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May 2011 at the Stone 
curated by Steve Peters / Philip Blackburn

MAY 1—15
NON SEQUITUR
CURATED BY STEVE PETERS
Nonsequitur is a non-profit org presenting experimental music since 1989, originally as a label in New Mexico (The Aerial compilation series and ¿What Next? Recordings), currently as a concert series at the Good Shepherd Center Chapel in Seattle. Nonseq director Steve Peters has curated these two weeks of shows for The Stone drawing on friends from his musical lives in NYC, New Mexico, and Seattle, with a particular emphasis on artists who have never played here before.

5/1 Sunday (GKDS)
8 pm
Matt Marble: Chain reactions and other music
Alex Waterman (cello) Katie Young (bassoon) Tucker Dulin (trombone) Andrew Lafkas (bass) Bob Jones (bass) Jim Altieri (violin) Kate Campbell (piano) Michael Vincent Waller (stereo) Ernie Brooks of Modern Lovers (bass) Till By Turning
Composer, improviser, and strategist Marble presents an evening of chain reaction improvisations, Arthur Russell homages, and maybe a string quartet

10 pm
Steve Barsotti
Steve Barsotti (electronics)
Seattle-based sound artist/improviser/instrument builder Steve Barsotti performs music for invented instruments, field recordings, and electronics.


5/2 Monday (MP)
7:30 and 9:30 pm
KARL BERGER’S STONE WORKSHOP ORCHESTRA
7:30—Workshop/Rehearsal
9:30—Performance
Art Bailey (accordion) Jeremy Carlstedt (drums) Jorge Sylvester, David Schnug (alto sax) Stephen Gauci (tenor sax) Catherine Sikora (tenor and soprano sax) Skye Steele (violin) Sylvain Leroux (flutes) Thomas Heberer (trumpet) Patrick Glynn, Adam Caine, (guitar) Dominic Lash, David Perrott, Adam Lane (bass) Ingrid Sertso (vocals) Karl Berger (piano, melodica, conducting)
All are welcome to the 7:30 rehearsal and 9:30 performance for one fee of Ten Dollars. Contact creativemusicstudio@gmail.com for future participation in Karl Berger’s Workshop Orchestra project.


5/3 Tuesday (LS)
8 pm
Nurit Tilles plays David Mahler’s “Only Music Can Save Me Now”
Nurit Tilles (piano) David Mahler (voice)
Pieces from their recent New World CD, spanning the 1970s to the opening decade of the 2000s, with singing by Tilles, Mahler, and Julie Hanify. Fifteen Dollars.

10 pm
Nurit Tilles plays new piano music by David Mahler
Nurit Tilles (piano) David Mahler (voice)
Right out of the oven (some have been roasting slowly for awhile), new piano pieces, some with voice, served up for the first time. Fifteen Dollars.


5/4 Wednesday (NL)
8 pm
Two Bamboo Flutes
Steve Gorn (bansuri) Ralph Samuelson (shakuhachi)
Fragments of Teiji Ito’s masterpiece “Watermill” will be performed along with music by Gorn and others.

10 pm
Jeph Jerman
Jeph Jerman (natural/found objects)
Intimate, unamplified improvisations from this Arizona animist.


5/5 Thursday (YT)
8 pm
Lyn Goeringer
Lyn Goeringer (electronics)
Subtle electronic music for gestural interfaces, lights, and theremin.

10 pm
Matthew Ostrowski
Matthew Ostrowski (electronics) Jen Baker (trombone) Reuben Radding (bass)


5/6 Friday (GK)
8 pm
Tiffany Lin & Ranjit Bhatnagar
Tiffany Lin (piano, toy piano) Ranjit Bhatnagar (machines)
Complex lush rhythms on piano and repetitive toy player piano tooting combined with electronics, robots, and humans.

10 pm
Kikuchi/Radding/Stein/Wooley
Paul Kikuchi (drums) Reuben Radding (bass) Jason Stein (bass clarinet) Nate Wooley (amplified trumpet)
Seattle drummer/percussionist/instrument builder Paul Kikuchi teams up with two great improvisers from New York plus one from Chicago.


5/7 Saturday (RK)
8 pm
Crosstalk
Jesse Canterbury (clarinet) Tiffany Lin (piano) Brian Cobb (bass) Paul Kikuchi (percussion)
Crosstalk stacks interesting harmonies and exciting improvisation on top of catchy rhythms, solid grooves, and lyrical melodies in a strange new hybrid of jazz, chamber music, and sound art

10 pm
Triptet
Tom Baker (fretless guitar) Michael Monhart (sax, percussion) Greg Campbell (drums, cheap electronics)
Celebrating the release of their new CD, Triptet is a meeting of minds and spontaneous electrical impulses between three versatile, imaginative and fiercely original improvisers.


5/8 Sunday (GK)
8 pm
Tom Swafford & friends
Tom Swafford (violin) Leanne Darling (viola) Brian Sanders (cello) Reuben Radding (bass) Sally Wall (oboe) Michael McGinnis (clarinet) Jen Baker (trombone) Nathan Koci (accordion) Cory Bracken (log drum)
Ex-Seattle fiddler Tom Swafford presents short solo compositions for various instruments.

10 pm
Reptet
Samantha Boshnack (trumpet) Chris Credit (sax) Izaak Mills (reeds) Nelson Bell (trombone) Tim Carey (bass) John Ewing (drums)
Seattle’s amped-up sextet throws a Manhattan CD-release party for their new release “At the Cabin.”


5/9 Monday (MP)
7:30 and 9:30 pm
KARL BERGER’S STONE WORKSHOP ORCHESTRA
7:30—Workshop/Rehearsal
9:30—Performance
Art Bailey (accordion) Jeremy Carlstedt (drums) Jorge Sylvester, David Schnug (alto sax) Stephen Gauci (tenor sax) Catherine Sikora (tenor and soprano sax) Skye Steele (violin) Sylvain Leroux (flutes) Thomas Heberer (trumpet) Patrick Glynn, Adam Caine, (guitar) Dominic Lash, David Perrott, Adam Lane (bass) Ingrid Sertso (vocals) Karl Berger (piano, melodica, conducting)
All are welcome to the 7:30 rehearsal and 9:30 performance for one fee of Ten Dollars. Contact creativemusicstudio@gmail.com for future participation in Karl Berger’s Workshop Orchestra project.


5/10 Tuesday (JM)
8 pm
Lori Goldston
Lori Goldston (cello)
Seattle’s most versatile cellist weaves together years of wildly varied experiences and interests as a composer, collaborator, band leader (Black Cat Orchestra, Spectratone International), improvisor, and side player (Nirvana, David Byrne, Natacha Atlas, Mirah, Cat Power, Ellen Fullman, Earth), referencing musics from eras and geographies near and far.

10 pm
Robert Millis
Robert Millis (guitar, found sounds, 78s) Steve Roden (small instruments, objects, electronics)
The taller, louder half of Climax Golden Twins (Seattle), documentarian for Sublime Frequencies, and curator of Victrola Favorites in a rare improvised duet with acclaimed visual/sound artist Steve Roden (Los Angeles). Lower case sounds, quiet ambiance and field recordings, mingle with guitar, and found sounds.


5/11 Wednesday (DS)
8 pm
An Evening of the Music of Peter Garland
Peter Garland (piano)
Garland plays two pieces from “Bush Radio Calling” (1992), “Goddess of Liberty (You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away)” (1989), and his lyrically reductionist classic “The Days Run Away” (1971), as well as the late Terry Jennings’ “Winter Sun” (1966).

10 pm
An Evening of the Music of Peter Garland
Peter Garland (composer)
Garland performs his own “After the Wars” (2006-07) + Cold Blue label mate Michael Byron’s “Song of Lifting Up the Head” (1972).


5/12 Thursday (JI)
8 pm
Ellen Band
Sound artist Ellen Band with saxophonist David Sholl present electro-sonic collaborations, some composed, others improvised, mixing swirling layers of sonorous, textural tone/noise clusters derived from real-world sounds and live saxophone and electronics.

10 pm
Stephen Vitiello & Taylor Dupree
Stephen Vitiello (electronics) Taylor Dupree
Solos and duo: analog electronics, laptops, and field recordings.


5/13 Friday (MJ)
8 pm
Garrett Fisher Ensemble
Soloists Margaret Lancaster (flute) Dean Moore (percussion, gongs) Byron Schenkman (piano)
Featuring soloists Margaret Lancaster, Dean Moore, Byron Schenkman. Inspired by Indian raga, opera, Early Music, and Noh, Seattle composer Garrett Fisher explores the connection between ritualistic intensity and improvisatory freedom. The ensemble performs his “Piano Raga #1” + instrumental music inspired by his opera “At the Hawk’s Well.”

10 pm
Chris Stover, new music for four trombones
Chris Stover, Steve Swell, Alan Ferber, Chris Washburne (trombones)
New compositions that explore processual frameworks for improvisation.


May 14
Dragon’s Eye Recordings
Electro-acoustic music from the Dragon’s Eye Recordings label.

5/14 Saturday (TD)
8 pm
Yann Novak, Robert Crouch
Yann Novak, Robert Crouch (laptops)
Subtle, slowly evolving works woven from processed field recordings by these two Los Angeles sound artists. Crouch performs music from his debut CD, "An Occupied Space"

10 pm
Kamran Sadeghi
Kamran Sadeghi (electronics)
This Seattle > NYC transplant (aka Son of Rose) is all about hyper-magnification, stillness, unexpected shifts, and sharp punctuations, with a strong emphasis on process, physicality, and kinetics.


5/15 Sunday (CB)
8 pm
Cohen/Feeney/Rawlings
Lou Cohen (wiimote/laptop) Tim Feeney (percussion, electronics) Vic Rawlings (amplified cello, open-circuit electronics.)
From Boston, solo and group composition/improvisation based in sound, process and form, inspired by installation.

10 pm
Steven M. Miller
Steven M. Miller
Structured improvisations for field recordings, signal processing, and live electronics from this composer currently based in Singapore.


5/16 Monday (MP)
7:30 and 9:30 pm
KARL BERGER’S STONE WORKSHOP ORCHESTRA
7:30—Workshop/Rehearsal
9:30—Performance
Frederika Krier (violin) Miguel Malla (clarinet) Steve Swell (trombone) Art Bailey (accordion) Jeremy Carlstedt (drums) Jorge Sylvester, David Schnug (alto sax) Stephen Gauci (tenor sax) Catherine Sikora (tenor and soprano sax) Skye Steele (violin) Sylvain Leroux (flutes) Thomas Heberer (trumpet) Patrick Glynn, Adam Caine, (guitar) Dominic Lash, David Perrott, Adam Lane (bass) Ingrid Sertso (vocals) Karl Berger (piano, melodica, conducting)
All are welcome to the 7:30 rehearsal and 9:30 performance for one fee of Ten Dollars. Contact creativemusicstudio@gmail.com for future participation in Karl Berger’s Workshop Orchestra project.


MAY 17—MAY 31
INNOVA
CURATED BY PHILIP BLACKBURN
Innova Recordings is dedicated to forward-looking (-hearing?) work that pushes and challenges the boundaries of contemporary music. The label’s releases are less dictated by record-bin-constraints or typical notions of marketability, but by the integrity of the work, its originality, conceptual richness and technical quality, and the artist’s willingness to support and promote the release.

5/17 Tuesday (MJJ)
8 pm
Ben Gallina/SALO
Ben Gallina (bass, compositions) Red Wierenga (piano, keyboards) Alex Wyatt (drums) Josh Rutner (clarinet, bass clarinet) Andrew Smiley (guitar) Ed RosenBerg (tenor sax) Alex Hamlin (alto, bari sax)
Sometimes watercolor sometimes meat grinder. If undercooked then seasoned well at least. If overcook than crispy-like, or stew. Maybe a film with no screen. Plays novels and songs mostly but the characters always change their hearts and faces. http://www.salomusic.com/

10 pm
The Katie Bull Group Project
Katie Bull (vocals, composer, lyricist) Landon Knoblock (piano) Joe Fonda (bass) George Schuller (drums) Jeff Lederer (reeds)
The Katie Bull Group Project presents music from its upcoming June innova release “Freak Miracle.” A downtown cutting-edge inter-arts vocalist, joined by veteran improvisational masters—Bull and her Group Project will present a bevy of Bull compositions, interspersed with diamond-in-the-rough takes on the family jewels: Jobim, VanHeusen, and Gershwin. Charts are nautical maps that set the band free on open seas. Bull and her band of out(er)-edged dervishes are uncategorizable. Falling between genres, slipping sliding bumping grinding swinging and spinning light out of something blue. http://www.katiebull.com


5/18 Wednesday (DDT)
8 pm
Andrew Sterman Group
Andrew Sterman (tenor sax, flutes) Todd Reynolds (violin) Mick Rossi (piano) Kermit Driscoll (bass) Tim Horner (drums)
Andrew Sterman’s music mixes a chant sensibility with improvised forms and long passages of composed chamber jazz. At times deeply calm, other times inciting, Sterman uses his saxophones and flutes as instruments of medicine and instruments of quirky humor. Concert set includes pieces from his 2011 Innova release Wet Paint. http://andrewsterman.com/

10 pm
Jon Irabagon’s Outright!
Jon Irabagon (sax) Ralph Alessi (trumpet) Jacob Sacks (piano) John Hebert (bass) Tom Rainey (drums)
Continuing in the vein created in his first Outright! record, Jon has written a new set of music that takes the different and disparate styles found under the jazz umbrella and has combined them, using group and free improvisation to tie them all together. These influences include references to the music of King Curtis, the Brecker Brothers, Duke Ellington, Ornette Coleman, and Mongo Santamaria.


5/19 Thursday (GK)
8 pm
blood drum spirit
David Bindman (saxes) Wes Brown (contrabass) Art Hirahara (piano) Royal Hartigan (drumset, african percussion)
blood drum spirit brings a new global vision to music, exploring deep into the world’s great traditions through the prism of live jazz performance. Ensemble members have lived, played and toured all over the planet, including four tours of China. We incorporate elements (such as asymmetrical time cycles and polyrhythms) from Asian, African, Native American, and other musical cultures into our compositions, interactions, and improvisations. http://www.blooddrumspirit.com/

10 pm
Sean Noonan’s Brewed by Noon
Sean Noonan’s Boxing Dreams String Quartet
Tom Swafford, Patti Kilroy (violins) Leanne Darling (viola) David West (cello) Sean Noonan (drum set, percussion, stories) also a mystery guest
Drummer, composer, and storyteller Sean Noonan will premiere “Night Music” Book 1, a story transformed into a musical dream, about a wayfaring stranger, who accidentally passes through a door, becoming trapped inside a wall. The man eventually becomes apart of the wall, living a life of solitude. He learns the only way to overcome his existence is by creating his own world through dreams and stories. The evening is an album release concert for Sean Noonan’s latest album “Set the Hammer Free.” http://www.noonansmusic.com/


5/20 Friday (DDT)
8 pm
George Lewis and Marina Rosenfeld
George Lewis (computer) Marina Rosenfeld (turntables)
George Lewis and Marina Rosenfeld perform "Sour Mash", their collaborative vinyl composition released in 2009 on Innova. For this performance, Lewis will play computer and Rosenfeld turntables, using their composition as an electro-acoustic palette for live recombination. http://www.marinarosenfeld.com/

10 pm
Psychoangelo
Glen Whitehead (trumpets, minute devices) Michael Theodore (guitars, small objects)
Colorado acoustic/electro-device duo Psychoangelo (Glen Whitehead trumpet, electronics, Michael Theodore, various instruments, electronics) employ trumpets, small objects, minute noise makers, metals, sand, grains, and guitar to forge layered mutations of sonic happenings that move, breath, shrink and expand in ambient orchestral tapestries.


5/21 Saturday (JI)
8 and 10 pm
JOHN ZORN IMPROV NIGHT—A STONE BENEFIT
John Zorn (sax) Andy Laster (sax) Jim Staley (trombone) Leo Genovese (piano) Kevin Norton (vibes) Lukas Ligeti (drums) David Watson (guitar) Uri Gurvich (sax) Brian Chase (drums) Chris Hoffman (cello) Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet) Ryan Sawyer (drums) and MANY SPECIAL GUESTS
COME AND SUPPORT THE STONE! TWENTY DOLLARS


5/22 Sunday (GK)
8 pm
Ken Field’s Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Alex Smith (electric bass) Blake Newman (acoustic bass) Joey Lefitz, Kenny Wollesen (drums) Alex Asher (trombone) Josh Roseman, Daniel Heath (trombone) Jerry Sabatini (trumpets) Ken Field (alto sax)
Boston saxophonist & composer Ken Field (Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Willie Loco Alexander, Chandler Travis Philharmonic, Bridgman/Packer Dance, Sesame St) brings his improvisational brass band, with releases on Innova & Cuneiform, to NYC for their first area performance in 2 years. This special collaboration with guests Wollesen and Roseman will be recorded. Avant second line funk. http://www.revolutionarysnakeensemble.org/

10 pm
Joel Harrison’s String Choir Project—Music of Paul Motian
Zach Brock, Sam Bardfeld, Mat Maneri, Dana Leong (string quartet) Liberty Ellman and Joel Harrison (guitars)
String Choir performs composer/ guitarist Harrison’s arrangements of the music of legendary jazz drummer Paul Motian. His arrangements follow Harrison’s vision, while attempting to capture Paul’s elusive, beguiling approach to drumming and writing. The music is at once quizzical, playful, melancholy, and fierce, falling between classical, jazz, and folk traditions. http://www.joelharrison.com/


5/23 Monday (YT)
7:30 and 9:30 pm
KARL BERGER’S STONE WORKSHOP ORCHESTRA
7:30—Workshop/Rehearsal
9:30—Performance
Frederika Krier (violin) Miguel Malla (clarinet) Steve Swell (trombone) Art Bailey (accordion) Jeremy Carlstedt (drums) Jorge Sylvester, David Schnug (alto sax) Stephen Gauci (tenor sax) Catherine Sikora (tenor and soprano sax) Skye Steele (violin) Sylvain Leroux (flutes) Thomas Heberer (trumpet) Patrick Glynn, Adam Caine, (guitar) Dominic Lash, David Perrott, Adam Lane (bass) Ingrid Sertso (vocals) Karl Berger (piano, melodica, conducting)
All are welcome to the 7:30 rehearsal and 9:30 performance for one fee of Ten Dollars. Contact creativemusicstudio@gmail.com for future participation in Karl Berger’s Workshop Orchestra project.


5/24 Tuesday (JC)
8 pm
Prester John
Shawn Persinger (guitar, vocals) David Miller (mandolin, vocals)
“Kitchen-Sink” guitarist Shawn Persinger pulls out all the stops with mandolinist David Miller. You’ll hear prog-tinged jazz, rock, classical, klezmer, manouche, newgrass and pop…all in one song! The rare act that lives up to the hyperbole. http://www.persingermusic.com/

10 pm
Shadow Trio
Gene Segal (guitar, composition) Steve Laspina (bass) Jeff Davis (drums) Jon Irabagon (sax)
“The way I see it, composition is more than a vehicle for improvisations. I wrote this music with that thought in mind. I am also looking forward to performing it with a very special group of musicians, in a great venue for live music.” — Gene Segal http://www.genesegal.com/


5/25 Wednesday (BK)
8 pm
Ana Milosavljevic
Ana Milosavljevic (composer, violin, electric violin) with guests performers
A multi-talented Serbian native and Manhattan-based artist, Ana has stunned audiences at venues from the legendary Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center to the cozy Cornelia Street Café and all points in between. Her cutting-edge contemporary music repertoire is influenced by various genres including traditional Balkan music, electronica, jazz, pop, and hip-hop. For her Stone performance, Ana is creating new works featuring her red Viper electric violin; she will also present selections from her new innova CD Reflections and a new work by Eve Beglarian. http://www.anamilo.com/

10 pm
Todd Reynolds
Todd Reynolds (violin)
Master fiddler Todd Reynolds will play tunes from his latest innova release including David T. Little’s “and the sky was still there”, Paula Matthusen’s “The End of an Orange,” and his own stuff like “Icy Sleeves of Green,” “Outerborough,” among others. http://toddreynolds.wordpress.com/


5/26 Thursday (CL)
8 pm
Denman Maroney and Theo Bleckman
Theo Bleckmann (voice) Denman Maroney (hyperpiano)
Theo and Denman will perform Denman’s song cycle of poems by W.B. Yeats called “Music for Words, Perhaps” and recently released on eponymous Innova CD 717. The cycle includes settings of “The Song of the Happy Shepherd,” “The Second Coming,” “The Crazed Moon,” “The Song of Wandering Aengus,” “A Drinking Song,” “A Drunken Man’s Praise of Sobriety,” “The Cap and Bells,” “Three Songs to the One Burden,” “The Two Trees,” and “The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner.” http://www.denmanmaroney.com/

10 pm
Adam Niewood & his Rabble Rousers
Brad Shepik (guitar) Kristjan Randalu (piano) Chris Higgins (acoustic bass) Rohin Khemani (tabla, drums, percussion, loops, effects) Fima Ephron (electric bass) Greg Ritchie (drums) Adam Niewood (saxes, woodwinds, ewi, composition)
Serendipitously all seven original members from the Innova Recordings double-disc release “Epic Journey,” are gathering Thursday May 26th 2011 at 10:00PM. Bandleader and composer Adam Niewood started writing music for his 7-piece ensemble thinking of it more like an orchestra: Two drummers, two bass players, two chordal instruments, and a choir of woodwinds and Electronic Wind Instrument... The ensemble floats seamlessly from one composition to the next. Playing all original selections from Niewood’s double CD “Epic Journey” spanning a broad variety of sonic textures—along with some newer intricately orchestrated works featured on Niewood’s upcoming Innova Release “Homage” featuring John Scofield, John Patitucci, and Jack DeJohnette. http://www.niewood.com


5/27 Friday (KR)
8 pm
Neil Rolnick
Neil Rolnick (laptop) MAYA: Sato Moughalian (flute) Bridget Kibbey (harp) John Hadfield (percussion) Robert Osborne (baritone) Bob Gluck (piano)
Neil Rolnick and friends will perform music from two of his Innova CDs. From the most recent release, “Extended Family”, Bob Gluck will join him on “Faith,” an extended virtuoso romp for piano and computer which ranges from sweet chorales to interactive improvisations and back to twisted ragtime. From Rolnick’s CD “Digits,” Robert Osborne will perform the song cycle “Making Light of It,” on poems by Philip Levine, and the trio MAYA (Sato Moughalian, Bridget Kibbey, and John Hadfield) will play “Uptown Jump.”

10 pm
Alexander Berne & ‘The Abandoned Orchestra’
A Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Abandoned Orchestra.
Floridian reedman/composer, Alexander Berne effuses ambient solo atmospherics with mournful wind instruments and nuanced studio craft. Long-breathed and contemplative, Berne’s music is enshrined in his 3CD innova release, “Composed and Performed by,” newly reimagined here for live solo with electronics — a concerto with abandoned orchestra. http://www.alexanderberne.com/


5/28 Saturday (LS)
8 pm
Glass Farm Ensemble
Gregor Kitzis (violin) Matt Goeke (cello) Yvonne Troxler (piano)
The Glass Farm Ensemble will be performing Paula Matthusen’s “in Absentia” for violin, piano and miniature electronics. Hans Witschi’s “New Work for violin, cello, and piano” (world premiere) commissioned by GFE, Yvonne Troxler’s “Brouhaha” for violin, cello and three glass bowls and Bruno Mantovani’s “8 Moments Musicaux for violin, cello and piano.” Matthusen’s “in Absentia” examines by way of sonic resonance ideas of memory, and how repetition of the facets of the remembered may eventually create its own patterns in absence of the thing remembered. Witschi’s new composition works with visual images and their transformation into sound. Troxler’s Brouhaha explores the sound qualities of strings and glass bowls played with mallets, ball bearings and other devices. “8 Moments Musicaux” by the famous young French composer Bruno Mantovani are virtuous contemplations on the possibilities of the three instruments.

10 pm
Jamie Begian’s Lost and Found
Jon Blanck (tenor sax) Jamie Begian (guitar) Chris DeAngelis (bass) Tim Walsh (drums)
Jamie Begian’s Lost and Found is a quartet that, collectively, has no idea what it’s doing but isn’t afraid to do it anyway. Open-ended exploration of our original themes with a focus on funky grooves can be expected, as well as rapid-fire changes of texture and style. http://www.jamiebegian.com/


5/29 Sunday (BK)
8 pm
Jason Kao Hwang/EDGE
Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet, flugelhorn) Andrew Drury (drum set) Ken Filiano (string bass) Jason Kao Hwang (composer, violin, viola)
EDGE has embraced both past and future with musical offerings resonant with human and animal overtones. Their instruments sing through sharp lines vibrating between history, cultures and genres. They will perform music that is new and old and current. http://www.jasonkaohwang.com/

10 pm
The Paul Austerlitz Group
Paul Austerlitz (bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet) Benito Gonzalez (piano) Eric Wheeler (bass) Babatunde Lea (drums)
Quartet versions of music from Austerlitz’s innova CD entitled “Journey”, plus new compositions. Freely improvised explorations of Haitian and Afro-Dominican roots, focusing on conversations between the bass clarinet and drum. http://www.paulausterlitz.org/


5/30 Monday (YH)
7:15 and 9:00 pm
KARL BERGER’S STONE WORKSHOP ORCHESTRA
7:15—Workshop/Rehearsal
9:00—Performance
Frederika Krier (violin) Miguel Malla (clarinet) Steve Swell (trombone) Art Bailey (accordion) Jeremy Carlstedt (drums) Jorge Sylvester, David Schnug (alto sax) Stephen Gauci (tenor sax) Catherine Sikora (tenor and soprano sax) Skye Steele (violin) Sylvain Leroux (flutes) Thomas Heberer (trumpet) Patrick Glynn, Adam Caine, (guitar) Dominic Lash, David Perrott, Adam Lane (bass) Ingrid Sertso (vocals) Karl Berger (piano, melodica, conducting)
All are welcome to the 7:15 rehearsal and 9:00 performance for one fee of 20 Dollars (10 Dollars for students, musicians and seniors). Contact creativemusicstudio@gmail.com for future participation in Karl Berger’s Workshop Orchestra project.


5/31 Tuesday (JI)
8 pm
Zeitgeist
Heather Barringer, Patti Cudd (percussion) Pat O’Keefe (woodwinds) Shannon Wettstein (piano)
Lauded for providing “a once-in-a-lifetime experience for adventurous concertgoers,” Minnesota-based Zeitgeist new music ensemble has birthed over 150 works in its three-decades-long existence, from Budd and Rzewski to Kitzke and the next up-and-comers. The Stone performance, featuring their signature combination of two percussion, piano and reed, draws from some of their recent innova releases, including Into the Same River by Czech Ivo Medek, If Tigers Were Clouds by the late Eleanor Hovda, Lucky Dreams by Anthony

Gatto, and Night Singing by Ohio-based Andrew Rindfleisch. http://www.zeitgeistnewmusic.org/

10 pm
Prism Quartet
Matthew Levy, Timothy McAllister, Zach Shemon, Taimur Sullivan (saxes)
PRISM, a leading quartet of sax all-stars, performs a program of stunning music from their new innova CD, DEDICATION, featuring 23 short works composed in 2004 in celebration of the Quartet’s 20th anniversary. Music by Tim Berne, William Bolcom, Zack Browning, Robert Capanna, Donnacha Dennehy, Dennis DeSantis, Nick Didkovsky, Jason Eckardt, Roshanne Etezady, Reneé Favand-See, Perry Goldstein, Jennifer Higdon, Libby Larsen, Matthew Levy, Keith Moore, Greg Osby, Frank J. Oteri, James Primosch, Tim Ries, Adam Silverman, Ken Ueno, Gregory Wanamaker, and Chen Yi. http://www.prismquartet.com/