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SUMMARY:Ligament
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the acclaimed new music duo LIGAMENT. Described as “perverse and nihilistic”\, Anika Kildegaard (voice) and Will Yager (double bass) perform as LIGAMENT\, an ensemble dedicated to commissioning new music and creating work for their unique instrumentation. LIGAMENT’s performances are a fusion of standard and non-standard elements; sometimes there are high heels and sometimes there are electric toothbrushes (and sometimes both). The duo is equally at home with extended techniques as with extra-musical elements. LIGAMENT is currently based in Baltimore and Philadelphia. \nPhoto by Tina Tallon \nPROGRAM \nKatherine Balch: Vidi l’angelo nel marmo \nLilac Atassi: Ya mo* \nBrett Carson: Pyrodictium Occultum+ \nPaul Novak: not of longing* \nKatherine Balch: Phrases \nLila Meretzky: All mute things speak today* \nRuby Fulton: and if not why not* \n*written for LIGAMENT\n+world premiere \nABOUT THE ARTIST \nLIGAMENT means business: they’ve been ensemble fellows at New Music on the Point and Cortona Sessions for New Music; have performed in concert series iHearIC\, Feed Me Weird Things\, and the University of Iowa Center for New Music; have been tapped as the collaborating ensemble for dance performances not I but that which works within me (Alyssa Gersony) and Struggle for Pleasure (Armando Duarte). They’ve been featured on the Kansas City Contemporary Music Festival and Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project’s Re:Sound\, and were the 2022 ensemble-in-residence for Washington DC’s District New Music Coalition. They have premiered many new works\, and have an upcoming album of pieces written expressly for the duo. \n  \n\n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ligament-2/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Natacha Diels and Levi Lu
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present two solo performances by Natacha Diels and Levi Lu at The Rotunda. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nNatacha Diels’ work combines choreographed movement\, improvisation\, video\, instrumental practice\, and cynical play to create worlds of curiosity and unease. Recent work includes Papillon and the Dancing Cranes\, for construction cranes and giant butterfly (Borealis Festival 2018); and forthcoming is a 6-part TV-style miniseries with the JACK quartet (TimeSpans Festival 2020) and a collaborative work for shadowed audience with Ensemble Pamplemousse (Darmstadt 2020). With a focus on collage\, collaboration\, and the ritual of life as art\, Natacha’s compositions have been described as “a fairy tale for a fractured world” (Music We Care About) and “the liveliest music of the evening” (LA Review of Books). \nQiujiang Levi Lu/卢秋江 (they/them) is a Beijing-born\, New Jersey-based performer\, experimental vocalist\, composer\, and certified foodie. As an improvising performer\, Lu utilizes custom-built feedback-driven electronic instruments\, voice\, and amplified muscle movements to perform in various settings. Other than performing\, Lu also writes for acoustic and electronic improvisers. Through using sound-canceling headphones and in-ear monitors\, Lu creates surreal listening environments for improvisers to explore human relationships\, audio-visual interactivity\, and the phenomenology of sound.\nLu’s works have been performed at Festivals\, Conferences\, and Venues such as DiMenna Center\, IRCAM Forum\, SEAMUS conference\, HighZero Festival\, NIME conference\, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival\, Oberlin MMG\, Spencer Museum of Art\, Rhizome DC\, and NowNet Arts conference.\nLu currently works as a lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. \n\n\n  \n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/natacha-diels-and-levi-lu/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T220000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Exploratorium
DESCRIPTION:DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES\, THIS PERFORMANCE WILL BE POSTPONED. STAY TUNED FOR A NEW DATE \n  \nBowerbird is pleased to present a concert of Gene Coleman’s album Exploratorium. Focused on his recent compositions based on models from auditory neuroscience the album includes Coleman’s 2nd string quartet\, three works for voices and electronics and a new work for a large ensemble titled “Across Time (Transonic Symphony #1)”. The program will also include the author Lance Olsen who will read from his novel “Dreamlives of Debris” which makes an appearance in Coleman’s music video work Vidrone. \nMembers of the Transonic Orchestra:\nNaoko Kikuchi (koto\, voice and shamisen)\nAdam Vidiksis (live electronics and neuro technologies)\nNick Millevoi (electric guitar)\nKinan Abou-afach (cello)\nShinjoo Cho (bandoneon)\nCarlos Santiago (violin)\nNina Fukuoka (sho) \nAlbum available here:\nhttps://www.falsewalls.co.uk/release/exploratorium/ \nhttps://falsewalls1.bandcamp.com/album/exploratorium  \n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST \nGene Coleman is a composer\, musician and video director\, who has created over 70 works for various instrumentation and media. Central to his work is the inventive use of sound\, image and time\, and the desire to create experiences that expand our understanding of the world. Since 2001 he has explored the global transformation of culture and music’s relationship with video\, science and architecture. He began composing and performing both composed and improvised music in the late 1980s; founded the groups Ensemble Noamnesia\, Ensemble N_JP\, and Transonic Orchestra; was artistic director of the Transonic festival at the House of World Cultures (Berlin)\, Director of the American Composers Forum (Philadelphia)\, artistic director of the Public Art festival Site/Sound (Philadelphia) and a Creative Arts Fellow of the US Japan Friendship Commission. He has an extensive discography of both composed and improvised music\, including the False Walls CD Storobo Imp. with Uchihashi Kazuhisa (2004). Since 2016\, his works have explored the concepts of Neuro Music and audiovisual composition based on Neuroscience. Gene is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and received the 2013 Berlin Prize for Music from the American Academy in Berlin.\nwww.genecolemancomposer.com \n  \nThis program is supported in part by
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/exploratorium/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Max Johnson Trio
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the Max Johnson Trio at UniLu with opening set by Arcx Quartet. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nFresh off the release of their 2022 album “Orbit of Sound” and their tour across Europe\, virtuoso double bassist and composer Max Johnson presents his trio with Anna Webber (saxophone\, flute)\, and Michael Sarin (drumset). Between the three of them\, they have worked with artists such as Anthony Braxton\, Mary Halvorson\, John Zorn\, Dave Douglass\, Jen Shyu\, William Parker\, and this project highlights the individual sounds and experiences of these three unique voices\, traversing tightly knit grooving composed music to patient sprawling improvised textures\, blending their unique sounds to create something truly special. \n“Combining Johnson’s compositions with well balanced improvising\, the band explores broadly while maintaining a loose sense of groove… Then there are the experimental stretches — arid expanses that revel in silence and concentration before building back into Johnson’s compositional structure.” – Craig Matsumoto\, Memory Select\nwww.maxjohnsonmusic.com \nAlbum:\nhttps://maxjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/orbit-of-sound \n  \nArcx quartet guides listeners on an audio trip through hallucinogenic trancepts\, foldable shadows and metonymic nebulae\, skirting the boundaries of Arcx’s labyrinth collective sound-mind. Arcx quartet seek to find truths/untruths within ever-present interstitial spaces. \n  \n\n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/max-johnson-trio/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T200000
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SUMMARY:The Lepidopterans + Anne Ishii
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present The Lepidopterans: Tom Boram (Synthesizer\, Sitar)\, Jason Willett (Electronics)\, and Toshi Makihara (Percussion)\, at The Rotunda with an opening set by Anne Ishii. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nTom Boram and Jason Willett have been playing together for almost 25 years as ‘Leprechaun Catering.” The Baltimore-based duo makes improvised music from electronics that is strange and dark\, yet joyful and humorous. Their music reflects their influences: the outer space analog echoes of the Barron’s “Forbidden Planet” and the Solar Arkestra’s “Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow”\, or the sarcastic industrial noises of Northern England’s late 1970s\, or the inscrutable textural puzzles of Cecil Taylor’s “Unit Structures” or Incus’ “Company Week” collaborations\, and/or the child-like plasticity of the “moogsploitation”-album era\, or the vintage TV and cinema sounds of De Wolfe and Chapelle library music. \nBoram is also a harpsichordist\, organist\, filmmaker and multi-media artist. He has had his films/videos and multi-media installations featured throughout the USA\, Mexico and Europe. He is a founder of Baltimore’s 25-year old improvised music festival\, High Zero. \nWillett is also a bass player\, producer\, record store owner. He has been playing bass in the infamous art punk band Half Japanese with Jad Fair for 30 years. He is a founder of Baltimore’s Megaphone Records and the True Vine Record Shop. He has played on\, recorded and produced hundreds of albums. \nToshi Makihara studied drums\, percussion and improvisation with Sabu Toyozumi\, a prominent percussionist in Tokyo. Since arriving in the United States in the late 1970’s he has worked with various new music ensembles as well as with numerous dance and theater companies internationally. Makihara has provided original music to Arden Theater Company\, Diversions Dance Company (Wales)\, Pennsylvania Ballet\, ZeroMoving Dance Company and Leah Stein Dance Company among others\,\nand has worked with musicians including Steve Beresford\, Peter Brotzmann\, John Butcher\, Nels Cline\, Eugene Chadbourne\, Tom Cora\, Amy Denio\, Thurston Moore\, William Parker and John Zorn. He has also collaborated with poets\, visual artists\, filmmakers and performance artists widely. \nAnne Ishii is a writer and born again percussionist who leads the Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia. She plays in TOTALLY AUTOMATIC.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-lepidopterans/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T200000
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SUMMARY:Attorneys General (featuring Bill Nace and Ken Brenninger)
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Attorneys General featuring Bill Nace and Ken Brenninger with an opening set by Andy Giles. \nCo-presented with Open Mouth Records \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nAttorneys General is a project led by Matthew Byars of DC-based band The Caribbean and NPR-distributed podcast Essential Tremors.  A formative experience for Byars as a listener was hearing the work of sound engineer Martin Swope of Mission of Burma on their seminal 1985 live record\, The Horrible Truth About Burma\, in which Swope\, using a reel-to-reel tape machine\, captured\, looped\, manipulated\, and destroyed elements of the band’s sound in spontaneous and unexpected ways.  Byars has adapted this approach to having three-four people (different players every time\, mostly) generate utterly improvised sound through a mixing board he controls\, which allows him to capture\, loop\, manipulate\, and destroy the sounds they create. Results vary from the transcendent to the disastrous\, but the inherent risk involved is\, ultimately\, the point. \nBill Nace is an artist and musician based in Philadelphia\, PA. He has collaborated with an extraordinary range of musicians\, including Michael Morley\, Graham Lambkin\, Matt Krefting\, Twig Harper\, Jooklo Duo\, chik white\, John Truscinski\, Thurston Moore\, Jake Meginsky\, Jessica Rylan\, Paul Flaherty\, Wally Shoup\, Aaron Dilloway\, and Kim Gordon\, with whom he regularly plays as one half of the duo Body/Head. In 2020 Nace released the critically acclaimed solo record “BOTH” on Drag City. A collaboration with Gordon and Dilloway — “Body/Dilloway/Head” — is out now on Three Lobed Records and his newest solo LP Through a Room was released in November on Drag City. He has been a featured musician in festivals such as ATP (curated by Jim Jarmusch and held in Monticello\, NY)\, Colour Out of Space(Brighton\, UK)\, Supersonic Festival (Birmingham\, UK)\, International Festival Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville\, QC)\, and Homegrown (Boston\, MA). He has performed in a wide variety of venues\, running the gamut from the Musee d’Art Contemporain (Strasbourg\, France) to The Stone (NYC) to Bennington College (Vermont). Nace’s range has been described as “veering from sculptural\, almost Remko-Scha-esque chime to Loren Connors-style elegance in only a few short moves.” (Mimaroglu Music\, 2010). In addition to Drag City and Three Lobed\, recordings can be found on Ecstatic Peace (Northampton\, MA)\, Ultra Eczema (Belgium)\, Holidays (Italy)\, Throne Heap (VA)\, HP Cycle (Toronto\, ON)\, as well as on Nace’s own label Open Mouth. \nBorn in North Carolina\, 1968 Andy Giles’s first electric guitar was acquired at age 15. While friends were learning chords and theory\, he was busy experimenting with various pieces of metal to alter the sound of the strings and pickups. A coworker compared what he was doing to Fred Frith’s 1974 album ‘Guitar Solos’ and that discovery eventually led to the even earlier work of AMM. Those recordings featuring Keith Rowe were essential to his development and then actually meeting him and Jim O’Rourke in 1994 gave the confidence to start performing. However it was Kevin Drumm’s 1997 self-titled CD on Perdition Plastics that exceeded what Andy thought was possible from a guitar and had him questioning whether anyone could equal it. This drove him to tear apart everything and reinvent how he approached the instrument.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/attorneys-general/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230916T200000
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SUMMARY:Song of Disobedience
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to partner with Philly Iran in presenting Song of Disobedience\, a musical performance honoring the one year anniversary of the Woman\, Life\, Freedom Revolution. Created specifically for this day\, musicians Adib Ghorbani and Aida Shahghasemi along with local performers will be performing a heartfelt collection of music and storytelling on stage at UniLu. \nPhilly Iran is a coalition of Iranians and allies in the Philadelphia\, PA area advocating to #FreeIran alongside the #WomenLifeFreedom movement\, which began after the muder of Kurdish woman Zhina Mahsa Mini by Iranian “morality” police on September 16\, 2022. Find more information on Instagram: @PhillyIran \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nAdib Ghorbani is an Iranian pianist\, composer\, filmmaker\, actor\, and director based in the United States. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in classical piano performance and a Master’s in music composition\, Adib left his country\, Iran\, for the US to pursue his studies as a Ph.D. student in the ICIT program (Integrated Composition\, Improvisation\, and technology) at UC Irvine. Adib developed his unique multidisciplinary style known as Silent Music or Electro-musical Mime throughout the course of five years at UCI. Silent Music combines theater\, live music performance\, sound design\, film\, and motion sensor technology. Adib’s works span various other genres\, such as theatrical music\, opera\, contemporary music\, experimental music\, podcasts\, sound design\, and free improvisation. \nAida Shahghasemi is a Minneapolis based musician with roots in Iran. She studied Psychology and Anthropology at University of Minnesota with a focus on the cultural aspects of Persian Classical Music and the restrictions imposed on the voices of Iranian female vocalists. She received her Masters degree from New York University in Arts Politics where she also served as an adjunct instructor teaching a course she developed on arts activism in Iran. She has worked with a number of different Art and Social Advocacy groups in New York and Minnesota as a musician\, graphic designer\, and developer and has served as an Assistant Program Coordinator at Hamline University’s Making Waves Social Justice Theatre Troupe. She has been a touring member of Iron and Wine and Marketa Irglova’s band while also being a recording artist on two of Glen Hansard’s albums. Her three albums are “Wind Between the Horse’s Ears\,” released in 2015\, “Cypress of Abarkooh\,” released in 2019 and “Chashmandaaze Rooydaad\,” released in August of 2022. She is a McKnight Music Fellow and serves as an adjunct faculty in the MFA program at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Aida is a mental health therapist at CAREFree counseling and works primarily with adults and couples dealing with trauma. \n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/philly-iran/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230910T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230910T220000
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SUMMARY:Beam Splitter
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present BEAM SPLITTER – duo for amplified voice\, trombone & analog electronics \nBEAM SPLITTER have been touring globally since 2015\, playing close to two hundred concerts\nin a wide variety of spaces and contexts\, bringing their own brand of highly amplified dialog\,\nwhich is as intimate as it is equal amounts raw and entirely exposed. They join together their\ntwo individual voices into a distinct language that delves beyond the borders of the corporeal\nelements of un-processed voice and trombone\, while utilizing analog electronics to offset their\nhyper extended physical play. \nThe duo’s latest album “SPLIT JAW” was released on Nat Baldwin’s Tripticks Tapes in 2023.\nThis bite size format packs an entire universe of their crafted sputter\, breath and glitch inside its\nforty-five minute magnetic tape loop. The album is one third introspective Berlin studio\nproduction and the rest\, live from a splintering concert given at Wels Unlimited Festival in\nAustria\, their last concert of 2022 where audience and the duo alike giving it their all center of\nroom\, split open like hollow bones head to clavicle\, muscles twitching and air spewing\, breaking\nground and mending it with alien hums. \nBEAM SPLITTER have taken part in larger commissioned works at the Teatro Colon\, Buenos\nAires and largely conceptualized a theatrical adaptation of MEDEA in front of the Olympic\nStadium in Kiev\, Ukraine (for butoh dancers and musicians) produced by the Ukho Agency.\nSince 2020\, they have been organizing DEDICATED PLAY\, an ongoing concert series and\ncollaborative artistic project\, where they have invited a diverse array of artists from around the\nworld\, primarily from diasporic backgrounds. While spinning a thread through the larger story of\nmigration across continents/oceans and establishing the concept of home in shared\nrelationships\, they are seeking to bring together the commonalities of these experiences and\nexpress this communication in sonic language and music. In the past two seasons\, they have\nworked and recorded with: Mo’ong Pribadi\, Hyunhye Seo\, Elaine Mitchener\, Mariam Rezaei\, Pat\nThomas & Orphy Robinson (Black top)\, Carla Boregas\, Mauricio Takara\, Mieko Suzuki\, Pak Yan\nLau\, Eivind Lønning & Espen Reinersten (Streifenjunko)\, Hugo Esquinca and Yara Mekawei. \n\n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/beam-splitter/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T220000
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SUMMARY:Sonic Rainbow
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Andy Thierauf performing SonicRainbow\, a kaleidoscope of acoustic and electronic sounds utilizing a wide spectrum of percussion instruments. This solo performance includes original compositions and improvisations that weave an intricate web of timbres and sonorities from roars to wisps\, drums to gongs\, and vibraphone to tin cans. Pulling from classical\, jazz\, non-Western\, contemporary and avant garde music\, the works are a unique\, postmodern blend of textures and styles. \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST \n\nAndy Thierauf is a Philadelphia based percussionist who specializes in the creation and performance of contemporary music. He is particularly interested in combining percussion with theater\, dance\, and technology. He has appeared in Philadelphia\, New York\, Boston\, Portland\, Argentina\, and across the Midwest at music festivals\, conferences\, and symposiums. In Philadelphia Andy often performs with Arcana New Music Ensemble\, NakedEye Ensemble\, Orchestra 2001\, among others and often collaborates with writers\, dancers\, actors\, choreographers\, and composers. He currently teaches at Settlement Music School and is an adjunct professor of percussion at Kutztown University. \n  \nThis performance is part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/andy-thierauf/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T190000
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SUMMARY:The Beauty of Moving Wind in the Trees
DESCRIPTION:Every film by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub is a challenge: to the political status quo of capitalism\, to the film industry\, even to their own audiences. The films of these married longtime-collaborators are marked by an intellectual rigor\, a purity of form and movement\, and an overriding concern with power and politics. That their ravishing films are also among the most austere in modern cinema is what led Straub to famously joke that “we make our films so that audiences can walk out of them.” D.W. Griffith presented his own challenges\, accelerating cinematic experimentation by synthesizing multiple distinct early filmmaking trends into some of the most innovative and novel films of the nickelodeon era and establishing a “classical” style still felt in contemporary films. This is to say nothing of the challenges of watching some of his films today with their reactionary politics. So what is one to make of Straub-Huillet’s worship of Griffith? \nThis program presents three films by these three giants of cinema situated where the ends of this horseshoe meet. Huillet and Straub revered Griffith’s early Biograph short A Corner in Wheat and it’s easy to see why. It is the story of greedy monopolists who instigate the immiseration of the working class by gouging the price of wheat and thus the cost of food in a way Luc Moullet described as “very close to Karl Marx”. The film is astonishing not only for its novel parallel scenes depicting the differences between the haves and have nots but for its pictographic beauty. Documentary-like shots reminiscent of French realist painting intermix with intricately blocked diagonal breadlines and cramped theatrical interior scenes. It’s a secretly modernist form Straub and Huillet take to a logical extreme in The Bridegroom\, the Actress\, and the Pimp\, which almost seems to track the entire history of film in its conflation of a theatrical staging of a play by Buchner (starring R.W. Fassbinder\, Hanna Schygulla and other members of the Munich Action-Theater before they broke out in Fassbinder’s own films)\, documentary footage\, and a second narrative. A similar trick: multiple cinematic planes intersect to tell a story of power and exploitation. Straub-Huillet’s later Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s “Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene” shows us another approach in the couple’s later style where their dry\, intellectual take on fascism and capitalism\, adapted from that famous modernist composer’s own words draws on the simultaneous power of immaterial ideas and the essential vivacious force of photographing and documenting the beauty of gesture\, of people\, of the world. It is no wonder then\, that despite superficial differences\, Straub was so fond of quoting Griffith’s dirge for the passing of a certain style of filmmaking\, “what the modern movie lacks is beauty—the beauty of the moving wind in the trees”. \nPrints of The Bridegroom\, the Actress\, and the Pimp and Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s “Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene” courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. \n  \nPROGRAM \nThe Bridegroom\, the Actress\, and the Pimp / Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet / 1968 / 23 min / 16mm\nIntroduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s “Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene” / Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet / 1973 / 15 min / 16mm\nA Corner in Wheat / D.W. Griffith / 1909 / 14 min / 16mm
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-beauty-of-moving-wind-in-the-trees/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230817T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230817T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
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SUMMARY:Shiraz Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to present the Shiraz Ensemble: Sina Homaee and Sepehr Pirasteh. Shiraz Ensemble embodies a global perspective\, combining their roles as citizens of the world and passionate artists to shed light on crucial socio-political matters through art. Drawing inspiration from their personal journeys as immigrants from Iran to the United States\, they channel their experiences into a transformative musical narrative. Blending contemporary classical music with the rich traditions of Iran\, Shiraz Ensemble aims to engage audiences and promote cultural understanding by fusing different musical aesthetics. Founded in Philadelphia\, Shiraz Ensemble takes its name from the ancient city of Shiraz in Iran\, a place of birth and upbringing for both its founders\, Sina and Sepehr. \nCo-presented with Fire Museum Presents. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nSina Homaee (He/Him) was born in Shiraz\, Iran. He is an Iranian musician and educator currently based in Philadelphia\, PA. His primary instruments are santour (سنتور) and tombak (تنبک). He started his first music lessons at the age of nine years old. Sina’s principal mentors for tombak were Jamal Bordbar and Farbod Yadollahi. He also studied santour with Amin Rahaee\, Roozbeh Rahimi\, Alireza Sedighynasab\, Mehran Shirazi\, and Masoud Shenasa. Sina has taught a variety of music courses such as music theory\, Iranian music theory\, form and analysis in Iranian traditional music\, as well as his primary instruments\, santour\, and tombak at Fazel University of Art and music institutions in Shiraz. He was the director of the Sepidar Ensemble in Shiraz\, Iran\, and collaborated with numerous music ensembles in Iran. During his time in Iran\, Sina collaborated with Fars TV and Radio Broadcasting Channel. Sina is currently finishing his Master’s thesis in Ethnomusicology at Guilan University (Rasht\, Iran). His research interests are Qashqaei music (Nomadic people around Fars province)\, music and globalization\, women in Iranian music\, and music in the Iranian diaspora. He pursued his bachelor’s of music in Iranian music performance from the Shiraz University of Art. He currently lives in Philadelphia and plays with a variety of music ensembles. Sina is interested in integrating different musical cultures and is keen to collaborate with a variety of artists from different musical backgrounds. \nSepehr Pirasteh is a composer and conductor born in Shiraz\, Iran. His compositions draw on Persian classical and folk as well as contemporary classical music vocabularies to express his concerns and fears about the political and social realities of the world we are living in. Sepehr’s works have been performed by ensembles such as Argus String Quartet\, PRISM saxophone quartet\, Pushback Ensemble\, Unheard-of Ensemble\, Orquestra Criança Cidadã\, Hole in the floor\, fivebyfive\, and members of the Fifth House Ensemble. He has been commissioned by Susan Horvath Chamber Music\, ENA chamber opera ensemble\, Philadelphia Student Composers Project\, Detroit Composers’ Project\, YInMn project\, Fresh Inc. Festival\, Yara Ensemble\, Central Michigan University’s (CMU) Percussion Ensemble\, and the CMU Saxophone Ensemble. His music has been performed in Argentina\, Brazil\, Iran and the United States. Sepehr has also been a fellow in festivals and residencies such as Harvard University’s Fromm Foundation Fellowship (Composers Conference)\, CCI Initiative\, and Fresh Inc Festival. As a conductor\, he has been focusing on premiering new music written by young and emerging composers as well as conducting the classical repertoire. Sepehr served as the director of the CMU New Music Ensemble\, Pierrot Ensemble\, and Concert Orchestra\, and Vintage community orchestra in Mount Pleasant\, Michigan. He was also the assistant conductor of the CMU Symphony Orchestra. In 2020 he started serving as the director of Temple Composers’ Orchestra (TCO). Sepehr currently is a Ph.D. student in Music Studies at Temple University. He pursued his MM in Composition and Orchestral Conducting at Central Michigan University. Sepehr studied composition with Dr. Jose-Luis Maurtua\, Dr. Evan Ware and conducting with Dr. Jose-Luis Maurtua. He received his BA in Composition from Tehran University of Art (Iran). He plays a Persian Kamancheh and Tanbour and is currently based in Philadelphia.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sina-homaee-sepehr-pirasteh/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230720T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230720T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
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SUMMARY:Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "The Silence"
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird\, in collaboration with Nightletter\, are pleased to present Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s 1998 film “The Silence”. “The Silence” follows Khorshid\, a blind 10-year old living with his mother in a small Tajikistan village. Khorshid earns money tuning musical instruments\, while Nadereh — the beautiful protege of the instrument maker for whom Khorshid works — acts as his eyes\, fetching him every day at the bus stop and leading him through the streets. About to lose his job and home\, Khorshid creates a world where he can be happy — where hypnotic sounds and the music of the world shows him how to experience life. The film is banned in Iran since 1998. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nPROGRAM \nThe Silence / Mohsen Makhmalbaf / 1998 / 76 min / digital \n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/mohsen-makhmalbafs-the-silence/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230616T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230616T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
CREATED:20221206T025513Z
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SUMMARY:eddy kwon
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present interdisciplinary artist eddy kwon and the Philadelphia-based trio Totally Automatic at The Rotunda. \nABOUT THE ARTIST\neddy kwon (b. 1989) is violinist/violist and interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn\, NY). Her practice connects composition\, performance\, improvisation\, dance\, and ceremony to explore transformation & transgression\, ritual practice as a tool to queer ancestral lineage\, and the use of mythology to connect\, obscure\, and reveal. As a composer-performer and improviser\, she is inspired by Korean folk timbres & inflections\, textures & movement from natural environments\, and American experimentalism as shaped by the AACM. Her work as a choreographer and movement artist embodies an expressive release and reclamation of colonialism’s spiritual imprints\, connecting to both Japanese Butoh and a lineage of queer/trans practitioners of Korean shamanic ritual. \nShe is a United States Artists Fellow\, Johnson Fellow at Americans for the Arts\, Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center\, Van Lier Fellow and Artist-in-Residence at Roulette Intermedium\, and a recipient of the National Performance Network Creation Fund Award. Recently\, eddy was featured in The Wire Magazine’s Issue #463 (“absolutely stunning”) and as one of the Washington Post’s “22 for ‘22: Composers and performers to watch this year.” In addition to an evolving\, interdisciplinary solo practice\, she collaborates with artists of diverse disciplines\, including The Art Ensemble of Chicago\, cellist Tomeka Reid\, sculptor Senga Nengudi\, Degenerate Art Ensemble\, Holland Andrews\, and many others. \nwww.eddykwon.net \n  \nTotally Automatic was formed by Anne Ishii\, Eugene Lew and Matthew Smith Lee in the summer of 2021. They play unarranged music with each other\, on drums\, saxophone and electronics\, and can be found around Philadelphia. \ntotallyautomatic.net\ntotallyautomatic.bandcamp.com \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/eddy-kwon/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230609T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230609T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
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SUMMARY:Sawt Out
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the Berlin-based trio Sawt Out at the Rotunda with an opening set by Philadelphia-based musician Julius Masri. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nSince its foundation in 2015 the Berlin-based trio Sawt Out has shaped and refined its profile as a prominent improvisational unit. With their unusual acoustic instrumentation of trumpet and two sets of percussion these three gentlemen create bewildering sound worlds rich in detail and of tight musical interaction. Sawt Out has played numerous concerts throughout Europe\, Asia and beyond. This current tour is their first live appearance in the US. \nSawt Out is:\nBurkhard Beins (percussion)\nMazen Kerbaj (trumpet)\nMichael Vorfeld (percussion) \n  \nJulius Masri is a Philadelphia based multi instrumentalist\, and performer/composer for the city’s dance community at large. His music focuses on improvisatory methods and syncretic / linguistic exchanges within various musical languages including Jazz\, Metal\, AfroCuban\, Experimental Noise\, and Arabic music. Born in Tripoli\, Lebanon\, he moved to the States in 1990 and picked  up drumming a year later. He studied with Philadelphia instructors Carl Mottola\, Elaine Hoffman-Watts\, and as an  undergraduate  at Bard College\, with AACM’s Thurman Barker\, Richard Teitelbaum\, and Joan Tower. Julius plays drums\, circuit modified Casio keyboards\, Oud\, Kamancheh  (aka Rabab\, Spike Fiddle)\, and various other instruments. He can be seen performing in groups such as  grind/crust metal band Night Raids\, free jazz groups Sirius Juju and Dromedaries\, trombone and synth duo Superlith\, avant metal  group Nomad War Machine\, and  more.  He has  performed with Henry Grimes\, Jamaaladeen Tacuma\, Thurman  Barker and members of the  Sun Ra Arkestra.  Julius is a recipient of a 2022 Yaddo Fellowship for composition\, and a 2022 University of the Arts creative research and innovation grant. \n\n  \nSawt Out by Sawt Out \n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sawt-out/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230602T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230602T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
CREATED:20230321T145829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230606T143410Z
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SUMMARY:Music of Raven Chacon
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is excited to present Philadelphia’s Arcana New Music Ensemble performing a portrait concert of Raven Chacon. \nPROGRAM \nWhisper Trio\nTessa Ellis\, Andy Thierauf\, Chelsea Meynig \nQuiver\nTom Kraines\, cello \nTááʼtsʼáadah\nTessa Ellis\, trumpet \nLats’ aadah\nCarlos Santiago\, violin \nBiyan\nJonathan Leeds\, clarinet; Chelsea Meynig\, flute; Carlos Santiago\, violin; Tom Kraines\, cello; Andy Thierauf\, percussion \nABOUT THE ARTISTS\nRaven Chacon is a composer\, performer\, and installation artist from Fort Defiance\, Navajo Nation\, now based in the Hudson Valley\, whose works combine contemporary chamber music with self-made electronic and acoustic instruments while conveying the perspectives of Indigenous people. He composes for chamber instruments but notes that his work is “deliberately performed for non-traditional audiences and in non-classical venues\,” like American Ledger No. 2\, performed and displayed as a billboard along I-244 in Tulsa\, OK\, and Tremble Staves\, performed among the ruins of the Sutro Baths in San Francisco’s Lands End. His commissions include Sweet Land for opera company The Industry and The Journey of the Horizontal People for Kronos Quartet. Chacon was a member of the Indigenous art collective Postcommodity from 2009 to 2018 and\, since 2005\, has taught experimental chamber composition to high school students on the Navajo and Hopi reservations as part of the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project. He has performed his work at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival\, Transmissions Festival in Italy\, Borealis in Norway\, and the Kamias Triennial in the Philippines. Chacon holds an MFA in music from the California Institute of the Arts and a BA in music from the University of New Mexico. \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. Composers featured in recent programs include Julius Eastman\, Morton Feldman\, Galina Ustvolskaya\, Pauline Oliveros\, Tom Johnson\, Moondog\, and James Tenney. Arcana has performed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art\, Fleisher Art Memorial\, The Rotunda\, The Kitchen (NYC)\, and collaborated with Variant Six\, Prometheus Chamber Orchestra\, and Pig Iron Theater Company.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/music-of-raven-chacon/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230524T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230524T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
CREATED:20230509T144223Z
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SUMMARY:Sounding Ornaments: Experiments with Optical Sound
DESCRIPTION:Dedicated to Daphne Oram \nOn a celluloid film print\, even sound is made of light. Running alongside the picture is the optical soundtrack\, an image in itself. A beam of light penetrates it\, exciting a photoelectric cell with its sound determined by the pattern of black and white. Ever since sound first joined film\, artists have turned their eye to this strip which is most frequently the site of pre-recorded music and sound. Sounding Ornaments presents films which use the optical track and the projector as their sonic instruments. \nThe Whitney Brothers pioneered experimental animation influenced by vanguard composers like Schoenberg. Using a homemade weighted pendulum\, the Whitneys created abstract patterns on the optical track of Five Film Exercises resulting in incredible congruity between image and sound. With the ensuing minimalist turn of American experimental filmmaking\, Peter Kubelka examined flickering black and white frames in Arnulf Rainer alongside flickering black and white noise. Paul Shartis’ Ray Gun Virus continues one step further by examining what would happen if the film print’s sprocket holes were to run through the photoelectric sound cell. Barry Spinello extended McLaren’s experiments into pure abstraction by hand painting on both the image and the soundtrack of Soundtrack\, creating a frenzy of sounds. And finally with Newsprint\, Guy Sherwin collaged strips of newspaper between clear film resulting in an image and a sound of the projector “reading” the newspaper. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nPROGRAM \nFive Film Exercises / John Whitney & James Whitney / 1943-45 / 21 min / 16mm\nArnulf Rainer / Peter Kubelka / 1960 / 7 min / 16mm\nRay Gun Virus / Paul Sharits / 1967 / 14 min / 16mm\nSoundtrack / Barry Spinello / 1969 / 10 min / 16mm\nNewsprint / Guy Sherwin / 1972 / 5 min / 16mm \nPaul Sharits: Ray Gun Virus (low res excerpt) \n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sounding-ornaments-experiments-with-optical-sound/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
CREATED:20220823T160244Z
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SUMMARY:Sacred & Profane
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present vocal group Variant 6 at University Lutheran performing “Sacred & Profane” – madrigals in a kaleidoscope of texts and sounds: medieval prayers set by Benjamin Britten\, fables and fairy-tales conjured by Maurice Ravel\, solemn meditations by Pablo Ortiz\, and excerpts from Gian Carlo Menotti’s strange and beautiful The Unicorn\, the Gorgon\, and the Manticore. Their sole a cappella show of the season\, Variant 6 explores how text and music can intertwine in strange and beautiful ways. \n\nTEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST \nVariant 6 is a virtuosic vocal sextet\, led by co-artistic directors Rebecca Myers and Elisa Sutherland. Variant 6 explores the expressive potential of the human voice through vocal chamber music that is at once virtuosic\, poignant\, and approachable. Composed of artists with a diverse set of skills and a wide range of expertise\, we seek out repertoire that embodies this potential. We collaborate with artists of many disciplines\, creating refreshing interpretations of music of the past and innovative premieres of new works. Our concerts are unique and intimate musical experiences that foster deep conversation between artists and audience. Variant 6’s artists have performed with internationally recognized ensembles\, including Roomful of Teeth\, Bang on a Can\, American Composers Orchestra\, Seraphic Fire\, Santa Fe Desert Chorale\, the Los Angeles Philharmonic\, Chicago Bach Project\, Piffaro\, Tempesta di Mare\, the Philadelphia Orchestra\, Opera Philadelphia\, and more. Our singers have appeared as soloists with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra\, the Opera Philadelphia\, the American Bach Soloists\, Philadelphia Orchestra\, Lyric Fest Philadelphia\, and with the Apollo Chorus of Chicago. Many of our members regularly sing with Philadelphia’s contemporary music choir\, The Crossing. Collectively\, we hold degrees from Indiana University\, Northwestern University\, Westminster Choir College\, Temple University\, and the University of the Arts. \n\n\n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sacred-profane/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
CREATED:20221206T023642Z
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: The Music of Éliane Radigue
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control\, this event is unable to take place as previously planned. We hope to reschedule it for the Fall. Please stay tuned. \nBowerbird is pleased to present musicians Nate Wooley and Carol Robinson performing several works from Éliane Radigue’s Occam\, a series of pieces developed directly with the musicians for whom she’s written each piece. These gorgeously austere works explore the same areas as her electronic music\, but there’s something more powerful about this spirit of collaboration than the pieces she conjured alone in her studio. This program presents two of her most stalwart collaborators—or as Radigue calls them\, her chevaliers de Occam\, knights of Occam—trumpeter Nate Wooley and clarinetist Carol Robinson\, who toured the US as a duo playing these new works back in 2014\, sharing solo and duo works created with the composer. \nPROGRAM \nOCCAM X (2014) – Eliane Radigue\nfor trumpet \nOCCAM III (2012) – Eliane Radigue\nfor birbynė \nOCCAM RIVER III (2014) – Eliane Radigue\nfor birbynė and trumpet \nCarol Robinson\, birbynė; Nate Wooley\, trumpet \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nEliane Radigue is renowned for her electronic music\, in particular\, with the ARP Synthesizer. Her compositions are defined by micro-events due to subtle overtone shifts that dance above a seemingly static tone. The result is profoundly moving. In 2005\, Radigue began composing for acoustic instruments\, first Naldjorlak\, her grand trio for two basset horns and cello\, now the ever-expanding Occam Ocean series. These new works have been featured in important festivals: Festival d’Automne / Paris\, Huddersfield Contemporary\, Angelica / Bologna\, CTM.12 Spectral / Berlin\, Crossing the Line / NY\, Sound and Music / London\, ISEA2010 Ruhr\, E-May / Vienna\, [K] HEUTE / Hamburg\, and Impact / Utrecht. \nNate Wooley (b.1974) was born in Clatskanie\, Oregon and began playing trumpet professionally with his father\, a big band saxophonist\, at the age of 13. He made his debut as soloist with the New York Philharmonic at the opening series of their 2019 season. Considered one of the leading lights of the American movement to redefine the physical boundaries of the horn\, Wooley has been gathering international acclaim for his idiosyncratic trumpet language. Wooley moved to New York in 2001 and has since become one of the most in-demand trumpet players in the burgeoning Brooklyn jazz\, improv\, noise\, and new music scenes. He has performed regularly with John Zorn\, Anthony Braxton\, Eliane Radigue\, Annea Lockwood\, Ken Vandermark\, Evan Parker\, and Yoshi Wada. He has premiered works for trumpet by Christian Wolff\, Michael Pisaro\, Annea Lockwood\, Ash Fure\, Wadada Leo Smith\, Sarah Hennies and Eva-Maria Houben. \nTo say that Carol Robinson is a Franco-American composer and clarinetist is perhaps too restrictive to describe the eclecticism of her experience and passion. In fact\, she seems interested in everything having to do with sound. She is not someone who likes the middle ground\, preferring the edges\, the extremes. Her music is situated in those places of tenderness and rage\, gentleness and power that come from experience and mastery. Trained as a classical clarinetist\, she graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory before continuing her study of contemporary music in Paris thanks to a H.H. Woolley grant. Whether playing repertoire or experimental material\, she performs in major venues and festivals the world over (Festival d’Automne à Paris\, MaerzMuzik\, Archipel\, RomaEuropa\, Wien Modern\, Huddersfield\, Geometry of Now\, Angelica\, Crossing the Line…)\, and works closely with musicians from a wide stylistic spectrum. A fervent improviser\, she prefers the most open musical situations and regularly collaborates with photographers\, visual artists and videographers. \n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-music-of-eliane-radigue/
LOCATION:Fleisher Art Memorial\, 719 Catharine St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19147\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
CREATED:20221121T183323Z
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SUMMARY:Ikue Mori + Charmaine Lee
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Ikue Mori and Charmaine Lee at The Rotunda for an evening featuring solos from each artist as well as a duo performance. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nSince her emergence in New York’s No Wave scene in the late 1970s as a percussionist in DNA\, Japanese native Ikue Mori has used auto didacticism to forge one of the most singular aesthetics in contemporary music. Since switching from a richly intuitive approach to drums to electronics during the 1980s she’s refined an elusive\, liquid sound that translated her rhythmic vocabulary into a shape-spilling mass of daydreaming gurgles\, bloops\, smears\, rattles\, and fractals that’s at once serene and unsettling. She’s a master improviser\, adapting a recognizable sonic palette from real-time processing according to the needs and variables of each situation. Over the years she’s formed inextricable bonds with musicians like John Zorn\, Zeena Parkins\, Craig Taborn\, and Sylvie Courvoisier\, among others\, steadily enhancing within and adapting to each disparate context. \nNew York improviser and composer Charmaine Lee has quickly become a force in experimental music circles in the last few years\, parlaying her voice with staggering extended technique and electronics to create a forceful\, elusive practice that shares more in common with noise and experimental approaches than conventional singing. Her wordless\, cacophonous improvisations viscerally transmit ultra-high- pitched frequencies\, manic vocal fry\, and guttural shrieks manipulated with distortion\, feedback\, and objects like glass and water to deliver an unsettling attack that is simultaneously brittle and violent. Mori and Lee will each perform solo\, followed by a duo set—a young partnership marked by exquisite tension\, piercing timbre\, and quicksilver exchange. \n\nIKUE MORI + CHARMAINE LEE  \n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ikue-mori-charmaine-lee-2023/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
CREATED:20221121T183422Z
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SUMMARY:TAK Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the TAK Ensemble in Philadelphia. Painting a portrait of new American composition through intensely virtuosic and visceral works TAK Ensemble will perform works by Tyshawn Sorey\, Natacha Diels\, Ashkan Behzadi\, Erin Gee\, Golnaz Shariatzadeh\, and David Bird. \n  \n\nPROGRAM \nNatacha Diels: Second Nightmare for KIKU \nAshkan Behzadi: Arqueros \nErin Gee: Mouthpiece 28 \nDavid Bird: Series Imposture \nTyshawn Sorey: For jaimie branch \n\nABOUT THE ENSEMBLE\nRegarded as “one of the most prominent ensembles in the United States practicing truly experimental music” (I Care If You Listen)\, TAK delivers energetic performances “that combine crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex” (The WIRE)\, and “impresses with the organicity of their sound\, their dynamism and virtuosity” (New Sounds\, WQXR). \nFounded on the principles of curiosity\, change\, and caring communication\, TAK is dedicated to the commissioning of new works and direct collaboration with composers and other artists and they have premiered hundreds of works to date. TAK is Laura Cocks\, flute; Madison Greenstone\, clarinet; Charlotte Mundy\, voice; Marina Kifferstein\, violin; Ellery Trafford\, percussion. \n2022-2023 marks TAK’s 10th anniversary season\, celebrating a decade of cultivating creative programming at the highest level. Upcoming projects include a new commission from Tyshawn Sorey to be premiered at Lincoln Center in fall 2022\, commissions from Michelle Lou and DM R with Joy Guidry to be premiered at TAK’s 10th anniversary celebration in May 2023\, and new works from Eric Wubbels\, Seth Cluett\, Natacha Diels\, Bryan Jacobs\, Elaine Mitchener\, Ann Cleare\, Weston Olencki\, and Jessie Cox. This season will also see the release of TAK’s first collaboratively composed work on dinzu artefacts. \n\n\n  \n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/tak-ensemble/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
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SUMMARY:Scott Wollschleger: Dark Days
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present pianist Karl Larson performing work from the recently released album Dark Days featuring solo piano compositions of Scott Wollschleger. Dark Days chronicles Scott’s solo piano repertoire written between 2007 and 2020. Aspects of style that are heard on his first album Soft Aberration are present again\, but now filtered through the introspective immediacy of the solo piano medium\, as we hear coloristic harmonies\, a penchant for using displaced rhythms and repetition to subvert phrasing expectations\, and an intuitively driven approach to form and structure. \n  \nDark Days by Scott Wollschleger & Karl Larson \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nKarl Larson is a Brooklyn-based pianist and specialist in the music of our time. A devoted supporter of contemporary composers and their craft\, Larson has built a career grounded in commissioning and long-term collaborations. He frequently performs in a variety of chamber music settings\, most notably with his trio\, Bearthoven\, a piano / bass / percussion ensemble focussed on cultivating a diverse new repertoire for their instrumentation. As a soloist\, Larson is known for championing the works of his peers and the recent canon alike\, often gravitating towards long-form\, reflective works of the 20th and 21st centuries. Through his work with Bearthoven\, collaborations with a wide variety of chamber musicians\, and his solo projects\, Larson has helped to generate a large body of new work\, resulting in world premiere performances of pieces by notable composers including David Lang\, Sarah Hennies\, Chris Cerrone\, and Michael Gordon. \nScott Wollschleger (b. 1980) is a composer who grew up in Erie\, Pennsylvania and now lives in Brooklyn\, New York. His music has been highly praised for its arresting timbres and conceptual originality. Wollschleger “has become a formidable\, individual presence” in the contemporary musical landscape (The Rest Is Noise\, Alex Ross). His distinct musical language explores themes of art in dystopia\, the conceptualization of silence\, synesthesia\, and creative repetition in form. His music has been described as “apocalyptic”\, “distinctive and magnetic” and possessing a “hushed\, cryptic beauty” (The New Yorker\, Alex Ross) and as “evocative” and “kaleidoscopic” (The New York Times). Much of Mr. Wollschleger’s music features a sense of “timeless lyricism”\, something that influential avant-garde jazz pianist and blogger Ethan Iverson described as “the highlight of the disc” in his enthusiastic review of Mr. Wollschleger’s Brontal No. 3\, on Barbary Coast\, a 2014 New Focus Records release. \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/scott-wollschleger-dark-days/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
CREATED:20221121T173615Z
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SUMMARY:Laraaji Returns
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to bring Laraaji back to our home venue at University Lutheran performing for a second improvised solo piano set this season. \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nPhiladelphia-born\, New Jersey-raised polymath Laraaji has maintained a pursuit of spiritual transcendence through music since the mid-70s. After several years of studiously developing an aesthetic informed by Eastern faiths and transcendental research in his long-time home in Harlem\, in 1979 Brian Eno stumbled upon him busking in Washington Square Park in New York\, improvising celestial meditations with his electric zither. The producer invited him to contribute to his influential Ambient series\, resulting in the 1980 album Day of Radiance. Ever since he’s remained an outsized figure in new age and ambient music\, eschewing synthesizers in favor of hand-made sounds\, consistently embracing a human presence in his ever-seeking performances. Whether using monochord instruments\, singing\, or deploying electronics-kissed percussion\, Laraaji’s music remains connected to cosmic African-American tradition\, and as hypnotically beautiful as his work has been he’s never been afraid to inject ripples of tension and dissonance into his trance-inducing journeys. \nPhoto: Ryan Collerd \n\n\n  \n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/laraaji-returns-2023/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
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SUMMARY:LIGAMENT
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the acclaimed new music duo Ligament. Described as “perverse and nihilistic”\, Anika Kildegaard (voice) and Will Yager (double bass) perform as LIGAMENT\, an ensemble dedicated to commissioning new music and creating work for their unique instrumentation. LIGAMENT’s performances are a fusion of standard and non-standard elements; sometimes there are high heels and sometimes there are electric toothbrushes (and sometimes both). The duo is equally at home with extended techniques as with extra-musical elements. LIGAMENT is currently based in Baltimore and Philadelphia. \nPhoto by Tina Tallon \nPROGRAM \nTo be announced. \nABOUT THE ARTIST \nLIGAMENT means business: they’ve been ensemble fellows at New Music on the Point and Cortona Sessions for New Music; have performed in concert series iHearIC\, Feed Me Weird Things\, and the University of Iowa Center for New Music; have been tapped as the collaborating ensemble for dance performances not I but that which works within me (Alyssa Gersony) and Struggle for Pleasure (Armando Duarte). They’ve been featured on the Kansas City Contemporary Music Festival and Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project’s Re:Sound\, and were the 2022 ensemble-in-residence for Washington DC’s District New Music Coalition. They have premiered many new works\, and have an upcoming album of pieces written expressly for the duo. \n  \n\n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ligament/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230210T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230210T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
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SUMMARY:Ensemble Terrain
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Ensemble Terrain (Theo Bleckmann*\, Jodie Landau\, Ashley Bathgate\, and Jacob Cooper) performing selections from Jacob Cooper’s acclaimed album “Terrain” (Amsterdam Records\, 2020).  “Terrain” displays Cooper’s passion for kinetic collaboration. He worked intensively with three poets who created original text for each work\, and developed the music alongside vocalists Theo Bleckmann and Jodie Landau\, as well as cellist Ashley Bathgate\, who each bring electric energy and a penchant for defying musical boundaries to the project.  This concert will feature works from this album\, as well as arrangements of works by Meredith Monk\, David Lang\, Supertramp\, and others. \n*Unfortunately Theo Bleckmann will not be able to perform on this evening’s concert as was previously planned. We’re excited\, however\, to announce that the extraordinary vocalist Thann Scoggin (member of Roomful of Teeth) will be performing with the ensemble in his stead.  \nABOUT THE ENSEMBLE\nEnsemble Terrain was formed as a touring outfit following the release of Cooper’s album “Terrain” (New Amsterdam Records\, 2020). Pitchfork characterizes the album as “surprisingly magnetic meditations on time . . . vital and compulsive . . . firmly rooted both in the distant past and music much closer to the present” while San Francisco Classical Voice describes it as “a beautiful way to look at sky when sky is not available.” In their individual careers\, GRAMMY-nominated vocalist Theo Bleckmann’s work has been hailed as “from another planet” (New York Times) and “transcendent” (Village Voice)\, and cellist Ashley Bathgate has been praised as an “eloquent new music interpreter” (New York Times) and “a glorious cellist” (The Washington Post). “Stunning” vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jodie Landau (Pitchfork) is a member of the acclaimed vocal octet Roomful of Teeth\, while Jacob Cooper has been lauded as “richly talented” (New York Times) and a “maverick electronic song composer” (New Yorker). \n\n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ensemble-terrain/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
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SUMMARY:Alash Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Philadelphia favorites Alash at The Rotunda for a FREE concert. Alash are masters of Tuvan throat singing (xöömei)\, a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. Masters of traditional Tuvan instruments as well as the art of throat singing\, Alash are deeply committed to traditional Tuvan music and culture. At the same time\, they are fans of western music. Believing that traditional music must constantly evolve\, the musicians subtly infuse their songs with western elements\, creating their own unique style that is fresh and new\, yet true to their Tuvan musical heritage. \nPresented with The Rotunda. \n*Please note: The performance starts at 7:30pm.  Seating and admission to the building for the performance will be on a first come first served basis. Registering on Eventbrite does NOT guarantee admission.  Doors will open at 7:00pm.* \n\n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/alash-ensemble-2023/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
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SUMMARY:Derek Bailey's "On The Edge" - Parts 3 & 4
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird and Nightletter are pleased to present the four-part documentary series On The Edge: Improvisation in Music written and produced by Derek Bailey. \nFor more than four decades\, Derek Bailey was one of musical improvisation’s foremost apostles. The English guitarist and experimental musician not only has a litany of classic improvised recordings to his name but advocated for the appreciation of improvisation in all forms. For every atonal skronk that echoed from Bailey’s guitar there was an equal appreciation for the sweetly melodic and rhythmic improvisations from musicians far removed from the avant-garde. In 1980 Bailey put his findings\, both personal and researched\, into a book Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice. Much of Bailey’s attention is paid to musics whose excursions into improvisation are frequently misunderstood: Indian music\, indigenous music\, jazz. \nOn The Edge: Improvisation in Music\, Bailey’s four-part documentary adaptation of his earlier book features deep and detailed explorations of music as diverse as blues and jazz\, Sufi Qawwali\, Indian classical music\, liturgical music\, flamenco\, turntablism\, and the Grateful Dead. Tied together with Bailey’s voice-over the documentary also includes prime footage and interviews with John Zorn\, Max Roach\, Butch Morris\, Jerry Garcia\, Buddy Guy\, George E. Lewis\, as well as Bailey himself. Bowerbird and Nightletter will present Parts I and II on January 18th and Parts III and IV on January 25th. \n  \nPROGRAM \nOn The Edge: Improvisation in Music / Jeremy Marre / Digital \nPart 3: A Liberating Thing  (52 min)\nPart 4: Nothin’ Premeditated  (52 min) \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/derek-baileys-on-the-edge-parts-3-4/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
CREATED:20221206T013902Z
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SUMMARY:Derek Bailey's "On The Edge" - Parts 1 & 2
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird and Nightletter are pleased to present the four-part documentary series On The Edge: Improvisation in Music written and produced by Derek Bailey. \nFor more than four decades\, Derek Bailey was one of musical improvisation’s foremost apostles. The English guitarist and experimental musician not only has a litany of classic improvised recordings to his name but advocated for the appreciation of improvisation in all forms. For every atonal skronk that echoed from Bailey’s guitar there was an equal appreciation for the sweetly melodic and rhythmic improvisations from musicians far removed from the avant-garde. In 1980 Bailey put his findings\, both personal and researched\, into a book Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice. Much of Bailey’s attention is paid to musics whose excursions into improvisation are frequently misunderstood: Indian music\, indigenous music\, jazz. \nOn The Edge: Improvisation in Music\, Bailey’s four-part documentary adaptation of his earlier book features deep and detailed explorations of music as diverse as blues and jazz\, Sufi Qawwali\, Indian classical music\, liturgical music\, flamenco\, turntablism\, and the Grateful Dead. Tied together with Bailey’s voice-over the documentary also includes prime footage and interviews with John Zorn\, Max Roach\, Butch Morris\, Jerry Garcia\, Buddy Guy\, George E. Lewis\, as well as Bailey himself. Bowerbird and Nightletter will present Parts I and II on January 18th and Parts III and IV on January 25th. \nPROGRAM \nOn The Edge: Improvisation in Music / Jeremy Marre / Digital \nPart 1:Passing It On  (52 mins)\nPart 2:Movements In Time  (52 mins) \n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/on-the-edge-parts-1-2/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221216T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221216T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
CREATED:20221107T160449Z
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SUMMARY:Matt Davis' Aerial Photograph
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Matt Davis’ Aerial Photograph at The Rotunda. The ensemble will perform Davis’ recent compositional suite\, The Sway of Rivers\, exploring the elusive nature of time: how it is inconsistently felt\, marked\, and expressed in sound. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nEstablished in 2002\, Matt Davis’ Aerial Photograph is a “wildly imaginative” (Jazziz Magazine”) ensemble that explores the intersection of jazz\, contemporary classical and folk music\, as well as social\, cultural and historical observation through aural histories. Described as “Inspired” by Downbeat Magazine and “Eloquent” by JazzTimes\, the group has performed throughout the eastern United States\, as well as in China and South Korea. The instrumentation of the group varies\, but often consists of a string quartet\, guitar\, bass\, drums and several wind instruments. Aerial Photograph’s original repertoire is inspired by the cultural pluralism that is fundamental to American society. The compositional process begins with communication: Davis conducts conversations with communities that include senior citizens\, recovering addicts\, children\, immigrants\, religious believers\, community volunteers\, incarcerated\, homeless\, teachers\, caregivers\, and artists and musicians. These conversations are recorded and are then woven into compositions that endeavor to express the feelings\, emotions\, and stories that are shared. The resulting music gives audiences the opportunity to find points of connection to the music\, and to experience familiar or unfamiliar communities in a new and engaging way. The Sway of Rivers is in the process of recording\, and is slated for release in 2023. This new music brings several new elements to the mix\, including home-made percussion instruments\, vocals\, and new approaches of expressing forms and time in music. \nMatt Davis\, guitar\, voice\, percussion\nSam Rise\, voice\nEmily Zietlyn\, voice\nJames Melton\, guitar\nEugin Kim\, violin\nJon Thompson\, woodwinds\nDoug Hirlinger\, drums\nTrevor Rogers\, drums\nAnthony Di Bartolo\, percussion \n\n\n  \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/matt-davis-aerial-photograph-the-sway-of-rivers/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
CREATED:20221026T153209Z
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SUMMARY:Expo ‘58: A More Humane Art
DESCRIPTION:Held in the Belgian spring and summer of 1958\, the Brussels Exposition was the apogee of World’s Fairs. With its slogan “evaluation of the world for a more humane world” celebrating a new post-war optimism about technology and progress\, it was also full of the contradictions of the age\, and was equally a celebration of nationalism\, corporate collaboration\, and ongoing colonialism. But it also served as the premiere of some of the most important and radical artistic works of the second half of the twentieth century\, previewing currents that continue to this day. \nThe Le Corbusier designed Phillips Pavilion was a masterpiece of modernist architecture where new works in the emerging idioms of electronic music and musique concrète by Edgard Varèse and Iannis Xenakis were first presented. Brussels was also the first major meeting place of the international film community following the second World War where not only did critics and filmmakers from dozens of countries vote on a list of the greatest films of all time but more than 100 novel experimental works from around the world were presented as a radical change in this young art form. These films included not only what we would typically label “experimental film” including early works by members of the American underground cinema movement as well as key figures of the European avant-garde tradition but also some of the first works of the coming New Waves of narrative filmmaking such as Agnes Varda\, Roman Polanski\, Ken Russell\, and Alain Tanner as well as some of the first independent animated films. Expo ‘58: A More Humane Art will survey the breadth of this incredible exposition drawing from all of these currents and celebrating the Brussels festival as the debutante ball of numerous cinematic forms. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nFILM PROGRAM \nAdebar / Peter Kubelka / 1957 / 3 min / 16mm\nThe Very Eye of Night / Maya Deren / 1958 / 15 min / 16mm\nAnticipation of the Night / Stan Brakhage / 1958 / 42 min / 16mm\nJamestown Baloos / Robert Breer / 1957 / 8 min / 16mm\nFree Radicals / Len Lye / 1958 / 5 min / Digital\nL’Opera Mouffe / Agnès Varda / 1958 / 16 min / Digital \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/expo-58-a-more-humane-art/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221202T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221202T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T080124
CREATED:20220831T154839Z
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SUMMARY:Catherine Lamb's "Curvo Totalitas"
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Yarn/Wire performing the Philadelphia premiere of Catherine Lamb’s “Curvo Totalitas”. On the score\, Lamb describes the piece: “Synthesizer musicians play their material (which are filtered partials of the percussion recordings) in an unforced manner. Melodic contours unfold slowly\, relative to the total time. Tones in contours may occassionally be articulated more than once to discover a well situated phase relation in a given moment. Tonal development consists of blurring together to form harmonic densities from melodic contours\, more isolated highlighting aggregates\, as well as lingering sustain points being collected and released. Responsiveness and resonance is depending upon the width of the filter around particular partials in time. Shiftings are very gradual.” \n\nPROGRAM \nCatherine Lamb: Curvo Totalitas (2017 version)\nfor 2 synthesizers\, steel sheet\, tam tam \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS\nCatherine Lamb (b. 1982\, Olympia\, WA. U.S.) is an active composer exploring the interaction of tone\, summations of shapes and shadows\, phenomenological expansions\, the architecture of the liminal (states in between outside/inside)\, and the long introduction form. She began her musical life early\, later abandoning the conservatory in 2003 to study Hindustani music in Pune\, India. She received her BFA in 2006 under James Tenney and Michael Pisaro at CalArts in Los Angeles\, where she first developed her research into the interaction of tone and continued to compose\, teach\, and collaborate with musicians (such as Laura Steenberge and Julia Holter on Singing by Numbers). \n\nYarn/Wire is a New York-based percussion and piano quartet (Sae Hashimoto and Russell Greenberg\, percussion; Laura Barger and Julia Den Boer\, pianos) dedicated to the promotion of creative\, experimental new music. The ensemble is admired globally for the energy and care it brings to performances of today’s most adventurous music\, and New York Classical Review states that “Yarn/Wire may well be the most important new music ensemble on the classical scene today.” Founded in 2005\, the ensemble seeks to expand the representation of composers so that it might begin to better reflect our communities and their creative potential. Yarn/Wire has performed internationally at festivals including the Lincoln Center\, Edinburgh International\, Rainy Days (Luxembourg)\, Ultima (Norway)\, Festival 20/21 (Belgium)\, Contemplus (Prague)\, and Wien Modern (Austria) Festivals\, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall\, Dublin SoundLab\, Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles)\, Brooklyn Academy of Music\, and New York’s Miller Theatre. Their numerous commissions include works from composers such as Annea Lockwood\, Enno Poppe\, Michael Gordon\, George Lewis\, Ann Cleare\, Catherine Lamb\, Tyshawn Sorey\, Peter Evans\, Alex Mincek\, Thomas Meadowcroft\, Misato Mochizuki\, Sam Pluta\, Tyondai Braxton\, Kate Soper\, and Øyvind Torvund. The ensemble enjoys collaborations with genre-bending artists such as Tristan Perich\, Ben Vida\, Mark Fell\, Sufjan Stevens\, and Pete Swanson. Through the Yarn/Wire International Institute and Festival\, plus other educational residencies and outreach programs\, the quartet works to promote not only the present but also the future of new music in the United States. Their ongoing commissioning series\, Yarn/Wire/Currents\, serves as an incubator for new experimental music. Yarn/Wire has recorded for the WERGO\, Kairos\, New Amsterdam\, Northern Spy\, Shelter Press\, Distributed Objects\, Black Truffle\, Populist\, and Carrier record labels in addition to maintaining their own imprint. For more information\, please visit www.yarnwire.org. \n\n  \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/catherine-lambs-curvo-totalitas/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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