January 2012

Gaudeamus Muziekweek NY

Iktus Percussion + Ensemble MAE

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."

Gaudeamus Muziekweek NY

Yannis Kyriakides Composer Portrait

Yannis Kyriakides, winner of the Gaudeamus prize in 2000 for his piece conSPIracy cantata, is currently based in Amsterdam. Ensemble MAE will join with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) to perform a number of works by Kyriakides, as well as other Dutch composers Peter Adriaansz and Michel Van der Aa.

Gaudeamus Muziekweek NY

Wouter Snoei + Matthew Ostrowski + R WE WHO R WE

January 26 will feature Dutch electronic musician Wouter Snoei, an authority on 192-channel “wave-field” synthesis techniques. NY-based electronic artist Matthew Ostrowski will also perform, as well as the duo R WE WHO R WE, a collaboration between New York composer-performers Philip White & Ted Hearne.

Gaudeamus Muziekweek NY

Wet Ink Ensemble

Composer-performance collective Wet Ink Ensemble kicks off Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York with the U.S. premiere of 2011 Gaudeamus Prize-winner Yoshi Onishi's "Départ dans..." Wet Ink will also play works by Ted Hearne, Chris Trapani and Richard Barrett along with works by Wet Ink members Alex Mincek and Kate Soper.

Join us for a farewell to the Old American Can Factory! ISSUE Project Room is moving permanently to Downtown Brooklyn, and closing the Can Factory ane celebrating the release of Jonathan Kane’s February Live at ISSUE Project Room. With Talibam!, Jonathan Kane's February, and MV Carbon with Tony Conrad.

Floating Points Residencies

a canary torsi: Five Performers Demonstrate a Field

a canary torsi's Five Performers Demonstrate a Field is an investigation of how movement in a particular room affects a simple sound environment: specifically through Hemisphere speakers in the sanctum of the Old American Can Factory in Brooklyn. Choreographed by Yanira Castro, with music by Benjamin Bernstein.