6/7/19, 8:00pm

Desdemona is a New York City-based ensemble devoted to creating unique and inventive performances. Founded by Adrianne Munden-Dixon (violin), Carrie Frey (viola), Julia Henderson (cello), and Margarita Rovenskaya (piano), the group presents repertoire spanning from the Renaissance to world premieres in a variety of formations, from duos to piano and string quartets. Described by the New Yorker as an “excellent young quartet,” Desdemona has performed at Spectrum, 1 Rivington, Cornelia Street Café, the CUNY Graduate Center, Princeton's Unruly Sounds Festival, as well as at numerous home gatherings through Groupmuse.

-de fortune by Peter Kramer

-Do You Hear Me Now? by Finola Merivale (partial premiere)

-In a Snowstorm of Moths by Gemma Peacocke

-Collide-oscope II by Anthony R. Green (premiere)

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 Sly Horizon - ‘The Anatomy of Light’ CD Release

**POSTPONED!**

6/6/19, 9:00pm

SLY HORIZON is a brand new group founded by a trio of well-seasoned New York based creative musicians: Rick Parker (trombone, electronics, synths), Álvaro Domene (7 string electric guitar and electronics), and Jeremy Carlstedt (drums/electronics). 

Rick Parker’s processed trombone functions as a focal point of enthralling lyricism, while Domene’s haunting soundscapes and metallic expressions provide the playground for Carlstedt, whose approach to drumming constantly enhances the groove and forward motion of the group’s music. 

Their ear-grabbing improvisational music, without any trace of artistic compromise, has the potential to appeal to a broad range of listeners, including adventurous jazz fans, open-minded metal listeners and devotees of ambient and electronic music. 

SLY HORIZON creates an ever-expanding sonic universe that, while finding inspiration in many sources, ultimately exists in a space all its own. 

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Jay Vilnai - Thorns All Over Release Party

6/6/19, 7:00pm

Composer Jay Vilnai celebrates his new album “Thorns All Over”, contemporary murder ballads penned by poet Rachel Abramowitz, with acoustic performances and tracks from the album. Mezzo Augusta Caso will perform Vilnai’s “There’s a Bluebird in My Heart” for voice and tape, based on the poetry of Charles Bukowski, with new video art by artist Bill Mazza.

"Count this as one of this year’s most haunting and strangest records... In fact, it could be the most lurid, Lynchian indie classical album ever made. "

-New York Music Daily

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 Urs Leimgruber / Hans Tammen / Shoko Nagai / Satoshi Takeishi: Music From Silence

6/4/19, 8:00pm

Swiss saxophonist Urs Leimgruber, currently touring the US, has advanced into one of the most masterful representatives of a form of European music that is delicately sophisticated and often quite abstract. Together with Hans Tammen, Shoko Nagai and Satoshi Takeishi the quartet allows much space for the expression of the quiet – a sort of contemplative essence perfectly suited for Arete’s sonic habitat.

Urs Leimgruber - reeds
Hans Tammen - Buchla Shoko Nagai - piano
Satoshi Takeishi - percussion

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 big dog little dog Album Release Show

with Special Guest Travis LaPlante

6/3/19, 7:00pm

Join big dog little dog (composer/violinist Jessie Montgomery and bassist/composer Eleonore Oppenheim) for the release of their debut album on New Amsterdam Records. 

big dog little dog is the mild-melding duo project of violinist/composer Jessie Montgomery and bassist/composer Eleonore Oppenheim. Their music has been described many ways, but perhaps the most apt so far has been “post-minimalist groove americana.” The pair use an improvisational composition technique that draws on many genres and their experience as native New Yorkers to create lush, cinematic soundscapes that are by turns sweeping and achingly intimate. Saxophonist and composer Travis LaPlante (Battle Trance) will open with a special solo set.

http://travislaplante.com/

www.bigdoglittledog.band

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 CALLING ALL CREATIVE LAUNCH EVENT

6/1/19, 5-9 pm

Connecting creatives of all disciplines. The launch of a movement that will change the way creators interact.

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CAC LAUNCH EVENT - Meet the Performers

You're invited to join us as we celebrate the launch of our network, CALLING ALL CREATIVE.

You won't want to miss this event as we kick off the movement that will empower all kinds of artists, enable industry professionals to access a carefully selected pool of talent for sourcing staff, and connect creators in both the digital world and in person.With our website acting as a complete multi-genre artist roster, directing traffic to the sites of our team of creators, and our live events bringing together a wide array of artists and creative minds, our organization is perfect for anybody looking to network, discover new upcoming artists, and catalyze new passion and collaborative projects.Boasting past performance venues such as Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall, our musical performers take their classical training and love for modern influences and combine them to deliver a sound that is innovative and accessible. Our setlist redefines what it means to be a vocalist. Beautiful, moving lyrics dance over authentic instrumentals and impressive production that makes the listener eager for more.

Performances by:

• Bianka Alaina

• Javarr

• Skyler Cocco

Visual Art Exhibition by:

• Heyhagan

• Zola Arts

Hosted by:

• CC

 Ricardo Gallo solo piano

5/30/19, 9:00pm

Ricardo Gallo presents in this format compositions from his repertoire for other groups in solo-piano versions, and improvised pieces.

As pianist-composer, Gallo looks to minimize the distinction between improvisation and composition. Or, in other words, to present in a distilled and direct way the creative process of his music that has been known mainly through his work with other groups and collaborations with other musicians.

$15 entry at the door

 Collide-O-Scope Music Presents:

Music By: Margaret Schedel, Christopher Bailey and Pauline Oliveros

5/30/19, 7:30pm

Harvest Kitchen 2 is a work for 4 speaker pairs (8 total, but this evening compressed into 4 speakers). The 4 pairs are treated somewhat like ensembles in a polyensemble composition like those of Ives or Carter. On one side, a speaker-pair features march rhythms, vocal sounds, instrumental "musical" sounds; on the other side are arpeggiated mountain-skyscraper-chords, gritty earthy noisy sounds, and in back are underwater, harmonically filtered materials. The front pair features carefully sculpted gestures of concrète sounds, as well as commentary on the materials in the other 3 pairs. The piece was composed from 2010-2016. Over the past couple of years, I have worked with Augustus Arnone on "creative mastering" of the piece, applying compression and EQ to the many layers of the piece, bringing out some hitherto hidden and unheard sound characters.

Teach Yourself to Fly

Dedicated to Amelia Earhart

Any number of persons sit in a circle facing the center. Illuminate the space with dim blue light. Begin by simply observing your own breathing. Always be an observer. Gradually allow your breathing to become audible. Then gradually introduce your voice. Allow your vocal cords to vibrate in any mode which occurs naturally. Allow the intensity of the vibrations to increase very slowly. Continue as long as possible, naturally, and until all others are quiet, always observing you own breath cycle. Variation: translate voice to an instrument.

Lou Bunk, prepared guitar/sounds, Molly Hess, movement

$15 entry at the door