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MATA (Music at the Anthology, Inc.), the leading global catalyst for emerging composers and contemporary music, brings five days of original and adventurous concerts to the Brooklyn Lyceum (227 4^th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY) with its 10^th Annual MATA Festival. From Monday, March 31^st - Friday, April 4^th, the festival will feature more than 35 young composers from around the world, three world premieres, and four MATA commissions, while showcasing internationally acclaimed artists, a variety of performances and lectures, and an innovative sound installation operating daily.

MATA FESTIVAL Schedule (subject to change):

* MATA Commission
** World Premiere & MATA Commission
*** New York Premiere
 

Monday, March 31^st - Friday, April 4^th                Mon, Wed; Fri: 12:30-2:00pm & 6:30-8:00pm
FREE Sound Installation @ Café Room                        Thur: 2 to 7pm (5 different hour-long works) A co-production with Diapason Gallery, the leading presenter of sounds work in the U.S., MATA’s installation runs the length of the festival. The works, which vary from day to day, feature a newly commissioned piece by Micah Silver amongst 18 other pieces pulled from the Diapason Archive. Other composers include Marina Rosenfeld, Stephen Vitiello, and MATA AD Chris McIntyre.
Monday, March 31^st                                                                            8:00pm
MATA Interval curated by Mario Diaz de Leon
As part of MATA Interval, composer/performers, including electro-acoustic music from members of Shinyoko record label, and Symbol, a psychedelic improvisational group led by one of MATA’s Curatorial Associates, Mario Diaz de Leon. 
Tuesday, April 1^st                                                                            8:00pm
New York Premiere of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP)
Led by Artistic Director/Conductor Gil Rose, BMOP performs four New York City premieres:
Double Violin Concerto by Lisa Bielawa with guest artists Colin Jacobsen & Carla Kihlstedt
On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific Hypothesis by Ken Ueno (throat singer)
*The Conscious Sleepwalker Loops by Alejandro Rutty; MATA’s first orchestral commission
Clades by Derek Hurst; a concerto for members of BMOP
Wednesday, April 2^nd                                                                                8:00pm
The Knights Chamber Orchestra led by Conductor Eric Jacobsen
**Polarities by Zibuokle Martinaityte
***Culture No. 3 by Aaron Gervais
***A Thousand Machines by Jennifer Fitzgerald
***I Know Where Everything Is by Nico Muhly
***At the end of a really great day by Judd Greenstein
Thursday, April 3^rd                                                                          7:00pm
FREE Guest Lecture
Christoph Cox discusses the concepts behind his book Audio Culture, and his ideas regarding the ontology of sound art. Also, a discussion between Cox and MATA commissionee Micah Silver.
Friday, April 4^th                                                                                   8:00pm
Newspeak and Either/Or
**A new work by Sean Griffin
In Spite of All This by Missy Mazzoli
Breaking and Entering (with aggravated assault) by Oscar Bettison
sweet, light, crude by David T. Little
Towards Qualia by Richard Carrick
White Bone Country by Andrew Byrne
Tripod by Julius Eastman

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