February celebrates the individuality of instrumentation with a week of horns, percussion, string and voice. Suzanne Fiol curates in collaboration with 4 musicians; Chris McIntyre: A Week of Horns, Billy Martin: A Week of Percussion, Zach Layton: A Week of Strings, Sarah Ibrahim: A Week of Voice.
Now in its ninth year, Darmstadt's annual birthday concert has become a time-honored tradition. Terry Riley's 1964 masterwork is performed by new music legends including Joan La Barbara, Matana Roberts, Elliott Sharp, Joshua Rubin, Conrad Harris, Pauline Kim Harris, and members of So Percussion and Iktus percussion.
Iktus Percussion perform Karlheinz Stockhausen's 1975 music-theatre work Musik Im Bauch for six percussionists, at the Naumberg Bandshell in Central Park. Preceding the Stockhausen, New York Virtuoso Singers, directed by Harold Rosenbaum perform Danish choral composers.
Iktus Percussion performs works for amplified triangle and 100 metronomes, among other instruments, by Ron Ford, Michel Van der Aa, Hugo Morales Murguia, Yannis Kyriakides, and Gyorgy Ligeti. Ensemble MAE will return to perform work by other composers, including Robert Ashley's "in memoriam ... Esteban Gomez."
Darmstadt presents Zeelab (Jacob Adler & Ilona Kubiaczyk) with the Iktus Percussion Quartet. The evening will feature music by Philip Glass, Tom Johnson, Jacob Adler, Morton Feldman, and Mauricio Kagel; and special guests Taka Kigawa, piano, and Christa Van Alstine, bass clarinet.
Darmstadt “Classics of the Avant Garde” presents its third annual week of Essential Repertoire at ISSUE Project Room, an adoration and exploration of the experimental tradition in classical music.
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge (1955-56), in four-channel version prepared by Columbia's Computer Music Center, Kontakte (1958-60), and Mikrophonie (1964-65). Including a pre-concert recorded lecture (from 1960) by Stockhausen on his approach to electronic music.