ICEBERG New Music Residency at Crosstown Arts

 

Iceberg new music residency events

Crosstown Arts is hosting ICEBERG New Music, a collective of 10 composers based in New York City, for a two week residency featuring performances, presentations, and workshops June 15-June 24. Blueshift Ensemble will perform the composers' works on two concerts June 15 and 20, the first music events to take place in the Crosstown Concourse Central Atrium. 

More information: www.crosstownarts.org 

CONCERTS

Concert I
Thursday, June 15th | Doors at 6:30 pm, Concert at 7:00 pm
Crosstown Concourse Central Atrium | Free
Works by Alyssa Weinberg, Derek Cooper, Max Grafe, Will Healy, and Victor Baez

Concert II
Tuesday, June 20th | Doors at 6:30 pm, Concert at 7:00 pm
Crosstown Concourse Central Atrium | Free
Works by Alex Burtzos, Jonathan Russ, Harry Stafylakis, Yu-Chun Chien, and Drake Andersen

Presentations

Saturday, June 17th 

Because Your Brain Wants It: A Psychological Case for the Need for Contemporary Music (And Why You Think You Don't) 
Talk by Victor Baez
2-3:30 p.m., 430 N. Cleveland, free

Hidden Mechanisms of Composition
Talk by Derek Cooper
4-5:30 p.m., 430 N. Cleveland, free

Saturday, June 24th

"Contemporary Classical" and "Indie Rock": Beyond the Quotation Marks
Talk by Jonathan Russ
10-11 a.m., Crosstown Concourse, Central Atrium, free

Crossroads of a Century: American Music, 1945-1960
Talk by Alex Burtzos
1-3 p.m., Crosstown Concourse, Central Atrium, free

Beauty Starts Where Habit Ends
Talk by Yu-Chun Chien
5-6 p.m., Crosstown Concourse, Central Atrium, free

 

 

 

 

 

WORKSHOPS

Mindful Listening Workshop
Led by Drake Andersen
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., meet at the reception desk in Crosstown Concourse Central Atrium
Free (register on Eventbrite)
A workshop in which participants move through a series of Pauline Oliveros-inspired sound/meditation exercises designed to attune participants to the sounds around them and develop a richer vocabulary for describing them.

Sound Scavenger Hunt
Led by Drake Andersen
3-5 p.m., meet at the reception desk in Crosstown Concourse Central Atrium
Free (register on Eventbrite)
In two sessions, participants search for sounds that meet certain criteria (i.e. "high, short, loud" or "low, short, soft") and record them with portable recorders. The sounds will then be used to create an online sound map that lists the sounds' qualities, source, and location, allowing anyone to download the sounds to use in a creative project.