Pittsburgh New Music Net

Saturday, March 27, 2010 @ 8:00 pm, Mellon Board Room, Chatham University – Free Admission: The Bay Players Experimental Music Collective (www.bayplayers.com) performs new works and performance installations by Mike Boyd (Pittsburgh), Stephen F. Lilly and Steve Wanna (Washington, D.C.), and Kristian Twombly (Twin Cities). The event features a world premiere performance installation as well as soprano Stacey Mastrian performing John Cage’s 20th-century classic “The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs.”

A quick reminder about two three upcoming concerts:

On Thursday, February 12, David Stock leads the Duquesne Contemporary Music Ensemble in premieres by Andrew Kaiser and Paul Richards.

On Saturday, February 14, Mattin performs at Future Tenant with local improvisation artists Michael Johnsen, Melissa St. Pierre, and Tusk Lord. 

Update: On Sunday February 15, The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble performs at Carnegie Mellon’s Alumni Hall with local artists Michael Boyd and Ryan Socrates

You can find out details for both these concerts by visiting the Events Calendar.

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

Tickets are $10 at the door. With special guest Margaret Cox. 
This concert is co-sponsored with Music on the Edge.

No Triangle are a Berlin-based trio of improvisers which includes Magda Mayas (inside piano), Anthea Caddy (cello) and Annette Krebs (guitar and electronics). Their abstract sound is characterized by precise shifts, accelerations and disruptions, spanning the genres of chamber music, noise, musique concrete, and improvisation. Developing their own idiosyncratic language – based on the articulation of gesamtklang (total sound), as opposed to just pitch and harmony -the trio explores texture, space and instrument, generating a intertwining relationship of the electronic and the acoustic. (more…)