The “Sounds Like Now” festival coming up this week looks like old home week for the Downtown scene. Microtonalist David First and electronics maven Tom Hamilton curated the festival, and text composer Chris Mann is emceeing. The schedule, running from Thursday through Sunday, October 14 to 17, at La MaMa Etc., 74A East 4th St. in New York City, is as follows:
Thursday, Oct 14 8PM
“Blue” Gene Tyranny
Annea Lockwood
Petr Kotik
Alvin Lucier
Thomas BucknerFriday, Oct 15 8PM
“Blue” Gene Tyranny & Jon Gibson
Jin Hi Kim
David Behrman
Muhal Richard Abrams and Roscoe MitchellSaturday Oct 16 2PM
“Blue” Gene Tyranny, Jon Gibson & Peter Zummo
Robert Ashley
Jim Staley
David Rosenboom
Douglas EwartSaturday Oct 16 8PM
“Blue” Gene Tyranny, Jon Gibson, Peter Zummo & Leroy Jenkins
Joshua Fried
Pauline Oliveros/Deep Listening Band
Phill Niblock
Downtown Ensemble (William Hellermann/Daniel Goode/Mary Jane Leach/Peter Zummo)Sunday Oct 17 2PM
“Blue” Gene Tyranny, Jon Gibson, Peter Zummo, Leroy Jenkins & Mark Dresser
William Duckworth/Cathedral Band
Fast Forward
Carl Stone
Nicolas Collins
Michael J. SchumacherSunday Oct 17 8PM
“Blue” Gene Tyranny, Jon Gibson, Peter Zummo, Leroy Jenkins, Mark Dresser, & Roscoe Mitchell
David First & Tom Hamilton
Joan La Barbara
Kyle Gann
48nord & George Lewis
Morton Subotnick
That’s right, that’s yours truly in there on the final concert, and it’s my only New York performance this fall. (I have some San Francisco performances November 3 and 6 that I’ll tell you about later.) At “Sounds Like Now” I’m playing three of my Disklavier pieces, Bud Ran Back Out, Petty Larceny, and the world premiere of Unquiet Night – although if you’ve been listening to Postclassic Radio you may have already heard the last-named piece. [A Disklavier, since many people have no idea what one is, is an acoustic piano, with real strings struck by real felt hammers and vibrating in real air, played by a computer via MIDI cables. The sounds are not electronic, and do not play through loudspeakers.] So show up at La MaMa Etc., 74A East 4th St., and you’ll hear many of the stalwarts who inhabited the new-music scene of the 1980s and ‘90s with me.
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