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On April 5, 2008, 2pm, the creative music ensemble Ne(x)tworks presents the 2nd installment of Dialogics: Ne(x)tworks at Chelsea Art Museum (CAM), the group’s third annual multi-event residency. This concert features several works by polymath composer Alvin Curran, a true innovator of avant garde music since the late 1960’s. Ne(x)tworks is developing material for a future recording project of Curran’s music, and Dialogics Concert 2 kicks off the process with selections from The Alvin Curran Fake Book. Also featured are brand new works by two of Ne(x)tworks’ most experienced and revered members, Miguel Frasconi and Joan La Barbara. On CAM’s 3rd floor, the music of these compelling composers will be brought to life by Ne(x)tworks’ rich roster of what Time Out labeled “new music superstars.” (6/07)

Program:

Distancing (1981/2008) Miguel Frasconi

Triadic Limbo (2007) (fragment) ** Alvin Curran

Words on Water (Shimmer) (2008) ** Joan La Barbara

Endangered Species (1994, 1996) Alvin Curran

Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights (1992) Alvin Curran
Saltando in Padella (2005) ***

Al Forno Al Sugo Al Pesto Al Vino (2001) (fragment) Alvin Curran

** There will be no pause between Triadic Limbo and Words on Water (Shimmer)

*** Fragments of Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights and Saltando in Padella will be performed simultaneously.

Ne(x)tworks is a collaborative ensemble of musicians creating and interpreting work that features a dynamic relationship between composition and improvisation. In performance and recordings, the group locates pathways into various types of notation systems and interfaces, striving for a meaningful dialogue with the past, present, and future of creative music.

Formed in 2002 in New York City, Ne(x)tworks first performed at legendary American composer Earle Brown’s memorial concert. Working in the tradition of the ‘performing composer’, the group often presents full programs of music created by its members. Ne(x)tworks’ repertoire also expands outward from its ranks to encompass the open scores of Brown and his New York School colleagues, work by the their European counterparts, further experiments by the composer/performers of the AACM and SoHo Scene of the 1970’s, the so-called Downtown composers of the 1980’s, and commissioned works by like-minded contemporary colleagues.

Tickets $15
Chelsea Art Museum
556 West 22nd.

www.nextworksmusic.net
www.chelseaartmuseum.org

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