music & multimedia

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For contemporay classical music, contact newmusic@thetanknyc.org.

For all other music proposals, email music@thetanknyc.org.


Eavesdropping: Modular Collaborations

Thu, 02/09/2012 - 7:30pm
$10

Modern composer and curator Guy Barash’s new music series “Eavesdropping” returns to The Tank to present some of today’s most daring performers and surprising composers.

This installment features:

Gill Arno, Patrick Franke, Richard Garet, Wolfgang Gil, Andrew

Lafkas, David Moscovich, Daniel Neumann, Ben Owen, Chris Weinheimer, and others.

The group will explore collaborative strategies of composing and performing sound and visuals based on the idea of modular organization. Pieces are developed in non-hierarchical and decentralized forms where collaborators interact as equals. The modular structure is reflected less on the technical level but primarily on the level of collaborative formulation of ideas and its execution.

http://danielneumann.wordpress.com

All shows to take place at 7:30 pm at the Playroom Theater
 151 West 46th Street, 8th floor

Tickets are $10 at the door / $8 online

Buy tickets for Eavesdropping on Brown Paper Tickets

About Eavesdropping:

For artists, Eavesdropping provides a stage for risk-taking and the exploration of the non-conventional in sound, to present a relevant boundary-breaking artistic work. Shows often include multi-media elements, real time electronic processing, and performance art.

For our audiences, we are committed to presenting innovative repertoire that is relevant and intriguing. Eavesdropping is cross-genres new music series presented to the city’s inquisitive listener. The one that seen it all and heard it all but crave for cultural excitement.

Upcoming Eavesdropping shows in 2012:

3/15 Eavesdropping: Cornelius Dufallo Patrick Derivaz duo & Urban Resonance

4/19 Eavesdropping: Ethnix

5/24 Eavesdropping: Play

Ear Heart Music presents: Trio Kravak

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 7:30pm
$10

Trio Kavak, “The Singing Garden Grew”
Presented by Ear Heart Music as part of the Composers Now Festival

Trio KAVAK explores the contemporary repertoire and new sound possibilities for the
highly evocative combination of flute, viola and harp. The trio is Amelia Lukas (flute),
Victor Lowrie (viola) and Kathryn Andrews (harp). This program features works loosely
related to the theme of contemplation and refinement.

Kaija Saariaho, New Gates,
Sasha Siem, White Dictionary
Claude Debussy, Trio Sonata
Sofia Gubaidulina, Garden of Joy and Sorrow
Victor Lowrie, Untitled

Saariaho’s sensuous New Gates is based on a ballet with no story line. The thematic
material evokes the passing from one state to another through mythological symbolism.
The music moves towards and through gates, showing us new landscapes, and then
continues on towards new gates.

Sasha Siem’s White Dictionary for flute, viola, harp and voice receives its US Premiere
with the composer as vocalist. This smart and quirky collection of imaginary dictionary
entries traces the evolution of a turbulent love affair. The dictionary format is used in a
desperate attempt to impose order and clarity where there is none.

Gubidulina conceived her gorgeous Garden of Joy and Sorrow under the strong
influence of two directly contradictory literary phenomena, in which vivid Eastern color
was counterposed to a typically Western consciousness.

Victor Lowrie’s Untitled is a simple and beautiful piece, emerging from nothing and
fading to nothing, which draws its material from one repeating pattern and musical
gesture.

Rounding out the program is Debussy’s hauntingly beautiful Trio Sonata. A seminal work
written at the end of his life, the Trio Sonata is a perfect manifestation of the master’s
late style and arguably his best composition.

Composers Saariaho, Lowrie, and Siem will be in attendance and may engage in a brief
chat about their pieces during intermission.

www.triokavak.com
www.composers-now.org

Eavesdropping: Cornelius Dufallo Patrick Derivaz duo & Urban Resonance

Thu, 03/15/2012 - 7:30pm
$10

Modern composer and curator Guy Barash’s new music series “Eavesdropping” returns to The Tank to present some of today’s most daring performers and surprising composers.

This installment features:

Cornelius Dufallo Patrick Derivaz duo

http://www.corneliusdufallo.com
http://patrickderivaz.com

Urban Resonance:
music for strings by members of Nodes Contemporary Music Collective Matt Giannotti, Andrew Struck-Marcell, Enrico Arcaro, Conor Brown, and Paul Frucht.

And more coming soon… Stay tuned!

This show takes place at the Playroom Theater 
151 West 46th Street, 8th floor

Tickets are $10 at the door / $8 online

Buy tickets for Eavesdropping at Brown Paper Tickets

About Eavesdropping:

For artists, Eavesdropping provides a stage for risk-taking and the exploration of the non-conventional in sound, to present a relevant boundary-breaking artistic work. Shows often include multi-media elements, real time electronic processing, and performance art.

For our audiences, we are committed to presenting innovative repertoire that is relevant and intriguing. Eavesdropping is cross-genres new music series presented to the city’s inquisitive listener. The one that seen it all and heard it all but crave for cultural excitement.

Upcoming Eavesdropping shows in 2012:

4/19 Eavesdropping: Ethnix

5/24 Eavesdropping: Play

Eavesdropping: Ethnix

Thu, 04/19/2012 - 7:30pm
$10

Modern composer and curator Guy Barash’s new music series “Eavesdropping” returns to The Tank to present some of today’s most daring performers and surprising composers.

This installment features: New music with non-western influences

Edom:
Tzadik radical Jewish band

http://www.myspace.com/edommusic

Miguel Frasconi Guy Barash Duo:
Music for glass instruments and live electronics

http://frasconimusic.com
http://www.guybarash.com

More coming soon…

This show takes place at the Playroom Theater 
151 West 46th Street, 8th floor

Tickets are $10 at the door / $8 online

Buy tickets for Eavesdropping at Brown Paper Tickets

About Eavesdropping:

For artists, Eavesdropping provides a stage for risk-taking and the exploration of the non-conventional in sound, to present a relevant boundary-breaking artistic work. Shows often include multi-media elements, real time electronic processing, and performance art.

For our audiences, we are committed to presenting innovative repertoire that is relevant and intriguing. Eavesdropping is cross-genres new music series presented to the city’s inquisitive listener. The one that seen it all and heard it all but crave for cultural excitement.

Upcoming Eavesdropping shows in 2012:

5/24 Eavesdropping: Play

Narkissos

Fri, 04/27/2012 - 9:30pm
Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:30pm
$10

Narkissos, (Greek: Νάρκισσος, or Narcissus), featuring vocalist Daniel Neer and harpist Alyssa Reit, is a unique theatre piece that combines original music, audio-visual media and inventive staging to explore the multi-layered themes of narcissism and self-entitlement in contemporary America. Directed by Ted Gorodetzky, this 90-minute staged recital for voice and harp investigates the mythological figures of Narcissus, Echo, and Nemesis and explores insightful modern-day interpretations to these fabled archetypes with specific focus on the individuals struggle for identity and success in today’s culture.

Narkissos features seven world premiere compositions by Chandler Carter, Martha Sullivan, Robinson McClellan, Jonathan David, Lauren Bernofsky, and Scott Gendel, with additional music by Eleonor Sandresky, Susan Botti, Jason Robert Taylor and Benjamin Britten. Texts for Narkissos by Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, May Swenson, William Brock, Yusef Komunyakaa, Scott Russell Sanders and Daniel Neer.

Eavesdropping: Play

Thu, 05/24/2012 - 7:30pm
$10

Modern composer and curator Guy Barash’s new music series “Eavesdropping” returns to The Tank to present some of today’s most daring performers and surprising composers.

This installment features: Text, play and game based new music

Ambiguous Kafka:
A musical-stage adaptation of Kafka short texts by Ronnie Reshef

Violin: Brendan Speltz, Clarinet: Ben Ringer, Baritone: Seth Gilman, Tuba: Ethan Morrison

http://www.ronniereshef.com

Guy Barash-Eyal Maoz-Frank London Trio with a special guest - spoken word artist Jake Marmer.

http://www.franklondon.com
http://www.eyalmaozmusic.com
http://www.guybarash.com
http://jakemarmer.wordpress.com

And more!

This show takes place at the Playroom Theater
 151 West 46th Street, 8th floor

Tickets are $10 at the door / $8 online

Buy tickets for Eavesdropping on Brown Paper Tickets

About Eavesdropping:

For artists, Eavesdropping provides a stage for risk-taking and the exploration of the non-conventional in sound, to present a relevant boundary-breaking artistic work. Shows often include multi-media elements, real time electronic processing, and performance art.

For our audiences, we are committed to presenting innovative repertoire that is relevant and intriguing. Eavesdropping is cross-genres new music series presented to the city’s inquisitive listener. The one that seen it all and heard it all but crave for cultural excitement.