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This week: concerts in New York (January 14 – January 20, 2013)

Respire | Lea Bertucci

Lea Bertucci

Lea Bertucci will premiere Respire, a composition for an ensemble of six acoustic instruments and four-channel synthesis. Conceived as a meditation on the act of breathing, this work will be based on long form patterns of inhalation/exhalation and will examine the relationship between acoustic and electric sound. The instrumentalists will be distributed throughout the balcony of Roulette’s theater to create dynamic movement of acoustic sound. Speakers will also be strategically placed throughout the theater, which will allow the synthesizer a similar sort of mobility, at turns blending and contrasting electric and acoustic sound.
Monday, January 14 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, members/students/seniors $10
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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This week: concerts in New York (December 3 – December 9, 2012)

New York release show for Nico Muhly’s “Drones”

Nico Muhly – Photo by Matthew Murphy

Nico Muhly celebrates the release of his new album, Drones with an all Nico Muhly and Philip Glass program at Le Poisson Rouge.
Monday, December 3 at 7 PM
Tickets $15 advance, $20 day of show
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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SONiC Afterhours – Innovocal @ 92Y Tribeca

It wasn’t until well after the show began that I realized how right it felt: an after-hours new-music show.  With a bar.  Why hasn’t this format taken off?  Why does the new music community (and the classical community, more broadly) stick to 8pm start times, with the occasional matinee thrown in?  And, of course, the dreaded 7:30 start time, which exists solely for the purpose of making all your friends a half-hour late because every reasonable human being knows that Concerts Start at Eight.

The official start time for Innovocal Thursday night at the 92Y Tribeca, part of the SONiC Afterhours festival-within-a-festival, was 11pm, but the show took its time as the audience got their drinks from the bar and chatted each other up on their leisurely walk to the tables.  Most of the audience appeared to be people associated with SONiC, or their friends, but rather than feeling like an insiders’ club, there was a genuinely warm social buzz in the room.  It really did have the feel of a genuine after-hours show, the kind where band members shed all the main-stage formalities and just play a stripped down, relaxed set for their friends.

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