IMOO FEST 2023
Improvising & Experimental Music of Ottawa and Outwards
Over two nights in October IMOO presents a large array of Canadian and International artists. Popebama closes Saturday night.
October 14, 2024 – 7pm
Glebe-St. James United Church
650 Lyon Street
Ottawa, ON
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Saturday night brings long-time friends of IMOO Yves Charuest and Nicolas Caloia, the New York-based duo Popebama, John Oswald’s “Mystery Ensemble” (with Lina Allemano, Eve Egoyan, Ben Grossman, and Jesse Stewart), and the Eyevin Nonet, Montreal drummer Ivan Bamford’s 9-piece Thomas Chapin tribute project.
Saturday October 14th
7:00pm Yves Charuest & Nicolas Caloia
8:00pm John Oswald Mystery Ensemble
9:00pm Eyevin Nonet
10:00pm Popebama
Basel-based ensemble Fx Kollektiv and NYC-based Popebama share the stage on Wednesday, October 18, 2023.
Lights. Electronics. Instruments.
New works by Levi Lu & Popebama.
Wed, Oct 18 // 7:00pm
mise-en Place
341 Calyer St
Brooklyn, NY 11222
TICKETS: $10 suggested donation (cash, venmo, paypal // at the door only)
Ensemble Decipher performs the NY premiere of my piece: Telegraph (2023) alongside works by Bora Yoon, and Lyn Goeringer. Evening will also include a collaboration between choreographer and dancer Hiva Sedaghat and ensemble members Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Robert Cosgrove, and Taylor Long.
October 23, 2023 // 8:00pm (doors 7:30)
Roulette Intermedium
509 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
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Shades of Words // Talea Ensemble performs:
Jesse Cox
George Lewis
Hannah Kendall
Jeffrey Mumford
Andile Khumalo
September 15, 2023 // 8pm
Jack NY
20 Putnam Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Sep 19, 2023
Perelman Performing Arts Center
251 Fulton Street
New York, NY 10007
This new musical work for voice and birdroar instruments by composer Brent Michael Davids honors Nora Thompson Dean (1907-1984), a Lenape teacher and herbalist who dedicated her life to preserving Lenape culture. The sung and spoken lyric consists entirely of her name “Weènchipahkihëlèxkwe” in Unami (Lenape for “downriver people”). Translated, her name was “Touching Leaves Woman” or as Nora herself suggested ‘Leaves-that-touch-each-other-from-time-to-time.’ A hand-notated music manuscript, inked on vellum, is part of the exhibition Nora Thompson Dean: Lenape Teacher and Herbalist and on view before and after each performance. The work runs approximately 20 minutes and will be performed in the Rotunda of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library at 2 PM and in the Morgan Garden at 3 PM (weather permitting).
September 9, 2023, 2 PM and 3 PM
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
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NTQ presents our 6th Explorations concert with a program of cutting edge works for saxophone, drawing from meditative breath, temporal flux, sine tone clusters, dissembled instruments, and vocalization.
The concert opens with works from NTQ’s residencies at New York University and Binghamton University. Neva Derewetzky‘s small voices explores time and air, growing from meditative breath to sweeping dynamic swells. Derewetzky writes the saxophone “is an instrument that begs to run… For just a few minutes, I want the instrument to be patient. To take a breath and to wait.” Michael Seltenreich‘s Ornamentation 1 uses flux in tempo to build a constant pulsing line. The work builds harmonically while always centered around the push and pull of time. Our program will continue with commissioned works by NTQ founding member Erin Rogers and by Victoria Cheah. Erin Rogers‘ Foliage utilizes timbral and harmonic shifts to produce slow motion color changes in a gradual transition to noise. Victoria Cheah‘s Walk for a shell incorporates fixed media playback alongside the saxophone quartet, and explores how actions along a path may connect you to others. Cheah writes “Pilgrimage journeys put time and effort to work at covering a distance in an offering of respect. Walk for a shell attempts this respect with gestures of tuning, ghosts of words exchanged, and offerings of effort.”
Explorations Vol. 6: Time and Breath
Sunday, Sept 10 @ 2pm
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Benzaquen Hall
450 West 37th Street, New York, NY, 10018
Tickets – $10 online and at the door
Program
Neva Derewetsky – small voices (2023), NYC premiere
Michael Seltenreich – Ornamentation 1 (2022), NYC premiere #
Erin Rogers – Foliage (2023), world premiere *
Victoria Cheah – Walk for a shell (2023), world premiere *
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Saturday, August 26, 2023 // 7:30 pm
MARY FLAGLER CARY HALL
Dimenna Center
450 W 37th St, NYC
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Program:
Enno Poppe
Speicher I-VI, 2009-2012
for chamber ensemble
