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2007

Location & Date

Personnel

Program

 
 
Chelsea Art Museum
Tues, April 17, 8PM
Joan La Barbara - voice
Kenji Bunch - viola
Shelley Burgon - harp/elec
Yves Dharamraj - cello
Cornelius Dufallo - violin
Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec
Stephen Gosling - piano/synth
Ariana Kim - violin
Chris McIntyre - trombone
An Earle Brown Retrospective
FREE with admission to the museum. ($6, $3 Stud./Sen.)

Ne(x)tworks celebrates both the release of Tracer, a new CD/DVD on MODE Records, and the 80th birthday of the revered American composer Earle Brown with a full program of chamber works.The group returns to CAM, where it played its first gig in June 2003.

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The Stone
Sun, June 10, 8 & 10PM

Joan La Barbara - voice
Kenji Bunch - viola
Shelley Burgon - harp/elec
Yves Dharamraj - cello
Cornelius Dufallo - violin
Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec
Stephen Gosling - piano/synth
Ariana Kim - violin
Chris McIntyre - trombone

Ne(x)tworks 2007: At The Stone

8 pm
Ne(x)tworks Composers :Miguel Frasconi & Yves Dharamraj

10 pm
Ne(x)tworks Composers: Shelley Burgon & Ariana Kim

Ne(x)tworks continues its tradition of presenting all first-performance concerts of works from composers within the band.

The Stone
Sun, June 17, 8 & 10PM
Joan La Barbara - voice
Kenji Bunch - viola
Shelley Burgon - harp/elec
Yves Dharamraj - cello
Cornelius Dufallo - violin
Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec
Stephen Gosling - piano/synth
Ariana Kim - violin
Chris McIntyre - trombone

Special guests include:
Jon Gibson - compositions, woodwinds
Anthony Coleman (organ, elec.)
Ne(x)tworks 2007: At The Stone

8 pm
Music of Jon Gibson
Ne(x)tworks presents a full program of works from the 1970's by American music legend Jon Gibson. Pieces on the program include a trio version of Untitled, a version of Song 1 for soprano sax and string quartet, and the strategic score Multiples.

10 pm
Dialogics
Works on the program include recently passed composer and violinist Leroy Jenkins' Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America, an ensemble trance work by Arthur Russell entitled The Singing Tractors, and the group's realization of Julius Eastman's Stay On It.
The Stone
Sun, June 24, 8 & 10PM
Joan La Barbara - voice
Kenji Bunch - viola
Shelley Burgon - harp/elec
Yves Dharamraj - cello
Cornelius Dufallo - violin
Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec
Stephen Gosling - piano/synth
Ariana Kim - violin
Chris McIntyre - trombone
Ne(x)tworks 2007: At The Stone

8 pm
Innerlogics 1
Ne(x)tworks performs two sets of pieces whose organizing principles range from obscured to hermetic, created by methods of irrationality, simplification, hybridity, computer-generatation, etc. The first set includes Iannis Xenakis' virtuoso trombone work Keren, Joan La Barbara's ensemble piece in the shadow and act of the haunting place, and selections from Peter Zummo's Instruments.

10 pm
Innerlogics 2
The second set of Innerlogics features first-performances of new works by Ne(x)tworks Director and violinist Cornelius Dufallo, and the innovative sound artist Michael J. Schumacher.
The Stone
Sun, Oct 7, 8PM, $10
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Joan La Barbara - voice
Cornelius Dufallo - violin
Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec

Debut of the Ne(x)tworks Trio! In addition to improvisations and works by Joan, Neil, and Miguel, the group will play a score by Wadada Leo Smith.
The Kitchen
Wed, Oct 10, 8PM, $10
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Joan La Barbara - voice
Kenji Bunch - viola
Shelley Burgon - harp/elec
Yves Dharamraj - cello
Cornelius Dufallo - violin
Miguel Frasconi - glass/elec
Stephen Gosling - piano/synth
Ariana Kim - violin
Chris McIntyre - trombone
Ne(x)tworks traces the course of graphic scores from the 1960s to the present. This compelling array of works includes a 1961 score by Cornelius Cardew, groundbreaking works from by innovators Wadada Leo Smith and ensemble member Joan La Barbara, and Michael Shcumacher's Isometric Variations, commissioned by Ne(x)works in 2007. These scores will also be exhibited as part of the Kitchen's graphic score exhibition Between Thought and Sound: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music.

Wadada Leo Smith :: In the Diaspora (2005)
Joan La Barbara :: Circular Song (1975)
Joan La Barbara :: in the shadow and act of the haunting place (1995)
Michael Schumacher:: Grid (2007)
Cornelius Cardew :: Octet '61 for Jasper Johns (1961)