WOrK #23 – March 29, 2017
Judith Hamann, Ilan Volkov / Shoko Nagai, David Watson / Iron Dog (Sarah Bernstein, Stuart Popejoy, Andrew Drury)

Judith Hamann is a cellist currently based in Melbourne and San Diego. Currently her work is focused on expressions of immersion and saturation: explored through durational and spatialized approaches to sound, and with improvised examinations of variations on the idea of “shaking”.
(However, Judith will probably not be using any of this in a clear way in her improvisation with Ilan).

Ilan Volkov began his career as Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and was Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Volkov is very active in the new music scene and has collaborated with AMM, John Butcher, John Oswald, Zeena Parkins and others
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/ilan-volkov/

Shoko Nagai is a virtuoso keyboard and accordion player active in Klezmer, Balkan and experimental music. She’s widely recognized as a film composer. She is a downtown veteran who always brings magic.

David Watson, active in the experimental scene in New York for 30 years. He’s recorded with Christian Marclay, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Zeena Parkins, Chris Mann and Phill Niblock amongst many others. He has the trio GLACIAL with Lee Ranaldo and Tony Buck. He founded the WOrK series.
http://preparedguitar.blogspot.com/2014/07/david-watson-13-questions.html

IRON DOG is Sarah Bernstein violin/electronics/text, Stuart Popejoy bass/synthesizer, Andrew Drury drums.
“Straight out of Brooklyn is an improvisational trio that frolics far in the outer reaches of avant-garde. Iron Dog creates odd sounds both digital and analog, inserts spoken verses of Bernstein’s eerie, esoteric poetry and collides them all together to form abstract splotches on a sonic canvas. It’s not mere music, or even mere noise but rather, edgy, offbeat performance art.”
https://irondog.bandcamp.com/album/interactive-album-rock
http://sarahbernstein.com/


WOrK #21 – March 1, 2017
Gill Arno / Jeanann Dara / Lucie Vítkova

Jeanann Dara
An experimental violist using silence, noise and negative space. Continuous sound throughout the night without definitions of a song format to create an environment and give the listener time to settled into the space in the room and in their body.

Lucie Vítkova
I am a composer, improviser and performer (accordion, harmonica, voice and tap dance) from the Czech Republic, recently based in New York.
I will perform two of my solo pieces – Piece for Accordion and Tape and Music Domestic from my upcoming album on Bánh Mì Verlag (3/ 2017).

Gill Arno‘s “mpld” project involves re-animating decaying slides, the hypnotic sound of the projectors used as an electro-acoustic instrument, some feedback loops connecting sound and light. The resulting performance takes place between materiality and abstraction, noise and consonance, stasis and transition, subjective account and common place narrative”


WOrK #22 – March 15, 2017
William Duncan, Ian Douglas-Moore / Causings / Tom Chiu, Michael Schumacher

William Duncan (snare drum, electronics) and Ian Douglas-Moore (acoustic guitar, electronics) started playing music together as teenagers in Denver, Colorado and are now reunited in New York. Here they will explore a confluence of motorik rhythms, minimalist finger-picking, and tuning anomalies, inspired by their favorite repetitive Germans.

causings family band
portraits and landscapes
odds and ends
home and garden
slow and steady
http://causings.bandcamp.com/

Genre-splitting violinist Tom Chiu and oeuvre-bending synthist Michael Schumacher join forces.
Morphing arpeggios, shifting intervals, and clashing sound palettes are mixed in a kinetic blender of string and analog vibrations.