SATURDAY, MARCH 2

8:00 pm Joe McPhee, solo sax

VENUE: Clemente Soto Velez

DETAILS: http://artsforart.org/event/evolving-voice/schedule

A night of improvisation in the spirit of Peter Kowald.

ADMISSION: $10

SATURDAY, MARCH 2

10:00 pm Weasel Walter/Alex Ward duo

VENUE: Freedom Garden

DETAILS:

http://www.facebook.com/events/422240764528816/

ADMISSION: Donations

SUNDAY, MARCH 3

8:00 pm  Steven Lugerner Quartet

VENUE: The Stone

DETAILS: Steven Lugerner (woodwinds) Myra Melford (piano) Stephanie Richards (trumpet) Matt Wilson (drums)

ADMISSION: $10

FRIDAY, MARCH 8

8:00 pm Claire Chase, solo flute

VENUE: Roulette

DETAILS:
George Brecht: flute solo (1962)
Pauline Oliveros: A Fluting Moment, I. (2008)
Steve Reich: Vermont Counterpoint (1982)
Pauline Oliveros: A Fluting Moment, II. (2008)
Luciano Berio: Sequenza I (1951)
Pauline Oliveros: A Fluting Moment, III. (2008)
Evan Johnson: Emoi (2010), WORLD PREMIERE
Pauline Oliveros: A Fluting Moment, IV. (2008)
Marcelo Toledo: 60! (2012), NY PREMIERE
Pauline Oliveros: A Fluting Moment, V. (2008)
Marcos Balter: Descent from Parnassus (2011), NY PREMIERE
Pauline Oliveros: A Fluting Moment, VI. (2008) – 1 minute
Mario Diaz de Leon: Luciform, WORLD PREMIERE (2012)
Pauline Oliveros: A Fluting Moment, VII. (2008)
George Brecht: flute solo (1962) ADMISSION: $10

http://roulette.org/events/claire-chase/

ADMISSION: $10/$15

SATURDAY, MARCH 9

8:00 pm Charming Hostess

VENUE: Barbes

DETAILS: Charming Hostess performs music from The Bowls Project. The Bowls Project offers a visceral, personal connection to daily life 1500 years ago in the region now known as Iraq. For this show, Charming Hostess is Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes and Brandon Seabrook.

ADMISSION: $10

MONDAY, MARCH 11

7:30 pm In The Absence Of… Schubert, Christoph Pepe Auer, Christian Bakanic and Tigran Himayasan

VENUE: Austrian Cultural Forum

DETAILS:

Improvisational exploration of Franz Schubert’s music and sound world.
Christoph Pepe Auer, saxophones, bass clarinet, home-made instruments
Christian Bakanic, accordion
Tigran Himayasan, piano

http://www.acfny.org/event/christoph-pepe-auer

ADMISSION: Free with RSVP

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13

8:00, 9:30 pm Lotte Anker (sax, Denmark) in a rare US performance + William Parker (bass), Tim Berne (sax), and Gerald Cleaver (drums)

VENUE: Jack

DETAILS:

http://www.facebook.com/events/432349156844621/

ADMISSION: $10

FRIDAY, MARCH 15

8:00 pm Berio/Razzi/Simonini for live video projection, prepared piano and percussion

VENUE: the firehouse space

DETAILS:

“REDROCKS”: MATTEO RAMON AREVALOS- piano, prepared piano and percussion, CHIARA ZENZANI- performer, video projection

Program:

MASSIMO SIMONINI Richiamo di una gru nell’ombra, for piano – voice

FAUSTO RAZZI Per Piano, for piano

LUCIANO BERIO Six Encores, for piano

Intermission

REDROCKS – performance for live video projection, prepared piano and percussion

http://thefirehousespace.org/event/redrocks-matteo-ramon-arevalos-piano-prepared-piano-and-percussion-chiara-zenzani-performer-video-projection/

ADMISSION: $10

SATURDAY, MARCH 16

8:00 pm Vocal Electrofolk: Africa to New York with Kronos Quartet’s cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, clarinetist David Krakauer and many special guests.

VENUE: The Greene Space

DETAILS:

Presented in partnership with Original Music Workshop, this evening bridges bold new vocal styles from New York and Africa through two special acts.

Vocalist and improviser Helga Davis joins esteemed Kronos Quartet cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, clarinetist David Krakauer and other special guests in an evening of newly written and improvised works that range from Mexican electronica to their own musings. The Zimbabwean vocalist Netsayi joins the evening with Black Pressure — a band that features Zimbabwe’s most gifted musicians.

http://www.thegreenespace.org/events/thegreenespace/2013/mar/16/vocal-electrofolk-africa-to-new-york

ADMISSION: $15

SUNDAY, MARCH 17

8:30 pm KALMANOVITCH COLEMAN REICHMAN TRIO

VENUE: Cornelia Street Cafe

DETAILS:

Tanya Kalmanovitch, violin, viola;  Ted Reichman, accordion;  Anthony Coleman, piano

Composition and improvisation, art music and popular song, original compositions and daring re-compositions of a broad range of musical texts: among them works by Gustav Mahler, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Christian Wolff, and Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Admission: $20, includes drink

WEDNESDAY  – WEEK, MARCH 20 – 27

8:00 pm Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Oktophonie

VENUE: Park Avenue Armory

DETAILS:

New York Premiere, Environment designed by Rirkrit Tiravanija. Performed by one of his original collaborators Kathinka Pasveer, the maverick composer’s OKTOPHONIE from his opus Licht gets an exciting new life in an epic production of this monumental composition.

Acclaimed contemporary visual artist Rirkrit Tiravanija stages the work as the composer originally intended—in outer space—creating a lunar floating seating unit to fully envelop the listener in octophonic sound. Adorned in white, the audience takes a ritualistic musical journey from plunging darkness into blinding light to fully immerse themselves in the all-encompassing score and surroundings. The vastness of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall is the perfect setting to fully realize this rarely performed work that Stockhausen so boldly envisioned in its highly-anticipated New York premiere.

ADMISSION: $40

THURSDAY, MARCH 21

7:00 pm The New England Conservatory Improvisation Festival with Anthony Coleman, Matt Darriau, Frank London, Eli Keszler (see video below) and more.
https://vimeo.com/62420669
VENUE: Barbes

DETAILS:

Celebrating 40 Years of Contemporary Improvisation at New England Conservatory.

Curated by Anthony Coleman and Ashley Paul, this Festival will feature performances by NEC alumni Matt Darriau, Frank London, Ashley Paul, Cuddle Magic, Mat Maneri, Andrew Hock, Judith Berkson and more..

ADMISSION: $10

FRIDAY, MARCH 22

8 pm   MOCAminiMIX: Crossing Frets for Tapping

VENUE:  The Museum of Chinese in America

DETAILS:

Live improvisation between contemporary and traditional musicians, singers, and dancers: Min Xiao Fen (pipa), Jin Hi Kim (komungo), with Max Pollack (rhumba tap).

http://www.mocanyc.org/visit/events/crossing_the_frets

ADMISSION: $10-15

RSVP: programs@mocanyc.org

SATURDAY, MARCH 23

8 pm   Synth Nights: David Behrman, Sergei Tcherepnin, and Ben Vida

VENUE: The Kitchen

DETAILS:

The second installment of Synth Nights’ intergenerational electronic music series features recent and vintage works by legendary composer David Behrman. Joining Behrman on March 23, Sergei Tcherepnin and Woody Sullender will present a new piece continuing their work with building theatrical physical environments for their live electronic music. In this work they invite Okkyung Lee to interact with and activate specific aspects of the composition.

http://www.thekitchen.org/event/345/0/1/

ADMISSION: $15

SUNDAY, MARCH 24

6.30 pm   Iva Bittová, voice, violin, kalimba

VENUE: Le Poisson Rouge

DETAILS:

Czech singer/player/composer Iva Bittová has said. “The violin is a mirror reflecting my dreams and imagination. I believe there are fundamentals to my performance, such as the music’s vibration and resonance between violin and my voice.” An idiosyncratic ‘folk’ music, contemporary composition, improvisation, any and all of these may apply from moment to moment. Bittová’s music is a living, changing thing: “Deciding on a name for my style of music is far from over yet”. Iva Bittová was previously showcased in 2007 on the widely-acclaimed ECM album Mater by composer Vladimír Godár; this marks her solo debut for the label.

http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/iva-bittova-voice-violin-kalimba-march-24th-2013/

ADMISSION: $15-20

TUESDAY, MARCH 26

7:30 pm Attacca Quartet: String Quartets of John Adams

VENUE: Le Poisson Rouge

DETAILS:

http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/attacca-quartet-string-quartets-of-john-adams-march-26th-2013/

Composer and special guest John Adams in attendance.

ADMISSION: Free/$25

FRIDAY, MARCH 29

8:00 pm Todd Reynolds and Vicky Chow:

VENUE: Spectrum

DETAILS:

Violin and Piano music of Neil Rolnick

ADMISSION: $10

SATURDAY, MARCH 30

8:00 pm Pauline Oliveros, Doug Van Nort, David Arner and FILTER

VENUE: Roulette

DETAILS:

http://roulette.org/events/pauline-oliveros/

ADMISSION: $10/$15

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2

8 PM Laura Andel – New Music Explorations

VENUE:  Roulette

DETAILS:

Laura Andel New Music Works in collaboration with Daniel Binelli (bandoneon), Elliott Sharp (guitars), Carl Maguire (Fender Rhodes), Andrew Drury (percussion)

http://roulette.org/events/laura-andel-jerome-residency/

ADMISSION: $10/15

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4

6 PM Making Music: Osvaldo Golijov

VENUE: Carnegie Hall

DETAILS:

K’vakarat

Qohelet (NY Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Stanford Lively Arts)

Ayre

http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2013/2/4/0600/PM/Making-Music-Osvaldo-Golijov/

ADMISSION: $30

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5

8:00 pm Holodomor – Virko Baley’s Opera

VENUE: The Gerald W. Lynch Theater- John Jay College

DETAILS:

Holodomor
Red Earth. Hunger

Opera

Tod Fitzpatrick, baritone
Eric Brenner, counter-tenor
Melissa Weaver, stage director
Virko Baley, conductor, composer

http://www.facebook.com/events/366204713476093/

ADMISSION: $15/25

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7

9:00 pm SWANS, Devendra Banhart

VENUE: Music Hall of Williamsburg

DETAILS: http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/event/192589-swans-brooklyn

ADMISSION: Sold Out

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9

8 PM Corigliano conducted by Marin Alsop, the Juilliard Orchestra

VENUE:  Carnegie Hall

DETAILS:

John Corigliano: Symphony No. 2

John Corigliano: Symphony No. 3, Circus Maximus

All-Corigliano program celebrating the composer’s 75th birthday.  Symphony No. 3, Circus Maximus is scored for antiphonally-placed wind ensembles, and will transform Carnegie Hall into the ancient Roman arena of the same name, through which Juilliard faculty member Corigliano strives “both to embody and to comment on this massive and glamorous barbarity”

http://lc.lincolncenter.org/shows/205408?show_date=2013-02-09%2020:00:00

ADMISSION:  $15-$30

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9

8PM Composer Portraits: Sofia Gubaidulina

VENUE: Miller Theatre at Columbia University

DETAILS:

Performed by  International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Rebekah Heller, solo bassoon , Christian Knapp, conductor

Meditation on the Bach Chorale “Vor deinen Thron tret’ ich hiermit” (1993)

Trio (1989)

Concerto for bassoon and low strings (1975)

Concordanza (1971)

http://www.millertheatre.com/Events/EventDetails.aspx?nid=1538

ADMISSION: $25-$30

MONDAYS, FEBRUARY 11, 18, 25

8 PM Frank London’s Shekhina Big Band

VENUE: The Stone

DETAILS: Greg Wall, Marty Ehrlich, Matt Darriau, Zach Mayer, Paul Shapiro, Doug Wieselman, Jessica Lurie (saxophones) Justin Mullens, Steven Gluzband, Ronald Horton, Pam

Fleming, Rob Henke (trumpets) Curtis Hasselbring, Jacob Garchik, Matt Haviland, Brian Drye (trombones) Yoshie Fruchter (guitar) Anthony Coleman (piano) Uri Sharlin

(accordion) Brian Glassman (bass) Roberto Rodriguez (drums) Renato Thoms (percussion)

ADMISSION: $10

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14

7:00 pm Anthony Coleman Quartet

VENUE: Spectrum

ADMISSION: $10

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16

10 PM Alash

VENUE: Carnegie Hall

DETAILS:

Alash, from the Siberian Republic of Tuva, is known for its remarkable throat-singing technique, holding true to the tradition of its ancestors and inspired by master musicians of Central Asia.

http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2013/2/16/1000/PM/Alash/

ADMISSION: $42 – $49

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16

4 PM John Cage’s Apartment House 1776

VENUE: Wild House

DETAILS:

John Cage’s Apartment House 1776

In celebration of Avant Media’s 10th year, this afternoon performance of Cage’s wonderful musicircus, Apartment House 1776, features singers Imani Uzuri, Mary MacKenzie and others, with an instrumental ensemble of Avant Media alumni and friends, including: Matt Beckemeyer, Gelsey Bell, Eve Beglarian, Drew Blumberg, Nicole Camacho, Randy Gibson, MIVOS, William Lang, Eleonor Sandresky, Jessica Schmitz, Cleek Schrey, Jude Traxler, and more.

http://avantmedia.org/art/productions/avantmusicfestival2013.html

ADMISSION: $15/$8

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21

7:30 pm Polesye Project and Shofar

DETAILS:

Singer, accordionist, musicologist and Warsaw-native Olga Mieleszczuk’s (Polesye Project) special focus is music of the Ashkenazi Jewish tradition of Eastern Europe, especially the border areas of Poland (Galitzia, Polesye). A classically-trained musician, who divides her time between Warsaw and Tel Aviv, she has studied and performed wide-ranging genres from Hassidic music, to Yiddish songs, to folk music from the Jewish, Slavic and Balkan traditions.

Shofar Trio—guitarist Raphael Roginski, saxophonist and bass clarinet player Mikolaj Trzaska and drummer Macio Moretti  formed in 2006, joins traditional Jewish music with contemporary avant-jazz and rock. The Poland-based band released its debut album in 2007—works based on the first compendium of Hassidic melodies from the Ukraine, Poland and Moldova compiled by early 20th-century Soviet musicologist Moshe Beregovsky.

http://lc.lincolncenter.org/shows/206950?show_date=2013-02-21%2019:30:00

VENUE: David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center

ADMISSION: FREE

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23

8 PM  Composer Portraits:  Enno Poppe

VENUE: Miller Theatre at Columbia University

DETAILS:

Performed by JACK Quartet, onstage discussion with the composer

Schweiss (2010), Tonband (2008/2009), Rad (2003), Tier (2002)

http://www.millertheatre.com/Events/EventDetails.aspx?nid=1540

ADMISSION: $25-$30

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26

8:00/9:30 PM Ches Smith and These Arches CD release show with Tim Berne, Tony Malaby, Mary Halvorson, Andrea Parkins

VENUE: Shapeshifter Labs

DETAILS:

http://www.shapeshifterlab.com/portfolio/feb-26-ches-smith-and-these-arches/

ADMISSION: $10

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28

8:00 pm The End of Exoticism, Lecture

VENUE: Italian Academy

DETAILS:

Gianmario Borio (University of Pavia)
Compagnia di San Paolo Distinguished Visiting Professor in Music
The End of Exoticism
or Debussy, Boulez and the Penetration of “the Other” into Western Art Music

http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu/events_calendar.html

ADMISSION: Free, RSVP

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2

8 PM    String Noise’s Dueling MAXIMS
VENUE:  The Stone
DETAILS:
John ZORN – APOPHTHEGMS (2012)
I -VI
VII- XII
Eric LYON – Noise Triptych (2011)
1. Folk Noise
2. Noise Impromptu
3. Two Kinds of Noise
http://www.facebook.com/events/380392472047625/
ADMISSION:$10

THURSDAY, JANUARY 3 – FRIDAY, JANUARY 4

8 PM    Warp’s Luigi Nono Project

VENUE:  Spectrum
DETAILS:
Richard Warp has co-produced  a new recording of Luigi Nono‘s penultimate work, the electro-acoustic masterpiece “la lontananza nostalgica utopica futura” for violin and eight-channel electronics, featuring the talents of violinist Miranda Cuckson and electroacoustic performer Christopher Burns. The recording will be released on January 4th, 2013 in a limited edition signed by the artists and containing two disc formats: stereo compact disc and surround-sound DTS-CD. The work distills Nono’s manifold lifelong preoccupations – philosophy, politics, history, theater, text, spatialization, improvisation, real-world sounds, electronics and amplification – into the relatively simple medium of solo violin and 8-track tape.
http://manhatpro.com/live/events-3/?event_id=52
ADMISSION:$10/$15

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12

8 PM Ned Rothenberg (woodwinds) Nels Cline (guitars)
VENUE:  The Stone
ADMISSION: $10

MONDAY, JANUARY 14

7:30 PM “The Arianna Project” music of Monteverdi, Scarlatti, and Haydn on period instruments
VENUE: Le Poisson Rouge
DETAILS:
Musica Nuova presents “The Arianna Project” w/Amanda Keil , Maeve Höglund , Marcy Richardson , directed by Beth Greenberg , and music of Monteverdi, Scarlatti, and Haydn on period instruments
http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/musica-nouva/
ADMISSION:$20/$25/Free for members

MONDAY, JANUARY 14

10:10 PM Brazilian Explorative Music 2013
VENUE: Le Poisson Rouge
DETAILS:
Brazilian Explorative Music 2013
w/Mozik , Gabriel Santiago , Ivo Senra Trio , Pedro Moraes , Elissa Cassini , and Sergio Krakowski Trio
http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/brazilian-explorative-music-2013-jan-14th-2013/
ADMISSION:$10/$15/Free for members

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16

8 PM Keith Rowe & Christian Wolff
VENUE: Issue Project Room at TEMP, 57 Walker Street, NYC
DETAILS:
Keith Rowe / Christian Wolff(premiere)
Keith Rowe Solo(premiere)
http://issueprojectroom.org/drupal/event/keith-rowe-christian-wolff
ADMISSION:$15 / $12 members+students

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16

1 PM Julliard Chamber Fest 2013

VENUE:  Alice Truly Hall

DETAILS:  Lutoslawski String Quartet (1964) and other works

ADMISSION: Free

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17

8 PM, 10PM    Nate Wooley (tpt) Agusti Fernandez (piano) Ken Vandermark, (tenor sax, clarinet) Joe Morris (guitar), Ben Hall (drums) Pascal Niggenkemper (bass)
VENUE:  The Stone
ADMISSION: $10

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17

8 PM: Julliard Chamber Fest 2013

VENUE:  Paul Hall

DETAILS:

Reich, Sextet (1984)

Stravinsky, Histoire du Soldat (1918)

ADMISSION: Free

FRIDAY, JANUARY 18

8 PM: Agusti Fernandez (piano) Ken Vandermark (tenor sax, clarinet)
VENUE:  The Stone
ADMISSION: $10

FRIDAY, JANUARY 18

8PM: ICE plays John Zorn’s The Tempest
VENUE:  DiMenna Center, NYC
DETAILS:
– DIAZ de LEÓN (’04): Alter of Two Serpents (Claire Chase ’01; Alexa Still – Oberlin faculty)
– LOPEZ (’88): Dirge for Réjà Vu
– WUBBLES: Alphabeta
– BERIO: Corale (with David Bowlin ’00, violin)
– LANG: Sweet Air
– ZORN: The Tempest (World Premiere) for flute, clarinet, and extended drumkit
– ROUSE (’71): Compline for flute, clarinet, string quartet and harp
 
http://www.facebook.com/events/171994896258163/
ADMISSION: free with RSVP

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23

8PM: Hans Tammen’s ZAVODNIKS
VENUE: Douglass Street Music Collective
DETAILS:
http://tammen.org/zavodniks-in-brooklyn-on-wed-jan-23-2013/
ZAVODNIKS!
Engine 1: Dan Blake & Josh Sinton
Engine 2: Ursel Schlicht & Shoko Nagai
Engine 3: Dafna Naphtali & Lola Regenthal
Engine 4: Jonas Tauber
Engine 5: Satoshi Takeishi & Andrew Drury
Hans Tammen – modular anarchic synthesizer, composing, glow conducting
ADMISSION: $10

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24

8 PM: Matthew Shipp (piano) William Parker (bass) Joe Morris (guitar)
VENUE:  The Stone
ADMISSION: $10

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 7.30 PM, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 8PM

Jennifer Koh performs Lutoslawski

VENUE:  Avery Fisher Hall

DETAILS: Shostakovich, Lutosławski, and Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet with Lorin Maazel and Jennifer Koh

http://www.nyphil.org/ConcertsTickets/EventDetails.aspx?event={51F8B14C-FA9A-4CFC-AC02-90C4DB717D7B}

ADMISSION: $33.00 – $107.00

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25

8PM:InterHarmony Concert Series: Misha Quint, Cello

VENUE: Carnegie Hall

DETAILS:

Works by Valentini, Schnittke, Fauré, Nathan Davis (World Premiere), Falla, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Handel, and Popper

http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2013/1/25/0800/PM/Misha-Quint-Cello/

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25

8PM: Sirius Quartet w/Uri Caine
VENUE:  Shapeshifter Lab
DETAILS:
http://www.shapeshifterlab.com
ADMISSION: TBD
 

SATURDAY, JANUARY 26

8PM: New Sounds Live: Carla Kihlstedt, ICE, Face the Music

VENUE:  Merkin Hall

DETAILS:
http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/new-sounds-live/2013/jan/08/new-sounds-live-ecstatic-music-festival-2013/

http://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/ecstatic-music-festival-carla-kihlstedt-ice-causing-a-tiger-face-the-music

ADMISSION: $15/$25

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30

8 PM: Ivo Perelman (tenor) Matthew Shipp (piano) Gerald Cleaver (drums) Joe Morris (bass, guitar)
VENUE:  The Stone
ADMISSION: $10

DECEMBER 4-8

7:30 PM, Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People (DANCE)

VENUE: BAM Fisher, Fishman Space

DETAILS:  “Improvisation makes you realize how important, scary, and potentially wonderful every single second of your life can be.” —Miguel Gutierrez

A work for dancers, aged 33 to 62, exploring the crisscrossing pathways of the brain and the elusive logic of improvisation, welcoming mixed messages while accessing an eerie, otherworldly state of hope and vitality. Sights and Sounds: Six fierce performers, the inventive glow of light concocted by Lenore Doxsee, the hallucinatory sound stylings of Neal Medlyn, and the cool, dislocating film and words of Boru O’Brien O’Connell. My art is most inspired by: Most recently, ghosts, varying definitions of consciousness, somatics, California sunlight and highways, and trippy, melodious electroacoustic music.

http://www.bam.org/dance/2012/and-lose-the-name-of-action

ADMISSION:  $20

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5

8 PM    Ben Goldberg’s Unfold Ordinary Mind

VENUE:  The Stone

DETAILS:  Ben Goldberg (contra alto clarinet, compositions) Ellery Eskelin (tenor sax) Nels Cline (guitar) Ches Smith (drums). I have been developing my abilities on the E-flat contra alto clarinet (a weird member of the family, pitched below the bass clarinet) for some years, mostly in my work with the group Tin Hat. Somehow it occurred to me to have a band where I was the bass player, on this instrument. Of course the group would need two of my tenor saxophone heroes (Ellery Eskelin and Rob Sudduth), a guitar genius (and now certifiable rock star) (Nels Cline), and the deeply tumultuous drummer Ches Smith. So after finishing up the premiere of my latest giant project, Orphic Machine, in March of 2012, I wrote a bunch of songs and assembled this crew at the Bunker studio in Williamsburg one day in May. We learned the tunes, rehearsed, and recorded them all in just a few hours, and the results are extraordinary—raw, dire, and to the point. The record will be released by my label, BAG Production Records, in January. The record is called Unfold Ordinary Mind, which is also the name of the band for a few East Coast shows I am happy we will be playing in December.

ADMISSION: $10

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9

9:00 PM, Weasel Walter, Mary Halvorson and Peter Evans

VENUE: Death by Audio

DETAILS:The collective knowledge base of drummer Weasel Walter, guitarist Mary Halvorson and trumpeter Peter Evans stretches from death metal to experimental improv. On the trio’s new Mechanical Malfunction—which finds the group tackling precomposed pieces for the first time—it continues to find novel ways of balancing aggression with whimsy. Helping to round out this spiffy bill is the duo of local avant-garde drum whiz Kid Millions and Jim Sauter, half of the revered/feared saxophone tandem from noise-jazz institution Borbetomagus.-timeout
http://www.improvisedcommunications.com/calendar/

ADMISSION: $7

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11

8:00 PM    Phantom Orchard: Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori // Pet Bottle Ningen

VENUE:  Roulette

DETAILS:  Friends and colleagues since 1988, Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins are two of the strongest musical voices out of the downtown scene. Lynchpins of bands as diverse as DNA, Skeleton Crew, Electric Masada, Hemophiliac and Bjork, their duo project Phantom Orchard is the perfect outlet for their unique and personal musical languages and their rapport is evident in each and every track. Here they create eleven compositions of unique cutting edge music with the help of some of the brightest lights in improvised music. Mystery, lyricism and electronic soundscapes from this most dynamic of all dynamic duos.

http://roulette.org/events/phantom-orchard/

ADMISSION: $10-15

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14

9PM, Ivo Perelman with Joe Morris & Gerald Clever

VENUE: Nublu
DETAILS:
Part of Nublu’s annual Jazz Festival. Visit www.nublu.net or www.nublujazzfest.com/ for more details on admission, showtimes and band details.
http://www.ticketfly.com/event/193127-spanglish-fly-rene-lopez-ivo-new-york/
ADMISSION: $15

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15

7 PM   ICElab: Self Fictions World Premiere. Music of Patricia Alessandrini + Juan Pablo Carreño

VENUE:  Baryshnikov Arts Center

DETAILS:  ICE performs new works by two France-based composers. Patricia Alessandrini’s Gurre-Klänge puts a magnifying glass to Schoenberg’s most outrageously large-scale work, Gurrelieder; and Juan Pablo Carreño’s Self-Fiction series creates violent walls of sound that break down conventional rules of music performance. With video design by Ross Karre and lighting design by Nicholas Houfek.

http://www.bacnyc.org/performances/performance/icelab-self-fictions

ADMISSION: Free, reservations are required.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15

10 PM William Parker’s Winter Music for Mixed Ensemble

VENUE:  The Stone

DETAILS:  Part 1: William Parker (1890 duplex bass, hochiku, bass duduk) Dave Hofstra (bass sax) J.D. Parran (bass sax) Justin Fryer (bass) Keith Park (percussion) Part 2: Kyoko Kitamura (voice) Miya Masoka (koto) William Parker (bolon) Part one: “Nadir For Bruce Baille (2012)”. Part two “Smiles left In The Snow (2012 ) For Ken Jacobs.

ADMISSION: $10

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16

2:00 PM, Fools Mass performed by Theatre Group Dzieci (THEATRE)

VENUE: The Firehouse Space

DETAILS:  In Theatre Group Dzieci’s living example of Holy Theatre, a group of medieval village idiots are forced to enact their own Mass, due to the untimely death of their beloved pastor. Bursting with buffoonery and comic audience participation, Fools Mass is balanced with lovely hymns and chants from the 8^th to the 14^th centuries, creating a seminal work that has been Dzieci’s signature piece since 1998.

 “Dzieci is a wonderful example of the spiritual intensity possible when theatre engages the age-old mysteries of faith and the human experience.” – Canon Tom Miller, Cathedral St. John the Divine

http://thefirehousespace.org/event/fools-mass-performed-by-theatre-group-dzieci/

ADMISSION: $10

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16

An evening of John Zorn’s Book of Angels / Nublu Jazz Festival week

9:00pm-2:00am

VENUE: Nublu

DETAILS: An evening of John Zorn’s Book of Angels / Nublu Jazz Festival week

Cyro Baptista and the Banquet of the Spirits, Abraxas, Mycale, Aleph Trio
http://www.nublujazzfestival.com/
http://www.ticketfly.com/event/193131-cyro-baptista-banquet-new-york/

ADMISSION: $20

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2012 – SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 2013

8:00 PM    Kristen Kosmas: There There (World Premiere, THEATRE)

VENUE: Performance space 122

DETAILS:   “Nobody, and I mean nobody, holds a candle to [Kosmas’] writing. No gimmicks, no flash just sheer poetic brilliance” – Andy Horwitz, Culturebot

Christopher Walken, on tour in Russia with a solo show inspired by everyone’s favorite Chekhovian sociopath, mysteriously falls off a ladder and is unable to perform. Karen, who apparently proofread the script once, is asked to go on in Walken’s place. A precarious bilingual performance duet ensues between Karen and her Russian interpreter, Leo. There There is a wildly unpredictable theatrical roller coaster about being the completely wrong person in the totally wrong place at the exact wrong time doing all the most wrong things. Directed by Paul Willis, performed by Kristen Kosmas & Larisa Tokmakov, design by Peter Ksander, translation by Matvei Yankelevich.

http://www.ps122.org/there-there/

ADMISSION: $20 / $15

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21

8:00 PM ANDREA PANCUR & ILYA SHNEIVEYS feat. LORIN SKLAMBERG. ALPEN KLEZMER CD release.

VENUE:  Barbes

DETAILS:   Andrea Pancur from the Bavarian capital of Munich and Ilya Shneyveys from Riga in Latvia play their fusion of Bavarian and Yiddish music, dubbed “Alpen Klezmer” – Klezmer from the Alps. Both musicians have dedicated themselves to rediscovering the songs which both traditions once shared, have given them a good dusting off, and under the banner “Long live the kosher mountain yodler” have packed their rucksacks full of new and exciting material. Klezmatics front man Lorin Sklamberg will yodel along.

http://barbesbrooklyn.com/calendar.html

ADMISSION: $10

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23

7:00PM HUTSULS SINGERS. Winter Songs and Dance Music.

VENUE:  Barbes

DETAILS:   Old-style winter solstice songs and wild dance music from villages high in the Carpathian Mountians. Ivan and Mykola Zelenchuk sing as Mykola Ilyuk plays Carpathian fiddle, Vasyl Tymchuk tsymbaly, while Ostap Kostyuk plays on duda or bagpipes and flutes.

http://barbesbrooklyn.com/calendar.html

ADMISSION: $10

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30,
8 and 10 PM FESTIVAL—A STONE BENEFIT
VENUE: The Stone

DETAILS: John Zorn (sax) Ikue Mori (electronics) Anthony Coleman (piano) Ron Anderson (guitar) Eyal Maoz (guitar) Uri Gurvich (sax) Brian Chase (drums) Ilhan Irsahin (sax) Nonoko Yoshida (sax) Ty Citerman (guitar) and many special guests

ADMISSION: $25

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5^TH,

8:00 PM Janácek Philharmonic Ostrava – Morton Feldman: Major Orchestral Works

VENUE: Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater

DETAILS: The 100-piece Janácek Philharmonic Ostrava (Czech Republic) comes to New York to perform an evening of Morton Feldman’s orchestra music, conducted by Petr Kotik. Highlights will include the American premieres of the hour-long Violin and Orchestra and Flute and Orchestra, 35 years after their creation. The program also includes Structures for Orchestra, and the lyrical Piano and Orchestra. The soloists are the acclaimed pianist Joseph Kubera, a longtime associate of Feldman and Cage; flutist Erin Lesser; and Czech violinist Hana Kotková, whose performances of concertos by Ligeti, Rihm and Francesconi have been celebrated internationally.

http://lc.lincolncenter.org/shows/205874?show_date=2012-11-05%2020:00:00

ADMISSION: $25

 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6^th,

7:30 PM Fred Van Hove – (The Onortodox Piano) Top

VENUE: ShapeShifter Lab

DETAILS:

http://www.shapeshifterlab.com/portfolio/nov-6-fred-van-hove-the-onortodox-piano-top/

Fred Van Hove, piano

Lou Grassi, percussion

Project: free improvisation

ADMISSION: $15/$10

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8^TH,

10:30 PM The Unanswered Journey: Alexei Lubimov, piano (White Light Festival)

VENUE: Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse

DETAILS:

Liszt: Schlaflos, Frage und Antwort

Chopin: Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 45

Pärt: Partita, Op. 2

Liszt: Nuages gris

Ustvolskaya: Piano Sonata No. 5

Mozart: Adagio in C major, K.617a

Mahler (arr. Singer): Trauermarsch, from Symphony No. 5

Liszt: Sursum corda, from Années de pèlerinage, troisième année

http://lc.lincolncenter.org/shows/205296?show_date=2012-11-08%2022:30:00

ADMISSION: from $45

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9th – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10^th

8:00 PM Ned Rothenberg Chamber Music Retrospective

VENUE: ROULETTE

DETAILS:

Joining Rothenberg over the two nights retrospective will be Erik Friedlander (cello), Min Xiao Fen (pipa), Satoshi Takeishi (percussion), and the Mivos Quartet

http://roulette.org/events/ned-rothenberg-2/  

ADMISSION: $10-15

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12th, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13^TH

10pm/7.30pm

Wolfgang Mitterer and Ensemble Mise-En

VENUE: Austrian Cultural Forum New York

DETAILS:

Austrian pioneer in the field of electroacoustic music.

http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/austrian-cultural-forum-presents-wolfgang-mitterer-ensemble-mise-en/

http://www.acfny.org/event/wolfgang-mitterer/

ADMISSION:  Free/RSVP

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13^TH – WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14^TH  

7:30 The Hilliard Ensemble/Heiner Goebbels:I went to the house but did not enter (White Light Festival)

VENUE: Rose Theater

DETAILS:

Heiner Goebbels, conception, music, and director

Klaus Grünberg, lighting design and staging

Florence von Gerkan, costume design

Willi Bopp, sound design

Texts by T.S. Eliot, Maurice Blanchot, Franz Kafka, and Samuel Beckett

Post-performance discussion with Heiner Goebbels on November 13

http://lc.lincolncenter.org/shows/205298?show_date=2012-11-13%2019:30:00

ADMISSION: from $25

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15^th (POSTPONED – See the link below)

3PM-5PM Demo. | 7PM – 9PM Concert

Pauline Oliveros and Friends

VENUE: EYEBEAM

DETAILS: merging artificial intelligence and free improvisation through the electroacoustic improvising systems

http://eyebeam.org/events/strange-umbrella-1-an-afternoon-and-evening-with-pauline-oliveros-and-friends

ADMISSION:  Free Demo | $15 Concert

 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18^TH  

3:00PM, White Light Festival Conversations: The Body and the Self

VENUE: Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse

DETAILS: In Sunday’s discussion, we turn our attention to the exceptional power of music to reflect and speak to our innermost selves. How is it that even wordless music can be so eloquent? What influence does music have on how we feel, how we see ourselves, and how we see our place in the world? And how has the role of music changed through the ages?

John Schaefer, moderator
John Heginbotham, choreographer
Elena Mannes, filmmaker and author
Pauline Oliveros, composer
Concetta M. Tomaino, music therapist
Sophie Shao, cello

http://lc.lincolncenter.org/shows/206359?show_date=2012-11-18%2015:00:00

ADMISSION: FREE

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17^th

8:00 PM Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman

VENUE: Greenwich House

DETAILS: http://www.greenwichhouse.org/announcements/sound-it-out-sylvie-courvoisier-mark-feldman

ADMISSION: TBD

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29^th

8:00/9:30 PM Denman Maroney, piano, Ratzo Harris,bass and Bob Myers, drums

VENUE: The Firehouse Space

DETAILS: extended bass techniques, prepared piano,  hyperpiano,temporal harmony and improvisational Jewish liturgical music

http://thefirehousespace.org/event/alt-timers/

ADMISSION: $10