Due to inclement weather, this concert has been postponed to a date yet undecided.
CAPA Cabaret Theater
111 9th St
Free Admission
CAPA High School’s Antithesis Ensemble, directed by Greg Davis and Lenny Young, presents an evening of “non-traditional” music focusing on the theme of graphic notation. The program includes major works by composers such as Kagel and Cardew in addition to compositions by CAPA Students.
Antithesis presents a concert featuring music by forerunners of the “Ambient” movement including Satie, Cage, and Reich as well as works by students of CAPA 6-12.
Short notice, but there’s a fascinating event happening next Friday (the 17th) at 1107 Greenfield Ave. — a festive holiday party/experimental music show. If you’re a fan of food, beer, the end of the semester, Christmas, creepy basements, apples, and awesome improvisatory music, or even just some of the aforementioned things, you don’t want to miss this one. Music starts at 8:00, party continues, all are invited to stay and partake. A modest donation ($3) to help defray refreshment costs is requested, beverages and food welcomed.
Pittsburgh experimental music collective The Outer Circle play pieces by David Bernabo, Aaron Brooks, Elliott Sharp, and Steve Reich, plus free improvisation.
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.”
This Saturday, March 13, marks the last occasion to see the very unique HiTEC, an ensemble of Pittsburgh musicians and performers utilizing instruction pieces, chance, improvisation, theatrics, and a giant spinning Wheel-of-Fortune. Intrigued? Well, you should be and you probably come to this event, because it is literally your last chance to see the act. Extensive detail below…
HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative),
the experimental orchestra founded by
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
will present its last ‘UNCERT’ (Uncertainty Concert), Saturday, March 13, 2010, 8PM (doors open 7:30PM), at the Kresge Recital Hall
in the CFA (Center for Fine Arts) at CMU (Carnegie Mellon University)
- $6.00 suggested donation, free to CMU students. (more…)
loadbang is an exciting, New York-based contemporary music group featuring Pittsburgh native Andy Kozar. loadbang comes into Pittsburgh this week for two concerts—on Saturday night at Garfield Art works and on Sunday night at Trinity Lutheran Church in Freeport. Andy was in town in June and I had a chance to sit down and talk with him about how loadbang formed and what to look forward to during their concerts here. One of the highlights is sure to be a new piece by David Lang, composed especially for loadbang, in which Lang resets the lyrics to Waiting for the Man by the Velvet Underground. You can find out about how it came to be and more in the video below.
HiTE Club
Sunday, April 26
New Hazlett Theater
8PM – 11PM
joy toujours
Tony Blowad
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
Donations only.
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joy toujours
Ukelele, guitar, violin
Maybe other musicians
Music you can play while your four year old is sleeping
ie. You are beautiful-core
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Tony Blowad
Tony Blowad is the new duo between Pittsburgh musician David Bernabo (Assembly, Vale and Year, HiTEC) and Pittsburgh-by-way-of-Bloomington and Chicago musician Matt Griffin (Unstable Ensemble, OIO, Early Day Miners). The duo is awaiting their first show where they will perform together for the first time, Bernabo on prepared and unprepared guitar and Griffin on drum kit + implements. Improvisations will be guided by phrases pulled from a hat, phrases that were written before the set but not shared. This first set will be the beginning of a new recording project and possibly other performances.
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tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE: “Guitarists Anonymous Withdrawal Aids”
This triple-projection (video, slides, filmstrip) w/ live soundtrack addresses the serious problem of guitar addiction. Have you ever noticed that for everyone you know who plays, for example, nondo, there’re probably at least a million who play guitar? The reason for this is simple: nondo is a benign instrument, the guitar is highly addictive. Given that the other acts on this program are all guitar acts, tENT feels that it’s his civic duty to present this workshop in an effort to help these poor suffering souls break their insufferable habit.
with openers Michael Boyd (electronics) and Ryan Socrates (percussion). $15 advance, $20 door. $10 with university student photo ID.
Call 412-361-2262 for information.
The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble is a legendary Chicago free-jazz outfit that has been together for 35 years, making it one of the longest continuously running groups in jazz. The EHE was formed shortly after percussionist Kahil El-Zabar graduated from the school of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in 1976 – the same AACM which had earlier spawned the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Anthony Braxton. El-Zabar teamed up with tenor saxophonist Edward Wilkerson, Jr. to play music that combined contemporary African American musical styles, like jazz, with more traditional African instrumentation and rhythms. The duo would frequently swell to a trio in those early years, adding musicians like saxophonist Light Henry Huff and Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre. In 1988, they added trombonist and conga player Joseph Bowie, the leader of the jazz-funk group Defunkt. In 1997, Wilkerson was replaced by saxophonist Ernest “Khabeer” Dawkins who is the leader of New Horizons Ensemble, and the current ensemble was completed by the inclusion of trumpeter Corey Wilkes.
Kahil El-Zabar is also well known for his group The Ritual, which has recently included such legendary members as violinist Billy Bang and saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders. A review of the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble’s concert DVD “Hot ‘n Heavy – Live at the Ascension Loft” can be found on the All About Jazz site at this link:
