The Stone in March

New York’s Stone promises a hot March.

March 2008 at the Stone curated by Elliott Sharp

3/1 Saturday (DB)
8 pm
Melvin Gibbs Solo
Melvin Gibbs (bass)

10 pm
FLUX Quartet
Tom Chiu, Conrad Harris (violins) Max Mandel (viola) Ha-Yang Kim (cello)
In addition to string quartets by John Cage and Elliott Sharp, FLUX will break down to solo, duo and trio formats and present rare gems from the avant string repertoire. The Flux includes Tom Chiu and Conrad Harris, Max Mandel and Ha-Yang Kim.

3/2 Sunday
8 pm
Marc Sloan Solo
Marc Sloan (basses, waterharp, sampler/tapes/devices, voice, electronic alterations, sledge)
Marc Sloan will play electro/acoustic guitars testing the viscosity of air.

http://www.treesofnerveendings.com

10 pm
John Richey and Lunar
John Richey (vocals) and members of his ensemble Lunar

3/4 Tuesday
8 pm
Marianne Nowottny
Marianne Nowottny (vocals, keyboards, guitar, percussion)
Singer/songwriter Marianne Nowottny performs this evening with her All

American Band, featuring Mark Dagley on guitar and Stirling Krusing on bass.

Expect tense, off kilter avant-pop, oscillating electronic motifs and dark

laid-bare vocals.

10 pm
Out Tents
Zachary Pruitt (guitar) Daniel Rovin (saxophone) Austin White (bass) Anders Zelinski (drums)
Out Tents featuring Zachary Pruitt, Daniel Rovin, Austin White, Anders Zelinski.

Local NYC Avant-Garde Rock Band

3/5 Wednesday (CB)
8 pm
Miya Masaoka and William Parker
Miya Masaoka (koto) William Parker (bass)

10 pm
R. Luke DuBois and Lesley Flanigan: Bioluminescence
Luke du Bois (electronics) Lesley Flanigan
Improvised vocal layers in electronics, from the

sublime to the insane.

3/6 Thursday (CB)
8 pm
Jin Hi Kim – Double Komungo Plus
Jin Hi Kim (komungo/electric komungo) Yoon-Jeong Heo (komungo/ajeng) Robert Dick (flutes)

10 pm
Ned Rothenberg with Alex Waterman, Mary Halvorsen and Peter Evans
Ned Rothenberg (reeds) Peter Evans (trumpet) Alex Waterman (cello) Mary Halvorsen (guitar)

3/7 Friday
8 pm
Tracie Morris
Tracie Morris (poetry)

10 pm
Bobby Previte’s New Bump
Bobby Previte (drums) Bill Ware (vibes) Brad Jones (bass) Ellery Eskelin (sax)
Playing music from their new CD “Set the Alarm for Monday”

3/8 Saturday (HHC)
8 and 10 pm
John Zorn Improv Night—A Stone Benefit
John Zorn (sax) Elliott Sharp (guitar) and many special guests
Come out and support The Stone! TWENTY DOLLARS

3/9 Sunday
8 pm
Wu Fei
Wu Fei (guzheng)

10 pm
Magnus Andersson Solo
Magnus Andersson (classical guitar)

3/11 Tuesday (SBTD)
8 and 10 pm
Frances-Marie Uitti and Marc Ribot duo
Frances-Marie Uitti (cello) Marc Ribot (guitar)

3/12 Wednesday (GG)
8 pm
Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher (electronics)
A new piece for laptop including sounds of basketball games, played through an expanded sound system.

10 pm
Tom CHIU Solo
Tom Chiu (violin)
CHIU initial public offering is up for private sale. Special guests TBA

3/13 Thursday (MF)
8 pm
Jenny Lin
Jenny Lin (piano)
Music by Ustvolskaya and Shostakovitch.

10 pm
Rudresh Mahanthappa-Sporty Brown Trio with Ben Monder and Gerry Hemingway
Rudresh Mahanthappa (sax) Ben Monder (bass) Gerry Hemingway (drums)
The Sporty Brown Trio is a relatively new group. This ensemble debuted in

November 2006. This presentation features the great Ben Monder on guitar

instead of Craig Taborn.

3/14 Friday (CW)
8 and 10 pm
Masada String Trio
Mark Feldman (violin) Erik Friedlander (cello) Greg Cohen (bass) John Zorn (conductor)
TWENTY DOLLARS

3/15 Saturday (BLG)
8 pm
Elliott Sharp Solo: Octal
Elliott Sharp (Koll 8-string guitarbass)
World premiere of this suite of E# compositions performed on the Saul Koll 8-string electroacoustic guitarbass and celebrating the Cleanfeed release of the eponymous CD.

10 pm
Orchestra Carbon performs Quarks Swim Free
Elliott Sharp and Orchestra Carbon
This is the latest of E#’s algorithmic compositions for large ensemble based on genetic models, bird flocking drum choirs, and recombinant RNA.

3/16 Sunday (RK)
8 pm
Sirius String Quartet
Jennifer Choi (violin) Gregor Huebner (violin) Ron Lawrence (viola) Dave Eggar (cello)

10 pm
Brad Garton & Dave Soldier: EEG music
Soldier, a composer and neuroscientist, will give a short lecture on brainwaves, and with electronic musician Garton, use them to play electronic music. Some pieces will be “prosthetic music” in which brain activity is used voluntarily to trigger events, and other will be “unconcious music”, showing how you can now compose music without training, will, or awareness that you are doing it at all.

3/18 Tuesday (OL)
8 pm
Debora Petrina with Mike Sarin
Debora Petrina (piano) Mike Sarin (drums)
Debora’s debut at the Stone features her complex-but-swinging, multilingual songs (with a lot of piano playing) that recently won her the Piero Ciampi award for best new italian songwriter.

http://www.debora-petrina.com, myspace.com/deborapetrina

10 pm
2 Sky Trio
Jennifer Choi (violin) Marco Cappelli (guitar) Vong Pak (korean percussion)
2Sky Trio is a New York-based musical collective, dedicated to the research of a language which combines improvisation with through-composed scores.

3/19 Wednesday (JC)
8 pm
Jim Staley
Jim Staley (trombone)

10 pm
Mary Halvorson Trio
Mary Halvorson (guitar) John Hebert (bass) Nasheet Waits (drums)

3/20 Thursday
8 pm
Janet Feder Postcard Compositions:
Janet Feder (baritone guitar, prepared)

10 pm
Sabir Mateen Sextet
Sabir Mateen (alto and tenor saxophones, flute, Bb and alto clarinets) Raymond A. King (piano) Shiau-Shu Yu (cello) Jane Wang (bass, cello) Michael Wimberly (drums, percussion) and a violinist

3/21 Friday
8 pm
Anthony Coleman
Anthony Coleman (piano)

10 pm
Steve Beresford with Okkyung Lee and Peter Evans
Steve Beresford (piano) Okkyung Lee (cello) Peter Evans (trumpet)

3/22 Saturday
8 pm
Clockwork Mercury: Eric Mingus and Catherine Sikora
Eric Mingus (voice, bass) Catherine Sikora sax)

10 pm
Brandon Ross “Theorema”
Brandon Ross (guitars, banjo) JT Lewis (drums) Rubin Khodeli (cello)

3/23 Sunday (SK)
8 pm
Reuben Radding with Denman Maroney and Jack Wright
Reuben Radding (double bass) Denman Maroney (hyperpiano) Jack Wright (saxophone)
Three musicians well-known for stretching the sonic capabilities of their instruments join forces for a night of free improvisation, and rhythmically disorienting frog-jumping.

10 pm
Jon Gibson
Jon Gibson (sax, flute, keyboards)

3/25 Tuesday (KT)
8 pm
Mari Kimura
Mari Kimura (violin)

10 pm
Anthony Ptak
Anthony Ptak (theremin)

3/26 Wednesday
8 pm
Carl Maguire
Carl Maguire (piano, compositions) Oscar Noriega (clarinets) John Hebert (bass)

10 pm
Either/Or
Richard Carrick (piano) David Shively (percussion)
Alex Waterman (cello)

3/27 Thursday (MF)
8 pm
Virgil Moorefield—Things You Must Do To Get To Heaven
Virgil Moorefield and his ensemble
In his first NYC appearance in many moons, Virgil Moorefield will probe psychological space with his six-piece acoustic ensemble, performing his new CD “Things You Must Do to Get to Heaven” in its entirety.

10 pm
Kinan Azmeh
Kinan Azmeh (clarinet)

3/28 Friday (TD)
8 pm
Ron Anderson’s PAK
Ron Anderson (bass, voice) Keith Abrams (drums) Tim Byrnes (keyboard, trumpet) Jason Berry (saxophone, synthesizer)
Ron Anderson, Keith Abrams, Tim Byrnes (Friendly Bears/Hazel Rah), Jason Berry (Vacuum Tree Head). Ron Anderson’s PAK is back with a new line-up and a premiere of new music. “One of the best prog/punk outfits to emerge from NY in years!” Bruce Lee Gallanter – Downtown Music Gallery

http://www.ronanderson-molecules.com

10 pm
Daniel Carter
Daniel Carter (alto and tenor saxophones, flute, trumpet, clarinet) Demian Richardson (trumpet) Sean Moran (guitar) John Blum (piano) Ed Schuller (bass) Federico Ughi (drums)

3/29 Saturday (RK)
8 and 10 pm
White Out with Thurston Moore
Tom Surgal (percussion) Lin Culbertson (electronics) Thurston Moore (guitar)
Long-time co-conspirators White Out and Moore reunite for an evening of outside agitation.

3/30 Sunday (GG)
8 pm
Kacy Wiggins—QPE
Kacy Wiggins (quiet personal electronics)

10 pm
Italian Doc Remix with Marco Cappelli and Jim Pugliese
Marco Cappelli (guitars, laptop) Doug Wieselman (clarinets, sax) Jose Davila (trombone, tuba) Ken Filiano (double bass) Jim Pugliese (percussion)
Italian Doc Remix (IDR) is the result of the artistic exchange between Marco Cappelli and Jim Pugliese, whose mutual reverence for the villages’ ritual music brought them to the following statement:

reflect the process of memory’s distortion of the second/third immigrants generation, living in the new yorker cultural melting pot with a strong traditional back ground; give back to the audience a music at the same time far from the original source–for geographic, chronological and cultural reasons–and full of tradition’s elements: impossible to fit in any conventional standard.