Mata Festival:
Ensemble Linea: Chaos Terrain and Lines of Fortune
Tickets
About this Program
Wednesday, April 13th 8pm
The “superb” (Time Out New York) Ensemble Linea, under the direction of Jean-Philippe Wurtz, travels from Strasbourg to make its MATA Festival debut with an evening that celebrates transcendence. Highlighting the night will be two MATA-commissions: Weijun Chen’s Dancer, an elegant meditation on the moment when practice becomes art, and Yair Klartag’s revelatory There’s no end of void. The program begins with Michelle Agnes Magalhaes’ cosmic Mobile for prepared piano, and falls back to earth with Scott Wollschleger’s America, a commentary on the post-suburban commercial landscape. Linea continues with the sonic camouflage of Zeno Baldi’s Mimo, the fissured lines and aural illusions of Arash Yazdani’s Demodulation, and the untraversed landscapes of the Turkish composer Utku Asoruglu.
For more information on the whole festival: http://matafestival.org/mata-festival/2016-mata-festival/
Other In Situ Events
Kaze (The Wind) by Mari Kimura/Harmonic Constellations by Michael Harrison
June 09, 2016 - 7:00pm This event celebrates two world premieres, two CD release launches and a debut of our original wearable motion sensor named µgic (pronounced mu-zik).
Nikara Warren Presents: Black Wall Street
June 18, 2016 - 10:00pm In the early 1900s America’s most affluent Black neighborhood boasted over 600 Black owned businesses, including schools, markets and hospitals. Although Greenwood, Oklahoma’s population was destroyed by local rioting Whites (including the KKK, police force and National Guard) in one of this country’s largest and most unspoken massacres of our history, Nikara Warren pays tribute to Black Wall Street in attempt to create an open discussion for all people about supporting people of color in business, education and the arts. “Black music is a treasure to be uplifted, not destroyed” Nikara Warren
In Situ: Aerial East Record Release
May 10, 2016 - 10:00pm May 10th will be the celebration of the long anticipated release of Rooms and the first and only concert dedicated to performing the record as close to the original as possible with a full band including strings and clarinet.
In Situ: The Revolution Vol. 4
June 29, 2016 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of an evolution within their genre.
In Situ: Radical Face Night 2
May 27, 2016 - 9:30pm Ben Cooper, AKA Radical Face, has spent over a decade crafting a trilogy of albums that is tied together in the theme of a fictitious family spanning over a century. The third installment of the album Trilogy, "The The Family Tree: The Leaves" will be released on March 25th, 2016, and in celebration Radical Face will be doing a series of intimate concerts inspired and themed around characters and stories from The Family Tree.
In Situ: Eric Andersen sings Albert Camus
Apr 16, 2016 - 9:30pm Eric Andersen’s concert will be a highlight of the upcoming NYC retrospective “CAMUS: A STRANGER IN THE CITY” a series of events from March 26 - April 19 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the French writer's one and only trip to the U.S.A in 1946.
Martha Mooke: Dreaming In Sound
May 05, 2016 - 10:00pm Dreaming in Sound is an immersive large scale work by electro-acoustic violist/composer Martha Mooke. Scored for electric viola and electronic processing in multi-channel audio distribution with interactive video (created by pioneering software artist Scott Draves). Dreaming in Sound is inspired by the sleep stage REM and the concept of lucid dreaming which evokes the chaotic state vs. orderliness of the dream realm.
Jon Gibson & Britton Powell
July 29, 2016 - 7:00pm Jon Gibson and Britton Powell are composers based in New York City.
In Situ: Brother Outsider Screening
June 10, 2016 - 7:00pm Five years in the making and the winner of more than 25 international awards and honors, Brother Outsider illuminates the life and work of Bayard Rustin, a visionary activist and strategist who has been called “the invisible man” and “the unknown hero” of the civil rights movement. A disciple of Gandhi, a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., and chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, Rustin dared to live as an openly gay man during the fiercely homophobic 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. A talented tenor who sang in Josh White’s quartet and appeared on Broadway with Paul Robeson in the 1930s, Rustin used singing as a central element in his lifelong advocacy for social change. In 2013, Rustin received a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom — America’s highest civilian honor — from Barack Obama, who described him as “an unyielding activist for civil rights, dignity, and equality for all who fought tirelessly for marginalized communities at home and abroad… As an openly gay African American, Mr. Rustin stood at the intersection of several of the fights for equal rights.”
In Situ: Radical Face Night 1
May 26, 2016 - 9:30pmBen Cooper, AKA Radical Face, has spent over a decade crafting a trilogy of albums that is tied together in the theme of a fictitious family spanning over a century. The third installment of the album Trilogy, "The Family Tree: The Leaves" will be released on March 25th, 2016, and in celebration Radical Face will be doing a series of intimate concerts inspired and themed around characters and stories from The Family Tree.
In Situ: Hess is More + Cray Cray Chalant
June 17, 2016 - 10:00pm Hess is More is back for more! ... a lot more. The Minister of Integration is taking on New York again in a collaboration and double bill with Cray Cray Chalant, Kenny Wollesen's new, super fun drum explosion! An evening not to be missed!
Leila Adu Record Release
June 29, 2016 - 7:00pm Leila Adu has released four acclaimed albums including, ‘Dark Joan,’ recorded by Steve Albini and ‘Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker’ produced for the Italian National Radio. London’s ‘Time Out’ called her music, ‘Avante-garde pop that recalls Nina Simone and Tim Buckley” and reviewers have placed her in an arena with other female icons such as Joni Mitchell, PJ Harvey, Micachu and Esperanza Spalding.
