Bowerbird

Although civilization's oldest instruments were percussion, the full investigation of its potential as generators of non-rhythmic textures is a more recent phenomenon. The Japanese-born and Pennsylvania-resident Tatsuya Nakatani, among today's most exciting performers, has distinguished himself as a constant leader in innovative approaches to percussion. Often surrounded by a battery of gongs, cymbals, bells, and…

Films and live performances by Atsushi Yamamoto, Christian Schneider, Delgado Fuchs, Hammes, Zende, Helena Gough, Pe Lang, Richard Garet, and Zimoun co-presented with GATE Join us for an evening of experimental video and sound performances featuring a survey of work from of European, Asian, and American artists of the Leerraum network. In a world clamoring…

Music at the intersection of sound, language, and yes, even bodily functions. Performances and perspectives by Bernhard Gal  (Austria), id m theft (Maine, USA) and Steve Parker (Philadelphia, USA). Even in an age of massive technological advances, the power of spoken word remains an unparalleled means of communication. In the years of presidential elections, the rhetoric and speeches…

We are extremely excited to present the amazing free jazz duo of Paul Flaherty and Randall Colbourne. They have been playing together for over 20 years and have over 15 releases together, but this is only their first tour. Alto and tenor saxophonist Paul Flaherty is New England's purveyor of the ecstatic jazz pulse. Even…

Slought Foundation and Soundfield NFP are pleased to announce an evening of new and experimental music featuring Vienna/London-based ensemble Polwechsel on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 from 8:00-9:30pm. Polwechsel features Werner Dafeldecker (double bass), Martin Brandlmayr (percussion), Michael Moser (cello, electronics), and Burkhard Beins (percussion). They will be performing new compositions as well as selections from…

Phill Niblock (b. 1933) is a New York-based minimalist composer, filmmaker, multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music. Niblock's work is an exploration of sound textures created by multiple tones in very dense, often atonal tunings (generally microtonal in conception) performed in long durations. This highly original music that, while…

Daniel Levin has performed and/or recorded with Billy Bang, Borah Bergman, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Rob Brown, Whit Dickey, Mark Dresser, Joe Morris, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Warren Smith and others. He has recorded as a sideman Clean Feed Records, EMANEM, Not Two and Rogue Art, and as a leader on HatHut and Riti records.…

Brazilian pianist Paulo Alvares joins forces once again with Philadelphia composer Gene Coleman and his new music group Ensemble Noamnesia for a program of sounds from Brazil, Argentina, Europe and the US. Music by Argentine Maurico Kagel (John Zorn's favorite composer) is featured in the form of Kagel’s piano and the seminal Sound Art composition…

Performing artists from Austria and Philadelphia collaborate and perform during weeklong residency. Soundfield and paraphrase/NEXUS are pleased to announce "Philadelphia Bridge, Part 1," an evening of improvised and choreographed works by movement artists Mariella Greil and Emily Sweeney with sound artists Werner Moebius and Bilwa and composer Michael McDermott performing works inspired by the exhibition…

Compositions by Werner Moebius played by Ensemble Noamnesia lought Foundation and Soundfield NFP are pleased to announce an evening with sound artist and composer Werner Moebius and Philadelphia's Ensemble Noamnesia. Werner Moebius is based in Vienna and London but has been building an international reputation via a series of residencies in Chicago, Liverpool and Mexico…

CONSERVATORY OF NOW Some of the greatest things in music have been happening at the edges of the Rock genres. The depth of complexity, instrumental coloring, and overall creative ingenuity rivals, if not surpasses, the level of compositional prowess happening in concert halls today.  And with the popularity of bands like the Dirty Projectors or…

Nagoski presents new work and excerpts from his lecture CD, Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Musics, 1918-1954 including Ottoman Songs in New York Cafes, 1910s-30s.   ABOUT BLACK MIRROR   Drawn from the best of Nagoski's vernacular 78 collecting, Black Mirror is a compilation of 24 recordings from the first half of the 20th century…

Join us for tour of improvised music's intangible character as Bowerbird bring together some of jazz and free music's most celebrated voices to the histortic Physick House Museum for an evening of duos. New York City based trumpeter Nate Wooley will show two drastically different sides of his playing when he performs with Swiss bassist…

THE PROGRAM Nmperign Dan Cappechi + Tim Albro Dave Smolen Burak   ABOUT THE ARTISTS   NMPERIGN Bhob Rainey - soprano sax Greg Kelley - trumpet Nmperign has been hailed the world over as the leading purveyors of whatever that strange thing they do is. Their palette of sounds makes laptops seem as flexible as…

New sound and video works by Maria Chavez, New York City based turntablist, with special guests. In the last couple years, Maria Chavez has compiled an impressive list of residencies and festival appearances including STEIM (Amsterdam), Wien Modern festival of contemporary music in Vienna (performing with fellow turntablists Otomo Yoshihide, dieb13, and ErikM), and was…

Maria Chavez is an avant-turntablist from Peru, living in New York City. She focuses on electro acoustic sound of vinyl and needle and has a collection of needles from immaculate to ruined that she calls her "pencils of sound" and a collection of records that provide the palette. She has toured with Christiina Carter (Charlambides,…