About Sokio

Sokio is a composer, producer, music supervisor, and the director of the New Latin Wave. As a composer, artist, and curator, his focus has been experimenting with the diversity of the Latinx experience, creating new narratives based on the history and stories throughout the Americas, mixing pre-Columbian, classical and electronic instruments. 

Sokio has composed and staged four operas: Patria (1998), Tántalo (1999), Arequípa (2001) and Rei (2004). Co-presented with El Museo del Barrio, Brooklyn Museum, BRIC, MexicArte (Austin), SXSW and SummerStage among other institutions and partners. Sokio has been the recipient of the Muestra Nacional de Dramaturgia prize (1999, Chile) with his play Oxido. 

He was invited to present his piece Mapas in the 2019 Innovators series at Samsung 837. His latest work Todo Es Cariño (2020) was premiered by Shayna Dunkelman at Pioneer Works, and he was the recipient of the Abrons Arts Center AIRspace Residency 2021. He lives and works in the Lower East Side, New York.

Lockdown & Loss: Music of Neil Rolnick for Piano and Electronics

Monday, November 21st, 2022

7:00pm

Mise-En Place

341 Calyer St, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Subway: G train to Nassau

Entry: $10 min suggested donation

Composer Neil Rolnick celebrates the release of his newest CD/digital release, Lockdown Fantasies, along with his recent 75th birthday!  He’s joined by spectacular and adventurous pianists Geoffrey Burleson and Kathleen Supové in two large scale pieces for piano and computer.

Kathleen will perform Journey’s End, a meditation on the end of life, and a reflection of Neil’s late wife’s courageous fight against cancer, and her strength, grace, and ultimate acceptance her own mortality.

Geoffrey will perform Lockdown Fantasies, a 45 minute suite of 5 pieces which explore not just the trauma of the first year or so of Covid, but also the wide ranging emotional rollercoaster ride of living through the pandemic while proceeding with the complexities of every day life.  From quiet chorales to chaotic digital pile-ups to funky grooves and contrapuntal romps, the music attests to the fact that life has continued in its glorious variety, despite the lockdown and ongoing pandemic.

The CD will be released in November by Other Minds Recordings.  Neil hits 75 in October, still making new music.  Please join us for the music and celebration.

MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS

A pioneer in the use of computers in performance since the late 1970s, Neil Rolnick’s music has been performed around the world, including recent performances in Cuba, China, Mexico and across the US and Europe, and appears on 22 commercial recordings.

His string quartet Oceans Eat Cities was performed at the UN Global Climate Summit in Paris in 2015. Since 2016 he has received support from CEC ArtsLink, the Bogliasco Foundation, New Music USA, the Marion Foundation, Millay Arts, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and NYSCA.

Throughout the 1980s and ‘90s he developed the first integrated electronic arts graduate and undergraduate programs in the US, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Though much of his work connects music and technology, and is therefore considered “experimental”, Rolnick’s music has always been highly melodic and accessible, and has been characterized by critics as “sophisticated,” “hummable and engaging,” and as having “good senses of showmanship and humor.”

Kathleen Supové

“What Ms. Supové is really exploding is the piano recital as we have known it, a mission more radical and arguably more needed.” Anthony Tommasini, NY Times

In May, 2012, Supové received the John Cage Award from ASCAP for “the artistry and passion with which she performs, commissions, records, and champions the music of our time.”

Ms. Supové annually presents a series of solo concerts entitled THE EXPLODING PIANO. She has performed with Yamaha Disklaviers, laptop orchestras, robots, and XReality. Upcoming projects include a collection of works based on Migration; Guy & Doll, a piano-electronics duo with Guy Barash; Anti-Depressant, a violin-piano duo with Jennifer Choi; an opera based on the life of Hedy Lamarr; and Shocking Red, a song collection with Michelle Shocked, based on paintings of Mark Kostabi.

For more info, visit www.supove.com, follow on Facebook (Exploding Piano), or @supove.

Equally active as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician, and jazz performer, Geoffrey Burleson, pianist, has performed to wide acclaim throughout Europe and North America. Current recording projects include Camille Saint- Saëns: Complete Piano Works, on 6 CDs, for the Naxos Grand Piano label. The first five volumes have been released to high acclaim from Gramophone, International Record Review, Diapason (France) and elsewhere. Mr. Burleson’s concerto appearances include the Buffalo Philharmonic, New England Philharmonic, Boston Musica Viva, and the Holland Symfonia in the Netherlands. He has also appeared as featured soloist at the Bard Music Festival, International Keyboard Institute and Festival (New York), Monadnock Music Festival, and the Santander Festival (Spain). He is a core member of the American Modern Ensemble and Boston Musica Viva. Mr. Burleson teaches piano at Princeton University and is Professor/Director of Piano Studies at Hunter College-CUNY. He is additionally on the piano faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center.

HYPERCUBE

Tuesday, November 1st

7:30 PM

Mise-En Place

341 Calyer St, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Subway: G train to Nassau

$10

HYPERCUBE has built a reputation on high-energy performances with impressive execution. The NYC-based quartet embraces the boundaries of chamber music, featuring cutting-edge works for saxophone, guitar, piano and percussion, while spanning electric and acoustic worlds. In this concert, Hypercube presents new works composed for them by Seong Ae Kim, Michael Fiday, and select participants from the 2022 Hypercube Composition Lab.

A Piano Lives In Brooklyn!

December 23rd, 2021, 6:00-8:00pm

Mise-En Place

341 Calyer St, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Subway: G train to Nassau
Bus: B24
Cost: Free, donations accepted

The pianist Kathleen Supové excavates the surrounding land, mining not for silver (as in Leadville Pantoum), but for musical and literary inspiration. She has found it, and just in time for the reawakening of Brooklyn to live music and live poetry!! A concert of beautiful words and music by Brooklynites, including several premiere performances. Works by Angélica Negrón, Guy Barash, Erin Rogers, Randall Woolf and Kathleen Supové. This concert is kid friendly (age 6 and up), and a little bit of a holiday party as well, featuring gifts such as homemade soaps, which are a hobby of Ms Supové’s. There will be a post concert Q & A with the artists.

*In accordance with NYC requirements, we require proof of at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine for all eligible people. All in attendance are required to wear a mask.

PROGRAM

"On the walls of my boredom, I write your name" by Angélica Negrón [2015] (poem by Paul Eluard) New York Premiere

"Life Is Sweet" by Guy Barash [2021] (poem by Nick Flynn)

World Premiere New Work TBA by Kathleen Supové [2021] World Premiere

"Constancy" by Erin Rogers [2021] (based on a 3-panel art piece by Dorothea Rockburne ) World Premiere

"Leadville Pantoum" by Randall Woolf [2021] (poem by Megan Duffy) World Premiere

*A Piano Lives In Brooklyn! is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.

**POSTPONED** 

"Multimedia Matchmaking"

Sunday, 3/15/20, 4-6:00 pm

Animated shorts with live scores

Sunday, 3/15/20, 4:00-6:00 pm

An experiment in matchmaking for visual artists and musicians. Animated shorts by visual artists are paired with new scorings by local classical and experimental musicians. The films selected represent a broad range of voices and techniques. Dianne Bellino's stop-motion fairytale The Itching centers around anxiety, vulnerability, and imperfection, telling the story of a shy, introverted wolf trying to find her place in the world. David Delafuente's uuuuuu explores the thoughts that run through his mind at 3AM with mesmerizing black and white, hand drawn lines. Artists featured include Dianne Bellino, David Delafuente, Case Jernigan, Ana Perez Lopez, Ana Mouyis, and Dana Sink. Musicians performing include Dorothy Chan, Melinda Faylor, Geoff Gersch, Christopher Graham, Sawtooth (Luke Schwartz + Evan Joseph), Hajnal Pivnick, Kathleen Supove, Juan Trujillo, Dorian Wallace, and Lucy Yao. The films selected have been curated by artist Fay Ku.

FREE

**POSTPONED**

Piano+ #20

Den Haag Tribute 2.0, piano+visuals

Sunday 3/15/20, 7:30pm-doors, 8pm-music

New works by Maya Verlaak, Grzegorz Marciniak and Assaf Gidron performed by Rachel Mangold and Teodora Stepančić Maya, Grzegorz, Assaf and Teodora met at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (Netherlands). They spent time together and made music in the vibrant, international community of musicians and artists, organized concerts, formed ensembles, and never lost touch with each other.

Maya Verlaak focuses on analyzing a given context (place, musician, instrument, etiquette, conventions, history) as a way to creating and structuring material for her work. In doing so, distance is an important attitude to make room for reflection, critical analysis and humor. She is one of the curators of 'Post-Paradise' concert series in Birmingham (UK) and composition teacher at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam (NL).

Grzegorz Marciniak, composer and performer born in Szczecin, studied composition at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, karnatic music at the Conservatory in Amsterdam and bassoon at the Music Academy in Poznań. Founder and leader of Omega Impact

Assaf Gidron, composer, musician and sound designer originally from Tel Aviv, lived in the UK and the Netherlands before moving to Brooklyn where he writes and performs music, works in film sound, runs the Big Family Audio Co. studio and uploads images to the @moreshapes Instagram page. He is co-founder of LCollective and Love Records.

Piano+ is a concert series dedicated to new and recent music for piano with other instruments and media, inviting composers, performers and audiences into an intimate listening experience, a space for sharing sounds, ideas and music, for open minds and ears. Curated by composer and pianist Teodora Stepančić. Piano+ is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

**POSTPONED**

 “Lippis” Double Night

Wednesday, 3/18/20, 8:00 pm

Haruyuki Suzuki (computer/electronics), Shoko Nagai (piano), Hans Tammen (Buchla), Satoshi Takeishi (Percussion/ electronics).

Always a surprising and unique NY improviser, Shoko Nagai, and the Tokyo based electronics artist Hiroyuki Suzuki will perform in collaboration. Nagai’s free and organic manipulation of her piano with electronics and Suzuki’s Noise/Musique Concrete will fuse and collide into an audio expression between a tangible and an abstract audio world. The night is shared with incredible improvisers Hans Tammen and Satoshi Takeishi. Not to be missed!

**POSTPONED**

Words and Music

Thursday, 3/19/20, 7:00-8:30 pm

Often in the composition of music and words, the lines between both intertwine - in the way a lyric is sung, in the constant melodic gestures present within everyday speech. Here, there will be performances involving words, sounds, and improvisation within both: featuring Kelly Quigley (NYC), Myronn Hardy (NYC), and Both of Us (Boston).

Kelly Quigley ~
https://kellyquigley.bandcamp.com/

Myronn Hardy ~
http://www.myronnhardy.com/

Both of Us ~
http://isabelcrespo.com/bothofus


$15 at the door

**POSTPONED**

Michaël Attias / Sebastien Ammann Duo

Friday, 3/20/20, 9:00 pm

Sebastien Ammann and Michaël Attias have been playing together for almost a decade. Their compositions and improvisations are vessels that enable them to embark on a journey that takes the listener to new, yet familiar places. The music they create is rooted in improvised music, jazz and classical music and blurs the lines between composition and improvisation.

Saxophonist/composer Michaël Attias is a quietly fierce force on the international improvising scene. Born in Israel to Moroccan parents, he grew up in Paris and the American Midwest before settling in NYC in 1994. He has performed and recorded under the leadership of such great artists as Anthony Braxton, Paul Motian, Anthony Coleman, Oliver Lake, Tony Malaby, and many others. With five critically-acclaimed albums as a leader, current projects include his long-standing trio Renku with John Hébert and Satoshi Takeishi; the quintet Spun Tree with Ralph Alessi, Matt Mitchell, Sean Conly and Tom Rainey; the Michaël Attias Quartet with Aruán Ortiz, John Hébert and Nasheet Waits; and the solo project, I's, with himself on alto saxophone and piano. He has also composed live electronic scores and sound designs for theater including numerous collaborations with legendary director Robert Woodruff.

Michaël Attias was named a 2000 Artists' Fellowship Recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a 2013 NYFA Artists Fellowships Finalist, and was awarded a MacDowell Arts Colony fellowships in 2008 and 2015. Pianist Sebastien Ammann moved to New York in 2008 from Geneva, Switzerland. He earned a Masters degree in Jazz Performance from the Aaron Copland School of Music in 2011.
He currently leads Sebastien Ammann’s Color Wheel (Michaël Attias, Noah Garabedian, Nathan Ellman-Bell) whose new record “Resilience” will be released on Skirl Records on March 20th, 2020.
Since moving to New York, Sebastien Ammann has performed and recorded with artists such as Kris Davis’ Massive Thread, Tony Malaby, Billy Drewes, Le Zhang Quintet, Mark Ferber, George Schuller, The Gary Douglas Band, Dana Leong, John Hébert, Sean Conly, Michael Sarin, Eric McPherson and many others. He regularly performs in venues and festivals all over the USA and Europe.

**POSTPONED** 

Treesearch Album Release Concert

Sunday, 3/22/20, 2:00 pm

Treesearch (Kyle Motl and Keir GoGwilt) present a concert celebrating the release of their debut album, Know More Knowledge - a brand new work of soulful, virtuosic, and uniquely idiomatic music played across eight strings and a couple of trees. This album is the product of years of listening, rehearsing, and performing together in San Diego. Their music combines traditional and explorative approaches to string-playing, with composed materials anchoring improvisatory fantasies. Their practice as improvisers is rooted historically but firmly of the present, drawing from jazz, avant-jazz, baroque, classical, and contemporary music. “[I]ts own brand of in-the-moment invention, mingling rich tones, rhapsodic gestures, and companionable jousts” (The New Yorker).

Keir GoGwilt is a violinist, writer, and musicologist. As a violinist he has been described as a "formidable performer" (New York Times) noted for his "evocative sound" (London Jazz News) and "finger-busting virtuosity" (San Diego Union Tribune). He has soloed with groups including the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Chinese National Symphony, the Orquesta Filarmonica de Santiago, the Bowdoin International Music Festival Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia, and the La Jolla Symphony. He is a core member of AMOC, and he co-composes, improvises, and performs music with bassist Kyle Motl as part of their duo, Treesearch. He works closely with composers including Matthew Aucoin, Celeste Oram, and Carolyn Chen, choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith, bassist Mark Dresser (as part of the Dresser Seven), and percussionist Steven Schick. He graduated from Harvard, where he was awarded the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, and is a PhD candidate in Music at UC San Diego.

Kyle Motl is a bassist, composer, and improviser dedicated to the performance of creative music. Kyle is active in a number of ensembles across the field of creative and improvised music, including Sibarg Ensemble (improvisation at the intersection of jazz and classical Persian music), Peter Kuhn Trio, Abbey Rader Trio and Quartet, Kyle Motl Trio, and Treesearch with Keir GoGwilt. His trio record with Kjell Nordeson and Tobin Chodos, Panjandrums, appeared on Best-of-2017 lists on the Free Jazz Blog and Perfect Sound Forever. He maintains regular duo projects with Keir GoGwilt, Drew Ceccato, TJ Borden, and Tommy Babin. Kyle has performed and recorded alongside artists including Anthony Davis, Kidd Jordan, Mary Halvorson, Roscoe Mitchell, and Wadada Leo Smith, among others. 

$10 entry at the door

**POSTPONED**

Latitude 49: “Wax and Wire” album release

Tuesday, 3/24/20, 7:00 pm

Latitude 49 celebrates the release of their sophomore album, Wax and Wire! Join Latitude 49 as they play selections from their sophomore album, Wax and Wire. This dynamic collection takes the listener on a genre-bending journey, careening wildly from the visceral to the sublime. From the psychedelic pulsations of Gabriella Smith’s "Number Nine" (an homage to the Beatles’ “Revolution 9”) flows Viet Cuong’s whimsical showpiece "Wax and Wire," establishing the record’s charisma and variety right away. Ruminant works by Annika Socolofsky and Chris Sies direct us inward: Socolofsky’s "a sense of who" challenges us to consider ourselves in light of the communities we inhabit, while "these (were) used to harm" by Latitude 49’s own Chris Sies employs effects inspired by specific songs that have been used as means of torture against a sometimes thrashing chambercore background. Two works by Sarah Kirkland Snider provide the record’s most intimate moments, with the swirling trio "Thread and Fray" unfurling tightly-knit textures while the cleansing, haunting, but ultimately hopeful "You Are Free" closes out the record in a state of utter contemplation.

Opening set by:

Sonya Belaya's "Dacha" Sonya Belaya, piano/vocals

Nick Dunston, bass

Stephen Boegehold, drums

Kalia Vandever, trombone

Chris Williams, trumpet

Ledah Finck, violin

FREE with RSVP

**POSTPONED**

Trystero performs "Perfect Lives" for Robert Ashley's 90th Birthday

Saturday, 3/28/20, 8:00 pm

Commemorating the 90th birthday of Robert Ashley: Trystero performs Perfect Lives and an arrangement of Tap Dancing in the Sand with guest artist Paul Pinto. Originally with special permission from composer Robert Ashley, comes a new version of Perfect Lives – The Park and The Backyard by Trystero, the avant-duo of composer-performers David Kulma and Dorian Wallace. This made-for-television opera has in recent years has experienced a renaissance of new interpretations, notably Vidas Perfectas and Varispeed’s Perfect Lives Manhattan. In this reimagining, Trystero augments their duo with fellow musicians from Tenth Intervention. Trystero has performed Perfect Lives over the past eight years in the Midwest and NYC.

Tickets $20/$15 student $15 tickets in advance

**POSTPONED**

Tomchess / Zach Swanson

Thursday, 4/2/20, 8:00 pm

Multi Instrumentalist/Improviser/Composer Tomchess (here on Oud, Ney, Morsing) and Upright bassist Zach Swanson invite you to join them celebrate their album release Ghost Narratives on FootJumbo Records bringing their unique and astonishing dialog of music’s kinesis to Areté Gallery. Utilizing the placement and inherent fluidity of soundsigns towards lyrical poetic storying telling and abstracted impressions, they create a beautiful, functional and meaningful music within relational musical spaces that do not exist in typical musical spaces reaching deeper into the nuance of life and listening in the 21st century global culture.

**POSTPONED**

New Music for Percussion: Bent Duo

Sunday, 4/5/20, 4:00 pm

Bent Duo (Bill Solomon, percussion and David Friend, piano) perform new works by members of 113 Composers Collective.

After working together for years as ensemble players in NYC's new music scene, Bill Solomon and David Friend have joined forces to create a new project. Bent Duo explores the existing percussion and piano duo repertoire, and commissions new works that exploit the sonic and performative potential of this pairing. 113 (One Thirteen), a collection of composers and performers of new music based in the Twin Cities, curates concerts, seminars, and master classes throughout the United States and Europe. Through ambitious programming, community building, educational outreach, and emphasis on extensive interaction between composers and performers, 113 provides a platform for musicians pursuing bold, personalized artistic visions, and helps them to transmit those visions as directly and honestly as possible to a receptive audience, unfettered by university politics, market pressures, or established conventions.

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