InfraSound presents "Words and Music"
InfraSound NYC presents “Words and Music”, featuring:
Brittany J. Green – R_upture
Yoshi Weinberg – Burial of the Dead from the Waste Land
Morton Feldman & Samuel Beckett – Words and Music
Michael Denis Ó Callaghan - 'Drowning' CD release concert
cmntx records presents the live premiere of Michael Denis Ó Callaghan's Drowning and what comes Afterwards (or My Time Underwater). Released digitally in March, this concert celebrates the release of the album on CD.
The Band:
Michael Denis Ó Callaghan, vocals & trumpet
Steven McArdle, drums
Alex Gray, keys & electronics
Nick Trautmann, bass
Blake Opper, reeds
Evan Adams, guitar
'Once Within a Time' Film Premiere
Once Within a Time (51 minutes) is an IRE / opticnerve™ production, written and directed by Godfrey Reggio, co-directed by Jon Kane, with original music composed by Philip Glass, Sussan Deyhim additional music / the mother muse.
Reggio will receive the Santa Fe International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award on Oct. 22, 2022. The award ceremony will be followed by the world premiere of Once Within a Time.
[Credits include: Assistant to Producer (Soundtrack), Assistant to Composer, Assistant Mix Engineer, and Music Preparation]
'In This Neighborhood' film premiere @ Eastern Oregon Film Festival
IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD
Caught between a fragmented mind and a fuzzy grasp on reality, Kate seeks a fresh start to her life. After being shooed away by a neighbor who no longer recognizes her, Kate subsequently breaks into her estranged family home. There she discovers a piece of mail which leads to a downward spiral of paranoia, alarm for family safety, and an unquestionable certainty she’s being targeted.
Directed by: Lilly Lion
Starring: Laura Welsh and Blaine Palmer
Music by: Alex Ring Gray
The Eastern Oregon Film Festival will celebrate its twelfth year of programming independent cinema in La Grande, Oregon on October 21-23. The festival will present 52 films over the course of the three days, both in-person and also via a virtual streaming platform. Virtual passes are currently available for purchase.
Cameron Rehberg at Citizen Vinyl
Violists Amanda Tant and Cameron Rehberg present works by J.S. Bach, Kenji Bunch, Jeremy Cohen, Nokuthula Endo Ngwenyama, Mark O’Connor, Alex Ring Gray (Blueshift), and Marcelle Soulage. Join them for beautiful music and delicious Session Cafe drinks and food!
InfraSound: Lavender Nights
Lavender Nights is a celebration of queer history and culture through the art of cabaret and art song. This production will be a musical tour of pivotal moments in cabaret’s history, experienced through a queer lens.
Lavender Nights opens with songs from 1920’s Berlin during the height of the Weimar Republic’s queer revolution including selections from Kurt Weil’s “Three Penny Opera,” Mischa Spoliansky’s “Its All a Swindle” and “The Lavender Song,” and more! Transitioning to 1950s Paris, the audience will hear love songs of Le Chat Noir including “Padam Padam” by Edith Piaf, “Je te veux” by Erik Satie, and “On n’oublie rien” by Jacques Brel. An intimate ending with just voices and piano, we reflect on our current socio-political climate with 19th-century English art songs by Charles Ives, Margaret Bonds, and Ethyl Smith.
With a fresh, young cast of talented singers and a vivacious pit band, this 90-minute show will be an extravagant, emotional, and moving piece of music theater. For one night only, you won’t want to miss it!
For more info and to purchase tickets visit:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/infrasound-presents-lavender-nights-tickets-327693830067
Orchestrations by Alex Ring Gray, Zachary James Ritter, and Yoshi Weinberg.
Nief-Norf Summer Festival: LIMINAL SPACE
Sound installation of generative composition Liminal Space (2021)
Originally commissioned by InfraSound for grand opening concert of Liminal Space NYC
Natalie L. Haslam Music Center, Room G68
Nief-Norf Summer Festival 2022
The Nief-Norf Summer Festival (nnSF) is an interdisciplinary summer music festival, bringing together dozens of performers, composers, scholars, and music technologists to collaborate on the performance, creation, and discussion of contemporary music. The nnSF offers an immersive think-tank environment in the state-of-the-art Natalie L. Haslam Music Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and presents more than 10 concerts of modern music, aiming to encourage both appreciation for live music and support for contemporary art.
The Nief-Norf Summer Festival features full-time, faculty-led workshops in performance, composition, and music technology performance lasting the duration of the festival. In addition, each year the nnSF hosts an international Call for Scores competition for composers as well as a Lecture Series for music scholars. These projects bring some of our generation's brightest and most promising composers and scholars to the festival for interaction with the fellows, the faculty, and the Knoxville community.
June 9: Opening Concert
June 10: Mark Applebaum “Theme in Search of Variations”
June 11: Music of Mark Applebaum
June 15: Composition Fellows Concert 1
June 16: Composition Fellows Concert 2
June 17: Music of Pamela Z
June 18: Closing Concert
Vicki Leona Nguyen: "MeditationS on Miscommunications"
Live screening of Vicki Leona Nguyen’s graduate recital music film “Meditations on Miscommunications”.
Featuring performances by Will Allen, Maxim Dybal-Denysenko, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Alex Ring Gray, Victor Gutierrez, Kristian DeLeon, Adam Lutz, M. Turner McCabe, Vicki Leona Nguyen, Vasily Ratmansky, Baldwin Rufino, Sierra Swanson, Phong Tran, and Conny Zhao
Filmed by Emily Massey and Vicki Leona Ngueyn
Editors Alex Ring Gray and Vicki Leona Nguyen
InfraSound: Reich and Darwin
Please join us on April 1st at 7:30 pm EST at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall for our concert “Reich and Darwin.” A celebratory concert showcasing contemporary minimalist music from NYC and abroad.
Including works by Christophe Chassol (France), Julius Eastman (NY), Sarah Hennies (NY), Claudia Molitor (Germany/England), Alex Ring Gray (NYC), Philip Glass (NYC), Steve Reich (NY), featuring the InfraSound ensemble conducted by the incredible David Martin Bloom.
Evan Ziporyn: Best Out Of Three @ Big Ears Festival
The program centers on two monumental works from the late sixties: Philip Glass’s long-lost Best Out of Three for three clarinets—here in its first performance in more than half a century—and Ziporyn’s stunning solo bass clarinet version of Jimi Hendrix’s “Woodstock Improvisation.” Both pieces were battering rams that broke down the walls between genres. Glass’s 1968 work, recently found in his archives, is an essential missing link between his early period and Music in Twelve Parts, while Hendrix’s 1969 Woodstock performance was an explosive amalgamation of blues, R&B, rock, noise, and pure improvisation.
**Best out of Three score restored by Alex Gray for Dunvagen Music in 2021