Tank alums on the rise! Face the Music is led by the wonderfully talented Jenny Undercofler of the Kaufman Center. They went from playing Philip Glass songs at the Tank to actually opening for him this Summer! Congrats!
Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City at the corner of River Terrace and Warren Street
Come celebrate Philip Glass’ 75th birthday at the 2012 River To River Festival at the Philip Glass Ensemble’s only concert that is free to the public this year. Join the Philip Glass Ensemble as they perform a retrospective program of the legendary composer’s music in the beautiful setting of Rockefeller Park. As a special component to the evening, youth ensemble Face the Music opens the event with Philip Glass’ Glassworks. The talented teens of Face the Music (the oldest of whom was born in 1994) digs in to the lush harmonies and rich textures of this modern-day classic with great enthusiasm. This event promises to be a memorable and unforgettable musical spectacular.
Presented by River To River Festival and Battery Park City Authority.
Rain location: World Financial Center Winter Garden.
Blip Festival alum Tristan Perich is the featured artist on The Watermill Center’s vimeo page!
Congruence, composed by Tristan Perich in residence with saxophonist Argeo Ascani, is a new piece for baritone saxophone and 1-bit electronics. Continuing Perich’s explorations in primitive electronic sound, this composition combines the live sound of 1-bit frequencies—synthesized by custom electronic circuits and on-stage speakers—with acoustic saxophone, performed by Argeo Ascani. Congruence represents an evolution of Perich’s sound to the gritty lower frequencies, where tone breaks down and the electronics take on a visceral quality, complementing the physical presence of the saxophone’s guttoral voice.
Pulsewave chip music series prides itself and draws a lot of talent from its monthly open mics. To celebrate Blip Festival and to showcase chip music practitioners from around the world, this edition of Pulsewave will feature an extended open mic + special guests. Join the party 5/24 at DCTV!
Modern composer and curator Guy Barash’s new music series “Eavesdropping” returns to The Tank on 5/24 to present some of today’s most daring performers and surprising composers. This installment features: Text, play and game based new music
Ambiguous Kafka: A musical-stage adaptation of Kafka short texts by Ronnie Reshef Violin: Brendan Speltz, Clarinet: Ben Ringer, Baritone: Seth Gilman, Tuba: Matt Muszynski
Last night the Tank kicked off it’s 9th year in operation and is heading into its 10th season! Thank you to Anita Durst for hosting us as well as Drawn Out Storytelling for showcasing exactly what we are all about: a fun mix of everything.
WATCH: Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer say a few words at The Tank 10th season kick off party. Music by the Drawn Out Storytelling house band.
“Only at the Tank…
I wanted to come by for two reasons. One, to say when you think about Manhattan, you think about New York City. You have to think about arts and culture, right? And you have to think about the people who break through things. And the Tank is just a break through place. Whether its Drinking Liberally or Living Liberally or bringing something new and exciting about progressive politics to the forefront to next generation New Yorkers. The Tank is what it’s about. You don’t have to be young to appreciate it. You can be someone, like myself, who..by the way, 52 is the new 32, you know that? But it really is an amazing place. I really just want to say to my friend Justin [Krebs], I think he’s done an amazing job building the organization with so many of you.”
Modern composer and curator Guy Barash’s new music series “Eavesdropping” returns to The Tank on 5/24 to present some of today’s most daring performers and surprising composers. This installment features: Text, play and game based new music
In preparation for Blip Festival New York, Pulsewave:Modulation presents a screening of Reformat The Planet!
Reformat the Planet (RTP) is a feature length documentary which delves into the movement known as chip music, a vibrant underground scene based around creating new, original music using obsolete video game hardware. Familiar devices such as the Nintendo Game Boy and Nintendo Entertainment System are pushed in new directions with startling results. http://2playerproductions.com/
Thousands have lived without love, none without water,” is the powerful Auden quote cellist Madeleine Shapiro used to introduce her program of environmentally-oriented works at the Tank. Opening with Richard Johnson’s serene, meditative Water Meditation on Etenraku, Shapiro combined a mournful folk song with the faint “ploinks” of dripping water. A number of composers featured used other natural phenomena as sonic inspiration, including Matthew Burtner, whose Fragments from Cold actually feels frigid, thanks to the sound of swooshing wind combined with the cello. And Canadian composer Gayle Young recorded waves and rock sounds in Newfoundland for Avalon Shorelines, which made an appealingly hypnotic effect when fused with Shapiro’s light touch.
