BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//BOWERBIRD ::: MUSIC, DANCE, FILM ::: Philadelphia, PA - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.bowerbird.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for BOWERBIRD ::: MUSIC, DANCE, FILM ::: Philadelphia, PA REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20240108T162934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240326T005249Z UID:10001215-1707508800-1707516000@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Traditional Music from Korea and Iran DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the Shiraz Arts Festiva’s curatorial vision\, “Traditional Music from Korea and Iran” brings togethers two duos: Jung-Hee Oh\, a Korean music artist of “Gayageum Byeong-chang” (Solo zither performance with song) with Song Eun Shin\, who performs the 25 String Gayageum; and Mehrnam Rastegari\, a Persian master of the Kamancheh (an Iranian bowed string instrument\, with Jalal Kimia\, who performs the Iranian percussion instruments Daf and Tombak.   Iranian traditional music held a central role in the Shiraz Arts Festival’s programming. Prior to the festival\, large\, high-profile\, live performances of Iranian traditional music were rare – with performances primarily confined to private homes and small gatherings.   The inaugural 1967 festival showcased Iranian master musicians in multiple concerts at the picturesque Hafezieh (a memorial garden in Shiraz\, Iran\, housing the tomb of Hafez\, a 14th-century Persian poet).  By the following year\, Iranian music was also being featured alongside music from other cultures.  Programs such as “Traditional Music from India & Iran” or “Traditional Music from Morocco & Iran” invited audiences to hear connections and interplay between musical styles and instrumentations in ways that are still rare today. \n\nThis event is part of A UTOPIAN STAGE\, an exhibition at Asian Arts Initiative from February 9 to March 30\, 2024. \nPlease join us for the opening reception of “A Utopian Stage” before this concert (February 9th at 6pm). \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nMs. Jung-Hee Oh is a Korean traditional music artist in ‘Gayageum Byeong-chang’ (singing with self-accompaniment of the Gayageum instrument) and ‘Pansori’ (a traditional story-telling performed by a solo vocalist). Ms. Oh is recognized as a Korean government cultural ministry’s intangible cultural property No. 23 in Gayageum with song and ‘Sanjo.’ She had performances in numerous significant musical events and was featured as the main guest in many Korean Cultural events in prominent institutions. She received her master’s degree in Korean music from Chung-Ang University in Seoul Korea. She currently serves as the music director of the music band G-Hwaja and performing artist based in NY & NJ metropolitan area. \nSong Eun Shin has established her reputation for her outstanding performance and detailed expressions of the unique musical language. In addition\, she has been a pioneer in spreading across the world the sound of Gayageum\, traditional Korean string instrument. She started to play Gayageum when she was 10 years old. She graduated from Korean National Traditional Arts High School and received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Chung-Ang University with top honors. She won Seoul Gayageum Competition and has continued to advance her career through great concerts and performances\, including Shanghai Expo\, the G20 Summit\, and Hong Kong national holiday events. \nMehrnam Rastegari is a well-established Iranian music and film score composer\, singer\, violinist\, and master Kamancheh player. She has performed in concerts in more than ten countries\, including the United States\, Germany\, Switzerland\, France\, Finland\, Iran\, and Kazakhstan\, and music festivals such as the WOMEX World Music Expo\, Tampere\, Finland\, and the Fajr International Music Festival\, Tehran\, Iran. Mehrnam’s main instrument is the Kamancheh\, for which she has been recognized by some of the best Kamancheh performers and instructors globally\, who certified her as a master Kamancheh player. She was a guest speaker at the TEDx event Oasis: Existence in Nothingness. Additionally\, she composed the score for multiple award-winning films\, including Dispirited\, for which she won the Best Original Score Award at the Melbourne City Independent Film Awards (MCIFA)\, A Poetess\, presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2022\, and the Rotten\, nominated for the original score in Japan Kadoma Festival. \nJalal Kimia\, a talented Persian Percussionist\, was born and raised in Iran. He embarked on his musical journey by learning the famous Iranian frame drum\, Daf\, at an early age\, guided by Meysam Afshin and Behzad Mahjoobi. Later\, he felt compelled to learn the other main Persian percussion instrument\, Tombak\, and continued his training under Master Dariush Eshaghi and later continued his training with Master Pejman Hadadi\, further developing his skills as a percussionist. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nMajor support for A Utopian Stage has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage with additional support from the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia.. Presented in collaboration with Asian Arts Initiative\, Fire Museum Presents and Philly Iranians URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/traditional-music-from-korea-and-iran-a-utopian-stage/ LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Bowerbird-A-Utopian-Stage-TRADITIONAL-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240121T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240121T160000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230817T165438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240821T153514Z UID:10001199-1705845600-1705852800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Bartok's Monster DESCRIPTION:The 7pm performance of “Bartok’s Monster” has been sold out. A 2pm performance has been added. \nInspired by Avoid the Day: A New Nonfiction in Two Movements\, by Jay Kirk \nThe “insightful and vibrant” (The New York Times) Daedalus Quartet returns to our stage with Bartok’s Monster\, a collaboration with Dan Rothenberg\, Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director of Pig Iron Theatre Company\, and Sebastienne Mundheim\, Founder/Artistic Director of White Box Theatre. A musical investigation into a missing string quartet\, this world premiere program by Penn’s exceptional quartet-in-residence takes inspiration from Penn English professor Jay Kirk’s Avoid the Day: A New Nonfiction in 2 Movements\, a book Gideon Lewis-Kraus described as “a vividly funny Gothic picaresque…and a dark\, self-consuming act of memoiristic alchemy.” \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nPraised by The New Yorker as “a fresh and vital young participant in what is a golden age of American string quartets\,” the Daedalus Quartet has established itself as a leader among the new generation of string ensembles. Since winning the top prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2001\, the Daedalus Quartet has impressed critics and listeners alike with the security\, technical finish\, interpretive unity\, and sheer gusto of its performances. The New York Times has praised the Daedalus Quartet’s “insightful and vibrant” Haydn\, the “impressive intensity” of their Beethoven\, their “luminous” Berg\, and the “riveting focus” of their Dutilleux. The Washington Post in turn has acclaimed their performance of Mendelssohn for its “rockets of blistering virtuosity\,” while the Houston Chronicle has described the “silvery beauty” of their Schubert and the “magic that hushed the audience” when they played Ravel\, the Boston Globe the “finesse and fury” of their Shostakovich\, the Toronto Globe and Mail the “thrilling revelation” of their Hindemith\, and the Cincinnati Enquirer the “tremendous emotional power” of their Brahms. \nJay Kirk is the author of Avoid the Day: A New Nonfiction in 2 Movements (Harper Perennial)\, which Helen Macdonald (H is for Hawk) said “truly seems to push nonfiction memoir as far as it can go without it collapsing into a singularity and I am at a loss for words. You are just going to have to read it.” His first book\, Kingdom Under Glass\, was picked by the Washington Post as one of the “Best Nonfiction Books of 2010.” His work has appeared in Harper’s\, GQ\, and The New York Times Magazine\, and has been widely anthologized in the Best American series. He is a recipient of a 2017 Whiting Writing Award\, a 2005 Pew Fellowship in the Arts\, and a finalist for the 2013 National Magazine Award for his story “Burning Man.” He is the founder and faculty adviser for Penn’s experimental nonfiction journal\, Xfic. \n\nBartok’s Monster is a co-presentation with Penn Live Arts and the Pig Iron School. \n\nSupport for Bartok’s Monster has been provided by The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation and the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/bartoks-monster/ LOCATION:Annenberg Center\, Harold Prince Theater\, 3680 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bowerbird-Main-Img-48.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240113T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240113T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20221128T215536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240115T185522Z UID:10001181-1705176000-1705183200@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present a two night residency featuring pianist Adam Tendler. On the second evening Adam Tendler will be performing “Sonatas and Interludes”\, John Cage’s groundbreaking cycle for prepared piano. 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the the work composed shortly after Cage’s introduction to Indian philosophy and the teachings of art historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy\, both of which became major influences on the composer’s later work. Significantly more complex than his other works for prepared piano\, Sonatas and Interludes is generally recognized as one of Cage’s most important compositions. The cycle consists of sixteen sonatas (thirteen of which are cast in binary form\, the remaining three in ternary form) and four more freely structured interludes. \n  \nPROGRAM \nJohn Cage: Sonatas and Interludes  \n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nA recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists\, “currently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)\, a “remarkable and insightful musician” (LA Times)\, and “relentlessly adventurous pianist” (Washington Post) “joyfully rocking out at his keyboard” (New York Times)\, Adam Tendler is an internationally recognized interpreter of living\, modern and classical composers. A pioneer of DIY culture in concert music who has commissioned and premiered major works by Christian Wolff and Devonté Hynes alike\, at age 23 Tendler performed solo recitals in all fifty United States as part of a grassroots tour he called America 88×50\, which became the subject of his memoir\, 88×50\, a Kirkus Indie Book of the Month and Lambda Literary Award nominee. He has gone on to become one of classical and contemporary music’s most recognized and celebrated artists\, active as a soloist\, recording artist\, composer\, speaker and educator. He has curated and performed series for the Broad Museum and Little Island\, and in 2022 alone\, appeared as soloist at BAM and Carnegie Hall\, and with the LA Philharmonic. Tendler recently released an album of Liszt’s Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses on the Steinway Label\, Robert Palmer: Piano Music on New World Records\, and published his second book\, tidepools. In 2022 he will premiere 16 newly commissioned works by composers including Laurie Anderson\, Nico Muhly\, Missy Mazzoli\, Christopher Cerrone\, Timo Andres and Pamela Z as part of a project called Inheritances. Adam Tendler is a Yamaha Artist. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/john-cage-sonatas-and-interludes/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TendlerCage.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240112T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240112T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20221128T220554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240115T185314Z UID:10001182-1705089600-1705096800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Wolff: Fantail + Schumann: Carnaval DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present a two night residency featuring pianist Adam Tendler. On the first evening Adam Tendler will perform the Philadelphia premiere of FANTAIL\, a new work by iconic American composer Christian Wolff. Commissioned by the pianist\, FANTAIL is a 22 movement\, unofficial response to Robert Schumann’s Carnaval\, and like Schumann’s legendary set\, a tour of Wolff’s musical laboratory and universe. Tendler will intersperse Wolff’s FANTAIL with Schumann’s Carnaval in a mash-up that puts both complete works\, and their composers\, in a fresh dialogue – reframing\, blurring\, even challenging our notions of what is classical and what is contemporary. \nPROGRAM \nRobert Schumann: Carnaval Op. 9 (1834-35)\nChristian Wolff: FANTAIL (22 pieces for a pianist) (2020) \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nA recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists\, “currently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)\, a “remarkable and insightful musician” (LA Times)\, and “relentlessly adventurous pianist” (Washington Post) “joyfully rocking out at his keyboard” (New York Times)\, Adam Tendler is an internationally recognized interpreter of living\, modern and classical composers. A pioneer of DIY culture in concert music who has commissioned and premiered major works by Christian Wolff and Devonté Hynes alike\, at age 23 Tendler performed solo recitals in all fifty United States as part of a grassroots tour he called America 88×50\, which became the subject of his memoir\, 88×50\, a Kirkus Indie Book of the Month and Lambda Literary Award nominee. He has gone on to become one of classical and contemporary music’s most recognized and celebrated artists\, active as a soloist\, recording artist\, composer\, speaker and educator. He has curated and performed series for the Broad Museum and Little Island\, and in 2022 alone\, appeared as soloist at BAM and Carnegie Hall\, and with the LA Philharmonic. Tendler recently released an album of Liszt’s Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses on the Steinway Label\, Robert Palmer: Piano Music on New World Records\, and published his second book\, tidepools. In 2022 he will premiere 16 newly commissioned works by composers including Laurie Anderson\, Nico Muhly\, Missy Mazzoli\, Christopher Cerrone\, Timo Andres and Pamela Z as part of a project called Inheritances. Adam Tendler is a Yamaha Artist. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/wolff-fantail-schumann-carnaval/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Bowerbird-Main-Img-14.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231215T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231215T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230828T163956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231220T181507Z UID:10001202-1702670400-1702677600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:The Music of Sarah Hennies DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present a portrait concert of composer Sarah Hennies performed by the Arcana New Music Ensemble with the composer. \n\nPROGRAM \nPassing\, a short film \nMonologue\, for solo trumpet\nTessa Ellis\, trumpet \nSettle\, for two players on one vibraphone\nSarah Hennies and Andy Thierauf\, vibraphone \nAbscission\, for violin\, cello\, and guitar\nCarlos Santiago\, violin; Erin Busch\, cello; Jonathan Pfeffer\, guitar \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nSarah Hennies is a composer based in upstate New York whose work engages with affective and sociopolitical issues such as queer and trans identity\, love\, and intimacy by means of psychoacoustics and an expanded field of percussion. Forced to build their own set-ups\, percussionists are\, for Hennies\, the only instrumentalists with the freedom to define themselves. A formally trained percussionist\, Hennies’s penchant for the abnormal has yielded maladroit performances of multitudinous cheap\, thrifted bells as well as ultra-minimalist poundings of woodblock and vibraphone. Hennies has composed acoustic music for ensembles and performers including Bearthoven\, Claire Chase\, Nate Wooley\, and Yarn/Wire\, while her recorded output has been released by Blume\, No Rent Records\, Astral Spirits\, and Black Truffle\, among other labels. Hennies is currently a visiting assistant professor of music at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson\, New York. \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. \n\n\n\n URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sarah-hennies-with-arcana/ LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bowerbird-Main-Img-41.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231209T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231209T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230810T151537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231211T152028Z UID:10001198-1702152000-1702159200@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Satoko Fujii + Kappa Maki DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Japanese musicians Satoko Fujii and Kappa Maki performing at University Lutheran. The duo consists of piano and trumpet performing an improvised set. Jesse Kudler will open the evening with an improvisation on the church’s organ. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nCritics and fans alike hail pianist and composer Satoko Fujii as one of the most original voices in jazz today. She’s “a virtuoso piano improviser\, an original composer and a band-leader who gets the best collaborators to deliver\,” says John Fordham in The Guardian. In concert and on more than 80 albums as a leader or co-leader\, the globe-trotting Japanese native synthesizes jazz\, contemporary classical\, avant-rock\, and Japanese folk music into an innovative music instantly recognizable as hers alone. \nJapanese trumpeter and composer Kappa Maki is internationally recognized for a unique musical vocabulary that blends extended techniques with jazz lyricism. This unpredictable virtuoso’s seemingly limitless creativity led François Couture in All Music Guide to declare that “… we can officially say there are two Kappa Makis: The one playing angular jazz-rock or ferocious free improv…and the one writing simple melodies of stunning beauty…How the two of them live in the same body and breathe through the same trumpet might remain a mystery.” \nJesse Kudler is a musician\, composer\, performer\, and sound artist using improvisation\, collaboration\, and site-specificity to examine authorship\, intention\, agency\, ambiguous affects\, and modes and practices of listening. He works with guitar\, electronics\, recordings\, keyboards\, synthesizers\, radios\, tapes\, movement\, and text. \n\n  \n\n  URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/satoko-fujii-kappa-maki/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bowerbird-Main-Img-37.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20231009T153447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231204T223252Z UID:10001208-1701547200-1701554400@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:The Music of Éliane Radigue DESCRIPTION:PRESALES HAVE ENDED. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR. \nBowerbird is pleased to present Enrico M. and Nate Wooley performing The Music of Éliane Radigue for percussion and trumpet featuring OCCAM X and OCCAM XXVI plus the premiere of a new OCCAM River. \nTwo longstanding champions for the music of French composer Éliane Radigue will be performing a series of rare concerts in the United States between November 30th and December 3rd. Enrico M. is the only performer of Radigue’s percussion music\, the spectrally wild OCCAM XXVI for bowed cymbals. Although one of the last of Radigue’s chevaliers\, as she calls those who have collaborated on her solo music\, Enrico has been one of the most fervent and in-demand performers of her music\, collaborating with Wooley and others on larger pieces in Europe during the composer’s ninetieth birthday year. He will perform the US premiere of OCCAM XXVI at Blank Forms in Brooklyn\, NY on November 30th. \nNate Wooley has been performing Radigue’s music for a decade\, especially OCCAM X for trumpet and OCCAM RIVER III for trumpet and birbyne with Carol Robinson. Since 2014\, he has performed Radigue’s music dozens of times\, most recently curating a concert of her music at the Big Ears Festival in Tennessee. He is also the author and editor of an issue of his journal\, Sound American\, devoted to the chevaliers\, which came out in 2021 and featured ten interviews with some of Radigue’s closest partners in the making of OCCAM Ocean. He will perform OCCAM X for trumpet\, the first performance in New York in two years. \nTogether\, the duo will premiere a new OCCAM River for percussion and trumpet. \nPROGRAM \nOCCAM X (2014) – Éliane Radigue\nfor trumpet \nOCCAM XXVI (2018) – Éliane Radigue\nfor percussion \nOCCAM River – Éliane Radigue\nfor percussion and 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. \nEnrico M. is an Italian percussionist and sound researcher active in the field of experimental music\, sound intervention and performance; his practice explores the relations between sound\, space and body\, the vitality of materials and the morphology of surfaces\, with particular attention to the percussive acts and the modes of listening. Since 2007 Enrico Malatesta has been presenting his works with tours all over Europe\, Brazil\, South Korea\, Japan\, UK\, North America and Russia\, participating in festivals and special events in venues such as Pirelli Hangar Bicocca – Milano\, Berghain – Berlin\, MAM – Rio de Janeiro. \nNate Wooley 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. He has performed with and played music by 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\, Martin Arnold\, and Eva-Maria Houben. He is a 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow and is the 2023 composer-in-residence at Mills College in Oakland\, California. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-music-of-eliane-radigue-2/ LOCATION:Icebox Project Space\, 1400 N. American St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Radigue_Wooley_Robinson.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230911T175756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231202T192637Z UID:10001204-1701460800-1701468000@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Peter Evans and David Taylor DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present two brass virtuosos: Trumpeter Peter Evans and Trombonist David Taylor in a solo/solo/duo performance at University Lutheran. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nPeter Evans is a trumpet player and composer based in New York City since 2003. Evans is part of a broad\, hybridized scene of musical experimentation\, and his work cuts across a wide range of modern musical practices and traditions. Peter is committed to the simultaneously self-determining and collaborative nature of musical improvisation as a compositional tool\, and works with an ever-expanding group of musicians and composers in the creation of new music. His primary groups as a leader are the Peter Evans Ensemble and Being & Becoming (with Joel Ross\, Nick Jozwiak\, and Savannah Harris). Evans has been exploring solo trumpet music since 2002 and is widely recognized as a leading voice in the field\, having released several recordings over the past decade. He is a member of the cooperative groups Pulverize the Sound (with Mike Pride and Tim Dahl) and Rocket Science (with Evan Parker\, Craig Taborn\, and Sam Pluta) and is constantly experimenting and forming new configurations with like-minded players. As a composer\, he has been commissioned by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)\, Wet Ink\, Yarn/Wire\, the Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival\, the Jerome Foundation’s Emerging Artist Program\, and the Doris Duke Foundation. Evans has presented and/or performed his works at major festivals worldwide and tours his own groups extensively. He has worked with some of the leading figures in contemporary music: John Zorn\, Peter Broetzmann\, Pauline Oliveros\, Brian Ferneyhough\, Kanye West\, George Lewis\, Anthony Braxton\, Mary Halvorson\, Ambrose Akinmusere\, Weasel Walter\, Ingrid Laubrock\, Jeff “Tain” Watts\, Tyshawn Sorey\, Jim Black\, Ikue Mori\, Steve Schick\, and performs with both the ICE and Wet Ink. As an interpreter of notated concert music Evans’ has performed works by Varese\, Xenakis\, Bach\, Stravinsky\, Elliott Carter\, Marcos Balter\, Agusta Read Thomas\, Roscoe Mitchell\, and many more. Peter Evans has been releasing recordings on his own label\, More is More\, since 2011. \nReceiving B.S. and M.S. degrees from The Julliard School of Music\, David Taylor started his playing career as a member of Leopold Stowkowski’s American Symphony Orchestra\, and with appearances with the New York Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez. Simultaneously\, he was a member of the Thad Jones Mel Lewis jazz band\, and recorded with groups ranging from Duke Ellington to The Rolling Stones. He has also recorded numerous solo CDs on the following labels: Koch\, New World\, ENJA\, DMP\, Tzadik\, CIMP\, PAU\, and TLB. Mr. His last releases on TLB are: And If All Were Dark\, and Atomic Bomb Blues. \nMr. Taylor performs recitals and concerti around the world: from Lincoln Center in NY to the Musikverein in Vienna and Suntory Hall in Japan. In addition to his own compositions\, he has been involved in dozens of commissioning projects for solo bass trombone collaborating with composers including Alan Hovhaness\, Charles Wuorinen\, George Perle\, Frederic Rzewski\, Lucia Dlugoszchewski\, Eric Ewazen\, Dave Liebman\, and Daniel Schnyder. He has appeared and recorded chamber music with Yo Yo Ma\, Itzhak Perlman\, and Wynton Marsalis and performed with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society\, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra\, Orpheus\, and the St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra. Throughout his career\, Taylor has appeared and recorded with major jazz and popular artists including Barbara Streisand\, Miles Davis\,JJ Johnson\, Quincy Jones\, Frank Sinatra\, and Aretha Franklin. Mr. Taylor has won the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Most Valuable Player Award for five consecutive years\, and has been awarded the NARAS Most Valuable Player Virtuoso Award\, an honor accorded no other bass trombonist. He has been a member of the bands of Gil Evans\, Thad Jones-Mel Lewis\, Jaco Pastorius\, Charles Mingus Big Band\, Joe Henderson\, George Russell\, Michelle Camillo\, Bob Mintzer\, Dave Matthews\, Dave Grusin\, Randy Brecker\, the Words Within Music Trio with Daniel Schnyder\, and Kenny Drew Jr.\, B3+\, Moppa Elliot’s Mostly Other People Do The Killing\, and The Sarah Weaver Ensemble. He has performed on numerous GRAMMY Award winning recordings.\nDavid Taylor is on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music\, Mannes College\, and NYU. \n\n\n\n URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/peter-evans-and-david-taylor/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bowerbird-Main-Img-43.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230828T170343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231130T153732Z UID:10001203-1701288000-1701295200@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bowerbird-Main-Img-42.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20231009T162722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231120T155132Z UID:10001207-1700251200-1700258400@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Bowerbird-Main-Img-50.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230828T161355Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231114T200517Z UID:10001201-1700078400-1700085600@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bowerbird-Main-Img-40.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230718T171516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231030T143932Z UID:10001195-1698264000-1698271200@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Bowerbird-Main-Img-29.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230920T165131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T163932Z UID:10001206-1697832000-1697839200@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Bowerbird-Main-Img-45.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230718T173138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T151421Z UID:10001194-1696017600-1696024800@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Bowerbird-Main-Img-30.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230916T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230916T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230828T155806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230920T150417Z UID:10001200-1694894400-1694901600@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bowerbird-Main-Img-39.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230910T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230910T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230718T180219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T160040Z UID:10001193-1694376000-1694383200@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Bowerbird-Main-Img-32.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230801T175255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230910T205500Z UID:10001197-1694203200-1694210400@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bowerbird-Main-Img-36.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T210000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230801T172243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230828T144423Z UID:10001191-1692903600-1692910800@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bowerbird-Main-Img-35.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230817T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230817T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230614T150810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230821T155315Z UID:10001189-1692302400-1692309600@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Bowerbird-Main-Img-33.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230720T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230720T210000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230706T150853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230727T180504Z UID:10001190-1689879600-1689886800@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Mohsen-Makhmalbafs-THE-SILENCE-Bowerbird-Main-Img.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230616T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230616T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20221206T025513Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230620T164134Z UID:10001185-1686945600-1686952800@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/eddykwon.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230609T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230609T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230328T153730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T165128Z UID:10001187-1686340800-1686348000@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Bowerbird-Main-Img-25.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230602T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230602T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230321T145829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230606T143410Z UID:10001186-1685736000-1685743200@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Bowerbird-Main-Img-26.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230524T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230524T210000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20230509T144223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230530T155028Z UID:10001188-1684954800-1684962000@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sharits-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20220823T160244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230502T163451Z UID:10001161-1682107200-1682114400@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Bowerbird-Main-Img-15.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20221206T023642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230406T163817Z UID:10001183-1680120000-1680127200@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Radigue_Wooley_Robinson.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20221121T183323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T142738Z UID:10001180-1679083200-1679090400@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Ikue-Mori-and-Charmaine-Lee-2023.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20221121T183422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T174402Z UID:10001179-1678910400-1678917600@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Tak-2023.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20221024T173618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230307T160526Z UID:10001173-1677700800-1677708000@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Bowerbird-Main-Img-19.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T081013 CREATED:20221121T173615Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230223T160230Z UID:10001178-1677096000-1677103200@www.bowerbird.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Bowerbird-Main-Img-21.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR