Ne(x)tworks + Dionne Werewolf + Growler
7:00pm Ne(x)tworks: Spooky Music
Ne(x)tworks celebrates Halloween at Issue Project Room with a performance of music by Christian Wolff, Joan La Barbara, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The 7PM concert opens with Christian Wolff’s Duo for Violins (1950), an early work of austere elegance. Inspired by Webern, the five-minute duo consists entirely of two adjacent semi tones (D – E-flat, and E-flat – E). Following the Wolff is a performance of Joan La Barbara’s Revelations in the Wind (remix) (2004/2009). Scored for chamber ensemble and sonic atmosphere (a collage of layered voices, viola, piano, saxophones and detuned zither), Revelations in the Wind (remix) is a sonic reflection on dark nights and ghostly apparitions. Originally composed as a segment of La Barbara’s opera Woolfsong, the piece has been reworked for this evening’s performance. Ne(x)tworks closes the evening with selections from Karlheinz Stockhausen’s revolutionary collection of text compositions entitled Aus den sieben Tagen (1968). Characterized as “intuitive music,” these compositions employ text to describe musical processes or moods to be created by the musicians. Performers for this evening are Cornelius Dufallo, director and violin; Christopher Otto, violin; Stephen Gosling, piano; and Christopher McIntyre, trombone and synthesizer.
9:00pm DIONNE WEREWOLF
Spooky ensemble arrangements of classic Burt Bacharach tunes featuring Katie Eastburn, Dana Lyn, Ian Riggs, Emily Manzo, Zach Layton, Aaron Thurston and many more.
11:00pm GROWLER
“Hatched from an egg and warmed by a lava flow, GROWLER is an extra heavy rock band based in Brooklyn New York, with Ken Weaver on vocals, Mike Nesi on guitar, David Porter on bass, and Jeremy Benjamin Kolker on drums. Their live performances are equal parts madness and mayhem, a sonic collision of melodic cacophany with a generous nod to the Dark Arts. Their Halloween show at the Issue Progect Room will will be an extra special event, for GROWLER will be providing what could only be described as a Satanic Three Ring Circus atmoshere to the evening, with special guests Suzzane Rogaleski on demonic trapeze, artist Jean Nate performing exorcisms and ritual dance, Jesse Holt as flesh lusting Minotaur, and finally Alexis Karl and Sheba Squires, of the performance troupe of Anima Animas Animal, providing the blood curtling Invocation for the evening’s Black Mass. A concert from Hell has never been more entertaining!”
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