Sax + strings back Latino songwriter Helado Negro, whose music “points to shades of kraut rock bathed in his mesmerizing rhythms, loops and hair-raising melodies.”
Helado Negro / Buscabulla
Wed, November 2, 2016
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
The Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey St.
New York, NY
$15.00
Tickets HERE
Popebama (Erin Rogers, saxophones and Dennis Sullivan, percussion) and Ogni Suono (Noa Even and Phil Pierick, saxophones) team up for the opening concert of Permutations’ 5th Season at Scholes Street Studio. Ogni Suono will present the New York premiere of my piece “Clamor.”
8pm
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer St.
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Cash Only: $15 / $10 students
Popebama (Erin Rogers, saxophone; Dennis Sullivan, percussion) will perform four adventurous works featuring saxophone, multi-percussion, vocals, and electronics. Northern Cities, the 5th of Matthew Shlomowitz’s Letter Pieces, combines physical activities and sound events invented by the performers and performed within a fixed order, structured by the composer. Paul Pinto’s Hack It is a virtuosic scene for very quick speakers from Paul’s upcoming opera-in-development Thomas Paine in Violence. Broken Umbrella by Erin Rogers is an embellished excerpt from the Call Center scene of thingNY’s opera This Takes Place Close By, featuring a day-in- the-life of a 911 operator. Shedding Waste, by Dennis Sullivan, invites the listener into a virtuosic sound world using table-top percussion to mimic and distort the extended techniques in the saxophone.
Works:
Matthew Shlomowitz — Letter Piece #5 – Northern Cities
Paul Pinto — Hack It!
Erin Rogers — Broken Umbrella
Dennis Sullivan — Shedding Waste
Ogni Suono’s program features pieces from SaxoVoce, a long-term project exploring the wide-ranging musical, dramatic, and theatrical possibilities inherent in the synthesis of saxophone and voice. In Vocalise II, Felipe Lara explores new timbral, rhythmic, harmonic, and expressive possibilities by means of playing and singing through the saxophones simultaneously, echoing twelfth-century Pérotin organum. Kate Soper’s OTOTOI uses the two players, their instruments and their voices, to dramatize the dialogue between the terror of the future and the dread of the present expressed in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. Full of instrumental racket, vocal noise, and sounds from somewhere-in-between, Erin Rogers’ Clamor is an oversaturation of human and instrument. Inspired by the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Zach Sheets uses the contours of the performers’ voices as seeds from which the melodic shapes bloom in his dare-gale, speaks and spells.
Works:
Kate Soper — OTOTOI (2015)
Felipe Lara — Vocalise II (2016)
Zach Sheets — dare-gale, speaks and spells (2016)
Erin Rogers — Clamor (2016)
Delighted to be part of Ogni Suono’s “SaxoVoce,” a long-term project exploring the wide-ranging ways of synthesizing saxophone and voice.
Noa Even and Phil Pierick will perform my work “Clamor” for two vocalizing soprano saxophonists:
October 7, 2016 8:00pm
Journeys in Sound Concert Series – Ogni Suono plays SaxoVoce
joint show with Transient Canvas
Armory for the Arts
191 Highland Ave. #1a in Somerville, MA
Works by Zach Sheets, David Coll, Kate Soper, Erin Rogers, and
Felipe Lara
Delighted to be part of Ogni Suono’s “SaxoVoce,” a long-term project exploring the wide-ranging ways of synthesizing saxophone and voice.
Noa Even and Phil Pierick will premiere my latest work “Clamor” for two vocalizing soprano saxophonists on October 5th:
October 5, 2016 8:15pm
Ogni Suono – Guest Artist Concert
University of Massachusetts – Amherst
Bezanson Recital Hall
Works by Zach Sheets, David Coll, Kate Soper, Erin Rogers, and
Felipe Lara
HYPERCUBE: Infinite Dimensions
HYPERCUBE kicks off its 2016/17 season with a killer program at the Bloomingdale School of Music. Featuring a brand spanking new piece by Dennis Sullivan and a new arrangement of an exciting work by Juan Trigos.
On the Program:
Juan Trigos; Quartetto da Do*
Mikel Kuehn; Color Fields
Dennis Sullivan; under nails+*
Sam Pluta; American Tokyo Daydream
Philip Schuessler; Liminal Bridges+
*premiere
+written for Hypercube
Friday, September 30, 2016 @7:00pm
Bloomingdale School of Music
323 W 108th St, New York, NY
FREE admission
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Jaw Box – World Premiere
Saxophonist Geoff Landman performs the world premiere of my work, Jaw Box for solo soprano saxophonist, as part of a Guest Artist Recital at UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance in Kansas City on September 12th. Alongside works by Berio, Bach, Vasenna and Lazcano, this looks to be an epic display of saxophone execution. Jaw Box occupies a realm between pitch, unpitch, speech, and noise. All sounds are acoustic – produced by the solo soprano saxophonist, vocally, bodily, through the instrument, or in combinations.
Monday, September 12, 2016 @7:30pm
White Recital Hall
James C. Olson Performing Arts Center (4949 Cherry Street, Kansas City, MO)
FREE admission
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Elliott Sharp’s Vivarium is a program of new and recent works partially drawn from his just-released album, Tranzience, on New World Records. With the talents of top contemporary players and ensembles JACK Quartet and New Thread Quartet, Vivarium brings Sharp’s works into exciting and unexpected realms. New Thread will perform Sharp’s adventurous work Approaching the Arches of Corti, for 4 soprano saxophones.
Thursday, September 15, 2016 @8:00pm
Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY)
admission: $20/15 ONLINE $25/20 DOORS
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2016 is a big year for thingNY! Highlights include a peak at Rick Burkhardt‘s “Passover,” awards from Chamber Music America and the New Music USA Impact Fund, Paul and Gelsey off to Broadway to star in The Great Comet and, of course, our second full-length album with works by Paul and I, to hit shelves September 20th.
minis/Trajectories includes Paul Pinto’s ongoing series of minis (short, theatrical, stream-of-consciousness compositions, blending chamber music, storytelling, and poetry) along with my two works Trajectories (a 4-movements for vocalizing instrumentalists and improvability) and Chronolinea (a whispering/screaming concertino for vocalist and ensemble).
Pre-order now and receive a free ticket to our CD release party at HERE Arts in SoHo.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 @7:30pm
HERE Arts Center (145 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY)
admission is $9 and includes a digital copy of the album
Performances by: thingNY, Jerome Kitzke, Helado Negro, Radical 2, members of the cast of Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812
Pre-order: minis/Trajectories
Gold Bolus Recordings GBR024
Diabolical Records