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SUMMARY:Wild Combination
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is excited to present a screening of “Wild Combination”\, director Matt Wolf’s visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer\, singer-songwriter\, cellist\, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992\, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned both pop and the transcendent possibilities of abstract art. Now\, over fifteen years since his passing\, Arthur’s work is finally finding its audience. Wolf incorporates rare archival footage and commentary from Arthur’s family\, friends\, and closest collaborators – including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg – to tell this poignant and important story.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/wild-combination/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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SUMMARY:Tatsuya Nakatani
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is thrilled to welcome master percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani back to the Philadelphia for both a solo set and leading the “Nakatani Large Ensemble”\, a group consisting of workshop participants. Also on the evening will be CERBERUS- Alban Bailly (cello)\, Dan Capecchi (drums)\, and Matt Engle (bass) – a new Philadelphia based Trio that uses small compositional nodes to develop an ever moving improvisational musical core.The workshop is open to musicians of any level or style with a serious interest in free improvisation.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/tatsuya-nakatani/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:James Ilgenfritz\, Bhob Rainey\, Gabi Losoncy
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present a triple bill featuring New York Bassist\, James Ilgenfritz\, composer and performer Bhob Rainey\, and Philadelphia sound artist Gabrielle Losoncy.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/james-ilgenfritz-bhob-rainey-gabi-losoncy/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:The World According to Sound
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present The World According to Sound\, an immersive sonic experience by Sam Harnett and Chris Hoff. During the performance\, the audience sits blindfolded at the center of a ring of loudspeakers. Listeners will be transported inside another person’s head\, and back in time a hundred years to the streets of Berlin. They’ll fly out into space and bore deep inside the bowels of the earth. There is a musical washing machine\, sonorous sporting events\, and the disturbing howl Marco Polo heard while crossing the Gobi Desert. There’s absolutely nothing to see. It will be a spectacle entirely for the ears. \nSam Harnett is a reporter for KQED and a frequent contributor to Marketplace\, and NPR programs like Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Chris Hoff is the senior engineer and sound designer for Crosscurrents on KALW. Two years ago they set out to create a radio show that did not rely on narrative and storytelling; a program that would focus on sound instead of language. They are now touring with their live show\, performing and talking with students about sound\, modern radio\, and the current state of media.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-world-according-to-sound/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170919T200000
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SUMMARY:Kazuhisa Uchihashi + Daniel Fishkin
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the international collaboration between daxophone masters Daniel Fishkin (Philadelphia) and Kazuhisa Uchihashi (Japan). \n  \nThe daxophone is a thin hardwood strip played with a bow\, created by German improviser/inventor Hans Reichel in 1987. The instrument’s sound\, somewhere between a cello and a badger\, ranges from furtive gurgles to wild screams. In 2005\, Daniel Fishkin fell in love with this instrument and built one of his own. Eventually\, he built hundreds of daxophones\, becoming attuned to the sonic qualities of wood species and carved shapes. After Reichel’s death\, the fate of this instrument became unclear. Kazuhisa Uchihashi\, a creative partner of Reichel\, is now a leading proponent of the daxophone. Uchihashi performs on Reichel’s instruments\, in addition to presenting installations and exhibits about the daxophone. In 2015\, Fishkin met Uchihashi in Berlin. They represent different “schools” of daxophone—the new and the old\, the postmodern and classical. This is their first public performance. \nKazuhisa Uchihashi (guitar\,daxophone)� Born in Osaka\, Japan in 1959\, Uchihashi plays a huge variety of music\, having a distinctive musical voice in rock\, jazz and improvised music. He composes widely for film\, theatre and dance\, including 30 years of work with the Japanese theatre group Ishina. He has worked worldwide with musicians including Hans Reichel\, Fred Frith\, Zeena Parkins\, Han Bennink\, Derek Bailey\,Shelley Hirsch \,Christian Marclay and hundreds of improvisers.He organized the legendary Japanese power trio Altered States\, active for over 27 years\, which also worked inside Otomo Yoshihide’s Ground Zero in the 1990s. In recent years\, he has focused on pan-asian identity in music. Since 2010 he’s traveled to Indonesia\, Thailand and China to create special collaborative projects with local musicians. Mahanyawa is one of the best collaboration unit with SENYAWA from Indonesia. His special instrument\, the daxophone\, is a creation of the late guitarist/inventor\, Hans Reichel\, who was a creative partner of Uchihashi. \nDaniel Fishkin (daxophone)\nDaniel Fishkin’s ears are ringing. Composer\, sound artist\, and instrument builder. Completely ambivalent about music. Daniel studied with composer Maryanne Amacher and with multi-instrumentalist Mark Stewart. He has performed as a soloist on modular synthesizer with the American Symphony Orchestra\, developed sound installations in abandoned concert halls\, and played innumerable basement punk shows. Daniel’s lifework investigating the aesthetics of hearing damage has received international press (Nature Journal\, 2014); as an ally in the search for a cure\, he has been awarded the title of “tinnitus ambassador” by the Deutsche Tinnitus-Stiftung. Recent activities include a Project Grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Daniel received his MA in Music Composition from Wesleyan University\, has taught analog synthesis at Bard College\, and\, as fate would have it\, is now pursuing his PhD at University of California\, San Diego.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/kazuhisa-uchihashi-daniel-fishkin/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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SUMMARY:DDMS16: Tether and Jo Nelson (Ashley Tini)
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nBowerbird and Sebastian Petsu are pleased to welcome Tether and Jo Nelson to the Double Decker Music Series. Join us on Sunday\, September 10th at 8:00 p.m. (rain date\, September 12th) for a unique and intimate mobile concert experience on an open-top double-decker bus. Before\, between\, and after the music\, tour guide Sebastian Darkly Petsu will share dry wit and history about the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nTether is a music project of Lauren Pakradooni\, who performs and records using handmade cassette tape loops onto which she records various instruments and vocals. She layers these loops into compositions that waver between melodic and concrete. \nhttps://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-finish\nhttps://soundcloud.com/p-a-k-1 \n  \nJo Nelson is a country singer from Philadelphia. As a side project of percussionist and producer Ashley Tini\, she explores the past by paying homage to the great songwriters of Appalachia\, and the deep south. Her work seeks to create altered states by challenging concepts of ritual and their relation to time and place. By highlighting the ol’ minimalist approach to story telling and tasteful harmony\, we find that Jo Nelson is a feeling. As a percussionist\, she has recorded and performed the works of George Crumb\, Pauline Oliveros\, Iannis Xenakis\, Mauricio Kagel\, Phillip Glass\, So Percussion\, Mohammad Fairouz\, Stuart Saunders Smith\, Milford Graves\, Susie Ibarra\, Matthew Welch\, Dave Molk and Sarah Hennies. Tini has also been a featured guest on concerts and recordings by Broken Social Scene\, Do Make Say Think\, and Feist. \nhttps://jonelson.bandcamp.com/
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ddms16-tether-and-jo-nelson-ashley-tini/
LOCATION:5th and Market St\, 5th and Market Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106
CATEGORIES:Double Decker Music Series
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SUMMARY:DDMS15: Settled Arrows and Shinjoo Cho
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nBowerbird and Sebastian Petsu are pleased to welcome Settled Arrows and Shinjoo Cho to the Double Decker Music Series. Join us on Sunday\, August 27th at 8:00 p.m. (rain date\, August 29th) for a unique and intimate mobile concert experience on an open-top double-decker bus. Before\, between\, and after the music\, tour guide Sebastian Darkly Petsu will share dry wit and history about the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nSettled Arrows is the music project of performer and vocalist\, Andrew Mars. WXPN called his debut album\, “Public Privacy\,” a “beautiful time capsule of modern life and love.” The project features an evolving cast of musicians from the classical\, rock and avant-garde world. In September\, Mars will be releasing his sophomore effort\, a sci-fi/horror-fantasy rock opera entitled: “INNOCENCE (Or\, The Fall of The Fool).” \nhttps://settledarrows.bandcamp.com\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnNyh4Twkuo \nShinjoo Cho is a bandoneonist\, pianist\, and accordionist embodying many musical traditions. Her musical path began with piano at the age of five in her native Korea and expanded through her travels to Serbia and Argentina. In 2012 and 2015\, she participated in the Marlboro Music Festival under the baton of Leon Fleisher and appeared as a guest soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra. During her 2014-2016 residency in Buenos Aires\, Shinjoo’s notable appearances include solo piano performance for the president of Argentina\, Teatro Colon debut with Branford Marsalis Quartet\, and Musica Maestra ensemble by composer Diego Schissi at Centro Cultural Kirchner Symphonic Hall. She’s currently director of Oscuro Quintet in Philadelphia and a member of Astoria Tango Orchestra\, Abaddon sextet\, and Aces of Rhythm sextet in NY. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQjyNEXWz54
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ddms15-settled-arrows-and-shinjoo-cho/
LOCATION:5th and Market St\, 5th and Market Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106
CATEGORIES:Double Decker Music Series
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SUMMARY:DDMS14: Wolf Dem and Dan Blacksberg & Tessa Ellis
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT\nBowerbird and Sebastian Petsu are pleased to welcome WOLF DEM\, and Tessa Ellis and Dan Blacksberg to the Double Decker Music Series. Join us on Sunday\, July 30th at 8:00 p.m. (rain date\, July 31st) for a unique and intimate mobile concert experience on an open-top double-decker bus. Half of the performance will be on the bus\, and the other half will take place at a secret outdoor location that the bus will drive to. Before\, between\, and after the music\, tour guide Sebastian Darkly Petsu will share dry wit and history about the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS\nWOLF DEM is a live electronics duo from Philadelphia\, conceived in the fall of 2012 by two longtime DJs who bonded over similar musical backgrounds and a mutual desire to explore the bleeding edges of electronic music. Using both digital and analog tools and drawing on a highly diverse range of influences\, WOLF DEM grew from its original concept- “what your dreams would sound like if you fell asleep in an old warehouse where someone had left a dancehall station playing on the radio”- into a focused aesthetic\, at once chaotic and hypnotic\, sitting at the intersection of Caribbean music\, techno\, noise\, and field recordings. Past releases include a record for Great Circles and cassettes for Vague Audio Tapes and End Result Productions; later this summer\, they’re slated to release a new cassette with Embalming Lately. \nhttps://soundcloud.com/wolf-dem/wolf-dem-live-inciting-hq-dec2016\nhttps://soundcloud.com/great-circles/grcr-011-wolf-dem-hydrophobia-12-preview \nCalled “A virtuosic technician with abundant creativity\,” Dan Blacksberg has become a major voice carving out new paths in both Jewish and experimental music. Primarily through his trombone playing\, but also as a composer\, educator\, concert organizer\, and sometimes record producer\, Dan has excited audiences and empowered musicians in his hometown of Philadelphia\, and around the world. From performing and recording with traditional klezmer musicians like Elaine Hoffman Watts and Adrienne Cooper\, to experimentalists George Lewis and Anthony Braxton\, to performing with his own groups Electric Simcha and Deveykus ()the worlds only hardcore simcha band and Hasidic doom-metal band respectively)\, his work spans from the traditional to the avant-garde and radical spaces in between. \nwww.danblacksberg.com\nhttps://soundcloud.com/dan-blacksberg/shaking \nTessa Ellis is a recent graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and is building a career as a freelance artist in Philadelphia. Passionate about performing works written by living composers\, she is a member of the Arcana New Music Ensemble and Opus 5. Tessa is spending the next academic year as a Community Artist Fellow focusing on early childhood music education in partnership with William Cramp Elementary and Project Home. \nhttp://www.sebastianpetsu.com/doubledecker/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/03_Toying__Ventriloquizing_.mp3
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ddms14-wolf-dem-and-dan-blacksberg-tessa-ellis/
LOCATION:5th and Market St\, 5th and Market Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106
CATEGORIES:Double Decker Music Series
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SUMMARY:Begin Anywhere 07
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT\nBowerbird is pleased to present the next installment of the BEGIN ANYWHERE series\, a performer-driven\, salon-style concert series curated and performed by the musicians of the Arcana New Music Ensemble. \nTHE PROGRAM \nOliver Messiaen: Le traquet stapazin (no. 4 of Catalogue d’oiseaux) — Michael Tan\, piano \nFranco Donatoni: Fili — Emma Resmini\, flute; David Hughes\, piano \nJohn Cage: Two — Emma Resmini\, flute; Michael Tan\, piano \nJohn Cage: Aria — Alize Rozsnyai\, voice \nKenneth Amis: Interludes I-IV — Tessa Ellis\, trumpet; Emma Resmini\, flute; Aaron Stewart\, saxophone; Josh Machiz\, double bass \nStefan Wolpe: Quartet for Trumpet\, Tenor Saxophone\, Percussion and Piano — Tessa Ellis\, trumpet; Aaron Stewart\, saxophone; Andy Thierauf\, percussion; David Hughes\, piano \nABOUT ARCANA\nFounded in 2016\, the Arcana New Music Ensemble is a group of Philadelphia-based musicians dedicated to presenting interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional music in interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional places. Built on a flexible roster of 25 musicians\, Arcana is able to perform a broad range of repertoire in numerous configurations. Arcana is a project of Bowerbird administered by Elizabeth Huston\, Thomas Patteson\, and Dustin Hurt.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/begin-anywhere-07/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Music of Moondog
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nBowerbird is pleased to present “The Music of Moondog”\, a survey of the idiosyncratic rounds and songs by composer Louis Thomas Hardin Jr (1916 – 1999). The eccentric street musician known as Moondog dressed in Viking garb and regularly performed on the sidewalks of New York’s Sixth Avenue. This concert is the debut performance of the Arcana New Music Ensemble. \n  \nARCANA NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE \nKatie Ambacher\, flute\nNicholas McNamara\, alto saxophone\nAaron Stewart\, tenor saxophone\nMark Zelesky\, baritone saxophone\nTessa Ellis\, trumpet\nElizabeth Huston\, harp\nEric Derr\, percussion\nAndy Thierauf\, percussion\nJune Bender\, violin\nJoshua Machiz\, double bass \n  \nTHE COMPOSER \nLouis Thomas Hardin\, Jr.\, better known as Moondog\, is one of the most famous and influential outsider musicians of the twentieth century. Born in Kansas to a devoutly religious family\, Hardin was blinded at age 16 when he dug up a live dynamite cap. For 30 years\, from the early 1940s to the early 1970s\, he lived in New York City\, where he became a well-known street performer known\, thanks to his Nordic garb\, as “the Viking of Sixth Avenue.” During this time he recorded several albums and won the respect of many important musicians\, including Leonard Bernstein\, Charlie Parker (for whom he wrote the piece “Bird’s Lament”)\, and Philip Glass (with whom he briefly shared an apartment). From 1974 until his death in 1999\, Moondog lived primarily in Germany\, where he enjoyed the most stable and productive creative period of his life. Celebrated for his diverse body of work that combines– among other influences– the rhythmic energy of jazz\, the ritualistic intensity of Native American tribal music\, and classical principles of counterpoint\, Moondog’s music is at once uncategorizable and instantly identifiable. \n  \nABOUT ARCANA \nFounded in 2016\, the Arcana New Music Ensemble is a group of Philadelphia-based musicians dedicated to presenting interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional music in interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional places. Built on a flexible roster of 25 musicians\, Arcana is able to perform a broad range of repertoire in numerous configurations. Arcana is a project of Bowerbird administered by Elizabeth Huston\, Thomas Patteson\, and Dustin Hurt.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-music-of-moondog/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arcana
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SUMMARY:Erik Ruin's Long/Gone (100 ft paper-cut scroll)
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nCurrently over 100 feet in length\, LONG/GONE is a single intricately-cut piece of paper which flows freely from image to image. Narratives and scenarios (often drawn from classic works of literature from Homer to Dante) emerge and collapse and spill over and into each other. \nIn performance\, Erik scrolls the paper-cut continually across the surface of an over-head projector\, creating an epic and immersive shadow-show. His musical group\, the Ominous Cloud Ensemble\, will provide a live soundtrack. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nErik Ruin is a Michigan-raised\, Philadelphia-based printmaker\, shadow puppeteer\, paper-cut artist\, etc.\, who has been lauded by the New York Times for his “spell-binding cut-paper animations.” His work oscillates between the poles of apocalyptic anxieties and utopian yearnings\, with an emphasis on empathy\, transcendence and obsessive detail. He frequently works collaboratively with musicians\, theater performers\, other artists and activist campaigns. He is a founding member of the international Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative\, and co-author of the book Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism (w/ Cindy Milstein\, PM Press\, 2012). \nErik Ruin’s Ominous Cloud Ensemble is an ever-evolving\, collectively-improvising large ensemble for projections and music\, led by visual artist Erik Ruin. Erik manipulates intricate paper-cuts and painted films on overhead projectors to create abstract landscapes and fragmentary scenes that are nonetheless charged with meaning\, merging with music that ranges from dark atmospherics to ecstatic peaks of dissonance. Members of the ensemble include a rotating cast of Philly’s finest musicians\, who have collaborated with everyone from Anthony Braxton to the Sun Ra Arkestra\, Chris Forsyth to Bardo Pond. \nOminous Cloud Ensemble: \nTara Middleton\, voice\nDM Hotep\, guitar\nReid Hoffman\, guitar\nNick Millevoi\, guitar\nMyles Donovan\, viola\, harp\nJesse Sparhawk\, harp\, banjo\nJulius Masri\, electronics\, kamancheh\nQuinn Collins\, bass\nScott Verrastro\, drums\, percussion
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LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Julius Eastman: The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc + Thruway!
DESCRIPTION:For the final concert\, Eastman’s powerful work for 10 cellos The Holy Presence of Joan D’Arc and its introspective companion vocal piece Prelude to The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc will be performed. Far ahead of their time\, these pieces incorporate a much more atonal language into Eastman’s minimalist aesthetic. The concert will open with an encore performance of Eastman’s “Thruway” and a solo work by NYC based musicians Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste. \n*Please note: Dev Hynes will no longer be performing. Refunds can be requested at ticket at bowerbird dot org. \nProgram: \nJULIUS EASTMAN: PRELUDE TO THE HOLY PRESENCE OF JOAN D’ARC (1981) \nDavóne Tines\, bass-baritone \nJULIUS EASTMAN: THE HOLY PRESENCE OF JOAN D’ARC* (1981) for 10 cellos \nBOWERBIRD CELLO ENSEMBLE\nMirjam Ingolfsson\, Thomas La Forgia\, Ezgi Yargici\, Eric Coyne\, Agnes Kline\, Erin Busch\, Arlen Hlusko\, Lucia Strother\, Carolina Diazgranados\, Rachel Icenogle \nStanford Thompson\, conductor\n* transcription by Clarice Jensen \nJEREMY TOUSSAINT-BAPTISTE: EVIL N*GGER: A DEDICATION/INVOCATION \nAn atmospheric exploration of Julius Eastman’s 1979 composition Evil N*gger for solo performer and four instruments. \nJULIUS EASTMAN: THRUWAY (ENCORE PERFORMANCE) \nSoprano Tara Middleton \nFlute Anthony Bob\nClarinet Joe Dvorak\nViolin Veronica Jurkiewicz\nTrombone: Rodney McGhee\nSax: Nicholas McNamara\nElectronics: Kyle Austin – hprizm\nVideo: John Phillips \nEASTMAN COMMUNITY CHOIR\nJacob Walls\nMick Ricereto\nErica Corbo\nJeanne Lyons\nPeter Christian\nAtamanu Zaki Hagins\nIsabella Sazak\nMatt Hollenberg\nsam cirulis\nHeather Mease \nMore information can be found here: https://www.thatwhichisfundamental.com/may-26th-joan-of-arc \nABOUT THE SERIES\nJulius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental is an interdisciplinary\, multi-artist project that examines the life\, work\, and resurgent influence of Julius Eastman\, a gay African American composer and performer who was active internationally in the 1970s and 80s\, but who died homeless at the age of 49\, leaving an incomplete but compelling collection of scores and recordings. The culmination of more than three years of research\, this first iteration of this project will take place in Philadelphia in May 2017. Events include four major concerts – including several modern “premieres” of recently recovered works – and a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring archival materials and work by ten contemporary artists who engage with Eastman and the fragmented nature of his legacy. \nMore information can be found here: https://www.thatwhichisfundamental.com
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/julius-eastman-the-holy-presence-of-joan-darc-thruway/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170520T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170520T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142837
CREATED:20181022T155610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T155808Z
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SUMMARY:Predicated+A Recollection: Artist Talk - Tiona Nekkia McClodden
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird and Slought present an Artist Talk moderated by Tiona McClodden\, curator of Predicated+A Recollection. \nGallery hours and more information: https://www.thatwhichisfundamental.com/exhibition/ \nTIONA NEKKIA MCCLODDEN is a curator\, visual artist\, and filmmaker whose work explores and critiques issues at the intersections of race\, gender\, sexuality\, and social commentary. Themes examined in McClodden’s films and works have been re-memory and more recently narrative biomythography\, and shared ideas\, values\, and beliefs within the African Diaspora-what she calls\, “Black mentifact”. Her work is interested in exploring intersubjectivities within Blackness and Black communities as a tool for creating insider perspectives within film\, time based works\, and objects. McClodden has been awarded the 2016 Pew Fellowship. McClodden lives and works in North Philadelphia\, PA. \nABOUT THAT WHICH IS FUNDAMENTAL\nJulius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental is an interdisciplinary\, multi-artist project that examines the life\, work\, and resurgent influence of Julius Eastman\, a gay African American composer and performer who was active internationally in the 1970s and 80s\, but who died homeless at the age of 49\, leaving an incomplete but compelling collection of scores and recordings. The culmination of more than three years of research\, this first iteration of this project will take place in Philadelphia in May 2017. Events include four major concerts – including several modern “premieres” of recently recovered works – and a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring archival materials and work by ten contemporary artists who engage with Eastman and the fragmented nature of his legacy.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/predicateda-recollection-artist-talk-tiona-nekkia-mcclodden/
LOCATION:The Slought Foundation\, 4017 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170519T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170519T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142837
CREATED:20181022T161344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T161344Z
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SUMMARY:Julius Eastman: Crazy\, Evil\, Gay Guerrilla
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THIS EVENT\nJulius Eastman perfected his multifarious minimalism in three works of the late seventies: “Crazy Nigger”\, “Evil Nigger”\, and “Gay Guerrilla”. Each work is scored for multiple instruments of the same kind. This concert features two of the works performed as a piano quartet and Gay Guerrilla performed by a large ensemble of electric guitars. \nMore information about this event can be found athttps://www.thatwhichisfundamental.com/may-19th-crazy-evil-gay \nPROGRAM: \nJULIUS EASTMAN: SPOKEN INTRO (1980)\nArchival recording of Eastman’s explanation of the use of “Nigger” in the title of his compositions. \nJULIUS EASTMAN: EVIL NIGGER (1979)\nJoseph Kubera\, Dynasty Battles\, Michelle Cann\, Adam Tendler – pianos \nJULIUS EASTMAN: GAY GUERRILLA (1979)\nSonora Guitar Ensemble \nJULIUS EASTMAN: CRAZY NIGGER (1979)\nJoseph Kubera\, Dynasty Battles\, Michelle Cann\, Adam Tendler – pianos \nABOUT THE SERIES\nJulius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental is an interdisciplinary\, multi-artist project that examines the life\, work\, and resurgent influence of Julius Eastman\, a gay African American composer and performer who was active internationally in the 1970s and 80s\, but who died homeless at the age of 49\, leaving an incomplete but compelling collection of scores and recordings. The culmination of more than three years of research\, this first iteration of this project will take place in Philadelphia in May 2017. Events include four major concerts – including several modern “premieres” of recently recovered works – and a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring archival materials and work by ten contemporary artists who engage with Eastman and the fragmented nature of his legacy. \nThat Which Is Fundamental is the first comprehensive examination of Eastman’s legacy to work alongside the Eastman Estate\, an organization led by Gerry Eastman to gather together\, organize\, preserve\, disseminate\, and generally further the work of his brother\, Julius. \nMore information about this series can be found at https://www.thatwhichisfundamental.com/
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/julius-eastman-crazy-evil-gay-guerrilla/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170518T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170518T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142837
CREATED:20190321T171246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T171246Z
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SUMMARY:The Music of Julius Eastman with Dustin Hurt
DESCRIPTION:Slought Foundation\, 4017 Walnut St\nThursday May 18th\, 6:00pm to 7:30pm \nJoin Dustin Hurt\, director of Bowerbird\, for a presentation on the music of Julius Eastman. Topics include: \n(1) a brief overview of Julius musical development and (overlapping) compositional styles – graphic scores\, minimalism\, improvisatory\, etc \n(2) the survey of status of the archival material (what scores we have\, what fragments we have\, what is still lost)\, \n(3) a close look at a few of the rare scores in the exhibition – including works not available online – such as “Macle”\, “Thruway”\, “Trumpet”\, a fragment from an early tonal work for violin and piano\, among others. \n(4) rare archival recordings of Eastman compositions (“Piano Pieces I to IV”\, “Trumpet”\, “440”\, “Thruway”\, “Comp I”\, “Mumbaphilia\, “One God”\, and “Wood In Time” and Eastman performing Frederic Rzewski\, Pauline Oliveros\, Meredith Monk\, and others. \nGallery hours and more information: https://www.thatwhichisfundamental.com/exhibition/ \nABOUT THAT WHICH IS FUNDAMENTAL\nJulius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental is an interdisciplinary\, multi-artist project that examines the life\, work\, and resurgent influence of Julius Eastman\, a gay African American composer and performer who was active internationally in the 1970s and 80s\, but who died homeless at the age of 49\, leaving an incomplete but compelling collection of scores and recordings. The culmination of more than three years of research\, this first iteration of this project will take place in Philadelphia in May 2017. Events include four major concerts – including several modern “premieres” of recently recovered works – and a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring archival materials and work by ten contemporary artists who engage with Eastman and the fragmented nature of his legacy.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-music-of-julius-eastman-with-dustin-hurt/
LOCATION:The Slought Foundation\, 4017 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170513T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170513T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142837
CREATED:20190321T171647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T171647Z
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SUMMARY:That Which is Fundamental: Co-Curators in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Slought Foundation\, 4017 Walnut St\nSaturday May 13th\, 6:00pm\nExhibition: Thursday\, May 4th – Sunday\, May 28th \nBowerbird and Slought present a conversation between Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Dustin Hurt\, co-curators of That Which is Fundamental\, discussing the life and work of Julius Eastman\, the exhibition\, the concert series\, and the three-year-long journey of research and organizing that brought the retrospective to fruition. \nGallery hours and more information: https://www.thatwhichisfundamental.com/exhibition/ \nABOUT THAT WHICH IS FUNDAMENTAL\nJulius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental is an interdisciplinary\, multi-artist project that examines the life\, work\, and resurgent influence of Julius Eastman\, a gay African American composer and performer who was active internationally in the 1970s and 80s\, but who died homeless at the age of 49\, leaving an incomplete but compelling collection of scores and recordings. The culmination of more than three years of research\, this first iteration of this project will take place in Philadelphia in May 2017. Events include four major concerts – including several modern “premieres” of recently recovered works – and a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring archival materials and work by ten contemporary artists who engage with Eastman and the fragmented nature of his legacy.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/that-which-is-fundamental-co-curators-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Slought Foundation\, 4017 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170512T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170512T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142837
CREATED:20190321T172110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T172110Z
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SUMMARY:Moor Mother plus Julius Eastman: Macle\, Thruway\, Buddha
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE SERIES\nJulius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental is an interdisciplinary\, multi-artist project that examines the life\, work\, and resurgent influence of Julius Eastman\, a gay African American composer and performer who was active internationally in the 1970s and 80s\, but who died homeless at the age of 49\, leaving an incomplete but compelling collection of scores and recordings. The culmination of more than three years of research\, this first iteration of this project will take place in Philadelphia in May 2017. Events include four major concerts – including several modern “premieres” of recently recovered works – and a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring archival materials and work by ten contemporary artists who engage with Eastman and the fragmented nature of his legacy. \nFor more info: https://www.thatwhichisfundamental.com/ \nABOUT THE EVENT\nAn important landmark in the recovery of Eastman’s music\, this concert features the modern premieres of two of Eastman’s earliest works- Macle (for 4 voices) and Thruway (for soprano\, flute\, clarinet\, trombone\, violin\, cello\, large choir\, and jazz trio – in theri first performances since the 1970s. Opening the concert will be his enigmatic late period open instrumentation composition Buddha here performed as a choral work. Also joining the line up is Moor Mother performing an new spoken work piece dedicated to Julius Eastman. \nJULIUS EASTMAN: BUDDHA (1984)\nEastman Community Choir \nMOOR MOTHER: NEW WORK (2017)\nMoor Mother\, solo \nJULIUS EASTMAN: MACLE (1969)\nEkmeles Vocal Ensemble \nJULIUS EASTMAN: THRUWAY (1969)\nArcana New Music Ensemble\nAnthony Bob\, flute\nJoseph Dvorak\, clarinet\nMin Young Kim\, violin\nTom Kraines\, cello\nRodney McGhee\, trombone\nAaron Stewart\, saxophone\nHprizm\, electronics\nEastman Community Choir
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/moor-mother-plus-julius-eastman-macle-thruway-buddha/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170505T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170505T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142837
CREATED:20190321T172519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T172742Z
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SUMMARY:Julius Eastman: Stay On It + Femenine
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE SERIES\nJulius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental is an interdisciplinary\, multi-artist project that examines the life\, work\, and resurgent influence of Julius Eastman\, a gay African American composer and performer who was active internationally in the 1970s and 80s\, but who died homeless at the age of 49\, leaving an incomplete but compelling collection of scores and recordings. The culmination of more than three years of research\, this first iteration of this project will take place in Philadelphia in May 2017. Events include four major concerts – including several modern “premieres” of recently recovered works – and a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring archival materials and work by ten contemporary artists who engage with Eastman and the fragmented nature of his legacy. \nThat Which Is Fundamental is the first comprehensive examination of Eastman’s legacy to work alongside the Eastman Estate\, an organization led by Gerry Eastman to gather together\, organize\, preserve\, disseminate\, and generally further the work of his brother\, Julius. \n  \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nThe first concert of this series will feature two of the works most widely performed during Eastman’s life time – Stay on It and Femenine – both early examples of his minimalist-based works to show pop music influence. Opening the evening will be a special performance by Gerry Eastman\, brother of Julius. \n  \nGERRY EASTMAN: IN MEMORY OF JULIUS\nGerry Eastman\, solo guitar \n  \nJULIUS EASTMAN: STAY ON IT (1973)\nArcana New Music Ensemble \nDynasty Battles – piano; Tara Middleton – violin and voice; David Middleton – electric bass; Aaron Stewart\, saxophone; Joseph Dvorak\, clarinet; Keir Neuringer\, saxophone; Eric Derr\, percussion; Andy Thierauf\, percussion; and special guest Christopher McIntyre\, trombone \n  \nJULIUS EASTMAN: FEMENINE (1974)\nArcana New Music Ensemble\nwith Christopher McIntyre
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/julius-eastman-stay-on-it-femenine-plus-gerry-eastman/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170504T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170504T203000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142837
CREATED:20190321T173245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T173245Z
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SUMMARY:Opening: Predicated+A Recollection
DESCRIPTION:presented by Bowerbird and Slought\, curated by Tiona Nekkia McClodden; part of “Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental” \nA Recollection. and Predicated. – feature archival traces and work by ten contemporary artists that engages with Julius Eastman and the fragmented nature of his legacy. A Recollection. approaches a historical exploration and remembrance of Eastman as a master of artifice\, while Predicated.\, an exhibition in conversation with the work of Julius Eastman\, explores notions of absence\, trace presence\, duration\, the politics of exhaustion\, as well as the interplay between composition and improvisation through video\, sculpture\, and photography. \nGallery hours and more information: https://www.thatwhichisfundamental.com/exhibition/ \nABOUT THAT WHICH IS FUNDAMENTAL\nJulius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental is an interdisciplinary\, multi-artist project that examines the life\, work\, and resurgent influence of Julius Eastman\, a gay African American composer and performer who was active internationally in the 1970s and 80s\, but who died homeless at the age of 49\, leaving an incomplete but compelling collection of scores and recordings. The culmination of more than three years of research\, this first iteration of this project will take place in Philadelphia in May 2017. Events include four major concerts – including several modern “premieres” of recently recovered works – and a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring archival materials and work by ten contemporary artists who engage with Eastman and the fragmented nature of his legacy.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/opening-predicateda-recollection/
LOCATION:The Slought Foundation\, 4017 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170421T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170421T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142837
CREATED:20190321T173719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T173719Z
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SUMMARY:Morton Feldman's "Three Voices"
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nThree Voices\, written in 1982 for Joan La Barbara\, was the last solo vocal piece he wrote before his death in 1987 (For Stefan Wolpe\, dedicated to his composition teacher and written for chorus and two vibraphones\, post-dates it). It sets part of Wind\, a poem by his friend Frank O’Hara that had been dedicated to him and which he had set earlier in its entirety in The O’Hara Songs (1962) for bass-baritone. \nConceived as a trio for the one voice\, with two pre-recorded parts and one to be performed live\, the score is conventionally notated (all parts are written out with precise rhythms and pitches\, though often in differing metres) but is beguilingly short on some details. There is\, for example\, no tempo indication\, no vowel specified for the many lengthy passages without text\, no dynamics bar an initial ppp\, and no guidance as to which voice should be the ‘live’ one. \nWriting later about Three Voices\, Feldman said: ‘One of my closest friends\, the painter Philip Guston\, had just died; Frank O’Hara had died several years before. I saw the piece with Joan in front and these two loudspeakers behind her. There is something kind of tombstoney about the look of loudspeakers. I thought of the piece as an exchange of the live voice with the dead ones – a mixture of the living and the dead’. \n  \nABOUT JULIET FRASER \nSoprano Juliet Fraser has a repertoire dominated by the very old and the very new. In new music\, she has performed as a guest soloist with Klangforum Wien\, Remix Ensemble\, Talea\, ICTUS\, Plus-Minus\, We Spoke: New Music Company\, London Sinfonietta and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. She is also principal soprano of EXAUDI\, the acclaimed vocal ensemble\, which she founded with James Weeks in 2002. Juliet has premiered well over 100 works\, many of which have been written for her\, and has worked particularly closely with composers Rebecca Saunders\, Michael Finnissy\, Bernhard Lang\, Matthew Shlomowitz\, Andrew Hamilton and Cassandra Miller. Her commercial recording of Morton Feldman’s “Three Voices” was released on Hat Hut Records in November 2016.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/morton-feldmans-three-voices/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170409T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170409T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142837
CREATED:20190321T174221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T174221Z
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SUMMARY:Commonwealth Dinner Theater 01
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT\nBowerbird is excited to launch a new series – Commonwealth Dinner Theater – a night of genre bending performances combined with a delicious meal. Perfect for the curious of mind and palate. \nThe night includes a vegetarian friendly meal served family style and three wonderful acts: Philly favorite Beth Nixon\, a beautifully illustrated crankie- scrolling panoramic drawing- from Baltimore’s Hidden Eye Theater (comics artist Eamon Espey & puppeteer Lisa Krause)\, and Jupiter Blue\, a new musical duo featuring Sun Ra Arkestra’s D.M. Hotep and Tara Middleton. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nBETH NIXON is an interdisciplinary artist who works under the name Ramshackle Enterprises. Since 1998 Beth has been writing\, building\, performing\, and touring her own solo clown and puppet shows\, collaborating with other artists\, and frequently facilitating the creation of puppet parades\, pageants\, and performances with groups of children and adults. Beth has worked with Pig Iron Theatre and Spiral Q (Philly)\, Red Moon Theater (Chicago)\, Bread and Puppet Theater (VT)\, and Big Nazo Puppets (RI). CAPSULE is a work-in-progress performance created by Beth Nixon is collaboration with Maggie Alvarez\, Theodora Rodine\, Madeline Shuron\, and Emma Wells\, directed by Jaclyn Pryor. \n  \nBaltimore-based HIDDEN EYE THEATER (Eamon Espey & Lisa Krause) presents the Nameless Gate\, a moving panorama. It is a meditation on male/ female and animal/ plant relations and the journey to return to the source of all things. It is a poem about the light of darkness. The music was specifically written for the performance and was made using a keyboard\, a shovel and a boombass. \nSun Ra Arkestra guitarist D.Hotep with Sun Ra Arkestra vocalist/lyricist/violinist Tara Middleton form the duo JUPITER BLUE\, exploring differing genres of music — from composed to improvised to experimental\, developing lyrical grooves & jazz-sourced vocal soundscapes.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/commonwealth-dinner-theater-01/
LOCATION:Maas Building\, 1325 N Randolph St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170321T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170321T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142837
CREATED:20190321T174926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T174926Z
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SUMMARY:Arnold Dreyblatt
DESCRIPTION:NODAL EXCITEMENT for prepared Double Bass with Piano Wire\nREPERTOIRE for prepared Double Bass with Piano Wire\, Laptop\nMAGNETOM for laptop \nTHE EVENT\nBowerbird 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 based in Berlin\, Germany since 1984. Among the second generation of New York minimal composers\, Dreyblatt developed a unique approach to composition and music performance. As he began his music in the late 1970’s in New York\, he invented a set of new and original instruments\, performance techniques\, and a system of tuning and has formed and led numerous ensembles under the title “The Orchestra of Excited Strings”. \nDreyblatt has been composing music for his own and other ensembles for almost forty years. Often characterized as the most rock-oriented of American minimalists\, Dreyblatt has cultivated a strong underground fan base for his transcendental and ecstatic music with his “Orchestra of Excited Strings”. The New York native studied film and video at SUNY with Woody and Steina Vasulka\, and earned his masters from the Institute for Media Studies at S.U.N.Y. Buffalo. In the mid-’70s\, he studied composition with Pauline Oliveros and LaMonte Young\, then with Alvin Lucier while completing his masters in composition\, completed in 1982. By that time\, Dreyblatt had already been directing his own music ensemble\, the Orchestra of Excited Strings. \nIn 1984\, he moved to Europe where\, in addition to composing\, he began to work in performance and the visual arts. He has received numerous grants\, stipends and commissions including the Philip Morris Art Prize\, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art and from the Irish Arts Council. Musicians and Ensembles which have performed his music include the Bang On A Can All-Stars\, the Pellegrini Quartet\, Jim O’Rourke\, Crash Ensemble (Dublin)\, The Great Learning Orchestra (Stockholm)\, and the American Indie-band Megafaun. In 1991\, he created the contemporary opera Who’s Who in Central and East Europe 1933 which toured European theatres until 1997. \nDreyblatt has recorded for such labels as Tzaddik\, Hat Hut\, Table of the Elements\, Cantaloupe\, Important\, Northern Spy\, Choose and Black Truffel. Dreyblatt has taught music workshops resulting in performed compositions with musicians at The Music Gallery\, Toronto; MIT Boston\, Serralves Foundation\, SXSW Festival Porto\, Portugal and many others. He has performed with and without his ensemble at the Whitney Museum\, New York; the Maerz Music Festival\, Berlin; the Angelika Festival\, Bologna; The Lab in San Francisco\, Jazz House\, Copenhagen and countless other festivals and concert venues in Europe and in North America.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/arnold-dreyblatt/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170317T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170317T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142837
CREATED:20190321T175243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T175243Z
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SUMMARY:Community Futurism: An Evening Curated By Moor Mother
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nThe 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 well as unreleased songs by Moor Mother. Artists include Rasheedah Phillips\, Madam Data\, Keir on sax\, Philip on drums\, and George and Steve on bass. \n  \nABOUT MOOR MOTHER \nCamae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a national and international touring musician and has performed at numerous festivals\, colleges\, and universities sharing the stage with King Britt\, Islam Chipsy\, Claudia Rankine\, and Bell Hooks as well as opening on tour for Screaming Females. A soundscape artist with work featured at Samek Art Museum\, Metropolitan Museum of Art Chicago\, ICA Philadelphia\, and Everson Museum of Art\, Camae is also a vocalist in punk band The Mighty Paradocs and free jazz group Irreversible Entanglements. Camae is co-founder and organizer of Rockers! Philly\, a 10-year long running event series and festival that focuses on marginalized musicians and artists spanning multiple genres of music. As Moor Mother\, she released her debut album Fetish Bones on Don Giovanni Records. It was named 3rd Best Album of the Year by The Wire Magazine\, #1 by Jazz Right Now\, and appeared on numerous end of the year lists from Pitchfork\, Noisey\, Rolling Stone\, and Spin Magazine. Moor Mother was named by Rolling Stone as one of 10 Artists to Watch in 2016 and named Bandcam’s 2016 Artist of the Year. Camae also released her first book of poetry called Fetish Bones in Winter 2016 on The AfroFuturist Affair small press. As a member of Black Quantum Futurism Collective (BQF)\, she has been a part of two literary works and several zines\, and has been featured in exhibitions at the Schomburg Center\, Rebuild Foundation\, Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art\, and more. Camae Ayewa is a 2016 Leeway Transformation Award and Blade of Grass 2016 Fellow\, has been an in artist in residency at West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange and WORM! Rotterdam residency\, and will be featured with Black Quantum Futurism at Transmediale Festival in Berlin 2017. Moor Mother has appeared in the Quietus\, the Fader\, Vice and others. Moor Mother’s upcoming schedule includes Berhaign\, Safe as Milk Festival\, CTM Festival\, MoogFest\, and Donau Festival.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/community-futurism-an-evening-curated-by-moor-mother/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170310T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170310T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142837
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SUMMARY:Arcana Meets Variant 6: Reich\, Feldman\, & more
DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \n  \nTHE PROGRAM \nMorton Feldman: Voices and Instruments II\nfor three voices\, flute\, two cellos\, and double bass \nSteve Reich: Proverb\nfor three sopranos\, two tenors\, two vibraphones\, and two electric organs \nSalvatore Sciarrino: Responsorio delle tenebre\nPelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Sound I\nBruno Bettinelli: Quando tutto all’intorno\nBruno Bettinelli: Sia calmo\nperformed by Variant 6 \nDai Fujikura: Poison Mushroom\nfor flute and electronics \n  \n  \nABOUT ARCANA\nFounded in 2016\, the Arcana New Music Ensemble is a group of Philadelphia-based musicians dedicated to presenting interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional music in interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional places. Built on a flexible roster of 25 musicians\, Arcana is able to perform a broad range of repertoire in numerous configurations. Arcana is a project of Bowerbird administered by Elizabeth Huston\, Thomas Patteson\, and Dustin Hurt. \nEmma Resmini\, flute\nCarolina Diazgranados\, cello\nChen Cao\, cello\nMatt Engle\, bass\nAndy Theiruf\, percussion\nTed Babcock\, percussion\nTing Ting Wong\, keyboard\nDavid Hughes\, keyboard \n  \n  \nABOUT VARIANT 6\nVariant 6 performs virtuosic vocal chamber music in innovative programs and unique spaces. With only six musicians\, the ensemble cultivates an intimate approach to a capella music while pushing the boundaries of what individual voices can accomplish together. Their concerts are designed to subvert a listener”s expectations for repertoire and programming by placing music from centuries apart in stark juxtaposition. Hoping to simultaneously challenge and engage\, Variant 6 seeks to create performances that constantly surprise listeners. \nJessica Beebe\, soprano\nSteven Bradshaw\, tenor\nRebecca Myers\, soprano\nDaniel Schwartz\, baritone\nElisa Sutherland\, mezzo-soprano
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/arcana-meets-variant-6-reich-feldman-more/
LOCATION:Fleisher Art Memorial\, 719 Catharine St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19147\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arcana
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170303T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170303T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142838
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SUMMARY:Bowling for Arcana: a Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \nABOUT PEP BOWL\nConveniently located in South Philadelphia just minutes from Center City\, PEP Bowl offers a state-of-the-art bowling experience in an authentic “vintage” bowling alley dating back to the 1950s. You can feel good bowling at PEP Bowl knowing that you are helping support PEP’s mission of providing much-needed employment and services to people with developmental disabilities in the Philadelphia area.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/bowling-for-arcana-a-fundraiser/
LOCATION:PEP Bowl\, 1200 S Broad St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19146\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arcana
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170224T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170224T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142838
CREATED:20190325T153244Z
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SUMMARY:We The People: Arcana Meets Prometheus
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nArcana 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 parable for political organizing: in the composer’s words\, “Only if every player plays with the intention that their part is essential will the work succeed.” \nWhile Andriessen’s work is based on the theme of solidarity–“Musicians of the world\, unite!”– John Cage’s nearly contemporary Apartment House 1776\, composed for the American Bicentennial\, celebrates the composer’s anarchist belief in a decentralized society with a “plurality of centers.” In the original version\, four soloists sing songs representing the religious traditions of the time of the American Revolution (Protestant\, Sephardic\, African American\, and Native American)\, accompanied by snippets of instrumental music of the time that Cage modified via chance operations. This toned-down interpretation will feature a number of Cage’s arrangements alternating with solo performances of some of the songs. \n  \nTHE PROGRAM\nGeorg Phillip Telemann: Les Nations\nLouis Andriessen: Workers Union\nJohn Cage: Harmonies from Apartment House 1776 \n  \nABOUT ARCANA\nFounded in 2016\, the Arcana New Music Ensemble is a group of Philadelphia-based musicians dedicated to presenting interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional music in interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional places. Built on a flexible roster of 25 musicians\, Arcana is able to perform a broad range of repertoire in numerous configurations. Arcana is a project of Bowerbird administered by Elizabeth Huston\, Thomas Patteson\, and Dustin Hurt. \nviolin: Rachel Segal\, June Bender\nviola: Veronica Jurkiewicz\nbass: Dan Turkos\, Josh Machiz\npercussion: Andy Thierauf\nbassoon: Dominic Panunto\ntrombone: Dan Blacksberg\nelectric guitar: Nick Millevoi\nflute: Katie Ambacher\nvoice: Alize Rozsnyai \n  \nABOUT PROMETHEUS\nPrometheus Chamber Orchestra is Philadelphia’s self-conducted and self-managed chamber orchestra. Its individual members perform at the highest levels\, having studied at major conservatories and universities such as the Curtis Institute\, San Francisco Conservatory\, Indiana University\, the Hartt School of Music\, and Temple University. Its members also have an affinity for creative improvisation\, rock\, bluegrass\, jazz\, and other musical styles in which the artist sees an opportunity to fuse artistry with ingenuity. Beyond outstanding musicianship\, Prometheus Chamber Orchestra boasts a wealth of expertise in other fields\, which allows Prometheus to operate as a self-managed ensemble. \nviolin: Angela Sulzer\, Liz Carlson\, Lorenzo Raval\, Rachel Massey\nviola: Veronica Jurkiewicz\, Emma Hughey\, Jennifer Boorum\, Steve Heitlinger\ncello: Thomas La Forgia\, Julia Morelli\nbass: Dan Turkos\, John DiCarlo\npercussion: Dan Schwartz\nbassoon: Dominic Panunto\nelectric bass: Matt Engle
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/we-the-people-arcana-meets-prometheus/
LOCATION:Church of the Advocate\, 1801 Diamond St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arcana
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142838
CREATED:20190325T153559Z
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SUMMARY:Loren Connors / Chris Forsyth Duo
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the duo of Loren Connors and Chris Forsyth and a performance by Philadelphia’s Taiwan Housing Project \n\n\n  \n\n\nLOREN 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 rigid forms – has been recorded on Family Vineyard\, Northern Spy\, Drag City\, Table of the Elements\, Recital\, RoadCone and other labels. \nConnors\, who names abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko his most important influence\, has performed with Thurston Moore\, Keiji Haino\, Jim O’Rourke\, John Fahey\, Alan Licht\, Jandek\, and Kim Gordon. Suzanne Langille has often appeared on Connors’ recordings as vocalist\, lyricist and arranger. Connors also on occasion performs with an avant blues band called Haunted House\, together with Langille\, guitarist Andrew Burnes and percussionist Neel Murgai. \nIn July 1979\, Cadence Magazine noted that Connors\, who had recently emerged in the scene\, was “similar to others in the Advanced Guard of improvising guitarists in that he is trying to extend the boundaries of sound and pitch of acoustic guitar\, but he is unique in the utilization of Blues in his work\, one could almost say this is Avant Garde Blues. He’s swimming in new waters and beginning to make his own environment.” \nIn recent years\, Connors has focused mostly on live recordings of extended blues abstractions\, with occasional performances in a more avant blues rock vein from time to time through the Haunted House band and collaborations with other artists. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCHRIS FORSYTH is a lauded guitarist and composer whose work assimilates art-rock textures with vernacular American influences. Long active in underground circles\, he’s recently released a string of acclaimed records of widescreen guitar rock\, and in 2013\, he assembled The Solar Motel Band\, who have quickly developed a reputation as an incredible live act\, provoking ecstatic comparisons to visionary artists such as Television\, The Grateful Dead\, Popol Vuh\, Neil Young & Crazy Horse\, and Richard Thompson. His newest release with The Solar Motel Band is the double album The Rarity of Experience (No Quarter)\, released in March 2016. Raves have been universal. Pitchfork called it “a near-perfect balance between 70s rock tradition and present day experimentation\,” NPR Music named Forsyth “one of rock’s most lyrical guitar improvisors\,” and the New York Times calls him “a scrappy and mystical historian…” His music humanizes the element of control in rock classicism (and) turns it into a woolly but disciplined ritual.” \nIn addition to Forsyth’s work as a solo artist and bandleader\, he has been an inveterate collaborator with a diverse range of artists\, including singer/songwriter Meg Baird\, trumpeter Nate Wooley\, analog synthesist Koen Holtkamp\, and choreographer Miguel Gutierrez. He is a recipient of a 2011 Pew Fellowship in the Arts and resides in Philadelphia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTAIWAN HOUSING PROJECT began as a weird lo-fi fake pop recording project between Kilynn Lunsford (Little Claw\, Tyvek) and Mark Feehan (Harry Pussy\, Trash Monkeys). After a while of playing exclusively as a duo in a bedroom with two cats they enlisted Pat Ganley (Casual Viking\, Dan Melchior) and Adam Cooper (Tickley Feather\, Hanging Tounges) and started playing in a basement with three cats. Taiwan Housing Project’s hip shaking white hot noise has been met with drunken enthusiasm and dismissive shrugs from friends and foes alike.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/loren-connors-chris-forsyth-duo/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170212T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170212T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142838
CREATED:20190325T154212Z
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SUMMARY:The Lady with the Hammer: The Music of Galina Ustvolskaya
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nThe 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 depictions and favored abstract titles\, her work provoked visceral reactions: the Dutch musicologist Elmer Schonberger called her “the lady with the hammer\,” while Ustvolskaya herself described her work as “music from the black hole.” Aside from uncharacteristic pieces she wrote for public functions\, her work was largely unperformed during her lifetime. Only in the 1980s did her relatively small body of work begin to be performed and recorded\, and Ustvolskaya still remains largely unknown even among aficionados of 20th-century classical music. The Arcana New Music Ensemble is proud to present the music of this unique and powerful composer. \n  \nTHE PROGRAM \nComposition No. 1 (1970-71)\nEmma Resmini\, piccolo\nJay Krush\, tuba\nDavid Hughes\, piano \nDuet for Violin and Piano (1964)\nMin Kim\, violin\nDavid Hughes\, piano \nSymphony No. 5\, “Amen”(1989-90)\nDavid Hughes\, voice\nEvan Ocheret\, oboe\nTessa Ellis\, trumpet\nJay Krush\, tuba\nMin Kim\, violin\nEric Derr\, percussion \nGrand Duet for Cello and Piano (1959)\nTom Kraines\, cello\nMichael Tan\, piano \nPiano Sonata No. 6 (1988)\nMichael Tan\, piano \n  \nABOUT ARCANA\nFounded in 2016\, the Arcana New Music Ensemble is a group of Philadelphia-based musicians dedicated to presenting interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional music in interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional places. Built on a flexible roster of 25 musicians\, Arcana is able to perform a broad range of repertoire in numerous configurations. Arcana is a project of Bowerbird administered by Elizabeth Huston\, Thomas Patteson\, and Dustin Hurt.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-lady-with-the-hammer-the-music-of-galina-ustvolskaya/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arcana
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170129T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170129T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142838
CREATED:20190325T154624Z
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SUMMARY:Begin Anywhere 05
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nBowerbird 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 conclude with one tragic Russian composition. \nTHE PROGRAM \nEric Nathan: Toying (2012)\nTessa Ellis\, trumpet \nWilliam Albright: Sonata for Alto Saxophone\, 2nd movement\, arr. Mark Zelesky (1984)\nMark Zelesky\, saxophone \nGeorge Rochberg: excerpts from Caprice Variations (1970)\nJune Bender\, violin \nGeorge Lewis: Artificial Life 2007\nTessa Ellis\, trumpet\nTom Kraines\, cello\nMichael Tan\, piano\nMark Zelesky\, saxophone \nLori Laitman: I Never Saw Another Butterfly (1996)\nAlize Rosznyai\, voice\nAaron Stewart\, saxophone \nAlfred Schnittke: Cello Sonata No. 1 (1978)\nDavid Hughes\, piano\nTom Kraines\, cello \nABOUT ARCANA\nFounded in 2016\, the Arcana New Music Ensemble is a group of Philadelphia-based musicians dedicated to presenting interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional music in interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional places. Built on a flexible roster of 25 musicians\, Arcana is able to perform a broad range of repertoire in numerous configurations. Arcana is a project of Bowerbird administered by Elizabeth Huston\, Thomas Patteson\, and Dustin Hurt.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/begin-anywhere-05/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arcana
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170120T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170120T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142838
CREATED:20190325T155136Z
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SUMMARY:The Pine Barrens Screening
DESCRIPTION: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\, portrait of a place out of time. With the Pinelands as a primary character\, the film explores the symbiotic yet sometimes destructive relationship between man and nature. It is believed by many that political forces and negligence may contribute to making this century the Pine Barren’s last. \nTHE RUINS OF FRIENDSHIP ORCHESTRA\nNamed for the historic Pine Barrens town of Friendship where the band first practiced together as a group\, The Ruins of Friendship Orchestra is a collective of electronic and traditional instrumentalists composing the score to The Pine Barrens concurrently to the film’s evolving editions. Ruins perform this score\, also an evolving and partially improvised work\, live at screenings\, merging performance and documentary to create a completely unique experience transporting the audience into our interpretation of this fascinating and beautiful place. \nBen Warfield\, synthesizer\nLaura Baird\, vocals\, flute\, banjo\nGretchen Lohse\, viola\nJesse Sparhawk\, harp\, bass\nJohn Pettit\, guitar\, trumpet\, harmonium
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-pine-barrens-screening/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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