This year’s festival celebrates the 30th anniversary of the seminal New Music New York concerts curated by Rhys Chatham and held at The Kitchen (then on Mercer Street), which put the still-burgeoning Downtown Scene – at the crossroads of minimalism, interdisciplinary performance, and various strains of post-punk – under a mainstream spotlight and redefined the presentation of experimental music.
DARMSTADT’s cross-section of composers involved in the original festival includes “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Connie Beckley, David van Tieghem, Jill Kroesen, Jon Gibson, Ned Sublette, Peter Gordon, Peter Zummo, Petr Kotik, Phill Niblock, and a performance of Meredith Monk’s Dolmen Music by the M6. Invited composers have been asked to present compositions of theirs from the 1970s, if not the actual pieces presented at the original Kitchen concerts. The festival will be held from December 3 through 5 at ISSUE Project Room. All concerts begin at 8pm. Tickets will be $20 at the door/$15 advance (available online at http://www.issueprojectroom.org or for cash purchase at Other Music.)
Friday, December 4 at 8pm
Meredith Monk – Dolmen Music (1979); Performed by the M6: Meredith Monk Music Third Generation
Jon Gibson – Criss Cross (1979) and other works; Performed by the composer
Phill Niblock – “Four Arthurs” (1978) superimposed with “Two Octaves and a Fifth” (1975); performed by the composer with Leslie Ross (bassoon) and Christa Robinson (oboe)
For more information on Meredith Monk, visit: http://www.meredithmonk.org/monk/index.html
For more information on the M6: Meredith Monk Music Third Generation, visit: http://www.m6ensemble.com/
For more information on Jon Gibson, visit: http://www.jongibson.net/Bio.html
For more information on Phill Niblock, visit: http://www.phillniblock.com/biography_photos_images.html