Darmstadt presents: Essential Repertoire
Darmstadt “Classics of the Avant Garde” music series is proud to announce its first-ever multi-performance curation at ISSUE Project Room from October 22 through the 26th. Entitled “Essential Repertoire,” its six performances are an initial attempt to accumulate a unique and expanding collection of cherished experimental music: from the New York School through the Minimalists, European approaches, and a number of electronic practices, alongside music’s connectivity to art, performance, and multimedia. Darmstadt’s curators encourage vivid interpretations of their favorite avant-garde works from the city’s liveliest composers and musicians.
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
Ne(x)twork Ensemble performs music of the New York School
John Cage: Variations II (1962)
Earle Brown: selections from Folio (1953-54)
Morton Feldman: Extensions 1 (1951), Projection One (1962)
Christian Wolff: selections from Exercises (1973-)
Ne(x)tworks
Joan La Barbara - voice
Shelley Burgon - harp
Miguel Frasconi - glass/electronics
Ariana Kim - violin
Chris McIntyre - trombone/electronics
Cornelius Dufallo - director
Special guests:
Anthony Coleman - piano
Alex Waterman - cello
Ne(x)tworks is a collaborative ensemble of musicians creating and interpreting work that features a dynamic relationship between composition and improvisation. In performance and recordings, the group locates pathways into various types of notation systems and interfaces, striving for a meaningful dialogue with the past, present, and future of creative music. Formed in 2002 in New York City, Ne(x)tworks advances the tradition of the ‘performing composer’ ensemble by frequently presenting full programs of compositions created by its members. The group’s repertoire also extends beyond its ranks to encompass the open scores of New York School composers, work by the their European counterparts, further experiments by the composer performers of the AACM and SoHo Scene of the 1970’s, the so-called Downtown composers of the 80’s, and commissioned works by like-minded contemporary colleagues.
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