ABOUT THE EVENT The third installment of Composing the Tinnitus Suites: 2016 consists of compositions for and by Daniel Fishkin, Cleek Schrey, and Ron Shalom. Shalom, Schrey, and Fishkin are members of New Perplexity, a collective of new wartime composers and scholars. Schrey performs on the Hardanger Fiddle, a Norwegian folk instrument lined with sympathetic…
Bowerbird, in collaboration with Mike Bullock, is pleased to present the inauguration of "The Philadelphia Embassy of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland" (KREV). KREV, as described by the country's founders - Swedish artists Leif Elggren (King Leif I) and Carl Michael von Hausswolff (King Michael I) - is "the largest and most populous realm on Earth,…
Bowerbird is pleased to screen three documentary films marking the 50th anniversary of "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering". In 1966 ten New York artists and thirty engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories collaborated on a series of innovative dance, music and theater performances, "9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering", held in October at the 69th…
Bowerbird is pleased to present a screening of Shirley Clarke's 1985 film "Ornette: Made in America". "Ornette: Made In America" captures Ornette's evolution over three decades. Returning home to Fort Worth, Texas in 1983 as a famed performer and composer, documentary footage, dramatic scenes, and some of the first music video-style segments ever made, chronicle…
BOWERBALL A 10th anniversary fundraiser and open house featuring A NIGHT OF BINGO hosted by Allen Crawford musical performances by Ashley Tini, Laura Baird, Bhob Rainey with great prizes, raffles, food and drink, and tunes from DJ Sebastian Petsu ABOUT THE EVENT It's time to dust off the ball cage and get out the daubers,…
ABOUT THE EVENT Bowerbird is pleased to present the Voutchkova / Thieke Duo (from Germany), along side Philadelphia's Jesse Kudler, and Rachel Ishikawa + 사 (Sa). German duo Biliana Voutchkova and Michael Thieke have been performing and composing together since 2011. "Subdued and enchanting", their music paints a slow and intimate moving soundscape while increasing…
Bowerbird is pleased to present Svitanya, a Philadelphia-area women's vocal ensemble that specializes in folk music of Eastern Europe. Founded in 2001, the ensemble started with six singers performing purely a cappella arrangements. The early members included two mother-daughter pairs, fitting for a genre in which songs have been passed from mother to daughter for…
Bowerbird and The Rotunda are pleased to welcome back a Philadelphia favorite: The Alash Ensemble. ABOUT THE EVENT ALASH are masters of Tuvan throat singing, a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. Masters of traditional Tuvan instruments as well as the art of throat singing, Alash are deeply committed to traditional…
ABOUT THE EVENT Join us for an evening with Philadelphia's Daedalus Quartet in the Penn Museum's breathtaking Chinese Rotunda. Experience the demonic brilliance and visionary beauty of George Crumb's "Black Angels: Thirteen Images of the Dark Land for Electric String Quartet" as string sounds, chanting, eerie glass harmonicas, and gongs resonate under the 90 foot…
Bowerbird is pleased to present a screening of David Scott Kessler's evolving documentary The Pine Barrens: Whitesbog Edition with a live score performance by The Ruins of Friendship Orchestra. Guiding the viewer through the New Jersey Pineland's winding, rust-colored rivers; its dark, sandy forests and slowly developing towns, The Pine Barrens creates a contemplative, complex,…
ABOUT THE EVENT Bowerbird is pleased to present the first event of the newly rebooted BEGIN ANYWHERE series, a performer-driven, salon-style concert series curated and performed by the musicians of the Arcana New Music Ensemble. With appropriate irony for our current political climate, the concert will feature a variety of works by American composers and…
ABOUT THE EVENT The Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) created some of the most severe, brutalist classical music of the 20th century. Favoring stark textures and unusual combinations of instruments-- she never formally studied orchestration-- her music unfolds in ruthlessly throbbing rhythms, angular melodic shards, and resonant caverns of silence. Though she mostly avoided programmatic…
Bowerbird is pleased to present the duo of Loren Connors and Chris Forsyth and a performance by Philadelphia's Taiwan Housing Project LOREN CONNORS has improvised and composed original guitar music for over four decades. His music - which embraces the aesthetics of blues, Irish airs, blues-based rock and other genres while letting go of…
ABOUT THE EVENT Arcana joins forces with the Prometheus Chamber Ensemble to perform two politically charged works of modern music. Dutch composer Louis Andriessen's 1975 composition Workers Union is notated as a single part that can be played by any kind of instruments, melodic or percussive. Noisy, hypnotic, and powerfully dramatic, Workers Union is a…
Roll strikes, spares, and even gutter balls, while you support Bowerbird's ARCANA NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE. We've rented the whole PEP Bowl facility - which means admission gets you two hours of unlimited bowling *AND* supports our mission of performing beautiful, unconventional music in beautiful, unconventional spaces. ABOUT PEP BOWL Conveniently located in South Philadelphia…
Bowerbird's Arcana New Music Ensemble joins forces with Variant 6, a vocal sextet specializing in contemporary music, for a program of Steve Reich, Morton Feldman, Salvatore Sciarrino, and more. THE PROGRAM Morton Feldman: Voices and Instruments II for three voices, flute, two cellos, and double bass Steve Reich: Proverb for three sopranos, two…
ABOUT THE EVENT The evening features two sets by Moor Mother, working under the theme of Community Futurism, in collaboration with Black Quantum Futurism and the Community Futures Lab. The first set includes improv collaboration of live instrumentation with drums, saxophone, bass, synth, and text. The second features music from the album Fetish Bones as…
NODAL EXCITEMENT for prepared Double Bass with Piano Wire REPERTOIRE for prepared Double Bass with Piano Wire, Laptop MAGNETOM for laptop THE EVENT Bowerbird is pleased to present a rare performance by composer-performer Arnold Dreyblatt (b. New York City, 1953). Dreyblatt studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier and has been…
