MONTHLY
dorkbot
meets the first wednesday of every month.
2008
FEBRUARY
February 2 CD release party for Jeff Snyder's recording as Owen Lake called "A Love on my Mind." Carson Hall will be on the turntables, DJing hits of yesteryear. 9pm to late, the main space of the third floor of Prentis Hall, 632 W. 125th Street (just off Broadway).
February 14 The S.E.M. Ensemble plays Daniel Iglesia's "Transfaction" for string quartet and live electronics, plus works by Barrett, Bellamy, Kurdirka, Waters, and Winter. 8pm, Willow Place Auditorium, 26 Willow Place, Brooklyn.
JANUARY
31 January CMC Fün Nite. Gael Navard, Danny Hamilton and Prince of NeckeBeard (Sam Pluta and Eric Wubbels). 8pm, the main space of the third floor of Prentis Hall, 632 W. 125th Street (just off Broadway).
2007
NOVEMBER
November 29 CMC Fün Nite. Richard Garet, We Can Build You and Seth Cluett. 8pm, the main space of the third floor of Prentis Hall, 632 W. 125th Street (just off Broadway).
OCTOBER
26 October Glissando Bin Laden performs at TRANZDUCER.010: LEMURplex Performance & Installation Series.
26 October CMC Fün Nite. I Hate Sports (César Alvarez and Jeremy Hoevenaar), Jeremy Slater, and Plasticity. 8pm, the main space of the third floor of Prentis Hall, 632 W. 125th Street (just off Broadway).
29 October Brad Garton and Terry Pender perform live with Gregory Taylor. Stetson University Chapel.
SEPTEMBER
8 September R. Luke DuBois joins Todd Reynolds and Friends. 8pm, The Stone, Avenue C @ E. 2nd St., New York City, $10.
20 September Robert Moog Foundation Panel Discussion (part of the 2007 Moogfest). 8pm, 3rd Floor Prentis Hall, 632 W. 125th Street (just off Broadway). More info.
22 September Sam Pluta performs his solo laptop set "American Tokyo Daydream I" at the Todaysart Festival in The Hague in Holland.
22 September "Mother Fools," Madison WI. Brad Garton and Terry Pender perform live with Gregory Taylor.
23 September WOR Radio. Brad Garton and Terry Pender perform live with Gregory Taylor. 10pm - midnight EST on-air. Streaming link.
JUNE
5 June Sam Pluta, Daniel Iglesia, Scott Smallwood, and Jonathan Lee Marcus - live electronic music for 6 channel audio and 4 screens of video - plus really good food. 8:30pm, Monkeytown, 58 N 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY, $5.
10 JuneNIME@Columbia - installations, workshops/presentations, and concerts. Part of NIME 2007. 2pm - midnight, Prentis Hall, 632 W. 125th Street (just off Broadway).
APRIL
20 April Performance Party @ OM Factory - Damon Holzborn and Lisle Ellis. 8:30pm, 265 West 37th Street @ 8th Avenue, 17th Floor, New York City, $10.
23 April Damon Holzborn, Dan Iglesia, Staple Gun, Lightbomb Fan Eater, DavidFloat, Dirty Dancing Magic Circus. 8:30pm, Roulette, 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets), New York City, $5.
27 April TRANZDUCER.004: LEMURplex Performance & Installation Series - R. Luke DuBois and friend(s), Marek Choloniewski, Ellis & Aguilar Duo. 8pm, 461 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, NY.
MARCH
1 March CMC Fün Nite. The inaugural event in a monthly meeting devoted to informal performance and discussion of laptop improvisation in the New York area. Performances and talk by: PG (Terry Pender and Brad Garton, possible video enhancements by Luke Dubois), Sam Pluta (audio and video improvisations) and Nick Didkovsky (improvisational pieces by Dr. Nerve!). 8pm, the main space of the third floor of Prentis Hall, 632 W. 125th Street (just off Broadway).
2 March Columbia Composers concert. Featuring works by Carl Bettendorf, Mahir Cetiz, Huey-Meei Chen, Anthony Cheung, Michel Galante, Steve Lehman and Jeff Snyder. 8pm, Morse Hall at The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center (entrance @ W. 65th St./Amsterdam).
10 March The Columbia Sinfonietta - American Electronica - works by Ron Smith, Noel Zahler, and Roger Reynolds. 8pm, Miller Theater, Broadway at 116th St., Columbia University. More info.
23 March TRANZDUCER.003: LEMURplex Performance & Installation Series - Damon Holzborn, Joseph Grimm and Zach Layton. 8pm, 461 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, NY.
29 March CMC Fün Nite. The second installment of the fantastic new monthly series. Performances and talk by: Daniel Iglesia (computer - audio video improvisations), Scott Smallwood (computer - audio performance), and The Loud Objects (Kunal Gupta & Tristan Perich, soldering irons - live musical circuit building!). 8pm, the main space of the third floor of Prentis Hall, 632 W. 125th Street (just off Broadway).
FEBRUARY
3 February Columbia Composers - Jonathan Kramer Memorial Concert. Works by: Victor Adan, Anthony Cheung, Huck Hodge, Alexandre Lunsqui, Alex Mincek. 8 PM Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space (95th and Broadway, NYC), Free.
17 February Luke Dubois and Daniel Iglesia perform in the Build/Decay Festival . 6pm - late, The Tank, 279 Chuch Street, New York City, $5 ($10 after 10pm).
JANUARY
20-25 January
PenderGartonTaylor will perform at the Spark Festival of Electronics and Music at the University of Minnesota, February 20 - 25th, 2007. The trio, 2 laptops and mandolin, will play as part of the Spark NighLife at the Nomad World Pub. Exact night TBA.
27 January
Wet Ink (Reiko Fueting, Alex Mincek, Kate Soper, Jeff Snyder, and Eric Wubbels) Sixth annual TRIO concert. Compositions and improvisations performed by TRIO and the Wet Ink Ensemble. Works by Daniel Goode, Kui Dong, Larry Polansky and Christian Wolff. 8pm, Greenwich Music House, 46 Barrow St. (at Bleecker St.), $10.
31 January - 17 March
Douglas Repetto's "puff bang reverb" installation will be in the [silence] show at Gigantic Art Space. Opening reception: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6-9pm.
2006
NOVEMBER
8-11 November Daniel Iglesia's Ghost Jockey installed at ICMC, Tulane University Chapel.
12 November Victor Adan, Bradford Garton, Damon Holzborn, Dan Iglesia, Terry Pender and Jeff Snyder. 8 & 10pm, The Stone, Avenue C @ E. 2nd St., New York City, $10.
13 November - 9 December Daniel Iglesia's Temporide installed at New Image Gallery, James Madison University.
24-25 November Plants Derail Train Set by Miya Masaoka with Damon Holzborn. 8pm, Issue Project Room, 400 Carroll Street Brooklyn, NY.
OCTOBER
18-22 October Daniel Iglesia does live sound design for The Golem. The Theater at Riverside Church.
MAY
1-7 May: IRCAM@Columbia - technicians, engineers and pedagogues of IRCAM interact with students, performers, composers and audiences during a week-long series of concerts, lectures and work-shops. See website for schedule.
11 May Record release party for Luke DuBois' CD Timelapse. 7:30PM & 10PM, Monkey Town, 58 N 3rd St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
13 May: Columbia Composers Brad Garton, Dan Iglesia, George Lewis, Jaime Madell, Terry Pender, and Tristan Perich (alum) showcase compositions written for the Yamaha Disklavier piano. 8PM, Columbia University, New Performance Space (Dodge Hall Room 112), New York City.
19 May: The Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts presents "Dancing Across The
DIvide" a collaboration between: Daniel Carter Beard, Alfred J. Kennedy, Lillian Webber, Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, New York City Center, Magic Box Productions, Community~Word Project, Teaching Matters, Columbia University's Computer Music Center, and Apple Computer. 10:30AM - 12:30PM, Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Boulevard Flushing, New York.
APRIL
4 April Premiere performance of PLOrk including works by Paul Lansky, Brad Garton, Curtis Bahn and Tomie Hahn, Dan Trueman, Scott Smallwood, Seth Cluett, Perry Cook and Ge Wang, with special guest performances by renowned tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, accordion legend Pauline Oliveros, and the hot percussion quartet So Percussion. 8pm, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
25 April: Composer and electronics hacker Nicolas Collins will give a guest lecture in Computer Music II. 5:10-8pm, CMC, Prentis Hall room 313, 632 West 125th Street, New York City.
MARCH
4 March Columbia Composers concert featuring works by Josh Cody, Alex Mincek, Damon Holzborn, Johan Tallgren, Lu Wang and Eric Wubbels. 8pm, Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A 13th St., New York City.
21 March: Daniel Iglesia plays recombinant pop audio at the Warper Party, 10:30, Botanica Bar, 47 E Houston St.
25 March: Nick Didkovsky leads a workshop on musical representation. 2pm, CMC, Prentis Hall room 313, 632 West 125th Street, New York City.
26 March: Columbia Composers concert featuring works by Oscar Bianchi, James Fei, Alexandre Lunsqui, Katharina Rosenberger, Jeff Snyder and Katharine Soper. 8pm, Merkin Concert Hall, 129 w.67th St., New York City. Free.
FEBRUARY
3-4 February: The third annual Columbia Music Scholarship Conference will take place on February 3-4, 2006 at Columbia University. The theme of this year's conference is Music Performance and Improvisation with keynote speakers George Lewis and Carolyn Abbate.
24 February: Trio / Wet Ink Ensemble Annual Concert -- with Christian Wolff, Larry Polansky, and Kui Dong. The first half of the concert will feature members of Wet Ink Ensemble performing new works by Reiko Fueting, Alex Mincek, and Jeff Snyder. 8pm, Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street, New York City.
24 February: Frances with the Francines. Midnight,
Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street, New York City.
28 February: Françoise Bayle, Director of GRM, will give a talk. 5:30pm, CMC, Prentis Hall room 313, 632 West 125th Street, New York City.
JANUARY
23-24 January: Kathleen Supové: Exploding Piano. Kathleen performs Digits both nights, with a new video track by Luke DuBois. 7pm, The Flea Theater, 41 White St., New York City.
2005
DECEMBER
1 December: The Manhattan School of Music Contemporary Ensemble TACTUS performs new works by Luke DuBois. 7:30pm, Symphony Space, 95th and and Broadway, New York City.
1 December: Douglas Geers (composer/computer musician) performs with Maja Cerar (violin) at ASCAP's "Thru the Walls" showcase. 7pm, The Cutting Room, 9 w. 24th St., New York City.
2, 3, 4 December: Daniel Iglesia does sound design for Still Life: Variations on the Cherry Orchard by Chekhov. 12/2 10pm, 12/3 3pm and 7pm, 12/4 8pm, Schapiro Theatre at Columbia University.
4 December: Music Wired! Computer Music at Stony Brook. Concert includes "Twisted Pair" by Douglas Geers. 7pm, Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook University.
5 December: NYU's New Music Ensemble (Esther Lamneck, Director) plays works by Clement, Durant, Geers, Pengilly, Stollery, and Wells. 8pm, Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 West Fourth St., New York City.
6 December: James Fei performs with Sean Meehan. 8pm, Issue Project Room, 400 Carroll Street, Brooklyn.
7 December: Douglas Repetto will give an artist talk as part of the New Media Lecture Series at the Neuberger Museum of Art (SUNY/Purchase).
7 December: Jonathan D. Kramer Memorial Concert. A concert of works dedicated to the late Jonathan D. Kramer, written by his former students. Will include works by Arjomand, Doll, Geers, Hogan, Miura, Neilson, Tarantino, and Tiutiunik. 8pm, Miller Theater, Broadway at 116th St. at Columbia University.
8 December: Wet Ink Presents Weasel Walter, People (Kevin Shea and Mary Halvorson), and The Creations (Ryan Smith and Jeff Snyder). 8pm, The Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow, New York City.
NOVEMBER
3 November: Damon Holzborn performs with Marcos Fernandes, Mike Pride and Nate Wooley. 10pm, Red & Black,
135 N 5th St, Brooklyn.
3 November: Douglas Repetto is the featured guest composer at the Technosonics VI: Ecology and E-Music Festival at the University of Virginia.
4-5 November: Brad Garton will present an RTcmix workshop and perform a new piece at the Third Practice Festival in Richmond, VA.
9 November: Douglas Repetto will participate in a Symposium on Sound Art in Philadelphia with Annea Lockwood, Liz Phillips, and o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi). 7:30pm, University of the Arts, Connelly Auditorium.
10-13 November Lower Left presents The Satellite Project, bringing together five U.S. artists to present four world premiere works in an evening-length presentation. Includes music by Damon Holzborn. Thu-Sat 8pm/Sun 7pm, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Sherwood Auditorium, La Jolla, CA.
20 November The Wet Ink Ensemble and Dan Weiss perform a progam of transcriptions of solo tabla repertoire, Machaut, Schoenberg, Bach, and Feldman. 8pm, Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow St., New York City.
30 November James Fei performs Alvin Lucier's Music for Solo Performer and Christian Wolff's For 1, 2 or 3 People (with Lucier and Wolff). Brandeis University.
OCTOBER
6 October:CMC colloquium: Darwin Grosse (Cycling '74) - 7:30 PM, room 313 Prentis.
11 October - 26 November: Slowscan Soundwave (III): Large-scale sound installation by Douglas Repetto at Location One in SoHo.
21 October: Frances plays Pianos - 158 Ludlow at Stanton. With Paul Hogan and Jeff Snyder.
22 October: Columbia Composers concert featuring new works by Adan, Bettendorf, Iglesia, Kerkour, Haapamaki, and Wang. 8pm, Tenri Cultural Institute.
25 October: Matthew Suttor from Yale University will be talking about his work. 5:30pm, Prentis Hall.
SEPTEMBER
10 September: Daniel Iglesia presents audio/video installation Ghost Jockey at Eyebeam. Artist's presentations at 4:00 and reception at 5:30.
24 September: Scenarios: Ellipsis, a live audiovisual event for InSite_05 at Caliente in Tijuana with audio by Damon Holzborn.
24 September: Electromechanical Mandala: a workshop with Douglas Repetto at the UdK's KlangKunstBühne 2005 in Berlin.
AUGUST
18–21 August: ICARUSby Nina Hein
with Music by Katharina Rosenberger and Brian Thrash;
Choreographer: Elyssa Dole, Jonette Ford, and Jeffrey;
Freeze
Video: Ana Martinez. Linhart Theatre @ 440 Studios,
440 Lafayette Street. Part of FringeNYC 2005.
JULY
15–17 July: Fourth annual Artbots: The Robot Talent Show. Saints Micheal and John Church, Dublin, Ireland.
JUNE
24 June: Tracing Change: An Evening of Computer Music, featuring pieces by Brad Garton, Mara Helmuth, Elizabeth Hoffman, Judy Klein, Margaret Schedel, Mary Simoni, Laurie Spiegel,
John Young. Part of FTM 8. 8pm, Philosophy Hall, Columbia University.
MAY
10 May: Opening reception for ART*^<>@WORK featuring a collaborative project by douglas repetto with LoVid. 7–9pm, 520 Eighth Ave, Suite 1602, NYC. Gallery open Tuesdays 9am–5pm and Sundays 12–6pm through May.
10–11 May: then, installation project with sound by Katharina Rosenberger. 5–9pm, ITP 2005.
26 May: Live video by Dan Iglesia with sound by Jeremy Slater, as part of NISUS. 8:30pm, Galerie Galou, 237 Kent Ave., Brooklyn.
APRIL
13 April : Open
Field, a collaborative Performance by Gilles Obermeyer and
Laura Flowers. 9pm Friday, 8pm Sat & Sun, Merce
Cunningham Studio, NYC.
3 April : Ellis
Wood Dance performs to music by Johnathan F. Lee. 4pm, Tribeca
Performing Arts Center.
4 April : James
Fei solo show. 7pm, Harvestworks.
8 April : MicroFest
2005 Concert II features works by CMC alumni Tim Polashek,
Chris Bailey, Marcus Bittencourt, and Doug Geers. 8pm, Faust
Harrison Performance Space, 205 West 58th St., NYC.
9 April : John Butcher's 3 Rooms featuring James
Fei. 8pm, CAVE
Brooklyn.
14 April : Any Sound You Can Imagine: The Fiftieth Anniversary of RCA's Electronic Music
Synthesizer
With Milton Babbitt. 7:30pm, Sarnoff Corp. Auditorium, Princeton, NJ.
1518 April : Hardware
Hacking with Nic Collins @
Harvestworks.
16 April : Elliot Sharp Orchestra Carbon featuring James
Fei. 10pm, The
STONE, NYC.
17 April : Tim Polashek's Concerto for Pianist and Disklavier.
3:30pm, Symphony
Space, NYC.
20 April: TimeTable Percussion performs works by Wolfgang Rihm, Beat Furrer, Nick Didkovsky, Hiroya Miura, Jeff Snyder. 8pm, Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (at Bleecker). $10.
21 April : James
Fei Two Projects with Live Electronics featuring Kato Hideki,
Maja Cerar & Jessica Pavone. 8:30pm, Roulette,
NYC.
2730 April : BENT
2005 Circuit Bending Festival, The Tank NYC.
29 April : Flexible Orchestra SECOND SEASON with premieres by Peter Zummo, Larry Polansky, Michael Finckel, Daniel Goode,
and Lois Vierk's amazing Simoom for 8 amplified cellos. 8pm, St. Peters Episcopal Church, 346 W.20th St. @ 8th Av. NYC.
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