Concerts @ 20 Greene St btwn Canal & Grand. All concerts begin at 8:30 unless otherwise noted (Interpretations & TV Shoots @ 8pm)
Monday, November 17th @ 8:30pm
ADAM RUDOLPH'S GO ORGANIC ORCHESTRA
8:30pm
Composer Adam Rudolph returns this fall with another concert series for Go: Organic Orchestra. In concert he will conduct between 20 - 35 musicians in a spontaneous way, using a newly created score of music/letter grids, language themes, tone rows, traditional and synthetic scales, diadic and intervalic harmonies, The compositions will also utilize Rudolph's rhythm concept of "Cyclic Verticalism" to generate form and weave what he calls an "audio syncretic music fabric". The music is "organic" in the sense that the compositions and conducting exist as an inspiration and context for the musicians to express themselves by using their instruments as an amplifier for their inner voice.
Thursday, November 20th @ 8:00pm
INTERPRETATIONS:
JB FLOYD: New Music for the Yamaha Disklavier
RAPHAEL MOStel: Intimate Acoustic
8:00pm
JB Floyd is a masterful pianist in his own right, but this concert features his works for the Yamaha Disklavier™, a MIDI-powered player-piano, which enables Floyd to take his pianistic virtuosity to new compositional and improvisational heights. This program will feature a piece with the setting of a new poem by Daniel Abdul-Hayy Moore. Working exclusively with acoustic and deliberately spare means, Raphael Mostel has been described as “one of New York’s original composers”. Mostel will present a rare solo performance of intimate works for piano and spoken word, featuring previews of his "Letter to Benoit Mandelbrot" and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bela."
Friday November 21st @ 8:30pm
ROLF JULIUS: Music for a Longer Time
8:30pm
Since 1979, Rolf Julius (Berlin) has been producing works straddling the borderline between music and art. Interested in the surface of a sound - its physicality and its relationship to time, Julius uses simple instrumentations coupled with precomposed recordings and live mixing to create symbiotic relationships between the sound, space, and the situation of the audience.
Saturday, November 22nd @ 8:30pm
STEPHEN GAUCI "Basso Continuo" / E.R.A.
8:30pm
The name “Basso Continuo” refers not to early music but rather to the double double bass backbone Mike Bisio and Ken Filiano provide to Stephen Gauci’s quartet. On this remarkable group these sub-sonic kindred spirits interweave to form a lattice work that supports the multitude of sounds that tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci and trumpeter Nate Wooley draw from their instruments and imaginations. Somehow the pair squeeze their oversized axes into every nook and cranny the music creates. These two teams —the pair of provocative horn players and the contemporary basso continuo — make a fantastic and unexpected combination.
The E.R.A. is a septet with the power of a trio dealing with a subtle sensibiliy, silence, harmony and texture. Since 2005, these seven musicians have each performed and recorded in various duos, trios, and quartets. Inspired by these smaller combinations, Chris Welcome, Johnathan Moritz, John McLellan and Shayna Dulberger composed and arranged music for this unique instrumentation. They released their first album, 'Introducing...The E.R.A.' in may of 2008. It is available at Downtown Music Gallery and emptyroommusic.net.
Sunday, November 23rd @ 8:30pm
SARAH WEAVER & MARK DRESSER: Spectral Syn
8:30pm
Internationally acclaimed bassist, improviser, and composer, Mark Dresser, teams up with composer/conductor Sarah Weaver for the presentation of Spectral Syn, a new work for large ensemble exploring multiplicity, distributive resonance, and musical expression. With Spectral Syn, Weaver and Dresser have developed a form that translates metaphor into specific musical materials, which are then modulated through the conducted language, Soundpainting.
