Avant Music News

04/14 @ 8pm – Andrea Parkins with Ches Smith and Peter Evans
Andrea Parkins (objects, electronics, electric accordion) Ches Smith (percussion, electronics) Peter Evans (trumpet) Andrea Parkins is a sound artist, composer and electro multi-instrumentalist who also makes/arranges objects, images and (sometimes) words. Known for her dynamic timberal explorations on the electric accordion and inventive use of generative sound processing, Andrea has appeared on more than 40 recordings on labels [...]

04/15 @ 8pm – People Like Us presents “Genre Collage” + Aki Onda + DJ KEN FREEDMAN of WFMU!
Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett has been an influential figure in the field of audio visual collage, through her innovative sampling, appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives. Using collage as her main form of expression, she creates audio recordings, films and radio shows that communicate a humorous, dark and often surreal [...]

Ensemble Dal Niente presents a spring concert focused around the idea of the concerto, featuring ensemble members Andy Nogal and J. Austin Wulliman and MusicNow soloist Amy Briggs. The concert includes world premiers by Kirsten Broberg and Rob Keeley as well as pieces by Lee Hyla, Magnus Lindberg and György Ligeti.

Concerto Concert – Sunday, May 2, 7:30pm – $15/5
Nichols Concert Hall

1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston, IL

Ensemble Dal Niente’s Concerto Concert is a celebration of both composers and performers, featuring soloists Amy Briggs, Andy Nogal, and J. Austin Wulliman. MusicNow pianist Amy Briggs performs solo works by New York Philharmonic composer-in-residence Magnus Lindberg and György Ligeti; oboe soloist Andy Nogal gives the world premier of Rob Keeley’s Concerto for Oboe and Nine Solo Strings. tinted sky, a new composition for violin and small ensemble by ensemble founder Kirsten Broberg, will also receive its world premier, featuring violin soloist J. Austin Wulliman. The concert will conclude with Northwestern Professor Lee Hyla’s tightly structured Pre-Pulse Suspended for chamber ensemble.

Friday, April 30, 2010
Christopher DeLaurenti: Phonopolis & Flap-o-Phone Nocturnes

Christopher DeLaurenti is maker of the notorious “Favorite Intermissions” album released by NY-based label GD Stereo, DeLaurenti presents field recordings that capture unusual confluences of sound, speech, music and “found soundscapes,” accidental field recordings, and inadvertent intersections of audio glitches, improvisation and recording technology.

He also plays the flap-o-phone, a hand-cranked turntable made of cardboard, improvising with vintage performances by Igor Stravinsky and radio transmissions embedded on 78 rpm records. This is the first New York solo appearance of this Seattle-based sound artist since 2001.

The Stone
corner of avenue C and 2nd street, Manhattan
Subway: F, V to Lower East Side-Second Ave
8 pm – sharp!
$10 ($5 for students)