Avant Music News

From Los Angeles New Music:

ResBox
April 15, 2010 from 8pm to 11pm – Steve Allen Theater
From the ResBox Facebook event page: Hi All! Come out and join us in the ResBox on tax day for another cool lineup of live music sets at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood…

Jacaranda: Magic Realism
April 17, 2010 from 8pm to 10pm – First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica
From the Jacaranda event page: Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No. 5 “La Popular” (1931) Heitor Villa-Lobos Jet Whistle (1950) Osvaldo Golijov Lullaby and Doina (2001) Astor Piazzolla Little Urchin…

In The Dark
April 19, 2010 from 8pm to 10pm – Neighborhood Church Pasadena
From the Monday Evening Concerts Website: “This piece must be performed in complete darkness. No music stand lamps and no emergency lighting. The instrumentalists are positioned in the four corners o…

In The Dark
April 20, 2010 from 8pm to 10pm – Neighborhood Church Pasadena
From the Monday Evening Concerts Website: This piece must be performed in complete darkness. No music stand lamps and no emergency lighting. The instrumentalists are positioned in the four corners of…

The California E.A.R. Unit with Sonic Boom: Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music
April 20, 2010 from 8:30pm to 11:30pm – REDCAT
From REDCAT’s event page: Ulrich Krieger’s latest electroacoustic version of Lou Reed’s audacious 1975 double-LP guitar feedback epic is the occasion for this expertly rendered hour-plus of clangorou…

from the dorf to the hood
April 22, 2010 from 7:30pm to 9pm – Goethe Institut-Los Angeles
Los Angeles native William Roper–tubaist, composer and veteran of the Los Angeles contemporary music scene performs a program of some of his recent compositions. The concert, produced by Cornelius Sc…

Shadow Language Electric Guitar Quartet w/New West Guitar Group
April 22, 2010 from 8pm to 11pm – Electric Lodge
From the Facebook event page: or our second gig, we’re bringing it to the west side for a show with our friends The New West Guitar Group. The Shadow Language Electric Guitar Quartet is a contemporar…

Quartertuned +
April 24, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm – Steinway Piano Gallery
From the Microfest event page: Solo and duo works for retuned piano and keyboard performed by Aron Kallay with Grace Zhao. Music of Alves, Corigliano, Gosfield, Grady, Harrington, and Ives. $15 Donat…

From Philly’s Bowerbird:

April 22th (thursday)

David Brick – Troy Herion
Pascal Battus – Jack Wright – Michael Johnsen
Leah Stein – Toshi Makihara
@ Community Education Center
3500 Lancaster Ave
321 S. 4th Street
8pm; $10, $8 in advance

KINETIC LISTENING OF HEARD MOVEMENT
When we think about music we naturally focus on the sound and what we can hear. And likewise with dance we think most about what we can see. But these designations – hearing sound, seeing movement – defy the true experience we have when we observing these performances. Don’t the musician’s bodies inhabit the space? Aren’t many sounds the result of some kind of movement? Do we close our ears when we watch dance? We understand that certain disciplines are stronger in one medium over another – but can we learn new things if we stretch beyond these normal constructs and hear the movement or watch the sound?

Join us for an exploration into the blurry edges of music and dance, the physicality of sound and the sonic possibilities of movement. French musician Pascal Battus will be joined by two Americans – Saxophonist Jack Wright and Pittsburgh’s Michael Johnsen – for a kinetic but dancer less trio; percussionist Toshi Makihara and dancer / choreographer Leah Stein will finally make their long awaited duo appearance; plus a debut performance of composer and improviser Troy Herion’s duo with dancer, choreographer, and Headlong co-artistic director David Brick.

From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:

April 12, 2010
Marc Ribot Trio, Rose Live
Henry Grimes, Marc Ribot, Chad Taylor

April 07, 2010
HNK Trio, The Stone
Wayne Horvitz, Briggan Krauss, Le Quan Ninh