THE TANK SPACE FOR PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS

New Music For Guitar and Cello!

After meeting this summer at the Orford Sound Art workshop in Canada, cellist EMILIE GIRARD-CHAREST and guitarist KOBE VAN CAUWENBERGHE decided to join forces and put together an exciting and challenging program of contemporary works for guitar and cello. Not to be missed!

Program:
Helmut Lachenmann, 'Pression'
Brian Ferneyhough, 'Kurze Schatten II' (mvts 2,3 and 5)
José Maria Sanchez-Verdu, 'Nada'
André Hamel, 'Interférence sur le Crin'
Simon Steen-Andersen, 'In-Side-Out-side-In'

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Cellist Emilie Girard-Charest stands out for her eclecticism. She is as involved with traditional classical music as she is with contemporary repertoires and interdisciplinary projects. She has been able to work with artists of every stripe, for example, with choreographer Andrew Tay, as well as the Instant, Éponyme and Émergence theatre companies, interdisciplinary artist Vicky Tansey, and publishers Poètes de Brousse. With flautist Yuki Isami and harpsichordist Jean-Willy Kunz, in 2004 she founded the Allogène ensemble, a group with varying forces dedicated to mainly Baroque and contemporary music, as well as improvisation. Girard-Charest is continuing her education at the Montreal Conservatory under the supervision of Denis Brott.

Kobe Van Cauwenberghe (Antwerp, Belgium) started his guitar studies at the conservatory of Antwerp and recieved his master degree at the conservatory of Ghent where he studied with Tom Pauwels. He currently lives in New York City, persuing a masterdegree in contemporary music performance at the Manhattan School of Music. He performed both in Europe and the US, as solist and in several chambermusic formations and ensembles such as Champ d’Action, Nadar, ZWERM, International Ensemble Modern Academy, Either/Or Ensemble, Signal, Callithumpian Consort, a.o. He has worked with such composers as Vinko Globokar, Richard Barrett, Chaya Czernowin and Brian Ferneyhough. Mr. Van Cauwenberghe is winner of the 2008 Fuchs chamber music competition and a fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation.

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$5 student tickets

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On PURIM, it's a Mitzvah to get drunk. On ST. PAT'S, you're an outcast if you're sober. Two cultures, united in inebriation. For one day, everyone's JewIrish.

Celebrate these two great traditions of two immigrant groups that made America great as they collide in one very American tradition. Participatory, punchy and playful. With live music, karaoke, comedy, tricks, acts, delights, snacks & the story of Purim...of course.

Leprechaun: $5
Blarney Stone: $10, 2 drinks
Queen Esther: $25, DRINK ALL NIGHT
St. Purim Superstar: $50, drink all night + Tank membership

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LINE UP:

8pm Comedy
Comedians KATIE HALPER and HARRY TERJANIAN MC the Megillah -- the story of the Book of Esther.

9pm
DEATH MASK
http://www.myspace.com/deathmask

10:30pm
RUSSELL PATRICK BROWN
http://www.russellpatrickbrown.com
Lady Gaga meets Irish step-dance performance with song and harp. Yes, you read that right.

Karaoke Ever-After.
Special thanks to KARAOKE CHAMP for their generous donation! We couldn't make fools of ourselves without you! http://www.karaokechamp.com

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Look for more details at http://www.stpurimsday.com.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=369236731281&ref=mf

http://www.facebook.com/mysummermusic
http://www.myspace.com/mysummer

Four famous arias which address the theme of love in different stages, coupled with dramatized scenes in Gothic flair.

LUSTFUL LOVE in Don Giovanni

PURE LOVE in La Boheme

SACRIFICIAL LOVE in La Traviata

UNREQUITED LOVE in Andre Chenier

This playful surreal look at opera will give the younger generation a chance to see classical music in a venue to which they would not ordinarily be exposed.

LOVE THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS makes opera hip.

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ANGELO GALLO has been singing opera professionally around the world for forty years, working with such greats as Delia Rigal, Tito Schipa’s protégé, Mario Rossi, and Lina Pagliughi’s, Helen Greco.

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Produced by:

VOICES FROM THE FIVE (sponsored by The Field)

http://www.bronxvoices.org

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Amelia Lukas, flute
Sarah Schram, oboe
Heather Thon, clarinet
Laura Vincent, bassoon
Jacquelyn Adams, horn

THE AEROS QUINTET, an imaginative and dynamic all female wind quintet, performs a wide range of chamber music including classical, contemporary, jazz-inspired and music from around the world. Formed in 2005 at the Manhattan School of Music, the quintet combines expert musicianship with intelligence and a keen sense of humor to delight and inspire their audiences.

This program will include works by Ligeti, Maslanka, Berio and Tower.

$5 student tickets

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The EEME will present multimedia electro acoustic works and improvised music by Izzi Ramkissoon and guest composer Eric Lyon.

The EEME Workshop, under artistic direction of composer and bandleader Izzi Ramkissoon, is comprised of a flexible group of musicians including strings, woodwinds, percussion, electronics, visual artist, and composers dedicated to developing multi-media, electro-acoustic, improvisatory works using experimental and extended techniques. Through innovative programming, inter-disciplinary collaborations and performances in non-traditional venues EEME brings new experimental music to new audiences.

Izzi Ramkissoon is an award-winning electronic multimedia composer, performer, and sound artist. His laptop and bass are the control center of his sound. As a composer his multimedia composition Sub-ter-ain Frequencies 5.1 won the prestigious 2007 Look & Listen Festival Composition Prize (NYC). A New York City native, Izzi plays the electric, acoustic double bass, synthesizer and laptop in multiple ensembles in the Tri-State area. He leads his own multimedia ensembles CrackCodez (2007) and The Electric Eel Multimedia Ensemble (2009) in NYC and collaborates as a composer/performer with the new music experimental group Kingdom of Jones and DJ Udachi in live sets.

Izzi Ramkissoon and His Electric Eel Multimedia Ensemble:

Turntable - Marcel Blum
Flute - Sarah Carrier
Clarinet - Dan Padmos
Clarinet - Zara Acosta
Cello - Eric Cooper
Viola- Pedro Vizzarro Vallejos
Guitar - Amar Lal
Percussion - Jerrold Kavanagh
Percussion - Corey Bracken
Upright Bass - Sean Ormiston
Visuals - Alain Alfaro
Photography - Mike Shane
Electric Bass and laptop - Izzi Ramkissoon

http://www.vimeo.com/izziramkissoon/videos

Four great bands have assembled to rock for one purpose, and that purpose is this talented goofy looking mother-fucker in the picture you're looking at:

Edward A. Herrera.

A visionary filmmaker at SVA. A ray of hope. A master. A man with trendy glasses. The man you want your daughter to take home, he's Ed!

And he needs your money, honey. Ed is raising funds for his thesis film, and that's where we all come in!

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8:00pm NEUTRA takes the stage and with the heavy handed rock presence and weight of a wholly mammoth.

http://www.myspace.com/neutranewyork
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8:45pm VIVA MAYDAY bring the noise with their socially charged anthems, giving us kids a reason to bounce around besides just bouncin'.

http://www.myspace.com/vivamayday
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9:30pm DATURA is finally back with a solid line-up and are set to echo and reverberate through your very soul as your eyes are magnetically drawn to other dimension projected by Aeres Vistas.

http://www.myspace.com/daturany
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10:15pm SHAPES bring the evening to a close with their original brand of glam-punk and its a safe bet that there will be more people on stage then off by the time these guys are done.

http://www.myspace.com/shapesband
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This show is being FILMED and RECORDED by this wonderful man we are throwing it for. This will be the first HD recording of one of these events, so I want to see costumes, head-dresses, signs, face-paint. Show the world what you are made of! be the most visually interesting crowd in the history of live music!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=306511336234

BOSTON8BIT's Active Knowledge is coming to town to join forces with The Tank, minusbaby and Zen Albatross for a blowout Pulsewave event!

Visual activity will be provided by MIKE GOODMAN for each act.

This is one Pulsewave that you should have already traveled into the future for, and then returned to enjoy it all over again.

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BOSTON8BIT

A collective of Boston chipmusic artists that have been incubating the relatively new scene in their city since Summer of 2009, with the goal of connecting with others all over the country/planet to introduce new ears to the bleeps and glitches of the old digital age.

ACTIVE KNOWLEDGE

http://www.activeknowledgemusic.com
Active Knowledge is the concept of maximizing use of the brain for the mind, instead of as a boring storage medium. Firing notes through an original Nintendo Entertainment System, Active Knowledge (Chris Mahoney) mixes vintage video game sounds with synchronized glitchy, spastic visuals. The idea is unadulterated fun, with a focus on the unadult. Active Knowledge's debut album "Pyramid Neon" and "Time is not Permanent EP" is available to download for free on his website.

minusbaby

http://www.minusbaby.com
Long-time 8bitpeoples member, minusbaby, born Richard Alexander Caraballo in New York City, trades in counterpoint, subtle dissonances and surprises. While it may be impossible to predict exactly what will happen at each performance, one constant can be expected: a forceful, equatorial beat. Each familiar song is given new variation while the center holds it down with a bassy bottom end to make anything bump and bounce that hasn't been tied down, exploding the very meaning of 8-bit orchestration. Since 1999, he has come to prominence in the chip music scene with a foundation in New York City and the 8bitpeoples. He has performed extensively, having been featured in London's DMZ Media Arts Festival, the International Chiptune Resistance, FMEL (Festival de Música Electrónica Latina) in Chicago,Blip Festival 2007, 2008 and 2009, multiple Pulsewave nights and Philadelphia's only monthly chip music event, 8static.

ZEN ALBATROSS

http://www.last.fm/music/
Zen+Albatross Brooklyn-based blogger and chiptune artist Joshua Seth Kopstein performs under the alias Zen Albatross, using homebrew software and ancient spirit magicks to craft introspective elegies and infectious dance beats for the Nintendo Game Boy. It is recommended that his music be heard while aboard a steam-powered airship, but in the event that this setting is somehow unavailable, land-based listening is a perfectly acceptable alternative.

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http://pulsewavenyc.com/

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IMPROVISED STORYTELLING

A sensitive music performance of improvised music, of making music in the moment, and attempting to tell a story of deep importance. All forms of communication will be fused together for this evening. Open your senses to interactive creative processes in action. Witness the debut of The Cochlea Freedom Ensemble.

Kjersti Kveli, voice
Nicole Camacho, flute
Asami Tamura, toy piano, toy koto and melodica
Jude Traxler, percussion and electronics
Brian Questa, double bass
Brian Lindgren, viola and electronics
Bayou Bennet, visual artist

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Based in New York, THE COCHLEA FREEDOM ENSEMBLE is a counterpart of the Kjersti Kveli Group. Dedicated to exploring all the aspects of improvised music, the ensemble will debut on March 25th 2010. Don't miss it!

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$5 student tickets at the door

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KONING'S BLAUW

Between nature's beauty and improvisation is a certain sweetness of sound. KONING'S BLAUW enters those halls briskly with a piano, guitar, voice, saxophone, drums, banjo, autoharp, bells and blocks.

"And shaking the casement shrub, he dislodged the flower, and conspicuously fastened it in his bosom:-- 'I must away now, Lucy ; see! under these colors I march.'
'Bravissimo ! oh, my only recruit!'"

http://www.myspace.com/koningsblauw

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LUSTMOLCH

Christopher Hess

Strotter Inst. is generating dense sound- and rhythm structures by using three modified and manipulated Lenco-turntables and various cut or scotched records. The music ranges from a low-fi rumble changing into concrete clicks and scrapes, epic drones and multi-layered broken beats.

Hardly using sounds from LP's the main source of sound are the prepared pick-ups (i.e. sewing needles or strings instead of the diamond or the extended use of rubber bands). The set is adapted for each rooms conditions and depends upon the uncertain behavior of the machines. Each live appearance becomes an acoustic original. Strotter Inst. prefers to play in the middle of the audience. The installation is set up especially for each room.

http://www.strotter.org
http://www.myspace.com/strotterinst

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THE OROOM

Join the live studio audience for the dress-rehearsal for the pilot episode of "the Oroom", a new reality series based on the ultra-popular Hell's Kitchen restaurant/nightclub!

Music by PAS (Post Abortion Stress)
Visuals by Big Brother on Acid

Directed by Mark Nolan Blackman

This exclusive event is sure to be an instant classic! Come see what all the hot buzz is about. Reserve your spot now!

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Composer WHITNEY GEORGE brings her exciting one-act opera THE YELLOW WALLPAPER to stage with a large chamber ensemble of rising NYC performers. Based on the proto-feminist short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, THE YELLOW WALLPAPER tells the story of a woman’s descent to madness through her obsession with a wallpaper and an oppressive husband. George’s setting mirrors the conflict between the man and woman by employing a divided chamber ensemble with an extraordinary palette of tone colors, musical styles and composition techniques.

"The Yellow Wallpaper is a strange and thrilling work. The music is elegant, and simultaneously engages and surprises the listener, in every way heightening the already quite eerie text." - Ursula Oppens, pianist

George’s panache for eclectic mixed ensembles is evident in the unusual instrumentation supporting a single female singer and single male actor. Using flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, bass, celeste, harpsichord, vibraphone, crotales and percussion, George creates an infinite myriad of textures. The result is a truly unique piece of contemporary music that harkens back to her influences- who include Bartok, John Corigliano and Danny Elfman- while pushing bravely forward.

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$5 student tickets at the door

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Performance or scientific experiment? Australian-born artist ALEX CARPENTER's new invention, the LIVE VIDEO DELAY SYSTEM, employs chains of cameras, projectors and lens filters to assist in the creation of living light-cell organisms!

The system allows Alex to build layers of live laser "drawings," coaxing remarkably organic visual forms and patterns onto the screen, while musician JAMES ROSS contributes audio activity in a symbiotic interchange.

http://transparentmeans.net/

David Bowlin and Jennifer Curtis, violins

Trio KAVAK is Amelia Lukas (flute), Victor Lowrie (viola) and Kathryn Andrews (harp). An instrumental ensemble established by Debussy’s masterpiece sonata, KAVAK explores the contemporary repertoire and new sound possibilities for this highly evocative combination. Comprised of three adventurous and admired young New York talents, KAVAK brings together highly refined chamber music performance with a feeling of modern immediacy and relevance.

Although Amelia and Victor have been performing chamber music together for over five years, this concert, featuring works by Kaija Saariaho, Toru Takemitsu, Victor Lowrie, Paul Williams and Virgilio Mortari, will be KAVAK’s debut performance.

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$5 students

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New York City based New Music Ensemble Lunatics at Large presents Light/Dark, a selection of contrasting works for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin and cello by composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The program includes Copland’s As it Fell Upon a Day (1923); Schnittke’s Stille Musik (1979); Davidovsky’s Romancero (1983): Perle’s Sonata a Quattro (1982) and André Brégégere’s Vol de nuit (2007) which is inspired by Perle’s work and dedicated to him; and Samuel Vriezen’s Sept germes cristallins (2008) which Lunatics at Large premiered on October 30th 2009 in New York City.

$5 student tickets

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