Wednesday, June 1
7-8pm: Sweet Soubrette – Indie / Pop / Cabaret
Shrine
2271 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd
New York, NY 10030

Playing saxophone with “Sweet Soubrette, a ukulele-powered indie rock band with dark, poetic lyrics, songs that tell stories, and lush instrumentation. Sweet Soubrette’s edgy love songs explore troubled romance, works of literature, and the mysteries of existence, featuring the songwriting, vocals and ukulele of Ellia Bisker and a talented backing band. Bisker honed her performance chops playing ukulele in the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, and the glittery eyelashes she wears onstage hint at her vaudevillean origins. Time Out NY says “Sweet Soubrette’s style comes with a pinch of Regina Spektor quirk and a spoonful of old-timey burlesque.” The Deli Magazine calls Sweet Soubrette “One of New York’s most intriguing songwriting forces…rock star command and intelligently crafted music.”

http://shrinenyc.com/

New music-theater works by writer-composers Rick Burkhardt and Gelsey Bell, including the world premiere of Burkhardt’s PASSOVER, and new scenes from Bell’s Rolodex. Both composers explore the vocalizing instrumentalist in disjointed modes of storytelling.

Sun. Jul. 17, 2016, 8pm
JACK
505 1/2 Waverly Ave.
Brooklyn, NY

Rick Burkhardt – PASSOVER
Gelsey Bell – Rolodex
Rick Burkhardt – The Great Hymn of Thanksgiving

Gelsey Bell, voice
John Murchinson, bass and voice
Paul Pinto, percussion and voice
Erin Rogers, percussion and saxophone
Rave Duder, clarinet and voice

Commissioned by thingNY, PASSOVER is a performance-ritual for six singing/speaking performers, seated at a dinner table on which there lies a double bass. Each performer relates the story of a friend’s escape: from a bad marriage, from an unfair situation at work, from a run-in with a traffic cop, from an ethically compromising opportunity, from an awkward family dinner. Ultimately, it becomes clear that all of these friends form one collective identity.

thingNY’s own Gelsey Bell will lead the ensemble in new songs from her evolving game-piece opera Rolodex. Praised by the New York Times as “imaginative,” with work that is “uncomfortably powerful,” “virtuosic,” and “haunting,” Bell draws on techniques across music and theatre to create a disjointed storytelling with a score in the form of a rolodex.

Also on the program, another of Burkhardt’s table-top music-theater piece from 2003, the award-winning The Great Hymn of Thanksgiving, for three speaking percussionists. Time Out New York declared that Hymn “has taught us to listen to the conversation in several keys, and the virtuosic performers play them all—the troubling bassline of violence, the abrasive tenor of self-righteousness, and, every now and then, the clear, bright treble of a really funny joke.”

http://www.thingny.com/events/dr-sandwich-bellthingnyburkhardt

MATA Festival composers will join forces with like-minded noisemakers in a split bill performance. Featuring MATA composers Matthew Welch on bagpipe, Ophir Ilzetzki on electronics (who I will be joining with on saxophone), and a Yair Klartag video piece, and even a pond scum bacteria improvisation.

Guest performers include Ricardo Romaneiro and MATA’s Artistic Director Du Yun, in addition to sound artist / turntablist Maria Chavezand the electronics duo Wetware.

Trans-Pecos
915 Wyckoff Avenue
Queens, New York

Tickets available at the door: $12.

Dennis Sullivan and I have a new project called Popebama. We’re really excited to be playing a new work by Dennis for saxophone, percussion and implements. This piece is going to rock your world, along with the whole line-up so don’t miss it!

Sunday, April 24th, 8pm
JACK
505 Waverly Ave
Brooklyn
$10

Radical 2 – Dennis Sulllivan and Levy Lorenzo
Popebama – Dennis Sullivan and Erin Rogers
Trash Stack – Ed RosenBerg, Dennis Sullivan, and Jay Sorce

Sam Kulik’s “The Broadcast”

Morton Feldman’s “Voices and Cello” + Improvisations
Amirtha Kidambi – voice
Alice Teyssier – voice
Leila Bordreuil – cello

April 22nd at 7pm at Commend NYC. 172 Forsyth, New York, NY 10002

Throughout the month of April, in conjunction with the release of his new record Felder, Jan St. Werner (of Mouse on Mars) and a curated group of artists and performers will be offering unique, individual interpretations of the album.

“Felder” means “fields” in German, referring here to “unstable territories, radiation, musical situations without distinct boundaries happening simultaneously but not necessarily synced.” Werner elaborates: “It is possible to interpret Felder without using any of the original material. The rework can be played by a brass band or read as a story. It can also be a collaborative performance or an electronic playback piece for a radio station or a sound installation in a gallery or someone’s living room. Whether the installation is about sound, light or words is up to the invited artists.”

Roberto Carlos Lange (Helado Negro), Erin Rogers and James Hoff as a trio will be playing Felder at Commend, a storefront in NYC that is the home of RVNG Records. Roberto will replay Felder through striped magnetic tape audio cards that he will assemble and collage in real-time with his computer. The audio cards have random samples of Felder recorded onto them. Erin Rogers will be playing saxophone according to predetermined infinite musical roadmaps and James Hoff will be transforming Felder using an array of software sequenced and modulated by computer viruses. Felder means: board; field, area; sphere, domain; scope, extent, range; piece of land; surface; land designated for sports. NYC is a place where space is unique, so much is divided up and the tiniest of places can be sacred and grand. This performance will touch on that aspect of Felder, infinite space in sound.

For more information and a list of events:

http://thrilljockey.tumblr.com/post/140655287222/jan-st-werner-presents-felder

Excited to be performing Lou Bunk’s “Luna” for solo saxophone and electronics at the New York City Electroactoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF) at Abrons Arts Center.

Concert 15
Tues, June 14, 8pm
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand St.
New York, NY 10002

For a full listing of NYCEMF programs, click here.

Pleased to be part of the 2016 Queens New Music Festival. Sunday, May 22nd will feature my piece “Shimmering Dust” for flute and cymbal (Hristina Blagoeva, flute; Chris Graham, percussion). I’ll also be performing with The Combo (Erin Rogers, saxophone; Jay Sorce, guitar; Andrea Lodge, piano; Chris Graham; percussion), works TBD. Check back for more details.

Sunday, May 22
IKTUS Duo/Combo
The Secret Theatre
Main Stage
44‐02 23rd Street
Long Island City, Queens

Iktus Combo

NbN Trio

SUN, NOVEMBER 15, 2015

8:30 PM

For more information, visit:
http://www.constellation-chicago.com/event/990889-iktus-combo-nbn-trio-chicago/

Friday, June 10
New Thread Quartet presents Explorations: New Works for Saxophone

New Thread Quartet / Creviston-Fader Duo Double Bill