2011-2013

www.strangemusic.com

An incomplete performance history in reverse chronological order

DEC 21, 2013
New York City

Make Music Winter 2013

TILTED AXES: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars

Saturday, December 21, 3-5pm, East Village, Union Square, Astor Place, NYC

Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars returns to Make Music New York Winter for its third and final installment with music that celebrates the Winter Solstice
and sculptor Tony Rosenthal's iconic Astor Place cube The Alamo on
December 21 from 3-5pm. This event is FREE and open to the public.

The event features dozens of electric guitarists powered by portable mini-amps and accompanied by percussion that results in a moving, polyphonic sound cloud layered in compelling, electric rhythms to honor this season's axial tilt. The procession will begin and end at event sponsor Spectrum NYC's location at 121 Ludlow Street, wind its way up through the East Village to Union Square, and then back again with its special stop at the iconic sculpture The Alamo (aka the Astor Place Cube).

Performers include: Patrick Grant, Cristian Amigo, Angela Babin, Alexander Baxter, Aileen Bunch, Evelyn Bunch, Ted Bunch, Steve Carter, Dan Cooper, Glenn Cornett, Nick Didkovsky, Mark Fenkner, Scott "McSwervy" Forman, Jocelyn Gonzales, Matt Grossman, Johnny Halo, Randolph Hudson III, Howie Kenty, Ann Klein, Paul de Konkoly Thege, Daniel Reyes Llinas, Joshua Lopes, John Lovaas, Robin Meeker-Cummings, Anthony Mullin, Jeremy Nesse, Cesare Papetti, Reinaldo Perez, Jorge Rivera, Sean Satin, Cheryl Perron Shepherd, Larry Simon, Jeremy D. Slater, Harry Smolowitz, Dylan Sparrow, Leslie Stevens, Mark Stewart, Lester St. Louis, Brett Williams, Michelle Zulli, and more.

Produced by Peppergreen Media and made possible through the help and support of our sponsors and partners Make Music New York, Spectrum NYC, Discover Guitar, Pignose Amps, D'Addario Strings, The Music Building, and Strings by Aurora.

More iNFO HERE

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DEC 8, 2013
New York City

FRETATHON



Composers Play Composers FRETATHON
3-hour marathon of 3-minute pieces for fretted
instruments performed by the composers

Sunday, December 8 at 8pm, Drom NYC
85 Avenue A, New York City

More iNFO at:
http://tinyurl.com/jwokpcw

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DEC 1 & 2, 2013
NYC & Paterson, NJ

December premiere:
"DEPTH OF FIELD"
for three percussionists
performed by Lukas Ligeti, Peter Jarvis, & Glen Velez



Sunday Dec 1 2013, 3PM
The Dimenna Center
450 West 37th Street (between 9th & 10th Avenue)

Monday Dec 2nd 2013, 7PM
William Paterson University
300 Pompton Rd, Wayne, NJ

3rd Annual Composers Concordance Festival: Timbre Tantrum
More iNFO at http://composersconcordance.wix.com/

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JUNE 21
New York City

Make Music New York
Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village



BROKEN RECORD
for 175 Keyboards & Grand Piano
by Jed Distler

co-produced by
Peppergreen Media

Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village (near W. 4th St and Sixth Ave)
11:00am – 2:00pm

Make Music New York presents the world premiere of Jed Distler's Broken Record, a piece composed for 175 battery-powered Yamaha keyboards and one Yamaha acoustic grand piano on Cornelia Street in the West Village on Friday, June 21st. There will be two performances at 11am and 12 Noon in front of the Cornelia Street Café.

This is a special featured event as part of Make Music New York's popular Mass Appeal series. Players will include luminaries of the piano world, local amateur pianists, school children, and city officials. Highlighted guests: Eleonor Sandresky, Kathleen Supové, Gene Pritsker, Patrick Grant, Joseph Pehrson, Simon Mulligan, Andrew Byrne, Robert Paterson, Victoria Paterson, Taka Kigawa, Stephen Gosling, Darynn Zimmer, Molly Mokorski, Alexandra Honigsberg, Tristan McKay, 15 year-old Christopher McGinnis and many (many) more.

This performance will set a new Guinness Book record for the world's largest keyboard ensemble. Following the performance, Yamaha will donate all of the keyboards to the New York City Department of Education. This event is produced in collaboration with ComposersCollaborative Inc, Peppergreen Media, the Cornelia Street Café, Yamaha and Viacom.

How to Join: Come make musical history! The 30-minute piece will be performed twice, in the late morning and early afternoon. The music is extremely easy to perform and coordinate, and there are even parts for those without any keyboard skills! Click HERE to register, watch this video for an introduction to the piece, or email Pierre at pierre@makemusicny.org with any questions.

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MAY 18-27
Boston, Hadley, MA, & New York City

The Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists VII
directed by Robert Fripp



Robert Fripp and the Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists VII
Special Performance Project

Sunday May 26
Saint Marks Church in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
Doors: 3pm
Showtime: 4pm

What is The Orchestra Of Crafty Guitarists?

One possible answer is a lot of people making a lot of noise with guitars. Sometimes they even perform in public, as in Spain, Italy, Argentina, and in the USA, in places like Hadley, Boston, Seattle and New York City.

Another possible answer is a specialized study in the self-organizing properties of complex wholes. How does Intelligence act in and through many individuals, coming together as one? What if a high level of Conscious or Creative Intelligence needed to enter this world, what kind of body or vehicle would it need?

The global challenges we face, to be addressed by current and following generations, are beyond the capacity of individuals to meet. Solutions are more likely to be found in groups and networks than in the efforts of individuals acting alone.

The quality of solution required, to problems now of global proportion, is creative; that is, at the level of genius. The solitary, individual genius is, by definition, solitary and individual. The question, then, is how may we cultivate and develop group genius?

Come share in the spectacle that is the Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists!

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MARCH 20
Detroit, MI

TILTED AXES DETROIT
Music for Mobile Electric Guitars
Procession for the First Day of Spring

12:30-2:00 PM, Midtown Detroit, March 20, 2013





Procession Route & Stops:

1. The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
2. Detroit Institute of Arts
3. W. Kirby Street
4. WSU Student Center/Gullen Mall
5. W. Warren Street
6. University Tower/WDET
7. Motor City Brewing Works
8. The Majestic Cafe
9. Detroit Artists Market
10. Detroit Institute of Arts

Complete iNFO
HERE

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.