Upcoming events.
CC presents: WET INK + Guests
Another improv alongside my peers at Columbia. So so exciting to perform my crazy electronics stuff! ^_^
Come and hang!
FREE
Open to the public
DM R // Ledah Finck // Ian Power
My first official show as an electroacoustic improv artist! I’m performing a live electronics set featuring thunder tube galore and TRS cable goodness processed by the Electro-Harmonix Canyon pedal. Ian Power and Ledah Finck are joining me for an evening of experimental sound. (☆▽☆)
$17.85, too—don’t miss it! Possibly cash at the door if you don't wanna pay the $2.85 Eventbrite fee. (Limited Seating)
Sputter (PLUGS IN THE) Box
Sputter (PLUGS IN THE) Box is Sputter Box’s first concert with electronics and video projections featuring four world premieres.
This is THE premiere of my piece, Deny. Defend. Depose, written for Sputter Box and Live Electronics, and sponsored by Harvard’s Fromm Music Foundation as part of their 2021 selected commissions.
Drinking Brecht at IDFA Festival
The title of this interactive installation of course refers to the famous Marxist playwright, whose dream was to create a “scientific” theater that would demonstrate for his audience the evils of capitalism, and incite them to revolution.
In Drinking Brecht: An Automated Laboratory Performance, Sister Sylvester explores the politics and potential of this scientific theater in relation to contemporary microbiology, through a hat stolen from the costume collection of Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble. Sylvester traces the possible wearers of the hat using forensic and archival methods, and the audience learns about the first-ever biohacker experiment, creating a documentary in a drink.
Sister Sylvester uses new technologies to make visual essays and installations. IDFA previously featured her performance The Eagle and the Tortoise, which used live music and film to explore the history of the bird’s-eye view, and Our Ark (co-director Deniz Tortum), a short film about attempts to create 3D archives of creatures and other things lost to the climate crisis.
Drinking Brecht: an automated laboratory performance is co-presented with Onassis ONX.
Invisible Revealed: A Tribute to Jill Steinberg
An Excerpt for Drinking Brecht’s Live Version
From National Sawdust:
The evening, hosted by Paola Prestini, builds a live approach to these photographs with a creative team and artists who will bring these photographs from the book to life, again. Featuring lighting design from Bruce Steinberg, and projection design of Jill's photographs by Camilla Tassi, these memories once captured through Jill's eye will be reborn via projected imagery in harmony with special performances - performances will include Sister Sylvester / Kathryn Hamilton, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Delfeayo Marsalis, Brandon Maddox and Kevin Newbury, Rinde Eckert, Magos Herrera, Alicia Hall Moran, Jeffrey Zeigler, and Brooklyn Rider. In addition to the release of this book and the moving tributes from these artists, we will also be celebrating Jill's milestone 75th birthday; making this a night to toast the enduring legacy and creative footprint Jill has bestowed upon us all.
Sister Sylvester: Drinking Brecht
Performance artist and filmmaker (and occasional amateur microbiologist) Sister Sylvester works with new technologies to make cross-species collaborations, essay films, and lecture performances. In Drinking Brecht, she brings her large-scale bio-art performance to Krannert Center audiences. Based on DNA extracted from a hat that was formerly in the costume collection of Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble theatre company, Drinking Brecht is an interactive evening involving DNA extraction, science lectures, and genetically infused cocktails.
Live Soundtracking by Ellery Trafford, DM R (co-created with Jessie Cox)
The “Margaret Mills New Composers Concert”
“Folk elements to the fore – Bartok and his Legacy” Eric Thomas, clarinet; Nicholas Pappone, violin; Candace Chien, piano, with world premieres by DM R and Skip La Plante.
MAXlive 2023: Sister Sylvester's Good Genes
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
CT::SWaM Plasticity Office
Crazing, Yielding, Void, Creature as part of the Plasticity Office.
The CT::SWaM Plasticity Office was a sound installation and temporary spatial sound studio inside Fridman Gallery’s office/showroom, designed by sound engineer/artist Daniel Neumann. The installation-system will feature a rotation of performers who are activating it as a space for events, presentations, workshops, experiments, talks, discussions etc. The recordings of these activations will get integrated into the regular, daytime installation as growing content, which accumulates and changes over the run of the show.
Participating artists: Juan Betancurth, Kayla Cashetta, Seth Cluett, Erik DeLuca, Johann Diedrick, Matt Evans, Richard Garet, Lee Gilboa, Maxi Glenn, Barbara Held, Kenneth Kirschner, C Lavender, Lester St. Louis, Tommy Martinez, Joshue Ott, Bruno Palazzo, Crystal Peñalosa, Anna Roberts-Gevalt, DMR, Rachel Devorah, Michael J. Schumacher, Lauren Tosswill and more.
ON WAITING: works composed and curated by Brittany J. Green
Scholes Street Studio
Brooklyn, NY
Brittany J. Green: New Work (2023) * premiere
Brittany J. Green: R_upture (2021)
Brittany J. Green: shift.unravel.BREAK (2022)
DM R: Anatomical Venus (2017)
Anthony R. Green: Hush of Nightfall
yaz lancaster: intagible landscapes (2020)
Julius Eastman: Stay On It (1973)
Plug In, Turn Up
"If the forest scorches, let it burn. The stumps, the weeds themselves, will sprout again." - Etelvina Maldonado
Performers: Aurora Nealand, Melinda Faylor, Melody Feo, Lucie Vitkova
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Aaron Edgcomb: L'amour: La Mort
Jennifer Grossman: Meridian
Ivy Alexander: Pacha
Ben Richter: P A N T H A L A S S A (Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean)
DM R: Let It Burn (MATA Festival 2023 Commission World Premiere)
Alexander Noice: Ambit
Corie Rose Soumah: SPINNING, TOUCHED, UNDREAMT; SNOW-
TAK's Swoonfest Day 1
Come celebrate TAK's tenth birthday with two nights of music by some of our favorite artists who have dazzled and inspired us this decade of music-making and friendship.
We can't wait to throw down with y'all and celebrate this milestone with *you*, who has made this wild dream possible in the first place!
7PM • PHONG TRAN
8PM • CHRIS RYAN WILLIAMS
9PM • TAK ENSEMBLE
playing works by DM R*, Eric Wubbels, and Tyshawn Sorey
*special preview performance featuring Joy Guidry
The Onassis Foundation and National Sawdust present Hildegard Sonic Installation at Rockefeller Center
The cornerstone of National Sawdust's mentorship program, the Hildegard Commission is its program for emerging composers who are women or of other traditionally marginalized genders. This year's cohort of composers -- Andrea Guterres, Hannah Ishizaki, Yaz Lancaster, DM R, Kelley Sheehan and Foteini Tryferopoulou -- were given the works of the poet C.P. Cavafy to use as a source of inspiration for their commissions, and the resulting works will be available as a sonic installation for the month of April in a rink-level public space of Rockefeller Center. The soundscape features recordings of the new works by the National Sawdust Ensemble.
This installation is part of the “Archive of Desire” festival by the Onassis Foundation. "Archive of Desire" is curated by composer Paola Prestini, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of National Sawdust, and under the creative direction of Afroditi Panagiotakou, Onassis Foundation’s Director of Culture.
Hildegard Commission Concert
Join us in celebration of the winners of this year’s Hildegard Commission, National Sawdust’s mentorship initiative that highlights outstanding women and other marginalized genders in the early stages of their careers. Five commissioned composers—DM R, Andrea Guterres, Hannah Ishizaki, Yaz Lancaster, and Kelley Sheehan—will present world premieres inspired by the poetry of the Greek poet Cavafy. These sound art-focused pieces will be performed by the National Sawdust Ensemble led by cellist Jeffrey Zeigler. After the concert, the pieces will be placed in a yet-to-be-announced, site-specific installation in collaboration with the Onassis Foundation.