Discover More: Electronic Music
NY PHIL BIENNIAL: New York City ElectroAcoustic Music Festival
Sunday, June 5th @ 3:00 pm
Sunday, June 5th @ 7:00 pm
Sunday, June 5th @ 10:00 pm
Monday, June 6th @ 5:00 pm
Monday, June 6th @ 8:00 pm
Tuesday, June 7th @ 5:00 pm
Tuesday, June 7th @ 8:00 pm
The ElectroAcoustic Music Festival is an annual, multi-day festival featuring works submitted by emerging and established composers, performers, and sound artists from all over the world. Electronica pulls inspiration from unlikely sources and pushes the boundaries of musical experimentation.
Discover More: Family
Rock’n‘Lolo’s Spanish Music Class
Wednesday, June 8th @ 10:30 am
The classes are 45 minutes long full of singing and dancing, while learning Spanish, and most importantly, having fun.
These classes are intended for toddlers up to 4 years old, and each lesson is designed to provide kids with a rich set of activities and material to help keep the kids engaged in the process.
As your child is inspired and motivated through singing and dancing, my program will also be helping to build your child’s confidence, self-control, and early Spanish language skills through repetitions and original and engaging melodies, Educating them not only on the language but also in values and good manners.
Discover More: Musical Stories
ESOPUS: Close Calls
Wednesday, June 8th @ 8:00 pm
Each issue of ESOPUS features an audio CD with brand-new music inspired by a particular theme. The CD compilation in Esopus 23 (now on newsstands) explores the subject of “Close Calls”. For it, Esopus invited 13 musical acts to pick a close-call moment from their lives — ranging from near-death experiences to romantic misfires — that they’ve never been able to shake, then write a song inspired by the experience. Four of the contributors to the CD—The Big Bright, Gabriel Birnbaum, Jo Lawry, and Darren Solomon—will participate in this event, which will be hosted by actor/comedian Jeff Hiller (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend).
Discover More: New Music
Kaze (The Wind) By Mari Kimura/Harmonic Constellations By Michael Harrison
Thursday, June 9th @ 7:00 pm
This event celebrates two world premieres, two CD release launches and a debut of our original wearable motion sensor named µgic (pronounced mu-zik).
At the concert, Mari Kimura will present two world premieres. The first piece is Kaze (The Wind) written by Kimura, for an audio/visual chamber ensemble for violin, voice, string quartet and interactive computer. The second world premiere is Harmonic Constellations, Michael Harrison’s latest massive opus, scored for multi-track violin with computer generated sine tones.
Discover More: Civil Rights
In Situ: Brother Outsider Screening
Friday, June 10th @ 7:00 pm
Celebrate Pride Month with a special screening of Brother Outsider, an award-winning documentary about “the unknown hero of the civil rights movement” (TIME). Talkback with the film’s co-director and special guests immediately following.
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.”
A portion of the evening’s proceeds will benefit the Ali Forney Center for LGBT Youth
Discover More: Indie Rock
Northside Festival: Grouper
Saturday, June 11th @ 7:00 pm
Saturday, June 11th @ 10:00 pm
Liz Harris lives and works on the Oregon Coast. She has been recording, performing, and releasing solo material under the name Grouper since 2005 on various imprints including Kranky, Type, and her own YELLOWELECTRIC. Grouper first gained wide acclaim for her masterful 2005 album, Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, which mixed folk, ambient, and psychedelic pop to the mesmerizing effect that’s characterized her career. Ruins, her stunning 2014 album, stripped down even further, drawing stark, melancholic beauty from intimate recordings of piano and voice. This will be Harris’ first show performing Grouper material in New York City since its release.
Discover More: Ambient Music
Northside Festival: Bing & Ruth
Sunday, June 12th @ 8:30 pm
Led by composer and pianist David Moore, Brooklyn instrumental collective Bing & Ruth are a delicate yet formidable melodic force. Combining horns, strings, piano, wordless vocals, and manipulated tape loops, the band builds from still moments to grand cathartic swells. Their latest album, 2014’s critically acclaimed Tomorrow Was the Golden Age, took the organic sounds of live performance in trippier directions, playing with tape delay to achieve a deep well of shimmering sound.
Opener
Mary Lattimore is a harpist living in Philadelphia. She experiments with her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand harp and effects. Her solo debut, “The Withdrawing Room”, was released in 2013 on Desire Path Recordings.
Mary also writes harp parts for songs and recordings, performing and recording with such great artists as Meg Baird, Thurston Moore, Sharon Van Etten, Jarvis Cocker, Kurt Vile, Steve Gunn, Ed Askew and Fursaxa.
