THE FESTIVAL OF NEW TRUMPET MUSIC was founded in 2003 by Roy Campbell, Jr. and Dave Douglas. The amazing diversity of new compositions for trumpet inspired Mr. Campbell and Mr. Douglas to create FONT. Jon Nelson has joined FONT for 2004 to curate post-classical and other related repertoire.
FONT was created to bring together new music performers and audiences, to provide a unique forum for presenting diverse musical styles under one banner. The Festival introduces artists and audiences to musical styles they may not have sought out previously, and encourages them to consider new possibilities for merging genres and dispensing with such distinctions altogether.
Venue
Sol Goldman Theatre, 14th Street Y
344 East 14th Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenues
$10
AUGUST 9
8:00 PM – nmperign with Greg Kelley and Bob Rainey
Since the late 1990s, the unlikely trumpet/soprano saxophone duo nmperign has adeptly sidestepped the novelty of extended techniques, the illusions of “free” improvisation, and the trappings of the “new,” defining and redefining a particularly idiosyncratic sound world. In the process, they have released a number of recordings, travelled far and wide, and collaborated with musicians and artists from the variously defined and undefined strata of noise, experimental, and contemporary classical musics.
9:30 PM – Nabate Isles’ Synergy
Nabate Isles-Trumpet & Flugelhorn, Gamiel Lyons-Flute, Liberty Ellman-Guitar, Marcus Gilmore-Drums, Tyshawn Sorley-Drums. Synergy brings a mix of diverse musical styles with melodic clarity and rhythmic intensity.
AUGUST 10
8:00 PM – The Ingrid Jensen Four with Ingrid Jensen, Scott Robinson, Gary Versace, and Victor Lewis performing original music by Jensen and newly arranged “standards” and collective take-offs.
9:30 PM – Jesse Neuman with Nate Wooley
AUGUST 11
8pm – Dave Ballou
9:30 PM – John McNeil.
CD release concert celebrating he release of Mr. McNeil’s new recording on Omnitone, Sleep Won’t Come.
AUGUST 12
8:00 PM – Stephen Haynes and Bugaboo
With Stephen Haymes, Allan Jaffe, Mario Pavone and Satoshi Takeishi. Bugaboo was convened by improvising composer Stephen Haynes in order to further develop his compositional language within a rhythm-based small group context. Selections from the American Songbook (e.g. Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Johnny Cash) will also be explored. Stephen Haynes has worked with a wide range of composers including George Russell, La Monte Young, Leroy Jenkins and Rhys Chatham and is currently a member of Cecil Taylor’s Orchestra Humane (Ubuntu).
9:30 PM – Taylor Ho Bynum
AUGUST 13
8:00 PM – Russ Johnson and Save Big
With Russ Johnson, John O’Gallagher, Kermit Driscoll and Mark Ferber. CD Release concert celebrating Mr. Johnson’s new recording on Omnitone.
9:30 PM – ShulmanSystem Trio
With Matt Shulman on trumpet, voice, sound processing, Ryan Berg on acoustic bass and Jason Wildman on drums and percussion. Matt Shulman’s original compositions draw from European classical music, traditional jazz, and experimental electronica, featuring his multi-dimensional virtuosic approach to the trumpet and improvisation.
AUGUST 14
7:00 PM – Brian McWhorter.
8:00 PM – Jonathan Finlayson.
9:30 PM – Mark Gould/Brian McWhorter – Pink Baby Monster: a unique hybrid of rap, opera, and improvisation.
AUGUST 15
7:00pm – Solo Trumpet and… I
Gareth Flowers, Laurie Frink, Dave Ballou, Ed Carrol, Scott McIntosh, Wayne DuMaine, Brian McWhorter, Britton Theurer, Jon Nelson, Kenneth DeCarlo, and others perform original compositions and works by Peter Maxwell Davies, Laurie Frink, J.S. Bach, Vincent Persichetti and Morton Feldman.
AUGUST 16
7:00pm – Solo Trumpet and… II
Gareth Flowers, Laurie Frink, Dave Ballou, Ed Carrol, Scott McIntosh, Wayne DuMaine, Brian McWhorter, Britton Theurer, Jon Nelson, Kenneth DeCarlo, and others perform original compositions and works by James Mobberly, Britton Theurer, Dave Ballou and Emil Harnas 2.
The 2ND ANNUAL HOWL! FESTIVAL
AUGUST 18
A Few Thousand Things
An interactive improvisation by Edwin Torres
participation = wordification = anticipation = musification = actification = beautification = whoification = youification
Torres fearlessly dares convention and consumption as he leads performers and the audience through the thrills of interactive improvisation or i.i.®
Featuring Elizabeth Castagna as the timekeeper, Miguel Frasconi on glass instruments, Latasha Natasha Diggs on electronic vocals, Okkyung Lee on cello, and performers Gina Bonati, Brian Kim Stefans, Kendall P. Pigg, Thad Rutkowski, Boni Joi, Aaron Kiely and you, the audience.
AUGUST 19
ALAN LICHT – LOREN MAZZACANE CONNORS – SHELLEY HIRSCH – AKI ONDA
Duos
Alan Licht and Loren MazzaCane Connors have been performing improvised guitar duos since 1993 and have released four albums so far.
Aki Onda and Shelley Hirsch are musicical performers who share a fascination with the subject and object of memory.
AUGUST 22
KENNY WOLLESEN MARCHING BAND
Tompkins Square Park
AUGUST 23
THE GREAT LEARNING
Paragraph 2
The point where to rest being known, then the object of pursuit is then determined and that being determined, a calm unperturbedness may be attained to. To that calmness there will succeed a tranquil repose in that repose there may be careful deliberation, and that deliberation will be followed by the attainment (of the desired end).
For the 2004 HOWL Festival, ISSUE Project Room will be presenting a interpretation of seminal British avant-garde composer Cornelius Cardew’s 1969 experimental music piece The Great Learning from Paragraph Two. Highly influenced by Confucian philosophy, Paragraph Two is an utterly exhilarating, significant opus written for percussion and voice, at which the mass choir of voices and rhythmic drumming create a hair-raising cadence.
The Great Learning is based on the first seven paragraphs of the Da Xue (or the Ta Hseuh), written by Confucius and his pupils between the fifth and second centuries B.C. and translated by the poet Ezra Pound. Cardew dedicated The Great Learning to the Scratch Orchestra (a London-based ensemble he helped to found) whose members included professional and student musicians, actors, dancers, and people with no previous experience of the arts.
Jim Pugliese, a percussionist who has worked with artists such as Phillip Glass and John Zorn, will be the Musical Director of the performance.
Vocalists asked to participate include: Joan LaBarbara, Eric Mingus, Mary Cleere Haran, Rebecca Moore, Marc Anthony Thompson, Shelley Hirsch, Allyssa Lamb, Liz Bougatsos, Fay Victor, Jonathan Bepler and more…
Percussionists to perform include: Jim Black, Tim Barnes, Kenny Wollesen, Gerald Cleaver, Susie Ibarra, Roberto Rodriquez, Raz Mesinai, Christine Bard, Dougie Bowne and more…