Sound nights
Each Saturday night during the course of the exhibition. We are organizing some performances by musicians and sound artists whose work is better suited to be performed in front of a live audience. Again we are looking for the observers, the listeners and those who cross boundaries with their work.
- Sept. 17th 2005: Wolfgang R. von Stuermer
- Sept. 24th 2005: Moritz:McLellan:Wooley Trio, BARKER TRIO
- Oct. 1st, 2005: Nina Maria Lee and Asmira Woodward-Page
- Oct. 8th, 2005: James Fei and Kato Hideki
- Oct. 15th 2005: Phill Niblock
Past Events
Opening Ambient: Sept. 17th, 2005
Wolfgang R. von Stuermer
New York City based composer Wolfgang R. von Stuermer studied classical composition & computer music in Europe, wrote software for robotic systems, lectured at IDEA and managed Knitting Factory Records for many years. He is currently trying to reveal musical truths via autonomic computer generated "onkyo" streams that are inspired by contemporary concepts of AI, chaos theory and analog systems modeling.
Sept. 24th, 2005
BARKER TRIO
8:30 - 10pm
- Welf Dorr - saxophones
- Brian Osbourne - drums
- Andrew Barker - cello
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Barker, steps from behind the drumkit to present this new trio with Welf Dorr, and Brian Osbourne. With influences ranging from Karheinz Stockhausen to the North American frog, this new trio will explore the new silence and the spontaneous eruptions hidden within.
Moritz:McLellan:Wooley Trio
10pm - late
Listeners who are conscious of the silence they rupture with their free jazz improvisations and delicate swings from the rhythmic to sonic landscape. This Brooklyn based collaboration of John McLellan on drums, Nate Wooley on trumpet and Jonathan Moritz on sax will be performing at night during the show. From their site, "[we have] created a whole new improvised sound together based on principals of composition, development, time and most of all, care."
Oct. 1st, 2005
Nina Maria Lee (cello)
Asmira Woodward-Page (violin)
Bach, Sanskrit, Ravel
Doors 8:30
Concert starts at 9pm sharp, no entry after start of the concert. Free
- Bach, Sarabande (solo cello suite)
- Anonymous, 3 Sanskrit Mantras to the Goddess for Enlightenment (violin and voice)
- Ravel, Duo for violin and cello
An evening of classical music for violin and cello, with a live video projection of closeups of the musician's hands.
- Nina is the cellist of the Brentano Quartet
- Asmira is a violin soloist
pictures and comments
Oct. 8th, 2005
James Fei and Kato Hideki
8:30pm $5 door
- Kato Hideki: electric bass and bass synthesizer
- James Fei: oscillators, filters, spring reverb, contact mike, and miscellaneous electronics
Oct. 15th, 2005
Phill Niblock
Doors 8:30 (full show)
After his 70th birthday celebration on Oct. 1st at Tonic, Phill has agreed to give us a full concert as part of "Almost Something". He will be playing several of his works with projections of his images from the DVD The "Movement of People Working."
Music
- Hurdy Hurry (1999, 15 min) Jim O'Rourke, hurdy gurdy samples
- Harm, for cello (22 min, 2003) Arne Deforce, cello, recorded samples
- Lucid Sea (20 min, 2003) Lucia Mense, recorders, recorded samples
- Sethwork (2003, 21:48) Seth Josel, acoustic guitars played with E-bow, recorded samples
Images
- The "Movement of People Working" series, Film/Video - Peru, Mexico, Hong Kong, Hungary, China, Japan
Phill Niblock makes thick, loud drones of music, filled with micro-tones of instrumental timbres which generate many other tones in the performance space. Simultaneously, he presents films / videos which look at the movement of people working, or computer driven black and white abstract images floating through time.
