TILT Brass (Music by Heiner Goebbels, Richard Barrett, Peter Zummo, & Chris McIntyre)
TILT Brass Chamber Music Show
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.
To TILT: Orig. Music for TILT Brass [Part 2]
To TILT: Orig. Music for TILT Brass [Part 2]
On Wednesday, March 3rd, the 10-piece Brooklyn-based group TILT Creative Brass Band presents the second installment of its on-going series To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass which focuses solely on repertoire written for the organization’s distinctive ensembles (CBB and 6-piece SIXtet) at ISSUE Project Room. The program features works by a stellar group of composer/performers including Downtown legend Anthony Coleman, trumpet virtuoso Dave Ballou, avant-cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, Gold Sparkle’s Charles Waters (featuring composer and world-class improviser Mick Rossi on piano), and TILT Director Chris McIntyre. TILT CBB features an extraordinary line-up of creative musicians including trumpeters Nate Wooley and Gareth Flowers, trombonists Curtis Hasselbing and Jacob Garchik, and and percussionist Kevin Norton.
More infomation (incl. mp3′s and composer bios) at http://www.tiltbrass.org/09-10_gigs/ipr_100303.html
PROGRAM
Anthony Coleman - Set Into Motion (2005)
Charles Waters - 3 Mysteries [Concertimento #12] (2007)
>>featuring Mick Rossi on piano
Taylor Ho Bynum - preharmonic, postchordal, revamped (2007)
Chris McIntyre - Foliation (for Suzanne) (2009)
Dave Ballou - Concerto for TILT (2003)
PERSONNEL
Creative Brass Band:
Trumpet – Nate Wooley, Gareth Flowers, Andy Kozar
French Horn – John Clark, Rachel Drehmann
Trombone – Curtis Hasselbring, Chris McIntyre
Bass Trombone – Jacob Garchik
Tuba – Ron Caswell
Percussion – Kevin Norton
Conductor – Greg Evans
Special Guest:
Mick Rossi – piano soloist on Waters
TILT Creative Brass Band
Brooklyn based TILT Creative Brass Band (TCBB) is a beautifully strange combination of military brass band and Downtown repertoire ensemble. The group has presented concerts since January 2003 at venues ranging from Whitney Museum to Barbes in Brooklyn. Since its inception, TCBB has fearlessly taken on works from the fringes of experimental concert music, tongue-in-cheek agitprop, and hybrid scores combining notation and improvisation. The group frequently presents entire programs of original works by its composer/performer members (Kevin Norton, Curtis Hasselbring, Nate Wooley, among others) and colleagues from the field, including legendary pianist Anthony Coleman (released on Tzadik), Doctor Nerve’s Nick Didkovsky, multi-instrumentist Charles Waters, and cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum.
In addition, the Creative Brass Band is committed to presenting works from the experimental tradition, ranging from a Varése graphic score from the late 50′s and selections from James Tenney’s Postal Pieces to works by Fredric Rzewski (Les Mounton de Panurge) and early John Adams (Light Over Water). In June ’09, TCBB kicked off a new on-going series of programs called New York Noise which presents historical and current works by important composers from the Downtown community and its ancestors such as Elliott Sharp, Lois V. Vierk, and Rhys Chatham. In 2010, the group will present several programs at ISSUE Project Room and will record and release its current To TILT repertoire.
Mick Rossi
Pianist, percussionist, and composer Mick Rossi’s diverse accomplishments include: being among “the most courageous, gifted, and charismatic musicians” of the New York Downtown scene (AllAboutJazz); a long-time Philip Glass collaborator and member of the ensemble as pianist, percussionist, and conductor; and working with artists from Dave Douglas to Kelly Clarkson to Leonard Cohen. He recently conducted Book of Longing at the Sydney Opera House, and performed Einstein at the Beach at Carnegie Hall and Koyaanisqatsi at the Hollywood Bowl. Recent recordings include One Block From Planet Earth (OmniTone), and They Have A Word For Everything (Knitting Factory). His recent concert at Le Poisson Rouge presenting his latest and ninth recording Songs From The Broken Land (Orange Mountain Music) was featured in the NY Times.
**POSTPONED to March 3** TILT (Original Music for TILT Brass [Part 2])
The Brooklyn-based 10-piece group TILT Creative Brass Band (tiltbrass.org), directed by trombonist Chris McIntyre, presents a full evening of adventurous and unconventional brass music. This concert is the second installment of TILT’s on-going series “To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass” which focuses solely on repertoire written for its distinctive ensembles (CBB and 6-piece SIXtet). Though wildly eclectic, its repertoire is interconnected via the playerly,
composed/improvised hybrid aesthetic developed in New York’s Downtown scene over the past 40 years. TILT CBB features a number of top creative musicians including Russ Johnson, Shane Endsley, Joe Feidler, and Kevin Norton. The program includes:
Anthony Coleman – Set Into Motion
Taylor Ho Bynum – preharmonic, postchordal, revamped
Charles Waters – 3 Mysteries [Concertimento #12]
Dave Ballou – Concerto for TILT
Chris McIntyre – Foliation (for Suzanne)
**POSTPONED to March 3** Original Music for TILT Brass [Part 2]
The Brooklyn-based 10-piece group TILT Creative Brass Band (tiltbrass.org), directed by trombonist Chris McIntyre, presents a
full evening of adventurous and unconventional brass music. This concert is the second installment of TILT’s on-going series “To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass” which focuses solely on repertoire written for its distinctive ensembles (CBB and 6-piece SIXtet). Though wildly eclectic, its repertoire is interconnected via the playerly, composed/improvised hybrid aesthetic developed in New York’s Downtown scene over the past 40 years. TILT CBB features a number of top creative musicians including Russ Johnson, Shane Endsley, Joe Feidler, and Kevin Norton. The program includes:
Anthony Coleman – Set Into Motion
Taylor Ho Bynum – preharmonic, postchordal, revamped
Charles Waters – 3 Mysteries [Concertimento #12]
Dave Ballou – Concerto for TILT
Chris McIntyre – Foliation (for Suzanne)
TILT Brass presents New York Noise
TILT plays music by four legendary Downtown composers
Nick Didkovsky – Stink Up! (2003) [World Premiere]
full ensemble
Lois V. Vierk – Jagged Mesa (1990)
2 trp, 2 tnr trb, 2 bs trb
Rhys Chatham – Waterloo No.2 (1986)
3 trp, 2 trb, solo perc
Elliot Sharp – Coriolis Effect (1998/2003)
full ensemble
PERSONNEL
Trumpet – Shane Endsley, Russ Johnson
Josh Frank
French Horn – Mike Atkinson, Ann Ellsworth, Mark Taylor
Trombone – Joe Fiedler, Chris McIntyre
Bass Trombone – Jacob Garchik, Dave Nelson
Tuba – Ron Caswell
Percussion - Garrett Brown
Conductor - Greg Evans
TILT Brass’ New York Noise series presents compositions and improvising strategies developed within the singular musical culture of Downtown NYC during the past 30 years. By the late 70′s, “Downtown Music” referred to several strains of activity in New York such as minimalist tendencies in the classic SoHo Scene, the post-punk severity of No Wave bands, and the improvisational abandon of the Loft Jazz scene. As the 80′s progressed, a natural blending of these performance practices gave rise to a sort of Post-Modern hybridity still highly influential on the “new music” community today.
The musicians of TILT are direct descendants of these historical “local” traditions, continuing to evolve and mutate inherited aesthetic DNA, often along side important legacy artists. When possible, the group works directly with composers to adapt older works and/or create new ones for its innovative instrumentation(s), striving to expose and reinvigorate this important musical legacy.
New York-based TILT Brass is a collective of creative brass and percussion artists that has presented concerts throughout the city since 2003. Many of the musicians who participate in TILT projects are leaders in their field, such as trumpeters Russ Johnson and Nate Wooley, trombonists Joe Fiedler and Curtis Hasselbring, horn player John Clark, and percussionist Kevin Norton. The group’s repertoire features over a dozen works custom designed for its two projects, the 10-piece Creative Brass Band and 6-piece SIXtet. The latter, with duos of trumpet, trombone, and tuba, features Johnson, Wooley, Hasselbring and TILT Director Chris McIntyre on trombone, and Joe Exely and John Altieri on tuba.
>This ever-evolving list of idiosyncratic pieces being created for both ensembles includes works by important voices in the avant jazz and experimental concert music fields, including Anthony Coleman, John King, Chris Jonas, Taylor Ho Bynum, and group members Norton and McIntyre, among others. Coleman’s work Set Into Motion, premiered by the Brass Band in 2005, was released on the composer’s acclaimed Tzadik CD Pushy Blueness in August ’06. In addition to original works, TILT presents many pieces from the experimental tradition. Programs have featured historical compositions such as a Varése graphic score from the late 50′s and selections from James Tenney’s Postal Pieces, epochal works from the 70′s by Fredric Rzewski (Les Mounton de Panurge) and early John Adams (Light Over Water), and contemporary works by Elliott Sharp and Lois V. Vierk (June ’09).
Over its 6 year history, a number of vital New York venues have presented TILT Brass projects such as the Whitney Museum, BAM Café, Joe’s Pub, Issue Project Room, and Tonic. In December ’06, TILT SIXtet joined forces with Chris McIntyre’s group Lotet (collectively known as LoTILT) at Roulette Intermedium to premiere his folio score Metaxis.The Creative Brass Band presented two nights of original repertoire at The Stone in June ’07. Entitled ALL TILT, these important events included the premiere of new works by Curtis Hasselbring and Nate Wooley,composer/performer members of TILT, and by multi-instrumentist Charles Waters and cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum. Recent SIXtet performances include a Febuary ’08 set during Issue Project Room’s Horn Week (featuring Santa Fe-based saxophonist and composer Chris Jonas) and an October ’08 presentation on Composer Collaborative’s Serial Underground at Cornelia Street Café.
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