Past Events
Shift 01: April 20
John King & Joanna Mattrey
Anthony Coleman & Kevin Shea
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Shift 02: April 27
Quartet or Two Duos (Ilgenfritz, Porter, Parnmongkol, Vítková)
Michael Foster & Ben Bennett
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Shift 03: May 4
Samara Lubelski & Marcia Bassett
Mark Morgan
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Shift 04: May 11 (POSTPONED!)
Seth Cluett
Michael J. Schumacher
Yasunao Tone
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Shift 05: May 18
Matt Sutton & Karla Schickele
Ned Collette
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**Thursday, May 19** 8pm
Holland Andrews
Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang
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Shift 06: May 25
John McCowen w. Laura Cocks, Dominic Coles
Henrik Nørstebø
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Shift 07: June 1
Trio KAM: Michael Wimberly w. Adam Lane & Alexis Marcelo
Bill Nace & David Watson
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Shift 08: June 8
CT::SWaM
Dani Dobkin/Matt Sargent
Gideon Crevoshay/Devin Greenwood
Shift 09: June 15
James Brandon Lewis
Steve Baczkowski
**Curated by Brandon Lopez**
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Shift 10: June 22
Jason Kahn
Earth Tongues
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Shift 11: June 29
Brandon Lopez & Nate Wooley
Cecilia Lopez
**Curated by Brandon Lopez**
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Shift 12: July 5-9
Ian Douglas-Moore's Big Sine installation for pure tones tuned to the Shift space
July 6, 8pm: installation performance with Patrick Holmes, Danny Tunick
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Shift 13: July 13
Lampshade (Chris Cochrane, Viv Corringham, Miguel Frasconi)
Fred Lonberg-Holm with Michael Attias, Mat Maneri, and Tom Rainey
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Shift 14: July 20
Andrew Bernstein sextet (Andrew Bernstein, Jeff Tobias, Che Chen, Zach Rowden, Justin Frye, Henry Birdsey)
Lee Ranaldo & Michael Vallera
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Shift 15: July 27
The Scene Is Now
God Is My Co-Pilot
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Shift 16: August 3
J.R. Bohannon and Ryley Walker
Ståle Liavik Solberg w. Sana Nagano, David Watson
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Shift 17: Aug 10
Forbes Graham w. Cecila Lopez, Brandon Lopezgabby fluke-mogul, Tcheser Holmes, Mara Rosenbloom
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Shift 18: Aug 17
Overflow Undertow, a variety show organized by lele dai:
Keiko Uenishi; Sam Newsome; Lucie Vítková; Many Many Girls; Bungey Colle and Banigold; Bradley Eros, Genevieve HK, and Benji Santos; Jin Mateo Kim, Shauna Steinbach, and Kimin Kim; Deadhouse
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Thursday, Aug 18
Julien Ottavi and Katherine Liberovskaya's ELECTROPIXEL 12, a festival of emerging digital cultures and free electronic practices:
Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya; Hans Tammen and Dafna Naphtali; Jenny Pickett and Julien Ottavi; Gill Arno and lele dai
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Shift 19: Aug 24
Michael J. Schumacher's "Room Pieces and Others" installation
4pm - 10pm
FREE
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Shift 20: Aug 31
Gloatmeal (Matt Mitchell & Kate Gentile)
David First and Marc Edwards
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Shift 21: Sept 7
Michaël Attias, Samuel Ber, Matt Mitchell
Nepenthae (Zach Layton, Raf Vertessen, Henry Fraser)
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!!!!POSTPONED!!!!!
Saturday, Sept 10:
"Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"
Andrew Simon listening session & conversation with Erica Robles-Anderson
4pm, FREE
Co-hosted with Supplemental Space
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Shift 22: Sept 14
Marcia Bassett, Sandy Gordon, Ted Gordon
Jim Pugliese & Marco Capelli's IDR (Italian Doc Remix)
Shift 23: Sept 21
Loren Connors
Jeff Fuccillo / Disturbed Strings
"Az Yashir" performed by Ayal Senior & GRAY/SMITH
Curated by Jay Sanders
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Shift 24: Sept 28
Ikue Mori, Ned Rothenberg, Alex Waterman
Che Chen, Talice Lee, Barry Weisblat, Alex Zhang Hungtai
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Shift 25, Wed Oct 5:
EyeHigh (Matt Mottel, Tcheser Holmes, Aquiles Navarro, Jim McHugh)
GNR8RZ (Simon Hanes, Aliya Ultan, Calvin Weston, Anthony Coleman)
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Shift 27, Wed Oct 12:
Henry Fraser
Robert Dick solo, & duet with David Watson
Shift 28, Wed Oct 19:
Marcela Lucatelli
Lauren Sarah Hayes
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Shift 29, Thurs Oct 20:
Rush/Laird/Rahmé
Decimus
Tom Carter
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Shift 30, Wed Oct 26:
Megha Rawoot
Elliott Sharp
Shift 31, Sat Oct 29:
Honeychild Coleman
The Scene Is Now
Shift 32, Weds Nov 2:
Nava Dunkelman, Chuck Bettis
Human Rites (Jason Kao Hwang, Ken Filiano, Andrew Drury)
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Shift 33, Sun, Nov 6 @4pm:
Talujon plays Petr Kotik's The Plains at Gordium
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Shift 34, Wed Nov 9:
Seymour Glass
Rump State (Mark Charles Morgan, "GG" from Norway)
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Shift 35, Sat Nov. 12:
The Dirt Whisperers
John King, Abe Speller
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Shift 36, Wed Nov. 16:
Little Black Egg (Georgia Hubley)
Angel Dean, Sue Garner with Cheryl Kingan and Greg Peterson
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Shift 37, Sat Nov. 19:
8:30pm
C. Spencer Yeh, Kwami Winfield
Thomas Dimuzio, Bob Bellerue
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Shift 38, Wed Nov. 30: curated by Julia Santoli
Lorenz Lindner, Julia Santoli
Brandon Lopez, Cecilia Lopez
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Fri, Dec 2:
Listening party for Melvin Gibbs' Anamibia Sessions 1: The Wave
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Shift 37, Sat Dec 3:
Anthony Coleman
Whit Dickey Root Perspectives record release with Tony Malaby, Matthew Shipp, and Brandon Lopez
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Shift 38, Wed Dec 7:
Chris LiButti
Alan Courtis (of Reynols) (Argentina), Loren Connors
(solo + duo)
Thurs Dec 8, The Stone at Shift: William Winant
$15 each set
8pm Quintet:
Ikue Mori (electronics), Zeena Parkins (harps, keyboards), Shayna Dunkelman (percussion), Nava Dunkelman (percussion), William Winant (percussion)
9:30pm Trio:
Ava Mendoza (guitar), Ches Smith (drums), William Winant (percussion)
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Shift 39-40, Fri-Sat Dec 9-10:
Catalytic Sound at Shift
8:30pm, Doors at 8pm
$25​
Zeena Parkins, Sylvie Courvoisier, Nate Wooley, Chris Corsano, Ikue Mori, Lotte Anker, Cecilia Lopez, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Brandon Lopez, Ned Rothenberg (12/10), and David Watson (12/10)
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Shift 41, Mon Dec 12, in partnership with Experimental Intermedia:
Tom Hamilton and Thessia Machado
Curated by Phill Niblock
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Shift 42, Wed Dec 14:
Shoko Nagai, Satoshi Takeishi
Phillip Greenlief, Angelica Sanchez, Tom Rainey
Shift 43, Thurs Dec 15, in partnership with
Experimental Intermedia:
Pauline Harris w. String Noise, Jesse Stiles, Katherine Liberovskaya
Curated by Phill Niblock​
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Fri-Sat Dec 16-17,
Fri Ikue Mori (electronics), Brian Chase (drums), David Watson (bagpipes) at 8pm and Ikue Mori (electronics), Craig Taborn (piano), and Lotte Anker (sax) at 9:30pm, $15 per set.
Sat Ikue Mori (electronics), Zeena Parkins (harps, keyboard), Charmaine Lee (electronics, vocals) at 8pm and Ikue Mori (electronics), Sylvie Courvoisier (piano), Ned Rothenburg (reeds), and Lotte Anker (sax) at 9:30pm, $15 per set
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Shift 44, Wed Dec 21:
Wet Ink with Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey
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Shift 45, Wed Jan 4:
Adam Lane, Alexis Marcelo, Michael Wimberly Trio
Sunken Cages (Ravish Momin) solo + M. Wimberly guest
curated by Michael Wimberly
Shift 46, Wed Jan 11: Pool
Multiple improv combinations (Anastasia Clarke, Marcus Cummins, Sandy Gordon, Matteo Liberatore, Matthew Ostrowski, Mariel Roberts, Kevin Shea & David Watson)
Shift 47, Wed Jan 18:
The John King Trio w/Brandon Lopez (bass) & Michael Wimberly (drums)
Lesley Mok (drums) - Solo Performance
curated by Michael Wimberly
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Shift 48, Wed Jan 25:
Tom Chiu & Michael Schumacher
David Galbraith & Sergei Tcherepnin
Thur, Jan 26:
You're With Stupid book release hosted by Supplemental Space at 6pm
Shift 50, Wed Feb 1
Ian Douglas-Moore, Eric Wong, Dominic Coles
Seth Cluett
8pm, Doors 7:30pm
Fri Feb 3
MARSHALL ALLEN & NYC ALL-STARS Benefit presented by Arts For Art (AFA)
Darius Jones, Isaiah Collier, Sam Newsome, Patrick Holmes, Milena Casado, Heru Shabaka-Ra, Gwen Laster, Gabby Fluke-Mogul, Brandon Lopez, Eriq Robinson - el, Janice Lowe, Fay Victor, Juan Pablo Carletti, & Lesley Mok
7pm & 9pm sets, doors 6:30pm​
Shift 52, Wed Feb 8
Matthew Shipp, Rob Brown, Whit Dickey
Marco Cappelli, Elliott Sharp, JT Lewis
8pm, doors 7:30​
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Fri Feb 10
AFA (Arts for Art) Brandon Lopez Residency:
Jessica Pavone and Tristan Krause (Record Release)
Brandon Lopez piano trio with Hans Young Binter (piano) and Tom Rainey (drums)
7pm & 9pm sets, doors 6:30pm
$15 in advance, $20 at the door
Shift 53, Sat Feb 11
Zafer Tawil
Elliott Sharp, Hélène Breschand​
Shift 54, Sun Feb 12
Guillaume Soula installation
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Shift 55, Wed Feb 15
The Bridge Bass Quartet: Che Chen, Dave Hofstra, William Parker, Dave Sewelson
DrumsNButta
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Shift 56, Thurs Feb 16
James Fei, John Bischoff
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Fri Feb 17
AFA (Arts for Art) Brandon Lopez Residency:
Michael Foster, Michael T.A. Thompson, John Blum trio
Brandon Lopez piano trio with Hans Young Binter (piano) and Tom Rainey (drums)
Shift 57, Sun Feb 19
Anna Schimkat installation
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Shift 58, Wed Feb 22
Pool Improv
Tom Chiu, Robert Dick, Lucie Vítková, Liz Kosack
8pm, doors 7:30
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Fri Feb 24
AFA (Arts for Art) Brandon Lopez Residency:
Darius Jones, Shahzad Ismaily, Ryan Sawyer trio
Brandon Lopez piano trio with Hans Young Binter (piano) and Tom Rainey (drums)
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Shift 59, Sun Feb 26
Dan Joseph Periodicity Piece #10
Installation 5pm-8pm
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Shift 60, Wed March 1
Mark Morgan
Excavation (Chris Cochrane, Nick Jozwiak, Shoko Nagai, John Thayer)
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Shift 61, Thurs March 2
Record re-release show, co–presentation with Amish Records
Samara Lubelski / Che Chen + Anaïs Maviel / PG Six
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Fri March 3
(AFA) Compassion: A tribute to Connie Crothers
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Sat March 4
Evergreen Review: The Uses of Translation: Hofmann-Kuroda, Ramadan, Wimmer
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Shift 62, Sun March 5
Tania Chen Installation
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Shift 63, Wed March 8
Michaël Attias
Chris Pitsiokos, Joe Morris, Kevin Murray
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Fri March 10
Guess Work Ensemble performing Brian Eno's Discreet Music
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Tues March 14
Experimental Intermedia: Luca Forcucci
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Shift 64, Wed March 15
David First
David Watson and Sam Kulik
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March 16th book release and show:
Cisco Bradley's "The Williamsburg Avant-Garde"
Andrea Wolper, Virg Dzurinko, Talibam! with Yuko Otomo, Tamio Shiraishi, Marc Edwards' Slipstream Time Travel
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Fri March 17
Experimental Intermedia: Elico Suzuki
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Sun March 19
Experimental Intermedia:
Screen Compositions: Edition 19:
curated by Katherine Liberovskay
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Shift 65, Wed March 22
Stephan Crump
Ken Filiano, Shelley Hirsch, Hans Tammen
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Thurs March 23
(Blank Forms) Still House Plants, Melvin Gibbs, and 7038634357
Fri March 24
(Blank Forms) Still House Plants, Dawuna, and Charles Curtis
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Shift 66, Wed Mar 29
curated by Brian Chase (Chaikin Records)
Organs Obsolete
Tomas Fujiwara
Brian Chase/Anthony Coleman
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Sun April 2
to and fro: Dave Burrell
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Shift 67, Wed April 5
Matthew Ostrowski, Ted Moore
Raoul Björkenheim, Anders Nilsson
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Sun April 9
to and fro: Sylvie Courvoisier
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Shift 68, Wed April 12
Austin Larkin
Sean Meehan, Leslie Ross
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Sat April 15,
Peter Kerlin
Jack Cooper's "Arrival"
(Sam Morrison, Jeff Tobias, Karen Waltuch)
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Shift 69, Sun April 16
Eva Sidén
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Shift 70, Wed April 19
CT::SWaM presents
Sari Carel
Mike Bullock
Claudia Robles-Angel
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Thurs April 20
CT::SWaM Workshop
SEED 02:: Live Diffusion and Thresholds of Decentering
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Sat April 22
Elliott Sharp Workshop
2-5pm
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Sun April 23
to and fro: Alexis Marcelo
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Shift 71, Wed April 26
Tropos (Phillip Golub, Mario Layne Fabrizio)
Mariel Roberts/ Tomas Fujiwara
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Sat April 29
Eve Essex & Andy Cahill:
Today, I Will Be The Bread
Soundtrack Release Party​
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Sun April 30
to and fro: Anthony Coleman
5pm, doors 4:30pm
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Shift 72, Wed, May 3
Dominic Coles
Billy Martin, Zoh Amba
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Thurs May 4
Austin Williamson
"S. Angel," Nate Wooley, Brandon Lopez
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Fri May 5
Tredici Bacci presents:
8pm: Anthony Coleman/ Tredici Bacci
10pm: Starla Online/ Tredici Bacci
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Sat May 6
Kahil El'Zabar Quartet
Co presented with Blank Forms
7pm
Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew
520 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Sat May 6
Tredici Bacci presents:
8pm: Tredici Bacci
10pm: Stice/ Tredici Bacci
Sun May 7
Tredicci Bacci presents:
8pm: ZORN/HANES duo, Tredici Bacci, Jazz Lambaux
Wed May 10
"Arnaud R."
Sunken Cages x dragonchild
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Thurs May 11
Marta Warelis (solo)
Marta Warelis and Chris Corsano
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Tues May 16
Blank Forms presents:
Josephine Foster w Gray/Smith featuring special guest Louise Landes Levi
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Wed May 17
Amirtha Kidambi/ Matteo Liberatore
Tcheser Holmes "Althea Quilombo"
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Thurs May 18
DoYeon Kim
John Blum, William Parker
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Wed May 24
Marija Kovacevic: Music for Broken Violins
Bearthoven
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Thurs May 25
Chuck Roth
Hery Paz/Joe Morris/Tom Rainey
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Wed May 31
Charmaine Lee
Premiere: Phil Niblock's "NuDaf" w/ Dafne Vicente-Sandoval (bassoon)
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Thurs Jun 1
Caleb Michel
Darius Jones Quintet
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Sat June 3
Just Intonation and the World of Secret Sounds
Workshop with David First
2-5pm
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Sun June 4
to and fro:
Aruán Ortiz
8pm, doors 7:30pm
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Mon June 5
Improvising Orchestra workshop, with Huda Asfour
7-9pm
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Tues June 6
Living Room: Kim Brandt/Walter Dundervill
7pm
Thurs June 8
Infrequent Seams at FourOneOne:
Katie Porter plays Johanna Beyer + Trio w/ James Ilgenfritz + Eli Wallace
Sara Bernstein + Stuart Popejoy duo
Time Phase Trio (Ty Citerman + Jen Baker + Shayna Dunkelman)
8pm, doors 7:30pm
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Fri June 9
Living Room: Malcolm-x Betts/Pink Tacos
7pm​
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Sat June 10
Infrequent Seams at FourOneOne:
Alexis Marcelo + J D Parran + Daniel Carter trio
Anagram Ensemble: Andrew Drury + Thomas Buckner + James Ilgenfritz
Nicole Parks plays Aaron Jay Myers
8pm, doors 7:30pm
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Sun June 11
Sean Meehan, Austin Larkin
Sawt Out (Mazen Kerbaj, Burkhard Beins, Michael Vorfeld)
8pm, doors 7:30pm
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Mon June 12
Living Room: Nile Harris/Dyer Rhoads
7pm
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​Tues June 13
Living Room: Tess Dworman/Kyle Dacuyan
7pm
​Wed June 14
Ben Bennett + Toshi Makihara
Kid Millions + Sarah Bernstein
8pm, doors 7:30pm
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Thurs June 15
Graham Haynes
8pm, doors 7:30pm
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Fri June 16
Vision Festival After Hours at FourOneOne:
co presented by Vision Festival and FourOneOne
11:30pm: James Brandon Lewis/Alexis Marcelo duo
12:30am: Vision AfterHours Open Improv Party led by gabby fluke-mogul and Ava Mendoza
Free for June 16 Vision Festival ticket holders
$5 to $30 sliding scale, pay what you can
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Sun June 18
to and fro: Cooper Moore
5pm, doors 4:30pm
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Sun June 18
Tim Berne, Matt Mitchell, Kate Gentile
Chloë Sobek
8pm, doors 7:30
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​Tues June 20
Living Room: Juli Brandano/Ayano Elson
7pm
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Wed June 21
Tom Chiu
Gerry Hemingway and Izumi Kimura
8pm, doors 7:30pm
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Thurs, June 22
Living Room: Andros Zins-Browne/Ley
7pm
Fri June 23
Jazztopad Festival:
Ksawery Wojcinski & friends + Amir ElSaffar trio
8pm, doors 7:30pm
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Sat June 24
Living Room: Jamar Roberts/Kennis Hawkins
7pm
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Sun June 25
to and fro:
Cory Smythe
5pm, doors 4:30
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Mon June 26
Huda Asfour: Improvising Orchestra Workshop
7pm-9pm
Tues June 27
Living Room: Anh Vo/Crackhead Barney
7pm
​Weds June 28
David Watson, Bob Bellerue
Luke Stewart/Edward Bear/Madison Greenstone
8pm, doors 7:30pm
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Thurs June 29
Living Room: Rebecca Patek/Molly Ross
7pm
Sat July 1
The Evergreen Review presents:
Evergreen Sex Machine:
a summer night of erotica and literature
7pm
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Mon July 3
Huda Asfour: Improvising Orchestra Workshop
7pm-9pm
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Weds July 5
MV Carbon
Ryan Sawyer, Lester St. Louis, Wendy Eisenberg
8pm, doors 7:30pm
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Thurs July 6
Isabel Crespo Pardo's el rostro (des)cubierto
with Warp Duo
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Sun July 9 - Tues July 11
Brandon Lopez, Fred Moten, Gerald Cleaver residency
Act 1 Sun, July 9: Darius Jones solo
Act 1 Mon, July 10: Ingrid Laubrock and Cecilia Lopez
Act 1 Tues, July 11: Matt Nelson solo
8pm, doors 7:30pm
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Thurs July 13
Sandip Bhattacharjee
8pm, doors 7:30pm
Sun July 16
Workshop: Improvisation and Arabic Musical Aesthetics
with Huda Asfour
Wed July 19
The Brooklyn Improv Orchestra
"Conducted Improvisation"
(debut performance)
Wed Aug 9
Anthony Coleman + Yoona Kim
Zoh Amba + Rahul Carlberg + Chris Corsano
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Wed Aug 16
David First’s Secret Sounds Workshop Orchestra
Wed Aug 23
Mat Maneri Quartet:
Mat Maneri, Lucian Ban, Randy Peterson, Brandon Lopez
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Wed Aug 30
Alfredo Colón
Maldito Dinero
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Fri Sep 8
William Parker is In Search of Enlightenment
William Parker LIGHT Ensemble
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Sat Sep 9
Bahauddin Dagar
Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew
520 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238
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Sun Sept 10
Booker Stardrum, Chris Williams
Alexis Marcelo + Buddy (Uptown Vinyl Supreme)
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Wed Sept 13
Shelley Hirsch's New Work Listening Party
Moderated by Sarah Michelson
With support from the NYC Women's Fund for Media, Music and Theatre
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Fri Sept 15
fLuXkit Premiere: A Night with Darius Jones
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Sat Sep 16
William Parker is In Search of Enlightenment
William Parker LIGHT Ensemble
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Sat Sep 16
Bahauddin Dagar
2220 Arts + Archives
Presented by Black Editions
2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057
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Tues Sep 19
Breath of Air - 2 sets
Brandon Ross, Charles Burnham, Warren Benbow
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Wed Sep 20
Madison Greenstone
Forever 21 (Peter Evans, Andy Berman, Michael Ode)
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