Avant Music News

ELLIOTT SHARP / JOHN EDWARDS / JOHN BUTCHER / TONY MARSH
FRI 4 FEB ’11 • 8PM • £6 adv. / £8 on the door

ALEX WARD (SOLO) +
JOHN COXON / MARK SANDERS / PAT THOMAS (TRIO) +
EVAN PARKER / DOMINIC LASH (DUO)
SATURDAY 5 FEB ’11 • 8PM • £6 / £4 (concs) on the door only

THE LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA +
‘SINGULAR COLLECTIVE’ FILM SCREENING
SUN 6 FEB ’11 • 7.30PM • £6 / £4 concs

HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS
MON 7 FEB ’11 • 7.30PM • £7 advance tickets

SHACKLE
THURS 10 FEB ’11 • 8PM • £5 / £4 (concs)

CINC (KEN VANDERMARK / PHILIPP WACHSMANN / PAUL LYTTON) + GUESTS: JOHN TILBURY & JOHN RUSSELL
SUN 13 FEB ’11 • 8PM • £8 adv. / £10 on the door
w/ John Tilbury (piano)
MON 14 FEB ’11 • 8PM • £8 adv. / £10 on the door
w/ John Russell (guitar)

PHILL NIBLOCK
THURS 17 FEB ’11 • 8PM • £8 / £10 on the door

Friday, February 4, 8pm (sharp)
ACID BIRDS
Jaime Fennelly, harmonium + electronics; Charles Waters, alto saxophone + bass clarinet; and Andrew Barker, drums
+ PLANET Y
Yanni Papadopoulos, dg-20 Casio digital guitar; and Charles Cohen, Buchla Music Easel
Kung Fu Necktie, 1248 North Front Street
$8 General Admission

Acid Birds is an exciting trio fusing free jazz, noise and drone that, as Zach Lytton writes, “falls somewhere between Anthony Braxton and Cornelius Cardew.” Charles Waters and Andrew Barker are members of the Gold Sparkle Band and have worked with William Parker’s Little Huey Music Orchestra, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and John Zorn. Jaime Fennelly, best known for his work with Peeesseye, performs solo under the name Mind Over Mirrors, and is also a member of Phantom Limb & Bison. Opening will be a very rare performance from Planet Y, a duo with Philadelphia-based musicians Charles Cohen and Yanni Papadopoulos of Stinking Lizaveta.

http://www.arsnovaworkshop.com/events/acid-birds-02-04-2011

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Sunday, February 13, 8pm
RHYS CHATHAM’S BRASS TRIO
Rhys Chatham, trumpet/electronics; David Daniell, guitar; Ryan Sawyer, drums
+ CHRIS FORSYTH
Chris Forsyth, guitar; Don Bruno, organ

International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street
$12 General Admission

Ars Nova Workshop presents the Philadelphia debut of innovative American avant-composer and multi-instrumentalist Rhys Chatham’s new trumpet project. Chatham has reached legendary status in experimental music circles, best known for remarkable symphonies written for hundreds of guitars. Beginning as a classically trained prodigy, by 1975 Chatham was fusing the overtone-drenched minimalism of John Cale and Tony Conrad with the relentless, elemental fury of The Ramones. It was an inspired amalgamation, and with it Chatham created a new type of urban music. For his new Brass Trio, he deploys extended playing techniques inherited from the glory days of Free Jazz trumpeters such as Don Cherry and Bill Dixon. His stellar ensemble features guitarist David Daniell (Fennesz, Douglas McCombs, Thurston Moore) and drummer Ryan Sawyer (Josephine Foster, TV on the Radio, Jandek). Philadelphia-based guitarist and Peeesseye co-founder Chris Forsyth, who is celebrating his birthday tonight, provides an opening set.

http://www.arsnovaworkshop.com/events/rhys-chatham-brass-trio-02-13-2011

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Ars Nova Workshop recommends:

Sunday, February 6, 2pm
MEREDITH MONK
Education of the Girlchild Revisited
Bryn Mawr College
ARS NOVA WORKSHOP DISCOUNT | $2 OFF TICKETS

Composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, music theater works, films and installations, Meredith Monk will be in residency at Bryn Mawr College from January 31-February 6. On Sunday, February 6, Monk’s residency will end in a performance of “Education of the Girlchild Revisited,” which includes Monk’s solo from “Education of the Girlchild: an opera” which was originally performed in 1972.

Monk revived her solo for the 2008 American Dance Festival, and once again shares her exquisite voice and renowned presence in an inimitable performance of this legendary work. A pioneer in what is now called “extended vocal technique” and “interdisciplinary performance,” Monk creates works that thrive at the intersection of music and movement, image and object, light and sound in an effort to discover and weave together new modes of perception. “Education of the Girlchild Revisited” also includes “Shards,” a performance by Monk and three members of Vocal Ensemble, with music, images and movement from that time period.

Ars Nova enews members are offered a $2 discount on tickets to the February 6th performance. To get the discounted tickets, members must call Bryn Mawr College at 610-526-5210. The discount is only good for phone orders in advance of the show. More information about her performance and residency can be found at http://www.brynmawr.edu/arts/pas/monk.html

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Thursday, February 17, 8pm
WILLIAM HOOKER’S TWO SIDES OF NOW
+ VERTEX
The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street
Free Admission

Tuesday, February 22, 8pm
CELESTIAL SEPTET (ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET + NELS CLINE SINGERS)
International House, 3701 Chestnut Street
$12 General Admission

Wednesday, February 23, 8pm
ANAT FORT TRIO
Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th Street
$12 General Admission