NEW SOUNDS LIVE

Sorrow: A re-imagining of Górecki’s Third Symphony, by Colin Stetson

The popular New Sounds Live series returns to the Winter Garden this October! Curated by WNYC‘s John Schaefer, New Sounds offers dynamic music from artists, composers, and traditional musicians.

ABOUT COLIN STETSON

Colin Stetson was born and raised in Ann Arbor, spent a decade in San Francisco and Brooklyn honing his formidable talents as a horn player, eventually settling in Montreal in 2007. Over the years he has worked extensively live and in studio with a wide range of bands and musicians including Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, TV On The Radio, Feist, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Bill Laswell, Evan Parker, The Chemical Brothers, Animal Collective, Hamid Drake, LCD Soundsystem, The National, Angelique Kidjo, Fink, and David Gilmore.

October 6, 2017 - October 13, 2017
Installation: Oct. 6-13, Performances: Oct. 11-13
FREE TO ATTEND

Celebrating the release of his second solo album, The Gradual Progression (RVNG), percussionist Greg Fox employs new methods of externalizing his polyrhythmic virtuosity into non-physical realms. The seven pieces of The Gradual Progression activate spiritual states through physical means, Fox’s rigorous inner rhythms the mandalic vessel for unbound expression and arrangement. 

With scenography by Tauba Auerbach, and opening sets by Laura Ortman and Michael Beharie & Teddy Rankin-Parker.

Tickets $20 General / $15 Members

Zia Anger
Eartheater
GDFX
Emel Mathlouthi
Precious Okoyomon
Jennifer Vanilla
Darcie Wilder

with posters by:
Taeyoon Choi

FREE TO ATTEND

This fall at Knockdown Center, artist Azikiwe Mohammed stages a performative installation of his fictional thrift store, Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime. New Davonhaime – a location conceived by Mohammed – is an amalgamation of the names of the five most densely populated Black cities in America: New Orleans, Detroit, Jackson, Birmingham, and Savannah. Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime was created to serve as a safe space for Black and Brown people living in America. Knockdown Center’s galleries will be fully transformed into a thrift store that contains objects both created and found by Mohammed including tapestries, records, postcards, paintings, lamps, and books.

Mohammed will be on site daily performing as the thrift store owner, Jimmy, accepting donations from the public in the form of photographs to be added to Mohammed’s Black Community Family Albums, or audio-recorded memories that detail the first time participants realized they were Black. These recordings, called My First Time stories, will be compiled and turned into 12” records that are then added to the installation’s growing collection. Both living archives offer an intimate and nuanced portrait of Black lives both contemporary and past.

Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime also contains a music library that invites visitors to exchange music using Mohammed’s custom New Davonhaime flash drives with an emphasis on visitors dropping off their original compositions to be shared with other visitors.

Previous versions of Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaimehave shown at Spring/Break and No Longer Empty in 2016, and Knockdown Center’s culminating presentation of Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime will be its most extensive iteration yet.

Azikiwe Mohammed graduated from Bard College in 2005 where he studied photography and fine arts. Since then he has shown these things in galleries both nationally and internationally. In 2015 he received the Art Matters Grant, and in 2016 was the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Emmerging Artist Grant. He lives in New York and currently works at Mana Fine Arts as part of their mana BSMT program.

Opening Reception:
Friday September 8, 6:00-9:00pm

Open:
September 9 – October 29, 2017

Her Majesty – The Queen of Mbira music from Zimbabwe – as Stella Rambisai Chiweshe is affectionately called, is the first female artist to have gained in prestige and to have been honoured with recognition in a music tradition largely dominated by men: Mbira music – known as the backbone of Zimbabwean music. The mbira consists of 22 to 28 metal keys mounted on a hardwood soundboard, and is usually placed inside a gourd resonator (deze). The keys are played with the two thumbs plucking down and the right forefinger plucking up.

She is one of the few musicians in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa, who has, for more than 40 years, been working in the role of traditional Mbira musician. She is a well respected and important woman in the music business too, where bands perform at festivals, in theatres, churches, schools, community halls as well as in family homes for their ancestors. She has set an example for the rest of the women musicians in Zimbabwe. She’s a successful professional artist, both in the entertainment industry and in the international music circuit. In Zimbabwe she’s released more than 20 singles of Mbira music of which her first single Kasahwa went gold in 1975.

After Independence, she was invited to become a member of the original National Dance Company of Zimbabwe, where she soon took the part of a leading Mbira Solo player, dancer and actress. Her work will always be remembered. Her solo work has established herself as one of the most original artists in the contemporary African scene using mbira music to show the depth and power of her traditional spiritual music at home and abroad. Chiweshe’s experience has stimulated her to introduce Mbira music to the occidental context without loosing the relation to her Zimbabwean tradition. Since then, she has won several awards in her country. In 2003 the University of Zimbabwe honoured her with the Masters Degree in Arts.

Greg Fox is a New York City born-and bred drummer, multidisciplinary artist, and teacher. He has played on and released about 50 records since 2008, including his work with Liturgy, ZS, Ben Frost, Colin Stetson, Skeletons, Hieroglyphic Being, Man Forever, and others, as well as with his own solo work and his projects GDFX and Guardian Alien.

“Good drummers aren’t uncommon. Great ones are. We still mourn Keith Moon of the Who and John Bonham of Led Zeppelin as the jolly bashers of modernity. Here comes the future, they seemed to be telling us with their sensational ka-blammo. Together, they popularized the notion that, in rock-and-roll, a drummer’s unsolemn duty is to establish a sense of time while happily smashing it to bits. Greg Fox reactivates that idea for the Information Age.” – Chris Richards, Washington Post

Fox has toured worldwide with various groups and collaborations, held residencies at The Clocktower NYC and Pioneer Works, and was awarded “Best Drummer in NYC” by the Village Voice in 2011. Having spent most of 2016 at home in New York, he is currently working on new collaborations and compositions, teaching individual and group drum lessons, and exploring new territory as a solo artist, using a hybridized electroacoustic drum setup to explore new dimensions through the traditional gestures of the modern drummer and the possibilities inherent in electronic and computer music.

Stella Chiweshe (Zimbabwe) and Greg Fox (USA) LIVE

Wednesday, 26. April 2017 | Door 20:00 CET | Start 21:00 CET
Musikbrauerei | Greifswalder Strasse 23a | 10407 Berlin/Prenzlauer Berg

There is limited capacity to the salon. Tickets only available at the door. Please be on time.

Pharmakon + Greg Fox (Liturgy) + Piquet + Barst

Mini-festival full of frightening electro-noise and gruesome sounds!

◊ Pharmakon
◊ Greg Fox
◊ Piquet
◊ BARST

Pharmakon klinkt als de keelklanken van menselijke pijn – schreeuwen, grommen, tieren – die doorheen pedalen, loops, microfoons en synths gestuurd worden tot een beangstigende mix van elektronica en noise. Het alter ego van de jonge New Yorkse Margaret Chardiet desoriënteert het publiek met een meeslepende live performance, op de grens tussen performance kunst en underground muziek. Met ‘Abandon’ en ‘Bestial Burden’ heeft ze al twee magnifieke albums uitgebracht op Sacred Bones (Blanck Mass, Jenny Hval, Moon Duo, Föllakzoid, …), waarbij Pitchfork het met niet minder dan respectievelijk 8.0 en 8.4 (Best New Music) beloonde. Haar derde worp ‘Contact’ komt op 31 maart uit, eerste singles ‘Transmission’ en ‘No Natural Order’ grijpen je alvast meteen bij de keel. In 2014 imponeerde ze AB al als voorprogramma van Swans, nu komt ze op eigen houtje de club verzwelgen met haar impressionante show. Must see!

Greg Fox
De New Yorkse Greg Fox zijn drumstel met de niet aflatende energie van zijn geboortestad. De futuristische percussionist scoorde vorig jaar met zijn ‘Magenta Line’ volgens Rolling Stone één van de “Best Avant Garde Albums of 2016” en staat bekend als “één van de meest opwindende drummers over alle soorten muziek” volgens The New York Times. Energieke drumpartijen gegarandeerd!

Piquet
Aan radiovriendelijke liedjes heeft Piquet geen boodschap: Lien Moris en haar jongens staan voor no-nonsense psychedelische noise en tegendraadse experimentele pop, die zowel hypnotisch als bevreemdend aanvoelen. Debuut-EP ‘Heywawisze’ en de fantastische single ‘Handwerk’ staan alvast vol heerlijke taalspinsels en beukende riffs, de club zal al vroeg afgebroken worden!

Barst
Barst verlaat zich op een hele rits pedalen, synthesizers, samplers, minimalistische tracks, drumcomputers en effecten. Het resultaat: een ruimtelijke, orkestrale sound die gebundeld is op ‘The Western Lands’, één van dé Belgische releases van 2016. Een niet te missen openingsact van een tegendraads minifestival!

Cited more than once by the New York Times as one of the most vital interpretations of Terry Riley’s 1964 masterwork in recent memory, Darmstadt’s annual birthday concert has become a time-honored tradition. Now in it’s 12th year, Darmstadt presents an ensemble featuring Elliot Sharp, Petr Kotik, Pauline and Conrad Harris, David Grubbs, Laura Ortman, + more! See list of performers below.

Darmstadt is the new music series led by composers Nick Hallett and Zach Layton, presenting seminal works throughout the history of experimental music, including masterpieces by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Pauline Oliveros, Meredith Monk, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alvin Lucier, and Anthony Braxton.

Proceeds to benefit The New York Immigration Coalition

Drums
Greg Fox

Strings
Eli Spindel • Jeanann Dara • Pauline Kim Harris • Conrad Harris • Justin Kantor • David Handler • Laura Ortman • MV Carbon • Dana Lyn

Guitar/Bass
David Grubbs • Elliott Sharp • Zach Layton • James Ilgenfritz

Winds/Brass
Evan Rapport • Sam Kulik • Peter Gordon • Ben Neil • Petr Kotik • Josh Rubin • Peter Hess • Peter Zummo

Vocals
Daisy Press • Nick Hallett • Katie Eastburn • Aroof Aftab • Gabrielle Herbst

Keyboard
Emily Manzo • Matt Mottel • Michael Century

More
Jason Cady, pedal steel
Bradford Reed, electronics
Mia Theodoratus, harp

ALL AGES
Doors Open: 6:30PM
Show Time: 7:30PM
Event Ticket: $20 / $25
Day of Show: $25 / $30

Monster Mash & New York Night Train’s Haunted Hop

TWO OF THE BEST HALLOWEEN PARTIES COMBINE TO HEED A HOLY NIGHT OF HORROR! Jonathan Toubin / New York Night Trains HAUNTED HOP vs Alana A Amram‘s MONSTER MASH

HAUNTED HOUSE with Phantom Creep Theatre LIVE, Max Roseglass & Adam Fithers’s KISSING BOOTH, Gregory Stovetop’s LAND OF 1000 SCARECROWS, Stephanie García’s SCREAMING HORSES, Gary Balaban’s CINEMA OF SIN, Joseph Jagos’s DUNKING BOOTH OF BLOOD, Andy NotAnimal’s CANDY APPLES, Kara Kinsey’s TAROT, Alana Amram’s WITCH HUT & SPIDER DEN, Jenn Warren’s BALES OF HAUNTED HAY

7pm to 11pm
MONSTER MASH: live bands perform in costume as their favorite musicians
with Rocky Horror Picture Show Time Warp Dance Contest!!

11pm – LATE
THE HAUNTED HOP!!!
Dance to the Haunted 45’s of DJ’s Jonathan Toubin / New York Night Train& Josh Styles with DEMON GOGO DANCERS!

MIDNIGHT COSTUME CONTEST!
Prizes very generously provided by:
Littleneck, REBEL ROUSER, Metropolis Vintage & MAIN DRAG MUSIC

Featuring:

DJ Jonathan Toubin & Josh Styles spinning haunted 45s

Demon Go-Go Dancers

*MONSTER MASH*
Live bands impersonating: 45 Grave, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Bobby Pickett, Christian Death, The Cramps, The Damned, Danzig, Dio, King Diamond, Lord Sutch, The Mummies, Ray Parker Junior, Roky Erickson, Screamin Jay, Siouxsie, Slayer, Type O Negative

$10! OR 20 WITH NO COSTUME

+Guardian Alien [NY] [http://facebook.com/LEGUARDIANALIEN]
++Horse Lords [MD] [http://horselords.bandcamp.com/]
+++Erica Eso [NY] [http://ericaeso.com/]
++++Indridi [ICELAND] [http://soundcloud.com/indridi]

$10. L to Grand. Doors at 8pm. No BYOB, please. All ages.

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Perfect Wave is hosting a very special night of music and performance featuring Somos Monstros (performance/musical duo of Raúl De Nieves and Erik Zajaceskowski), Guardian Alien (performance/musical project of Greg Fox and Alexandra Drewchin) and solo performance from Ka Baird (Sapropelic Pycnic). Opening the evening will be The New York Review of Cocksucking, the duo of Michael Foster and Richard Kamerman.

Somos Monstros
http://blog.walterwlodarczyk.com/post/137202673033/somos-monstros-moma-ps1-sunday-sessions

Guardian Alien
http://guardianalien.tumblr.com/

Sapropelic Pycnic
https://soundcloud.com/sapropelicpycnic/subration

The New York Review of Cocksucking
www.michaelfostermusic.com
www.richardkamerman.com

w Perfect Wave DJs going until 2 AM

$8 in advance $10 at door
TICKETS

First installment of Dan Friel and Christopher Weingarten's series at Trans-Pecos. Five soloists set up throughout the venue play back-to-back 20-minute sets. 

DJ sets by DJ @1000TimesYes before and after. 

$10 / 9pm / all ages

Fire Over Heaven
Season II, Episode 1

Dorji / Ismaily / Fox Trio
Tashi Dorji
Shahzad Ismaily
JR Bohannon
Jofridur

@ 
The Outpost, 1665 Norman St. in Ridgewood, 

$10 ~ all door money goes to the musicians

AdHoc Presents

Noise Quartet feat.
Shahzad Ismaily - Bass (ceramic dog)
Greg Saunier - drums (Deerhoof)
Ofir Ganon - guitar
Greg Fox - drums (Liturgy)

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Celestial Shore

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Zula

TICKETS

| Trans-Pecos |
915 Wyckoff Ave @ Weirfield | Ridgewood, Queens
L-Halsey, LM-Myrtle Wyckoff | 8pm | $10 | all ages

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