Over the past 10 years, Ensemble Pamplemousse has created a unique and focused sound world. And like
the grapefruit, it is juicy, sweet, tender and tart. Fortunately, we are not the only people living in that
world. Being one of the few new music ensembles that writes its own music, Ensemble Pamplemousse
has recently been fishing through the new music community looking for composers who reflect all the
ideals Pamplemousse holds dearly – inspiration of an idiosyncratic idea, the dedication to carry that idea
out to its end, and the audacity to playfully disregard any of that.

We’re thrilled to be premiering a work that we commissioned from the delectable Juraj Kojs; alongside stupendous recent works by Marek Poliks, Matthew Shlomowitz, Mauricio Rodriguez, Ray Evanoff, and James Weeks. Some of these works resulted from a call for works, and some were pieces that just tickled us pink and we had to share them with you. All are wonderful in their own unique, strange, and beautiful way.

www.ensemblepamplemousse.org

Friday February 17, 2012
8pm (doors open at 7:30)
Issue Project Room
110 Livingston (*NEW*)
Brooklyn NY
www.issueprojectroom.org

THE CENTER OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND THE COMPUTER MUSIC CENTER PRESENT:

“SIMULATIONS IN MUSIC”

AN OPEN LECTURE BY MANUEL DE LANDA

Thursday, February 9th 2012
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center
Columbia University

BEAUBOURG TO BROOKLYN: ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC MUSIC FROM PARIS

Composer CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI curates a March 8th performance as part of MATA’s INTERVAL concert series, joining such esteemed former curators as SO Percussion, Mario Diaz de Leon, Jennifer Walshe, and Zach Layton.

Held at 8:00 p.m. at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, the concert will feature six works for solo instruments plus live electronics by composers from four continents—all of whom crossed paths while working at IRCAM in Paris during the last five years. Three soloists will interact with live electronics in real time, with the computer sending transformed sounds and samples to a spatialized speaker setup —four speakers in the corners of Issue Project Room’s stellar new venue—so that the sound literally envelops the audience.

Australian composer Paul Clift’s Boundary Markers journeys inside the timbre of a bass clarinet. Andrea Agostini from Bologna, Italy encircles a solo baritone sax with a massive canvas of shifting textures in Gli atorni che s’accendevano e radiavano. From Colombia, Juan Camilo Hernandez Sanchez experiments with live transformation of intricate extended techniques for saxophone in Introspecciones Móviles. Irish composer Ann Cleare’s I am not a clockmaker either is a frenzied, kinetic pastiche for accordion and recorded sounds. New York native Aaron Einbond explores the rich but unstable low multiphonics of a bass clarinet in Temper, while Recession by New Orleans-born composer Christopher Trapani creates a mobile and kaleidoscopic world of changing colors from retuned and spatialized accordion samples.

The three featured soloists are virtuoso players, renowned for their interpretations of contemporary repertoire: clarinetist Carol McGonnell, saxophonist Ryan Muncy, and accordionist Bill Schimmel. Five of the six pieces on the program will be receiving their American premieres at this performance.

For more info, please visit http://www.matafestival.org

MATA INTERVAL 5.3
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Issue Project Room, 110 Livingston Street, Downtown Brooklyn
Trains: 2, 3, 4, 5 to Borough Hall or A, C, F, N, R to Jay Street-Metro Tech
Individual tickets $10. To order, visit www.issueprojectroom.org/buy-tickets

Bryan Jacobs at the Stone

Bryan Jacobs plays four of his own compositions for electric guitar and electronics.
One work will also feature Natacha Diels on Flute

Wed., January 25th, 10PM || $5
The Stone @ the corner of avenue C and 2nd street

February 9 – February 11
Opening Event: Thursday, February 9, 6-8pm

AC Institute
547 W. 27th St, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10001
www.artcurrents.org

Special Event:

Friday, February 10 at 8pm

Architeuthis Walks on Land
Katie Young and Amy Cimini

Sonic Overload
Sam Pluta, Jim Altieri, Dan Peck, Jeff Snyder, Peter Evans, and Tom Blancarte

Ensemble Pamplemousse is releasing RAANNA JEDAKU on Carrier Records. This double album is a collection of works by the members of Pamplemousse: Rama Gottfried, Andrew Greenwald, Natacha Diels, Jessie Marino, David Broome, and Kiku Enomoto. On December 17, join us for a celebratory concert including performances by Pygmy Jerboa (Maria Stankova and Ivan Naranjo), R WE WHO WE R (Philip White and Ted Hearne), Bryan Jacobs, DJing by Carson Hall, and a special preview of Ensemble Pamplemousse’s upcoming concerts in 2012. Sponsored by GuS (Grown-up Soda) and the Brooklyn Brewery. Admission includes a free CD!

Saturday December 17, 8pm
AC Institute
547 W 27th St, 6th Floor, NY NY 10001
$15, price of admission includes free CD

http://www.ensemblepamplemousse.org

Nick Obourn wrote a very nice profile of the CMC in this week’s The Record. Here’s an online version, with slideshow:
http://news.columbia.edu/oncampus/2626

SUNDAY NIGHT SOUND PARTY VI

Sunday, December 11
@ the Local 269
269 East Houston Street
New York, NY
F train to Second Avenue
$10 for the night

8PM
James Ilgenfritz Trio
Damon Holzborn (electronics)
James Ilgenfritz (bass)
John O’Brien (percussion)

9PM
Art Disease
Daniel Carter (reeds and trumpet)
Ras Moshe (tenor sax)
Brad Farberman (guitar)
Dave Miller (drums)

10PM
Fulminate Trio
Anders Nilsson (guitar)
Ken Filiano (bass)
Michael Evans (drums)

Qubit presents what promises to be an eclectic, yet exciting evening of composers playing their own works for electric guitar.

Featuring prominent NYC composers such as Geof Holbrook, Bryan Jacobs and Christopher Trapani, as well as two San Diego super stars, flying in especially for the concert: Clint McCallum and Miller Puckette!

33 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, NY

8pm

$10

Tom Blancarte, Louise D.E. Jensen, Damon Holzborn
Sunday, December 4, 6pm
Downtown Music Gallery
13 Monroe Street,
New York, NY