DARMSTADT INSTITUTE 2010
(Read about Darmstadt Institute on WQXR's Q2)
ISSUE Project Room presents the second annual Darmstadt Institute, a festival of interdisciplinary programming including concerts, lectures, workshops, film screenings, and talkbacks which celebrates and critically examines the continuum of the experimental tradition in music and related media. Darmstadt "Classics of the Avant Garde" is Brooklyn's most rigorous new music series, now well into its 5th year, curated by musician-composers Nick Hallett and Zach Layton.
Highlights for the second half of June include an evening of Luc Ferrari premieres presented by composer David Grubbs and Ensemble Pamplemousse; a marathon celebration of Anthony Braxton's 65th birthday featuring the premiere of excerpts from his new opera, Trillium E, performed by members of a 60-person ensemble of Braxton's acolytes; an interdisciplinary evening of "Biomusic" featuring composer David Dunn, live-cinema artist Bruce McClure, and scholar Branden Joseph; and a lecture-performance on Kenneth Gaburo's system of music theory by scholar Larry Polansky and trumpeter Nate Wooley, to name a few...
The month focuses on presenting cutting-edge new music ensembles (Tabor Winds, Batteries Duo, Magic Names Group, Cadillac Moon Ensemble etc.) and premieres by established and emerging composers alike (Elliott Sharp, Zeena Parkins, Dafna Naphtali, Mikael Karlsson to name a few) within a curated environment of film screenings, lectures, and talkbacks, with an attempt to synergize live performance and pedagogy in the public sphere. Crossover bands that embody the experimental tradition, such as Zs and Man Forever (Kid Millions from Oneida's new composition for multiple rock drummers) are programmed side by side with Darmstatdt's reputable interpretations of canonical avant garde music.
Darmstadt Institute will culminate at Le Poisson Rouge for a finale event on June 29, a sendoff concert to the International Contemporary Ensemble, as they travel to Germany for the actual Darmstädter Ferienkurse, on a program with the JACK quartet. This concert will be recorded by WQXR’s Q2 for future webcast.
full schedule at www.issueprojectroom.org
Darmstadt Institute 2010
ISSUE Project Room (at the Old American Can Factory)
232 3rd Street (at 3rd ave), Brooklyn NY 11215
Doors at 8:00pm, performances begin at 8:30pm, unless specified otherwise
Tickets $10/at the door, $9 in advance (available online at http://www.issueprojectroom.org), unless specified otherwise
F, M, R to 9th Street-4th Ave
“Yes, we’re prone to hyperbole on occasion, but trust us when we say that Darmstadt’s Essential Repertoire series…is one of the most significant musical presentations of the season” – Time Out New York