Upcoming Events

The first night of composer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter’s two-night residency features his band WAKE UP! following a set including Carter with guest musicians Laurie Hockman, Margo Grib, Claire de Brunner, Marianne Giosa, Rebecca Schmoyer, Taylor Cannizzaro, Ken Silverman, Pete Drungle, and Tom Zlabinger.

Pianist and electronic musician Rod Williams will be joined by his new ensemble Options: Mark Helias (bass), Bruce Cox (percussion), Ray Spiegel (tabla), and special guests Neel Murgai (sitar) and Aditi Bhagwat (Kathak dance). Rod Williams began in the jazz world, but now composes mainly for multimedia.

This concert marks the release of Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet second album, Air Supply. They describe their music as “musical settings for common environments and domestic situations,” and almost all of their source material is taken from field recording made around Lescalleet’s house.

Juraj Kojs curates a night where seven composers/performers introduce their approach to extending, hybridizing and abstracting principles of instrumental design in a multimodal musical performance. With Spencer Topel, Jorge Variego, Juraj Kojs, Sarah O’Halloran, Margaret Schedel, Chikashi Miyama, and Paula Matthusen.

Rupture: Material Landscape consists of a single video channel, presenting a moving image piece originating from treated and processed 16mm film. Accompanying the moving image presentation, Garet prepares an aleatoric sonic system based on sounds recorded from processed and modified audiocassette tapes.

Program includes: Tom Johnson, An Hour For Piano (1971) and Philip Glass, Knee Plays from Einstein on the Beach (1976). Line-up includes: Joseph Kubera (piano); Mary Rowell (violin, arrangements); Geoff Burleson and Joseph Kubera (organs); Eve Beglarian and Ekmeles vocal ensemble (voices).

The S.E.M. Ensemble demonstrates Stockhausen's role and influence in music of the late 50s and 60s, via the performance of three works from the early periods of John Cage, Christian Wolff and Petr Kotik.

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.