Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
This post is a first in a series examining each night of the 2012 Avant Music Festival through program notes, thoughts, video, sound, &c.
Festival Opening – Friday February 10th, 2012 – 8PM
- The Wild Project – 195 East 3rd Street
Tickets On Sale Now – $12($8 students) discounted online presale
there are no fees for buying tickets online, tickets at the door will be $15($10)
The third annual Avant Music Festival opens with Festival curator Randy Gibson’s immersive Circular Trance Surrounding The Second Pillar with The Highest Seventh Primal Cirrus, The Utmost Fundamental, and The Ekmeles Ending from Apparitions Of The Four Pillars. Commissioned and performed by Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble, the work features sine waves, lighting design by Kryssy Wright, and video by Oscar Henriquez, and reflects Gibson’s studies with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela.
Gibson will be the guest on Friday February 10th before the Avant-Premiere of this work for Olivia Giovetti’s The New Canon on WQXR at 1PM
Click Through for video of the World Premiere and the Composer’s Program Notes »
Tags: AMF2012, Avant Music Festival, Circular Trance, Ekmeles, La Monte Young, Raga, Randy Gibson
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
Tonight is an epic performance of Terry Riley’s In C at Carnegie Hall.
In C – 45th Anniversary Performance
53 thoughts on In C
The Kronos Quartet has assembled an absolutely amazing collection of performers including Mashkoor Ali Khan, Michael Harrison, Margaret Leng Tan, and So Percussion. This should prove to be an absolutely amazing concert. (more…)
Tags: 2009, Art, Artists, Carnegie Hall, Composition, Concerts, Friday, Kronos Quartet, La Monte Young, Links, Margaret Leng Tan, Michael Harrison, Minimalism, Music, Terry Riley
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
I learned to mix drinks about 9 years ago or so. I’ve been cooking as long as I can remember. I have just ordered a large quantity of esoteric herbs and barks to make this bitters recipe from a bar in San Francisco.
I’ve always loved food and cooking, and mixing drinks is a natural extension of this. I think that a lot of composers are like this. There is a strong similarity between what we do as composers, and what a chef does, or a mixologist. It’s all about finding that perfect balance of flavors or notes that creates something special. (more…)
Tags: 2009, Alchemy, Art, Bitters, Charlemagne Palestine, Cocktail, Composers, Drone, Flavors, Food, La Monte Young, Mixology, Music, San Francisco
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
The Third Mind is on view starting today at The Guggenheim
I attended the opening of this show last night, and it is truly spectacular, and there is a strong musical presence as well, from La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela’s Dream House to scores from the FLUXUS era, to a huge presence of works surrounding John Cage. The inimitable Margaret Leng Tan has done the audio tour and I’m very excited to go back and listen.
There are also a ton of performances and lectures set for the 3 months or so it is open.
Third Mind Performances and Lectures
There is so much amazing art on view during this exhibit that we were literally running at the end of the night to see a full room installation on the top floor that is not to be missed.
Tags: 2009, Art, Asia, Dream House, Fluxus, Friday, Guggenheim, Installation, John Cage, La Monte Young, Links, Margaret Leng Tan, Marian Zazeela, Music, Performances, Room, Running
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
In just over two weeks we will be premiering the new version of Anger at the third annual ISIM Festival in Denver Colorado. This is a major new version of the work, now being called Doleo Æternus. We’re very excited to be going back to our home-town (of sorts) and peforming this piece there. The staff of the ISIM has been extremely helpful, and the soloist: Mike Rugnetta, Amali Premawardhana and Myself; will be joined by members of the University of Denver Playground Ensemble.
The program at ISIM is very large, and as such has only a small space for program notes. My full description of the piece is after the jump. Jump »
Tags: 2008, Ana Baer-Carrillo, Anger, Art, Avant Media, Denver, Doleo Aeternus, Doleo Eternus, Doleo Æternus, Drone, Drones, Flickr, ISIM, Just Intonation, La Monte Young, Live Music, Live Performance, Marian Zazeela, Mike Rugnetta, Music, Musicians, Performance Tradition, Performances, Playground, Raga, Randy Gibson, SoHo, Soloists, Tribute, Tuning, University Of Denver, Video, Video Projections
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
In honor of the 50th anniversary of minimalism as marked by the composition of the “Trio for Strings” by La Monte Young.
MELA Foundation
the online home of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela
Dream House Open Saturday September 20, 2008
the amazing ongoing installation in TriBeCa by Young and Zazeela open Thursday-Saturday
Interview
Frank Oteri’s epic interview from 2003
On Pandit Pran Nath
Henry Flynt’s essay on Pandit Pran Nath
Tags: 2008, Art, Composition, Dream House, Friday, Henry Flynt, Installation, La Monte Young, Links, Marian Zazeela, Mela Foundation, Minimalism, Music, New York City, Raga
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
this week’s disparate glorious items:
(I am going to try to make this a regular feature with links to videos/stories/whatever that I find amusing or interesting. enjoy)
Spaghetti Cat
Henry Flynt in New York
The Daily Show’s Obama Bio
Share your own in the comments.
Tags: 2008, BAM, Cats, Comedy, Daily Show, Friday, Henry Flynt, La Monte Young, Links, Obama, Politics, Video, YouTube
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