THE TANK SPACE FOR PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS

Modern composer and curator Guy Barash’s new music series “Eavesdropping” returns to The Tank to present some of today’s most daring performers and surprising composers.

This installment focuses on exciting new music for the strings of our time, featuring:

mise-en quartet:
Members of ensemble mise-en, Patti Kilroy, Amanda Lo, Trevor New, and Eric Allen play Cloud trio by Saariaho and The Mascot by Moon Young Ha.

http://www.mise-en.org/

Chang-Henderson-Watson Trio:
Music for Violin, Drums, and Turntables

www.joshhendersonviolin.com
http://www.tiffanychangmusic.com

Salvatore Macchia and Guy Barash:
Music for contrabass and live electronics

http://www.smacchiaone.com
http://www.guybarash.com

The show takes place at the Playroom Theater
, 151 West 46th Street, 8th floor

Tickets are $10 at the door / $8 online

Buy tickets for Eavesdropping at Brown Paper Tickets

About Eavesdropping:

For artists, Eavesdropping provides a stage for risk-taking and the exploration of the non-conventional in sound, to present a relevant boundary-breaking artistic work. Shows often include multi-media elements, real time electronic processing, and performance art.

For our audiences, we are committed to presenting innovative repertoire that is relevant and intriguing. Eavesdropping is cross-genres new music series presented to the city’s inquisitive listener. The one that's seen it all and heard it all but crave for cultural excitement.

Upcoming Eavesdropping shows in 2012:
2/9 Eavesdropping: Modular Collaborations

3/15 Eavesdropping: Cornelius Dufallo Patrick Derivaz duo & Urban Resonance

4/19 Eavesdropping: Ethnix

5/24 Eavesdropping: Play

Kicking off the new year!

$7 w RSVP; $10 at door
RSVP: http://brk.to/1j30

285 Kent, Brooklyn 11211
Doors 7pm, show 730pm
All Ages

Music:
Nullsleep (NY)
Da Pantz (BX)
Disassembler (NJ)

Visuals:
Cosmic Morning (BK)

About Pulsewave:
Pulsewave is the US’s longest running monthly event dedicated to exploring the sights and sounds of Chip Music’s greatest musicians and motion visualists. Using vintage video game systems and computers as the basis and influence for stunning next generation music and visuals, Pulsewave spotlights emerging and established artists from the international and local community. Now entering its fifth year, Pulsewave promises, in conjunction with New York arts organizations 8bitpeoples and The Tank, to remain committed to showcasing the best the global Chip Music community has to offer. http://pulsewave.org

The Uncanny Valley: The eerily perfect comedy show hosted by BB & Fish (Bridget Fitzgerald & Michael Fisher)!

This month's guests include:
Standup Ilana Glaser (FX's Broad City)
Improv by Trowbridget &
A slideshow of robots doing things you wouldn't believe!

Modern composer and curator Guy Barash’s new music series “Eavesdropping” returns to The Tank to present some of today’s most daring performers and surprising composers.

This installment features:

Gill Arno, Patrick Franke, Richard Garet, Wolfgang Gil, Andrew

Lafkas, David Moscovich, Daniel Neumann, Ben Owen, Chris Weinheimer, and others.

The group will explore collaborative strategies of composing and performing sound and visuals based on the idea of modular organization. Pieces are developed in non-hierarchical and decentralized forms where collaborators interact as equals. The modular structure is reflected less on the technical level but primarily on the level of collaborative formulation of ideas and its execution.

http://danielneumann.wordpress.com

All shows to take place at 7:30 pm at the Playroom Theater
 151 West 46th Street, 8th floor

Tickets are $10 at the door / $8 online

Buy tickets for Eavesdropping on Brown Paper Tickets

About Eavesdropping:

For artists, Eavesdropping provides a stage for risk-taking and the exploration of the non-conventional in sound, to present a relevant boundary-breaking artistic work. Shows often include multi-media elements, real time electronic processing, and performance art.

For our audiences, we are committed to presenting innovative repertoire that is relevant and intriguing. Eavesdropping is cross-genres new music series presented to the city’s inquisitive listener. The one that seen it all and heard it all but crave for cultural excitement.

Upcoming Eavesdropping shows in 2012:

3/15 Eavesdropping: Cornelius Dufallo Patrick Derivaz duo & Urban Resonance

4/19 Eavesdropping: Ethnix

5/24 Eavesdropping: Play

Join Long and Short of it Movement Theatre (LSMT) for their debut performance as a company in "To Do"- a variety show of dance, film, and some funny anecdotes on dating. Alumni of Muhlenberg College and co-founders of LSMT, Olivia Wingerath (a former dance major) and Becky Nitka (a former theatre major) have joined together to create a show about all the mayhem of being a 20-something, while exploring the social awkwardness of developing new relationships outside of the college "bubble." This performance also marks the premiere of LSMT's short, dance on camera piece Fragments, conceived by Ms. Wingerath. "To Do" also features the talents of Emma Batman, Caroline Clarke, Bridget Struthers, and Robert James Grimm III. For more information on LSMT, visit us at www.longandshortofitmt.com

About the Choreographers:
Becky Nitka (Artistic Director) received her BA in Theatre from Muhlenberg College. Her recent credits
include Cecile in Is He Dead? (Studio Players), C in Crave, Moth inLove’s Labor’s Lost, Meg in An Actor’s
Nightmare all at Muhlenberg College, and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Growing Stage
Theatre). She was also a member of Six Meters, directed by Susan Creitz. Behind the scenes, Becky
was Production Assistant/ Stage Manager of Muhlenberg’s Mainstage production of Fat Camp. While
in Chicago, Becky performed in The Living Newspapers, as part of the Hide and Seek exhibit at The
Museum of Contemporary Art. Becky loves snuggling and eating chips and salsa. At her last doctor’s
appointment she was recorded as being 4’11″.

Olivia Wingerath (Artistic Director) received a Bachelor’s Degree in Dance from Muhlenberg College
in 2009. She performed in twenty shows, as well as choreographed five pieces while earning her degree.
During her four years, Olivia studied with Charles O. Anderson, Tiffany Mills, Monica Bill Barnes, and
was also a member of Six Meters directed by Susan Creitz. She studied at The Accademia dell’Arte
in Arezzo, Italy where she trained with a traditional Italian dance group, Teriaca and performer/
choreographer, Giorgio Rossi. In her last year of college Olivia was invited to show one of her works at
the American College Dance Festival and the Lehigh Valley Women’s Annual Conference. While living
in New York City, Olivia has shown work in the Site-Specific Sundays Series curated by Chashama NYC
and in Fertile Ground at Green Space Dance in Queens. In 2009, Olivia performed in the Italian festival,
Performa, under the direction of Marcello Maloberti. Olivia performed in The Nikolais Centennial Concert
at Hunter College in 2010. Olivia performed in Gaywars andWhiteboard for New Sprawl R&D and
performs for the company currently. Olivia likes to believe she lives in a “boogie wonderland.” She is a
proud 5’10″.

Buy tickets for New Works: To Do

AN EVENING OF AWKWARD ROMANCE introduces a collection of oddball characters on their quest to find love. Two proofreaders lust over grammatical errors; a woman with a movie-related “affliction” finds her Prince Charming; a couple of misfits find true love at a funeral home. These and other vignettes are interwoven to create a hilarious (and at times poignant) celebration of the search for the elusive “soul-mate.”

Trio Kavak, “The Singing Garden Grew”
Presented by Ear Heart Music as part of the Composers Now Festival

Trio KAVAK explores the contemporary repertoire and new sound possibilities for the
highly evocative combination of flute, viola and harp. The trio is Amelia Lukas (flute),
Victor Lowrie (viola) and Kathryn Andrews (harp). This program features works loosely
related to the theme of contemplation and refinement.

Kaija Saariaho, New Gates,
Sasha Siem, White Dictionary
Claude Debussy, Trio Sonata
Sofia Gubaidulina, Garden of Joy and Sorrow
Victor Lowrie, Untitled

Saariaho’s sensuous New Gates is based on a ballet with no story line. The thematic
material evokes the passing from one state to another through mythological symbolism.
The music moves towards and through gates, showing us new landscapes, and then
continues on towards new gates.

Sasha Siem’s White Dictionary for flute, viola, harp and voice receives its US Premiere
with the composer as vocalist. This smart and quirky collection of imaginary dictionary
entries traces the evolution of a turbulent love affair. The dictionary format is used in a
desperate attempt to impose order and clarity where there is none.

Gubidulina conceived her gorgeous Garden of Joy and Sorrow under the strong
influence of two directly contradictory literary phenomena, in which vivid Eastern color
was counterposed to a typically Western consciousness.

Victor Lowrie’s Untitled is a simple and beautiful piece, emerging from nothing and
fading to nothing, which draws its material from one repeating pattern and musical
gesture.

Rounding out the program is Debussy’s hauntingly beautiful Trio Sonata. A seminal work
written at the end of his life, the Trio Sonata is a perfect manifestation of the master’s
late style and arguably his best composition.

Composers Saariaho, Lowrie, and Siem will be in attendance and may engage in a brief
chat about their pieces during intermission.

www.triokavak.com
www.composers-now.org