Dec. 29 - 31, 2011: Merce Cunningham Dance Co. at Park Ave Armory

Dec. '11 Park Ave. Armory Events – Merce Cunningham Dance Co.

Park Avenue Armory Events
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Choreography by Merce Cunningham
Arranged by Robert Swinston
Music by David Behrman, John King, Takehisa Kosugi, and Christian Wolf
Décor by Daniel Arsham

TILT Brass helps brings 2 of the 4 world premiere compositions to life during the historic final performances of MCDC. John King and David Behrman‘s new works feature a 6-piece ensemble of trumpets and trombones, filling the enormous Park Avenue Armory Drill Hall space with live and digitally processed sound.

TILT Brass w/ MCDC
Russ Johnson, Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpets
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombone

Event Page on PAA site

Sept. 30 & Oct. 1, 2011: Premiere of Chris Jonas' Garden II: House

Chris Jonas

GARDEN II: House (world premiere)
by Chris Jonas

Friday, Sept. 30 & Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011
8pm

Purchase Tickets ($10)

University Settlement
184 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002

“A deeply nuanced world — Jonas crafts a richly expansive sound that stresses subtle timbral shadings and tersely composed phrases punctuated by sudden bursts of flavorful improvisation … Distinctive, accessible, simple and achingly beautiful.”

Michael Kremer, Jazziz

Herb Robertson

At University Settlement on Friday and Saturday, September 30 and October 1, 2011, TILT Brass presents the World Premiere of GARDEN II: House, a newly commissioned intermedia work (music and video) by Santa Fe-based composer, performer, media artist and United States Artists Simon Fellow Chris Jonas. In addition to the integral video and installation production work by Santa Fe-based Littleglobe, GARDEN II: House features local heroes of creative music Herb Robertson on trumpet and Joe Fiedler on trombone, along with the composer on soprano saxophone and TILT Brass Director Chris McIntyre also on trombone. House is staged within the unusual set-up of a cube of transparent video screens that envelop the performing quartet (see video below for installation view).

Joe Fiedler

This innovative blend of acoustic musical interactivity with three dimensional video projection garnered the project a prestigious Meet the Composer Commissioning Music/USA award in 2010.

Complete Press Release for GARDEN II: House

TILT House Quartet
Chris Jonas  composer, soprano sax
Herb Robertson trumpet
Joe Fiedler trombone
Chris McIntyre trombone

Littleglobe Team
Acushla Bastible Stage Director (performance)
Echo Gustafson Choreography/Movement (video)
Charles Gamble Actor/Movement (video)
Dylan McLaughlin Cinematography (video)

Sample of Music from Chris Jonas for Garden II “House” Sept/Oct 2011 by littleglobe

Littleglobe’s Garden Project

June 30, 2011: TILT Brass Chamber Music Show @ IPR

TILT Brass Chamber Music Show

ISSUE Project Room
8pm, $10/$8 IPR Members

323 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11215 [map]
Ticket & Venue Info HERE

Members of TILT Brass projects gather to perform a wide range of rarely heard chamber works for brass, percussion and electronics by European and NYC-based composers, including the New York premiere of Herakles 2 by acclaimed German composer Heiner Goebbels.

PROGRAM
Richard Barrett – EARTH (1987-88)
trombone and percussion
Chris McIntyre – quartet music (2010)
trumpet, horn, bass trombone, synthesizer
Peter Zummo – Instruments (1980)
trumpet, trombone, cello, marimba
Heiner Goebbels – Herakles 2 (1992)
brass quintet, percussion, sampler

PERSONNEL
Chris McIntyre – trombone, music director
Jessie Marino – cello; Dave Shively – percussion; Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpets; Nathan Koci – French horn, synth; Matt Marks – French horn, sampler; James Rogers – bass trombone; Ben Stapp – tuba

June 21, 2011: SWELTER - TILT Brass & Friends

TILT Brass performing SWELTER at The Lake in Central Park 6/21/11

MATA presents TILT Brass & Friends in 2 performances
SWELTER, a site-specific work by Super Critical Mass

<<<NY Times reviews 6/21/11 Central Park Lake performance>>>

Performance #1 – 3:30pm (approx 35 mins)
Performance #2 – 5:00pm (approx 35 mins)

On June 21st, MATA presents TILT Brass performing SWELTER, a large-scale musical event in Central Park as part of Make Music New York. The performance brings together dozens of brass players spatialized around Central Park Lake to play a new ambient music-scape created by Super Critical Mass, Australian sound artist trio Julian Day, Luke Jaaniste and Janet McKay. SWELTER’s primary intended audience is those on row boats on the water so be sure to arrive early to rent a boat!

VIDEO: Site Test on 6/14/11

April 2, 2011: To TILT: Volume 1 CD Release & Benefit

Front to Back: Zeena Parkins, Ikue Mori, Peter Evans, Nate Wooley

To TILT: Volume One CD Release & Benefit Concert
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011, 7:30pm

Invisible Dog Art Center
51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201

TILT Brass Personnel
Trumpet
Gareth Flowers, Rich Johnson, Russ Johnson, Andy Kozar, Nate Wooley
French horn
John Clark, Greg Evans, Nathan Koci
Trombone
Curtis Hasselbring, Will Lang, Christopher McIntyre
Bass trombone
Jacob Garchik, James Rogers
Tuba
John Altieri, Joe Exely
Percussion
Kevin Norton

Special Guests:
Zeena Parkins – harp, electronics
Ikue Mori – electronics
John King – electronics
Peter Evans – amplified trumpet
Nate Wooley – amplified trumpet

PROGRAM
Rhys Chatham Waterloo No.2 (1985)
Flowers, Johnson, Kozar, Johnson, Lang, Rogers, Koci

TILT SIXtet
John King Baghdad Blues (in memoriam James Tenney) (2007)
Chris McIntyre Metaxis 2.3 (2007)
Johnson, Wooley, Hasselbring, McIntyre, Altieri, Exley, King

Lois V. Vierk Jagged Mesa (1990)
Johnson, Flowers, McIntyre, Lang, Garchik, Rogers

INTERMISSION

Christian Marclay Through The Looking Glass (1985)
Johnson, Wooley, Koci, McIntyre

TILT Creative Brass Band
Mauricio Kagel Selections from 10 Marches (to miss the victory) (1978/79)
Curtis Hasselbring Revisitor (2009)
Flowers, Johnson, Kozar, Clark, Koci, Hasselbring, Lang, Garchik, Exley, Norton, McIntyre

Phantom Orchard (Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori) and Nate Wooley/Peter Evans Trumpet Duo
Improvisations