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Eavesdropping on April 17

Eavesdropping

NTQ is pleased to perform on the season opening concert of Guy Barash’s Eavesdropping Series at Spectrum NYC. Our set features music for sax quartet and electronics including: the US premiere of Ophir Ilzetzki’s Ambience for sax quartet and live electronics, Monte Weber’s Lucidity for soprano, saxophone quartet, and pre-recorded electronics, featuring soprano Alize Rozsnyai; Erin Rogers’ Mother Earth for flute, saxophone quartet, and electronics, featuring Andrea Lee Smith on flute; and Matthew Burtner’s Incantation S4-X for saxophone quartet and computer generated sound.

Guy Barash presents: Eavesdropping
Spectrum NYC – 121 Ludlow St, New York, NY
Sunday, April 17 @ 7pm
$15 door / $10 student/seniors
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Program:
Ophir Ilzetzki – Ambience
Monte Weber – Lucidity (with soprano Alize Rozsnyai)
Erin Rogers – Mother Earth (with flutist Andrea Lee Smith)
Matthew Burtner – Incantation S4-X

9 Tenor Saxophones!?

Yup that’s right. This weekend I’m headed off to Baltimore for two concerts presenting the music of Matthew Burtner, composer, performer and metasaxophone inventor. Matthew is a pioneer in electronic and multimedia compositions for saxophone. These concerts will share his music ranging from metasaxophone (sax with oodles of custom electronics), experimental turntablism and film improvisations to performances of two unprecedented compositions for nine acoustic tenor saxophones.

I’ll be performing Matthew’s Incantation S4-X with AM/PM Quartet and joining for his tenor nonets Endprint and Portals of Distortion. All of his work is awesome and you should check this out.

1st Concert: Friday, Oct 14 @ noon – MICA
2nd Concert: Saturday, Oct 15 @ 8pm – Sonic Circuits at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center

Players: Matthew Burtner, Mike Straus, Andrew Landau, Rachel Winder, Sheri Oyan, Sean Dynan, Ian Richter, Jeremiah Baker, Cara Salveson, DJ Dubble8 (Erik Spangler)

Image (from concert poster) by Intangible Arts

AM/PM @ Red Room

I’ve been running around auditioning for DMA programs this past month, but now I’m back in the swing of things. For those of you in the Baltimore area, AM/PM has a great multimedia concert coming up this weekend. We just finished up prep rehearsals in Baltimore (Coming Together pictured above), got all the videos set, and everything is ready to go! Full details:

Saturday, March 12 @ 9pm
Red Room (Normal’s Books and Records)
425 E. 31st Street
Baltimore, MD
$5 door

Program:
Thom Limbert: Numbers/Dates (quartet and audio)
Matthew Burtner: Incantation S4=X (quartet and audio)
Jacob Ter Veldhuis: Heartbreakers (quartet and audio/video)

Paul Leary: “I Have A Past Life Memory From The War That Blew The Fifth Planet Into The Asteroid Belt” and other stories from AM Radio (quartet and audio)
Kati Agócs: Hymn (quartet and commissioned video by Eli Stine)
Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together (ensemble and audio/video)

Guest performers: Karin Kilper, Domenica Romagni, Esther Hae-In Choi, and Martha Morrison

AM/PM at Metro Gallery

Last Saturday I performed with AM/PM at Metro Gallery in Baltimore. We played a really fun program focused on pieces that use prerecorded electronics:

Program:
Thom Limbert: Numbers/Dates
Kati Agócs: Hymn
Jacob Ter Veldhuis: Heartbreakers
Matthew Burtner: Incantation S4=X
Paul Leary: “I Have A Past Life Memory From The War That Blew The Fifth Planet Into The Asteroid Belt” and other stories from AM Radio

Check out Megan Ihnen’s blog post about the event.