“Brooklyn” (Used 38 times)

On May 4 and 5, Roulette presents Toni Dove's Spectropia, an interactive live-mix sci-fi/noir film hybrid featuring time travel, telepathy, and elements of film noir in a drama set in England, 2099 and in New York City, 1931, starring Aleksa Palladino (Boardwalk Empire), with music by Elliott Sharp. We would like to offer one track off of Elliott Sharp's CD:  "This Time That Place", with guest vocals by Debbie Harry.

On May 4, Roulette presents a live-mix cinema event, a scratchable movie performed by Toni Dove and project software designer R. Luke DuBois: video DJs playing a movie instrument.  On May 5, Elliott Sharp performs the Spectropia Suite, based on an imagined meeting of the musics of Duke Ellington and Edgar Varese (both residents of New York in the 1930s).  In concert the vocals for "This Time That Place" will be sung by guest vocalist Barbara Sukowa.  The band will include E# playing Bb & bass clarinets, tenor saxophone, guitar & computer processing; Briggan Kraus – alto saxophone; Nate Woolley – trumpet; Art Baron; Curtis Fowlkes & Steve Swell – trombones; Anthony Coleman – piano; David Hofstra – string bass; and Don McKenzie – drums.

View the trailer for Spectropia (via):

The Streaming Museum is now offering Spectropia as a multiple-installment serialized work. See Part One after the jump:

This week, Thursday through Saturday, Interpretations and Performing Arts Services present Robert Ashley's The Old Man Lives In Concrete at Roulette.  Each of the four evenings presents totally new material--  every night features totally different and totally new material:  a culmination of Ashley's longstanding Conrete project with his esteemed ensemble featuring singers Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara, and Robert Ashley, with mixing and live processing by Tom Hamilton.

Robert Ashley’s newest opera follows Robert Ashley’s preoccupation with the speech of the homeless and of people living together in a home for old people. The libretto might be considered to be the “musings” of an old man, who thinks about strange questions and answers in various forms of sarcasm, indifference, questions about the questions, and explanations.

In anticipation of this major premiere, we are offering a recording of Robert Ashley's work World War Three (Just The Highlights), performed by Thomas Buckner at The Kitchen last year.  We would also like to share an extended interview with Robert Ashley, conducted by fellow composer Richard Carrick.  Enjoy!

Here's a track to put you in the Monday zone. Andy & Zeus are two friends in a spacecraft, navigating the outer limits via analog synths. The Brooklyn-based duo have roots in Boston where Andy played in Astronaut with Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) and "Zeus played in Chas Mtn with Gary War.

Originally released by Electrick Gypsy Service Records & Tapes on the sold-out Tales of Power cassette, "MCMLXXXI Choir" has gone on to float the web as a free download. Its kosmische energy has fueled remixes by Duchess Leo, Double Entendre and A.B.B.M. The track can also be found on this month's massive release by BEKO-DSL featuring 100 artists including Alligator Indian, Excepter, Maps and Diagrams and many more.

>> Andy & Zeus @ FMA @ Facebook @ Bandcamp

This Saturday, March 17, St. Ann's Church will host the second installation of String Theories, the joint partnership between ISSUE Project Room and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn that provides artists with an opportunity to premiere new experimental works for orchestra. This year's commission features works composed by Anthony Coleman, C. Spencer Yeh, MV Carbon, and Eric Wubbels, which is awesome, because for most of these artists this is their first opportunity to compose works on such a large scale (check out this interview with Spencer regarding the transition from solo and improvisational work to composing for an orchestra). I'm super excited to see what these guys come up with--what does Burning Star Core sound like with 10 VIOLINS? Will all the musicians be equipped with circuit-bent TV instruments? These and more mysteries will be illuminated on Saturday night. 

Until then, listen to this live recording of Katherine Young's composition from last year's program, titled Inhabitation of Time. Young is a bassoonist and composer who received an emerging artist commission from ISSUE last year, and this piece sounds like what it would be like to try to walk in a straight line on the quantum level--variables constantly shifting and rearranging, time stretching and compressing. What kinds of physical laws will this year's String Theories defy? We don't yet know. Get your tickets here.

Newtown Radio joins the FMA with a mix of original session tracks by The Beets, My Teenage Stride, La Big Vic, The Immaculates, Punks on Mars, Light Asylum, Boy Friend, Chelsea Wolfe, Dead Gaze, Dive, Night Manager, So So Glos, Expensive Looks, Minks and Phonetag. 

"Newtown Radio is located at the Danbro Studios in Bushwick, NYC. We're here to bring you hot new bands from around the world, undiscovered local talent and hidden gems from the past"

Newtown Sessions are curated by founder/producer Colin Ilgen, and engineered by Matt Stein at his Swan7 recording studio. The sessions air Sunday nights at 9pm ET, and are also archived in video format here -- check out clips from FMA favorites Computer Magic and Dustin Wong after the jump.