2006-2012
An
incomplete performance history in reverse chronological order
MARCH 15
New York, NY
Composers Concordance
Scratch Vs Squeeze
What: Contrast Concert series Scratch Vs Squeeze
When: March 15th - 8pm
Where: 549 West 52nd Street, 8th Floor (Between 10th and 11th Avenue)
Who:
William Schimmel - (accordion) versus Di.j. Noizepunk (Gene Pritsker)
Details: Our 4th annual Contrast concert series will pit Accordion against a D.J. with music by Schimmel, Cooper, Patrick Grant, Pritsker, Jed Distler, Milica Paranosic, Joseph Pehrson and others. Join us for an after party with a performance by Erbium.
More iNFO HERE
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MARCH 3
Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
TILTED AXES - BAKED!
Music for Mobile Electric Guitars
Procession for the New Music Bake Sale
Created & produced by
Patrick Grant
A not-so-secret special appearance
featuring the processional music of composer-guitarists
Cristian Amigo, Angela Babin, Dan Cooper, Nick Didkovsky,
Randolph A. Hudson III, Daniel Reyes Llinas, Gene Pritsker, &
Patrick Grant, with Jude Traxler, percussion & Tilt Manager - Steve Carter
At 7:00 PM we will do a procession around the neighborhood & Atlantic Terminal area.
There are even rumors that we might crash the NEW MUSIC BAKE SALE
during the 8:00 PM slot with a procession in Roulette itself. Rumors!
The entire New Music Bake Sale takes place from 4PM -11PM at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY
NEW MUSIC BAKE SALE
4PM -11PM at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY
More iNFO HERE
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JAN 25
New York City
New Works & Greatest Hits
On January 25 at 7:30 PM, Con Edison Composer-in-Residence Patrick Grant presents a concert of works created and developed during his Fall 2012 residency at Turtle Bay Music School. Admission is free.
Turtle Bay Music School
Em Lee Auditorium
244 East 52nd Street btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves.
Grant performs excerpts from The Velcro Variations (2012) for electric guitar, keyboard, & electronics. Using the tools of classical compositional rigor and in-the-moment improvisation, the piece is a multi-movement journey that deconstructs and rebuilds rock and dispels the myth of the guitar hero. On Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars, he presents material created for this year’s Make Music Winter NYC procession that was performed on the streets of Lower Manhattan on Dec. 21st. For this performance he will be joined by some of the musicians from that event and will roam the space around the audience in “…a moving, polyphonic sound cloud layered in compelling, electric rhythms.” The program includes Seven Years at Sea (Sept ans sur mer) and Breaking Butterflies Upon a Wheel.
Participating musicians include Cristian Amigo, Angela Babin, Dan Cooper, Randolph Hudson III, Daniel Reyes Llinas, Cesare Papetti, & Gene Pritsker.
Complete iNFO HERE
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2012-2013
New York, NY
The Con Edison Musicians’ Residency
Exploring the Metropolis
Interview with Patrick Grant
The Con Edison Musicians’ Residency: Composition Program is funded by Consolidated Edison, Credit Suisse, the George L. Shields Foundation, the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, AOH Foundation, the Reed Foundation, DJ McManus Foundation and individuals.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. We also wish to extend our thanks to the Office of Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn for their support.
This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
The Con Edison Musicians’ Residency: Composition Program is administered by Exploring the Metropolis
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New York, NY
TILTED AXES 2012
Music for Mobile Electric Guitars
Photos, Video, Audio, & Slideshow of the event by GUITARKADIA
See it all HERE
Make Music Winter 2012
Composer and producer Patrick Grant creates and leads a parade with over a dozen electric guitarists through the East Village, ending at the newly renovated lobby of the Public Theater. The result will be a moving, polyphonic sound cloud layered in compelling, electric rhythms to honor this season’s axial tilt.
See the complete Make Music Winter parade schedule HERE
TILTED AXES 2012 - procession route, beginning and ending at
Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St., NYC, Dec. 21st, 6:00-7:30 PM
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DEC 04
Brooklyn, NY
"Cures" from "Genome: The Autobiography of a Species"
arranged for clarinet, horn, trumpet, violin, piano, voice, electric guitar, electric bass, & glockenspiel.
Composers Concordance Ensemble
Tuesday, December 4th at 7:30pm at Shapeshifter Lab
18 Whitwell Place, Brooklyn
Tickets $10
https://www.facebook.com/events/404014559669641/
This arrangement is made possible by the The Con Edison Musicians’ Residency: Composition Program administered by Exploring the Metropolis
"Cures" (2003 rev. 2012) is a movement from the larger work "Genome: The Autobiography of a Species," loosely based on the book of the same name by Matt Ridley. Its structure is in 23 parts in that each section represents a chromosome in the human genome. The musical work takes the title of each of its parts after Ridley's naming of the chapters in his book where he emphasizes a particular characteristic of each one in order to create a narrative. “Cures,” a quasi-passacaglia arranged for the Composers Concordance Ensemble, represents the 18th chromosome of the human genome. The complete work was premiered with video projection at the Annina Nosei Gallery in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA and was made possible in part by CUNY's Science & the Arts performance series. http://www.patrickgrant.com/genome.htm
More iNFO HERE
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DEC 02
New York City
Third concert of the
Composers Concordance Festival II: 'Evolution'
Composers Play Composers Marathon
Instrumentation: Solo, Duo, Trio
30 Composer-Performers
Sunday, December 2nd from 3pm to 7pm at Drom NYC
85 Avenue A, NYC, Tickets $15 (includes one drink)
https://www.facebook.com/events/297587537018987/?fref=ts
This piece is made possible by the The Con Edison Musicians’ Residency: Composition Program administered by Exploring the Metropolis
More iNFO HERE
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NOV 30
New York City
First concert of the
Composers Concordance Festival II: 'Evolution'
November 30th at 8pm at Spectrum
121 Ludlow Street, 2nd floor, NYC - Tickets $10
https://www.facebook.com/events/130251643791529/
More iNFO HERE
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New York City
INTAR Roots & New Music Festival
excerpts from
The Velcro Variations
INTAR will be kicking off their Third Season (2012-2013) of concerts with their first INTAR Roots & New Music Festival on Friday and Saturday, November 16-17, 2012.
Performers include guitarists Elliott Sharp and Cristian Amigo, Miguel Frasconi (glass instruments), The Guidonian Hand Trombone Ensemble, violinist/composer Jason Kao Hwang, The Izzi Ramkissoon Ensemble, guitarist/composer Patrick Grant, Marios Aristopoulos, and many others. Stay tuned for details and the final program.
Lou Moreno – Artistic Director/INTAR
Cristian Amigo – INTAR Composer-in-Residence, series producer
Marios Aristopoulos – Associate Music Producer
More iNFO HERE
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Williamsburg, Brooklyn
excerpts from
The Velcro Variations
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New York, NY
Cage100@Stone Festival, Day 1:
The Noisy Toy Piano Orchestra directed by Miguel Frasconi
The Noisy Toy Piano Orchestra
Miguel Frasconi (director, toy piano), Stephen Gosling, Patrick Grant, Brian McCrokle, John Morton, Shoko Nagai, Paul Pinto, Kathleen Supové (toy pianos). Many toy pianos, mostly from Frasconi’s own collection, play John Cage’s Cheap Imitation (1969) in unison.
8PM @ THE STONE
the corner of Ave. C and 2nd Street, NYC
$10 at the door
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SEP 02
New York, NY
Terry Riley's "In C"
ComposersCollaborative Inc. presents The Mighty CCi House Band in Terry Riley's minimalist manifesto " In C" to launch and help underwrite the 2012/2013 Serial Underground season.
Featured performers include Demetrius Spaneas (flute, clarinet, saxophones), Melissa Elledge (accordion), Gene Pristker (electric guitar), Rex Benincasa (percussion), Alexandra Honigsberg (viola), Peri Mauer (cello), Patrick Grant (NST acoustic guitar) and Jed Distler (piano). There'll be surprise guests and some surprising music!
Doors open 5:45 PM, performance at 6:00 PM
$20 admission includes a $10 credit towards drinks and food
cash only
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street, NYC
More iNFO HERE
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New York City
& EVERYWHERE
International
STRANGE MUSIC DAY
Listen to some music today
that you've never heard of before,
just for the hell of it!
International sTRANGE mUSIC Day Performance Soiree
Fryday, August 24th @ SPECTRUM, 121 Ludlow St., NYC
8PM-11PM, tickets $10 at the door
Hosted by Patrick Grant
starring
Angela Babin + Cristian Amigo = Much Les Paul
The Dreamscape Floppies
Now Eleonor Sandresky
Gene Pritsker's Cage ReUnMixed
An Intimate Moment w/ Glenn Cornett
Hotdog Snotty R.I.P.
Jesse Krakow's Greatest Hits
Micro-Tons o' Fun w/ Johnny Reinhard
Jolly Ramey (Steve Carter & Maddi Horstmenn)
Card Tricks with Kathleen Supove
rahrahree! (Kurt Gottschalk vs. Tamara Yadao)
Miguel Frasconi LLC
Symphony Baby & Wormhole Chili
and Jed Distler as himself
...plus everybody's favorite...
Zero Boy
Check out the Facebook event page at
https://www.facebook.com/events/110930295718800/
More iNFO HERE
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AUGUST 17-30
New York City
In & Around C
Nouveau Classical Project
On August 30 at 7 PM in NYC: The new chamber music syndicate TYPICAL MUSIC (Todd Reynolds, Ashley Bathgate, & Vicky Chow) will be performing the musical framework I created for the Nouveau Classical Project's "In & Around C" interactive installation at Gallery OneTwentyEight on the Lower East Side. For their performance they will be joined by percussionist Owen Weaver.
This is but one of the many musical events planned by them and others for the closing night celebration. Complete information can be found at the project web site. If you are in town, I hope you can make it. -PG
In & Around C by artist Mad Mohre is a participatory music and art installation presented by the Nouveau Classical Project. Visitors act as 'notes' that musicians play.
This project is made possible by the Open Meadows Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Manhattan Community Arts Fund, Kickstarter.
PERFORMERS
The Nouveau Classical Project, of course...
Ashley Bathgate, cellist, Bang on a Can
Vicky Chow, pianist
Tristan McKay
Owen Weaver, percussionist
Hotel Elefant
LAMA Ensemble
COMPOSERS
Jeremiah Bornfield
Patrick Grant
Trevor Gureckis
Eric Lemmon
Alex Weston
TEAM
Mad Mohre, Artist
Sugar Vendil, Director and Producer
Tara Scott and Yoobin Whang, Production Assistants
@ GalleryOneTwentyEight
128 Rivington St., NYC
Complete iNFO HERE
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New York, NY
SPECTRUM presents
N Y X
NYC'S EXPERIMENTAL & PROG MUSIC FESTIVAL
NYX FEST
@ SPECTRUM
121 Ludlow Street, NYC
on the program
"Prog Gnosis: Patrick Grant"
SPECTRUM PRESENTS
THE NYX FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL & PROG MUSIC
AUGUST 10-12 at SPECTRUM, 121 LUDLOW STREET, NEW YORK CITY
A festival that celebrates the historical interaction between the genres of classical Experimental Music and Progressive Rock since their beginning and into the 21st century.
Spectrum, a recently-opened new-music performance venue in NYC's Lower East Side, presents the NYX Festival: Three days of music where Experimentalism and Prog Rock merge. Since the last century, these two genres have shared a number of key features: the free use of emerging technologies by way of synthesizers & electronics, ambitious musical structures, asymmetric time signatures and, notably, virtuosic performance involving "traditionally-amplified" electric guitars and their kin as well as “traditionally-acoustic” instruments such as piano. The NYX Festival has a line-up of highly-talented and exciting musicians from NYC and elsewhere. This will be an enjoyable, envelope-expanding experience for participants, both audience and performers alike.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10
at 7:30 PM, doors open at 7:00 PM, tickets $15
Chapman Stick Night hosted by Greg Howard with
Brett Bottomley
Rob Martino
Steve Adelson
Michael Bernier
Bright Brown
and Greg Howard
SATURDAY, AUGUST 11
from 2:00 PM until midnight, doors open at 1:30 PM,
tickets $10 for individual acts or $25 for an All Day Pass
2:00 PM: ensemble et al.
3:30 PM: David Smooke & Courtney Orlando
5:00 PM: Erbium
6:30 PM: Special Guests TBA
8:00 PM: Little Worlds - Bartok's Mikrokosmos Re-imagined
9:30 PM: Sarcaustic - Ron Anderson, Tim Dahl, & Weasel Walter
SUNDAY, AUGUST 12
from 2:00 PM until 10:30 PM, doors open at 1:30 PM,
tickets $10 for individual acts or $25 for an All Day Pass
2:00 PM: Damien Olsen & Robert Pepper
3:30 PM: Brad & Doug Balliett
5:00 PM: Prog Gnosis: Patrick Grant
6:30 PM: Blair McMillen / Melody Fader
7:30 PM: MoeTar from California
9:00 PM: miRthkon from California
3-Day Festival Passes are $45 - all tickets on sale soon
About The NYX Festival
The NYX Festival of Experimental and Prog Music is a three-day celebration of the interplay of classical (“traditionally acoustic”) and rock (traditionally amplified”) music. The festival brings under one roof virtuoso performers from both fields, many of the being active in both as classical and rock musicians. NYX is taking place at Spectrum on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and is sponsored by the New Spectrum Foundation. The festival’s Co-Directors are composer/performer Patrick Grant and biotechnology entrepreneur Glenn Cornett.
More iNFO at www.spectrumnyx.org
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Lisbon, Portugal
The Next Future Festival
Fondação Calouste Gulbenkian
BAIT MAN
Written and directed by Gerald Thomas
Performed by Cia. dos Atores' Marcelo Olinto
Original music & sound design by Patrick Grant
In a state of constant alert, pressured not knowing by what or by whom, Bait Man builds a deep and subtle analysis of contemporary man, with his fears, hopes and ambitions. A dangerous game is presented, creating a friction between reality and the imaginary. The world in ideological collapse, at the abyss, is the material of which Bait Man uses to play with humor and tension, causing a reflection where humanity walks by. A mysterious puzzle is presented with vigor, engaging all in a discrete web of information. The spectator is invited to participate in this puzzle game, where every action involves all the senses. Gerald Thomas (Rio de Janeiro), director and playwright, known for his bold aesthetic and his collaborations with Samuel Beckett and Heiner Müller, explores in "Bait Man" their language and scenic places involving all in the center of the relationship between the oppressor and the overwhelmed, creating a work where the actor is the main joint element of this puzzle game. The meeting of two generations of creators, Gerald Thomas and Marcelo Olinto, developing copyright works within their own companies, is an invitation to challenge, with no safety net. Gerald Thomas wrote and directed "Bait Man" by creating a particular work, where the actor is the main joint element of this game.
More details HERE
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JUNE 03
New York City
Premiere
"To Find a Form That
Accommodates the Mess"
for piano & electronics
Serial Underground 2011/12 Season Finale
The C&C Piano Factory
Cornelia St. Café, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC
Sunday June 3, 6:00 PM (doors open 5:45 PM)
The June 3 Serial Underground 2011/12 season closer marks
ComposersCollaborative, inc.’s artistic director Jed Distler’s final
appearance as host and curator for this long running series. For the first
time, CCi teams up with the innovative New York new music group Composers
Concordance for an evening of piano premiers performed on Jed’s own Yamaha
grand, on extended loan to the Cornelia Street Café since 2009. Many of the
selections will be played by the composers themselves. Guest pianists
include Julia Den Boer, Melody Fader, Taka Kigawa,
New works from Composers Concordance directors Joseph Pehrson, Milica
Paranosic, Gene Pritsker and Dan Cooper will be showcased, along with pieces
by composers Patrick Grant, Dan Palkawski, Peter Jarvis, plus a sneak
preview from CCi Artistic Director Jed Distler’s long-awaited piano cycle
“counterrevolution.” The program culminates in the world premier of a unique
composition for one piano eight pianists by Gene Pritsker.
“For years I’ve admired the imaginative programming ideas, creative energy
and generous spirit that my Composers Concordance colleagues bring to our
new music community,” Jed commented, “and I am excited that we get to join
forces to co-produce an evening of new piano music. I began CCi with
intimately scaled piano events back in the early 1990s, and it seems totally
fitting to go back to my roots as I conclude my Serial Underground curating
stint.”
Admission: $20 at the door, includes $10 drink/food credit – cash only
For reservations call 212 989 9319
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Royalston, MA
Guitar Circle
of North America
with Robert Fripp
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MAY 21
New York, NY
Kathleen Supové's
MUSIC WITH A VIEW
Patrick Grant hosts performances by
Lynn Bechtold & D.J. Sparr
On May 14th, The Flea Theater will once again open its doors to the most skilled and inventive composers from around the world. For two weeks, 27 of these maestros will unite in welcoming you to their playground to experience first-hand new and experimental contemporary alternative classical music performances that take place at The Flea’s FREE spring festival: Music With A View 2012.
Each evening of performance is followed by an open discussion between the composers and audience, moderated by a leader in the music scene. This year’s line up include Julia Wolfe , Tania Léon, Judd Greenstein, David Soldier, Eleonore Sandresky, Patrick Grant, Ransom Wilson, Daniel Felsenfeld, Randall Woolf, and Pamela Z.
Kathleen Supové, who’s been the festival’s curator since its inception six years ago, likes to think of these luminaries as guides to intimate conversations on music and composition rarely revealed to an attending public.
“It has changed my life and the way I look at performance and new music,” says Supové. “I first encountered The Flea Theater sometime before the second millennium and was hooked on its format- it’s changing the arts world as we know it.”
Music With A View 2012’s performing artists include Howie Kenty, Ruben Naeff, Vivian Fung, Judith St. Croix, Sideband, Doron Sadja, Anne Goldberg, Gilda Lyons, Jeremiah Lockwood, Svjetlana Bukvich, Molly Joyce, Jesse Krakow, Lynn Bechtold, D.J. Sparr, Jacob Cooper, Christopher Cresswell, Yoav Shemesh, Nomi Epstein, Jeremy Gill, Rodney Lister, Danielle Schwob, Michael Lytle, John Supko, Fay Wang, Florent Ghys, Joo Won Park, and Robert Honstein.
More details HERE
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MAY 18
New York, NY
Composers Concordance Records and the Czech Center present
Ladies First
Bohemian National Hall
321 E 73rd Street NYC
Held at New York City’s historic Bohemian National Hall, this event is brought to you by Milica Paranosic, Keve Wilson, and Lynn Bechtold.
The Bohemian National Hall, a venerable hub of New York’s Czech and Slavic culture since the 19th century, sets the tone for the evening. A special award will be created by NYC artist Cecilia Mandrile.
Event Details:
7 - 8PM – Opening Reception and Video Installation
The evening commences with a reception and video installation which will present interviews of women whose works have made a significant contribution to cultural life. The film will involve notable women of all fields:
Composer Gloria Coates, Co-Founder of Sing for Hope Camille Zamora, Micalea Ferreira of ARTErra - residências rurais artísticas, ABC news producer Christine Romo, Lara Land of Land Yoga, celebrated photographer Theresa Ortolani, award winning author and founder of the Storylines Project, Neela Vaswani, Anja Wood, co-founder of The Lelt Foundation, and many others.
8 - 9:30pm - Concert
Conceived as a flowing voyage through times and Bohemian aesthetics, this concert will present music of past and present performed by New York's finest chamber musicians.
Music by:
Lynn Bechtold, Peter Breiner, Dan Cooper, Antonin Dvorak, Lady Gaga, Patrick Grant, Vitezslava Kapralova, Alvin Lucier, Alma Mahler, Milica Paranosic, Astor Piazzolla, Gene Pritsker, and Keve Wilson. Three compositions will receive their world premiers: Milica Paranosic's "New Bohemian Suite", Gene Pritsker's "Ladies First Tango" and a new piece by Peter Breiner.
Performers include:
Milica Paranosic, Lynn Bechtold, Keve Wilson, Irina Chirkova, Dan Barrett, Peter Breiner, Dan Cooper, Patrick Grant, Taka Kigawa, Gene Pritsker
9:30 - 11pm After-party
Please join us for mingling and food sponsored by Balls Vodka, Trader Joe's, Kafana, Pain D'Avignon, Orwashers Bakery and Chez Jacqueline.
The women of Ladies First will wear jewelry by Sequin Jewelry and scarves by Elizabeth Gillett.
For more information, please go to:
http://www.wix.com/ladiesfirstnyc/ccr
or to buy tickets: www.ladiesfirstnyc.eventbrite.com
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Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, BRAZIL
BAIT MAN
Written and directed by Gerald Thomas
Performed by Cia. dos Atores' Marcelo Olinto
Original music & sound design by Patrick Grant
Lighting & stage design by Caetano Vilela
Movement preparation by Daniella Visco
Sound operator Rodrigo Marçal
The 7th Festival Palco Giratório SESC
in the Teatro Renascença at 9:00 PM
Av. Érico Veríssimo, 307 - (51) 3289 8066
An Intense Spectacle:
Marcelo Olinto, one of the founders of the Cia. dos Atores, will be seen here under the direction of the legendary Gerald Thomas to carry the torn and heartbreaking tale of a man who wants an end to the disasters that are befalling his body. "I'm hurt .. I'm hurt," he whispers, screams, anguished in the opening scenes. (The piece's) lighting and the music by Patrick Grant help to give weight and energy to a piece both intense and disturbing."
More information & tickets HERE
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APR 13
Brooklyn, NYC
OPERA ON TAP NYC
New Brew Presents
FREAKY FRIDAY!
Strange Characters! Bad Luck!
Barbes
376 9th Street
Park Slope
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 965-9177
$10 Suggested Donation
In honor of Friday the 13th, New Brewer Kamala Sankaram curates an evening of song featuring strange characters with extremely bad luck!
Featuring Music by:
Seth Bedford
Bob Windbiel
Adam Levine
Jeff Hudgins
Justine Chen
David Mallamud
Patrick Grant
Kamala Sankaram
with additional music by
Charles Ives and Kurt Weill
*And a special sneak peak at the new song cycle, Unfortunate Characters, by Corey Dargel, featuring Corey Dargel*
With performances by:
Seth Gilman
Anne Hiatt
Alissa Hunnicutt
Kamala Sankaram
Delea Shand
Krista Wozniak
http://www.operaontap.org/newyork/
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Wayne, NJ
William Paterson University
NEW MUSIC SERIES
Peter Jarvis, director
Monday, Mar. 5, 2012
7:30 PM in Shea Center's
Shea Auditorium
Music by:
John Beck, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Elliott Carter,
Patrick Grant, Art Kreiger, Gyorgy Ligeti, and Kevin Norton
Suggested contribution $5
(Free for students)
William Paterson University
College of Arts & Communication
Department of Music
On the program:
Patrick Grant - electric guitar & live electronics
More iNFO, directions, etc. HERE
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MARCH 11
Brooklyn, NY
THE 3rd ANNUAL
NEW MUSIC BAKE SALE
SUNDAY MARCH 11 2012
4 pm – midnight
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
$10 for admission and 1 raffle ticket
Live music every hour on the hour presented by:
Newspeak
TILT Brass
Janus Trio
Gutbucket
Face the Music
Sideband
James Moore & Andie Springer
Exapno members
(Concert Black, The Sweat Lodge, & Joey Molinaro)
Tables Representing:
American Opera Projects
Beth Morrison Projects
Boston New Music Initiative
Cadillac Moon Ensemble
Contemporaneous
Dr Faustus
Ensemble et al
Hotel Elefant
I Care If You Listen
Kate Campbell / Katelyn Halpern
MATA
New Music USA
Open Space
Peppergreen Media
Rhymes with Opera
Tom Swafford
W4 New Music Collective
and more!
Event sponsored by:
New Music USA (formerly AMC and Meet The Composer),
New Spectrum Music, I Care If You Listen, & Brooklyn Brewery
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San Francisco, CA
Shared Space 5
New dances by Todd Eckert & Nol Simonse
w/ original music by Patrick Grant
photo by Keira Heu-Jwln Change
Choreographers Todd Eckert and Nol Simonse return to Dance Mission Theater for the fifth anniversary of their popular Shared Space series. Through physical and theatrical metaphor, these artists consistently create lively dance concerts with broad audience appeal, featuring some of the Bay Area's finest performers. Shared Space 5 will feature three world premieres (one with original music by Patrick Grant) and as well as Simonse's critically acclaimed Etudes in Detention.
Dance Mission Theater
(24th St. @ Mission)
Tickets: $20
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/223522
Box Office: 415.273.4633
www.sharedspacesf.org
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New York, NY
Premiere: "Seven Years at Sea (Sept ans sur mer)"
for electric guitar, keyboard, & live electronics
IV. ELECTRONICS
Music for Electronics and Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
Composers Working with New Media
February 3rd at 8pm
Gallery MC
549 West 52nd Street, 8th Floor
(bet. 10th & 11th Ave), NYC
(212) 581-1966
http://www.gallerymc.org/h/
Admission: $10
Composers: Lynn Bechtold, Glenn Cornett, Dan Cooper, Dinu Ghezzo, Patrick Grant, Lainie Fefferman, Franz Hackl, Mari Kimura, Daniel Palkowski, Milica Paranosic/Joel Chadabe, Gene Pritsker, and Eric Somers
Performers: Lynn Bechtold, Gene Pritsker, Daniel Palkowski, Lainie Fefferman, Peter Christian Hall, Mari Kimura, Milica Paranosic, and Franz Hackl
Visual projections: Carmen Kordas
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New York, NY
Premiere: "Primary Blue(s)"
for violin, cello, electric guitar, piano, electric bass, & drums
III. NEW BLUES
Marking 100 Years of the Blues
Composers Bring the Genre into the 21st Century
Performed by The International Street Cannibals Ensemble
January 31st at 9pm
Nublu
62 Ave C, NYC
(646) 546-5206
http://www.nublu.net/
Admission: $10
Composers: Dan Barrett, John Clark, Dan Cooper, Glenn Cornett, Patrick Grant, Robert Johnson, Earl Maneein, Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker, and Joseph Pehrson
Performers: Dan Barrett, Lynn Bechtold, John Clark, Dan Cooper, Glenn Cornett, Glenn Cornett, Jennifer DeVore, Patrick Grant, Earl Maneein, Cesare Papetti, Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker, and Malik Work
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New York, NY
Premiere: "Breaking Butterflies Upon a Wheel"
for electric guitar & live electronics
II. MARATHON
The 3rd Annual Composers Play Composers Marathon
Composers Performing Their Own Music
January 29th at 7pm
DROM
85 Ave A, NYC
(212) 777-1157
http://www.dromnyc.com/
Admission: $20
Composer/Performers: Cristian Amigo, Dan Barrett, Eve Beglarian, Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols, Peter Breiner, David Chesky, Luis Cobo, Valerie Coleman, Dan Cooper, Jed Distler, Patrick Grant, Franz Hackl, Sara Holtzschue, Peter Jarvis, Andrew M. Lee, Peri Mauer, Daniel Palkowski, Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker, David Saperstein, Larry Simon, David Soldier, Rubens Salles, Eleonor Sandresky, Ezequiel Viñao, and Michael Wolff
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JAN 7 - 12
Internationally
The Revolution Will Not Be Autotuned
This week on Public Radio International's STUDIO 360:
I speak with Jon Pareles, chief pop music critic for the NY Times, about the History of Audio Effects in Pop Music over the last 60 years in a segment hosted by Kurt Andersen and produced by Jocelyn Gonzales.
Locally, it airs in New York City on Saturdays at 4 PM on WNYC 93.9 FM. National times for the week will vary on PRI's affiliates.
Here's a link where it's available as a stream or as a podcast. Check it out if you can. Thx.
http://www.studio360.org/2012/jan/06/the-revolution-will-not-be-autotuned/
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New York City
The Mozart Influence
at the Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC
Premiere
"The Emperor Responds to
Mozart's Request for a Raise"
baritone solo, horn, bass trombone, violin, cello, & electric bass
The Austrian Cultural Forum NY
11 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022
NYC's quintessential multi-genre ensemble, The International Street Cannibals, perform a concert at The Austrian Cultural Forum whose thematic core is Mozart, his influences, and the stylistic and structural ramifications of his work.
Works by Gene Pritsker, Dan Barrett, Dan Cooper, Patrick Grant,
John Clark, & Milica Paranosic are on the program.
Curated by Gene Pritsker
Complete program information HERE
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DEC 21, 2011
New York City
TILTED AXES
music for mobile electric guitars
Click HERE for the NY Times Review
Photo Set on Flickr
For the 1st annual Make Music Winter (info at bottom), notorious composer and producer Patrick Grant creates and leads a "precession" of over a dozen electric guitarists playing through Danelectro Honeytone mini-amps through the East Village, around Union Square, and back.
We are very happy to have NYC's Rivington Guitars as a sponsor and the starting point for the procession and St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery as another sponsor and as our final destination.
List of performers and precession route map HERE
The public is invited to march along and bring light hand percussion to join in if they wish.
The result will be a moving, polyphonic sound cloud layered in compelling, electric rhythms all in honor of this season's axial tilt.
The precession will begin at 6:30 PM at Rivington Guitars, 73 East 4th Street, between 2nd Ave. and Bowery
and will end at 7:30 PM at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 E 10th Street, NW corner of 2nd Ave.
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New York City
International Street Cannibals present
A Place in France
music about, inspired by, and related to France,
along with the usual dancers, acrobats, & athletes
premiere
"ce n'est pas un piano"
for keyboard & cue-cards
Sunday, December 4th, 2011 at 7:30pm
St Marks Church In-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003-7504
(212) 674-8194
More iNFO at: www.streetcannibals.com
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NOV 18, 2011
Brooklyn, NY
Composers Concordance presents
"PIPES VS. PIPES"
the organ versus the singers
Friday, November 18th at 7:30 PM at
St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church
116 Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11217
(corner of 6th Ave. and Sterling Pl.)
http://www.staugustineparkslope.org/
With the performers Carson Cooman (organ) and singers Lynn Norris (soprano), Donna Breitzer (alto), Milan Rakic (tenor), and Charles Coleman (baritone).
Featured artists Christopher Klaich (baritone) and Alistair Reid (organ).
Music by
Carson Cooman, Dan Cooper, Paula Diehl, Patrick Grant,
Patrick Hardish, Robert Moran, Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker,
David Soldier, & Peteris Vasks
with the premiere of
"14 Variations on 14 Words"
text: Edwin Morgan after John Cage, music: Patrick Grant
More details at
www.composersconcordance.com
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AUG 24, 2011
everywhere
In its second decade...
INTERNATIONAL
STRANGE MUSIC DAY
Create, play, or listen to some unusual music today,
just for the hell of it.
Houston Press
The Examiner
Holidays 123
Giftypedia
Google
92.7 FM, Sonora, CA
Salt Lake Magazine
CBC Radio 2
It’s funny how a holiday that I “invented” for my web site in the 90s actually caught on. Mostly, it seems, by summer school programs looking for activities for the kids i.e. homemade instruments, listening exercises, and the like. It gets a little bigger every year.
So, in the spirit of all that: do something that is sonically unusual for you, whether it’s listening to a random CD or getting out of the house and going to a musical event that you normally would not. It’s all relative.
Happy Strange Music Day!
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New York, NY
Peppergreen Media & Waterside Plaza present
POWER TRIOS
by Patrick Grant Group
new music for electric guitar, keyboards, live
electronics,7-string electric bass, drums & percussion
composed and performed by
Patrick Grant, Dan Cooper, & John Ferrari
as part of
Make Music New York 2011
Tuesday, June 21st
25th Street & The East River
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
FREE EVENT
A power trio is a rock and roll band format popularized in the 1960s. The traditional power trio has a lineup of guitar, bass and drums, leaving out the rhythm guitar or keyboard that are used in other rock music to fill out the sound with chords. While one or more band members may sing, power trios usually emphasize instrumental performance and overall impact over vocals and lyrics.
For this performance, three classically trained musicians will give their unique take on this instrumentation in a concert of premieres and arrangements of their works. Thinking that “everything that rises must converge,” these composer/performers have a long history in seamlessly blending elements of serious contemporary music and popular music idioms into epic sound-scapes of orchestral scope propelled forward by driving, compelling rhythms.
This 90-minute performance is the second presentation that Patrick Grant has created for Waterside Plaza’s participation in Make Music New York. It is a FREE EVENT and is open to a public of all ages. Waterside Plaza’s location on the East River only adds to each and every event it hosts.
Make Music New York is made possible with the generous financial support of Bloomberg LP, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Additional support is provided by Accenture, Betterfly, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Deutsche Bank, GigMaven, and HBO. We gratefully acknowledge substantial in-kind support from the City of New York, Jarrell Guitars, Metro New York, Time Out New York, and WNYC.
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19 MAY 2011
Germany
But Life Goes On
Aber das Leben geht weiter
a new documentary by
Karin Kaper & Dirk Szuszies
original music by Patrick Grant
Filmmaker Karin Kaper tells the story of forced displacement of her mother’s family in a very personal way. The protagonists of the film are Edwarda Zukowska, her daughter Maria, her granddaughter Gabriela, Ilse Kaper, her sister Hertha and Karin Kaper. Supported with means by the Foundation of German-Polish Cooperation.
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New York, NY
"Pestilence, War, Famine, & Death"
a new piece for four cellos
Sunday, May 15, 2011 at St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery,
NYC, at 7:30 PM, concert premiere as part of
“VermiCelli - sundry instrumental combos with 20 celli”
+ works by Barrett, Cooper, Cobo, Pehrson, Pritsker, and more,
with a Grant arrangement of Vivaldi
presented by The International Street Cannibals
info: www.streetcannibals.com
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MAY 10, 2011
New York, NY
CBCB
Composers Concordance Meets Bruka Band
An Evening of New Music, Media, & Art
Composers Concordance and Bruka Band will join forces for an evening to explore a variety of angles to the art of performing today. The music traditions include classical, world, jazz, and hip-hop, the cultures of the Balkans, South and North America, interweaving art forms of music, literature, dance, visual projections and photography.
Composers Concordance and Bruka Band are two energetic, daring and diverse collectives of new music composers, performers and new art advocates.
For CBCB, they gather an exciting array of New York based musicians and artists including: Bruka Band’s Milica Paranosic, Margaret Lancaster, Jonathan Zalben, Rubens Salles, Richard Manoia, Lauri Galbreath and Peter Christian Hall; and Composers Concordance’s Dan Cooper, Gene Pritsker, Dan Barrett, Lynn Bechtold and Patrick Grant.
For this event the group will perform Patrick Grant's
"Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms"
for violin, cello, electric guitar, 7-string electric bass, & piano
May 10th at 8:00 PM
GALLERY MC
549 W 52nd St., 8th floor
New York, NY 10019
(212) 581-1966
Tickets $5 at the door
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New York, NY
Composers Concordance Recordings record release party for
"The Chamber and Electronic Music of Gene Pritsker"
live performances include
a sTRANGE mUSIC premiere:
"Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms"
for violin, cello, electric guitar, 7 string bass, & piano
Composers Concordance Records Release Party
Doors 6:30pm, Show 7:30pm
Tickets $20 (includes one drink)
CLUB DROM
85 Avenue A (b/w 5th & 6th)
New York, NY - (212) 777-1157
program:
1. What Occurred in the Light goes on in the Dark - Gene Pritsker
Dan Barrett - cello, Megan Sipe - dancer
2. I Can't Wait (premiere) - Dan Cooper & Carolyn Kelly
Lynn Bechtold - violin, Dan Barrett - cello, Patrick Grant & Milica
Paranosic - piano, Gene Pritsker - Guitar, Dan Cooper - 7 string bass
3. Songs of the World #11 - (premiere) - Milica Paranosic
Milica Paranosic - gusle and voice, Lynn Bechtold - violin,
Dan Barrett - cello, Gene Pritsker - rap & ciftelia,
Dan Cooper - 7 string bass, Paul Pouthier - percussion
4. Fracanapa and Oblivion - Astor Piazzolla
Keve Wilson - oboe, Mat Fieldes - bass, Florian Hoefner - piano
5. Pure Imagination - Leslie Bricusse
Keve Wilson - oboe, Mat Fieldes - bass, Florian Hoefner - piano
6. C17H21NO4 - Gene Pritsker
Lynn Bechtold - violin, Dan Barrett - cello, Megan Sipe - dancer
7. Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms (premiere) - Patrick Grant
Lynn Bechtold - violin, Dan Barrett - cello, Patrick Grant - piano,
Gene Pritsker - guitar, Dan Cooper - 7 string bass
8. We Call Upon the Earth - Gene Pritsker, text: Chinook Blessing
Charles Coleman - voice, Lynn Bechtold - violin, Dan Barrett - cello,
Patrick Grant - piano, Gene Pritsker - guitar, Dan Cooper - 7 string bass
9. Guillaume de Mash-up - Group Improvisation
Ensemble
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New York, NY
DIRTY MARTINI
& the NEW BURLESQUE
Premiere of the The Director's Cut
A film by Gary Beeber
Original music & sound design by Patrick Grant
WINNER: Best Documentary at the Coney Island Film Festival
Ten In One Productions Presents…
"DIRTY MARTINI & THE NEW BURLESQUE"
Film Screening + Live Burlesque Performances
April 16,2011
VIP: $25 Adv / $30 DOS * Reserved front 2 Rows
GA: $20 Adv / $25 DOS * First Come, First Seated
SRO: $15 * Standing At Bar
Concert starts @ 8PM
Doors open @ 7PM
Buy Tickets Online
Full dinner menu available / General Admission Seated Show
All Ages / First come, first seated / $10 min per person at tables
THE HIGHLINE BALLROOM
431 W 16th St
New York, NY 10011
(212) 414-5994
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Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
COMPLEXO SISTEMA
de Enfraquecimento da
Sensibilidade
written & directed by Ruy Filho
strange music by Patrick Grant
performed by Cia. Antro Exposto
teatro santa rosa
Praça Rotary Club, 325
City Ribeirão, Ribeirão Preto
(16) 39161350
More iNFO HERE
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Syracuse, NY
MUSIC AT LE MOYNE
Music Journeys: Patrick Grant
PATR1CK GR@NT
B1Ts+P1ECEs
new works for solo performer
W. Carroll Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY
March 15, 2011 at 7:30 PM
Tickets: $15 general public; $10 seniors;
free to all students and the Le Moyne community.
Tickets available at the door.
For more information, call (315) 445-4523
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New York, NY
Culture Project
presents
A Tribute to Judith Malina
Judith Malina’s revolutionary career with The Living Theatre has spanned six decades, traversed the globe and inspired generations of political theater artists.
Members of the ensemble—aged 7 to 70—host an evening of performances and stories from Malina’s history.
The Living Theatre Ensemble
Hosted by The Culture Project
Special musical performance by Patrick Grant
Performances by Penny Arcade, George Bartennieff, Sheila Dabney,
Tom Walker, Monica Hunken, Judith Malina and others
Part of The Culture Project's
Tuesday, March 8th
The Living Theatre
21 Clinton Street
New York, NY 10002
More iNFO at:
http://www.cultureproject.org/wcs/schedule
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London, England
THROATS
by GERALD THOMAS
Avant-garde writer and director Gerald Thomas sets up his
Dry Opera Company in London.
The first production will be Throats,
at the Pleasance Theater in Islington.
Throats will run from February 18 to March 27
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New York, NY
Composers Concordance's 2nd Annual
COMPOSERS PLAY COMPOSERS MARATHON
music & performances by:
Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, David Morneau, Patrick Grant, Robert Voisey, Kevin James, Peter Jarvis, Dave Taylor, John Clark, Jay Rozen, Hayes Greenfield, Valerie Coleman, Lynn Bechtold, Robert Dick, Franz Hackl, Milica Paranosic, Arthur Kampela, David Claman
CLUB DROM
85 Avenue A
(b/w 5th & 6th)
New York, NY
(212) 777-1157
http://www.dromnyc.com
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NYC Radio & Live Internet Broadcast
Our segment is 8 PM EST (01:00 GMT)
15th Annual Festival on WKCR 89.9 FM NYC
Beginning at 12 PM (17:00 GMT)
WKCR DJ Jassvan de Lima asked composer/performer Arthur Kampela to put together a group of composers to create their own free and personal musical arrangements based on Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim's work for broadcast.
Composers/participants include Arthur Kampela & Alexa, Clarice Assad, Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, and Patrick Grant.
Live Stream on the WCKR Web Site
Our segment will air 8 PM EST (01:00 GMT)
Read about it on The MMiXdown
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Santiago, Chile
XVIII Santiago a Mil
International Festival:
"BAIT MAN"
Conceived, Designed and Directed by Gerald Thomas
Original Music & Sound Design by Patrick Grant
Performed by Cia. dos Atores' Marcelo Olinto
An Intense Spectacle:
Marcelo Olinto, one of the founders of the Cia. dos Atores, will be seen here under the direction of the legendary Gerald Thomas to carry the torn and heartbreaking tale of a man who wants an end to the disasters that are befalling his body. "I'm hurt .. I'm hurt," he whispers, screams, anguished in the opening scenes. Thomas’ lighting and music by Patrick Grant help to give weight and energy to a piece both intense and disturbing." - XVIII Santiago a Mil International Festival
Un espectáculo intenso:
"Marcelo Olinto, uno de los fundadores de la Cia. dos Atores, se pone aquí a la órdenes del legendario Gerald Thomas para llevar a escena el desgarrado y desgarrador de un hombre al que parecen no caberle más catástrofes en el cuerpo. “Estoy herido.. estoy herido”, murmura, grita, angustiado, en los primerosinstantes. La iluminación del propio Thomas y la música de Patrick Grant contribuyen a dar peso y energía a un espectáculo
intenso y perturbador." - XVIII Santiago a Mil International Festival
BAIT MAN
Texto, dirección e iluminación: Gerald Thomas
Colaboración y actuación: Marcelo Olinto
Preparación Corporal: Daniela Visco
Escenografia: Domingos Alcantara
Vestuario: Marcelo Olinto y Patrícia Muniz
Música original: Patrick Grant
Técnico y operador de iluminación: Leandro Barreto
Funciones: 11 y 12 a las 22:00 horas
Lugar: Sala Universidad Mayor, ubicado en Santo Domingo 711 (Stgo. Centro)
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DEC 15, 2010
New York, NY
FREE EVENT
COMPOSERS CONCORDANCE RECORDS
Label Launch and CD Release PARTY!!!!
Wednesday, December 15, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
St Mark's In-The-Bowery
131 East 10th Street [2nd Ave]
On the program:
"Thou Art Translated (Knot)"
text: Haroldo de Campos
translation: A.S. Bessa
voice: Patricia Sonego
music/piano: Patrick Grant
choreo/dance: Megan Sipe
Please join us as we celebrate the launch of
our new label distributed by Naxos:
Composers Concordance Records
http://www.composersconcordancerecords.com/
AND...
The release of our new CD 'Ballets & Solos'
http://www.naxosdirect.com/Ballets--Solos/title/COMCON001/
The event will feature performances by pianist Taka Kigawa, violinist Lynn Bechtold, oboist Keve Wilson, pianist Luis Andrei Cobo, dancers Megan Sipe & Linda Pehrson, with Di. J. Noizepunk (aka Gene Pritsker) re mixing the album. Drinks will be served.
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DEC 05, 2010
New York, NY
J.S. BACALHAU
A mix of Bach & Brazil
Sunday December 5th, 2010 at 7:30pm
St Marks In-The-Bowery
131 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003-7504
(212) 674-8194
$15 at the door
Presented and produced by the
THE INTERNATIONAL STREET CANNIBALS
Dan Barrett, Gene Pritsker, & Dan Cooper - directors
Entrance Music - Villa-Lobos Remix - Gene Pritsker
1.) Invocation, Nick Cooper– berimbau
2.) J.S. Bach, Aria from The Goldberg Variations BWV 988
Taka Kigawa - piano, Andrew Broaddus, Alan Good,& Saul Ulerio – dancers
3.) Patrick Grant, Thou Art Translated (Knot)
text: Haroldo de Campos, trans: A. S. Bessa
Patricia Sonego - voice, Patrick Grant - keyboard, Philip Galinsky - percussion, Megan Sipe – choreographer/dancer
4.) J.S. Bach / arr. Dan Barrett, Three Dances
i. Bourrée in A major, ii. Gavotte in E minor, iii. Praeludium in A minor
Dave Taylor - bass trombone, Kory Grossman - percussion, Dan Barrett - cello, Andrew Broaddus - dancer, Amanda Mottur - belly dancer, Max Pollak - tap dancer & body percussion
5.) Dan Cooper, Bowery
Dimitri Dover & Taka Kigawa - piano four hands, Nicolas Cifuentes & others from Sticks & Bones – stilts
6.) J.S. Bach / arr. Lawler & Fadoul, Bachanão
i. Prelude & Fugue in C-sharp major from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 BWV 872, ii. Andante-Presto & Allegro, from Sonata in C major BWV 1033, iii. Prelude & Fugue in G major from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 BWV 860
Zara Lawler - flute, Paul Fadoul - marimba, Xari Coco, Nick Cooper & other capoeira martial artists
7.) Milica Paranosic, Lastavice #3 - Luna
Milica Paranosic - voice & berimbau, Dan Cooper - 7-string bass guitar, Amanda Mottur & Megan Sipe – dancers
8.) J.S. Bach, Moderato from Concerto in G minor BWV 1056
Lynn Bechtold - amplified violin & Dimitri Dover – keyboard
9.) Gene Pritsker, Six Melodies for Choto
Zara Lawler & Linda Wetherill - flutes, Linda Pehrson, Kristen Schifferdecker, Andrew Broaddus, Amanda Mottur, & Lorene Bouboushian – dancers
10.) J.S. Bach / arr. Dan Barrett,
Allegro Ma Non Tanto from Sonata in G major BWV 1027
Dave Taylor - bass trombone, Taka Kigawa - piano, Kory Grossman - percussion, Mioi Takeda - violin, Dan Barrett - cello, Andrew Broaddus, Amanda Mottur,& Max Pollak – dancers
11.) Arthur Kampela, Three Songs
i. Mirrors ii. Adeus iii. Epopéia e Graça
Arthur Kampela - voice & guitar, Philip Galinsky - percussion, Jose Moura - bass guitar, Dan Barrett – cello
12.) J.S. Bach / ISC Ensemble / Samba New York
Samba & Fugue in G minor BWV 578
Linda Wetherill & Zara Lawler - flutes, Dave Taylor - bass trombone, Patricia Sonego - soprano, Taka Kigawa - piano, Patrick Grant - keyboard, Paul Fadoul - marimba, Claudio Barriga, Jan Driscoll, Colin Eletto, Philip Galinsky, Eugene Mcelroy, Magnus Sweger, Vivian Warfield, Louis Winsberg, & Robert Wood - percussion, Arthur Kampela - guitar, Dan Cooper - 7-string bass guitar, Lynn Bechtold, Mioi Takeda - violins, Dan Barrett - cello, Danielle Lima - samba dancer, Nicolas Cifuentes & others from Sticks & Bones - stilts
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San Francisco, CA
Shared Space 4
New dances by Todd Eckert & Nol Simonse
on the program
"False Intimacies"
choreography by Todd Eckert
music by Patrick Grant
November 5 - 7, 2010
Fri & Sat 8pm
Sun 7pm
Dance Mission Theater
(24th St. @ Mission, San Francisco)
Tickets: $20
Click HERE to buy online now
Box Office: 415.273.4633
Media sponsor:
More INFO at:
http://www.sharedspacesf.org/
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New York, NY
Guest speaker Patrick Grant discusses
BIG BANG for live ensemble and multimedia
Strange Music Inc., NYC
A presentation about the creation of phase one of this work and the
plans for its expansion onto the stage as music theater in 2011
The CUNY Graduate Center
Elebash Recital Hall
34th St. & 5th Ave.
New York, NY
More iNFO at:
http://www.sciartconference2010.com
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New York City
The 10th Annual Coney Island Film Festival
Opening Night Feature Presentation
Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque
produced and directed by Gary Beeber
original music and sound design by Patrick Grant
DIRTY MARTINI AND THE NEW BURLESQUE, a feature-length, independent documentary film by Gary Beeber explores the outrageous world of the performers who created the new burlesque scene in New York City. Get to know Miss Dirty Martini and her friends Julie Atlas Muz, World-Famous *BOB*, Bambi the Mermaid, Tigger!, Scotty the Blue Bunny, and many other cult stars.
More INFO, tickets, etc. at:
http://www.coneyislandfilmfestival.com/
BONUS: Check out this video short from 2005, "Happy Ride, Coney Island"
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São Paulo, Brazil
the return of
COMPLEXO SISTEMA
DE ENFRAQUECIMENTO DA SENSIBILIDADE
Cia. de Teatro Antro Exposto
"Grant’s work is stupendous... In “Complexo Sistema” it establishes an uninterrupted dialogue of words and action, taking the risky games that Ruy Filho’s actors face to extreme intensities. With the dialogue between the music and sound design of Grant on one hand, and the parade of repressive and violent situations conceived by Ruy on the other, the piece could not be stronger. Here, text and soundtrack combine as a unified and inseparable whole in service of the storytelling. The result is powerful."
Alberto Guzik - January 23, 2009 (Portuguese original text)
Complexo Sistema de Enfraquecimento da Sensibilidade
Um torturador e um garoto. A agressão física e manipulação psicológica como sistema de padronização. A resistência, no entanto, dá-se na construção de delírios, fugas da realidade possíveis apenas aos que ainda conseguem imaginar e criar. Com trilha original de Patrick Grant, parceiro de importantes nomes do teatro contemporâneo como Robert Wilson, The Living Theatre e Gerald Thomas. “(...) Mais uma vez, o grupo não facilita a vida do público – e aí está seu mérito” (Veja S. Paulo, 12/2008).
Ficha Técnica
Concepção, texto e direção: Ruy Filho
Música original: Patrick Grant
Com Diego Torraca, Guilherme Gorski, Raiani Teichmann, Tiago Torraca e Camila Biondan
Cenário e Iluminação: Ruy Filho
Figurinos: Junia Paiva
Preparação de ator: Gustavo Sol
Preparador convidado: Alexandre Caetano
Fotos e Design Gráfico: Patrícia Cividanes
Produção: Cia. de Teatro Antro Exposto
Assistente de produção: Hermano Balbino
Assessoria de imprensa: AI! Antro Imprensa
Realização: Cia. de Teatro Antro Exposto e Centro Cultural Rio Verde
Elenco
Diego Torraca
Guilherme Gorski
Raiani Teichmann
Tiago Torraca
Camila Biondan
Serviço
Temporada: de 06 a 27 de julho de 2010
Horários: terças-feiras às 21hs
Censura: 14 anos
Ingressos: R$ 30,00
Gênero: drama experimental
Duração: 70 minutos
Sala Principal
74 lugares
Telefone para reservas: (11) 9900.0049
Viga Espaço Cênico
Rua Capote Valente, 1323 – Pinheiros, São Paulo/SP
Próximo ao metrô Sumaré
Telefone: (11) 3801.1843
http://www.viga.art.br/
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New York City
H2Opus
Fluid Soundscapes by Multiple Composers
An event produced by
Patrick Grant & Special Guests for
Make Music New York 2010
Patrick Grant - composer/keyboard/electric guitar
Kamala Sankaram - composer/voice/accordian
Gene Pritsker - composer/electric guitar
Joseph Pehrson - composer/keyboard
Dan Cooper - composer/electric bass
John Ferrari - drums & marimba
Kathleen Supove - keyboard
Lynn Bechtold - violin
Marija Ilic - keyboard
Pieces on the Program:
Lonely Ride Coney Island - Patrick Grant
Prudendurance Wet - Joseph Pehrson
Wading for Bait Man - Patrick Grant
Water Possessed 4- Gene Pritsker
Sounds of Sirens - Patrick Grant
Lucid Intervals - Patrick Grant
Deep Time 2- Gene Pritsker
Solstice Bells - Dan Cooper
Pilgrim - Kamala Sankaram
Fishbowl - Dan Cooper
Design - Dan Cooper
Download the press release HERE
@ Waterside Plaza NYC
23rd Street & The East River
Monday, June 21, 2010
7PM - 9PM
Directions to Waterside Plaza HERE
Make Music New York is sponsored by:
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APR - MAY
São Paulo & Rio de Janeiro
concerts, workshops, and new theater works
APR 21
São Paulo, Brazil
CENTRO CULTURAL RIO VERDE
Rua Belmiro Braga, 119 Vila Madalena
8 PM Show, Doors open at 7 PM, R$5
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IN PROGRESS
São Paulo, Brazil
Artifícios Primeiros
Conceived and Directed by Ruy Filho
With TiagoTorraca
Original music & sound Patrick Grant
Graphic Design and Photography by Patricia Cividanes
Press Relations Antro Imprensa antroimprensa@yahoo.com.br
www.antroexposto.blogspot.com
Venue & other
details TBA
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MAY 17
São Paulo, Brazil
CENTRO CULTURAL RIO VERDE
Rua Belmiro Braga, 119 Vila Madalena
8 PM Show, R$12
LAÇOS ESTRANHOS
Patrick GRANT (Nova York)
keyboard, guitar & electronics
Centro Cultural Rio Verde
Segunda-feira, 17/5, 20:00 hrs
Rua Belmiro Braga, 119
Vila Madalena, SP
(11) 3459-5321
R$12
Programa:
1. Padrões da Condução
2. Sete Anos no Mar
3. Referendo dos Riffs
4. Intervalos Lúcidos
5. Desconhecido (?)
6. Laços Estranhos (Rio Verde Mix)
http://www.centroculturalrioverde.com.br
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JAN 24 to FEB 24
São Paulo, Brazil
SAMPOEMAS 2010
Music for Poetry & Video Installations:
POEMAPOPAULICEIAIMAGEMPLATEIA
Curated by Paula Valeria Andrade, as part of Verão de Poesia (Summer of Poetry),
in the Casa das Rosas - Espaço Haroldo de Campos de Poesia e Literatura,
to celebrate the city of São Paulo.
16h – Inauguração da Exposição de Poemas e Fotos de São Paulo
Curadoria: Paula Valéria Andrade
Poemas de:
Cláudio Daniel + Cláudio Willer + Décio Pignatari + Elson Fróes + Horácio Costa + Luiz Roberto Guedes + Reynaldo Bessa + Reynaldo Damazio + Roberto Piva + Ruy Proença + Virna Teixeira+ Pipol + Eunice Arruda + Paula Valéria + Donny Corrêa + Ricardo Carneiro + Frederico Barbosa+ Haroldo de Campos
Fotografias de:
Beto Riginik + Kiko Coelho + Maurício Paiva + Paulo Henrique Pampolim
Vinhetas digitais de:
Cello Camolesi Macedo + Patrick Grant (New York) + Reynaldo Bessa
Performances:
Lúcio Agra + Juliana Barros + Sérgio Fabris
Pocket Shows:
Natália Mallo + Reynaldo Bessa
Casa das Rosas - Espaço Haroldo de Campos
de Poesia e Literatura
Avenida Paulista, 37
Próximo à Estação Brigadeiro do Metrô
Tel.: (11) 3285.6986
www.casadasrosas-sp.org.br
Estacionamento conveniado Patropi:
Al. Santos, 74
contato.cr@poiesis.org.br
Twitter: @casadasrosas
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New York, NY
Composers Concordance Presents
Composers Play Composers Marathon
Composers Concordance presents a marathon concert entitled 'Composers Play Composers' on Sunday, January 31, 2010, 6:00 PM doors, 7:00-10:00PM performance.
CLUB DROM
85 Avenue A
(b/w 5th & 6th)
New York, NY
(212) 777-1157
http://www.dromnyc.com
This concert, in collaboration with VisionIntoArt, will consist of a 3 hour performance with 23 composers playing their own works. The marathon will have 3 sets with 2 short 10 minute breaks.
The 23 composers are: Roger Blanc, Thomas Bo, Luis Andrei Cobo, Charles Coleman, Dan Cooper, Larry Goldman, David Gotay, Patrick Grant, Franz Hackl, Don Hagar, Arthur Kampela, Alon Nechushtan, Daniel Palkowski, Milica Paranosic, Akmal Parwez, Joseph Pehrson, Gene Pritsker, Paola Prestini, Jody Redhage, Kamala Sankaram, William Schimmel, Andrew Violette, & Theodore Wiprud.
Each set will start off with a trio composed by Franz Hackl, trumpet, Charles Coleman, baritone voice and Gene Pritsker on electric guitar. Works and composers featured in the marathon include Arthur Kampela playing and strumming the cello like a guitar, Joseph Pehrson’s piece for piano based on a Beatles song, a composition by Dan Cooper for 7-string electric bass, piano and percussion, a piece for voice and berimbau by Milica Paranosic, a work for soprano sax and piano by Alon Nechushtan, a piece for voice and electronics by Kamala Sankaram and a piano piece by Luis Andrei Cobo.
Live visuals by Astrid Steiner (luma.launisch) and media by Carmen Kordas.
Tickets are $10 with a mandatory 2-drink minimum.
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DEC 18 & 19
Vienna, Austria
Morton Feldman & Samuel Beckett
NEITHER
Patrick Grant is the music director for the DEC 18 & 19 production of the Morton Feldman opera for solo soprano "Neither" with a libretto by Samuel Beckett at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria.
In a special arrangement with Feldman's publisher Universal Edition, Grant has created a realization of the original orchestration for keyboard, piano and electronics.
The opera is directed and produced by Thomas Desi of ZOON Music Theater with Kiera Duffy as the soprano soloist. Grant is joined by the renowned Michael Pilafian on piano.
Original video projections are by David Haneke. The production features movement artist Roman Maria Mueller.
This work had it premiere as a production of the Center for Contemporary Opera in May 2009 and will find Vienna as its first production outside of NYC.
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New York, NY
MUSIC WITH A VIEW
New Concert Series @ The Flea Theater
The Flea Theater is delighted to announce the fourth season of Music With A View, a free music series devoted to the discovery of new, fresh sound created and performed by contemporary musicians. The series is curated by Kathleen Supové.
DECEMBER 13 at 3pm
Instruments of Your Dreams Part 2
Jeff Myers-Jack Quartet
Michael Gatonska
James Schlefer
Patrick Grant
Guest Moderator: Mari Kimura
Continuing the theme of instruments, December’s concert returns only somewhat to more conventional media. There will be nothing conventional about this diverse group of voices. Composer Jeff Myers has written an energetic and compelling piece for the exciting up-and-coming Jack Quartet (protégés of Kronos); composer Michael Gatonska has written idiosyncratic works for orchestra and soloists. In this concert, he will premiere a work for flute and percussion. Legendary flutist/conductor Paul Dunkel is one of the performers; James Schlefer is a virtuoso on the shakuhachi (the Japanese cousin to the flute!), he is also composing lately and will be premiering a new lyrical work for an ensemble of Japanese instruments; finally, Patrick Grant has written high-energy music for stage, clubs, films, and burlesque shows. He has led several ensembles, but here he is going solo with electronic keyboard, laptop, and a smorgasbord of electronic effects and sounds. Violinist/composer/electronics wizard Mari Kimura switches roles in December and acts as host of the post-concert discussion.
The Flea Theater is located in Tribeca at 41 White Street
(between Broadway & Church Streets)—accessible from
the A, C, E, N, R, Q, W, 6, J, M, Z to Canal Street
or the 1 to Franklin Street.
More info at
http://www.theflea.org
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NOV 18 & 22
Denver, CO
American Premiere:
Starz Denver Film Festival
ANOTHER GLORIOUS DAY
a film by Karin Kaper & Dirk Szuszies
original music & sound design
by Patrick Grant
German Premieres:
Special Previews on Nov. 15 & 16 at 6 PM at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Special Preview on Nov. 16 at 7 PM at the Forum Freies Theater Düsseldorf
Nov. 19, Kino Eiszeit Berlin
Nov. 19-20, Filmforum Frankfurt Hoechst
Nov. 19-21, Maxim-Kino München
Nov. 19-22, Casablanca Dresden
Nov. 19-25, Lichtspiel Bamberg
Nov. 22, Matinée Friedrichsbau-Apollo, Freiburg
Nov. 27-28, Dec. 2-3, Schaubühne Leipzig
Nov. 29-Dec. 2. Cinema Münster
Dec. 7-12, Kino 3001, Hamburg
Dec. 9, Schauburg Bremen
more iNFO at http://www.karinkaper.com/
STARZ DENVER FILM FESTIVAL
More iNFO HERE
Centered around a 2008 revival of The Brig, the inflammatory 1963 play that exposed the harsh realities inside a US Marine prison, this documentary by Karin Kaper and Dirk Szuszies puts former Marine Kenneth H. Brown’s drama into historical perspective – and makes a case for its ongoing relevance – through powerful scenes from the recent production in Berlin as well as illuminating interviews with directors of the play past and present, revival cast members, and the playwright himself.
When Julian Beck and Judith Malina, the founders of New York’s radical Living Theater, brought The Brig to their stage in the early 1960s, many theater critics – not to mention the US Department of Defense – found it not just obnoxious but subversive. Rooted in the surrealist model of Theater of Cruelty, Brown’s claustrophobic vision of young, caged Marines being transformed into automatons – performing a kind of foot-stamping ballet at double-time as they’re verbally abused and punched in the gut by their guards – outraged many and stirred others to antiwar action. More than four decades later, with Americans again on the battlefield, the play still strikes raw nerves. One of the young cast members, explaining how violently it changes shape with each performance, admits, “I’m under psychic stress for two hours.”
As for us, the audience of Another Glorious Day (the title is extracted from a Marine slogan): we also feel assaulted by the relentless badgering of the prison guards and share in the dehumanization of the inmates. All to the good, according to Frank Burckner, the director of the Berlin production, who claims that the play’s goal is to spread “a virus of peace in a war society.” Brown, meanwhile, vouches more modestly for its authenticity: “I didn’t write The Brig,” he says. “The Marine Corps did.”
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New York, NY
In Bocca al Looper
Patrick Grant
keyboard, guitar & laptop
8 PM Performance
@ The Stone, the corner of Ave. C and E ast 2nd St., NYC
(F train to 2nd Ave.), $10 at the door.
Armed with a keyboard, guitar and a lap top, I'll be performing a solo set of music that grooves to the looping and layering of angular interlocking riffs, mash ups of both urban and world beats, and pop timbres used in the service of avant tonality. A sonic soup for the mind, body AND spirit. I hope you can make it.
On the same night at 10 PM (separate admission):
HUMAYUN KHAN & GUESTS
Humayun Khan (Indian classical vocal improvisation, Afghan sufi) Said Tinat, Shahin Shahida (guitar), Bora Yoon (vocals, tanpura), Haroon Alam (tabla, percussion) Douglas J. Cuomo (guitar, electronica).
The Stone is curated in the 2nd half of October by Kathleen Supové and its artistic director is John Zorn.
http://www.thestonenyc.com
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New York, NY
KID CREOLE & MY COCONUTS
A Video Memoir by Adriana Kaegi
Kid Creole And My Cocontus Is a delightful, danceable and very personal documentary memoir chronicling Swiss - born artist/choreographer/designer Adriana Kaegi's adventures as Mama Coconut -- co-founder of the 1980s multicultural tropical funk machine called Kid Creole and the Coconuts and wife to August Darnell, the mercurial man behind the glamorous combo.
From jamming in scrappy downtown New York underground dives to performing for American Presidents and Lady Di, Kid Creole and the Coconuts' dazzling success charted the arc of a decade -- and the rise, fall and rise again of the band the New Musical Express (among others) called The Best Live Band in the world.
At the center of it all was the stylish, multi-talented Kaegi with an early video camera, "making reality TV before it even existed!" as she laughs. With a rare intimacy, she documents the band's extraordinary experiences, both global and internal. Propelled by the compulsive rhythms of the Kid Creole and the Coconuts extravaganza, this documentary will leave you singing - "You can take anything, but don't take my Coconuts"!
Screening/Q&A
The CMJ Film Festival
Oct. 22 at 9:15 PM
Clearview Cinema 260 W 23rd St., NYC
Purchase tickets $10.00 HERE
NO COMPS, NO LIST
After Party @ ASPEN 30 W 22nd St.
Directed-Produced
Adriana Kaegi
Script-Interview
Vivien Goldman
Editor
Peter Shelton
Sound Design
Patrick Grant
Post Production
ruttvideo.com
More iNFO
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OCT 8-11
THE MMiX FESTIVAL
of Interactive Music Technology
Theaterlab
137 W 14 Street
(6th & 7th Aves.)
New York City
(212) 929-2545
Tickets: $20 / $15 students & seniors
Available online at: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/28175
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS & PERFORMANCES:
6:00-8:00 PM Thursday through Saturday
Free and open to the public in Studio C
Interactive sound installations by
Chronotronic Wonder Transducer
led by sound inventor Steven Litt
THU OCT 08
8:00 PM – Performance
Bora Yoon +
Luke DuBois +
Todd Reynolds +
FRI OCT 09
6:30 PM – Free Event – Ableton LIVE 8
Demo/workshop with DubSpot NYC
8:00 PM – Performance
Dan Trueman and his Mini Laptop Orchestra
Jon Margulies / Hobotech
Joshua Fried / Radio Wonderland
SAT OCT 10
6:30 PM – Free Event – Ableton & Cycling ‘74 present:
MAX for LIVE with Todd Reynolds & Luke DuBois
8:00 PM – Performance
Patrick Grant Group
Kathleen Supove / Exploding Piano
Elliott Sharp / Janene Higgins
SUN OCT 11
6:30 PM – Performance
Chronotronic Wonder Transducer
Ben Neill & Bill Jones
DJ Rekha / Basement Bangra
The MMiX Festival of Interactive Music Technology was produced by composer/performer Patrick Grant (curator), radio producer Jocelyn Gonzales, and Theaterlab.
Software and laptop improvements present new possibilities for composer/performers to create complex soundscapes in real-time during live performance. The focus of the festival was to demonstrate that these emerging audio technologies are instrumental in new artistic creations, and to inform the public regarding the current state of this art form. The artists presented in MMiX have set a new bar in that discourse and will provide live performances, media installations and workshops.
Ableton, creators of LIVE 8 and Cycling ‘74, creators of Max/MSP/Jitter were primary sponsors of the festival with additional support by DubSpot NYC and Eventide.
Media sponsorship for the festival was generously provided by WNYC, 93.9 FM and 820 AM, New York City listener supported radio.
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OCT 2-4, 2009
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
CCBB no teatro - 20 anos de companhias
@ Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil
"BATE (Bait) MAN"
written & directed by Gerald THOMAS
original music & sound design by Patrick GRANT
performed by Marcelo OLINTO
lighting by Caetano VILELA
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil
Teatro 3: Rua Primeiro de Março 66,
Centro - 3808-2007, R$ 10
BATE (Bait) MAN | Cia dos Atores | Rio de Janeiro/RJ
O Globo performance announcement HERE
Após ser torturado em um ambiente árido e inóspito, Bate Man elabora seu raciocínio, dando forma aos seus pensamentos. Em um estado de alerta constante, pressionado não se sabe por que ou por quem, Bate Man constrói uma sutil e profunda análise do homem contemporâneo, com seus medos, desejos e ambições. Um jogo perigoso se faz presente, criando um atrito entre a realidade e o imaginário. O mundo em colapso ideológico, a beira do abismo, é o material que Bate Man utiliza para jogar com humor e tensão, provocando uma reflexão para onde a humanidade caminha. Um quebra cabeça misterioso é apresentado com vigor, envolvendo a todos em uma teia sutil de Informações. O espectador é convidado a participar deste jogo / enigma, onde cada lance envolve todos os sentidos.
Contato: ciadosatores@terra.com.br
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24 AUG 09
New York City
International Strange Music Day
The PRE–MMiX
A Benefit Party for the MMiX Festival
of Interactive Music Technology
Price: Minimum Suggested donation – $10
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/store/28175/donate/1375
for online donations (tax deductible)
Date: Monday, August 24, 2009
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:
Theaterlab
137 W 14th St
(6th and 7th Aves)
New York, NY
Phone: (212) 929-2545
Email: theaterlab@gmail.com
A presentation regarding the upcoming festival AND special performances by Kathleen Supove (The Exploding Piano), Patrick Grant (sTRANGEmUSIC) and LB (aka Pound): a new duo made up of DJ Scientific (Elan Vytal) & 6-string electronic violinist String Theory (Matt Szemela). Wine reception to follow.
MMiX sponsors include Ableton LIVE, Cycling '74 (MAX/MSP),
Dubspot NYC, and Eventide.
More on the MMiX Festival (Oct.8-11) HERE
From Jocelyn Gonzales on the festival's blog The MMiXdown:
It's another hot, steamy Monday evening in the city. You've been plug-in away all day and your circuits are fried. Well, we know one place where you can cool your compressors and chill out to some great new music... It's "The Pre-MMiX" at Theaterlab, a benefit party for The MMiX Festival of Interactive Music Technology, happening on August 24th, 2009 at 6:30pm. The Pre-MMiX Party will offer a sampling of the kind of vibrant works we'll feature this October 8-11 at MMiX, and will also serve as a fundraiser for the festival. If you can not make it, and would still like to contribute, you can also make a tax deductible donation HERE.
At the Pre-MMiX, we’ll present special performances by Kathleen Supove (The Exploding Piano), Patrick Grant (sTRANGEmUSIC) and LB (aka Pound): a new duo made up of DJ Scientific (Elan Vytal) & 6-string electronic violinist String Theory (Matt Szemela).
Kathy Supove is well-known for displaying her virtuosic and theatrical keyboard skills in her Exploding Piano series, and she's curator of the Music With a View concerts at The Flea Theater. We talked to her earlier this summer about her work with interactive electronics in this bit of audio.
Elan Vytal, the boundary-breaking DJ who cut his teeth in the clubs and went on to scratch it up in opera houses and museums, has also appeared on this blog with 6 string violinist, Matt Szemela. He sent along this video which features a cut off Elan and Matt's forthcoming album as the group, LB (Pound):
Patrick Grant, creates scores and soundscapes for film, theater and media. Patrick, curator of the MMiX Festival in October, will talk a little bit about the mission, the artists and the technology behind MMiX, and will school ya on some of his "sTRANGE mUSIC" at the Pre-MMiX party.
So next Monday evening, August 24th, come on up and escape the summer distortion at the Pre-MMix Benefit Party. The event starts at 6:30pm at Theaterlab's studios and a wine reception follows the performances.
Theaterlab is located at 137 West 14th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenue,
and near the F and L train, as well as Union Square.
The suggested minimum donation at the door will be $10.
See you there! - Jocelyn
Read more at The MMiXdown
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JULY 24 & 25, 2009
SESC São José do Rio Preto - SP
São Paulo Region, Brazil
BATE (Bait) MAN
written & directed by Gerald THOMAS
original music by Patrick GRANT
performed by Marcelo OLINTO
of the Cia. dos Atores
BATE (Bait) MAN (Autopeças) | Cia dos Atores | Rio de Janeiro/RJ
Após ser torturado em um ambiente árido e inóspito, Bate Man elabora seu raciocínio, dando forma aos seus pensamentos. Em um estado de alerta constante, pressionado não se sabe por que ou por quem, Bate Man constrói uma sutil e profunda análise do homem contemporâneo, com seus medos, desejos e ambições. Um jogo perigoso se faz presente, criando um atrito entre a realidade e o imaginário. O mundo em colapso ideológico, a beira do abismo, é o material que Bate Man utiliza para jogar com humor e tensão, provocando uma reflexão para onde a humanidade caminha. Um quebra cabeça misterioso é apresentado com vigor, envolvendo a todos em uma teia sutil de Informações. O espectador é convidado a participar deste jogo / enigma, onde cada lance envolve todos os sentidos.
Ficha Técnica:
Texto, Direção: Gerald Thomas
Musica Original: Patrick Grant
Colaboração e Atuação: Marcelo Olinto
Iluminação: Caetano Vilella
Cenário: Domingos Alcântara e Gerald Thomas
Figurino: Marcelo Olinto e Patrícia Muniz
Audiovisual: Joaquim Castro E Alexandre Gwaz
Visagismo: Ricardo Moreno
Direção de Cena: Márcio Gomes
Operador de Som: Bel Cabral
Operador de Luz : Leandro Barreto
Produção: Tárik Puggina
Direção de Produção: Marcelo Olinto
Duração: 50 min
Idade recomendada: 14 anos
Quando: Dias 24 e 25, às 21h30
Contato: ciadosatores@terra.com.br
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SESC Copacabana
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
COMPLEXO SISTEMA
de Enfraquecimento da Sensibilidade
written & directed by Ruy FILHO
original music by Patrick GRANT
Cia. Antro Exposto
foto by Patricia Cividanes
COMPLEXO SISTEMA
de Enfraquecimento da Sensibilidade
Concepção, texto e direção RUY FILHO
Música original PATRICK GRANT
com DIEGO TORRACA, GUILHERME GORSKI, GABRIELA ROSAS,
GIULIANA ROCHA, RAIANNI TEICHMANN e TIAGO TORRACA
Cenografia e iluminação e operações de som e luz RUY FILHO
Figurinos JUNIA PAIVA
Preparação de ator GUSTAVO SOL
Preparação de ator convidado ALEXANDRE CAETANO
Fotografias e Design Gráfico PATRÌCIA CIVIDANES
Fotógrafo convidado FRED MESQUITA
Registro em DVD e edição final THIAGO DE MELLO
Produção CIA. DE TEATRO ANTRO EXPOSTO
Realização CIA. DE TEATRO ANTRO EXPOSTO E CENTRO CULTURAL RIO VERDE
Check out the Cia. Antro Exposto blog HERE
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JUNE 16, 2009
Joe's Pub
New York City
Live Performance & Film Preview
Tuesday, June 16, 11:30 PM
@ Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette St.
New York, NY 10003
(212) 539-8777
Event hosted by MARIPOL
The album release of Adriana Kaegi's TAG (Best of the Month on Amazon.com), a live performance with co-producer Patrick Grant and musicians, and a preview of the delightful, danceable and very personal 50 min. film memoir about the legendary band Kid Creole and the Coconuts which Kaegi co-founded before starting to sing to her own tunes.
"Adriana's new album TAG is sultry and satirical, a cool comeback" -
"It's a voice we've been waiting to hear" - "Kaegi's smooth sound hovers in a sophisticated
continental zone set somewhere between downtempo, chill-out, electronic lounge and dance."
"Kid Creole and My Coconuts" is a new documentary by producer, director and "Mama Coconut" Adriana Kaegi about the rise and fall and rise again of the 80s multicultural tropical funk machine "Kid Creole and the Coconuts" called by many "the best live band in the world."
Kid Creole and the Coconuts are an American musical group created and led by August Darnell. Their music incorporates styles like big band jazz, disco, and in particular Caribbean/Latin American salsa. The Coconuts are a glamorous trio of female backing vocalists whose lineup has changed throughout the years. Darnell began producing for other artists before adopting the name Kid Creole (from the Elvis Presley film King Creole) in 1980, and forming The Coconuts, a trio of female backing vocalist/dancers, including his wife Adriana Kaegi, and a band including his associate vibraphone player Andy Hernandez aka Coati Mundi, who served as co-leader as well as musical director and arranger.
One of their standout works was Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places, a concept album matched with a New York Public Theatre stage production; it received rave reviews, and Darnell was recognized as a clever lyricist and astute composer, arranger and producer.
The documentary features concert footage, never-before-seen home movies, and a new interview/commentary with producer and ex-coconut Kaegi with "The Punk Professor" Vivien Goldman. The movie is edited by Peter Shelton with sound design by Patrick Grant.
For more iNFO, go to the "Kid Creole and My Coconuts" documentary's official web site HERE.
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New York, NY
Center for Contemporary Opera
The Center for Contemporary Opera (CCO) in NYC has chosen Patrick Grant as the music director for their May 13 & 14 production of the Morton Feldman opera for solo soprano "Neither" with a libretto by Samuel Beckett. In a special arrangement with Feldman's publisher Universal Edition set up by CCO's artistic director Eric Salzman, Grant will be creating a realization of the original orchestration. Although the work has been performed many times in concert, this will be the first time it will be staged. This world premiere opera will be directed by Thomas Desi of ZOON Music Theater with Kiera Duffy as the soprano soloist. Grant will be joined by the renowned Michael Pilafian on piano. This work will continue on to the Wien Modern Festival later this year.
the cell
338 W 23rd St
New York, NY 10011
Tel: (347) 265-8943
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Curitiba, Brazil
Festival de Curitiba
Bate Man
Cia. dos Atores - written & directed by Gerald Thomas
Full PDF program information HERE
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New York, NY
CUNY Graduate Center
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
Celebrating the Living Theatre
with Judith Malina
Monday, March 23, will be a day of screenings of documentaries and Living Theatre works from 1965-present. Wednesday, March 25, will feature readings and an afternoon discussion with Marvin Carlson, David Savran, and others.
The event will culminate in the presentation of the Edwin Booth Award to Judith Malina, in recognition of the Living Theatre's outstanding contributions to the New York performance community.
March 23, 2009 - March 25, 2009
10:00 AM – 8:30 PM
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
The Segal Theatre
(212) 817-1860
Admission: FREE
http://www.mestc.org
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Curitiba, Brazil
Festival de Curitiba
Complexo Sistema de Enfraquecimento da Sensibildade
Cia. Antro Exposto - written & directed by Ruy Filho
Full PDF program information HERE
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São Paulo, Brazil
JAN 21-22, 28-29
FEB 04-05, 11-12, 18-19, 25-26
MAR 04-05, 11-12, 25-26
COMPLEXO SISTEMA
DE ENFRAQUECIMENTO DA SENSIBILIDADE
Com Diego Torraca, Guilherme Gorski
e Cia. de Teatro Antro Exposto
"The dialogue between the music and sound design of Grant on one hand, and the parade of repressive and violent situations conceived by Ruy on the other, could not be stronger. Here, text and soundtrack combine as a unified and inseparable whole in service of the storytelling. The result is powerful." - Alberto Guzik, theater critic
Photos by Patricia Cividanes
Direção, concepção e texto: Ruy Filho
Música original: Patrick Grant
Preparação de ator: Gustavo Sol
Preparador convidado: Alexandre Caetano
ESTREIA TEMPORADA 2009: dia 21 de Janeiro
DATA: Quartas e Quintas-feiras
HORÁRIO: 22h30
TEMPORADA: até dia 26 de março de 2009
LOCAL:
Espaço Satyros 2
Praça Roosevelt, 134
Tel. (11) 3258. 6345
INGRESSOS: R$ 20,00
ESTUDANTES, CLASSE E TERCEIRA IDADE: 50%
Reserva: (11) 9908-0480 ou antro.exposto@yahoo.com.br
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
BATE MAN
A New Theater Piece
Written & Directed by
GERALD THOMAS
Sponsored by Petrobras
and SESC Rio de Janeiro
with
Marcelo Olinto
of the Cia. dos Atores
celebrating its 20th anniversary
Original Music & Sound Design by
Patrick Grant
Fri & Sat, Dec. 12 & 13 at 9:00 PM
Sun, Dec. 14 at 7:30 PM
Thu - Sat, Dec. 18 - 20 at 9:00 PM
Sun, Dec. 21 at 7:30 PM
ESPAÇO SESC / TEATRO DE ARENA
Rua Domingos Ferreira, 160
tel:. (21) 2548-1088
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
sTRANGEmUSIC
LIVE ReMIX
From the Balcony of Ipamena Beach's
Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim
Sponsored by
FUNARTE / MINC / SESC Rio de Janeiro
As part of riocenacontemporanea's 9th Annual Festival,
Patrick Grant will be giving a live performance w/ realtime
remixes of his works for theater, video & contemporary
ensemble for the festival crowd from the balcony
of one of Rio's brightest cultural landmarks.
Between 3:00-5:00 PM
FREE
Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim
Av. Vieira Souto, 176 - Ipanema - Rio de Janeiro - RJ
Informações: 2267-1647
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DEC 15, 17, & 19
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
THE FUTURE OF MUSIC
& SOUND ON THE STAGE
a three part lecture-demonstration-workshop
with special consideration to the upcoming
100th anniversary of the Futurist Manifesto
More iNFO HERE
Sponsored by SESC Rio de Janeiro
and CAL – Casa das Artes de Laranjeiras
FREE
open to the public
Mon-Wed-Fri
5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Dec. 17 w/ special guest from São Paulo
Ruy Filho - the writer/director of Complexo Sistema...
he will show video of the work and discuss the process
used in the creation of the score w/ Patrick Grant
Espaço SESC
Rua Domingos Ferreira, 160
tel:. (21) 2548-1088
From “The Art of Noise” (1913) to contemporary Noise-as-Art, this series traces the lines drawn from Marinetti’s 1909 manifesto, through the Surrealists, the Epic Theater, John Cage’s “The Future of Music: Credo,” The Living Theatre, Robert Wilson & his collaborators, Downtown New York Performance Art, and the digital boom that since the 80s has made the latter day artistic visions of what theater could be a modern day reality.
Sonically, anybody can have anything from an orchestra to a traffic jam available at their fingertips. Now that everybody is using computers and that the playing field has become so even, what qualities make certain works stand out? To find out where we’re going it’s necessary to find out where we’ve been.
This 3 part event is comprised of lecture, multi-media projection, and full of audio examples. Geared for the curious artistic community at large, by the final session, willing participants will be able to create small, staged narratives using current techniques and readily available software.
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06 NOV to 11 DEC
São Paulo, Brazil
COMPLEXO SISTEMA
de Enfraquecimento da Sensibilidade
Written & Directed by Ruy Filho
Original Music by Patrick Grant
Cia. de Teatro ANTRO EXPOSTO
Cultural Center Rio Verde
More
iNFO
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Photo credit: Jocelyn Gonzales
New York, NY
EUREKA!
Based on the prose poem by Edgar Allan Poe
Photos from Eureka! HERE
Performances are on Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 4 p.m. Tickets will be $20 with a discounted ticket of $15 for students, seniors andmilitary. The production involves audience interaction, so there are no seats and each performance can only accommodate 50 people.
EUREKA!
The Living Theatre
Directed by Judith Malina
Original Music by Patrick Grant
21 Clinton Street
(Ave. B south of Houston)
New York, NY 10002
(212) 792-8050
www.livingtheatre.org
"Eureka! is a fantastic show, unlike anything I've ever experienced. Whatever I describe in this review will in no way satisfactorily replicate the wonderful experience of this production because it is defined by the audience being a part of it. Being it! This performance is not passively "watched" by its audience. It is created by the performers inviting the audience to be an active part of its creation. Although there is a structure to play, most of the specifics are defined by the audience involvement. Over the period of 75 minutes, a crowd of strangers is transformed into a dynamic group singing, dancing, and celebrating the possibilities for humanity. This is truly the Living Theatre..." - Mitchell Conway, NYTheatre.com
"The Living Theatre wants nothing less than to rewrite the theatrical contract. Viewers can no longer remain passive spectators hidden in the dark. There is no fourth wall, so they must become participants...that means helping out with a mighty task: creating the universe...There is no proscenium arch in the theater, and only a few seats lined against a wall. For the first 20 minutes or so, “Eureka!” could almost be an art installation...Then the performers guide audience members into a huddled clump, which trembles before coming apart with a loud noise. Voilà: the Big Bang...The unflappably earnest performers direct the audience members’ actions by whispers and by example...language is used minimally...and certain questions linger: How do we think about the theatrical experience when we’re participants?...But a clear point floats above the physical action: “You are the answer,” someone says. If creation is continuous, and we’re part of it, we can change things. This is where Ms. Malina’s heart seems to lie...Poe dedicated “Eureka” to the “dreamers and those who put faith in dreams.” Perhaps it’s here that his poem finds its most fertile common ground with the Living Theatre’s utopianism. - Rachel Saltz, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“...a poetic, energized exploration of the universe...the production is joyful and revivifying, thanks to the dedicated work of the youthful, convivial ensemble and the indomitable creativity of Malina.” - Ron Cohen, BACKSTAGE
"...the experience is a highly recommended antidote to the commercial calculation that mars even the fringiest modern theater nowadays." - Trav S.D., THE VILLAGE VOICE
"The legendary Living Theatre grapples with the mysteries of the universe itself in a new experimental freak-out...As is often the case in interactive theater, the varied reactions (from fervent to frightened) offer the best theater...the revelatory power of the company’s storied history shines through, such as when the group splits off into a phalanx of marching soldiers on one side and a cluster of chanting monks on the other, with the audience stranded in between...It’s an apt metaphor for our world..." - Jeff Lewonczyk, TIME OUT
"MANY shows involve audience participation, but few provide as heady a sense of empowerment as 'Eureka!' does." - Frank Sheck, NY POST
"In a chronological whirlwind of evolution set to rippling music by Patrick Grant and fantastical lighting by Gary Brackett, we are led through a maze of general evolutionary drama alongside Poe, as if traveling inside his head while he works through the problem of humanity’s existence and potential extinction." - Lyssa Mandel, NEW THEATER CORPS
The Living Theatre began its 2008-2009 season with the limited run of Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikov's Eureka!, based on an Edgar Allan Poe essay about the origin of the Universe.
The production is directed by Judith Malina and features an original score by Patrick Grant.
Published in 1847, the "Prose Poem," as Poe called it, lays out with astonishing forethought what has since come to be called the Big Bang Theory. The Living Theatre has adapted Poe's text to a theatrical form, which will provide the audience with an awareness of participating actively in the creation of the universe and realize the parallel between the development of the elements of the cosmos and our own human development.
Eureka! was conceived and written by Hanon Reznikov when he read Poe's text - but he did not live to finish the task. Judith Malina, his collaborator and the director of the play completed the script.
The purpose of the play is to provide the audience with a sense of empowerment. By participating in the creation of the known universe we communicate the possibility of creating a more harmonious social structure. 'Eureka!' joins nearly one hundred Living Theatre productions created since 1951, all of which seek to expand our knowledge of the universe.
The cast of Eureka! features Anthony Sisco as Edgar Allan Poe, Silas Inches as Alexander von Humboldt, Gene Ardor, Yasemin Ozumerzifon, Eric Olson, Maia Larraz, Erin Downhour, Kennedy Yanko, Enoch Wu, Katherine Nook, Isaac Scranton, Eitan Brigantonelli, and you the audience.
The Assistant Director is Brad Burgess. Set & Lighting Designer is Gary Brackett, Technical Direction is by Evan True. Choreography is by Gene Ardor.
For further information, visit www.livingtheatre.org
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New York, NY
The Mighty CCi House Band
takes to the street in a Make Music NY event
including a performance of
Children at War - 1988
music for string orchestra by
Patrick Grant
Premiered at The New Theater in the East Village in 1988, this is a Cold War piece written for Protean Forms Collective’s Spring ‘88 New Works Festival. It was the last summer of Reagan’s Presidency, New Wave was old, nuclear holocaust television dramas were the entertainment, and the events that led up to the Tompkins Square Park Riots were brewing. Musically, the piece uses that age-old pentatonic (Eastern) taunt used by children in many cultures (c-A-d-c-A) as a sonic commentary on the inherent childishness of violence. This is placed in various formations and textures against minimalist rhythms and harmonies (Western) prevalent in New York City in the late 80s.
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Where:
Cornelia Street, NYC (between Bleecker and West 4th Streets, off 6th Ave)
When:
Saturday, June 21 at 6:30 pm
How:
By subway – 1, 9 train to Sheridan Square or A, C, E, F, V train to West 4th Street
Info:
212-663-1967
FREE
ComposersCollaborative inc (CCi) presents works
by politically aware composers:
6:30 pm
Newspeak:
This Is What You’re Like (premiere)
sweet light crude
Coming Together by Frederic Rzewski
Funeral for the Money Tower (1975) (excerpt) by Carlo Altomare written for
The Dismantling of the Money Tower by The Living Theatre
7:30 pm
String Quartet No. 2, Mvt III (1989) by Marc Mellits
The Gold Standard (2006) (excerpt) by Jed Distler with Ed Schmidt
Children at War - 1988 for string orchestra by Patrick Grant
The Palcontent Polka (1982) by David Simons
The Fountain (text: James Russell Lowell) & New England Arming
(text: Rev. Robert Lowell) by Kitty Brazelton (2008)
The Dawn of Civilization (excerpt) by Lisa Karrer
8:30 pm
The Mighty CCi House Band performs!
In the Midst by Laura Andel
Workers Union (1975) by Louis Andriessen
ComposersCollaborative inc. is the agitator behind Serial Underground, “the subversive nightclub series” (Time Out NY) presenting multidisciplinary collaborations between composers, playwrights, directors, filmmakers and artists of every stripe. Allan Kozinn (New York Times) contextualizes CCi’s monthly performances in the basement of the Cornelia Street Cafe – “... part of the ecology of urban night life.”
Make Music New York is a citywide summer solstice event based on France's Fete de la Musique. The festival is an international phenomenon, taking place on the same day in more than 300 cities in 108 countries, including Germany, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Australia, Vietnam, Congo, Cameroon, Togo, Columbia, Chile, Mongolia, and Japan – and New York.
More iNFO HERE
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20 JUN 08
New York, NY
New York Premiere
Living Yoga: The
Life & Teachings of
SWAMI
SATCHIDANANDA
Jivamukti Yoga Center will host the New York Premiere
of the movie on Friday, June 20 8:30pm-11:30pm
841 Broadway (13th & 14th Streets), NYC
More info HERE
Featuring: a kirtan with Krishna Das, a panel discussion with filmmakers
Joshua Green and Shiva Kumar, David Life, Sharon Gannon,
Swami Ramananda and other special guests
A Benefit for The Farm Sanctuary
Produced
& Directed by
Joshua
M. Greene and Shiva
Kumar
Music composed
& produced by
Patrick Grant
Additional musicians:
Prakash - vocals
John
Ferrari - percussion
Steve
Murphy - drums & vocals
Godfrey
Townsend - e. guitar, e. bass & vocals
Don
Vitsentzos - e. sitar & e. guitar
Upcoming Screenings
- 28 May:
- 30 May:
- 11 June:
- 19 June:
- 20 June:
- 26 June:
- 28 June:
- 5 July:
- 12 August:
-
19 September:
-
2008 Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival (all day)
More details and iNFO on this and other screenings HERE
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-
2008 Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival (all day)
31
MAY 08
New
York , NY
WHITNEY
BIENNIAL 2008
Neighborhood
Public Radio
Transistor
Radio Theatre's
"Too Late for Tears"
original music & sound design
Just to let you know that I'm happy to be a part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial. I've created
the original music and sound design for Transistor Radio Theatre's production of the radio
noir thriller "Too Late for Tears" as part of the Neighborhood Public Radio Project. You
can show up as a member of the studio audience, listen in locally at 99.1 FM or drop in at
the online link at 5:00 EST.
Transistor
Radio Theatre will be performing a live radio show that will be part
of the Neighborhood
Public Radio (NPR) project in May at The
Whitney Museum Biennial
in New York.
NPR will install a broadcast
point inside the Whitney Museum as well as transmit
programming from another publicly
accessible location in New York. It will also install
remote studios or “Portable
Radio Instruments”(PRIs) in cities across the US, each sending
live community
radio programs to the New York hub.
"Too
Late for Tears" is adapted by Laurann Williams from the movie
of the same name.
Whitney
Museum
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street,
New York, New York 10021
5:00 PM - FREE
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John Singer Sargent: The Grand Canal, Venice
New York, NY
THE ASPERN PAPERS
music & sound design
"Patrick Grant's music and sound cues are evocative..."
- Jon Sobel, BlogCritics Magazine
Turtle Shell Productions presents
THE ASPERN PAPERS
Based on the novella by Henry James
Adaptation by Martin Zuckerman
Directed by Shawn Rozsa
Preview: April 30 & May 1, 2008 at 8PM
Opening: May 2, 2008 at 8PM
Through May 24, 2008
Mondays at 7PM; Thursdays - Saturdays at 8PM except May 22
Special matinee 3PM on Saturday, May 24
Tickets $18 at TheaterMania: Call 212-352-3101 or direct link
THE TURTLE'S SHELL THEATER
(in the Times Square Arts Center)
300 W. 43rd Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY
CAST
Kelly King*
Carol Lambert*
Elisabeth Grace Rothan*
*Members of Actors' Equity Association
PRODUCTION
Martin Zuckerman - Adaptation
John W. Cooper - Artistic Director & Producer
Shawn Rozsa - Director
Kyle Dixon - Scenic Design
A. Christina Giannini - Costume Design
Patrick Grant - Music & Sound Design
Shaun Suchan - Lighting Design
Marina Steinberg - Stage Manager
Jeremy Handelman - Marketing & Production Manager
Mona Weisberg - Group Sales
Karen Shambley - Graphic Design
Actors' Equity Showcase
Additional information at www.TurtleShellProductions.com
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Kehinde Wiley, St. Sebastian II, 2006
13
MAY 08
Hampton, GA
Selections from
HIP-HOP EXPERIENCE III
The Spring Concert at
LOVEJOY HIGH SCHOOL
Hampton, Georgia
Jennifer Floyd
Director of Orchestral Studies
1587 McDonough Road
Hampton, GA 30228
Phone: 770-473-2920
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Kehinde Wiley, The Three Graces, 2005
06
MAY 08
Jonesboro, GA
Selections from
HIP-HOP EXPERIENCE III
The Spring Concert at
MUNDY'S MILL HIGH SCHOOL
Jonesboro, Georgia
Corie Benton
Director of Orchestral Studies
9652 Fayetteville Road
Jonesboro, GA 30238
(678) 817-3059
More
details TBA
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New York , NY
Gamelan Son of Lion at
THE LIVING THEATRE
Gamelan Son of Lion performs new works by composer/performers
Barbara Benary, Miguel Frasconi, Daniel Goode, Patrick Grant,
Jody Kruskal, & John Morton
1. She (Really) Had to Go – John Morton
the gamelan blends with an electronically processed music box and a familiar tune.
2. Music Box – Jody Kruskal
the entire gamelan plays as a giant music box in ths fantasy for double suling (flute) .
3. Piece in Harmony – Patrick Grant
a stately, neo-baroque, harmonic trance with keyboard.
4. Telling Time – Miguel Frasconi
for gamelan and glass. A composition in unison tempo is then repeated in
“telling time,” where each performer tells a story through use of shifting tempi.
interval
5. Toy Symphony: Introduction and Non-Development Section – Daniel Goode
a romp of the gamelan through Toyland, including the softest sound you can imagine.
6. Wauking – Barbara Benary
five Scottish working songs learned in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Wauking, or
milling, is a preindustrial way to preshrink wool by pounding.
7. Hard Rain – Bob Dylan/Lisa Karrer
a Dylan classic arranged for gamelan.
The Living Theatre
New York City
iNFO: (212) 925-6684
8:00 PM
More details TBA
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18
APR 08
Fort
Worth, TX
Modern
Art Museum of Fort Worth
Hip-Hop Experience IV
Music
for the opening of
FOCUS: Kehinde
Wiley
April 20–May 25, 2008
Kehinde
Wiley creates larger-than-life-size portraits that mix historical Western
European
painting styles such as French Romanticism, Rococo, and Baroque with
images from
contemporary urban streets. The resulting monumental works are painted
in Wiley’s
characteristic, flamboyant style and presented in ornate gold
frames. While the artist
evokes important and highly recognizable paintings from
the past, he replaces those
works’ elite white sitters with African-American
men.
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Kehinde Wiley Studio & Deitch Projects have
commissioned Patrick
Grant to create live music especially for the opening gala
on the
night of April 18th. It will be performed by the Marching Band of Trimble Tech, directed
by Earnest Colvin.
For
Immediate Release:
This event is presented in conjunction with the special exhibitions Martin Puryear and FOCUS: Kehinde Wiley. Martin Puryear is on view through May 18, and FOCUS: Kehinde Wiley opens early for attendees of Modern ’til Midnight and is on view through May 25. Tickets will be available at the door or can be purchased in advance; call 817.738.9215 or visit the museum admission desk.
Modern ’til Midnight returns April 18 with a night of world-class art and unique performances.
Experience the art with tours designed to engage and entertain by providing imaginative
ways in which to connect with the artists’ creations. To celebrate the opening of FOCUS:
Kehinde Wiley, a special performance by the Trimble Tech High School Marching Band,
performing a unique composition by Patrick Grant under the direction of Earnest Colvin.
Patrick Grant is a New York City composer who is the Musical Director for Special Projects
for Kehinde Wiley.
In addition, Yellow Fever, The Theater Fire, PPT, and Strange Fruit Project will provide an
incredible evening of music. With dinner served in Café Modern from 6 to 9 pm, late-night
shopping, and DJ Sober and others in the lobby, there is sure to be something for everyone.
This event is open to the public. Admission is $15; free for Modern Members.
Modern
Art Museum-Fort Worth
3200
Darnell St
Fort Worth, TX 76107
(817) 738-9215
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20
MAR 08
Brooklyn,
NY
Gamelan
Son of Lion at the
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
The
Issue Project Room
The
(OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215
admission
$10, all tickets available at the door
Take
F or G to Carroll Street Stop, walk east down 3rd street to 3rd Ave.
Take F,
M, R to 4th Ave/Ninth Street, walk North on 4th Ave.,
walk west on 3rd street
to 3rd ave.
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07
DEC 07 thru 09 MAR 08
New
York, NY
MAUDIE
& JANE
by
Luciano Nattino
"You
have to hand it to Judith Malina... in “Maudie and Jane,” based
on a (Doris) Lessing novel, Ms. Malina makes the dirty, aged Maudie defiantly
visible and strangely charming." - The New York Times
"...strange,
compelling...evocative music by Patrick Grant." - Backstage
"...the
bathing scene...quite beautiful and moving." - Theater Scene
"Experimental
theater at its best! " - The New York Post
"...marvelous music from Patrick Grant..." - New York Theatre Wire
More
of what the critics have said...
Inspired by 2007 Nobel Prize Laureate Doris Lessing's novel, The Diary of Jane Somers, the Obie Award-winning The Living Theatre presents the encounter of two women of different ages and differernt classes, an elderly, poor woman living in squalor, and a middle-aged fashion editor near the top of her career - they bridge a series of cultural-historical gaps and develop a deep love for one another - Maudie & Jane presents a vision of the depth of communication possible beyond the barriers of class and age.
Judith
Malina is the willful, self-possessed crone Maudie, declaring her independence
at every turn and Pat Russell is Jane, in crisis despite herself and her
success, and finding in Maudie the possibility of other levels of communication
that transform her life. Written by Luciano Nattino, directed by Hanon
Reznikov, designed by Gary Brackett, music by Patrick Grant.
More
iNFO
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23-24
FEB 08
Long Island City
Queens,
New York
LIKE
DIRT
A
shifting geologic formation from clay inhabited by live music and dance
Racoco
Productions Inc. presents
LIKE DIRT
A
shifting geologic formation from clay inhabited by live music and dance
Composer
- Chris Becker
Choreographer
- Rachel Cohen
Clay Artist - Patty
Rosenblatt
Musicians
Chris
Becker - Laptop
Helga Davis - Voice
Lewis 'Flip' Barnes - Trumpet
Lynn
Wright - Electric Guitar
Dancers
Joelle
Arnusch, Katie Brack, Rachel Cohen & Rebecca Ketchum
Open
rehearsal Thursday, February 21, from 5pm to 9pm (free)
Performance
Saturday, February 23, 8pm
post performance Q&A moderated by theater
director Richard Mazda at 9:15pm
Performance Sunday, February
24, 4pm
post performance Q&A moderated by composer Patrick Grant at 5:15pm
tickets:
$20, $15 students/seniors/groups of 4+
reservations: (718) 392-0304 or purchase
online at www.racoco.org
at THE SECRET THEATRE
44-02 23rd St. at 44th Rd.
Long Island City, Queens
(Subway:
E, V to 23rd St-Ely Ave; G to Long Island City - Court Square, 7 to 45th Rd -
Court House Square)
PDF Press Release
PDF
Bios
www.beckermusic.com
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07 DEC 07 thru 09 MAR 08
New
York, NY
MAUDIE
& JANE
by
Luciano Nattino
EXTENDED
FEB 13 THRU MARCH 9
w/
Monica Hunken as Jane Somers
"You
have to hand it to Judith Malina... in “Maudie and Jane,” based
on a (Doris) Lessing novel, Ms. Malina makes the dirty, aged Maudie defiantly
visible and strangely charming." - The New York Times
"...strange,
compelling...evocative music by Patrick Grant." - Backstage
"...the
bathing scene...quite beautiful and moving." - Theater Scene
"Experimental
theater at its best! " - The New York Post
More
of what the critics have said...
Inspired by 2007 Nobel Prize Laureate Doris Lessing's novel, The Diary of Jane Somers, the Obie Award-winning The Living Theatre presents the encounter of two women of different ages and differernt classes, an elderly, poor woman living in squalor, and a middle-aged fashion editor near the top of her career - they bridge a series of cultural-historical gaps and develop a deep love for one another - Maudie & Jane presents a vision of the depth of communication possible beyond the barriers of class and age.
Judith
Malina is the willful, self-possessed crone Maudie, declaring her independence
at every turn and Pat Russell is Jane, in crisis despite herself and her
success, and finding in Maudie the possibility of other levels of communication
that transform her life. Written by Luciano Nattino, directed by Hanon
Reznikov, designed by Gary Brackett, music by Patrick Grant.
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2-4
DEC 07
New York, NY
The
Living Theatre & Gamelan
Son of Lion present
LIVING GAMELAN:
Music about Theater
& Politics
Featuring
the musical works of Daniel
Goode, David
Demnitz, Patrick
Grant
The Living Theatre
New York
City - (212) 792-8050
7:30 pm - Open Rehearsal - Free Admission
4:00-6:00 pm - Gamelan Workshop for young & old - Free Admission
4:00-6:00 pm - Gamelan Workshop for young & old - Free Admission
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Program:
Balaganjur
Traditional
- arranged by David Simons
David Simons and Lisa Karrer, soloists
Operation
Iraqi Freedom (excerpts)
David
Demnitz
a. Specious Associations
b. Hearts and Mines
Text: Mark Twain,
The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Brought Down to Date) 1901
Featuring Lisa
Karrer, vocalist
Artaud
& the Balinese Theatre
Music:
Patrick Grant from The Philosopher's Stone
Text: Antonin Artaud from On the
Balinese Theatre
Featuring Martin Reckhaus, recitation
Toy
Symphony
Music: Daniel Goode
Text: Daniel Goode, Robert Frost
Featuring
Kamala Sankaram, soprano
Piece
for Peace in the Middle East (excerpt)
Laura
Liben
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16
NOV 07
Chicago, IL
hIP-hOP
eXPERIENCE
The Young
Eight Mix
Friday,
Nov. 16, 2007 at 8:00pm
Northeastern Illinois
University
Jewel Box Performing Arts Series
5500
N. St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60625
Tickets
$22.00
Box
Office: 773.442.4636
TicketWeb
The
Young Eight is a string octet of African American string players from The Boston
Conservatory, Columbia University, The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music,
Mannes College of Music, New England Conservatory of Music, Peabody Conservatory
of Music, Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin. Founded in 2002
at the North Carolina School of the Arts by director Quinton I. Morris, the critically
acclaimed octet has established itself as one of the next generation's most dynamic
and energetic chamber ensembles. The octet was awarded a Recognition of Achievement
and Proclamation by the King County Council (Washington State) and the "Best
New Chamber Music Award for 2005" by Seattle Weekly Newspaper. They have
collaborated with guest artists, including Metropolitan opera soprano Indra Thomas,
pianist David Antony Lofton, poet/spoken word artist Toyia Taylor, The Providence
String Quartet, members of the Miró String Quartet and composers, David
N. Baker, Michael DePaul, and Earl Louis Stewart.
More
details HERE
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04
NOV 2007
Pomona,
NY
Gamelan Son of Lion Performance
Shadow
Puppet Play & Music Concert
Shadow Puppet Play at
3:30 PM
Music Program at 4:00 PM
Jigalullaby
- Barbara Benary
Song of Myself -
Lisa Karrer
Angklung Pelukan - David Simons
Gamelan
Around - Denman Maroney
Specious Associations
- David Demnitz
Philosopher's Stone (excerpt)
- Patrick Grant
Toy Symphony (excerpt) -
Daniel Goode
Pomona
Cultural Center
584 Route 306
(Just
north of Pomona Road)
Pomona, NY 10970
Phone:
(845) 362-8062
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04
& 07 OCT 07
Counterstream
Radio & MATA
present:
CS
Concert Broadcast: Music at the Anthology 10th Anniversary Celebration
Thursday,
October 4th @ 9PM EST
and
Sunday, October 7th @ 3PM EST
In
1996, composers Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky,
and Lisa Bielawa created Music
at the Anthology as an advocacy vehicle for young composers--presenting
their pieces on a week-long festival held each spring in New York City. To date,
MATA has commissioned 39 works, and has presented over 120 performances
of pieces by composers such as Gordon Beeferman, Derek Bermel, Nick
Brooke, Annie Gosfield, Patrick Grant, Nico Muhly and
many more.
In
honor of Music at the Anthology's 10th anniversary season, they've put together
a highlight reel of world premiere concert recordings drawn from a decade's worth
of MATA festival performances. We hope you enjoy the ride.
Listen
in as the American Music Center's Counterstream
Radio broadcasts world premieres from MATA's first 10 years! Many of these
work were also commissioned by MATA, and feature some of the most respected composers
and ensembles in contemporary music. For more info, please visit the Counterstream's
site.
Or,
just listen to CS now!
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02-03
OCT 07
Cordoba,
Argentina
RAINHA
MENTIRA /
QUEEN LIAR
Festival
Internacional de Teatro MERCOSUR
"Queen
Liar" is a total Wagnerian spectacle! What a soundtrack! What lighting! A
'dry opera' with the raw musicality of this eddy of words and images that is
the world in which we live! I loved it!
-
Evaldo Mocarzel (filmmaker & former cultural editor of the Estado de Sao Paulo
- Aug. 9, 2007)
Read
about it in SP's Folha Ilustrada Online
A
new play by
GERALD
THOMAS
& The Dry Opera Company
Original
music by
Patrick GRANT &
Edson SECCO
Com
Fabiana Gugli, Fábio Pinheiro, Pancho Cappeletti e Anna Américo
TERRA
EM TRÂNSITO e RAINHA MENTIRA
Espetáculo duplo de Gerald Thomas.
Imagem da contemporaneidade, é uma crônica desdobrada em manifesto
teatral, onde o diretor despeja, como em um fluxo de pensamento, aquilo que pensa
e aquilo de que duvida.
Festival
Internacional de Teatro MERCOSUR
20hs
- CIUDAD DE LAS ARTES
Auditorio Presidente Perón Av. Richieri
esq. Concepción Arenales
Tel 4430360-4430361
ENTRADA
GENERAL $15 y $10
Read
the reviews from this spring's performances in Rio de Janiero
(In Portugese)
Chicago, IL
Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist
Darrell Jones
Presents
third swan from the end
"battle gracefully to be legendary"
third swan from the end pits the extreme virtuosity of the voguing aesthetic against narratives of escape, fantasy, and tragedy, demonstrating how transformation and keenness of adaptation relate directly to our social survival.
For the music of third swan, Jones has enlisted two composers, Patrick Grant and Amber Lewis a.k.a. GaDgEt GiRl, to manipulate classic house-music standards, one to re-work the bass-heavy rhythms into orchestral arrangements and one to extract their musical source, whether it be from B-grade karate films, beauty pageants or Japanese Shogun operas.
third swan from the end takes place at The Galaxie, 2603 W. Barry, Sept. 21-22, at 8 p.m.
After the performance on Sept. 22, Chicago’s own House of Avant Garde will host a mini-ball spectacular, which will surely be the perfect culmination to a weekend of wild performance, transformation and innovative storytelling. 866-468-3401; $12-$18.
Director and Performer: Darrell Jones
Dance Collaborators: Jsun Howard, Damon Green, Awilda Rodriguez,
Chewanda McWillis, Kidd Escada Twist and Arsenio Neptune Avant-Garde
Sound Design/Composition: GaDgEt GiRl & Patrick Grant
Costume Styling: Aay Preston-Myint
Make-Up: Randall Jenson
Lighting design: Josh Weckesser
Production Management: Rachel Damon
Dramaturgy: Talvin Wilkes
The Galaxie
2603 Barry Rd.
Chicago, IL
Buy Tickets
More iNFO HERE
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07-29
AUG 07
São
Paolo, Brazil
RAINHA
MENTIRA /
QUEEN LIAR
"Queen
Liar" is a total Wagnerian spectacle! What a soundtrack! What lighting! A
'dry opera' with the raw musicality of this eddy of words and images that is
the world in which we live! I loved it!
-
Evaldo Mocarzel (filmmaker & former cultural editor of the Estado de Sao Paulo
- Aug. 9, 2007)
Read
about it in SP's Folha Ilustrada Online
A
new play by
GERALD
THOMAS
& The Dry Opera Company
Original
music by
Patrick GRANT &
Edson SECCO
Com
Fabiana Gugli, Fábio Pinheiro, Pancho Cappeletti e Anna Américo
TERRA
EM TRÂNSITO e RAINHA MENTIRA
Espetáculo duplo de Gerald Thomas.
Imagem da contemporaneidade, é uma crônica desdobrada em manifesto
teatral, onde o diretor despeja, como em um fluxo de pensamento, aquilo que pensa
e aquilo de que duvida.
TEATRO ANCHIETA
Sesc Consolação
Rua
Doutor Vila Nova, 245, Consolação
São
Paolo, Brasil
Tel: 32343000 ou 32343011
R$
R$ 15,00; R$ R$ 7,50 (usuário matriculado
e dependentes).
R$ R$ 5,00 (trabalhador
no comércio e serviços matriculado e dependentes).
De
07/08 a 29/08. Terças e quartas, às 21h.
iNFO
& Tickets: SESC
Consolação
Read
the reviews from this spring's performances in Rio de Janiero
(In Portugese)
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18-20
JUL 07
Wichita,
KS
hIP-hOP
eXPERIENCE
Young Eight Mix
permutations
4 string quartet+
by Patrick Grant
performances
& webcasts by
THE YOUNG EIGHT
July
18-20, 2007, 8PM
Artists
in Residence
Chamber
Music at the Barn Music Festival
4055 N Tyler Rd
Wichita
(Maize), KS
Tickets: $12-$22
(316) 264-4662
LIVE
WEBCASTS on Wichita State
University Internet Radio
Click HERE
for Details on How to Listen
Note:
Concerts are at 8PM Central Daylight
Time (-5 hrs. UTC)
As
an extension of his exhibition "Columbus,"
the artist Kehinde
Wiley and Roberts & Tilton Gallery commissioned string quartet
arrangements from Patrick Grant of hip-hop for performance at the opening
in LA in the Spring of 2006.
This
music, performed in concert by The Young Eight under the direction of Quinton
I. Morris, has gone on to become part of their nationwide Black College Tour
from October 2006 through July 2007.
"These
exceptional musicians come from America’s foremost prestigious music schools
and conservatories. This critically acclaimed octet is dedicated to exposing communities
to the arts through classical music. Their performances will feature winning music
from their Emerging Composers Competition as well as some cool and edgy
hip-hop arrangements for quartet. Also on the program will be works by George
Walker and Edward Elgar."
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Some
other recent performances:
July
2-15, 2007
The Young Eight String Seminar Chamber
Music Program
University of Texas
at Austin
Austin, Texas
June
30, 2007, 7PM
Chamber Music Concert
The
University of Texas at Austin
Jessen Auditorium
Austin, Texas
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21
JUN 07
New
York, NY
Terry
Riley's "In C"
Composers
Collaborative Inc.
The
Mighty CCi House Band & Friends
play Terry
Riley's "In C"
on
Cornelia Street,
between Bleecker and
West 4th streets
FREE
public event
6:30 PM
Thu June 21
"In
C" – no music more appropriate for a communal
high to celebrate
the first day of summer and CCi's first Make
Music NY event.
Terry
Riley's piece "In C" is one of the seminal works of the late
20th century. Premiered in 1964, it was the work that introduced the musical style
now known as Minimalism to a mainstream audience. Full of repeating cells, insistent
rhythms, and high energy, "In C" is a work that can also be endlessly
colorful. It is an "open score," meaning that it can be played by any
combination of instruments. Over the decades, it has been played by percussion
ensembles, guitar groups, a Chinese traditional orchestra, and a microtonal band,
among hundreds of others. "In C" had a deep and lasting impact
on contemporary classical composers like Steve Reich and John Adams;
but it also affected the rock world, influencing artists like John Cale
and Brian Eno. - John Schaefer - WNYC
It
was also the inspiration for the synthesizer track on The Who's "Baba
O'Riley" - PG*
The
Mighty CCi House Band & Friends:
Keyboards/toy
pianos:
Jed Distler (conductor), Carlo Altomare,
Victoria Bond, Jocelyn Dueck, Miguel Frasconi, Joan Forsyth, Jesses Friedd, Patrick
Grant, Marija Ilic, Jenny Lin, Missy Mazzoli, Milos Raickovich, Jim Stubenrauch,
Kathleen Supové
Reeds:
Paul
Bennett, Dave Crowell, Aaron Friedman, Elaine Kwon, Chris Mannigan, Sato Moughalian,
Sam Parkins, Demetrius Spaneas, Matt Sullivan, Gregory Thymius, Stefan Zeniuk
Brass:
Chris
DiMeglio, Mike Irwin, Sam Kulik, David Nelson, Paul Weiss
Strings:
Bill
Anderson, Henry Anderson, Ed Chang, Justine F. Chen, Miranda Cuckson, Kerry Farias,
Stephanie Griffin, Clifton Hyde, Bill Kannar, Susie So-Hyun Lee, Ron Lawrence,
Joanne Lipman, Ana Milosavljevic, Jody Redhage, Miranda Sielaff, Robyn Siwula,
Leo Soeda, Christopher Tignor, Giancarlo Vulcano, Murray Wall
Vox:
Eileen
Clark, Lisa Karrer, Libby Shapiro, Motoko Shimizu, Darynn Zimmer
Raga
Vocal Ensemble:
Michael Harrison with Daisy Press (leader of women's
vocal group), Kay Ashley, Jennifer Black, Daud Constant, Tiye Giraud, Cybele Paschke,
Carol Savvas
Percussion:
Rex
Benincasa, Jamie Fried, David Simons, Jared Soldiviero
Accordion:
Seth
Bedford, David Friedman, Bob Goldberg, Carl Maguire, Kamala Sankaram, Molly Thompson
Other
music making devices:
Suzanne Farrin, Lainie Feffeerman,
Rob Voisey
Other performers TBA