EARLY-ISH SHOW (starts 8:30 sharp)

AARON ROCHE --- Home-recorded folk-ish songs with both subtle classical orchestration and dark noise damage. Works with R. Stevie Moore. Highly spiritual and mysterious music.

SEAVEN TEARES --- New acoustic band with Charlie Looker (Extra Life). Medieval chansons meets bleak post-industrial folk and romantic pop.

BEAUTIFUL WEEKEND --- From Boston, Noelle Dorsey and Joel Roston, (ex-Big Bear), guitar and co-ed vocals. Quiet, haunting art songs with a truly strange, cinematic and cold beauty.

ITSNOTYOUITSME --- Ambient electronic duo of Caleb Burhans (Alarm Will Sound founder) and Grey Mcmurray (Knights on Earth). Intense beautiful drone music, both static and ecstatic, not improv, definitely songs.

FREE!

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A pioneer of opera-for-television and mixed media musical theater Robert Ashley presents the New York premiere of his iconic opera, That Morning Thing (1967), directed by Fast Forward. Consisting of three acts with men’s and women's speaking voices and eight dancers, the opera dramatizes the psychology of intimate but anonymous stories that the artist solicited from friends. That Morning Thing first premiered at the ONCE Festival in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1968.

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w/ Castevet + Mario Diaz de Leon

ALL AGES

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::: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17TH, 8PM :::
:::::: EXAPNO NEW MUSIC COMMUNITY CENTER ::::::
:::::::::::: Sweat Lodge presents ***SWEAT CORE*** ::::::::::::

Original songs, short pieces, vignettes, hilarious jokes, strange attire, endearing anecdotes, and nerf herding from:

::: DAVE RUDER :::
::: JOE WHITE :::
::: IAN MUNRO :::
::: ELLEN O'MEARA :::
::: AMIRTHA KIDAMBI :::
::: CORY BRACKEN :::

Imbibe whiskey, indulge in delicious snacks, dig our deepest vibes.

IMPORTANT NOTE right here:

The Sweat Lodge humbly asks that you consider bringing canned or non-perishable food items and any winter clothing you are willing to part with, in order to help us in our effort to donate these much needed items to The Senate supportive housing residence for formerly homeless adults in Manhattan.

Follow us to other worlds:
@TheSweatLodge
facebook.com/thesweatlodge

www.exapno.org (the most amazing place ever)

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EXPERIMENTS IN OPERA
featuring excerpts of operas by Matthew Welch, Jason Cady, Georges Aperghis and Aaron Siegel 

Experiments in Opera is a composer- and performer-driven festival, featuring recent and new works with unorthodox answers to the traditional questions about how to connect words, story and music. This inaugural event at Le Poisson Rouge on January 16, 2012 will feature excerpts from four works: 

Borges and the Other by Matthew Welch Happiness is the Problem with music by Jason Cady; libretto by Nadia Berenstein, Jason Cady, and Amy Cimini; graphics by Nadia Berenstein Sextour: l\\\'origine des especes with a libretto by François Reginault and Georges Aperghis (based on texts by Charles Darwin and Stephen Jay Gould) and music by George Aperghis Brother Brother with words and music by Aaron Siegel. 

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The Sweat Lodge Presents: SWEATronics

It's an aural feast of knob turning and basking in the glow of Macbooks.  Show us your patch and we'll show you ours.

Music composed and performed by: 

:::Ellen O'Meara:::

:::Cory Bracken:::

:::Dave Ruder:::

:::Ian Munro:::

:::Amirtha Kidambi:::

:::Joe White:::

Snacks provided and booze for suggested donation!  Warning: your whiskey may taste like vodka.

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Three nights! February 2, 3 and 4th, 8:00 pm 

Music by Georges Aperghis, 
Text by François Régnault and Georges Aperghis, 
Translation by Cozette Griffen-Kremer, 
(Based on Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species and Stephen Jay Gould's Wonderful Life)

Sextuor is composed like an oratorio, telling the story of life on Earth as interpreted through fossil records...

"Between each species and the common ancestor, who is unknown, one must seek, forever seek the intermediate forms"

Narrated by the cellist, and also by the singers through straight
singing, Sprechstimme, nonsensical syllables evoking the sounds of beginning life forms and fast-forward sound portraiture of evolution, and as instruments, the story unfolds through bouts of rhythmic complexity and quartertones, and each of the performer's symbolic characters is revealed.

"Immense Nature improbable and unpredictable, contingent nature, where are we going, we who say life was wonderful, we who say life is wonderful?"


Sop I, Megan Schubert
Sop II, Christie Finn
Sop III, Gelsey Bell
Mezzo, Silvie Jensen
Contralto, Amirtha Kidambi
Cello, Émilie Girard-Charest
Director, Jeremy Bloom
Lighting Designer, Kryssy Wright
Music Director, Nick DeMaison

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Your voice, my violin 

Speaking, sighing, laughing, crying, growling, grunting, whispering, shouting: these are just some of the sounds you can make with your voice. Violinist/composer Tom Swafford, along with singers Amirtha Kidambi and Gelsey Bell, will lead you on an exploration of vocal sounds. Together we will make familiar sounds, discover new sounds, copy each other’s sounds and hear how the violin and the voice can sound like each other. We will then create a concerto for violin and your voices. We will also present excerpts from Tom’s new composition for two singers and a piece for solo violin. 

Tom Swafford is Brooklyn based violinist and composer active in a wide variety of styles. He has presented composition concerts at Roulette and The Stone and he is preparing a new set of pieces for a concert in spring 2012. Currently he performs with Butch Morris, Sean Noonan, Aram Bajakian’s Kef, $.99 Dreams, Emanuel and the Fear and The Great Yankee Hove. He can often be heard busking on NYC’s subway platforms. 

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Check out Ian "scrapple Amish" Munro and Amirtha "spicy curry" Kidambi at Aliza Simon's series "Don't Say S-H-I-T in Front of the B-A-B-Y"

We'll be playing tunes on accordion, vox and guitar from Baroque to Folk(que), from classics to OG diddies, from dubstep to grindmetalcoreshoegaze (probably not).

"Brooklyn finest multi-cultural accordion and voice syndicate."

- Some guy who doesn't write for the NY Times

 

 

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Charlie Looker will be premiering his brand new song cycle for string quartet as a part of his Brooklyn Philharmonic composer fellowship!

The outside-in composer fellowship program pairs non-orchestral composers from diverse musical backgrounds including hip hop, electronica, world music, jazz and indie rock with Brooklyn Philharmonic's resident composer-mentor, Randy Woolf and artistic director, Alan Pierson.

Randy Guides the composer fellows through the process of writing original string quartet and chamber orchestra music building on the musical styles and ideas of each fellow.

This year, the Brooklyn Philharmonic is proud to present fellows Charlie Looker, Tim Fite and Natalie Elizabeth Weiss.

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Ekmeles performs Scelsi’s Sauh I & II: Liturgia for two female voices, and the US premiere of Nono’s Quando stanno morendo, diaro polacco n. 2, for 4 women’s voices, bass flute, cello and live electronics. Director Jeffrey Gavett conducts flutist Ashley Addington, and cellist Mariel Roberts, with electronics by Gregory Cornelius.

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A modular dance opera for Blarvuster by Matthew Welch

for 2 Mezzo-sopranos, Baritone, Tenor, chorus, flute/piccolo, viola, 2 electric guitars, piano, bass guitar, vibraphone, drum kit

"For some time now, I have been working on a series of short operas (or modular “Acts”) centered around the luminary Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, all played by an expanded version of my ensemble Blarvuster. In 2007, the first of these Borges mini-operas featured two mezzo-sopranos portraying an older and younger Borges meeting in a dream space. Borges was not shy to rework the basic concept of a story in to a new and equally fantastic second tale, and so for a second act written for tenor and baritone, two additional Borges of differing ages meet yet again in a separate encounter of dreaming each other. In both operas/acts, each Borges views his other in disbelief, hashing out self-loathing critique, whilst verifying biographical information. This pushes the iconic identity of Borges and his astonishing deconstruction of time and memory as forefront topics. The upcoming production in May 2012 will be the first performance of the complete opera, which combines the previous two modular acts of dialogues, further enhanced by new sections for chorus that pontificate and comment upon the multifarious identity of Borges (along the lines of the use of chorus in Greek Tragedy and the Baroque oratorio), coupled with intimate chamber passages and ecstatic returns to the labyrinthine rhythmic lattices of Blarvuster."

- Matthew Welch

Mezzo-Soprano: Lisa Komara

Mezzo-Soprano: Amirtha Kidambi

Baritone: Jeff Gavett

Tenor: James Rogers

Flutes: Leah Paul

Viola: Karen Waltuch

Piano: Emily Manzo

Electric Guitar: Taylor Levine

Electric Guitar: Matthew Hough

Bass Guitar: Ian Riggs

Vibraphone: Joe Bergen

Drums: Tomas Fujiwara

plus the EIO Chorus!

Conductor: Matthew Welch

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Tom Swafford's new themed concert- dealing with the acquisition of status and a sense of self-worth.  For adults and kids age 10 and up. 

With Gelsey Bell and Amirtha Kidambi, singers; and the Cadillac Moon Ensemble. 

This project is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

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