Avant Music News

From Musique Machine:

Opitope - Hau
Hau is the debut of Japanese duo Tomoyoshi Date and Chihei Hatakeyama, who call themselves Opitope. Chehei released his solo debut album last year on the Kranky label, which I have yet to hear. Hau’s music was created using acoustic and electric guitars, bass, piano, vibraphone and electronics. Though the natural […]

From Philly’s Ars Nova Workshop:

Ars Nova Workshop presents:
Sunday, November 4 | 8pm
MIN XIAO-FEN ASIAN TRIO
MIN XIAO-FEN (China), pipa & electronics
OKKYUNG LEE (Korea), cello
SATOSHI TAKEISHI (Japan), percussion & electronics
Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catharine Street
$15 General Admission | Ticket buyers may join us for a pre-concert
reception beginning at 6:30pm
Purchase tickets online today:
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&
eventId=208085
Read today’s Philadelphia Daily News feature:
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/features/10883196.html
Chinese […]

From Ron Anderson:

The Molecules (Ron Anderson, Thomas Scandura, John Shiurba) are off again to Europe for some concerts thanks to the Wels Music Unlimited Festival in Wels, Austria. This year the festival has as curator Carla Kihlstedt. Carla plays violin on the new Molecules CD/DVD called Friends. 4 tracks of Friends can be heard at […]

The International Society of Improvised Music is hosting a conference this fall in the Chicago area, featuring several notable speakers.

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR IMPROVISED MUSIC
SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Evanston, Illinois USA
December 14-16, 2007
Building Bridges: Improvisation as a Unifying Agent
in Education, Arts, and Society
Featured Artists and Presenters – Jane Ira Bloom and Mark Dresser, […]

From The Squid’s Ear:

Eugene Chadbourne / Andrea Centazzo - The German Horse (Ictus)
Duane Pitre/Pilotram Ensemble - Organized Pitches Occurring in Time (Important Records)
My Fun - Sonorine (The Land of)
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Bass Clarinet & Piano (MDG)
Thanos Chrystakis - Klage (Aural Terrains)

From Bagatellen:

Rhodri Davies - over shadows - 29 Oct 07
John Butcher - The Geometry of Sentiment - 24 Oct 07

From Free Jazz:

Darren Johnston, Fred Frith, Larry Ochs, Devin Hoff Ches Smith - Reasons For Moving
Paul Dunmall - Deep See
Vandermark galore ….
Double Duo - Crossword Puzzle

Wyatt is interviewed.

Wyatting: The practice of deliberately selecting annoying or extreme music on an MP3 jukebox to cause irritation. There can’t be many musicians whose names have made it into the online Urban Dictionary, but Robert Wyatt sounds less than impressed with the honor.
“Whilst I’m proud to be the present participle of a new verb…I […]

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project, a modern classical series, is profiled.

From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:

October 27, 2007
Matthew Shipp Nu-Bop Quartet, Miller Theater
Guillermo E Brown, Daniel Carter, William Parker, Matthew Shipp

From the New York Times:

Plenty of chamber music festivals have featured works by Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. Or Charles Ives, Elliott Carter and Leon Kirchner.
But a festival that includes music by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Ives, Carter and Kirchner, all playing second fiddle to the classical works of Moondog?
“Moondog Rising,” which takes place on Friday and […]

From AAJ:

30-Oct-07 His Name Is Alive
Sweet Earth Flower: a tribute to Marion Brown (High Two Recordings)
Reviewed by Troy Collins
30-Oct-07 Carla Bley
The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu (Watt)
Reviewed by John Kelman
29-Oct-07 Alan Pasqua
The Antisocial Club (Cryptogramophone)
Reviewed by Troy Collins

From www.improvisedcommunications.com:

The Rob Brown Trio will return to New Haven’s Firehouse 12 on Friday, November 2nd to perform new music commissioned by Chamber Music America as well as selections from its latest CD, Sounds (Clean Feed Records). Led by New York alto saxophonist/composer Rob Brown, this unusual working ensemble features New Haven-based cellist Daniel […]

Jazkamer and Smegma “Heavy Fog” (mp3) from “Endless Coast” (No Fun Productions) More On This Album

From Chicago’s Umbrella Music:

Wednesday, 31 October 2007
The Hideout
10:00PM | Kvernberg/Lonberg-Holm Duo
Ola Kvernberg - violin
Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello
11:00PM | NRG Ensemble
presents Hal-the-weenie - The Music of Hal Russell
Mars Williams - woodwinds
Chuck Burdelik - woodwinds
Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello
Brian Sandstrom - bass
Kent Kessler - bass
Steve Hunt - drums
$7 cover
PLUS | DJ Sets: Frank Rosaly rotates The Guilty Pleasures
November […]