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SUMMARY:AT 100 - Earle Brown and Morton Feldman
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird presents the Arcana New Music Ensemble in a centenary celebration of Earle Brown and Morton Feldman\, two pioneering American composers born in 1926 whose radical experiments in the 1950s and 60s transformed how music could be notated\, performed\, and experienced. \nBrown’s selections represent his most radical period of graphic notation. December 1952 and Four Systems present performers with abstract visual fields rather than traditional staff notation\, inviting spontaneous decisions about pitch\, duration\, and intensity. One Through Five continues this exploration of open form\, where the score becomes a framework for collective improvisation rather than a fixed composition. \nFeldman’s early pieces chart his move toward what he called a “physical sound-world.” Only\, from 1947\, predates his meeting with John Cage and the artistic breakthrough that followed. His graph notation works like Projection 1 and King of Denmark give performers freedom within defined registers and time frames\, creating fields of shimmering color and texture. A Very Short Piece for Trumpet\, though composed later in 1986\, distills his aesthetic into concentrated form. \nThe performance is part of Icebox Project Space’s Light and Sound Series. \n\nPROGRAM \nEarle Brown: Four Systems (1954) \nEarle Brown: December 1952 from Folio I (1952) \nEarle Brown: One Through Five from Folio II (1970) \nMorton Feldman: Only (1947) \nMorton Feldman: A Very Short Piece for Trumpet (1986) \nMorton Feldman: King of Denmark (1964) \nMorton Feldman: Projection 1 (1950) \nARCANA NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE: \nCarlos Santiago\, violin\nMelinda Rice\, viola\nTom Kraines\, cello\nDavid Middleton\, electric bass\nTessa Ellis\, trumpet\nJay Krush\, tuba\nAaron Stewart\, saxophone\nNoa Even\, saxophone\nNicholas Handahl\, flute\nJonathan Leeds\, clarinet\nAnne Ishii\, percussion and electronics\nTara Middleton\, voice\nAndy Thierauf\, percussion \n\nThis program is supported by the Penn Treaty Special Services District\n \n\nFunding provided in part by New Music USA
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/at-100-earle-brown-and-morton-feldman/
LOCATION:Icebox Project Space\, 1400 N. American St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pauline Oliveros: The Well and The Gentle
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the Arcana New Music Ensemble performing Pauline Oliveros’ works The Well and The Gentle at the Icebox Project Space. \nWritten between 1982-1983 and commissioned by Philadelphia’s Relâche Ensemble\, The Well and The Gentle  are two of Oliveros’ text based intuitive pieces. Rooted in listening\, the scores consist of written instructions\, scales\, and a rhythmic motif. \nPROGRAM \nOliveros: The Well (1982) \nOliveros: The Gentle (1983) \nARCANA NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE \nNicholas Handahl – flute\nNoa Even – tenor saxophone\nMelinda Rice – violin\nCarlos Santiago – violin\nAlyssa Almeida – cello\nAnne Ishii – percussion\nAndy Thierauf – percussion \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \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. \nPauline Oliveros’ (1932-2016) life as a composer\, performer and humanitarian was about opening her own and others’ sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Her career spanned fifty years of boundary dissolving music making. In the ’50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers\, artists\, poets gathered together in San Francisco. In the 1960’s she influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation\, meditation\, electronic music\, myth and ritual. \nShe was the recipient of four Honorary Doctorates and among her many recent awards were the William Schuman Award for Lifetime Achievement\, Columbia University\, New York\, NY\,The Giga-Hertz-Award for Lifetime Achievement in Electronic Music from ZKM\, Center for Art and Media\, Karlsruhe\, Germany and The John Cage award from from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts. \nOliveros was Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute\, Troy\, NY\, and Darius Milhaud Artist-in-Residence at Mills College. She founded “Deep Listening®\,” which came from her childhood fascination with sounds and from her works in concert music with composition\, improvisation and electro-acoustics. She described Deep Listening as a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life\, of nature\, of one’s own thoughts as well as musical sounds. \n“Deep Listening is my life practice\,” Oliveros explained\, simply. Oliveros founded Deep Listening Institute\, formerly Pauline Oliveros Foundation\, now the Center For Deep Listening at Rensselaer\, Troy\, NY. Her creative work is currently disseminated through The Pauline Oliveros Trust and the Ministry of Maåt\, Inc. \n\n \nFrom The Relache Chronicles Podcast\nEpisode Number Three – Pauline Oliveros “The Well”\nA discussion of the origins of the “The Well” and “The Gentle” with Joseph Franklin\, Joe Kasinskas\, and others. \n\nLISTEN TO THE EPISODE HERE \nTHE RELACHE CHRONICLES is a podcast about musicians residing in what we call “the Margins of American Music.” In these 30-to-45-minute episodes\, we’ll play recordings – primarily by The Relache Ensemble from Philadelphia – of complete musical works plus commentary by composers\, performers\, and others with insight to the music. Throughout the podcast\, we’ll discuss the guest composers’ processes\, how they utilized current and past technologies and how the acoustical properties of a given space informed the creation and performance of a musical work. Finally\, we will discuss how the composers’ relationship with the musicians brought the music to life. Episodes feature music by John Cage\, Robert Ashley\, Joe Kasinskas\, Pauline Oliveros\, Guy Klucevsek\, Eve Beglarian\, Fred Ho\, Phill Niblock\, Romulus Franceschini\, Bill Duckworth\, Lois v Vierk\, and an overview of the New Music America Festival 1987 – Philadelphia\, and the expansive residency/performance project named Music in Motion. THE RELACHE CHRONICLES is produced\, directed\, and edited\, by Arthur Stidfole with Joseph Franklin\, Joe Kasinskas\, and Arthur Sabatini. Throughout their careers\, they have been performing musicians\, composers\, executive and artistic directors\, university teachers\, radio hosts and authors\, dedicated to the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. \n\nSupport for this program provided by the Penn Treaty Special Services District
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/pauline-oliveros-the-well-and-the-gentle/
LOCATION:Icebox Project Space\, 1400 N. American St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States
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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
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