Local new music organization TILT Brass celebrates the release of its first full-length recording by presenting an evening of adventurous brass and electronic music. In addition to featuring its own resident ensembles, the 10-piece TILT Creative Brass Band and TILT SIXtet, the event includes the debut collaboration between all-star improvising duos Phantom Orchard (Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori) and Nate Wooley/Peter Evans Trumpet Duo. The April 2 festivities also function as the official launch of and benefit for TILT Brass, Inc., the administrative and fundraising branch of this “vital new music ensemble” (Time Out NY).
Program: Rhys Chatham – Waterloo 2 (1985), John King – Bagdad Blues (in memoriam James Tenney) (2007), Chris McIntyre – Metaxis 2.3 (2007), Lois V. Vierk – Jagged Mesa (1990), Christian Marclay – Through The Looking Glass (1985), Mauricio Kagel – Selection from 10 Marches (to miss the victory) (1978-79), Curtis Hasselbring – Revisitor (2009), Improvisation by Phantom Orchard (Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori) & Nate Wooley – Peter Evan, Fredric Rzewski – Les Moutons de Panurge (1969)
Featuring Performances by: Phantom Orchard (Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori) with Nate Wooley/Peter Evans Trumpet Duo ::1st meeting of this world-class improvising “double duo” TILT Creative Brass Band ::Works by Curtis Hasselbring, Mauricio Kagel TILT SIXtet ::Works by John King, Chris McIntyre TILT Brass, various forces ::Works by Lois Vierk, Rhys Chatham, Fredric Rzewski, and Christian Marclay
Date + Times
Saturday, April 2
7:30–10pm
Admissions
$10 at the Door
Location
The Main Gallery
51 Bergen St.