Avant Music News

A new book on Stockhausen is reviewed and it sounds like entertaining reading, if nothing else.

Classical new-music ensemble Eighth Blackbird will be finishing up their current season over the next few weeks and will perform a few shows in Chicago, including one tonight.

Chicago, IL
Mar 30&31 8pm
Museum of Contemporary Art
Pierrot Lunaire
Chicago, IL
Apr 1 Sat 8pm
Museum of Contemporary Art
Pierrot Lunaire
New York, NY
May 6 Sat 8pm
Look & Listen Festival
with So Percussion
Chicago, IL
May 12 […]

The latest from Bagatellen.

Reuben Radding - Fugitive Pieces - 28 Mar 06
Loren Stillman - The Brothers’ Breakfast - 27 Mar 06

Oliveros is playing two nights in Philly this weekend.

Friday, March 31 | 8pm
Pauline Oliveros and the Deep Listening Band
with
Pauline Oliveros, electronics/accordian
David Gamper, piano/electronics
Stuart Dempster, trombone
plus very special guests
+Sunday, April 2 | 4pm
An Evening of New Works by Pauline Oliveros, Ben Camp, Jonathan Matis, Valerie Opielski and John Phillips
performed by
Bart Miltenberger, trumpet/flugel horn
Byard Lancaster, saxophones/flutes
Charles Cohen, […]

This year’s Edgefest lineup is stronger than usual. It has not been posted yet but advance word is as follows:

October 11-14, 2006
8 Bold Souls
Time Berne’s Paraphrase
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Oliver Lake and Mary Redhouse
Claudia Quintet
Myra Melford’s Trio M
Matt Darriau’s Paradox trio
Lars Hollmer’s A2 Global Home Project
Drew Gress’ 7 Black Butterflies group
Trio Derome/Guilbeault/Tanguay
Bottomed Out (a local […]

An interesting show in New York tonight, featuring Steve Swell’s Unified Theory of Sound, with Jemeel Moondoc (alto saxophone), Matt LaVelle (trumpet, bass clarinet), William Parker (bass), Cooper-Moore (piano), Chad Taylor (drums), Leena Conquest (voice) and Thomas Buckner (voice).

The Princeton Laptop Orchestra is getting some press lately. Check out their site for a bunch of samples.

Once again, some All About Jazz reviews:

29-Mar-06 Steve Swell
Fire Into Music (Independent)
29-Mar-06 Derek Bailey / Evan Parker
The London Concert (Psi)
28-Mar-06 Ivo Perelman Trio
Black on White (Clean Feed Records)
28-Mar-06 Michael Blake Trio
Right Before Your Very Ears (Clean Feed Records)
28-Mar-06 Rabih Abou-Khalil / Joachim Kühn / Jarrod Cagwin
Journey to the Centre of an Egg (Enja/Justin Time)
28-Mar-06 John […]

A performance featuring Henry Kaiser, Lucas Ligeti, John Oswald, Michael Snow and Casey Sokol is reviewed.

Just when you think you know about all of the labels, a one that has been around but you’ve never heard of pops up. 577 Records features the music of free-jazz player Federico Ughi. Releases include:

577-1
ASTONISHMENT
Daniel Carter
Federico Ughi
577-2
ULERS TWO
Federico Ughi
577-3
I THOUGHT IT WAS THE
END OF THE WORLD…
Steve Dalachinsky
Federico Ughi
577-4
SOUTH OF BROOKLYN
Options/Ughi
577-5
CONCRETE SCIENCE
Daniel Carter
Steve […]

Ron Anderson is touring with his many projects this Spring:

Thursday, March 30th - Moe!kestra! - Conducted improvisation where Moe Staiano uses a glossary of hand cues he uses on the musicians to create on the spot compositions. Generally he uses some written notations that are handed out before hand and cued in when desired, giving […]

Scott Amendola send us the following:

Greetings friends,
The Nels Cline singers will be playing a pair of bay area shows, a rare treat these days since Nels has joined the affable rock outfit Wilco. We will be performing some new music slated for the hard drive later this year. Ava Mendoza will be opening the […]

A couple of articles overview interesting trends in the classical world, including orchestras offering downloads and ringtones, as well as downloadable concerts on a timely basis.

Atavistic will be releasing these CDs over the next few months.

Vandermark 5 Free Jazz Classics Vols. 3 & 4 14 days until release
Peter Brötzmann ALARM 70 days until release
Michael Snow Solow Pianow 232 days until release

All About Jazz has posted an interview with Marc Ribot.