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SUMMARY:Shiraz Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to present the Shiraz Ensemble: Sina Homaee and Sepehr Pirasteh. Shiraz Ensemble embodies a global perspective\, combining their roles as citizens of the world and passionate artists to shed light on crucial socio-political matters through art. Drawing inspiration from their personal journeys as immigrants from Iran to the United States\, they channel their experiences into a transformative musical narrative. Blending contemporary classical music with the rich traditions of Iran\, Shiraz Ensemble aims to engage audiences and promote cultural understanding by fusing different musical aesthetics. Founded in Philadelphia\, Shiraz Ensemble takes its name from the ancient city of Shiraz in Iran\, a place of birth and upbringing for both its founders\, Sina and Sepehr. \nCo-presented with Fire Museum Presents. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nSina Homaee (He/Him) was born in Shiraz\, Iran. He is an Iranian musician and educator currently based in Philadelphia\, PA. His primary instruments are santour (سنتور) and tombak (تنبک). He started his first music lessons at the age of nine years old. Sina’s principal mentors for tombak were Jamal Bordbar and Farbod Yadollahi. He also studied santour with Amin Rahaee\, Roozbeh Rahimi\, Alireza Sedighynasab\, Mehran Shirazi\, and Masoud Shenasa. Sina has taught a variety of music courses such as music theory\, Iranian music theory\, form and analysis in Iranian traditional music\, as well as his primary instruments\, santour\, and tombak at Fazel University of Art and music institutions in Shiraz. He was the director of the Sepidar Ensemble in Shiraz\, Iran\, and collaborated with numerous music ensembles in Iran. During his time in Iran\, Sina collaborated with Fars TV and Radio Broadcasting Channel. Sina is currently finishing his Master’s thesis in Ethnomusicology at Guilan University (Rasht\, Iran). His research interests are Qashqaei music (Nomadic people around Fars province)\, music and globalization\, women in Iranian music\, and music in the Iranian diaspora. He pursued his bachelor’s of music in Iranian music performance from the Shiraz University of Art. He currently lives in Philadelphia and plays with a variety of music ensembles. Sina is interested in integrating different musical cultures and is keen to collaborate with a variety of artists from different musical backgrounds. \nSepehr Pirasteh is a composer and conductor born in Shiraz\, Iran. His compositions draw on Persian classical and folk as well as contemporary classical music vocabularies to express his concerns and fears about the political and social realities of the world we are living in. Sepehr’s works have been performed by ensembles such as Argus String Quartet\, PRISM saxophone quartet\, Pushback Ensemble\, Unheard-of Ensemble\, Orquestra Criança Cidadã\, Hole in the floor\, fivebyfive\, and members of the Fifth House Ensemble. He has been commissioned by Susan Horvath Chamber Music\, ENA chamber opera ensemble\, Philadelphia Student Composers Project\, Detroit Composers’ Project\, YInMn project\, Fresh Inc. Festival\, Yara Ensemble\, Central Michigan University’s (CMU) Percussion Ensemble\, and the CMU Saxophone Ensemble. His music has been performed in Argentina\, Brazil\, Iran and the United States. Sepehr has also been a fellow in festivals and residencies such as Harvard University’s Fromm Foundation Fellowship (Composers Conference)\, CCI Initiative\, and Fresh Inc Festival. As a conductor\, he has been focusing on premiering new music written by young and emerging composers as well as conducting the classical repertoire. Sepehr served as the director of the CMU New Music Ensemble\, Pierrot Ensemble\, and Concert Orchestra\, and Vintage community orchestra in Mount Pleasant\, Michigan. He was also the assistant conductor of the CMU Symphony Orchestra. In 2020 he started serving as the director of Temple Composers’ Orchestra (TCO). Sepehr currently is a Ph.D. student in Music Studies at Temple University. He pursued his MM in Composition and Orchestral Conducting at Central Michigan University. Sepehr studied composition with Dr. Jose-Luis Maurtua\, Dr. Evan Ware and conducting with Dr. Jose-Luis Maurtua. He received his BA in Composition from Tehran University of Art (Iran). He plays a Persian Kamancheh and Tanbour and is currently based in Philadelphia.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sina-homaee-sepehr-pirasteh/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "The Silence"
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird\, in collaboration with Nightletter\, are pleased to present Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s 1998 film “The Silence”. “The Silence” follows Khorshid\, a blind 10-year old living with his mother in a small Tajikistan village. Khorshid earns money tuning musical instruments\, while Nadereh — the beautiful protege of the instrument maker for whom Khorshid works — acts as his eyes\, fetching him every day at the bus stop and leading him through the streets. About to lose his job and home\, Khorshid creates a world where he can be happy — where hypnotic sounds and the music of the world shows him how to experience life. The film is banned in Iran since 1998. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nPROGRAM \nThe Silence / Mohsen Makhmalbaf / 1998 / 76 min / digital \n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/mohsen-makhmalbafs-the-silence/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:eddy kwon
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present interdisciplinary artist eddy kwon and the Philadelphia-based trio Totally Automatic at The Rotunda. \nABOUT THE ARTIST\neddy kwon (b. 1989) is violinist/violist and interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn\, NY). Her practice connects composition\, performance\, improvisation\, dance\, and ceremony to explore transformation & transgression\, ritual practice as a tool to queer ancestral lineage\, and the use of mythology to connect\, obscure\, and reveal. As a composer-performer and improviser\, she is inspired by Korean folk timbres & inflections\, textures & movement from natural environments\, and American experimentalism as shaped by the AACM. Her work as a choreographer and movement artist embodies an expressive release and reclamation of colonialism’s spiritual imprints\, connecting to both Japanese Butoh and a lineage of queer/trans practitioners of Korean shamanic ritual. \nShe is a United States Artists Fellow\, Johnson Fellow at Americans for the Arts\, Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center\, Van Lier Fellow and Artist-in-Residence at Roulette Intermedium\, and a recipient of the National Performance Network Creation Fund Award. Recently\, eddy was featured in The Wire Magazine’s Issue #463 (“absolutely stunning”) and as one of the Washington Post’s “22 for ‘22: Composers and performers to watch this year.” In addition to an evolving\, interdisciplinary solo practice\, she collaborates with artists of diverse disciplines\, including The Art Ensemble of Chicago\, cellist Tomeka Reid\, sculptor Senga Nengudi\, Degenerate Art Ensemble\, Holland Andrews\, and many others. \nwww.eddykwon.net \n  \nTotally Automatic was formed by Anne Ishii\, Eugene Lew and Matthew Smith Lee in the summer of 2021. They play unarranged music with each other\, on drums\, saxophone and electronics\, and can be found around Philadelphia. \ntotallyautomatic.net\ntotallyautomatic.bandcamp.com \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/eddy-kwon/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sawt Out
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the Berlin-based trio Sawt Out at the Rotunda with an opening set by Philadelphia-based musician Julius Masri. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nSince its foundation in 2015 the Berlin-based trio Sawt Out has shaped and refined its profile as a prominent improvisational unit. With their unusual acoustic instrumentation of trumpet and two sets of percussion these three gentlemen create bewildering sound worlds rich in detail and of tight musical interaction. Sawt Out has played numerous concerts throughout Europe\, Asia and beyond. This current tour is their first live appearance in the US. \nSawt Out is:\nBurkhard Beins (percussion)\nMazen Kerbaj (trumpet)\nMichael Vorfeld (percussion) \n  \nJulius Masri is a Philadelphia based multi instrumentalist\, and performer/composer for the city’s dance community at large. His music focuses on improvisatory methods and syncretic / linguistic exchanges within various musical languages including Jazz\, Metal\, AfroCuban\, Experimental Noise\, and Arabic music. Born in Tripoli\, Lebanon\, he moved to the States in 1990 and picked  up drumming a year later. He studied with Philadelphia instructors Carl Mottola\, Elaine Hoffman-Watts\, and as an  undergraduate  at Bard College\, with AACM’s Thurman Barker\, Richard Teitelbaum\, and Joan Tower. Julius plays drums\, circuit modified Casio keyboards\, Oud\, Kamancheh  (aka Rabab\, Spike Fiddle)\, and various other instruments. He can be seen performing in groups such as  grind/crust metal band Night Raids\, free jazz groups Sirius Juju and Dromedaries\, trombone and synth duo Superlith\, avant metal  group Nomad War Machine\, and  more.  He has  performed with Henry Grimes\, Jamaaladeen Tacuma\, Thurman  Barker and members of the  Sun Ra Arkestra.  Julius is a recipient of a 2022 Yaddo Fellowship for composition\, and a 2022 University of the Arts creative research and innovation grant. \n\n  \nSawt Out by Sawt Out \n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sawt-out/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Music of Raven Chacon
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is excited to present Philadelphia’s Arcana New Music Ensemble performing a portrait concert of Raven Chacon. \nPROGRAM \nWhisper Trio\nTessa Ellis\, Andy Thierauf\, Chelsea Meynig \nQuiver\nTom Kraines\, cello \nTááʼtsʼáadah\nTessa Ellis\, trumpet \nLats’ aadah\nCarlos Santiago\, violin \nBiyan\nJonathan Leeds\, clarinet; Chelsea Meynig\, flute; Carlos Santiago\, violin; Tom Kraines\, cello; Andy Thierauf\, percussion \nABOUT THE ARTISTS\nRaven Chacon is a composer\, performer\, and installation artist from Fort Defiance\, Navajo Nation\, now based in the Hudson Valley\, whose works combine contemporary chamber music with self-made electronic and acoustic instruments while conveying the perspectives of Indigenous people. He composes for chamber instruments but notes that his work is “deliberately performed for non-traditional audiences and in non-classical venues\,” like American Ledger No. 2\, performed and displayed as a billboard along I-244 in Tulsa\, OK\, and Tremble Staves\, performed among the ruins of the Sutro Baths in San Francisco’s Lands End. His commissions include Sweet Land for opera company The Industry and The Journey of the Horizontal People for Kronos Quartet. Chacon was a member of the Indigenous art collective Postcommodity from 2009 to 2018 and\, since 2005\, has taught experimental chamber composition to high school students on the Navajo and Hopi reservations as part of the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project. He has performed his work at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival\, Transmissions Festival in Italy\, Borealis in Norway\, and the Kamias Triennial in the Philippines. Chacon holds an MFA in music from the California Institute of the Arts and a BA in music from the University of New Mexico. \nFounded in 2016\, the Arcana New Music Ensemble is a group of Philadelphia-based musicians dedicated to presenting interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional music in interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional places. Built on a flexible roster of 25 musicians\, Arcana is able to perform a broad range of repertoire in numerous configurations. Composers featured in recent programs include Julius Eastman\, Morton Feldman\, Galina Ustvolskaya\, Pauline Oliveros\, Tom Johnson\, Moondog\, and James Tenney. Arcana has performed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art\, Fleisher Art Memorial\, The Rotunda\, The Kitchen (NYC)\, and collaborated with Variant Six\, Prometheus Chamber Orchestra\, and Pig Iron Theater Company.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/music-of-raven-chacon/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sounding Ornaments: Experiments with Optical Sound
DESCRIPTION:Dedicated to Daphne Oram \nOn a celluloid film print\, even sound is made of light. Running alongside the picture is the optical soundtrack\, an image in itself. A beam of light penetrates it\, exciting a photoelectric cell with its sound determined by the pattern of black and white. Ever since sound first joined film\, artists have turned their eye to this strip which is most frequently the site of pre-recorded music and sound. Sounding Ornaments presents films which use the optical track and the projector as their sonic instruments. \nThe Whitney Brothers pioneered experimental animation influenced by vanguard composers like Schoenberg. Using a homemade weighted pendulum\, the Whitneys created abstract patterns on the optical track of Five Film Exercises resulting in incredible congruity between image and sound. With the ensuing minimalist turn of American experimental filmmaking\, Peter Kubelka examined flickering black and white frames in Arnulf Rainer alongside flickering black and white noise. Paul Shartis’ Ray Gun Virus continues one step further by examining what would happen if the film print’s sprocket holes were to run through the photoelectric sound cell. Barry Spinello extended McLaren’s experiments into pure abstraction by hand painting on both the image and the soundtrack of Soundtrack\, creating a frenzy of sounds. And finally with Newsprint\, Guy Sherwin collaged strips of newspaper between clear film resulting in an image and a sound of the projector “reading” the newspaper. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nPROGRAM \nFive Film Exercises / John Whitney & James Whitney / 1943-45 / 21 min / 16mm\nArnulf Rainer / Peter Kubelka / 1960 / 7 min / 16mm\nRay Gun Virus / Paul Sharits / 1967 / 14 min / 16mm\nSoundtrack / Barry Spinello / 1969 / 10 min / 16mm\nNewsprint / Guy Sherwin / 1972 / 5 min / 16mm \nPaul Sharits: Ray Gun Virus (low res excerpt) \n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sounding-ornaments-experiments-with-optical-sound/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sacred & Profane
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present vocal group Variant 6 at University Lutheran performing “Sacred & Profane” – madrigals in a kaleidoscope of texts and sounds: medieval prayers set by Benjamin Britten\, fables and fairy-tales conjured by Maurice Ravel\, solemn meditations by Pablo Ortiz\, and excerpts from Gian Carlo Menotti’s strange and beautiful The Unicorn\, the Gorgon\, and the Manticore. Their sole a cappella show of the season\, Variant 6 explores how text and music can intertwine in strange and beautiful ways. \n\nTEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST \nVariant 6 is a virtuosic vocal sextet\, led by co-artistic directors Rebecca Myers and Elisa Sutherland. Variant 6 explores the expressive potential of the human voice through vocal chamber music that is at once virtuosic\, poignant\, and approachable. Composed of artists with a diverse set of skills and a wide range of expertise\, we seek out repertoire that embodies this potential. We collaborate with artists of many disciplines\, creating refreshing interpretations of music of the past and innovative premieres of new works. Our concerts are unique and intimate musical experiences that foster deep conversation between artists and audience. Variant 6’s artists have performed with internationally recognized ensembles\, including Roomful of Teeth\, Bang on a Can\, American Composers Orchestra\, Seraphic Fire\, Santa Fe Desert Chorale\, the Los Angeles Philharmonic\, Chicago Bach Project\, Piffaro\, Tempesta di Mare\, the Philadelphia Orchestra\, Opera Philadelphia\, and more. Our singers have appeared as soloists with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra\, the Opera Philadelphia\, the American Bach Soloists\, Philadelphia Orchestra\, Lyric Fest Philadelphia\, and with the Apollo Chorus of Chicago. Many of our members regularly sing with Philadelphia’s contemporary music choir\, The Crossing. Collectively\, we hold degrees from Indiana University\, Northwestern University\, Westminster Choir College\, Temple University\, and the University of the Arts. \n\n\n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sacred-profane/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: The Music of Éliane Radigue
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control\, this event is unable to take place as previously planned. We hope to reschedule it for the Fall. Please stay tuned. \nBowerbird is pleased to present musicians Nate Wooley and Carol Robinson performing several works from Éliane Radigue’s Occam\, a series of pieces developed directly with the musicians for whom she’s written each piece. These gorgeously austere works explore the same areas as her electronic music\, but there’s something more powerful about this spirit of collaboration than the pieces she conjured alone in her studio. This program presents two of her most stalwart collaborators—or as Radigue calls them\, her chevaliers de Occam\, knights of Occam—trumpeter Nate Wooley and clarinetist Carol Robinson\, who toured the US as a duo playing these new works back in 2014\, sharing solo and duo works created with the composer. \nPROGRAM \nOCCAM X (2014) – Eliane Radigue\nfor trumpet \nOCCAM III (2012) – Eliane Radigue\nfor birbynė \nOCCAM RIVER III (2014) – Eliane Radigue\nfor birbynė and trumpet \nCarol Robinson\, birbynė; Nate Wooley\, trumpet \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nEliane Radigue is renowned for her electronic music\, in particular\, with the ARP Synthesizer. Her compositions are defined by micro-events due to subtle overtone shifts that dance above a seemingly static tone. The result is profoundly moving. In 2005\, Radigue began composing for acoustic instruments\, first Naldjorlak\, her grand trio for two basset horns and cello\, now the ever-expanding Occam Ocean series. These new works have been featured in important festivals: Festival d’Automne / Paris\, Huddersfield Contemporary\, Angelica / Bologna\, CTM.12 Spectral / Berlin\, Crossing the Line / NY\, Sound and Music / London\, ISEA2010 Ruhr\, E-May / Vienna\, [K] HEUTE / Hamburg\, and Impact / Utrecht. \nNate Wooley (b.1974) was born in Clatskanie\, Oregon and began playing trumpet professionally with his father\, a big band saxophonist\, at the age of 13. He made his debut as soloist with the New York Philharmonic at the opening series of their 2019 season. Considered one of the leading lights of the American movement to redefine the physical boundaries of the horn\, Wooley has been gathering international acclaim for his idiosyncratic trumpet language. Wooley moved to New York in 2001 and has since become one of the most in-demand trumpet players in the burgeoning Brooklyn jazz\, improv\, noise\, and new music scenes. He has performed regularly with John Zorn\, Anthony Braxton\, Eliane Radigue\, Annea Lockwood\, Ken Vandermark\, Evan Parker\, and Yoshi Wada. He has premiered works for trumpet by Christian Wolff\, Michael Pisaro\, Annea Lockwood\, Ash Fure\, Wadada Leo Smith\, Sarah Hennies and Eva-Maria Houben. \nTo say that Carol Robinson is a Franco-American composer and clarinetist is perhaps too restrictive to describe the eclecticism of her experience and passion. In fact\, she seems interested in everything having to do with sound. She is not someone who likes the middle ground\, preferring the edges\, the extremes. Her music is situated in those places of tenderness and rage\, gentleness and power that come from experience and mastery. Trained as a classical clarinetist\, she graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory before continuing her study of contemporary music in Paris thanks to a H.H. Woolley grant. Whether playing repertoire or experimental material\, she performs in major venues and festivals the world over (Festival d’Automne à Paris\, MaerzMuzik\, Archipel\, RomaEuropa\, Wien Modern\, Huddersfield\, Geometry of Now\, Angelica\, Crossing the Line…)\, and works closely with musicians from a wide stylistic spectrum. A fervent improviser\, she prefers the most open musical situations and regularly collaborates with photographers\, visual artists and videographers. \n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-music-of-eliane-radigue/
LOCATION:Fleisher Art Memorial\, 719 Catharine St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19147\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T200000
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SUMMARY:Ikue Mori + Charmaine Lee
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Ikue Mori and Charmaine Lee at The Rotunda for an evening featuring solos from each artist as well as a duo performance. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nSince her emergence in New York’s No Wave scene in the late 1970s as a percussionist in DNA\, Japanese native Ikue Mori has used auto didacticism to forge one of the most singular aesthetics in contemporary music. Since switching from a richly intuitive approach to drums to electronics during the 1980s she’s refined an elusive\, liquid sound that translated her rhythmic vocabulary into a shape-spilling mass of daydreaming gurgles\, bloops\, smears\, rattles\, and fractals that’s at once serene and unsettling. She’s a master improviser\, adapting a recognizable sonic palette from real-time processing according to the needs and variables of each situation. Over the years she’s formed inextricable bonds with musicians like John Zorn\, Zeena Parkins\, Craig Taborn\, and Sylvie Courvoisier\, among others\, steadily enhancing within and adapting to each disparate context. \nNew York improviser and composer Charmaine Lee has quickly become a force in experimental music circles in the last few years\, parlaying her voice with staggering extended technique and electronics to create a forceful\, elusive practice that shares more in common with noise and experimental approaches than conventional singing. Her wordless\, cacophonous improvisations viscerally transmit ultra-high- pitched frequencies\, manic vocal fry\, and guttural shrieks manipulated with distortion\, feedback\, and objects like glass and water to deliver an unsettling attack that is simultaneously brittle and violent. Mori and Lee will each perform solo\, followed by a duo set—a young partnership marked by exquisite tension\, piercing timbre\, and quicksilver exchange. \n\nIKUE MORI + CHARMAINE LEE  \n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ikue-mori-charmaine-lee-2023/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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SUMMARY:TAK Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the TAK Ensemble in Philadelphia. Painting a portrait of new American composition through intensely virtuosic and visceral works TAK Ensemble will perform works by Tyshawn Sorey\, Natacha Diels\, Ashkan Behzadi\, Erin Gee\, Golnaz Shariatzadeh\, and David Bird. \n  \n\nPROGRAM \nNatacha Diels: Second Nightmare for KIKU \nAshkan Behzadi: Arqueros \nErin Gee: Mouthpiece 28 \nDavid Bird: Series Imposture \nTyshawn Sorey: For jaimie branch \n\nABOUT THE ENSEMBLE\nRegarded as “one of the most prominent ensembles in the United States practicing truly experimental music” (I Care If You Listen)\, TAK delivers energetic performances “that combine crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex” (The WIRE)\, and “impresses with the organicity of their sound\, their dynamism and virtuosity” (New Sounds\, WQXR). \nFounded on the principles of curiosity\, change\, and caring communication\, TAK is dedicated to the commissioning of new works and direct collaboration with composers and other artists and they have premiered hundreds of works to date. TAK is Laura Cocks\, flute; Madison Greenstone\, clarinet; Charlotte Mundy\, voice; Marina Kifferstein\, violin; Ellery Trafford\, percussion. \n2022-2023 marks TAK’s 10th anniversary season\, celebrating a decade of cultivating creative programming at the highest level. Upcoming projects include a new commission from Tyshawn Sorey to be premiered at Lincoln Center in fall 2022\, commissions from Michelle Lou and DM R with Joy Guidry to be premiered at TAK’s 10th anniversary celebration in May 2023\, and new works from Eric Wubbels\, Seth Cluett\, Natacha Diels\, Bryan Jacobs\, Elaine Mitchener\, Ann Cleare\, Weston Olencki\, and Jessie Cox. This season will also see the release of TAK’s first collaboratively composed work on dinzu artefacts. \n\n\n  \n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/tak-ensemble/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T220000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
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SUMMARY:Scott Wollschleger: Dark Days
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present pianist Karl Larson performing work from the recently released album Dark Days featuring solo piano compositions of Scott Wollschleger. Dark Days chronicles Scott’s solo piano repertoire written between 2007 and 2020. Aspects of style that are heard on his first album Soft Aberration are present again\, but now filtered through the introspective immediacy of the solo piano medium\, as we hear coloristic harmonies\, a penchant for using displaced rhythms and repetition to subvert phrasing expectations\, and an intuitively driven approach to form and structure. \n  \nDark Days by Scott Wollschleger & Karl Larson \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nKarl Larson is a Brooklyn-based pianist and specialist in the music of our time. A devoted supporter of contemporary composers and their craft\, Larson has built a career grounded in commissioning and long-term collaborations. He frequently performs in a variety of chamber music settings\, most notably with his trio\, Bearthoven\, a piano / bass / percussion ensemble focussed on cultivating a diverse new repertoire for their instrumentation. As a soloist\, Larson is known for championing the works of his peers and the recent canon alike\, often gravitating towards long-form\, reflective works of the 20th and 21st centuries. Through his work with Bearthoven\, collaborations with a wide variety of chamber musicians\, and his solo projects\, Larson has helped to generate a large body of new work\, resulting in world premiere performances of pieces by notable composers including David Lang\, Sarah Hennies\, Chris Cerrone\, and Michael Gordon. \nScott Wollschleger (b. 1980) is a composer who grew up in Erie\, Pennsylvania and now lives in Brooklyn\, New York. His music has been highly praised for its arresting timbres and conceptual originality. Wollschleger “has become a formidable\, individual presence” in the contemporary musical landscape (The Rest Is Noise\, Alex Ross). His distinct musical language explores themes of art in dystopia\, the conceptualization of silence\, synesthesia\, and creative repetition in form. His music has been described as “apocalyptic”\, “distinctive and magnetic” and possessing a “hushed\, cryptic beauty” (The New Yorker\, Alex Ross) and as “evocative” and “kaleidoscopic” (The New York Times). Much of Mr. Wollschleger’s music features a sense of “timeless lyricism”\, something that influential avant-garde jazz pianist and blogger Ethan Iverson described as “the highlight of the disc” in his enthusiastic review of Mr. Wollschleger’s Brontal No. 3\, on Barbary Coast\, a 2014 New Focus Records release. \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/scott-wollschleger-dark-days/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T220000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20221121T173615Z
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SUMMARY:Laraaji Returns
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to bring Laraaji back to our home venue at University Lutheran performing for a second improvised solo piano set this season. \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nPhiladelphia-born\, New Jersey-raised polymath Laraaji has maintained a pursuit of spiritual transcendence through music since the mid-70s. After several years of studiously developing an aesthetic informed by Eastern faiths and transcendental research in his long-time home in Harlem\, in 1979 Brian Eno stumbled upon him busking in Washington Square Park in New York\, improvising celestial meditations with his electric zither. The producer invited him to contribute to his influential Ambient series\, resulting in the 1980 album Day of Radiance. Ever since he’s remained an outsized figure in new age and ambient music\, eschewing synthesizers in favor of hand-made sounds\, consistently embracing a human presence in his ever-seeking performances. Whether using monochord instruments\, singing\, or deploying electronics-kissed percussion\, Laraaji’s music remains connected to cosmic African-American tradition\, and as hypnotically beautiful as his work has been he’s never been afraid to inject ripples of tension and dissonance into his trance-inducing journeys. \nPhoto: Ryan Collerd \n\n\n  \n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/laraaji-returns-2023/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T220000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
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SUMMARY:LIGAMENT
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the acclaimed new music duo Ligament. Described as “perverse and nihilistic”\, Anika Kildegaard (voice) and Will Yager (double bass) perform as LIGAMENT\, an ensemble dedicated to commissioning new music and creating work for their unique instrumentation. LIGAMENT’s performances are a fusion of standard and non-standard elements; sometimes there are high heels and sometimes there are electric toothbrushes (and sometimes both). The duo is equally at home with extended techniques as with extra-musical elements. LIGAMENT is currently based in Baltimore and Philadelphia. \nPhoto by Tina Tallon \nPROGRAM \nTo be announced. \nABOUT THE ARTIST \nLIGAMENT means business: they’ve been ensemble fellows at New Music on the Point and Cortona Sessions for New Music; have performed in concert series iHearIC\, Feed Me Weird Things\, and the University of Iowa Center for New Music; have been tapped as the collaborating ensemble for dance performances not I but that which works within me (Alyssa Gersony) and Struggle for Pleasure (Armando Duarte). They’ve been featured on the Kansas City Contemporary Music Festival and Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project’s Re:Sound\, and were the 2022 ensemble-in-residence for Washington DC’s District New Music Coalition. They have premiered many new works\, and have an upcoming album of pieces written expressly for the duo. \n  \n\n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ligament/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230210T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230210T220000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20220921T152755Z
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SUMMARY:Ensemble Terrain
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Ensemble Terrain (Theo Bleckmann*\, Jodie Landau\, Ashley Bathgate\, and Jacob Cooper) performing selections from Jacob Cooper’s acclaimed album “Terrain” (Amsterdam Records\, 2020).  “Terrain” displays Cooper’s passion for kinetic collaboration. He worked intensively with three poets who created original text for each work\, and developed the music alongside vocalists Theo Bleckmann and Jodie Landau\, as well as cellist Ashley Bathgate\, who each bring electric energy and a penchant for defying musical boundaries to the project.  This concert will feature works from this album\, as well as arrangements of works by Meredith Monk\, David Lang\, Supertramp\, and others. \n*Unfortunately Theo Bleckmann will not be able to perform on this evening’s concert as was previously planned. We’re excited\, however\, to announce that the extraordinary vocalist Thann Scoggin (member of Roomful of Teeth) will be performing with the ensemble in his stead.  \nABOUT THE ENSEMBLE\nEnsemble Terrain was formed as a touring outfit following the release of Cooper’s album “Terrain” (New Amsterdam Records\, 2020). Pitchfork characterizes the album as “surprisingly magnetic meditations on time . . . vital and compulsive . . . firmly rooted both in the distant past and music much closer to the present” while San Francisco Classical Voice describes it as “a beautiful way to look at sky when sky is not available.” In their individual careers\, GRAMMY-nominated vocalist Theo Bleckmann’s work has been hailed as “from another planet” (New York Times) and “transcendent” (Village Voice)\, and cellist Ashley Bathgate has been praised as an “eloquent new music interpreter” (New York Times) and “a glorious cellist” (The Washington Post). “Stunning” vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jodie Landau (Pitchfork) is a member of the acclaimed vocal octet Roomful of Teeth\, while Jacob Cooper has been lauded as “richly talented” (New York Times) and a “maverick electronic song composer” (New Yorker). \n\n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ensemble-terrain/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T220000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
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SUMMARY:Alash Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Philadelphia favorites Alash at The Rotunda for a FREE concert. Alash are masters of Tuvan throat singing (xöömei)\, a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. Masters of traditional Tuvan instruments as well as the art of throat singing\, Alash are deeply committed to traditional Tuvan music and culture. At the same time\, they are fans of western music. Believing that traditional music must constantly evolve\, the musicians subtly infuse their songs with western elements\, creating their own unique style that is fresh and new\, yet true to their Tuvan musical heritage. \nPresented with The Rotunda. \n*Please note: The performance starts at 7:30pm.  Seating and admission to the building for the performance will be on a first come first served basis. Registering on Eventbrite does NOT guarantee admission.  Doors will open at 7:00pm.* \n\n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/alash-ensemble-2023/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20221206T025925Z
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SUMMARY:Derek Bailey's "On The Edge" - Parts 3 & 4
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird and Nightletter are pleased to present the four-part documentary series On The Edge: Improvisation in Music written and produced by Derek Bailey. \nFor more than four decades\, Derek Bailey was one of musical improvisation’s foremost apostles. The English guitarist and experimental musician not only has a litany of classic improvised recordings to his name but advocated for the appreciation of improvisation in all forms. For every atonal skronk that echoed from Bailey’s guitar there was an equal appreciation for the sweetly melodic and rhythmic improvisations from musicians far removed from the avant-garde. In 1980 Bailey put his findings\, both personal and researched\, into a book Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice. Much of Bailey’s attention is paid to musics whose excursions into improvisation are frequently misunderstood: Indian music\, indigenous music\, jazz. \nOn The Edge: Improvisation in Music\, Bailey’s four-part documentary adaptation of his earlier book features deep and detailed explorations of music as diverse as blues and jazz\, Sufi Qawwali\, Indian classical music\, liturgical music\, flamenco\, turntablism\, and the Grateful Dead. Tied together with Bailey’s voice-over the documentary also includes prime footage and interviews with John Zorn\, Max Roach\, Butch Morris\, Jerry Garcia\, Buddy Guy\, George E. Lewis\, as well as Bailey himself. Bowerbird and Nightletter will present Parts I and II on January 18th and Parts III and IV on January 25th. \n  \nPROGRAM \nOn The Edge: Improvisation in Music / Jeremy Marre / Digital \nPart 3: A Liberating Thing  (52 min)\nPart 4: Nothin’ Premeditated  (52 min) \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/derek-baileys-on-the-edge-parts-3-4/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20221206T013902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230126T164958Z
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SUMMARY:Derek Bailey's "On The Edge" - Parts 1 & 2
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird and Nightletter are pleased to present the four-part documentary series On The Edge: Improvisation in Music written and produced by Derek Bailey. \nFor more than four decades\, Derek Bailey was one of musical improvisation’s foremost apostles. The English guitarist and experimental musician not only has a litany of classic improvised recordings to his name but advocated for the appreciation of improvisation in all forms. For every atonal skronk that echoed from Bailey’s guitar there was an equal appreciation for the sweetly melodic and rhythmic improvisations from musicians far removed from the avant-garde. In 1980 Bailey put his findings\, both personal and researched\, into a book Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice. Much of Bailey’s attention is paid to musics whose excursions into improvisation are frequently misunderstood: Indian music\, indigenous music\, jazz. \nOn The Edge: Improvisation in Music\, Bailey’s four-part documentary adaptation of his earlier book features deep and detailed explorations of music as diverse as blues and jazz\, Sufi Qawwali\, Indian classical music\, liturgical music\, flamenco\, turntablism\, and the Grateful Dead. Tied together with Bailey’s voice-over the documentary also includes prime footage and interviews with John Zorn\, Max Roach\, Butch Morris\, Jerry Garcia\, Buddy Guy\, George E. Lewis\, as well as Bailey himself. Bowerbird and Nightletter will present Parts I and II on January 18th and Parts III and IV on January 25th. \nPROGRAM \nOn The Edge: Improvisation in Music / Jeremy Marre / Digital \nPart 1:Passing It On  (52 mins)\nPart 2:Movements In Time  (52 mins) \n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/on-the-edge-parts-1-2/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221216T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221216T220000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20221107T160449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T170808Z
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SUMMARY:Matt Davis' Aerial Photograph
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Matt Davis’ Aerial Photograph at The Rotunda. The ensemble will perform Davis’ recent compositional suite\, The Sway of Rivers\, exploring the elusive nature of time: how it is inconsistently felt\, marked\, and expressed in sound. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nEstablished in 2002\, Matt Davis’ Aerial Photograph is a “wildly imaginative” (Jazziz Magazine”) ensemble that explores the intersection of jazz\, contemporary classical and folk music\, as well as social\, cultural and historical observation through aural histories. Described as “Inspired” by Downbeat Magazine and “Eloquent” by JazzTimes\, the group has performed throughout the eastern United States\, as well as in China and South Korea. The instrumentation of the group varies\, but often consists of a string quartet\, guitar\, bass\, drums and several wind instruments. Aerial Photograph’s original repertoire is inspired by the cultural pluralism that is fundamental to American society. The compositional process begins with communication: Davis conducts conversations with communities that include senior citizens\, recovering addicts\, children\, immigrants\, religious believers\, community volunteers\, incarcerated\, homeless\, teachers\, caregivers\, and artists and musicians. These conversations are recorded and are then woven into compositions that endeavor to express the feelings\, emotions\, and stories that are shared. The resulting music gives audiences the opportunity to find points of connection to the music\, and to experience familiar or unfamiliar communities in a new and engaging way. The Sway of Rivers is in the process of recording\, and is slated for release in 2023. This new music brings several new elements to the mix\, including home-made percussion instruments\, vocals\, and new approaches of expressing forms and time in music. \nMatt Davis\, guitar\, voice\, percussion\nSam Rise\, voice\nEmily Zietlyn\, voice\nJames Melton\, guitar\nEugin Kim\, violin\nJon Thompson\, woodwinds\nDoug Hirlinger\, drums\nTrevor Rogers\, drums\nAnthony Di Bartolo\, percussion \n\n\n  \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/matt-davis-aerial-photograph-the-sway-of-rivers/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20221026T153209Z
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SUMMARY:Expo ‘58: A More Humane Art
DESCRIPTION:Held in the Belgian spring and summer of 1958\, the Brussels Exposition was the apogee of World’s Fairs. With its slogan “evaluation of the world for a more humane world” celebrating a new post-war optimism about technology and progress\, it was also full of the contradictions of the age\, and was equally a celebration of nationalism\, corporate collaboration\, and ongoing colonialism. But it also served as the premiere of some of the most important and radical artistic works of the second half of the twentieth century\, previewing currents that continue to this day. \nThe Le Corbusier designed Phillips Pavilion was a masterpiece of modernist architecture where new works in the emerging idioms of electronic music and musique concrète by Edgard Varèse and Iannis Xenakis were first presented. Brussels was also the first major meeting place of the international film community following the second World War where not only did critics and filmmakers from dozens of countries vote on a list of the greatest films of all time but more than 100 novel experimental works from around the world were presented as a radical change in this young art form. These films included not only what we would typically label “experimental film” including early works by members of the American underground cinema movement as well as key figures of the European avant-garde tradition but also some of the first works of the coming New Waves of narrative filmmaking such as Agnes Varda\, Roman Polanski\, Ken Russell\, and Alain Tanner as well as some of the first independent animated films. Expo ‘58: A More Humane Art will survey the breadth of this incredible exposition drawing from all of these currents and celebrating the Brussels festival as the debutante ball of numerous cinematic forms. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nFILM PROGRAM \nAdebar / Peter Kubelka / 1957 / 3 min / 16mm\nThe Very Eye of Night / Maya Deren / 1958 / 15 min / 16mm\nAnticipation of the Night / Stan Brakhage / 1958 / 42 min / 16mm\nJamestown Baloos / Robert Breer / 1957 / 8 min / 16mm\nFree Radicals / Len Lye / 1958 / 5 min / Digital\nL’Opera Mouffe / Agnès Varda / 1958 / 16 min / Digital \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/expo-58-a-more-humane-art/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221202T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221202T220000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20220831T154839Z
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SUMMARY:Catherine Lamb's "Curvo Totalitas"
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Yarn/Wire performing the Philadelphia premiere of Catherine Lamb’s “Curvo Totalitas”. On the score\, Lamb describes the piece: “Synthesizer musicians play their material (which are filtered partials of the percussion recordings) in an unforced manner. Melodic contours unfold slowly\, relative to the total time. Tones in contours may occassionally be articulated more than once to discover a well situated phase relation in a given moment. Tonal development consists of blurring together to form harmonic densities from melodic contours\, more isolated highlighting aggregates\, as well as lingering sustain points being collected and released. Responsiveness and resonance is depending upon the width of the filter around particular partials in time. Shiftings are very gradual.” \n\nPROGRAM \nCatherine Lamb: Curvo Totalitas (2017 version)\nfor 2 synthesizers\, steel sheet\, tam tam \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS\nCatherine Lamb (b. 1982\, Olympia\, WA. U.S.) is an active composer exploring the interaction of tone\, summations of shapes and shadows\, phenomenological expansions\, the architecture of the liminal (states in between outside/inside)\, and the long introduction form. She began her musical life early\, later abandoning the conservatory in 2003 to study Hindustani music in Pune\, India. She received her BFA in 2006 under James Tenney and Michael Pisaro at CalArts in Los Angeles\, where she first developed her research into the interaction of tone and continued to compose\, teach\, and collaborate with musicians (such as Laura Steenberge and Julia Holter on Singing by Numbers). \n\nYarn/Wire is a New York-based percussion and piano quartet (Sae Hashimoto and Russell Greenberg\, percussion; Laura Barger and Julia Den Boer\, pianos) dedicated to the promotion of creative\, experimental new music. The ensemble is admired globally for the energy and care it brings to performances of today’s most adventurous music\, and New York Classical Review states that “Yarn/Wire may well be the most important new music ensemble on the classical scene today.” Founded in 2005\, the ensemble seeks to expand the representation of composers so that it might begin to better reflect our communities and their creative potential. Yarn/Wire has performed internationally at festivals including the Lincoln Center\, Edinburgh International\, Rainy Days (Luxembourg)\, Ultima (Norway)\, Festival 20/21 (Belgium)\, Contemplus (Prague)\, and Wien Modern (Austria) Festivals\, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall\, Dublin SoundLab\, Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles)\, Brooklyn Academy of Music\, and New York’s Miller Theatre. Their numerous commissions include works from composers such as Annea Lockwood\, Enno Poppe\, Michael Gordon\, George Lewis\, Ann Cleare\, Catherine Lamb\, Tyshawn Sorey\, Peter Evans\, Alex Mincek\, Thomas Meadowcroft\, Misato Mochizuki\, Sam Pluta\, Tyondai Braxton\, Kate Soper\, and Øyvind Torvund. The ensemble enjoys collaborations with genre-bending artists such as Tristan Perich\, Ben Vida\, Mark Fell\, Sufjan Stevens\, and Pete Swanson. Through the Yarn/Wire International Institute and Festival\, plus other educational residencies and outreach programs\, the quartet works to promote not only the present but also the future of new music in the United States. Their ongoing commissioning series\, Yarn/Wire/Currents\, serves as an incubator for new experimental music. Yarn/Wire has recorded for the WERGO\, Kairos\, New Amsterdam\, Northern Spy\, Shelter Press\, Distributed Objects\, Black Truffle\, Populist\, and Carrier record labels in addition to maintaining their own imprint. For more information\, please visit www.yarnwire.org. \n\n  \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/catherine-lambs-curvo-totalitas/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221118T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221118T220000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20221024T172321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221130T165655Z
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SUMMARY:Arc/Chora
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Philadelphia’s Bismuth Quartet in a special concert featuring compositions by quartet members Carlos Santiago and Veronica Jurkiewicz.  For this performance the Bismuth Quartet welcomes special guests Tom Kraines and Matt Engle. \n\nPROGRAM \nCarlos Santiago: Arc for string quartet\nVeronica Jurkiewicz: Chora for string quartet \nArc/Chora sonically explores being alone and adrift\, in a barren landscape\, free floating in the cold darkness(Arc) …coupled with the promise of closeness\, warmth\, tranquility\, hope\, love\, and understanding (Chora) \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nOne of Philadelphia’s hidden gems\, Bismuth Quartet takes the string quartet into new territory as performers\, composers\, collaborators\, and improvisers. Past and future projects include cross-disciplinary collaborations\, diverse programming\, and performing original compositions. Equally at home playing modern\, classical\, experimental\, and improvised music\, Bismuth has performed at notable venues such as the Mann Center\, Union Transfer\, and the Mütter Museum\, among others. The Quartet presents a unique experience to its audiences and has partnered on productions across Philadelphia performing on the Moon Viewing Platform as part of the 2019 Site/Sound Festival\, playing spectral music presented by Fire Museum Presents at the Icebox Project Space\, and collaboratively composing and performing scores to silent films alongside Not So Silent Cinema. Bismuth Quartet maintains active projects across the Philadelphia music scene at-large and has been featured with Jazmine Sullivan\, Arcana New Music Ensemble\, Philadelphia Jazz Project\, indie rock bands Whitney\, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah\, with NYC-based performer/improviser/composer Anaïs Maviel\, and video artist/choreographer Nora Gibson aka CHROMA. Bismuth encourages the creation of new work and is in the midst of a commission in collaboration with composer Adam Berenson to be recorded in the fall of 2022. \nBismuth Quartet \nCarlos Santiago – violin\nVeronica Jurkiewicz – viola\nTom Kraines – cello\nMatt Engle – double bass \n\n  \n\n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/arc-chora/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T220000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20220919T155459Z
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SUMMARY:Ensemble Pamplemousse
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is thrilled to present Ensemble Pamplemousse in Philadelphia performing a brand-new collection of pieces about the elephant in the room\, the devil is in the details\, the cat’s meow\, The Whole Nine Yards\, and the bottom line. Using instruments new and old\, mechanical and human-operated\, digital and digitized\, some of the pieces explode various implications of system failure and its echoes into ecosystems of organized wiggling air molecules. Others explore the concept of shadow— shadows shorten and lengthen as time speeds up and slows down in reaction to situation and thought\, a useful analog for musical composition. New works performed and composed by David Broome\, Natacha Diels\, Andrew Greenwald\, Bryan Jacobs\, and Weston Olencki. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS:\nComposer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse was founded in 2003 to provide a focal point for like-minded creators with a thirst for sonic exploration. The ensemble is a close-knit group of divergent artistic personalities\, emergent from training in disparate musical fields. Their collective love for the exquisite in all sonic realms leads the ensemble to persistently discover new vistas of sound at the frayed edges of dissective instrumental performance technique. Compositions aggregate each member’s unique virtuosic talents into extraordinary magical moments. In the flexible moments of performance\, the ensemble weaves together shapes of resonance\, clusters of glitch\, skitters of hyper action\, and masses of absurdity into impeccable structures of unified beauty. \nwww.pamplemoussies.bandcamp.com/album/shadows \n\n\n\n  \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/pamplemousse/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T220000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20220815T153921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221107T153038Z
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SUMMARY:George Stavis
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present a rare performance by George Stavis\, an American banjo player perhaps best known for his 1969 album  Labyrinths \, an album considered a landmark in the development of improvisational banjo performance. Opening the evening will be Elkhorn\, the Philadelphia based guitar duo Jesse Sheppard and Drew Gardner\, who are celbrating the release of their new album  Distances \, out this September 2022. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nGeorge Stavis is a singular player\, among the finest 5-string banjo players of his generation. Although trained in the traditions of Pete Seeger and Earl Scruggs\, in the late 1960s Stavis developed a unique approach to the instrument which expanded it in both popular and exotic directions. His first solo album\, Labyrinths\, on the Vanguard label\, is considered a landmark for improvisational performance (“. . . one of the essential albums\, in any genre\, of the 1960s.” –Glenn Jones)\, one that brought the banjo into the “world music” category\, with its evocations of jazz\, classical and Indian music. Later\, Stavis developed the electric banjo\, fronting a popular West Coast band\, Oganookie\, who performed up to 160 nights per year. In the mid-’80s\, Stavis released a folk orchestral album\, Morning Mood\, which featured his long-time collaborator\, violinist / fiddler Robert Stern\, and included such notables such as Darol Anger and Mike Marshall on violin and mandolin\, respectively. Stavis has performed on eight recordings\, including four as principal\, and has opened for such artists as Richie Havens\, Neil Young\, the Grateful Dead and Jean-Luc Ponty\, as well as performing duets with the another of the banjo’s most notable innovators\, the late Bill Keith. His early work has recently been re-released in Italy and the UK\, and a recent solo piece can be heard on Imaginational Anthem\, Vol. 3 (Tompkins Square). Though he has not been an active performer in recent years\, he still plays out from time to time\, and recently performed to a rapt audience at the Thousand Incarnations of the Rose Festival of American Primitive Music. Stavis currently lives in Dobbs Ferry\, New York. \nThe guitar music of Elkhorn is rooted in the interplay of Jesse Sheppard’s twelve-string acoustic fingerpicking and Drew Gardner’s electric lead. Their music draws from folk\, psych\, blues\, and jazz sources. This evening they will be joined by Ian McColm on drums\, who plays on their new LP “Distances\,” available September 16th on Feeding Tube Records. As Byron Coley writes\, “This formation is capable of psyching-out with pure guitar force. The Ouroboran elements of open-form improvisation-based music really gel when the snakes are encouraged to eat their own tails.” \n\n\n  \n\n  \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/george-stavis-2022/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221001T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221001T220000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20220831T154104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T164028Z
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SUMMARY:Telescoping
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present a double bill featuring Seattle’s Telescoping and Philadelphia’s Jesse Kudler.  Telescoping is a quartet of Dave Abramson (drums\, percussion)\, Al Jones (guitars\, electronics\, voice)\, Greg Kelley (trumpet\, electronics)\, and Robert Millis (guitars) that performs “dense\, nocturnal improvised music.”  Jesse Kudler will be premiering a new site-specific work developed on and for the pipe organ of University Lutheran’s sanctuary. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS\nTelescoping is an electroacoustic improvising quartet formed in early 2020 in Seattle & the Olympic Peninsula. Consisting of Dave Abramson (Diminished Men\, Spider Trio\, MMOB – drums\, percussion\,) Al Jones (Marginal Frequency\, MANKINDA – guitars\, pedal steel\, electronics\, voice\,) Greg Kelley (nmperign\, Heathen Shame – trumpet\, electronics) & Robert Millis (Climax Golden Twins\, Sublime Frequencies\, Idol Ko Si – guitars\, electronics\,) the group’s initial collaboration started in isolation in the nascent days of the COVID-19 pandemic. They recorded a self-titled album from their respective quarantine studios which Noise Not Music called “dense\, nocturnal improvised music” that is “gorgeous\, masterfully constructed\, and essential listening for anyone feeling any of the following: confused\, frightened\, bored\, sad\, alone.” Further recording took place in an abandoned generator building on Bainbridge Island in the Puget Sound in April of 2020\, after which Kelley relocated back to his native Massachusetts. Abramson and Jones released duo material under the name What earlier this year on the Eiderdown Records label thus continuing the trajectory that brings the quartet back together for a string of East Coast dates in late September/early October 2022. \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\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/telescoping/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T220000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20220815T164202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T164238Z
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SUMMARY:Morton Feldman's "For Bunita Marcus"
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present New York City based pianist Adam Tendler performing American composer Morton Feldman’s (1926 – 1987) late period masterpiece For Bunita Marcus . Music critic James Pritchett describes the work: “For Bunita Marcus \, like all the late Feldman works\, is an adventure that takes a relatively long time to play out\, but which is remarkably lacking in heaviness. We may expect an epic\, but we get something much subtler. Indeed\, what we get is the present moment\, in all its beauty\, over and over again. If we surrender to the musical image that is right in front of us\, a piece like For Bunita Marcus  is an easy world to enter into and to explore with Feldman. We step into the silence after that first six-note motto\, and we wonder: What comes next? The next hour and a quarter is spent doing nothing more than discovering what comes next—and the next thing after that\, and the next after that.” \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. \n\n\n  \n\n  \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/adam-tendler-performs-feldman/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T220000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20220823T161844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T164020Z
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SUMMARY:Laraaji
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Laraaji in our home venue at University Lutheran performing an improvised solo piano set on our Steinway Model O. \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: Daniel Oduntan \n\n\n  \n\n  \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/laraaji-solo-piano/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220824T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220824T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20220725T153817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220829T140954Z
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SUMMARY:Kidlat Tahimik's Turumba
DESCRIPTION:Commissioned by the German public service broadcaster ZDF\, Kidlat Tahimik shot this movie in Laguna in the Philippines in 1981 as a contribution to the ZDF teleplay series “Vater Unser” (“Our Father”). These comprised six 45-minute short movies by a group of international directors\, which interpreted key phrases from the lexicon of the Apostles’ Creed. Tahimik opted for the phrase “give us this day our daily bread”\, and shot a movie about a family in Pakil in Laguna\, a small town about 100 kilometers from the capital Manila reputed for its “Turumba” procession and its musical tradition\, which also play an important role in the film. The family earned their living producing paper mache figurines\, a handicraft for which the region is known nationwide. They sell the figurine-toys during the annual Turumba festivities and live off the proceeds throughout the year. An imperious\, German entrepreneur visits their market stall and commissions them to manufacture 30\,000 Olympic Waldi dachshunds\, the official mascot for the 1972 Munich Olympics. The family then embarks upon a quasi-industrial production of paper mache figures; suddenly\, time is money. Tahimik commented that Turumba is a movie about the “incursion of capitalism into a Philippine village”. \nTurumba / Kidlat Tahimik / 1981 / 95 min / 16mm \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to show proof of Covid 19 vaccinations status *and* wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).  Proof of vaccination can be the physical ID card or a photo/copy (a photo on your phone is acceptable).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/kidlat-tahimiks-turumba/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220727T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220727T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20220602T181907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220811T192230Z
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SUMMARY:Pat O’Neill’s Water and Power
DESCRIPTION:NEW DATE \n\nPat O’Neill’s rarely-screened masterpiece of West Coast cinema is a dazzling synthesis of fast motion and superimposition\, appropriated footage and time lapse photography\, chroma keying and long exposures. Water and Power layers images drawn from urban Los Angeles\, its water source in the Owens Valley\, and an otherworldly interior space in increasingly complex permutations. What results is a fractured history\, not just of California and its environment but of the cinematic imagination. Through subtitles O’Neill also weaves a story of industrial expansion’s impact on the landscape from Sir Francis Drake’s exploration to situations that seem ripped from Golden Age Hollywood. \nIn the hands of O’Neill\, landscape becomes not just the industrial and natural world but the reflection of how humans have imagined it\, as the site of epics of silent film to ideal locations for resource extraction. The film abounds with visual rhymes\, becoming unclear where human architecture ends and nature begins. And this is to say nothing of the surreal dreamlike figures that litter O’Neill’s imagined Los Angeles. Shot on 35mm\, a rare luxury in experimental filmmaking\, and masterfully utilizing the optical printer\, Water and Power contains some of the most beautiful images in all of American cinema. \nWater and Power / Pat O’Neill / 1989 / 57 min / 16mm \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to show proof of Covid 19 vaccinations status *and* wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).  Proof of vaccination can be the physical ID card or a photo/copy (a photo on your phone is acceptable).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/pat-oneills-water-and-power/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220714T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220714T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20220614T171801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220707T174523Z
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SUMMARY:Wildflower Composers: Concert of Faculty Works with Arcana New Music
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present a collaboration between the Arcana New Music Ensemble and the annual Wildflowers Composer Festival to present works by the festival faculty. The festival is open to composers who identify as part of gender-marginalized communities\, which includes cis-women\, trans-women\, trans-men\, and those who are nonbinary or gender-nonconforming. The summer festival is intended for composers between the ages of 13 and 19 who have not yet started college. \nPROGRAM \ninti figgis-vizueta: to give you form and breath\nAndy Thierauf\, Emily Roane\, Travis Goffredo – percussion \ninti figgis-vizueta: INBHIR (many waters)\nTom Kraines – cello \nRajna Swaminathan: Consilience\nRajna Swaminathan – mrundangum\, piano\, voice \nFlannery Cunningham: We are the same as we have always been\nSean Bailey – clarinet \nFlannery Cunningham: Songs of myself//songs for myself\nAlize Rozsnyai – voice \nErin Busch: refract (world premiere)\nCarlos Santiago – violin \n\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to show proof of Covid 19 vaccinations status *and* wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).  Proof of vaccination can be the physical ID card or a photo/copy (a photo on your phone is acceptable).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/wildflower-composer-concert/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T094059
CREATED:20220524T150848Z
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SUMMARY:Babette Mangolte’s The Cold Eye (My Darling\, Be Careful)
DESCRIPTION:By the time Babette Mangolte began work on The Cold Eye (My Darling Be Careful)\, her first overtly fictional narrative film\, she was already deeply enmeshed in the artistic vanguard of two continents. She had served as the cinematographer for the early groundbreaking films by Chantal Akerman and Yvonne Rainer\, photographed and filmed the development of postmodern theater and dance\, and directed her own experimental works. With The Cold Eye seeing Mangolte operate in a semi-autobiographical mode\, how then would an artist with a lifetime spent behind a lens inhabit a character? Mangolte’s answer: by constructing a film entirely out of shots from the subjective point of view of her protagonist. \nWe see The Cold Eye through the lens of Cathy\, an avatar for Mangolte’s early experiences after moving to the United States. Cathy is a young painter\, deeply self-conscious and insecure\, developing as an artist in the midst of her sentimental education. And we follow Cathy as she considers her own work and reflects on the role of the artist. Strikingly we also inhabit her gaze as she talks to friends and members of the art world often while her (or perhaps our) attention wanders around the room and we are struck when they look at her\, or rather us\, directly in the eye. As we stare at these characters\, portrayed by dancers James Barth (who also co-wrote the screenplay) and Valda Setterfield\, painter George Deem\, filmmaker Ela Troyano\, and character actor extraordinaire Powers Booth among others\, Mangolte offers up one of the most daring attempts to capture on film what previously seemed the domain of novels\, to describe a central character not just through what they do and say but through their observation and understanding of others. \n\n\nThe Cold Eye (My Darling\, Be Careful) / Babette Mangolte / 1980 / 90 min / 16mm-to-Digital \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\n\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to show proof of Covid 19 vaccinations status *and* wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).  Proof of vaccination can be the physical ID card or a photo/copy (a photo on your phone is acceptable).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/babette-mangoltes-the-cold-eye-my-darling-be-careful/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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