Avant Music News

From New York’s Stone:

2/1 Sunday
8 pm
Lil’ Dusty (Pete Nolan)
Pete Nolan
Lil Dusty (Pete Nolan of Magik Markers, Spectre Folk et al) performing Minimal synth moves, beats and a watery sci-fi atmosphere that seems to take off from Edgar Froese circa Aqua/Epsilon In Malaysian Pale cut up with Halloween/80s slasher style sonics, weird vocal mutterings, F/X-soaked rhymes and spaced new age melodies.

10 pm
Axolotl
Karl Bauer

2/3 Tuesday
10 pm
Zach Layton and Brian Chase
Zach Layton (electronics) Brian Chase (drums) Special guests

2/4 Wednesday
8 pm
Hoichi The Earless
Jesse Blum (trumpet) Marcel Blum (electronis, turntables) Jerrold Kavanagh (drums)

2/5 Thursday (JC)
8 pm
Chris Forsyth with Nate Wooley
Chris Forsyth (guitar) Nate Wooley (trumpet)
Peeesseye guitarist and omnipresent trumpeter meet to sort out the details.

10 pm
Twi—The Humble Feather
Anthony Lebron, Hektor Fontanez, Bryan Doring (acoustic guitar)

2/6 Friday
8 pm
Tunde Adebimpe and Ryan Sawyer
Tunde Adebimpe (voice) Ryan Sawyer (drums)

2/7 Saturday (RK)
8 and 10 pm
Chris Schlarb’s “Twilight & Ghost Stories”
Tom Abbs (acoustic bass, dijeridoo) Diane Cluck (voice, acoustic guitar) G. Lucas Crane (tapes, electronics) Shannon Fields (omnichord, glockenspiel, clarinet) Sebastian Krueger (voice, clarinet, bass) Mick Rossi (piano) Chris Schlarb (acoustic guitar, percussion, lightbox) Chad Taylor (drums) Katherine Young (bassoon, accordion) Additional guests TBD
Twilight & Ghost Stories is a dense 40-minute modern composition featuring a disparate cross section of musicians from the avant garde, independent folk, jazz and electronic communities. Concentrating on fragments of memory, texture, melody and rhythm, the piece is conducted using a custom built lightbox and a unique ensemble of musicians that includes members of the Philip Glass Ensemble, Stars Like Fleas, Inlets, Triptych Myth and Vanishing Voice.

2/8 Sunday
8 pm
‘and/OAR’ label showcase
John Hudak, Sawako, Billy Gomberg

10 pm
‘and/OAR’ label showcase
Olivia Block with Adam Sonderberg, Kenneth Kirschner with Asher

2/10 Tuesday
8 pm
Jon Natchez and Kelly Pratt
Jon Natchez (brass, woodwinds) Kelly Pratt (brass) Stuart Bogie (woodwinds) Ryan Sawyer (drums) TBA (drums)

8 pm
Fence Kitchen
Tim Harbeson (pump organ, cornet, objects found and made, light and shade)

2/11 Wednesday (GG)
8 pm
True Primes
Che Chen and Rolyn Hu (all instruments and voices)

10 pm
Amolvacy
Sheila 16, Nathaniel Amolvacy, Christian Amolvacy (instruments, voices)
Aaron Moore (Volcano the Bear), Dave Nuss (No Neck Blues Band) and Sheila Donovan (Laboratory Theater) perform measured pieces and improvised works. “Be careful!” Our hearts are not of stone; they play there. “Shhhh!” Amolvacy performs a night of musical chairs with percussion.

2/12 Thursday
8 pm
Charles Waters and Concertimento Orchestra
Charles Waters (woodwinds) Ensemble TBA
Charles Waters and Concertimento Orchestra perform New Works. Details soon…http://www.concertimento.blogspot.com

10 pm
Ben Vida with Matt Bauder and Jason Ajemian
Ben Vida (synthesizer, voice) Matt Bauder (sax) Jason Ajemian (bass)

2/13 Friday
8 pm
Lexie Mountain Boys
Lexie Mountain, Sam Garner, Amy Waller, Amy Harmon, Katherine Hill

10 pm
Megafaun
Joe Westerlund, Brad Cook, Phil Cook

2/14 Saturday
8 and 10 pm
John Zorn‘s ANNUAL VALENTINE’S DAY IMPROV NIGHT—A Stone Benefit
John Zorn (sax) Shannon Fields (guitar) Lance Grabmiller (electronics) Jon Natchez (trumpet, sax) Matt Lavelle (bass clarinet, trumpet) Laura Ortman (violin) Shayna Dulberger (bass) Ikue Mori (electronics) Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) Cyro Baptista (percussion) Special surprise guests!

2/15 Sunday (JM)
8 pm
Matt Lavelle—The manifestation drama part 3
Matt Lavelle (bass clarinet, trumpet) Lance Grabmiller (laptop) Laura Ortman (violin) Dan Levin (cello) Shelley Burgon (harp) Shayna Dulberger (bass) Shannon Fields (electronics) Others TBA

10 pm
Ashley Paul
Ashley Paul (saxophone, voice, green box, amplification) Sakiko Mori (keyboards, amplification)

2/17 Tuesday
8 pm
Nick Hallett
Nick Hallett (voice, piano)
A recital of original art songs and covers by Cornelius Cardew, Brian Eno, Meredith Monk, Arthur Russell and others.

10 pm
Ryan Ingebritsen
Ryan Ingebritsen (electronics) Andrew Barker (drums) TBA (piano)
Reperameterization2 for Piano and live electronics–Drums and samples–Solo Improvisation.

2/18 Wednesday
8 pm
Ecstatic Sunshine
Matt Papich (guitar) Dustin Wong (guitar)

2/19 Thursday
8 pm
CORRIDORS
Byron Westbrook (multichannel audio and video)

10 pm
Gene Park and Ryan Smith
Gene Park (viola, electronics) Ryan Smith (piano, electronics)
Electro-acoustic works by Gene Park (10pm) Ryan Smith (10:30).

2/20 Friday (CW)
8 pm
A Sacred Harp Community Sing
Sacred Harp community sing (based on the tradition of the music, this will be a participatory event…details forthcoming).

10 pm
Sam Amidon
Sam Amidon (voice)
Performing acapella—dancing, songs, comics, maybe videos!

2/21 Saturday (SK)
8 pm
Tristan Perich
Tristan Perich (electronics)
Compositions in 1-bit: Treating pulses of electricity the same as vibrating violin strings, these compositions for unamplified acoustic ensemble with hand-built and programmed 1-bit electronics skirt around the foundations of digital sound.

10 pm
Christopher Willits
Christopher Willits (guitar, electronics)

2/22 Sunday
8 pm
Alfred Brown
Fred Brown (loops, electric guitar, tape, turntable, laptop, various prepared acoustic instruments)
Brown stacks layers of sonic textures; blocks of sound placed next to and on top of each other using loops, electric guitar, prepared tape, turntable, laptop and various sound processors and small acoustic instruments. The result is a subtle structure of coherent noise that sparkles in the sun and sways in the breeze. Constructed live.

10 pm
Scott Mou
Scott Mou (eletronics)

2/24 Tuesday
8 pm
ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble)
featuring Peter Evans (trumpet) Dave Reminick (sax) Cory Smythe (piano) and Nathan Davis (electronics)

10 pm
Tuple | bassoon duo
Rachael Elliott, Lynn Hileman (bassoon)
Music for one and two bassoons by Elliott Carter, Michael Daugherty, Dennis DeSantis, Sofia Gubaidulina and Chiel Meijering.

2/25 Wednesday (CB)
8 pm
Richard Chartier
Richard Chartier (electronics)

10 pm
Miguel Frasconi
Miguel Frasconi (glass objects, electronics, keyboards, “de-evolved” instruments)

2/26 Thursday
8 pm
Duane Pitre
Duane Pitre (violin, bowed guitar) and ensemble
Pitre’s newest ensemble performing his compositions.

10 pm
Mountains
Koen Holtkamp, Brendon Anderegg (electronics, instruments)

2/27 Friday
8 pm
Amit Pitaru
Amit Pitaru (performed installation)

10 pm
Jeff Snyder’s exclusiveOr & Draftmasters
Jeff Snyder’s exclusiveOr (with Sam Pluta) at 10pm & Draftmasters (with Victor Adan) at 10:30pm.

2/28 Saturday (NYYT)
8 pm
Echoes Still Singing Limbs
Nick Kuepfer, Nader Hasan, Kristina Koropecki, Aidan Jeffery and sometimes Ian Llavsky and Nathan Ward

10 pm
Capillary Action
Jonathan Pfeffer (vocals, guitar) Dan Sutherland (drums, percussion) Spencer Russell (bass, vocals) Lauren Day (accordion, vocals) Sam Kulik (trombone, percussion, vocals)