2007

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LOWER EAST SIDE PERFORMING ARTS presents a free series of new opera films

Lisa Karrer's WOMAN'S SONG:THE STORY OF RORO MENDUT
(premiered at The Kitchen)
&
Barbara Benary's KARNA
(premiered at LaMama)

Saturday November 17 at 2pm
New York Public Library
Hamilton Fish Park Branch
415 Houston Street (Ave C-D)
Information: 212-388-0202
for complete series schedule: http://www.geocities.com/lesperformingarts
Admission is free
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Manhattan New Music Projects presents

KINDRED SPIRITS - AN EVENING OF EXPERIMENTAL CHAMBER MUSIC
June 20th 8PM @ Christ & St. Stephen's Church
122 West 69th Street (between Broadway and Columbus Avenue)
$15 at the door
The Manhattan New Music Project presents an evening of experimental chamber music pieces to honor the adventurous spirit of a broad variety of composers of chamber music, jazz and classical works. The pieces presented will include early works by MNMP's late founder Paul Nash, as well as compositions by Thelonius Monk, Johann Sebastian Bach and Lisa Karrer.

Featured musicians: Lisa Karrer (vocals, spoken word), Dave Taylor (trombone), Bruce Williamson (saxes and clarinets), Ben Kono (oboe, saxes, clarinets), Thomas Ulrich (cello), and Bill Ruyle (vibes and percussion).
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Saturday, June 23, 6pm
The Laura Andel Orchestra @ BRAC

Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) presents Bronx River Sounds
1087 East Tremont Avenue (next to the Bronx Zoo)

The Laura Andel Orchestra
New York-based Argentinean composer and conductor Laura Andel premieres a new work commissioned by the Bronx River Art Center for her nine-piece orchestra comprised of an unusually eclectic instrumentation that includes bandoneon, gamelan instruments, electric guitar, Fender Rhodes, vibraphone, cornet, viola, clarinets, piano and double bass.
The Laura Andel Orchestra includes the long-time collaborators and unique musicians Taylor Ho Bynum, Ken Filiano, Stephanie Griffin, Carl Maguire, Ursel Schlicht, David Simons, and Danny Tunick, and for this BRAC performance, the special participation of Argentinean Tango bandoneon player Daniel Binelli, and New York experimental electric guitar player Elliott Sharp. In addition to the BRAC premiere, the orchestra will perform another recently created work titled Doble Mano.

SUBWAYS: #2 or #5 to West Farms Square/East Tremont stop. (Walk one block east to Bronx Street.) http://www.bronxriverart.org/directions_hours.html
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MAY 18 GAMELAN CONCERT
NYC premieres!!! 8pm

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Sunday, April 1, at 6pm - 8pm
Roald Hoffmann's Entertaining Science cabaret
downstairs at the Cornelia Street Cafe
Molecular architect Shuguang Zhang from MIT talks about the dynamic process of molecular self-assembly, A RIFF ON THE WAY TO STRUCTURE ; with Lisa Karrer and David Simons performing music that assembles, dissembles, and re-assembles itself in real time, triggering sounds in unpredictable ways, asking the listener to create their own connective tissues of meaning.

29 Cornelia Street between Bleecker and W. 4th
Admission $10; Reservations 212-989-9319.
featuring very good food!!!
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FEBRUARY 24 THEREMIN FESTIVAL
at issue project room:

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Feb 2 '07
"ODENTITY" World Premiere of the composition by David Simons
for Newband and the Harry Partch instruments -
KASSER THEATER, Montclair State University, NJ
for full information see:
http://www.newband.org/events.htm

MONDAY FEBRUARY 5 @ 7PM
LISA KARRER premieres SCHISMISM: FRACTURED AMERICA Pt 1
at THE FLEA THEATER / NYC "Music With A View" Series
SCHISMISM is a work-in-progress combining voice, piano, stilts, electronics and video.
Utilizing a wide variety of mediums, "Schismism . . . " examines the American condition from various aesthetic and cultural perspectives. With triggered light device created in collaboration with sculptor Gregory Barsamian (2001 Leonardo New Horizons Award for Innovations in New Media).
Sharing the bill that evening will be Endangered Guitarist Hans Tammen!
The FLEA is located at 41 White Street (between Church and Broadway), in Tribeca, 3 blocks below Canal St. Admission: FREE

January 13 at ISSUE PROJECT ROOM: GAMELAN SON OF LION
part of "The Independents" Festival, Locust recording artists
Program will include selections from Locust's reissues of the ensemble's early recordings:
The Complete Gamelan in the New World (1979, Folkways) and Metal Notes (1985, New Wilderness Audiographics)
plus pieces by current ensemble members.
for full program and concert directions see:
http://www.issueprojectroom.org/events.html
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2006

NOV 11, 2006 @8pm
"SINKHOLE-SONOGRAM-INHERITANCE" for 2 voices, piano and percussion - Nov 11 '06
STATE OF THE MUSIC: Six Contemporary Rockland Composers
a concert of original works by Barbara Benary, Mark Steven Brooks, Lisa Karrer,
Denman Maroney, John Morton, and David Simons
Rockland Center for the Arts
27 South Greenbush Rd, West Nyack, NY
845 358 0877
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APRIL 23 - DAVID SIMONS & LISA KARRER -
inflammable flapping chewable cymbal crushers

sTRANGEmUSIC presents: ONE-TWO-THREE-GO!
A SERIES OF ONE HOUR CONCERTS ON ALTERNATE SUNDAYS

Sunday, April 23, 4:30 p.m., at THEATERLAB, 137 West 14th Street (6th & 7th Aves.).
Tickets are $10. Doors open at 4:00 p.m.

Four Kotekan - Balinese counterpoint on bamboo instruments
Dematerialized - Theremin as proximity controlled sample player
I Like it Here - live vocalist courts her refracted mirror images
and from their opera "The Birth of George":
Bella's Fantasy - acappella heart wrenching leap of faith
God of Mud - genre-cide w/National Geographic captions from 1940's (featuring guest keyboardist and series curator Patrick Grant)
Dear Officer - a classic NY Post headline suicide note set to music
ALSO:
a world premiere lap steel guitar & voice duet !!!
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Saturday, April 8
theremin society: an evening of theremin III
with: Armen Ra, Anthony Ptak
David Simons, Rob Schwimmer
Michael Evans, Dorit Chrysler
Elizabeth Brown, Jon Bernhardt, Jen Hammaker
Issue Project Room
400 Carroll St, Brooklyn
between Bond and Nevins. F or G train to Carroll
8:00 p.m., $10
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GAMELAN SON OF LION's next performance will be on the Interpretations concert series,
presented by the World Music Institute and Tom Buckner
Thursday Feb. 2, 2006, 8pm at Merkin Concert Hall
129 West 67th St. New York City.
The program:
Bang on a Tin Can by Laura Liben
The Tempest Suite by Jody Kruskal
Jigalullaby - Gaelic songs and jigs by Barbara Benary
Bali Hi - a unique arrangement by David Simons
River Kotekan by Lisa Karrer

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Thurs, Jan 19 8pm $10
Issue Project Room
400 Carroll St, Brooklyn, between Bond and Nevins. F or G train to Carroll
DAVID SIMONS, composer/performer
Theremin as spacial-controlled sample trigger,
jaw harp, percussion and homemade instruments.
with:
Lisa Karrer - Voice
Stephanie Griffin - Viola
Skip LaPlante, Carol Weber,
Michael Evans, Sima Wolf - Homemades
program:
INFORMATION - from the CD "Prismatic Hearing"
FAIT/HURT/KOOL TANG - more samples triggered by theremin
DEAR OFFICER - an actual published suicide note & original poem by Lisa Karrer
GRANDMA - text by Mark Leyner from "My Cousin My Gastroenterologist "
VIRTUAL PERCUSSION TRIO - in which the viola, voice and theremin each midi-trigger percussion phrases
COLLECTIVE CHOK - for blown bottles and styrocello
CREMATION MUSIC - new arrangement of Balinese gamelan
For more information: Issue Project 718 812 1129
A concrete silo performance space on the Gowanus Canal with 16 channel hemispherical speaker array !!!
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2005
in concert December 2:
Five unique approaches to playing the THEREMIN

for more info visit Issue Project Room in Brooklyn

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Gamelan Son of Lion
& North River Music
Presents a concert of New Works and PREMIERES
for Gamelan Orchestra, FLUX String Quartet,
2 Pianos, Voices & Percussion
Thursday March 24 at 8pm
Greenwich House Music School/The Renee Weiler Concert Hall
46 Barrow Street, NYC(between Seventh Ave. South & Bedford)
For more info, please call 212.242.4770
for complete details visit www.gharts.org/GSOL+FLUXMar242005

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WEST GOES EAST
Cal Arts at The Kitchen
a 4 day festival of performances January 26-29, 2005 8 PM
FEATURING on Jan 29, "MUSIC FOR THEREMIN and GAMELAN"
and other works by David Simons performed by the GAMELAN SON OF LION
schedule of events:
512 W.19th Street, NYC Tickets $15 Festival pass $50
www.thekitchen.org 212-255-5793

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2004
Roulette presents
Gamelan Son of Lion
Sunday November 21, 2004
New York's New Music gamelan presents a program of syncretic works, conflating tunings, timbres, and
cultural norms, combining Indonesian and European scales, Western and Eastern timbres and sensibilities.

Works by Barbara Benary, Daniel Goode, Lisa Karrer, Laura Liben,
David Simons, Jody Kruskal, Empi Morn, and David Demnitz will be presented.

The New York Times calls this composers' collective
"one of the most provocative and artistically rewarding gamelan ensembles."

At Location One 26 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets), NYC.
Performance begins at 8:30pm. Admission: $12 / Students: $8 / Roulette members: free
Reservations/Tickets: 212.219.8242

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Gamelan Son of Lion
Spring Concert of new music premiers 2004
Friday April 2nd, 8pm
Wooster Arts Space, 147 Wooster St. NYC
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Gamelan Son of Lion
June 2004 concerts in Brooklyn & Rockland
Saturday June 5th 2004 @ 7:30pm
Music and Dance at The Re:Creation Center
748 Union Street, Park Slope Brooklyn (btw. 5th & 6th Ave.) hosted by Spoke the Hub Dancing Admission---$15./$5. Reservations: 718.408-3234
AND
Wednesday June 9th 2004 @ 7:00pm
Music & Word with Poetry Jam at The Nyack Center 58 Depew Ave, Nyack NY (corner of S. Broadway) Rockland County Admission by donation. For further info call 845 354-3375
Indonesian gongs, drums, xylophones, and home-made instruments.
New Music by David Demnitz, Skip LaPlante, Lisa Karrer, Barbara Benary, Jody Kruskal, Empi Morn, and Arvo Part / arr. by Laura Liben and guest composer - hammer dulcimer player Dan Joseph; also with players Dan Goode, Bill Jacobs and David Simons .

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"PRISMATIC HEARING"
CD release concert:
JULY 6, 2004 Tues 8pm at TONIC, NYC

David Simons and Lisa Karrer and friends
Saturday, JULY 10
Roxbury Art Center, NY

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