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From New York’s ISSUE Project Room:

03/27 @ 8pm – Izzi Ramkissoon Izzi Ramkissoon is an award-winning electronic multimedia composer, performer, and sound artist. His laptop and bass are the control center of his sound.   As a composer his multimedia composition Sub-ter-ain Frequencies 5.1 won the prestigious 2007 Look & Listen Festival 1st place Composition Prize (NYC), and will be on tour throughout the U.S apart [...]

03/27 @ 9pm – New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival The second New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival presents composers, performers, and media artists from the US and abroad in three days of experimental sound art and multimedia, March 25-28 at the CUNY Graduate Center, Galapagos Arts Space, and Issue Project Room. NYCEMF will showcase over 120 new works and installations, representing the fascinating and wide range [...]

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From New York’s RUCMA:

March 29
7PM – Golda Solomon / Nick Parrot Duo
Golda Solomon – Poetry
Nick Parrot – Bass
8PM – Pierre Joris / Nicole Peyrafitte / Michael Bisio Trio
Pierre Joris – Poetry
Nicole Peyrafitte – Vocals & Poetry
Michael Bisio – Bass
9PM – Ingrid Laubrock / Mary Halvorson / Tom Rainey
Ingrid Laubrock – Saxes
Mary Halvorson – Guitar
Tom Rainey – Drums
10PM – Bizingas
Kirk Knuffke – Trumpet
Brian Drye – Trombone
Jonathan Goldberger – Guitar
Ches Smith – Drums

April 5
7PM – MazzMuse Solo
Mazz Swift – Vocals & Violin
8PM – E.J. Antonio / Christopher Dean Sullivan / Michael TA Thompson
E.J. Antonio – Poetry
Christopher Dean Sullivan – Bass
Michael T.A. Thompson – Drums
9PM – Eyal Maoz‘s Edom
Eyal Maoz – Guitar
Brian Marsella – Keys
Shanir Blumenkranz – Bass
Yuval Lion – Drums
10PM – Amanda Monaco’s Deathblow
Michael Attias – Alto & Baritone sax
Amanda Monaco – Guitar
Sean Conly – Bass
Satoshi Takeishi – Drums

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The strangely-named Cupcake festival, which takes place next week in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is previewed:

Some of the world’s most celebrated improv musicians will gather here Monday for the third Electro-Acoustic Cupcake Festival. Performing are Shelley Hirsch, Tim Hodgkinson, Thomas Lehn and Roger Turner, as well as Chattanooga transplant Evan Lipson and the Shaking Ray Levi Society, the Chattanooga duo presenting the concert.

From Improvised Communications:

Firehouse 12 launches its fifth annual Spring Jazz Series tonight with a two-set performance by Caliente! Circle Around The Sun, a duo featuring Puerto Rican performance poet Magdalena Gómez and Chinese-American saxophonist/composer Fred Ho.

The 2010 Spring Jazz Series will continue to present concerts every Friday night though June 11th in Firehouse 12’s intimate, acoustically engineered recording studio, which the New York Times‘ Nate Chinen called “the pre-eminent spot for improvised music in the region.”

2010 Spring Jazz Series Schedule:

03/26 :: Caliente! Circle Around the Sun
04/02 :: Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures Sextet
04/09 :: Myra Melford’s Happy Whistlings
04/16 :: Playdate
04/23 :: Armen Donelian Quintet
04/30 :: Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up
05/07 :: Dan Weiss Trio
05/14 :: Marcus Strickland Trio
05/21 :: Jean-Michel Pilc Trio
05/28 :: Fay Victor Ensemble
06/04 :: Peter Madsen Trio
06/11 :: Myron Walden Momentum

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From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:

March 25, 2010
Walter-Golia-Lane, Issue Project Room
Vinny Golia, Adam Lane, Weasel Walter

March 22, 2010
ExPosed Blues Duo, The Local 269
Anders Nilsson, Fay Victor
Tony Malaby Cello Quartet, The Local 269
Devin Hoff, Daniel Levin, Tony Malaby, Ches Smith
Tony Malaby Novela Octet conducted by Kris Davis, The Local 269
Michael Attias, Joachim Badenhorst, Kris Davis, Ben Gerstein, Andrew Hadro, Flin Van Hemmen, Tony Malaby, Dan Peck, Kenny Warren

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From AllAboutJazz.com:

The Department of Music at The University of California, Berkeley, today announced two special fundraiser events for the Jazz and Improvised Music Fund (JIM). The first event on Friday, April 23 at UC Berkeley’s Hertz Hall will feature The Contemporary Improvisation Ensemble (CIE) comprised of UC Berkeley students, alumni and guests directed by Myra Melford followed by a performance by Trio M with Mark Dresser, Myra Melford and Matt Wilson.

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From NYTimes.com:

EVOLVING VOICE/EVOLVING MUSIC (Monday) The headliner on this edition of the experimental music series, appearing at 10 p.m., is Bizingas, a quartet with Kirk Knuffke on trumpet, Brian Drye on trombone, Jonathan Goldberger on guitar and Ches Smith on drums. Preceding them at 9 is an improvising trio composed of the saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, the guitarist Mary Halvorson and the drummer Tom Rainey. Earlier sets will feature poets — Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte at 8, Golda Solomon at 7 — each backed by a bassist. Local 269, 269 East Houston Street, at Suffolk Street, Lower East Side , (212) 228-9874, myspace.com/rucmanyc; $10 per set; $15 for two sets; $20 for the night; students, $7 per set; $12 for two. (Chinen)

PHAROAH SANDERS (Saturday) The tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, one of the most significant survivors of 1960s free jazz, has never stopped imbuing his performances with the tone of a spiritual quest. His appearance here, on a concert that also includes the poet Louis Reyes Rivera and the Yoruba-inspired group Omi Yesa, is part of the Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival. At 8 p.m., Boys and Girls High School Auditorium, 1700 Fulton Street, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn , (718) 773-2252, cbjcjazz.org; $35. (Chinen)

TODD SICKAFOOSE’S TINY RESISTORS (Wednesday) As a bassist, Mr. Sickafoose builds grooves from the ground up, but that’s no impediment to the buoyancy of his music. “Tiny Resistors” (Cryptogramophone), his most recent album, features a number of tunes in which horn parts and guitar lines swirl around a calmly asymmetrical pulse; among his partners here are the violinist Jenny Scheinman, the saxophonist John Ellis and the trombonist Alan Ferber. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan , (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net; $20. (Chinen)

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