Mauricio Kagel’s “Ludwig van”
The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United States90 mins, black and white, German with English subtitles
Free
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Anthony Coleman and Dan Blacksberg
University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesBowerbird is pleased to present a night featuring New York-based pianist Anthony Coleman + Philadelphia trombonist Dan Blacksberg. These far-reaching musicians will each play full solo sets before coming together at the end to play an extended duo piece A key figure of the downtown New York scene since the early 1980s, pianist Anthony Coleman…
$12 – $20
Erik Ruin’s Long/Gone
The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesCurrently over 100 feet in length, LONG/GONE is a single intricately-cut piece of paper which flows freely from image to image. Narratives and scenarios (often drawn from classic works of literature from Homer to Dante) emerge and collapse and spill over into each other. In performance, Erik scrolls the paper-cut continually across the surface of…
Free
Music of James Tenney
Fleisher Art Memorial 719 Catharine St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesOne of the most influential American composers of the 20th century, James Tenney (1934-2006) combined the experimental spirit of Cage and company with a rigorous grounding in acoustics, perception, and information theory. This program explores Tenney’s music for string instruments, from his diagrammatic Postal Pieces (1965-71) to his last major work, the string quartet Arbor…
$12 – $20
Travis Johnson (Grooms) & Hallowed Bells
5th and Market St 5th and Market Street, Philadelphia, PAThe Double Decker Music series is a unique, intimate mobile concert experience on an open-top double-decker bus. Each evening features live music performances in an urban setting paired with a guided tour of Philadelphia's attractions. The Double Decker Music Series is hosted by Sebastian Petsu, a Philadelphia tour guide on buses and on foot since 2005 His love of both Philadelphia's music…
$27
Moondog II
University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesLouis Thomas Hardin, Jr., better known as Moondog, is one of the most famous and influential outsider musicians of the twentieth century. Born in Kansas to a devoutly religious family, Hardin was blinded at age 16 when he dug up a live dynamite cap. For 30 years, from the early 1940s to the early 1970s,…
$12 – $20
Nick Millevoi / Mike Kennedy duo + Apologist (Rose Rae)
5th and Market St 5th and Market Street, Philadelphia, PAThe Double Decker Music series is a unique, intimate mobile concert experience on an open-top double-decker bus. Each evening features live music performances in an urban setting paired with a guided tour of Philadelphia's attractions. The Double Decker Music Series is hosted by Sebastian Petsu, a Philadelphia tour guide on buses and on foot since 2005 His love of both Philadelphia's music…
$27
Birdie Busch and Schuyler Thum
5th and Market St 5th and Market Street, Philadelphia, PAThe Double Decker Music series is a unique, intimate mobile concert experience on an open-top double-decker bus. Each evening features live music performances in an urban setting paired with a guided tour of Philadelphia's attractions. The Double Decker Music Series is hosted by Sebastian Petsu, a Philadelphia tour guide on buses and on foot since 2005 His love of both Philadelphia's music…
$27
Morton Feldman: Patterns in a Chromatic Field
University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesBowerbird is pleased to welcome pianist Marilyn Nonken and cellist Stephen Marotto to perform Morton Feldman's 1981 masterpiece - "Patterns in a Chromatic Field". This 80-minute odyssey offered an opportunity for contemplation, as cello and piano explored different degrees of stasis and patterns of harmony and color. Patterns in a Chromatic Field reflects his lifelong…
$12 – $20
Reidemeister Move (Robin Hayward + Christopher Williams)
University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThe Berlin-based Reidemeister Move pushs the possibilities of long tones in natural harmonies for low instruments. Robin Hayward's self-designed microtonal tuba and contrabassist Christopher Williams' slow bows meld in an unearthly fusion of overtones, undertones, noise, bodily rhythms, and spatial resonance. The members' work with Berlin's echtzeitmusik scene and LaMonte Young's legendary Theatre of Eternal…
$12 – $20
Tashi Wada Group (featuring Julia Holter and Corey Fogel)
The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesLos Angeles-based composer Tashi Wada presents his new group featuring Julia Holter and percussionist Corey Fogel performing music from Wada's new album “Nue” out this fall on Brooklyn-based label RVNG Intl. Opening the evening will be a new synthesizer duo project from Jeff Zeigler (Philadelphia) and Dash Lewis (Richmond). In Japanese, ‘nue’ is a mythological…
Free
Howard Stelzer: Crossing Parallel
The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesBoston based composer/performer Howard Stelzer performs "Crossing Parallel", a live score to Joe Taylor's poetic film footage of the American southwest. Accompanying this work will be a screening of Philadelphia based film maker David Scott Kessler's Icelandic short film Lopapeysa (with a recorded score by Mary Lattimore and Benjamin Warfield). ABOUT CROSSING PARALLEL "Crossing Parallel", an…
Free
Aizuri Quartet
University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesPraised by The Washington Post for “captivating” performances that draw from its notable “meld of intellect, technique and emotions,” the Aizuri Quartet was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2018 M Prize Chamber Arts Competition, along with top prizes at the 2017 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in Japan, and the 2015 Wigmore Hall International…
$12 – $20
HPrizm: Pressure Wave
The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesPressure Wave is a new evening length audio /visual piece by composer/ performer HPrizm (Kyle Austin). The work uses amplified resonance of urban spaces and the intersectional space between Sonic Activism, Musique concrète, and Rap's early roots to examine the dense environments and circumstances that birthed Hip Hop. HPrizm is known for "Evoking images of…
Free
Visible Cloaks
Philadelphia Butterfly Pavilion 8046 Frankford Ave, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesBowerbird is excited to present a night of electronic and experimental music inside the Philadelphia Insectarium's 7,000 square foot Butterfly Pavilion. Portland, Oregon-based duo of Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile are the open-source musical entity known as Visible Cloaks, whose debut album Reassemblage and affiliated mini-album Lex both beamed to the world via RVNG last year.…
$15
Gavin Bryars: Laude
University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States... The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He allows you to witness new wonders in the sounds around you by approaching them from a completely new angle. With a third ear maybe... Michael Ondaatj Arcana performs Gavin Bryars medieval inspired…
$12 – $20
Ben Patterson: Methods and Processes
The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesBowerbird and the Arcana New Music Ensemble are excited to present the music of Ben Patterson (1934-2016), an important and under-recognized leader of the early Fluxus movement, an international, interdisciplinary community of experimental artists that began in the early 1960s. The program represents Patterson's wide range of compositional strategies. For example - Paper Piece (for 1…
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Arcana Brass
The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesBowerbird is excited to present a rare evening of all contemporary music for brass ensemble featuring musicians from the Arcana New Music Ensemble. The program encompasses a wide variety of compositional voices from the last sixty years, including Lois V. Vierk's thorny Jagged Mesa, Michael Nyman's very un-Cagein For John Cage, and more recent works…
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