Coming in Early 2010 from EMF Productions

December 7, 2009 — Mike

From New York’s EMF Productions:

Iannis Xenakis:
Composer, Architect, Visionary
October, 2009—March, 2010

Electronic Music Foundation and other organizations in New York present a series of extraordinary events showcasing the visionary interdisciplinary practices of this revolutionary composer/architect.

In collaboration with Goethe Institute NYC
Unsound Festival
February 2—10, 2010

A first for New York City, Unsound NY will showcase European experimental and electronic music, as well as related visual arts, including the Warhol Series. Details coming soon.

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A Quintet at the Stone Includes a Laptop

December 7, 2009 — Mike

From NYTimes.com, a review of Peter Evans‘ quintet:

The laptop — used Thursday night at the Stone in the quintet’s second gig ever — was manipulated by Sam Pluta. He built on the musicians’ lines by delaying them for a second (a canonlike effect) or a hair’s breadth (a kind of close-echo rockabilly reverb effect). He isolated and digitally looped clarion phrases from the pianist Carlos Homs and the bassist Chris Tordini, and he took the hectic parts of the music — the pops and sizzles in swing rhythm made by the drummer Kassa Overall or Mr. Evans’s upward scale rips and tremolos — and ran them through a sound blender. He made the loud parts juddering and the soft parts misty.

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Respect Sextet and Ethan Iverson coming to Le Poisson Rouge

December 7, 2009 — Mike

From NY’s Le Poisson Rouge:

FORMED IN 2001, The Respect Sextet is a powerhouse ensemble dedicated to performing a wide variety of improvisational musics. Relying on their explosive energy, rare telepathy, outstanding musicianship, and a deep friendship, Respect pieces together free improvisations, original compositions, free jazz classics, television commercial jingles, text pieces, jazz standards, game pieces and more into “a whirling collage,” shouts Exclaim! Magazine, “that ransacks and reshapes the entire jazz tradition, from New Orleans march to Misha Mengelberg, Sun Ra to Charlie Parker.” Named “one of the best and most ambitious new ensembles in jazz” by Signal to Noise.

Respect returns to LPR’s stage on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 to present a set of exciting original music. Opening the show will be the innovative pianist Ethan Iverson (of The Bad Plus), playing a set of “cocktail music” on solo piano.

Tickets: $10 (Advance tickets available at http://lepoissonrouge.inticketing.com/events/62254)
Doors: 9:30pm Show time: 10:00pm
http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/795

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All About Jazz Reviews

December 7, 2009 — Mike

From All About Jazz:

Uwe Oberg / Christof Thewes / Michael Griener
Lacy Pool (Hatology)

Joe Morris
Colorfield (ESP Disk)

Phillip Johnston
Page of Madness (Asynchronous)

Aram Shelton’s Fast Citizens
Two Cities (Delmark Records)

David Sylvian
David Sylvian: Manafon (SamadhiSound)

Jason Adasiewicz
Varmint

Donny McCaslin
Declaration (Sunnyside Records)

Minamo
Kuroi Kawa – Black River (Tzadik)

The Gordon Grdina Trio
. . . If Accident Will (Plunge Records)

John Hebert
Byzantine Monkey (Firehouse 12 Records)

Slivovitz
Hubris (Moonjune Records)

Ed Palermo Big Band
Eddy Loves Frank (Cuneiform Records)

Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6
Dulcet Crush (Hatology)

Duck Baker
Everything That Rises Must Converge (Mighty Quinn Productions)
Reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav Tadic
Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav Tadic: Live in Zagreb

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This Week in LA

December 7, 2009 — Mike

From Los Angeles New Music:

Chamber Music of the American Avant-Garde
December 7, 2009 from 7pm to 10pm – Donald R. Wright Auditorium Pasadena Central Library

Modernist classics, including Edgard Varese’s Octandre and Charles Ives’s Unanswered Question, are paired with exciting new works by contemporary Californian composers.

Cost: Free Organized by Pasadena Creative Music Fall Concert Series | Type: performance

Sciarrino’s Perfection
December 7, 2009 from 8pm to 10pm – Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School $25 General, $10 Student

From the Monday Evening Concerts Website: The flute, one of man’s first instruments, appropriately animates this concert of music that is utterly modern yet seemingly a…

Organized by Monday Evening Concerts | Type: performance

December 10 Thursday

WIG OUT !!!! Get Your Dickens On! A Victorian Holiday Ball!

December 10, 2009 from 6pm to 7pm – Bordello

This time , we have a full band! Alan Myers- drum Shin Kawasaki- guitar Keiko Agena – dancing druming screaming Natsuki – dance roboting screaming plus the special guests from We Float/ Addicted2…

Organized by Jean Natalia | Type: performance

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Music and More Reviews

December 7, 2009 — Mike

From Music and More:

Sunday, December 06, 2009
Digital Primitives – Hum, Crackle and Pop (Hopscotch, 2009)

Saturday, December 05, 2009
Mike Reed’s People, Places and Things – About Us (482 Music, 2009)

Thursday, December 03, 2009
Chad Taylor – Circle Down (482 Music, 2009)

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In Brooklyn, Yesterday’s Avant-Garde as Today’s Durable Works

December 7, 2009 — Mike

From NYTimes.com, a review of recent Darmstadt shows.

Precious little linked most of the composers who participated in New Music, New York, a nine-evening concert series presented by the Kitchen in June 1979. Then located in SoHo, the Kitchen was a home for a wide range of musical doings: Fluxus happenings, the nascent Minimalism of Philip Glass and Steve Reich, experiments by rock refugees like Robert Fripp and performance artists in the process of defining themselves.

What New Music, New York provided for its disparate participants was a sense of unity and purpose, a rallying cry that proposed that the creative urges expressed at the Kitchen were worthy of the attention paid to “uptown” composers — modernists like Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt — and worthy of critical evaluation and financial patronage too.

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