BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//BOWERBIRD ::: MUSIC, DANCE, FILM ::: Philadelphia, PA - ECPv6.15.17.1//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:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20211108T153930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220504T011419Z UID:10001134-1650582000-1650585540@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Bismuth Quartet DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. The Bismuth Quartet will perform from their homes in Philadelphia. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 45 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \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\, Gabe Miller – violins \nVeronica Jurkiewicz – viola \nCarolina Diazgranados – cello URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/bismuth-quartet-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Bowerbird-Main-Img-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220410T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220410T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20211110T215352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T141324Z UID:10001135-1649631600-1649635140@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Sarah Hennies DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Composer and performer Sarah Hennies will perform from her home in New York. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 45 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nSarah Hennies is a composer based in upstate New York whose work is concerned with a variety of musical\, sociopolitical\, and psychological issues including queer & trans identity\, love\, intimacy\, psychoacoustics\, and percussion. She is primarily a composer of acoustic chamber music\, but is also active in improvisation\, film\, and performance art. She presents her work internationally as both a composer and percussionist with notable performances at MoMA PS1 (NYC)\, Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles)\, Le Guess Who (Utrecht)\, Festival Cable (Nantes)\, send + receive (Winnipeg)\, O’ Art Space (Milan)\, Cafe Oto (London)\, ALICE (Copenhagen)\, and the Edition Festival (Stockholm). As a composer\, she has received commissions across a wide array of performers and ensembles including Bearthoven\, Bent Duo\, Cristian Alvear\, Claire Chase\, R. Andrew Lee\, Talea Ensemble\, Thin Edge New Music Collective\, Two-Way Street\, Nate Wooley\, and Yarn/Wire. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sarah-hennies-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/SarahHennies.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220324T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220324T233000 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20211112T151220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220410T161651Z UID:10001136-1648162800-1648164600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Elizabeth Steiner DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, an ongoing series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Harpist Elizabeth Steiner will perform from her home in Philadelphia. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nElizabeth Steiner enjoys a busy schedule as a freelance harpist in the Philadelphia area. An accomplished orchestral harpist\, Elizabeth has most recently performed as principal harp with the Baltimore Symphony\, the Philly Pops\, Delaware Symphony\, Orchestra 2001\, and second harp with the Sarasota Orchestra\, among others. Elizabeth currently performs in the all-female identifying\, mostly BIPOC ensemble the Broadway Sinfonietta\, which served as the orchestra for the musical Ratatousical\, which raised over 2 million dollars for the Actors Fund and was watched by an audience of over 350\,000. Further recent projects include an appearance in the designer Tia Adeola’s film ‘Le Noir Est Beau’ which premiered on Vogue.com in December 2020. Innovative and comfortable across genres\, Ms. Steiner has performed with a wide variety of artists such as Moses Sumney\, Leslie Odom Jr.\, and Josh Groban. She holds a Master’s of Music in Harp Performance from Temple University where she was awarded a scholarship to study with Elizabeth Hainen\, and a Bachelor’s of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a scholarship student under Yolanda Kondonassis. Elizabeth was awarded an inaugural Sphinx Organization LEAD Fellowship (Leaders in Excellence\, Arts\, and Diversity) for 2019 – 2020 and is currently a Fitler Club Fellow for 2020 – 2021. A passionate advocate for equitable access to quality harp education\, she serves as a Teaching Artist for the Lyra Society at the Philadelphia High School for Girls\, a non-profit that provides weekly free harp lessons to 30 students in Philadelphia. \n  URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/elizabeth-steiner/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Elizabeth-Steiner-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220313T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220313T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20211101T174041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T032347Z UID:10001130-1647212400-1647215940@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Bhob Rainey DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, an ongoing series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Musician Bhob Rainey will perform from his home in Philadelphia. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nBhob Rainey works with sound\, both acoustically and electronically. He\, like a lot of people\, is interested in quite a few things\, but he is especially invested in matters relating to consciousness – its possibilities\, limitations\, absurdities\, threats and futures – how to “think” climate change\, how to “think” the nonhuman stuff that makes us. As a result\, ideas from philosophy\, technology\, psychology\, and the plain old grind worm their way into his work. Rainey has spent a lot of time in recent years working with theater company New Paradise Laboratories\, and with with choreographer JungWoong Kim creating the site-specific installation / performance\, SaltSoul.  Past collaborations include Nmperign with Greg Kelley and the Boston Sound Collective. \n  URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/bhob-rainey-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Bhob-Rainey.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220227T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220227T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20211103T182837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T175844Z UID:10001133-1646002800-1646006340@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Parker Kitterman DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Organist Parker Kitterman will perform from on the pipe organ at Christ Church Philadelphia. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nParker Kitterman is a keyboardist\, composer\, conductor and collaborative musician. Since 2010 he has served as Director of Music and Organist at Christ Church\, Philadelphia\, where he oversaw the installation and dedication of a splendid new pipe organ\, C.B. Fisk’s Op. 150. As soloist and accompanist\, Parker has performed with a wide range of artists\, including the International Contemporary Ensemble\, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia\, and Singing City Choir. He holds degrees from Duke University\, the Yale School of Music/Institute of Sacred Music\, and the Brussels Conservatory\, where he studied on a Fulbright Fellowship. A recent winner of the King’s Singers New Music Prize for his setting of Malcolm Guite’s poem “The Singing Bowl\,” Kitterman is a composer with wide-ranging interests and influences. His writing is born out of a studied approach to improvisation\, a literary sensitivity\, and an ongoing commitment to providing fresh\, relevant material for musicians and audiences alike. One large-scale work\, Requiem for the Charleston Nine was described as “producing a seamless fabric in which plainchant\, modern classical\, and jazz styles not merely co-exist but come together to proffer a whole greater than the sum of their individual parts.” (Chestnut Hill Local) URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/parker-kitterman-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Bowerbird-Main-Img-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20211103T180216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220214T193604Z UID:10001132-1644534000-1644537540@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Lea Bertucci DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Composer and musician Lea Bertucci will perform from her home in New York. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nLea Bertucci is an artist\, composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her longstanding practice with woodwind instruments\, her work incorporates multichannel speaker arrays\, radical methods of free improvisation and creative misuses of audio technology applied to field recording and sampling/collage techniques. She has performed extensively across the US and Europe with presenters such as The Museum of Modern Art New York\, Blank Forms\, Gagosian Gallery\, Pioneer Works\, The Kitchen\, The Walker Museum\, Tempo Reale in Florence\, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam\, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid\, Sound of Stockholm Festival\, ReWire Festival\, Borderline Festival\, and Unsound Festival Krakow. \n  URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/lea-bertucci-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/LeaBertucci.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220116T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220116T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20211101T175108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220120T185500Z UID:10001131-1642374000-1642377540@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Chaka Benson DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Electronic musician Chaka Benson will perform from his home in Philadelphia. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n \nModular Excursions from Chaka Benson on Vimeo. \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nChaka Benson grew up on a diverse diet of Philly music ranging from Schooly D to Sun Ra.  The Philly streets thrum and echo with improvisation and DIY spirit.  This simple aesthetic informs his music and artistic approach.  He uses modular and video synthesis to execute his take on this vision. His live performances are well known on the local experimental electronic music scene; each having a new patch and an original improvisation. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/chaka-benson-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Chaka-Benson.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211219T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211219T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20211101T170003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211223T174819Z UID:10001129-1639954800-1639958340@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Helena Espvall DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Musician Helena Espvall will perform from her home in Lisbon\, Portugal. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nHelena Espvall started to play electric guitar as a bored teenager in northern Sweden\, and went on to take cello lessons and was never bored again. After having played in rock bands\, a silent movie orchestra\, an Arabian ensemble and being inspired to play free improvised music by a shocking Eugene Chadbourne performance\, she went on to live in the US between 2000-2012\,  where she performed with dancers\, recorded and toured with folk psych band Espers\, sang Swedish traditional songs\, played concerts at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival\, the High Zero Festival of improvised music in Baltimore\, MD\, at the Improvised and Otherwise Festival in Brooklyn\, NY\, at Big Sur experimental festival in California and at Terrastock among others. Espvall has received grants for artist residencies in Mojacar\, Spain\, at CESTA in Tabor\, Czech Republic\, and at Binaural / Nodar\, Portugal\, and she was the recipient of an Individual Arts Award from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has worked with Lukas Ligeti\, Fursaxa\, Damon & Naomi\, Bert Jansch\, Masaki Batoh (Ghost)\, Vashti Bunyan\,  Marissa Nadler\, Pauline Oliveros and many more. Now residing in Lisbon\, she has collaborated with musicians like Norberto Lobo\, Manuel Mota\, Sei Miguel\, and Vitor Rua\, among others. She currently plays with the improv collective Lantana\, that has collaborated with Lula Pena\, and performed at Lisboa Soa Festival in the Estufa Fria\, at the Jazz Ao Centro Festival in Coimbra\, and at Jazz 2020\, Gulbenkian. She is also a member of the band Beautify Junkyards that released an album this year on British label GhostBox.  Espvall has done solo performances at Out.Fest\, ZDB\, Bar Irreal\, Damas and the Panteão\, and invited by Culturgest\, she recently created a solo piece for acoustic guitar\, as a part of the project Abrindo o Livro dos Sons\, a tribute to German composer Hans Otte. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/helena-espvall/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Helena_Espvall.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211128T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211128T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20201223T042332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211202T222755Z UID:10001116-1638140400-1638143940@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Tatsuya Nakatani DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani will perform multiple bowed gongs from the desert near his home in New Mexico. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 45 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nTatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist\, composer\, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990’s; Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively\, performing over 150 concerts a year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project\, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. With his activity in the new music\, improvisation and experimental music scenes\, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration. He teaches master classes and lectures at universities and music conservatories around the world. Originally from Japan\, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences\, New Mexico. Nakatani creates his distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong\, supported by an array of drums\, cymbals\, and singing bowls. In consort with his hand carved Kobo Bows\, it is an instrument he has spent decades developing. Nakatani approaches his orchestral project (NGO) as an arrangement of formations of vibrations\, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work\, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing\, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/tatsuya-nakatani-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/TatsuyaNakatani_LiminalStates.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210916T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210916T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20210524T153724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211111T210949Z UID:10001124-1631833200-1631836740@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Birdie Busch DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, an ongoing series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Musician and artist Birdie Busch will perform from her home in Philadelphia. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nPhiladelphia musician and artist Birdie Busch joins other co-conspirators that seek to make great music\, inspire people\, and see what happens. Critics from American Songwriter to Village Voice have found her of kindred spirit from everyone from Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett to American Gothic writer Eudora Welty\, and seem to just keep referring to what she does as her own thing and appreciating that strange place where it resides. It’s this comfort to contain multitudes that keeps her energized and curious\, putting out music on adventurous independents like Bar/None\, Styles Upon Styles\, and Perpetual Doom. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/birdie-busch-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Birdie_LS.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210906T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210906T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20210524T152414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T164701Z UID:10001123-1630969200-1630972740@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Chris Powell DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Electronic musician Chris Powell will perform from his home in Philadelphia. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nChris Powell (aka Pow Pow) is a self-taught rhythm scholar\, producer\, and electronic music-maker living in Philadelphia\, PA. As a main contributor in the Philadelphia art and sound collective Need New Body\, which fused improvisation with popular song structures\, Powell began a career of international recording and performance\, creating music at the nexus of art and entertainment. Since 1999\, he has collaborated\, recorded\, and toured worldwide with a diverse spectrum of artists and musicians\, including the Sun Ra Arkestra\, Yoko Ono\, and the Boredoms. Powell’s work in the eclectic and high energy Philadelphia band Man Man has helped focus his talent as a leader in the live performance context. Powell’s body of work has most recently expanded to solo modular synth performances as well as creating instruments with NYC/Philly based synthesizer company Critter & Guitari. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/chris-powell-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Powell_LS.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210822T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210822T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20210519T185046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210904T121808Z UID:10001122-1629673200-1629676740@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:claire rousay DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Sound artist claire rousay will perform from her home in San Antonio. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nclaire rousay is based in San Antonio\, Texas. Her music zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday life — voicemails\, haptics\, environmental recordings\, stopwatches\, whispers and conversations — exploding their significance. rousay has released music on a range of labels\, most notably Astral Spirits\, Second Editions\, Longform Editions and American Dreams\, who in 2021 released a softer focus\, a collaboration with visual artist Dani Toral. rousay’s music has received acclaim from NPR\, which writes that rousay “enchants the ordinary\,” and Pitchfork\, which calls her music “quietly devastating.” rousay has presented music at Audiograft Festival\, Casa Del Lago (CDMX)\, Issue Project Room\, Rewire Festival\, and Salon De Normandy (Paris)\, among many others\, held residencies at Rhizome DC and Elastic Arts Exposure Series\, and performed with musicians such as Ken Vandermark\, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten\, Jacob Wick and Theodore Cale Schafer. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/claire-rousay-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/clairerousey_LS.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210805T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210805T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20210519T183855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210526T164749Z UID:10001121-1628204400-1628207940@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Jupiter Blue DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Jupiter Blue (Tara Middleton and DM Hotep) will perform from their home in Philadelphia. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nFrom the Sun Ra Arkestra’s engine room\, Jupiter Blue’s tone scientists DM Hotep and Jupiter Girl (Tara Middleton) emerge to reveal elements and precepts of another kind of language\, another tomorrow. Their collaboration is interstellar and unique\, granting passage through spacious\, jazz textured sonorties informed by Ra’s ever necessary mission of saving the world. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/jupiter-blue-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/JupiterBlue_LS.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210801T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210801T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20210519T172114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210821T164738Z UID:10001120-1627858800-1627862340@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Shahzad Ismaily DESCRIPTION:*** THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM JULY 25TH TO SUNDAY\, AUGUST 1 AT 11PM. *** \nBowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Musician and composer Shahzad Ismaily will perform from his home in New York. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nShahzad Ismaily was born in the States to Pakistani parents who emigrated here just before his birth. He grew in a bicultural household\, always following a multitude of paths and perusals. He is mostly self-taught as a musician\, composer\, recording engineer\, and producer. He primarily plays electric bass\, drums\, percussion\, guitar\, synthesizers\, and all manner of sound-makers procured in life’s travels. He has recorded and performed with a diverse crew of artMakers\, Yoko Ono\, Laurie Anderson\, Beth Orton\, Colin Stetson\, Ben Frost\, Bonnie Prince Billy\, Damien Rice\, Jolie Holland\, JFDR\, Secret Chiefs 3\, Sam Amidon\, further and further. He has been an integral member of festival/residency/collective experiences such as the People Festival (the brainchild of Bon Iver\, The National\, and the Michelberger)\, the Eau Claires festival\, the Moers Festival. He has done work for dance and theater pieces\, such as the film Frozen River (Oscar-nominated and Sundance award-winning)\, Inkboat (a butoh crew from California/Switzerland)\, and visual artist Laleh Khorramian. This year alone\, he’ll teach in residence at BANFF\, the Oklahoma Center for Contemporary Arts\, the Monheim Triennale\, and very happily\, the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Currently based in Brooklyn and working out of the recording studio collective he founded and created\, Figure 8 Recording\, he has studied music extensively in Pakistan\, India\, Turkey\, Mexico\, Chile\, Japan\, Indonesia\, Morocco\, and Iceland. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/shahzad-ismaily-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ShahzadIsmaily_LS.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210708T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210708T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20210519T171242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210725T163012Z UID:10001119-1625785200-1625788740@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:King Britt DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Performer and composer King Britt will perform from his home in San Diego. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nPew Fellowship recipient\, King James Britt (his real name) is a 30+ year\, producer\, composer and performer in electronic music. His position as Assistant Teaching Professor in Computer Music carries a unique perspective\, bringing a non-linear approach and knowledge to the department by focusing on various modern forms of electronic music pedagogy\, while continuing to be an active force in the music industry. As a composer and producer\, his practice has lead to collaborations with the likes of De La Soul\, Alarm Will Sound Orchestra\, Saul Williams\, director Michael Mann (Miami Vice) and many others\, as well as being called for remixes from an eclectic list of giants\, including\, Meredith Monk\, Solange to Calvin Harris. Most recently collaborating with MacArthur Fellow\, Tyshawn Sorey for an upcoming album project. In his role as performer\, he has travelled globally playing thousands of venues and festivals\, including\, AfroPunk (NYC)\, Berghain (Berlin)\, MoogFest (Durham)\, Le Guess Who Festival (Utrecht) and The Kitchen (NYC). King was also the original DJ for the Grammy Award winning Digable Planets. Blacktronika : Afrofuturism In Electronic Music\, is a new UCSD lecture course\, created by King\, researching and honoring the people of color\, who have pioneered groundbreaking genres within the electronic music landscape. Genres span from Chicago House\, Detroit Techno and Drum & Bass music. Using his position in the industry\, the class has been attended by many\, including Questlove\, Julian Priester and Goldie. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/king-britt-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/KingBritt_LS.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210630T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210630T210000 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20210524T155007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210706T164956Z UID:10001125-1625079600-1625086800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Coming Together DESCRIPTION:AN ARCHIVE OF THIS PROGRAM IS AVAILABLE UNTIL JULY 7\, 2021.  Use the registration/ticket button to get the video url.   \nCONCERT PROGRAM \nRzewski: Shtick (1990) \nAaron Stewart\, saxophone \n\nRzewski: Sixteen Sneakers (2012) \nHannah Nicholas\, viola \n\nRzewski performs Rzewski \nRare archival footage of Frederic Rzewski at the piano \n\nRzewski: Coming Together (1971) *world premiere music video* \nMoor Mother/Camae Ayewa\, performer/speaker\nBob Sweeney\, video artist\nArcana New Music Ensemble\n– Nicholas Handahl\, flute\n– Dominic Panunto\, bassoon\n– Aaron Stewart\, saxophone\n– Tessa Ellis\, trumpet\n– Molly Germer\, violin\n– Erin Busch\, cello\n– David Hughes\, piano\n– Andy Thierauf\, percussion \n\n\nABOUT THE PROGRAM\nBowerbird is pleased to present an online virtual portrait concert of American composer and virtuoso pianist Frederic Rzewski. The concert will feature the world premiere of a new music video of Rzewski’s “Coming Together” made by Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother) and video artist Bob Sweeney. The video was shot this spring on site at Eastern State Penitentiary and features a musical performance by the Arcana New Music Ensemble. The program will include rare archival recordings of Frederick Rzewski performing his own work\, as well as two rarely heard solo works – “Shtick” for solo saxophone and “Sixteen Sneakers” for solo viola. \nFrederic Rzewski’s minimalist masterpiece\, “Coming Together”\, was composed in response to the 1971 uprising at Attica Prison in upstate New York. Scored for narrator and open ensemble\, the work is based on a letter by Sam Melville\, one of the leaders of the Attica riots in which he was killed. The text reads: \nI think the combination of age and the greater coming together is responsible for the speed of the passing time. it’s six months now and i can tell you truthfully few periods in my life have passed so quickly. i am in excellent physical and emotional health. there are doubtless subtle surprises ahead but i feel secure and ready. As lovers will contrast their emotions in times of crisis\, so am i dealing with my environment. in the indifferent brutality\, incessant noise\, the experimental chemistry of food\, the ravings of lost hysterical men\, i can act with clarity and meaning. i am deliberate – sometimes even calculating – seldom employing histrionics except as a test of the reactions of others. i read much\, exercise\, talk to guards and inmates\, feeling for the inevitable direction of my life. \nFrederic Rzewski’s “Shtick” is a solo work for saxophone that contains allusions to folk and popular melodies\, including the Yiddish tune Yidl Mit’n Fidl (Yiddle with his Fiddle).  Also on the program is a “Sixteen Sneakers”\, a playful work for solo viola (or a small group of violas)\, that Rzewski composed for his daughter Esther. \n\nSupport for this project has been provided by the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia. Special thanks to Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/coming-together/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ComingTogether_Main.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210627T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210627T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20210519T165922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210630T191836Z UID:10001118-1624834800-1624838340@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Loren Connors DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Guitarist Loren Connors will perform from his home in New York. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nLoren Connors has improvised and composed original guitar music for over four decades. His music embraces the underlying aesthetics of blues\, Irish airs\, blues-based rock and other genres while letting go of rigid forms. He names abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko as his most important influence. Connors has performed solo and with many veterans of independent music such as Alan Licht\, Thurston Moore\, Daniel Carter\, Kim Gordon\, Samara Lubelski\, Jandek and Keiji Haino. Connors has collaborated over the years with vocalist Suzanne Langille\, including in an avant blues band called Haunted House with guitarist Andrew Burnes and percussionist Neel Murgai. His recordings have been released on Family Vineyard\, Recital\, Northern Spy\, Drag City\, and other labels. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/loren-connors-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/LorenConnors_LiminalStates.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210506T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210506T224500 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20201223T043406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210526T152305Z UID:10001117-1620338400-1620341100@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Variant 6 DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Over the course of the past four months\, members of Variant 6 developed pieces that can be performed from different cities over zoom\, inspired by the strange thoughts that drift through your mind while you’re falling asleep. Texts include a series of increasing numbers (counting sheep?)\, books that we happen to have on hand\, and tweets generated by an exoplanet bot. Variant 6 will perform separately (and together) from our individual homes in Philadelphia and New York. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 10:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 45 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nVariant 6 is a virtuosic vocal sextet that explores and advances the art of chamber music in the twenty-first century. The ensemble’s work includes concertizing throughout the United States\, commissioning substantial new works\, collaborating closely with other ensembles\, and educating a new generation of singers and composers. Variant 6 believes that the process of compromise achieved from the diversity of opinion and specialty of its six individual artists can create deeply impactful experiences for its audiences\, collaborators\, and students. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/variant-6-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Variant6_LiminalStates.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20201223T014932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210429T144508Z UID:10001111-1616713200-1616716740@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Mary Lattimore DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Harpist Mary Lattimore will perform from her home in California. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 45mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nMary Lattimore is a Los Angeles-based harpist. She experiments with effects through her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand pedal harp\, concocting half-structured improvisations which can include both ambient glitter and unsettling noise. Her first solo record\, the Withdrawing Room\, was released on Desire Path Recordings in 2014. The solo recordings that followed\, At the Dam and Collected Pieces\, were released by Ghostly International. Mary has also recorded synth + harp duo projects with Elysse Thebner Miller (And the Birds Flew Overhead) and Jeff Zeigler (Slant of Light) and has co-written reimagined scores for the 1968 experimental silent film Le Revelateur\, directed by Philippe Garrel (who approved of the project)\, and the Czech New Wave classic Valerie and Her Week of Wonders\, and performed these scores live throughout the US with Jeff Zeigler and the Valerie Project\, respectively. She has contributed and written harp parts for such artists as Kurt Vile\, Thurston Moore\, Sharon Van Etten\, Meg Baird\, Steve Gunn\, the Clientele\, Hop Along\, Jarvis Cocker\, Karen Elson\, Ed Askew and Quilt. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/mary-lattimore-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/MaryLattimore1_LiminalStates.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210225T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210225T224500 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20201223T041219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T144519Z UID:10001115-1614290400-1614293100@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Laura Baird DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Multi instrumentalist Laura Baird will perform from her home in New Jersey. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 10:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 45 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nLaura Baird is a singer\, multi-instrumentalist\, composer\, and recording engineer. She enjoys crossing and blending folk\, pop\, classical\, and electronic genres\, and frequently collaborates with other artists and musicians who work in and between them. Laura has performed and recorded as The Baird Sisters with her sister\, Meg Baird. Their Until You Find Your Green was re-released by Ba Da Bing Records. Laura also recorded guitarist Glenn Jones’ last three albums and is a member of The Ruins of Friendship Orchestra\, who collaborated with David Kessler on his film The Pine Barrens. Most recently\, Laura worked with performance artist Martha McDonald on three original site-specific works: Music for Modernist Shapes at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center; Phosphene Songs at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center; and Phantom Frequencies at Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center. Her first solo folk album\, I Wish I Were a Sparrow\, was released in 2017 by Ba Da Bing Records. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/laura-baird-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Baird3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210214T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210214T230000 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20201223T031750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210216T210553Z UID:10001113-1613340000-1613343600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Laraaji DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Mystic and musician Laraaji will perform live from his home in New York. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 10:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 45 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\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. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/laraaji-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Laraaji_LiminalStates.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210131T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210131T230000 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20201223T034228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210205T183959Z UID:10001114-1612130400-1612134000@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Jeff Zeigler DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Synth musician Jeff Zeigler will perform from his home in Philadelphia. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 10:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 45 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nJeff Zeigler is a Philadelphia-based musician\, engineer and producer\, who\, in addition to playing in harp and synthesizer duo with harpist Mary Lattimore and electronics duo with Dash Lewis (Gardener) plays solo on a mixture of electronics\, treated melodica\, marxophone and percussion. Equal parts hypnotic and abrasive\, he has previously shared the stage with Hans-Joakim Roedelius\, Phil Niblock\, Merzbow\, Blanck Mass and more. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/jeff-zeigler-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/JeffZeigler_LiminalStates.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210120T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210120T235900 DTSTAMP:20260501T100612 CREATED:20201223T030215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210205T184305Z UID:10001112-1611183600-1611187140@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Marilyn Nonken performs Feldman DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Marilyn Nonken will perform Morton Feldman’s “Triadic Memories” from her studio in Manhattan. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 90 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nUpon her 1993 recital debut\, Marilyn Nonken was heralded as “a determined protector of important music” (New York Times). Since then\, she has been recognized as “one of the greatest interpreters of new music” (American Record Guide). Writes Fanfare: “Her voicings are exquisite\, her pedaling throughout is a model to be studied\, and\, when necessary\, her virtuosity is equaled only by the insight and passion with which every piece is imbued.” (2015) Since 2006\, she has been Director of Piano Studies at NYU’s Steinhardt School\, where she is Associate Professor. \nShe has been presented at venues such as Carnegie Hall\, Lincoln Center\, Miller Theatre\, the Guggenheim Museum\, Neue Galerie\, (le) Poisson Rouge\, and Roulette (New York)\, IRCAM\, Reid Hall\, and the Théâtre Bouffe du Nord (Paris)\, the ABC (Melbourne)\, Logos (Ghent)\, Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano (Santiago)\, Chicago Cultural Center and Symphony Center\, Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia)\, Phillips Collection (Washington DC)\, Menil Collection and Rothko Chapel (Houston)\, and conservatories and universities around the world. Festival appearances include Résonances and the Festival d’Automne (Paris)\, Musica Nova (Helsinki)\, Aspects des Musiques d’Aujourd-hui (Caën)\, Rencontres Musicales de Jaugette\, ATEMPO (Caracas)\, New Music Days (Ostrava)\, Musikhøst (Odense)\,When Morty Met John\, Making Music\, Works and Process\, and Composers Now (New York)\, American Sublime (Philadelphia)\, The Festival of New American Music (Sacramento)\, Music on the Edge (Pittsburgh)\, Puerto Piano (San Juan)\, Piano Festival Northwest (Portland)\, NUNC! (Chicago)\, Unruly Music (Milwaukee)\, and the William Kapell International Piano Festival and Competition. Composers who have written for her include Michael Byron\, Richard Carrick\, Victoria Cheah\, Jason Eckardt\, Michael Finnissy\, Michael Kuehn\, Liza Lim\, Tristan Murail\, Arlene Sierra\, Christopher Trapani\, and Nina C. Young. \nA student of David Burge at the Eastman School\, Marilyn Nonken received a Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia University. Her monograph The Spectral Piano (Cambridge University Press\, 2015) was received as “a screaming success …. Few books can boast as much\, and it is gratifying to encounter an international concert performer who can make so engaging a discourse around her core repertoire.” (Bob Gilmore\, Tempo). Identity and Diversity in New Music: The New Complexities ​(Routledge) was published in July 2019. She has written chapters for Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music\, Messiaen Perspectives\, and the forthcoming Messiaen in Context and Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music; served as a guest editor for Contemporary Music Review; and contributed articles to numerous journals. \nA Steinway artist\, Marilyn Nonken has recorded for New World\, Mode\, Lovely Music\, Albany\, Metier\, Divine Art\, Hanging Bell\, Harrison House\, Innova\, CRI\, BMOP Sound\, New Focus\, Kairos\, Tzadik\, and Bridge. Forthcoming recordings include Morton Feldman’s complete works for violoncello and piano\, with Stephen Marotto (Mode). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/marilyn-nonken-performs-feldman-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/MarilynNonkenLiminalStates.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR