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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,…

Shot x Shot is a Philadelphia quartet that has forged a distinctive sound through five years of steady collaboration. Their work is based in collective improvisational compositions that run the gamut from delicate to ruthless. The band was formed in 2004 while the members were students at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. They…

Alexander Bruck and Jason Calloway perform new music from Latin America and the former Soviet Republics. Never before has the exchange ideas and information proliferated so widely and easily. As the world continues to become more interconnected through shifting economies and the increasing reach of new technologies, countries that were once over shadowed by the…

Nate Wooley / Ivar Grydeland Ben Hall / Chris Riggs Bring It Inside with McOmber Toshi Makihara   ABOUT THE ARTISTS   Guitarist Ivar Grydeland (b.Trondheim 1976) started his music education degree in the mid-nineties. Having a base as a free jazz artist, Grydeland has continually expanded his experimental style to include new sounds. This…

THE MAGNETS featuring Annette Krebs, Anthea Caddy, and Magda Mayas NATE WOOLEY WRIGHT MITCHELL ALBRO TRIO   ABOUT THE ARTISTS   THE MAGNETS Annette Krebs - prepared guitar, objects, electronics Anthea Caddy - cello Magda Mayas - piano "Spanning the genres of chamber music, noise, music concrete and improv abstracted by precise temporal shifts, accelerations…

Bowerbird presents SONIC MIRRORS featuring music by The International Nothing, Lopass Mates, and Ko Koed. For as much as the duo format highlights the creative boundaries of its individual artists, duos featuring two of the same instrument push these frontiers even further. Hidden beneath a veneer of sameness, the minute and nuanced details of sound…

Bowerbird presents METALS AND ELECTRONICS with TATSUYA NAKATANI, MORALLY GRAY,  JESSE KUDLER + RICHARD KAMERMAN   ABOUT THE ARTISTS One of two exceptional improvisers based in Easton, PA, master percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani (the other is saxophonist Jack Wright), will make his first solo appearance on Bowerbird. Highly physical and inventive in his approach, Nakatani's music twists…

Bowerbird presents SIZE MATTERS featuring ENSEMBLE PAMPLEMOUSSE and ENSEMBLE NOMOS presented with Plays and Players. Often pursued, rarely achieved, the attempt to conquer the dynamic possibilities in a large ensemble is the holy grail of experimental music. Somewhere after the fourth or fifth person is added, the same individuality that makes a duo or trio…

DAVID DANIELL, JACK ROSE, GLENN JONES, and ANDY GILES presented with Plays and Players   The guitar is arguably today's most important vehicle for musical creativity. Despite the enormous amount of material that already exists, or perhaps because of it, there are a number of artists that continue to redefine and recast the boundaries and…

Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet are both highly respected artists, with small but intensely hardcore followings. Since 2001, they've been gradually moving closer towards realizing a collaborative project, and The Breadwinner is the results of two years of recording, reworking and polishing. Lambkin first entered the public consciousness at 19 when he formed his band…

Fabrizio Spera - Alberto Braida - Jack Wright Mike Szekely - Matt Mitchell - Matt Engle Larry Toft - Dawn Webster - David Fishkin   Much of the jazz tradition is built on well defined instrumental roles - bass and drum in the rhythm section, horns playing melodic solos and harmonic supporting material. But just…