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SUMMARY:Cage\, Tudor\, Rauschenberg: 9 Evenings
DESCRIPTION: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 Regiment Armory in New York City. The artists were John Cage\, Lucinda Childs\, Oyvind Fahlstrom\, Alex Hay\, Deborah Hay\, Steve Paxton\, Yvonne Rainer\, Robert Rauschenberg\, David Tudor and Robert Whitman. For these films\, archival material has been combined with interviews with the artists\, engineers and performers to illuminate the artistic\, technical and historical aspects of the work. \nVariations VII\, performed at 9 Evenings\, was the next to last in John Cage’s series of indeterminate works that he had begun in 1958\, which made increasing use of electronic equipment and systems. This DVD documents the only complete performance of Variations VII and also presents a stereo audio recording of the full 85 minutes of the performance. \nBandoneon ! (a combine) is David Tudor’s first full concert work as a composer. Tudor played the bandoneon as the input into a complex sound and visual modification system that moved sound from speaker to speaker and controlled lights and video images\, creating a work that animated the entire Armory space. This DVD documents the performance with film and vintage photographs as well as interviews with the performers\, engineers and Tudor’s fellow composers. \nOpen Score is the first film to be released in a series that will bring to life a historic moment in contemporary art history. In Open Score \, Robert Rauschenberg derived the content of his performance from the characteristics of the performance venue. The tennis racquet suggested both the idea of the ready-made (at other times tennis was played at the Armory) and that of a dance improvised in accordance with specific rules.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/cage-tudor-rauschenberg-9-evenings/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Philadelphia Embassy of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland
DESCRIPTION: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\, incorporating all boundaries between other nations as well as Digital Territory and other states of existence. Every time you travel somewhere\, and every time you enter another form\, such as the dream state\, you visit Elgaland-Vargaland.” \nWith performances by Ian M Fraser and Bhob Rainey in their first collaboration performing a new work derived from algorithmic digital composition techniques. Solo performance by CM von Hausswolff using electronics to make his unique blend of droned and polyfrequential beauty. \nAlso featuring a performance by Sons of God with Mike Bullock. Sons of God – the duo of Leif Elggren and Kent Tankred – excels in creating long\, puzzling stage performances that give equal roles to physical action (or inaction) and soundtrack (live or taped) with themes such as violence\, love\, the quotidian\, food and royalty. For this performance they will collaborate with electronic composer Mike Bullock\, who will create a sonic setting using modular synthesizers and field recordings. \nAlong with these performances artworks will be on display in the Gray Area and ICEBox Project Space will be videos\, porcelain objects\, prints\, stamps\, currency\, and other Royal ephemera\, as well as books\, records\, and CDs from artists Leif Elggren\, CM von Hasswolff\, Linda Aubry Bullock and Mike Bullock. \nABOUT THE PERFORMERS: \nMike Bullock is a composer\, performer\, and artist whose work encompasses improvisation\, electroacoustic composition\, modular synthesis\, intermedia installation\, contrabass and bass guitar\, porcelain making\, illustration\, and critical writing. Bullock has been performing electroacoustic improvised music since the mid 90s and has performed across the US and in Europe\, at venues such as Fylkingen in Stockholm\, Sweden; Instants Chavires in Paris; Café OTO in London; Experimental Intermedia and ISSUE Project Room in New York City; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; and EMPAC in Troy\, NY. Collaborators have included King Britt\, HPrizm (High Priest of Anti-Pop Consortium)\, Bertrand Gauguet\, Andy Guhl\, Mazen Kerbaj\, Pauline Oliveros\, Bhob Rainey\, Greg Kelley\, Steve Roden\, Hankus Netsky\, Keith Rowe\, and Christian Wolff\, Vic Rawlings\, Raed Yassin\, Christine Abdelnour\, Sharif Sehnaoui\, Domenico Sciajno\, Seymour Wright\, Sebastian Lexer\, Julien Ottavi\, Ben Owen\, Andrew Lafkas\, Bryan Eubanks\, Kenta Nagai\, Andrea Neumann\, Stephane Rives\, Scott Smallwood\, Stephan Moore\, Howard Stelzer\, Tucker Dulin\, Curtis Bahn\, Newton Armstrong. Additionally\, Bullock has taught and lectured on field recording and improvisation at Hautes Ecoles des Arts du Rhin\, The Pratt Institute\, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently based in Brooklyn\, NY and Philadelphia\, PA. \nLinda Aubry Bullock is a painter\, porcelain maker\, graphic designer\, video artist and electronic musician based in Brooklyn\, NY. She has performed live video and modular synthesizer at numerous venues including ISSUE Project Room and Experimental Intermedia in New York City; EMPAC in Troy\, NY; and Fylkingen in Stockholm\, Sweden. Her visual art has been exhibited at Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia. Linda has an extensive career producing porcelain tableware for the home\, as well as experimental porcelain pieces for intermedia installation works. \nLeif Elggren (born 1950\, Linkoping\, Sweden) is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm. Active since the late 1970s\, Leif Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to work in the combined worlds of audio and visual. A writer\, visual artist\, stage performer and composer\, he has many albums to his credits\, solo and with the Sons of God\, on labels such as Ash International\, Touch\, Radium and his own Firework Edition. His music\, often conceived as the soundtrack to a visual installation or experimental stage performance\, usually presents carefully selected sound sources over a long stretch of time and can range from mesmerizingly quiet electronics to harsh noise. His wide-ranging and prolific body of art often involves dreams and subtle absurdities\, social hierarchies turned upside-down\, hidden actions and events taking on the quality of icons. Together with artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff\, he is a founder of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland (KREV) where he enjoys the title of King. Elggren spent five years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm\, specializing in drawing\, design and book printing. In the late ‘70s he began to associate with performance groups\, meeting people like Hausswolff and Thomas Liljenberg. With the latter he formed Firework in 1978\, a duo that put up exhibitions and performances. Around the same time he purchased a press and started to publish art books. In 1988 he formed the duo Guds Söner (The Sons of God) with Kent Tankred\, whom he had met four years earlier. The duo excels in creating long\, puzzling stage performances that give equal roles to physical action (or inaction) and soundtrack (live or taped) with themes such as violence\, love\, the quotidian\, food and royalty. Solo works include Talking to a Dead Queen (1996) and Pluralis Majestatis (2000). Together with Hausswolff\, Elggren represented Sweden in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2001 (with Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen from Finland and Anders Tomren from Norway). In 2007 he appeared (with John Duncan) at the Netmage festival in Bologna organized by xing\, and executed “Something Like Seeing in the Dark.” \nCarl Michael von Hausswolff (born 1956\, Linkoping\, Sweden) is an artist living and working in Stockholm. Since the 1970s Hausswolff has worked as a composer using the tape recorder as his main instrument and as a conceptual visual artist working with performance art\, light- and sound installations and photography. His audio compositions from 1979 to 1992\, constructed almost exclusively from basic material taken from earlier audiovisual installations and performance works\, consist of complex macromal drones interlaced with a surface of aesthetic elegance and beauty. In later works\, Hausswolff has added a purely isolationistic sonic condition to composing. More recent compositions byHausswolff are pure\, intuitive studies of electricity\, frequency functions and tonal autism within the framework of a conceptual stringent cryption. Lately he has also developed a more conceptual form of audio art overlooking subjects such as architecture and urbanism\, rats and maggots. Collaborators include Graham Lewis\, Jean-Louis Huhta\, Pan sonic\, Russell Haswell\, Zbigniew Karkowski\, Erik Pauser\, The Hafler Trio and John Duncan. His music and sound art can be found on labels such as Touch\, Ash International\, Laton\, Oral\, RasterNoton\, Firework Edition\, SubRosa and Die Stadt. His music is published by Touch Music\, London. Hausswolff’s music has been performed throughout Europe and in North America and Asia in festivals such as Sonar\, Electrograph and I.D.E.A.L. In these concerts a very physical\, almost brutal\, side of Hausswolff’s aesthetics has blended with a droned and polyfrequential beauty. The audience very often fall into a form of trance\, dozing away in their seats. Other times people experiencing the events has thanked him “for the massage” or has expressed a “feeling that the flesh came off the bones” due to the vibrations of the low frequencies used. \nKent Tankred (born 1947\, Stockholm\, Sweden) studied painting in the early 70s before studying at EMS (Institute for Electro-Acoustic Music) in Stockholm with Rolf Enstrom and Jan W Morthenson. Tankred is interested in musical encounters with other art forms\, particularly pictorial art\, which has resulted in fusions where his music has also functioned as installations at exhibitions. The multi slide presentation Riot which was shown in Berlin in 1988 was created in collaboration with the graphic artist Leif Elggren. Tankred and Elggren work together on a regular basis as a performance duo\, calling themselves The Sons of God. Tankred aims to strengthen the ties between music\, movement and image and also to avoid conventional forms of expression. He often uses a “concresizer\,” a kind of instrument which he has constructed himself which controls different types of sound sculptures from a keyboard. His works have been exhibited in different places in Sweden and Europe. Tankred has been the president of the Fylkingen society between 1993-98.= \nIan M. Fraser is a computer musician working in free improvisation and algorithmic-based composition. His primary focus is generative structures\, pseudo-artificial intelligence\, and stochastic processes. With Reed Evan Rosenberg\, he works with the continual development of Keroaän\, a musical Artificial Intelligence designed to perform without any human intervention whatsoever. In live performance they combine live generative works with real-time visualizations utilizing high intensity strobe lights and lasers. \nBhob Rainey is an award-winning composer\, performer\, saxophonist\, and sound designer. In 1998\, with trumpeter Greg Kelley\, he founded the duo Nmperign\, which quickly became a model for a new phase of non-idiomatic improvisation often referred to as “lowercase” or “EAI” (Electroacoustic Improvisation). In 2000 he founded The BSC\, an improvising large ensemble\, in which he developed techniques for an improvisational discipline that were eventually outlined in his 2011 publication\, Manual. Throughout the late 1990’s and early 2000’s he performed globally and collaborated with numerous improvisers of both the (then) current and previous generations\, including Axel Dorner\, Andrea Neumann\, Gunter Mu ller\, Michel Doneda\, Le Quan Ninh\, and many others. By the mid-2000’s\, while continuing to work in the realm of improvisation\, Rainey began to produce electronic and algorithmic works. He spent five years collaborating with German composer Ralf Wehowsky (RLW) on the 2007 release\, I don’t think I can see you tonight\, which\, along with Nmperign and Jason Lescalleet’s Love Me Two Times (2006)\, established him as a formidable electronic composer who synthesizes streams of Musique Concrete\, computer music\, and improvisation. Throughout his career\, Rainey has sought out cross-discipline collaborations\, working with dancers\, filmmakers\, and theater companies. From 2012-2014 he worked with theater company New Paradise Labs to create The Adults\, which premiered at the 2014 Philadelphia Fringe Festival to much acclaim. Rainey was awarded the Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2013. He is currently working on a long-term project with New Paradise Labs dealing with radical contingency. \nThe Philadelphia Embassy of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-philadelphia-embassy-of-the-kingdoms-of-elgaland-vargaland/
LOCATION:Crane Arts\, 1400 N American St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122
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SUMMARY:Daniel Fishkin\, Cleek Schrey\, Ron Shalom
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nThe 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 strings that resonate as he plays. Shalom is a contrabassist blessed with perfect pitch\, but this intutitive gift is confounded by spectral barrage of the Lady’s Harp. For this concert\, the trio present a series of compositions in an attempt to answer the question\, “What is Tinnitus Music?” from each player’s perspective. \n  \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nDescribed by the Irish Times as “a musician utterly at one with his instrument and his music\,” Cleek Schrey is a fiddler and composer from Virginia. An active member of traditional music communities in America and Ireland\, he plays in the Ghost Trio with Ivan Goff and Iarla O Lionaird. His work has been presented at Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation in Brooklyn\, Storm King Art Center\, the Kilkenny Arts Festival\, the Lumen Performance Art Festival\, and the Bridge Progressive Art Center. Cleek frequently makes music for dance\, having worked with choreographers Douglas Dunn and Bill T. Jones and percussive dancers Sandy Silva and Nic Gareiss. He also works closely with the renowned Beckett theater company\, Gare St. Lazare\, as a composer and musician. He has studied composition with David Behrman\, Paul Caputo\, Bunita Marcus\, and Walter Zimmermann. The journal Sound Post has noted that Cleek “possesses a rare combination of traits: deep respect for traditional music and the people who make it\, and an unbounded curiosity about new directions for sound.” He is currently pursuing a Masters in Music Composition at Wesleyan University. \n  \nRon Shalom (b. 1989) is a composer\, bassist\, vocalist\, organist\, and leader of the Cult of the Illuminated Orifice. Of his own work\, Ron says\, “I seek out the boundaries between forms of performance in public life\, as well as between the musical and the theatrical\, through the creation of spectacle.” He received his undergraduate degree from Oberlin Conservatory and a master’s in composition from Wesleyan University. Recent projects include a semi-staged nihilo-pornography with the Cult\, and a third full-length album of songs with his chamber pop ensemble Fers Yn Ri. \n  \nDaniel 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 freight elevators and abandoned concert halls\, and played innumerable basement punk shows. Previous iterations of Composing the Tinnitus Suites have 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. Daniel received his MA in Music Composition from Wesleyan University\, and currently teaches courses in analog synthesis at Bard College. \n  \n  \nABOUT THE SERIES \nIn 2008\, Daniel Fishkin’s ears started ringing\, and they never stopped. Composing the Tinnitus Suites: 2016 investigates the aesthetics of hearing damage through a performance series in the Sanctuary of the Rotunda\, consisting of experimental music concerts and conversations with other thinkers who confront hearing damage in their own practice and personal lives. The series is anchored by the Lady’s Harp: a system of 20-foot long piano wires activated by mixer feedback\, using guitar pickups and pressure transducers to coax the strings into vibration\, not unlike the cilia that transduce vibrations into electrical impulses for the brain. Fishkin says\, “To make ‘Tinnitus Music’ is not just to compose sounds\, but also to compose situations that can break the isolation of its experience.” \n  \n  \nComposing the Tinnitus Suites: 2016 has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/daniel-fishkin-cleek-schrey-ron-shalom/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ellen Fullman with Daniel Fishkin
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nThe second installment of Composing the Tinnitus Suites: 2016 consists of solos and duets between Ellen Fullman and Daniel Fishkin. Fullman is the inventor of the Long String Instrument\, an 80 foot long string instrument consisting of stainless steel wires that she strokes with rosined fingertips. Fullman has used her instrument to explore the acoustics of large resonant spaces for over 30 years. In her Philadelphia premiere\, Ellen Fullman will install her Long String Instrument in the Rotunda Sanctuary. Though Fullman and Fishkin both work with long strings\, their work is decidedly different. In this concert\, the two will contrast their practices. \nFeaturing a conversation with the Maria Geffen Lab and Ranjit Bhatnagar. \n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS\n\n\n\nEllen Fullman’s career in music was launched at age one\, when Elvis Presley kissed her hand. She went on to earn a BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute\, leading her to create her “Metal Skirt Sound Sculpture\,” which she wore to perform Streetwalker at the 1980 New Music America festival in Minneapolis. Soon after\, Fullman accidentally discovered the sound of longitudinally vibrating long strings. Since then\, she has been developing the Long String Instrument (LSI)\, and its abundant possibilities. Fullman has presented her work in art spaces\, festivals\, and museums in the United States and in Europe. She has been the recipient of numerous awards\, commissions and residencies including: Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists (2015); Center for Cultural Innovation Grants (2008 and 2013); Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission/NEA Fellowship for Japan (2007); and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin residency (2000). Fullman’s work was cited by Alvin Lucier in his Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music (Wesleyan University Press\, 2012) and by David Byrne in How Music Works (McSweeney’s\, 2012).\n\n\n  \nDaniel 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 freight elevators and abandoned concert halls\, and played innumerable basement punk shows. Previous iterations of Composing the Tinnitus Suites have 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. Daniel received his MA in Music Composition from Wesleyan University\, and currently teaches courses in analog synthesis at Bard College. \n  \n\n\n\nABOUT THE SERIES \n\nIn 2008\, Daniel Fishkin’s ears started ringing\, and they never stopped. Composing the Tinnitus Suites: 2016 investigates the aesthetics of hearing damage through a performance series in the Sanctuary of the Rotunda\, consisting of experimental music concerts and conversations with other thinkers who confront hearing damage in their own practice and personal lives. The series is anchored by the Lady’s Harp: a system of 20-foot long piano wires activated by mixer feedback\, using guitar pickups and pressure transducers to coax the strings into vibration\, not unlike the cilia that transduce vibrations into electrical impulses for the brain. Fishkin says\, “To make ‘Tinnitus Music’ is not just to compose sounds\, but also to compose situations that can break the isolation of its experience.”
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ellen-fullman-with-daniel-fishkin/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Philadelphia Hearing Damage
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nThe first installment of Composing the Tinnitus Suites: 2016 is the premiere performance of Philadelphia Hearing Damage. This band of broken ears is a crowd-sourced creation of local Philadelphia artists. Fishkin worked with these musicians in the summer of 2016\, teaching them how to play the Lady’s Harp\, and to apply its techniques to their own instruments. This assemblage does not consist of gifted virtuosos\, rather kindred listeners-musicians whose relationship to sound might be fundamentally unstable. \nBen Bennett\, percussion\nRachel Ishikawa\, bicycle wheel\, found objects\nHannah Judd\, cello\nBennett Kuhn\, synthesizer\, tinnitus\nConnor Przybyszewski\, trombone\nDaniel Fishkin\, lady’s harp\, composition \n  \nFeaturing a conversation with Armen Enikolopov and Monroe Street. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nDaniel 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 freight elevators and abandoned concert halls\, and played innumerable basement punk shows. Previous iterations of Composing the Tinnitus Suites have 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. Daniel received his MA in Music Composition from Wesleyan University\, and currently teaches courses in analog synthesis at Bard College. \n  \nABOUT THE SERIES \nIn 2008\, Daniel Fishkin’s ears started ringing\, and they never stopped. Composing the Tinnitus Suites: 2016 investigates the aesthetics of hearing damage through a performance series in the Sanctuary of the Rotunda\, consisting of experimental music concerts and conversations with other thinkers who confront hearing damage in their own practice and personal lives. The series is anchored by the Lady’s Harp: a system of 20-foot long piano wires activated by mixer feedback\, using guitar pickups and pressure transducers to coax the strings into vibration\, not unlike the cilia that transduce vibrations into electrical impulses for the brain. Fishkin says\, “To make ‘Tinnitus Music’ is not just to compose sounds\, but also to compose situations that can break the isolation of its experience.” \n  \ncover photo: Samuel Lang Budin \nComposing the Tinnitus Suites: 2016 has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/philadelphia-hearing-damage/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:DDMS13: Emily Bate and Kilamanzego
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird and Sebastian Petsu are pleased to welcome Emily Bate and Kilamanzego to the Double Decker Music Series. Join us on Sunday\, September 18th\, at 8:00 p.m. (rain date\, September 19th) 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 \nEmily Bate is a singer\, composer and harmony fanatic working in music and theater. Recent projects include surrealist musical A Ride On The Irish Cream; choral theater piece Going Down Mount Moriah; a series of “zingles” (zine + single) combining writing and music; and acoustic chamber-math duo Jonagold.\nhttp://emilybate.com\nhttp://bandcamp.emilybate.com \n  \nKilamanzego – a name that originated as part joke and part need to express her family’s immigrant culture\, her music is always bending genre to fit her experimentation quirks. In her early teens she got hooked on playing bass\, guitar\, and other instruments which led to her excitement to craft beats\, a journey that started in winter of 2014. She’s inspired by everything from the amount of heart and soul J-Dilla put into his work to early Ta-Ku beat battle demos. The style is generally glitchy\, melodic\, odd rhythms and whatever else catches her mood. Currently she is working on a debut EP and future collabs with local talents DJ John Morrison and Moor Mother Goddess.\nhttp://soundcloud.com/zeegystardust\nhttp://www.facebook.com/zeegystardust \n  \n  \nEVENT DETAILS \nBoarding begins at 7:45pm at the northeast corner of 5th and Market Streets by the Wells Fargo building. \nTHE BUS LEAVES AT 8PM SHARP. It’s a mobile event\, so you can’t show up late or the venue will be gone! The event finishes up back where we started at 10pm. \nAs an incentive to show up on time\, our sponsor Little Baby’s Ice Cream\, will be providing FREE ICE CREAM SANDWICHES for the first 15 guest on board. So get there early! \nThis event is 21+ and BYOB (but please\, no glass\, and remember there is no restroom on the bus). \n$27 per person. Advance tickets only. There will be no walk-up sales. Only 30 seats are available and this event will sell out. (All previous Double Decker Music Series events have!) So please\, don’t sleep on it. \nIf it looks like rain\, the event will be held the following day\, Monday September 19th at 8pm. A message will be sent out by 5pm on the day of the event letting ticket-holders know about the rescheduling.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ddms13-emily-bate-and-kilamanzego/
LOCATION:5th and Market St\, 5th and Market Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106
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SUMMARY:DDMS12: Vessna Scheff and Koofreh Umoren & JNPR
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird and Sebastian Petsu are pleased to welcome Vessna Scheff and Koofreh Umoren and JNPR to the Double Decker Music Series. Join us on Sunday\, August 28th\, 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. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nVessna Scheff and Koofreh Umoren – This commanding duo turns heads and pauses conversations for an inspiring and memorizing performance. Combining the delicate and tender tones of the ukulele with the soulful and nostalgic notes of the trumpet\, their sound carries the listener through an unsuspecting combination of soul\, folk\, r&b and jazz in a refreshing approach to music making. \nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0XFuqVJgbA&feature=youtu.be\nhttp://vessnascheff.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-ep-live-tin-angel \nJNPR is the improv electronic project of duo Jeanne Lyons and Peter Christian. They create gradually-shifting landscapes of sound using small synthesizers\, drum machines\, and vocal loops. \nhttp://youtu.be/rcFd8rbTpPI\nhttp://youtu.be/vbUE_Kj1VXQ \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\nBoarding begins at 7:45pm at the northeast corner of 5th and Market Streets by the Wells Fargo building. \nTHE BUS LEAVES AT 8PM SHARP. It’s a mobile event\, so you can’t show up late or the venue will be gone! The event finishes up back where we started at 10pm. \nAs an incentive to show up on time\, our sponsor Little Baby’s Ice Cream\, will be providing FREE ICE CREAM SANDWICHES for the first 15 guest on board. So get there early! \nThis event is 21+ and BYOB (but please\, no glass\, and remember there is no restroom on the bus). \n$27 per person. Advance tickets only. There will be no walk-up sales. Only 30 seats are available and this event will sell out. (All previous Double Decker Music Series events have!) So please\, don’t sleep on it. \nIf it looks like rain\, the event will be held the following day\, Monday August 29th at 8pm. A message will be sent out by 5pm on the day of the event letting ticket-holders know about the rescheduling.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ddms12-vessna-scheff-and-koofreh-umoren-jnpr/
LOCATION:5th and Market St\, 5th and Market Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106
CATEGORIES:Double Decker Music Series
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SUMMARY:DDMS11: Moor Mother and Outside Outsiders
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird and Sebastian Petsu are pleased to welcome Moor Mother and Outside Outsiders (Kevin Diehl and D.Hotep) to the Double Decker Music Series. Join us on Sunday\, July 31st\, at 8:00 p.m. (rain date\, August 1st) 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 \nCamae Ayewa is an interdisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia. A musician performing under the name Moor Mother\, she has toured in Europe and the U.S.\, and has performed at numerous festivals\, colleges and universities sharing the stage with King Britt\, Islam Chipsy\, and Claudia Rankine. A soundscape artist with work featured at Samek Art Museum\, Metropolitan Museum of Art Chicago\, and Everson Museum of Art\, Camae is also a singer in punk band The Mighty Paradocs. Camae is co-founder and organizer of Rockers! Philly\, a 10-year long running event series and festival focused on marginalized artists. As a workshop facilitator she works with youth centered programs\, non profits and shelters. As a curator of fundraising events\, Camae has worked with and serves on the board of Girls Rock Philly\, and is assistant coordinator of The Afrofuturist Affair\, Philadelphia’s premiere afrofuturism organization. Camae is also a poet and author of the forthcoming poetry book Fetish Bones and is an avid zinemaker and collector. She is a member of Black Quantum Futurism Collective\, which released its first book\, Black Quantum Futurism theory and practice Vol. 1. and has been featured at the Schomburg Center\, as well as presented installations at the Rebuild Foundation and Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art. \nhttp://soundcloud.com/moor-goddess\nhttp://blackquantumfuturism.bandcamp.com \nOutside Outsiders – Kevin Diehl and D.Hotep initially met\, during the mid 1990s\, as participants in vibraphonist Khan Jamal’s avant-garde music project\, the Phila. Jazz Composers’ Forum. From that point\, Kevin has gone on to found and produce several albums of his ongoing Lukumi-percussion/avant-garde jazz hybrid project Sonic Liberation Front\, while Hotep co-ran the ensemble JazGuardian\, performed & produced music with Rogi Kenyatta’s La Tumba\, and has toured & recorded with Sun Ra’s Arkestra\, under the direction of Marshall Allen for 15 years. \nhttp://soundcloud.com/kevindiehl\nhttp://sonicliberation8.com\nhttp://soundcloud.com/akimboresearcher\nhttp://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/dhotep \n  \nEVENT DETAILS \nBoarding begins at 7:45pm at the northeast corner of 5th and Market Streets by the Wells Fargo building. \nTHE BUS LEAVES AT 8PM SHARP. It’s a mobile event\, so you can’t show up late or the venue will be gone! The event finishes up back where we started at 10pm. \nAs an incentive to show up on time\, our sponsor Little Baby’s Ice Cream\, will be providing FREE ICE CREAM SANDWICHES for the first 15 guest on board. So get there early! \nThis event is 21+ and BYOB (but please\, no glass\, and remember there is no restroom on the bus). \n$27 per person. Advance tickets only. There will be no walk-up sales. Only 30 seats are available and this event will sell out. (All previous Double Decker Music Series events have!) So please\, don’t sleep on it. \nIf it looks like rain\, the event will be held the following day\, Monday August 1st at 8pm. A message will be sent out by 5pm on the day of the event letting ticket-holders know about the rescheduling.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ddms11-moor-mother-and-outside-outsiders/
LOCATION:5th and Market St\, 5th and Market Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106
CATEGORIES:Double Decker Music Series
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SUMMARY:DDMS10: Neil Feather and Nyfolt
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird and Sebastian Petsu are pleased to welcome Neil Feather and Nyfolt to the Double Decker Music Series. Join us on Sunday\, June 26th\, at 8:00 p.m. (rain date\, June 27th) 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 \nSound Mechanic Neil Feather has been creating radical and unusual musical instruments since 1970 and is increasingly known as one of the most original musical thinkers of his day. His instruments each embody uniquely clever acoustic and engineering principles\, and are visually arresting. The music he plays on the instruments is equally original\, embodying new principles and resulting in a nearly alien idiom of music. Neil Feather has been involved in Baltimore’s fertile and eccentric culture since moving there in 1985. He was a founding member of the Red Room Collective and the High Zero Foundation. His instruments are featured in the contemporary ballet “Sunset o6.39 Hours” produced by Ballet X in Philadelphia. He is a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in the field of music composition. \nhttp://neilfeather.com \nNyfolt is the Afrofuturism meets Cyberpunk experimental sound/performance project of poet\, painter\, and experimental musician JoAnn J. McNeil and sound artist NNN Cook. “We are fed up with divisive rhetoric / actions and are seeking communion. Together\, through our art\, we explore themes of futurism relating to personal identity and working against the isolating effects of racial politics and social stratification. \nhttp://nyfolt.tumblr.com\nhttps://soundcloud.com/nyfolt \n  \nEVENT DETAILS \nBoarding begins at 7:45pm at the northeast corner of 5th and Market Streets by the Wells Fargo building. \nTHE BUS LEAVES AT 8PM SHARP. It’s a mobile event\, so you can’t show up late or the venue will be gone! The event finishes up back where we started at 10pm. \nAs an incentive to show up on time\, our sponsor Little Baby’s Ice Cream\, will be providing FREE ICE CREAM SANDWICHES for the first 15 guest on board. So get there early! \nThis event is 21+ and BYOB (but please\, no glass\, and remember there is no restroom on the bus). \n$27 per person. Advance tickets only. There will be no walk-up sales. Only 30 seats are available and this event will sell out. (All previous Double Decker Music Series events have!) So please\, don’t sleep on it. \nIf it looks like rain\, the event will be held the following day\, Monday June 27th at 8pm. A message will be sent out by 5pm on the day of the event letting ticket-holders know about the rescheduling.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ddms10-neil-feather-and-nyfolt/
LOCATION:5th and Market St\, 5th and Market Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106
CATEGORIES:Double Decker Music Series
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SUMMARY:Morton Feldman's "Samuel Beckett\, Words and Music"
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nBowerbird\, in association with Pig Iron Theatre Company\, is pleased to present Morton Feldman’s Samuel Beckett\, Words and Music. The concert will be performed by the Arcana New Music Ensemble with actors Jaime Maseda and Michael T. Williams in the magnificent sanctuary of the Fleisher Art Memorial. \n  \nTHE PERFORMERS \nPig Iron Theatre Company\nJaime Maseda as Words\nMichael T. Williams as Croak\nDan Rothenberg\, director \nArcana New Music Ensemble\nKatie Ambacher\, flute\nEmma Resmini\, flute\nAndy Thierauf\, percussion\nDavid Hughes\, piano\nJune Bender\, violin\nVeronica Jurkiewicz\, viola\nTom Kraines\, cello\nJay Krush\, conductor \n  \nABOUT THE WORK \nMorton Feldman’s 1987 composition Samuel Beckett\, Words and Music sets the text of a radio play written by Samuel Beckett in 1961. The text presents a cryptic trialogue between the ailing master Croak and his two servants\, Joe (Words) and Bob (Music). Music has no lines in Beckett’s script\, but only cues describing certain moods and textures. 20 years after he withdrew the work\, Beckett asked Feldman to give Music a voice\, interpreting the written indications with a score for a seven-instrument chamber ensemble. What results is an agonized discourse between between the two main characters\, punctuated by the guttural interjections of Croak and long\, cavernous silences. Completed shortly before Feldman’s death\, Words and Music stages a powerful\, poignant confrontation– not only between the speakable and the unspeakable\, but also between two great artists of the modern era. \n  \nTHE COMPOSER \nMorton Feldman (1926-1987) was one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. An early member of the “New York School” of musicians and artists grouped around John Cage in the 1950s\, Feldman developed a unique and unmistakable compositional voice: quiet\, slow\, and gentle\, but roiled with sharp dissonances and unnerving repetitions. Music critic Kyle Gann remarks that “in the current Babel of musical styles\, Feldman is almost the only composer whose music appeals across stylistic boundaries\, among minimalists\, post-serialists\, 12-tone holdouts\, electronic composers\, academics\, Downtowners\, MAX programmers\, DJ artists\, and other miscellaneous wastrels. Abstract yet deeply personal\, Feldman’s music leaves an indelible impression. \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. \n  \nABOUT PIG IRON \nFounded in 1995 as an interdisciplinary ensemble\, Pig Iron Theatre Company is dedicated to the creation of new and exuberant performance works. Over the course of 20 years\, Pig Iron has created thirty original works and has toured to festivals and theatres in England\, Scotland\, Poland\, Lithuania\, Brazil\, Ireland\, Italy\, Romania and Germany. Individual works have been inspired by history and biography\, rock music\, American cafeterias\, serendipity\, and scientific research. The company made Philadelphia its permanent home in 1997.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/morton-feldmans-samuel-beckett-words-and-music/
LOCATION:Fleisher Art Memorial\, 719 Catharine St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19147\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arcana
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160616T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160616T220000
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SUMMARY:Sonic Liberation 8
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is excited to present the Philadelphia record release celebration of Bombogenic\, a new album by Sonic Liberation 8 with the The Classical Revolution Trio & Oliver Lake. The album celebrates the 15 year anniversary of Sonic Liberation 8 with a new collection of compositions and arrangements showcasing a unique confluence of loft jazz\, Afro Cuban Yoruba music\, and new chamber music. Joining SL8 in this milestone is special guest artist Oliver Lake (World Saxophone Quartet) and the Classical Revolution String Trio. In addition to five new compositions\, Kevin Diehl\, the octet’s leader\, arranged the Erik Satie composition\, Gnossienne\, recasting it as a platform for creative interaction rooted in these genres. Additionally Oliver Lake composed 2 compositions for specifically for SL8’s Afro-Cuban-Yoruba jazz format. Diehl arranged bata drums parts for these 2 pieces along with another of Mr. Lakes compositions called Love Like Sisters. Love Like Sisters originally appeared on a World Saxophone Quartet album called Metamorphosis. \n  \nTHE PERFORMERS \nSpecial Guest\nOliver Lake – Alto Saxophone\, Composition \nSonic Liberation 8\nKevin Diehl – Drumkit\, Bata Iya\, Composer\nMatt Engle – Bass\, Composer\nElliot Levin – Woodwinds\nVeronica Jurkiewicz – Viola\, String Section Leader\nMike Watson – Bass Clarinet\nNichola Rivera – Bata Itotele & Iya\, Conga\, Composer\nTom Lowery – Drumkit\, Afro Brazilian Percussion\nRon Howerton – Bata Okonkolo\, Conga\, Percussion \nThe Classical Revolution Trio\nRussel Kotcher – Violin\nPeter Oswald – Cello\nYoni Draiblate – Cello \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nThe artistic scope of renowned saxophonist\, composer\, painter\, and poet Oliver Lake’s half-century-long career is unparalleled. An extensive resume of his collaborations includes work with the Brooklyn Philharmonic\, Flux String Quartet\, Bjork\, Lou Reed\, A Tribe Called Quest\, Mos Def\, Me’shell Ndegeocello\, Anthony Braxton\, James Blood Ulmer\, William Parker\, Vijay Iyer\, Reggie Workman\, Andrew Cyrille and a veritable who’s who of the jazz vanguard. Oliver’s efforts extend far beyond the music\, with his creation of the non-profit Passin’ Thru organization\, becoming a mainstay at Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum\, publishing two books of poetry and frequently producing visual artwork for exhibitions across the country. Lake’s breadth of disciplines can be traced back to his formative years with the Black Artists Group\, the innovative St. Louis collective of musicians\, poets\, dancers and painters he helped architect over 35 years ago. As a co-founder of the internationally acclaimed World Saxophone Quartet (with fellow luminaries David Murray\, Julius Hemphill and Hamiet Bluiett)\, Oliver firmly established himself in the “Loft” jazz scene of the 1970’s in New York City\, and has since produced a body of work that is both expansive and versatile enough to avoid falling solely into the trappings of the “avant-garde” and “free” labels. The fact that his work can stand on compositional merit alone\, all while he has etched a place for himself as one of the elite saxophone players and improvisers of recent times\, is a testament to Oliver Lake’s stature as an artist. Lake’s output as an exacting and unequivocally original composer has long been celebrated\, highlighted by commissions awarded from the Library of Congress\, the Rockefeller Foundation ASCAP\, the International Association for Jazz Education\, Composers Forum and the McKim Foundation. He has been the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and was also presented with the Mellon Jazz Living Legacy Award at the Kennedy Center in 2006. In 2014\, Oliver was honored with what is arguably the greatest recognition of his artistry and vision to date\, becoming one of only nineteen grantees appointed for the prestigious Doris Duke Artist Award\, a multi-year grant awarded to American artists in the fields of jazz\, theater and dance. A trailblazer through and through\, Oliver Lake continues to produce in the vociferous\, uncompromising way he only knows how to\, currently immersed in the work of such adventurous ensembles as the Oliver Lake Organ Quartet\, Oliver Lake Big Band and Trio 3. \nSonic Liberation 8 is deeply rooted in the traditions of Afro Cuban music and has spent years fusing that grand tradition with new sounds including composed jazz\, modern chamber composition\, and the powerful Orisha spirit. Sonic Liberation 8 melds together sounds and time periods in a manner like no other band around today. As Sonic Liberation Front\, this ensemble has consistently won international critical acclaim and have been named #1 or Top 10 by the Village Voice\, All About Jazz\, Jazziz\, and more. The band has recorded five internationally-distributed albums. The eight-member ensemble has played extensively in the Philadelphia and New York area\, and at festivals and cultural institutions throughout the Midwest U.S. and Canada. The core octet is scalable\, often collaborating with guest artists and expanded ensembles.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sonic-liberation-8/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Music of Salvatore Sciarrino
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nBowerbird is excited to present flutist Christopher Schelb and pianist Michael Tan in an all Sciarrino program. Schelb will perform selections from “L’opera per Flauto\, Vol. 1” and Tan will perform four of Sciarrino’s Nocturnes. There is something very particular that characterizes the music of Salvatore Sciarrino: it leads to a different kind of listening. \nSciarrino’s “L’opera per Flauto\, Vol. 1” (1990) is a collection of seven pieces for solo flute\, each dating between the years between 1977 and 1990. Each piece is meant to stand alone as a single work. The single exception is the fact that “Come vengono prodotti gli incantesimi?” and “Canzona di ringraziamento” are linked with an attacca. Many sounds heard in L’opera per flauto are a result of approximately twenty years of Sciarrino’s work on developing new flute sonorities. Other sounds\, such as harmonics and breathy air sounds\, were common property of contemporary composers\, but Sciarrino believes they are often attributed to him because he feels they are so well incorporated and appropriately used in his music. He feels that as immodest as it seems\, each of the L’opera compositions is a legitimization of these modern sounds. \nSciarrino’s Due Notturni (1998) and Due Notturni Crudeli (2001) are evocative sets of pieces that explore the extreme boundaries of perception and audibility. Due Notturni investigates the thresholds of silence and resonance. It utilizes extended techniques that distort the resonance of the instrument and shimmering quiet sounds and cascading gestures. In particular\, the second piece of the set creates an effect as if the piano had been turned inside out as the listener is drawn to the barely audible inner workings of the instrument. Due Notturni Crudeli meanwhile explores boundaries through opposite means. The first piece features repeated chords in the highest register persistently played at fortissimo while the second uses a brutal\, rapid gesture from pianissimo to fortissimo. This forms a background of relentless sound from which silence occasionally emerges. \n  \nTHE PROGRAM \nfrom L’opera per flauto\, Vol. 1 \nCome Vengono Prodotti Gli Incantesimi?\nCanzona di ringraziamento\nVenere Che le Grazie la Fiorscono\nL’orizzonte luminoso di Aton \nChristopher Schelb\, flute \nDue Notturni (1998)\nI. Vivo volando\nII. Non troppo lento \nDue Notturni Crudeli (2001)\nI. Senza tempo e scandito\nII. Furia\, metallo \nMichael P. Tan\, piano \n  \n  \nTHE PERFORMERS \nMichael P. Tan is a Guam-born pianist currently based in New York. Mr. Tan is an avid proponent of 20th and 21st century music and has extensively performed around the United States and abroad. He has commissioned works by several composers including Matthew Greenbaum and has performed with ensembles including the Temple New Music Ensemble and the NYU Contemporary Ensemble. His musical achievements have been recognized through the Olga Gagliardi Getto Award (2012)\, the Elmer Y. Yarnell Scholarship (2013)\, and Jacobs Music Company Steinway Award (2015) for “outstanding pianistic ability\, musicianship\, and artistic and academic achievement.” In addition to his musical interests\, he has been involved with cross-disciplinary work\, participating in a Thirdbird’s workshop series with choreographers Matteo Fargion and Jonathan Burrows in 2015. His work has been presented at the 2016 Dada Lives! Exhibition at UC Blue Ash College and published in MetaDada: The International Journal of Data Mining. He holds a B.M. in Piano Performance from Temple University and is currently pursuing an M.M. at New York University\, where he serves as Adjunct Instructor of Piano. His teachers include Mr. Harvey Wedeen and Dr. Marilyn Nonken. \n  \nChris Schelb “I am a flutist and composer who is passionately engaged with contemporary music. I have always been attracted to the sonorities and sheer audacity of modernist composers— the complexity of Brian Ferneyhough and Salvatore Sciarrino and their marvelous timbres were doorways into fresh sonic worlds. I’ve slowly begun to move outwards; exploring composers such as Richard Barrett and James Dillon. these composers\, while extremely diverse in sound world\, have created a compositional language which I find extremely appealing. I currently study with David Cramer at Temple University. Over the past four years I have also studied with notable new music pedagogues such as Patricia Spencer\, Mario Caroli\, and Robert Aitken. In the Fall of 2016 I will be moving to Wales to study with Richard Craig and specialize in the interpretation of New Complexity.” \n  \nTHE COMPOSER \nSalvatore Sciarrino (b. 1947) is\, along with Luciano Berio\, among the most important Italian composers of contemporary music. Self-taught\, he began to compose when he was twelve. His first public concert was given in 1962. After completing his schooling and a few years of university in his home town\, he moved first to Rome in 1969 and then to Milan in 1977. Since 1983 he was been living in Umbria. He has taught at the conservatories of Milan (1974-1983)\, Perugia (1983-1987) and Florence (1987-1996). He has also held courses of specialization and master classes: particularly worth mentioning are those of Città di Castello from 1979 to 2000. Between 1978 and 1980 he was artistic director of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna. An Academician of Santa Cecilia (Rome)\, Academician of the Fine Arts of Bavaria and Academician of the Arts (Berlin)\, he has won numerous prizes\, the most recent ones being the Prince Pierre de Monaco (2003) and the prestigious Premio Internazionale Feltrinelli (2003). He is also the first winner of the new Musikpreis Salzburg (2006).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-music-of-salvatore-sciarrino/
LOCATION:Biello Martin Studio\, 148 N 3rd St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pierluigi Billone's 1+1=1 for Two Bass Clarinets
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the Philadelphia premiere of Pierluigi Billone’s “1+1=1”\, an 80 minute exploration into the boundless terrain of two bass clarinets performed by the California based duo of Samuel Dunscombe and Curt Miller. A student of Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann\, Billone’s music can sound elemental and primordial\, yet at the same time achingly human. In “1+1=1”\, a deliberate pacing and frequent pianissimo dynamic makes for an inward inquiry into the character of the bass clarinet while the doubling of the instrument allows for an pulsating resonance of microtonal shifts.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/pierluigi-billones-111-for-two-bass-clarinets/
LOCATION:Biello Martin Studio\, 148 N 3rd St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160522T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160522T220000
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SUMMARY:DDMS9: Jesse Sparhawk and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird and Sebastian Petsu are pleased to welcome Jesse Sparhawk and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste to the Double Decker Music Series. Join us on Sunday\, May 22nd at 8:00 p.m. (rain date\, May 23rd) 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 \nJesse Sparhawk is a multi-instrumentalist\, composer\, and improviser whose instruments include harp\, guitar\, and electric bass. He studied harp with principal harpist of the New York Philharmonic\, Myor Rosen and Eastman School of Music’s Kathleen Bride between the ages of 10 and 17 and performed at New York City’s Carnegie Hall at the age of 15. He has nearly 60 independent recording credits to his name performing various instruments. He has toured the US and Europe as a solo artist\, and with several singer-songwriters and bands including Larkin Grimm\, Fern Knight\, The Valerie Project\, Timesbold\, Marissa Nadler\, and Greg Weeks. He will performing a solo harp set on the bus. \nwww.jessesparhawk.bandcamp.com\nwww.soundcloud.com/jessesparhawk \nJeremy Toussaint-Baptiste is a performer\, composer\, and commercial independent contractor. His work\, through the lens of precarious labor\, complicates notions of industry\, identity\, and environment and the implications of the intersections of such phenomena. He is a founding member of performance collective\, Wildcat!\, and frequently collaborates with performers and fine artists\, often under the alias CROWNS. He has presented work at the Brooklyn Museum\, The Public Theater\, The Studio Museum In Harlem\, American Realness at Abrons\, FringeArts\, Judson Church\, Arts East New York\, JACK\, University Settlement\, Harlem Stage\, as well as on Dazed Digital and Complex.com. \nwww.jeremytoussaintbaptiste.com\nwww.youtube.com/watch?v=q-OouF3056o \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\nBoarding begins at 7:45pm at the northeast corner of 5th and Market Streets by the Wells Fargo building. \nTHE BUS LEAVES AT 8PM SHARP. It’s a mobile event\, so you can’t show up late or the venue will be gone! The event finishes up back where we started at 10pm. \nAs an incentive to show up on time\, our sponsor Little Baby’s Ice Cream\, will be providing FREE ICE CREAM SANDWICHES for the first 15 guest on board. So get there early! \nThis event is 21+ and BYOB (but please\, no glass\, and remember there is no restroom on the bus). \n$27 per person. Advance tickets only. There will be no walk-up sales. Only 30 seats are available and this event will sell out. (All previous Double Decker Music Series events have!) So please\, don’t sleep on it. \nIf it looks like rain\, the event will be held the following day\, Monday May 23rd at 8pm. A message will be sent out by 5pm on the day of the event letting ticket-holders know about the rescheduling.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ddms9-jesse-sparhawk-and-jeremy-toussaint-baptiste/
LOCATION:5th and Market St\, 5th and Market Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106
CATEGORIES:Double Decker Music Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160520T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160520T220000
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SUMMARY:Le Révélateur
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present an encore screening of Philippe Garrel’s visually arresting silent film Le Révélateur\, performed live with an original score by Philadelphia’s own Mary Lattimore and Jeff Zeigler. Le Révélateur was one of the first films of the Zanzibar group (a coterie of mostly French artists and filmmakers who began making experimental films in the wake of the May 1968 student protests) which exemplified the radical approach of the new generation of French filmmakers. Shot in stark black and white\, Le Révélateur is a claustrophobic vision of escape\, both literally and metaphorically. Mary and Jeff were invited to compose and present a live score to a silent film of their choice in Marfa\, Texas on December 30\, 2013. They chose Le Révélateur. Jeff plays a Korg Mono/Poly\, guitar\, and melodica through effects\, and Mary plays a Lyon and Healy pedal harp through a Line 6 DL4.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/le-revelateur/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160420T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160420T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T171300
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SUMMARY:Del Sol String Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is excited to welcome the San Francisco-based Del Sol String Quartet for an intimate concert in the Maas Building’s Hi5 Studio. Featured on the program will be work Ruth Crawford Seeger’s serialist “String Quartet” (1931)\, Ben Johnston’s microtonal ““”String Quartet no. 10” (1995)\, and music by the radical early experimentalist George Antheil. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nHailed by Gramophone as “masters of all musical things they survey” and two-time top winner of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming\, the Del Sol String Quartet is a leading force in 21st century chamber music. Founded in 1992 and based in San Francisco\, Del Sol’s collaborative performance projects and chamber music programs explore narratives and cultures from around the world\, reflecting the stories and sounds of the Pacific Rim as vibrantly as those heard in European concert halls or East Coast art spaces.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/del-sol-string-quartet/
LOCATION:Hi5 Studio\, 1320 N 5th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160419T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160419T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T171300
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SUMMARY:THE ELECTRIC VOICE: Nicholas Isherwood and the BEEP Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the extraordinary bass-baritone Nicholas Isherwood for a concert that explores the connections and tensions between technology and that most enduring of sounds — the human voice. \nIn this program of world premieres\, a group of composers created music for solo voice and electronics were selected by Nicholas Isherwood\, who constantly seeks out interesting and exciting new music\, introducing new voices to the global stage he occupies. This year\, the program is presented in Philadelphia\, Los Angeles\, New Zealand\, Germany and Italy\, featuring composers Dugal McKinnon (NZ)\, Eve De Castro (NZ)\, Pamela Madsen (USA)\, John Kennedy (USA)\, Helmuth Flammer (Germany)\, Gianluca Verlingieri (Italy) and Gene Coleman (USA). \nReaching back to the roots of electronic music\, the program will also feature Nicholas Isherwood performing his version of John Cage’s “Aria” (1958) with “Fontana Mix” (1958) (Realization Of Fontana Mix By Gianluca Verlingieri (2009) and a special performance with Isherwood and BEEP – the Temple University electronic music ensemble\, directed by Adam Vidiksis. \nThis is a rare opportunity to hear one of the greatest singers of new music\, who has collaborated with many of the most important composers of our time\, including John Cage\, Iannis Xenakis\, George Crumb and Karlheinz Stockhausen\, to name only a few.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-electric-voice-nicholas-isherwood-and-the-beep-ensemble/
LOCATION:The Slought Foundation\, 4017 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160415T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160415T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T171300
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SUMMARY:Glenn Jones\, Laura Baird\, Elkhorn duo
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT GLENN JONES \nGlenn Jones is a master of American Primitive Guitar\, a style invented in the late 1950s by John Fahey\, whose traditional fingerpicking techniques and wide-ranging influences were used to create modern original compositions. Jones\, who led the post-rock ensemble Cul de Sac\, brings his own made-up tunings\, the use of custom-crafted partial capos\, and a highly skilled picking style on both banjo and guitar\, to create personal compositions that are lyrical\, emotive and elegant. What sets him apart from the myriad guitarists playing today is his ability to tell stories with the guitar and banjo\, and to convey a range of emotions. This process starts with the compositions themselves and carries through to his selection of recording environment and engineer. \nFleeting was recorded in a house on the banks of the Rancocas Creek in Mount Holly\, New Jersey. Cozy\, cluttered with artifacts of a life well-lived (by its owner Bill Bolger)\, the house struck the right note for Jones and his recording engineer\, Laura Baird. Jones in particular likes spaces with character that are remote from the day-to-day world. Jones and Baird made no attempt to soundproof the recording environment\, happy to let sounds filtering in from the outdoors to become part of the listening experience. \nOne of Fleeting’s underlying themes is the past and the way places and people resonate in our lives. Jones reflects on the brevity — the fleetingness — of all things\, while also looking towards the future. “Spokane River Falls\,” which Jones calls his “water song\,” recalls the all-but-forgotten city of Spokane\, Washington\, where he was born. “Cléo Awake” and “Cléo Asleep” share the same melodies and the same inspiration — the newborn child of Jones’ friends (the conceit of “Cléo Asleep” is that Jones plays with a mute on the banjo — called The Happy Wife Banjo Mute — so as not to disturb Cléo\, no matter where in the world she is!). “In Durance Vile\,” one of the album’s more dissonant\, prickly tracks\, was originally written to accompany three poems by the abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky\, whose texts Jones found “absurd\, playful . . . sometimes cruel.” Two of the album’s songs are dedications to fellow guitarists (and friends) Robbie Basho and Michael Chapman. \nJones turned away from standard tuning years ago\, inventing tunings as a way of escaping the known. The pieces he writes in these tunings are his way of navigating new and unfamiliar landscapes. “But it’s my hope\,” he says\, “that what you hear are not the tunings and partial capos and all that\, but the music — the feeling within these pieces.” Fleeting is a journey that Jones invites his listeners to take with him. \n  \nABOUT LAURA BAIRD \nLaura Baird is a singer\, songwriter\, multi-instrumentalist\, and recording engineer. Since 2001 she has performed and recorded as The Baird Sisters with her sister\, Meg Baird. She enjoys crossing and blending genres like folk\, pop\, classical\, and electronic\, and frequently collaborates with other artists and musicians who work in and between these genres. \n  \nABOUT ELKHORN \nELKHORN is the electric/acoustic guitar project of Drew Gardner and Jesse Sheppard. The duo combines Sheppard’s American Primitive-style acoustic finger picking with Gardner’s extended improvisational and textural electric playing. The duo grew up together in the deep woods and rotting industrial husks of central New Jersey and have been collaborating on and off since the mid-1980s. A film-maker as well as musician\, Sheppard directed The Things That We Used To Do (2010) a documentary about Jack Rose and Glenn Jones.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/glenn-jones-laura-baird-elkhorn-duo/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160318T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160318T220000
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SUMMARY:Erik Ruin & Gelsey Bell: Prisoner's Song
DESCRIPTION:PRISONER’S SONG \nErik Ruin\, shadow puppets and projections\nGelsey Bell\, voice\, metallophone\, and sound design\nRick Burkhardt\, director \n  \nABOUT THE EVENT \nPrisoner’s Song is a performance created by composer Gelsey Bell and visual artist Erik Ruin about the prison experience. Using shadow puppets and projections alongside a variety of musical idioms\, the piece draws on historic ballads\, poetry\, audio interviews with people who have spent time in prison\, and other primary sources to create a fragmentary encounter with the states of mind and heart prison engenders. \nThe performance will be followed by a brief talk-back with the artists and various contributors to the project\, including Hakim Ali and William Goldsby of Reconstruction Inc.\, LuQman Abdullah and Emily Abendroth. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nGelsey Bell (composer\, performer) is a singer\, songwriter\, and scholar. She has been described by the New York Times as a “winning soprano” whose performance of her own music is “virtuosic” and “glorious noise.” She has released multiple albums and her work has been presented internationally. She is a core member of thingNY and Varispeed. She has also worked with numerous composers\, choreographers\, and performance creators including Robert Ashley\, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler\, Kimberly Bartosik\, Ne(x)tworks\, Dave Malloy\, Rachel Chavkin\, John King\, Chris Cochrane and Fast Forward\, Gregory Whitehead\, Kate Soper\, and Rick Burkhardt\, among others. www.gelseybell.com \nErik Ruin (visual artist\, performer) is a Michigan-raised\, Philadelphia-based printmaker\, shadow puppeteer\, paper-cut artist\, etc. 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 Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative. www.erikruin.com \nRick Burkhardt (director) is an Obie-award-winning playwright\, performer\, composer\, songwriter\, and director whose original chamber music\, theater\, and text pieces have been performed in over 40 US cities\, as well as in Europe\, Mexico\, Canada\, Taiwan\, Australia\, and New Zealand. He is a founding member of the Nonsense Company\, a touring experimental music/theater trio\, and songwriter/accordionist for the Prince Myshkins\, a political cabaret/folk duo.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/open-call-double-decker-music-series-summer-2016/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160312T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160312T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T171300
CREATED:20190325T175705Z
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SUMMARY:E-Mex Ensemble Performs Stockhausen\, Ligeti\, Ferneyhough\, & more
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nBowerbird is pleased to welcome the E-MEX Ensemble from Essen\, Germany to a special performance in the historic Christ Church sanctuary. The concert will feature works for pipe organ\, flute\, percussion\, and narrator/actor including Gyorgy Ligeti cataclysmic masterpiece “Volumnia” and a world premiere by Philadelphia based composer Kyle Bartlett. \n  \nTHE PROGRAM \nThomas Taxus Beck (1962): “Contagiones” for flute and organ (2012)\nNicolaus A. Huber (1939): “Clash Music” for china cymbals (1988)\nGyorgy Ligeti (1923 – 2006): “Volumina” for organ (1962/1966)\nBryan Ferneyhough (1943): “Superscriptio” for piccolo (1981)\nMauricio Kagel (1931 – 2008): “Raga – Ragtime-Waltz – Rondena” for pipe organ\nKarlheinz Stockhausen (1928 – 2007): “Vibra-Elufa” for vibraphon (2003)\nKyle Bartlett (1971): “Sleepwalker” for speaker\, flute\, percussion and organ (2016) \n  \nE-MEX Ensemble\nGunfer Colgecen\, speaker\nEvelin Degen\, flute\nMichael Pattmann\, percussion\nMatthias Geuting\, pipe organ \nABOUT THE ENSEMBLE \nThe E-MEX Ensemble was founded in 1999 by six musicians from Cologne and the Ruhr in western Germany and has grown to be become one of the most exciting and independent voices in the new music scene in the greater Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region\, one of the most densely populated and dynamic regions in Europe. E-MEX champions this diversity and embraces these influences as a defining force shaping the music of our time. Concert tours and workshops have taken E-MEX throughout Europe\, to North and South America as well as to Asia\, especially several tours to China in recent years. Most recently E-MEX was invited to the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music to participate in the Beijing International Composition Workshop and other programs for students\, composition faculty\, musicologists and artist from across China. The ensemble’s wide ranging artistic output arising out of its international partnerships has been documented in regular live-recordings produced and broadcast by public radio networks in Germany and a number of CD productions.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/e-mex-ensemble-performs-stockhausen-ligeti-ferneyhough-more/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160308T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160308T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T171300
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SUMMARY:Romanian Spectralism: Part 2
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to welcome Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram to Philadelphia for an intimate\, two concert portrait of “Romanian Spectralism”. The first evening focuses on smaller chamber works – duos and trios – and the second evening features large ensemble works. The concerts will take place at the studio of Hi5 Recording in the Maas Building. \n  \nTHE PROGRAM \nAna-Maria AVRAM: “Metalstorm (epsylon)” for e-guitar ensemble and computer sounds\nAna-Maria AVRAM: “Axis (XI for solo doublebass” (Zachary Rowden) ( w.p.)\nIancu Dumitrescu: “Le Silence d’Or for instruments and computer sounds” ( Philly version) ( w.p.)\nIancu Dumitrescu: “”Intuitive Music (I-II-III)” for ensemble and live electronics \n  \nABOUT THE COMPOSERS \nIancu Dumitrescu stands at the forefront of one of the 20th century’s most invisible avant-gardes: the spectral composers of Romania. Operating on the margins of a regime committed to Socialist Realism\, his microscopic explorations of acoustics draw on both Western techniques and local traditions: the folk music research of Bela Bartok\, Eastern Orthodox chant\, and Byzantine mysticism. The resulting compositions break apart sonic conventions. They reflect\, in Dumitrescu’s words\, “the attempt to release or unveil the god that is living in every piece of base matter.” \nBorn in Bucharest\, Romania in 1961\, composer Ana-Maria Avram’s propulsive music often synthesizes electroacoustic and instrumental sources. While informed by mathematical techniques\, Avram is drawn to the dynamic nature of sound as independently shaped by each performer and listener. “Even if something is written\, what is this\, there on the score?” she asks. “A base from which to fly away.”
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/romanian-spectralism-part-2/
LOCATION:Hi5 Studio\, 1320 N 5th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160307T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160307T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T171300
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SUMMARY:Romanian Spectralism: Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to welcome Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram to Philadelphia for an intimate\, two concert portrait of “Romanian Spectralism”. The first evening focuses on smaller chamber works – duos and trios – and the second evening features large ensemble works. The concerts will take place at the studio of Hi5 Recording in the Maas Building. \nTHE PROGRAM \nIancu Dumitrescu: “Harmonic Turbulence” (II) for cello and doublebass (world premiere)\nAna-Maria Avram: “Chiaroscuro XII” for e-guitar\, piano and percussion ( w.p.)\nAna-Maria Avram: “Nouvel Archae” for computer assisted voice\nIancu Dumitrescu: “New Meteors and Pulsars” for percussions\, E-guitar and computer sounds\nAna-Maria Avram: “Horridas Nostrae Mentis Purga Tenebras” ( electronic music )\nIancu Dumitrescu: “Ultrasonic Sublime” (computer music) ( w.p.) \n  \nABOUT THE COMPOSERS \nIancu Dumitrescu stands at the forefront of one of the 20th century’s most invisible avant-gardes: the spectral composers of Romania. Operating on the margins of a regime committed to Socialist Realism\, his microscopic explorations of acoustics draw on both Western techniques and local traditions: the folk music research of Bela Bartok\, Eastern Orthodox chant\, and Byzantine mysticism. The resulting compositions break apart sonic conventions. They reflect\, in Dumitrescu’s words\, “the attempt to release or unveil the god that is living in every piece of base matter.” \nBorn in Bucharest\, Romania in 1961\, composer Ana-Maria Avram’s propulsive music often synthesizes electroacoustic and instrumental sources. While informed by mathematical techniques\, Avram is drawn to the dynamic nature of sound as independently shaped by each performer and listener. “Even if something is written\, what is this\, there on the score?” she asks. “A base from which to fly away.”
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/romanian-spectralism-part-1/
LOCATION:Hi5 Studio\, 1320 N 5th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160303T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160303T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T171300
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SUMMARY:R. Andrew Lee performs Epstein\, Houben\, Glass
DESCRIPTION:R. ANDREW LEE\nperforms\nEva-Maria Houben – Go and Stop\nPaul A. Epstein – Changes 3\, Changes 6\, Drawing 6\nPhilip Glass – Etude Nos. 2\, 5\, and 6\nWilliam Duckworth – Imaginary Dances
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/r-andrew-lee-performs-epstein-houben-glass-2/
LOCATION:Biello Martin Studio\, 148 N 3rd St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160303T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160303T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T171300
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SUMMARY:R. Andrew Lee performs Epstein\, Houben\, Glass
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nBowerbird is pleased to present pianist R. Andrew Lee at the intimate Biello Martin Studio in Old City Philadelphia. For his Philadelphia premiere\,Lee will be performing works that encompass a variety of styles within minimal music. The first half opens with Eva-Maria Houben’s Go and Stop\, which explores the decay of tones and a series of chords that never seem to quite get moving. In contrast are strictly constructed works by Philadelphia composer Paul A. Epstein\, Changes 3: Palindromes\, Changes 6\, and Drawing No. 6 (horizontal and vertical broken lines). The second half features three etudes by Philip Glass\, Nos. 2\, 5\, and 6\, and closes with elegant and exciting Imaginary Dances by William Duckworth. \n  \nTHE PROGRAM \nR. ANDREW LEE\nperforms\nEva-Maria Houben – Go and Stop\nPaul A. Epstein – Changes 3\, Changes 6\, Drawing 6\nPhilip Glass – Etude Nos. 2\, 5\, and 6\nWilliam Duckworth – Imaginary Dances \n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST \nPianist R. Andrew Lee is one of the foremost interpreters of minimal music. He has been described as having “consistently impressive solo releases” (New York Times)\, and his CD\, Eva-Maria Houben: Piano Music\, was chosen by Alex Ross in the New Yorker as one of the Top 10 Classical Recordings of 2013. He has performed in a number of venues dedicated to experimental music around the world\, including the STUK Arts Centre (Belgium)\, Cafe OTO (London)\, ISSUE Project Room (New York) and Gallery345 (Toronto). He has also been invited to speak and perform at music departments known for their exploration of the avant-garde such as the University of Huddersfield and the California Institute of the Arts. Lee currently teaches at Regis University in Denver\, Colorado\, and was most recently Artist-in-Residence at Avila University. \n  \nABOUT THE VENUE\nThe Biello Martin Studio is the creative sanctuary and gallery of interdisciplinary artist Michael Biello and composer/musician Dan Martin. Biello creates operatic neo-classic crystal chandeliers\, sensually-cascading metallic beads of light\, and whimsical clay light sculptures. Martin is an award-winning composer and music producer and\, with Biello\, has created critically acclaimed musical theatre and performance pieces.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/r-andrew-lee-performs-epstein-houben-glass/
LOCATION:Biello Martin Studio\, 148 N 3rd St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160219T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160219T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T171300
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SUMMARY:FREE EVENT: C. Spencer Yeh: Video On Demand
DESCRIPTION:A brazen multidisciplinary artist who studied film history and theory\, C. Spencer Yeh presents a program of two new moving image works combining diaristic and documentary footage as part of his as part of his ISSUE Project Room residency in 2015. The recently completed TRAVELOGUE: CAIRO EGYPT crosses long takes and static shots captured via smartphone in a four-part composition exploring surveillance\, chance composition\, tourism\, and politics. 2002 is a “concert film” that documents approximately forty bands and artists Yeh videotaped during the year 2002\, including Deerhoof\, Sightings\, Sudden Infant\, Cock ESP\, Double Leopards\, Caroliner Rainbow\, Comets on Fire\, Animal Collective\, and others. These are two very different works that showcase Yeh’s unique perspective as an artist\, organizer\, and audience member. The screening is followed by a Q&A with the artist.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/free-event-c-spencer-yeh-video-on-demand/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160219T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160219T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T171300
CREATED:20190328T152138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190328T152138Z
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SUMMARY:C. Spencer Yeh: Video On Demand
DESCRIPTION:TRAVELOGUE: CAIRO EGYPT\n2015\, 33 min\, digital video\, color \n2002\n2015\, 60 min\, digital video\, color and nightvision b&w \n  \nABOUT THE EVENT \nA brazen multidisciplinary artist who studied film history and theory\, C. Spencer Yeh presents a program of two new moving image works combining diaristic and documentary footage as part of his as part of his ISSUE Project Room residency in 2015. The recently completed TRAVELOGUE: CAIRO EGYPT crosses long takes and static shots captured via smartphone in a four-part composition exploring surveillance\, chance composition\, tourism\, and politics. 2002 is a “concert film” that documents approximately forty bands and artists Yeh videotaped during the year 2002\, including Deerhoof\, Sightings\, Sudden Infant\, Cock ESP\, Double Leopards\, Caroliner Rainbow\, Comets on Fire\, Animal Collective\, and others. These are two very different works that showcase Yeh’s unique perspective as an artist\, organizer\, and audience member. The screening is followed by a Q&A with the artist. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST \nC. Spencer Yeh is recognized for his interdisciplinary activities and collaborations as an artist\, improviser\, and composer\, as well his music project Burning Star Core. Recent presentations of work include “Modern Mondays” at MoMA NYC\, “The Companion” at the Liverpool Biennial\, “99 Objects” at the Whitney Museum NYC\, “Great Tricks From Your Future” at D-CAF in Cairo Egypt\, Borderline Festival in Athens Greece\, Kinomuzeum at Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Poland\, All Ears Festival in Oslo Norway\, the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival\, “Synth Nights” at The Kitchen NYC\, LAMPO at the Renaissance Society in Chicago IL\, and a Jerome Foundation Commission from Roulette Intermedium. Yeh also collaborated with Triple Canopy for their contribution to the Whitney Biennial in 2014. He was an Artist-in-Residence for 2015 at ISSUE Project Room NYC\, and was included in the performance program for Greater New York at MoMA/PS1. Recent recordings include “Solo Voice I-X” (Primary Information)\, “Wake Up Awesome\,” with Okkyung Lee and Lasse Marhaug (Software Recording Company)\, and “Long Pig” by New Monuments\, his trio with Ben Hall and Don Dietrich (Bocian). Yeh also volunteers as a programmer and trailer editor for Spectacle Theater\, a microcinema in Brooklyn NY. His video works are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix. He is also a contributing editor to BOMB magazine\, as well as contributing to The Third Rail and Personal Best.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/c-spencer-yeh-video-on-demand/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:FREE EVENT: AF·FIXING CEREMONY: Four Movements for Essex (with Tiona McClodden)
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Philadelphia based filmmaker and artist Tiona McClodden conducting a live presentation and artist talk for her project Af·fixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex\, which recently debuted in recognition of 2015’s Day With(out) Art. Af·fixing Ceremony commemorates the life and work of celebrated African-American poet Essex Hemphill who was a important member of Washington D.C.’s poetry and artistic community. This is the twentieth anniversary of Hemphill’s death from HIV/AIDS complications on November 4\, 1995 in Philadelphia\, PA.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/free-event-af%c2%b7fixing-ceremony-four-movements-for-essex-with-tiona-mcclodden/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:AF·FIXING CEREMONY: Four Movements for Essex
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Philadelphia based filmmaker and artist Tiona McClodden conducting a live presentation and artist talk for her project Af·fixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex\, which recently debuted in recognition of 2015’s Day With(out) Art. Af·fixing Ceremony commemorates the life and work of celebrated African-American poet Essex Hemphill who was a important member of Washington D.C.’s poetry and artistic community. This is the twentieth anniversary of Hemphill’s death from HIV/AIDS complications on November 4\, 1995 in Philadelphia\, PA. \nOn Dec 1\, 2015\, World AIDS Day\, Af·fixing Ceremony\, an online commission\, took over the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia’s website so that visitors encountered the work and consider some of Hemphill’s questions before entering the site. The work was presented to invoke Hemphill’s spirit within the liminality of cyberspace and in context of Day With(out) Art—an occasion for both action and mourning. Af·fixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex will be on view at icaph.ly/EssexHemphill until midnight on Monday\, February 1\, 2016.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/af%c2%b7fixing-ceremony-four-movements-for-essex/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/AF_Fixing.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151218T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151218T230000
DTSTAMP:20260425T171300
CREATED:20190408T181726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190408T181726Z
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SUMMARY:Ecstatic & Wingless: Bird-Imitation on Four Continents with Ian Nagoski
DESCRIPTION:Ecstatic & Wingless is an audio documentary project on early 20th century birdsong and its direct relationship on human performance – and human action on birdsong. It tells the story not only of the first recordings of cagebirds but also the practice of bird-imitation\, a field that produced amazing and eccentric celebrities during the 1910s-20s. Rarely heard in recent years\, bird imitation was also recorded commercially on every continent by 1925 and possibly predates music or language in human history. \nMusic researcher Ian Nagoski has previously explored the porous boundaries of culture through 78rpm records of immigrants from collapsing European and Near Eastern empires as they arrived in the U.S. in early 20th century\, and in the process\, learned the stories of great\, forgotten performers. With Ecstatic & Wingless\, he has opened his exploration to the world of vaudevillians and bird-fanciers\, of canaries\, nightingales\, finches\, and the people who studied them\, poeticized them\, and tried to be them.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ecstatic-wingless-bird-imitation-on-four-continents-with-ian-nagoski/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151218T220000
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CREATED:20190328T152648Z
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SUMMARY:Ecstatic & Wingless: Bird-Imitation on Four Continents
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nEcstatic & Wingless is an audio documentary project on early 20th century birdsong and its direct relationship on human performance – and human action on birdsong. It tells the story not only of the first recordings of cagebirds but also the practice of bird-imitation\, a field that produced amazing and eccentric celebrities during the 1910s-20s. Rarely heard in recent years\, bird imitation was also recorded commercially on every continent by 1925 and possibly predates music or language in human history. \nMusic researcher Ian Nagoski has previously explored the porous boundaries of culture through 78rpm records of immigrants from collapsing European and Near Eastern empires as they arrived in the U.S. in early 20th century\, and in the process\, learned the stories of great\, forgotten performers. With Ecstatic & Wingless\, he has opened his exploration to the world of vaudevillians and bird-fanciers\, of canaries\, nightingales\, finches\, and the people who studied them\, poeticized them\, and tried to be them.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ecstatic-wingless-bird-imitation-on-four-continents/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Bird-Imitation.jpg
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