Avant Music News

Kronos Quartet (Friday) As part of Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the annual festival of free concerts in the center’s public spaces, the Kronos Quartet is joining forces with the 14 musicians in Gamelan Galak Tika (a group directed by Evan Ziporyn, the clarinetist in the Bang on a Can All-Stars) for a program of works by Steve Reich, Café Tacuba and Christine Southworth. Ms. Southwork’s piece, “Super Collider,” was written for the Kronos and the Gamelan Elektrika — a virtual instrument built around the sounds of an ancient Asian gamelan (basically, a percussion orchestra), but with access to a library of electronic effects. At 7:30, Damrosch Park Bandshell, Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center Plaza, at 62nd Street , lincolncenter.org; free. (Allan Kozinn)

The Stone (Saturday, Sunday and Thursday) This no-frills East Village new-music laboratory continues to present a mix of contemporary classical music and improvisation this month, all of it programmed by the composers and bandleaders Annie Gosfield and Roger Kleier, who both play in Mr. Kleier’s rowdy improvising band El Pocho Loco on Saturday. Other highlights this week include a solo recital by the violinist Cornelius Dufallo on Sunday and a double bill featuring the pianists Jenny Lin and Sylvie Courvoisier on Thursday. Times vary; the Stone, Avenue C and Second Street, East Village , thestonenyc.com; $10. (Smith)

? Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music (Friday through Monday) The annual Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood has long been a prestigious showcase for contemporary music. This summer the composers Gunther Schuller, Oliver Knussen and John Harbison are co-directors. The talented young performers of the Tanglewood Music Institute can be counted on to meet the demands of this concentrated festival. The series continues with concerts on Friday and Saturday afternoons, Sunday morning and Sunday evening (an ambitious pairing of short operas: Mr. Harbison’s “Full Moon in March” and Mr. Knussen’s “Where the Wild Things Are”). The festival concludes on Monday night with the TMC Orchestra in works by Jacob Druckman, Colin Matthews, Elliott Carter and Copland (Symphony No. 3). Friday and Saturday at 2:30 p.m.; Sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.; Monday at 8:00 p.m., Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, Lenox, Mass. , (888) 266-1200, bso.org; tickets from $11 (lawn seats) to $51. (Tommasini)

Tim Berne’s Los Totopos (Tuesday) Mr. Berne, an alto saxophonist and composer with a taste for coarsely layered frictions, leads his new working band Los Totopos, with Matt Mitchell on piano, Oscar Noriega on clarinets and Ches Smith on drums. The group focuses not only on sharp and convoluted new music by Mr. Berne, but also on some rather obscure material written more than 30 years ago by his former mentor, the saxophonist and composer Julius Hemphill. At 9:30 p.m., Korzo, 667 Fifth Avenue, at 20th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn , (718) 285-9425, myspace.com/konceptions; $5 suggested donation. (Nate Chinen)

Evolving Music & Voice (Monday) This weekly series, an off-season production of the Vision Festival, features two sets with the tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby, including a duo improvisation with the drummer Gibran Andrade, at 10 p.m. Earlier, at 9, Mr. Malaby appears in These Arches, a band led by the drummer Ches Smith and featuring Andrea Parkins on accordion and Mary Halvorson on guitar. Before that, at 8, the vocalist Fay Victor joins the multireedist Oscar Noriega, the drummer Satoshi Takeshi and the bassist Ken Filiano in a group they’re calling “undetermined. destination.” Local 269, 269 East Houston Street at Suffolk, Lower East Side , myspace.com/rucmanyc; $10 per set, $15 for two sets, $20 for the night; $3 off for students (Nate Chinen)

Marc Ribot (Wednesday and Thursday) Mr. Ribot, the guitar-playing polymath with a recorded history both subtle and scabrous, sets up in a small room that has recently served him well. His partners for this two-night stand are the bassist and singer Meshell Ndegeocello, the vocalist Marc Anthony Thompson (aka Chocolate Genius) and the drummer Deantoni Parks. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Rose Live Music, 345 Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn , (718) 599-0069, roselivemusic.com; $15 cover. (Nate Chinen)

Kevin Tkacz and Lethal Objection (Tuesday) The bassist Kevin Tkacz (pronounced tax) features his own compositions in this adventurous ensemble, with Ralph Alessi on trumpet, Angelica Sanchez on piano and Tom Rainey on drums. At 7 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn , (347) 422-0248, barbesbrooklyn.com; suggested donation, $10. (Nate Chinen)

Trio 3 with Geri Allen (Tuesday through Thursday) Never mind the redundancy in the title or that this avant-garde collective actually works here as a quartet. The alto saxophonist Oliver Lake, the bassist Reggie Workman and the drummer Andrew Cyrille are battle-ready teammates; they stand only to gain from the addition of the pianist Geri Allen, as they recently proved on an album called “At This Time” (Intakt). (Through Aug. 21.) At 8:30 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton , (212) 581-3080, birdlandjazz.com; cover, $30 and $40, with a $10 minimum. (Nate Chinen)