Curated by Nick Hallett

Co-presented with Carnegie Hall as part of the 2012 American Mavericks Festival

The Kitchen dips into the Music Program archive and extends its envelope-pushing legacy to a new generation with this weekend of shared double bills. Launching the event is William Basinski’s ambient electronic opus Vivian & Ondine, which identifies the haunting materiality of sound through the physical process of tape loop manipulation, with light art by Seth Kirby and Brock Monroe. Sharing the evening, Tristan Perich—in his Kitchen debut—demonstrates his unique 1-Bit universe, mixing custom-built microchips and harpsichord performed by Daniel Walden.

The second evening begins with a new septet convened by Brooklyn-based guitarist Mary Halvorson, who effortlessly connects jazz, pop, and experimental strategies. The septet includes Kirk Knuffke (cornet), Greg Ward (alto saxophone), Ingrid Laubrock (tenor saxophone), Jacob Garchik (trombone), Mary Halvorson (guitar), John Hebert (bass) and Tom Rainey (drums). The weekend culminates with work by Arthur Russell, former Kitchen Music Director and protean composer who set the contemporary standard for fluidity between musical genres as he moved freely among avant-garde composition, traditional songwriting, and commercial disco. His Instrumentals, which played at The Kitchen in 1975, and was described by The New York Times as “full of stirring melody, part Copland and part western movie soundtrack,” will be given a new reading directed by composer Peter Gordon, a friend and collaborator of Russell’s. Musicians appearing on Instrumentals include Ernie Brooks* (bass guitar), Peter Gordon* (saxophones, organ), Zach Layton (guitar), Katie Porter (bass clarinet), Bill Ruyle* (mallets, percussion), Elio Villafranca (piano), Alex Waterman (cello), and Peter Zummo* (trombone).

*member of Instrumentals ensemble (1975-1978)

March 15, 9:00 pm

An evening of Abstract Electronic synth and Avant Free Improv Psych At THE SUFFOLK

Featuring:

New Reality Band (Nick Hallett and Zach Layton) and SUNWATCHERS

Sun Watchers is an improvisational new-music cooperative dedicated to divining the common sonic and spiritual ground shared by the great progenitors of free jazz, psych rock, punk and minimalist classical. The group’s fluid ranks include current and former members of NYMPH, Arthur Doyle’s New Quiet Screamers, Gamelan Kusama Laras, Young People, Dark Meat, Dan Hole Pond, Leg and Pants Dance Theeater, We Vs. The Shark and countless other acts of variable temperament, affect and geographic base of operation. Tonight, they perform segments of their monolithic composition Golden Shafts of Light, a drone-piece whose recorded execution stands as a sort of build-your-own-sound-installation kit, and spans three years, multiple cities, dozens of musicians and thirteen compact discs.

Jim McHugh — guitar, synth, tape-echo manipulation, etc….
Robert Peterson — homemade electronic, vocals, live-mixing
Jeff Tobias — electronics, synth, alto and baritone sax
Katie Eastburn — Vocals

New Reality Band:

Zach Layton (digital modular synthesizer)
Nick Hallett (Casio CZ 101 and Line 6 delay)

$5 suggested donation

At the Speed of Stone curated by Anthony Huberman

‘Stones’ (Saturday) David Grubbs, an alt-rock luminary with a deep-seated affinity for the avant-garde, rounds up a clutch of New York new-music champions for a performance of “Stones,” an indeterminate score by Christian Wolff. At 4 p.m., Marianne Boesky Gallery, 118 East 64th Street, Manhattan, (212) 680-9889,marianneboeskygallery.com; free. (Smith)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/arts/music/classical-music-opera-listings-for-March-9-15.html

http://spectacletheater.com/surround-sound-video-art-night

WWW.VIDASPERFECTAS.ORG

international radio art and sound art exhibition on FM / online / gallery

http://www.bringtolightnyc.org/

OCT 1, 2011

10:30 with Fair Use Trio

11:30 solo brainwave AV set with interactive light installation by “the company”

:: MONSTER ISLAND REQUIEM
:: AUTUMNAL UNAMPLIFIED ACOUSTIC BBQ

:: short 2 song acoustic / unamplified sets

550pm :: Max Hodes of Black Cosmic Mother
540pm :: Dead Leaves / Good Company
530pm :: Space Lions in Outer Space
520pm :: D1st of Notekillers
510pm :: Fergus & Geronimo
500pm :: Pterodactyl
450pm :: Beach Fossils
440pm :: Talk Normal
430pm :: Phonetag
420pm :: dj Dog Dick
410pm :: La Big Vic
400pm :: Dragons of Zynth
350pm :: Ducktails
340pm :: MNDR
330pm :: Oberhofer
320pm :: Logan Takahashi of Teengirl Fantasy
310pm :: Greatest Hits
300pm :: PC Worship
250pm :: Cassie Ramone
240pm :: Dustin Wong
230pm :: Hubble
220pm :: My Teenage Stride
210pm :: Forma
200pm :: the Forms
150pm :: Heaven’s Gate
140pm :: Mushroom Cloud
130pm :: Zach Layton’s Guitar Centaur
120pm :: Ezekiel Healy
110pm :: Shams
100pm :: Jack and the Flys —– from K-Holes
1250pm :: Katie Eastburn
1240pm :: ELIZA and PARRY
1230pm :: Life Size Maps
1220pm :: Colin L. —– from USAISAMONSTER, CSC Funk Band
1210pm :: White Suns