The Stone in April

From New York’s Stone:

April 2014 at the Stone

4/1 Tuesday (KR)
8 pm
JACK Quartet performing music by Timothy McCormack
Chris Otto (violin) Ari Streisfeld (violin) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello)

10 pm
JACK Quartet performing music by Michele Lou, Natacha Diels, Brian Baumbusch, and Elliott Sharp
Chris Otto (violin) Ari Streisfeld (violin) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello)

4/2 Wednesday (ICS)
8 pm
CD pre-release event: JACK Quartet performing music by Miguel Frasconi featured on “Five Lines & More Thoughts” to be released by Tzadik
Chris Otto (violin) Ari Streisfeld (violin) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello)

10 pm
Kevin McFarland performing music by Kevin McFarland
Kevin McFarland (cello)

4/3 Thursday (JR)
8 pm
Christopher Otto, Jay Campbell, Kevin McFarland, Doug Balliett, and Greg Chudzik performing music by Christopher Otto
Christopher Otto (violin) Jay Campbell (cello) Kevin McFarland (cello) Doug Balliett (bass) Greg Chudzik (bass)

10 pm
JACK Quartet performing music by Nathan Shields, Christopher Trapani, Taylor Brook
Chris Otto (violin) Ari Streisfeld (violin) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello)

4/4 Friday (DDT)
8 pm
JACK Quartet and Joshua Roman performing music by Jefferson Friedman, Carlo Gesualdo, and John Luther Adams
Chris Otto (violin) Ari Streisfeld (violin) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello) Joshua Roman (cello)

10 pm
JACK Quartet performing music by John Zorn
Chris Otto (violin) Ari Streisfeld (violin) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello)

4/5 Saturday (DDT)
8 pm
CD release event: JACK Quartet performing music by Ha-Yang Kim featured on “Threadsuns” released by Tzadik
Chris Otto (violin) Ari Streisfeld (violin) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello)

10 pm
JACK Quartet, Jay Campbell, David Fulmer, and Stephen Gosling performing music by John Zorn
Chris Otto (violin) Ari Streisfeld (violin) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello) Jay Campbell (cello) David Fulmer (violin) Stephen Gosling (piano)

4/6 Sunday (JA)
8 pm
Ari Streisfeld and Rachel Calloway performing music by Guillaume de Machaut, Andrew Waggoner, Kamala Sankaram, and Amadeus Regucera
Ari Streisfeld (violin) Rachel Calloway (voice)

10 pm
CD release event: JACK Quartet performing Matthew Barnson’s String Quartet No. 3 featured on Sibyl Tones newly released on Tzadik
Chris Otto (violin) Ari Streisfeld (violin) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello)

4/7 Monday (JR)
8 pm
LOIS MARTIN RECITAL
Lois Martin (viola) Mike Truesdell (marimba) Caroline Stinson (cello) Molly Morkoski (piano)
Featured pieces will include a solo piece by Richard Festinger, a duo for viola and marimba by Neil Kirkwood and the world premiere of a new piano trio by Sheree Clement.

4/8 Tuesday (KM)
8 pm
David Scanlon Solo
David Scanlon (guitar)

10 pm
KILLER BOB
Daniel Ellis-Ferris (voice) Max Jaffe (drums) Jessica Pavone (bass) Dave Scanlon (guitar)

4/9 Wednesday (RJP)
8 pm
Kenny Wollesen

10 pm
Ariana Reines and some special guests
Ariana Reines (readings)

4/10 Thursday (ICS)
8 pm
James Ilgenfritz
James Ilgenfritz (bass) Nick Hallett (voice, electronics) Ryan Jewell (percussion) Richard Kamerman (motorized objects)
Bassist/composer James Ilgenfritz performs MAX/MSP & PD creator Miller Puckette’s “Talkback,” which enables the sound of his bass to cut-up the recorded voice of William Burroughs. Then, he premieres a new quartet with Nick Hallett, Ryan Jewell and Richard Kamerman, which recontextualizes the libretto for his opera “The Ticket That Exploded.”

10 pm
Anthony Coleman
Anthony Coleman (piano)

4/11 Friday (TY)
8 pm
INTERZONE—Raha Raissnia and John Zorn
Raha Raissnia (film, projections)
Raha performs live visuals to John Zorn’s Burroughs tribute INTERZONE.

10 pm
PROOFReaders trio
Trevor Dunn (bass) Darius Jones (alto sax) Ryan Sawyer (drums)
PROOFReaders Trio play music from Naked Lunch and other Ornette melodies.

4/12 Saturday (KM)
10 pm
Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews—a B=U=R=R=O=U=G=H=S tribute
Charles Bernstein (reading) Bruce Andrews (reading)

4/13 Sunday (JI)
8 pm
Jalal Toufic
Jalal Toufic (readings)

10 pm
Andrew Lampert with opening act Title TK (Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen & Alan Licht)
Cory Arcangel (words) Howie Chen (words) Alan Licht (guitar)

4/14 Monday (SV)
8 pm
Kojiro Umezaki
Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi)

4/15 Tuesday (SV)
8 pm
Object Collection

10 pm
Kenneth Goldsmith
Kenneth Goldsmith (readings)

4/16 Wednesday (HM)
8 pm
VOMIT FIST with guest Todd Colby
Nick Didkovsky (guitar)

10 pm
JG Thirlwell and Sarah Lipstate

4/17 Thursday (KM)
8 and 10 pm
Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore (guitar)

4/18 Friday (HM)
8 pm
Billy Martin—the exploding junky
Billy Martin (percussion, laptop, drums)

10 pm
Hieroglyphic Silence
Eyvind Kang (viola)

4/19 Saturday (RK)
8 pm
John Zorn and Bill Laswell Duo
John Zorn (sax) Bill Laswell (bass)
TWENTY DOLLARS

10 pm
Bill Laswell—THE ROAD TO THE WESTERN LANDS
Bill Laswell (bass, tapes) Dr. Israel (voice) Grandmaster DXT (dj)
TWENTY DOLLARS

4/20 Sunday (RJP)
8 and 10 pm
Hal Willner
Hal Willner (tapes) Bill Frisell (guitar) Eyvind Kang (viola) Lenny Pickett (sax)

4/22 Tuesday (KR)
8 pm
Space / Time・Redemption
Milford Graves (drums) Bill Laswell (bass)
TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS

10 pm
Bill Laswell and Wadada Leo Smith
Bill Laswell (bass) Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet)
TWENTY DOLLARS

4/23 Wednesday (ICS)
8 and 10 pm
Helio Parallax
Josh Werner (bass) Takuya Nakamura (trumpet) Gintas Janusonis (drums) Mari Ayabe (drums, bass)

4/24 Thursday (SK)
8 and 10 pm
Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band
Tunde Adebimpe (voice) Josh Werner (bass) Alex Holden (guitar) Ryan Sawyer (drums)

4/25 Friday (ICS)
8 and 10 pm
MUMPBEAK
Roy Powell (keyboard) Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass) Pat Mastelotto (drums)

4/26 Saturday (SC)
8 pm
Bernie Worrell solo / Bernie Worrell & Bill Laswell duo
Bernie Worrell (keyboards) Bill Laswell (bass)
TWENTY DOLLARS

10 pm
Bernie Worrell, Bill Laswell, Dr. Israel, Grandmaster DXT
Bernie Worrell (keyboards) Bill Laswell Bass) Dr. Israel (voice) Grandmaster DXT (dj)
TWENTY DOLLARS

4/27 Sunday (ICS)
8 and 10 pm
METHOD OF DEFIANCE: 3rd Column
Dr. Israel (voice) Garrison Hawk (voice) Bernie Worrell (keyboards) Guy Licata (drums) Bill Laswell (bass)
TWENTY DOLLARS

4/28 Monday (ICS)
8 and 10 pm
Jon Madof’s Zion80 plays John Zorn’s Book of Angels
Jon Madof (guitar, conductor) Matt Darriau (alto sax) Greg Wall (tenor sax) Frank London (trumpet) Jessica Lurie (bari sax, flute) Zach Mayer (bari sax) Yoshie Fruchter (guitar) Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass) Brian Marsella (keyboard) Marlon Sobol (percussion) Yuval Lion (drums)
Zion80 returns to The Stone for two sets of music from John Zorn’s Book of Angels!

4/29 Tuesday (BK)
8 pm
Jennifer Choi, Felix Fan and Annie Gosfield
Jennifer Choi (violin) Felix Fan (cello) Annie Gosfield (sampling keyboard)
Jennifer Choi plays the US premiere of the acoustic version of “Long Waves and Random Pulses,” which uses extended techniques, noise, and notes to evoke jammed radio signals. Cellist Felix Fan performs “Harmony of the Body-Machine,” for cello and machine sounds, “Four Roses” inspired by whiskey and detuned pianos (with Annie Gosfield on sampler) and new work.

10 pm
Sylvie Courvoisier, Ha-Yang Kim and Annie Gosfield
Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) Ha-Yang Kim (cello) Annie Gosfield (sampling keyboard)
A reprise of this improvising trio, with Gosfield performing “ghost electronics,” a phantom electric bridge drawn from her extensive collection of altered cello and piano sounds.

4/30 Wednesday (SK)
8 pm
Kathleen Supové, MIVOS Quartet, Olivia De Prato
Kathleen Supové (piano) MIVOS Quartet: Olivia De Prato and Joshua Modney (violins) Victor Lowrie (viola) Mariel Roberts (cello)
Kathleen Supové performs “Shattered Apparitions of the Western Wind.” Imagined as a hallucinatory duet with Claude Debussy, it couples Supové’s wild playing with distorted fragments of the prelude “What the West Wind Saw”, on site recordings of Hurricane Sandy, and lush Debussy harmonies. MIVOS quartet plays “The Blue Horse Walks on the Horizon,” inspired by codes used by resistance groups in WWII, and Olivia dePrato performs a piece for violin and satellites.

10 pm
Annie Gosfield, Brian Chase, and others
Annie Gosfield (keyboards) Brian Chase (drums) and others