In partnership with Make Music New York and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Darmstadt presents a performance of Louis Andreissen's "Hoketus," performed on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange by Yarn/Wire, a unique instrumental combination of two percussionists and two pianists.
The Belgian / Dutch electric guitar quartet ZWERM (Johannes Westendorp, Bruno Nelissen, Matthias Koole, Toon Callier) present: TIMESTRETCH featuring music by Larry Polansky, Hans Roels, Guy De Bièvre, James Tenney, and Philip Glass.
Trumpet player and 2011 Artist-in-Residence Nate Wooley will premiere "Atemwende" by Yugoslavian born composer Bojan Vuletic, in a performance with the MIVOS string quartet. Following this premiere performance, Nate Wooley & Peter Evans will celebrate the release of their new amplified trumpet duo record.
Since 2007, New York performance-duo John Moran...and his neighbor, Saori have created a quiet sensation among presenters across European touring-circuits.
Members of TILT Brass perform a wide range of rarely heard chamber works for brass, percussion and electronics by European and NYC-based composers, including the New York premiere of Herakles 2 by acclaimed German composer Heiner Goebbels, as well as works by Richard Barrett, Peter Zummo and Chris McIntyre.
The DownTown Ensemble performs sound/text pieces by Robert Ashley, Daniel Goode, Richard Kostelanetz, Jackson Mac Low and Anne Tardos. Featured performers include Bill Hellermann, and downtown stalwarts Peter Zummo, Alex Waterman, Andrew Bolotowsky, and Daniel Goode. Songs by David Garland round out the evening.
Red Light New Music presents a concert of music by Earle Brown, Bruno Maderna, and premieres by Scott Wollschleger and Vincent Raikhel. The ensemble, started in 2004, presents repertoire of composers rarely performed, as well as their own music. Joined by composer/multi-instrumentalist Mario Diaz de Loen.
Terre Thaemlitz's "Soulnessless" is composed from an openly non-spiritual and anti-religious perspective that sees atheism not as a solution or alternative to religious organizing, but as an act of self-defense entwined with the hopelessnes of life amidst an unstoppable onslaught of spiritual dogma and superstition.
In celebration of his eightieth birthday, the Darmstadt Festival is proud to present a program of works and re-workings by composer Larry Austin.
Wet Ink Ensemble plays new works by Eric Wubbels, George Lewis, and Kate Soper, as well as Rick Burkhardt’s Alban and Alex Mincek’s Nucleus. Founded in 1998, Wet Ink has presented over 80 concerts featuring a wide range of artists, both established and emerging.
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.
Pianist Thollem McDonas's extensive travels as a performer have covered much of the North American continent and Europe. His musical experiences are extremely diverse and his ever expanding variety of approaches to music making result in dramatically new and different outcomes.
In Alvin Lucier’s Queen of the South, performed here by the ensembles loadbang and Pygmy Jerboa, a metal plate is put into motion by amplified voices, such that sand on the plate forms into beautiful designs. The duo On Structure perform "Strange Song Cycle".
Darmstadt Institute is pleased to present the NYC Premiere of the documentary “Knots and Fields” by British artists Andrew Chesher and David Ryan. Since 2008, the filmmakers have intensely worked with interview and archive material on their film about the Darmstadt Summer Course.