THE TANK SPACE FOR PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS

Critically acclaimed by Time Out New York and The New York Times, curator Amelia Lukas' contemporary chamber music series "Ear Heart Music" returns to The Tank in New York City.

The Mivos Quartet is devoted to performing the works of contemporary composers and presenting new music to diverse audiences. On this program, Mivos presents an original set of songs for string quartet & voice by Sasha Siem, with the composer as vocalist. Mivos worked with Siem to develop a full suite of pieces - rehearsing, recording and revising for an eventual full album's worth of material to be released later this year. Siem's pithy style combines the intimate sincerity of a singer/songwriter with the detailed instrumental flourishes and timbral experimentations of great chamber music writing. The evening will also include original works for string quartet written by Mivos Quartet members.

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Upcoming Ear Hear Music
4/26: Madeleine Shapiro, cello - Earth Day at The Tank: “Fracked”

Your face will melt at this show.

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visuals by Batsly Adams

All ages, $10
Doors at 8pm, open mic at 8:30pm
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Pulsewave will take place at Tada! Youth Theatre located at 15 W 28th Street, 2nd floor.

Pulsewave is the US’s longest running monthly event dedicated to exploring the sights and sounds of Chip Music’s greatest musicians and motion visualists. Using vintage video game systems and computers as the basis and influence for stunning next generation music and visuals, Pulsewave spotlights emerging and established artists from the international and local community. Now entering its fifth year, Pulsewave promises, in conjunction with New York arts organizations 8bitpeoples and The Tank, to remain committed to showcasing the best the global Chip Music community has to offer. pulsewave.org

Performing and listening to new music is fun because there is a sense of "what's next." On the other hand, there are certain works that are so monumental that they are already, in a small sense, "classics." The talented teens of Face the Music will present two such works: Philip Glass' 40-minute Glassworks, written for CBS Records in 1981, is a six-movement work of shifting harmonies and pulsating rhythms. Steve Reich's Double Sextet, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005, is a more contrapuntal, driving work, almost Bartók-like in intensity. Paired with these two warhorses is Robert Honstein's lovely Night Mixes, a six-minute meditation on a small motive that echoes some of Philip Glass' harmonic language.

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Face the Music Bio
Praised for "stunning performances" by The New York Times, Kaufman Center's Face the Music is an "alt-classical" ensemble of more than seventy astonishingly talented teenagers from in and around New York City. Advancing Kaufman Center's commitment to modern music, Face the Music provides an unparalleled performance and education experience for the next generation of musical leaders.

The group was founded in 2005 by Special Music School Music Director Jenny Undercofler and composer Huang Ruo, Under the direction of conductor Dr. Undercofler, Face the Music has played across New York City at venues such as Le Poisson Rouge, El Museo del Barrio, Merkin Hall, the River to River Festival and the Bang On A Can Marathon. The group has been featured on WQXR's Young Artist Showcase, NPR's All Things Considered, and played on a live broadcast marking the opening of NY Public Radio's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. In 2011, Face the Music was honored with the ASCAP Aaron Copland Award.

Face the Music features middle and high school students from over twenty different New York area schools. Many of the performers are students or alumni of Kaufman's own Special Music School, the only K-8 public school in New York City that integrates pre-conservatory musical training with academic education.

Modern composer and curator Guy Barash’s new music series “Eavesdropping” returns to The Tank to present some of today’s most daring performers and surprising composers.

This installment features: New music with non-western influences

Crazy Slavic Band
Ron Caswell - tuba
Chris Stromquist - drums
Eyal Maoz - guitar

Miguel Frasconi Guy Barash Duo:
Music for glass instruments and live electronics
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Lev-Yulzari duo
Nadav Lev, guitar and Remy Yulzari, double bass
The border-crossing Lev-Yulzari duo explores folkloric materials from different traditions, in a personal approach that derives from various musical genres. The program for this evening revolves around Jewish influences, including Sephardic music, klezmer and more.

This show takes place at the Playroom Theater 
151 West 46th Street, 8th floor

Tickets are $10 at the door / $8 online

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About Eavesdropping:

For artists, Eavesdropping provides a stage for risk-taking and the exploration of the non-conventional in sound, to present a relevant boundary-breaking artistic work. Shows often include multi-media elements, real time electronic processing, and performance art.

For our audiences, we are committed to presenting innovative repertoire that is relevant and intriguing. Eavesdropping is cross-genres new music series presented to the city’s inquisitive listener. The one that seen it all and heard it all but crave for cultural excitement.

Upcoming Eavesdropping shows in 2012:

5/24 Eavesdropping: Play

Critically acclaimed by Time Out New York and The New York Times, curator Amelia Lukas' contemporary chamber music series "Ear Heart Music" returns to The Tank in New York City.

Cellist Madeleine Shapiro celebrates Earth Day and continues her Nature Project with "Fracked," a special concert of works for cello and electronics highlighting the serious issues of water conservation we face today. New York and world premieres of works written specially for this project include Dart by British composer Tom Williams who grew up on the Dart River in Dartmoor, UK; Fracked , Fred DeSena's new work exploring the controversial practice of hydrofracturing by weaving verbal commentary into the electronic track; and Canadian composer Gayle Young's meditative exploration of the rock bound Avalon shoreline of New Foundland.

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Narkissos, (Greek: Νάρκισσος, or Narcissus), featuring vocalist Daniel Neer and harpist Alyssa Reit, is a unique theatre piece that combines original music, audio-visual media and inventive staging to explore the multi-layered themes of narcissism and self-entitlement in contemporary America. Directed by Ted Gorodetzky, this 90-minute staged recital for voice and harp investigates the mythological figures of Narcissus, Echo, and Nemesis and explores insightful modern-day interpretations to these fabled archetypes with specific focus on the individuals struggle for identity and success in today’s culture.

Narkissos features seven world premiere compositions by Chandler Carter, Martha Sullivan, Robinson McClellan, Jonathan David, Lauren Bernofsky, and Scott Gendel, with additional music by Eleonor Sandresky, Susan Botti, Jason Robert Taylor and Benjamin Britten. Texts for Narkissos by Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, May Swenson, William Brock, Yusef Komunyakaa, Scott Russell Sanders and Daniel Neer.

Modern composer and curator Guy Barash’s new music series “Eavesdropping” returns to The Tank 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

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Guy Barash-Eyal Maoz-Frank London Trio with a special guest - spoken word artist Jake Marmer.

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And more!

This show takes place at the Playroom Theater
 151 West 46th Street, 8th floor

Tickets are $10 at the door / $8 online

Buy tickets for Eavesdropping on Brown Paper Tickets

About Eavesdropping:

For artists, Eavesdropping provides a stage for risk-taking and the exploration of the non-conventional in sound, to present a relevant boundary-breaking artistic work. Shows often include multi-media elements, real time electronic processing, and performance art.

For our audiences, we are committed to presenting innovative repertoire that is relevant and intriguing. Eavesdropping is cross-genres new music series presented to the city’s inquisitive listener. The one that seen it all and heard it all but crave for cultural excitement.