Yesterday @ First Monthly Music Hackathon NYC

http://monthlymusichackathon.org/

North Road Trip

Tomorrow starting my Road Trip North visiting Alvin Lucier, David Feldman, Christian Wolff, Larry Polansky and Mary Jane Leach...

Monthly Music Hackathon NYC

Announcing Monthly Music Hackathon NYC!

Monthly Music Hackathon NYC is a monthly, all-day event for musicians, programmers, composers, and engineers to collaboratively or independently come up with new music-related project ideas, spend all day making them, and perform or present them to each other and a small audience.

We’re going to try to have one the last Saturday of each month.  The first one is scheduled as follows:

Saturday, July 28th, 2012
10 AM hacking begins
8 PM concert/presentation of projects

199 Lafayette St, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10012

FREE!
But space is limited, so please RSVP

Musicians in Residence at Monthly Music Hackathon NYC, July 2012

Didier Aschour

Didier Aschour is an experimental guitarist and composer from France.  He’s in NYC for the summer on a grant from the French Institute working with American composers Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, and others.  His performances — both solo and with his acclaimed ensemeble Dedalus — of the music of Tom Johnson (http://ex.fm/song/ho1xf), Harry Partch, James Tenney, and Michael Pisaro are widely praised.  He’ll be available to collaborate with you on music for electric guitar, and will perform a piece or two from his repertoire.

Joe Drew

Joe Drew is a fantastic trumpet player, keyboardist, composer, and Stockhausen scholar based in NYC.  His 9, 12, and 24 hour performances of John Cage’s ASLSP (http://ex.fm/song/1949k) are legendary.  He’ll be available to collaborate with you on music for trumpet, and may perform something if we’re lucky.http://monthlymusichackathon.org/

Lois V Vierk

With Lois V Vierk in Chinatown!
http://loisvvierk.com

E#, Devin Maxwell, Quentin Tolimieri and David Lang

On Thursday went to listen to Elliot Sharp in a tipical Brooklyn improv gig.
On Friday meeting with Devin Maxwell, fine composer who run a great space and recording studio in Williamsburg.
On Saturday meeting with Quentin Tolimieri (another former student of Michael Pisaro) with whom had a nice talk. In the evening went to a concert to listen to David Lang's Darker for string orchestra (River to River Festival).

Pauline Oliveros

Nice afternoon yesterday with Pauline Oliveros @ Kingston.

Pauline speaking about open form&instrumentation music:

Pauline Oliveros Interview

Johnny Reinhard

Had lunch today with Johnny Reinhard, bassoonist, composer and director of the American Festival of Microtonal Music (since 1981)

http://www.afmm.org/

Jon Catler

Looking forward to meeting Jon Catler tonight!
Microtonal guitarist and member of the Forever Bad Blues Band with La Monte Young...

Morton Subotnick @ River to River Festival

Went yesterday to Morton Subotnick's concert @ Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts. 
Dicovered Richard Lainhart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lainhart), a piece of him was played during the first part.
The 2 pieces were played with a Buchla modular synth (http://www.buchla.com/series200e.html).

Flux Quartet @ Bargemusic

Hier soir assisté à un concert du Flux Quartet à Bargemusic dans un programme consacré à la New York School. Lieu idéal pour un très bon concert. Pendant toute la première partie, la skyline derrière la scène s'est peu à peu illuminée à mesure que le jour tombait... 

Here and Now Series

John Cage “Centennial Celebration” (Part I)

John Cage Four (1989)

Speech, for 5 Radios and Newsreader (1955)

Earl Brown String Quartet (1965)

Morton Feldman Three Pieces for String Quartet (1956)

Christian Wolff Lines (1972)

Flux Quartet

Tom Chiu, violin

Conrad Harris, violin

Max Mandel, viola

Felix Fan, cello

with

Thomas Buckner, newsreader

Mark Peskanov, guest radio operator

Earle Brown Music Foundation

NYC intra muros#1

Tomorrow @ Earle Brown Music Foundation in Rye