Null Point: Art Music Uncomposed (Sept)
Building on
Null Point's past work conjugating music and contemporary art, this project examines a range of manifestations of Western Art Music—from scores to concert hall architecture, from composer busts to listening practices—from the standpoint of frameworks such as institutional critique and radical Black thought. Taking the 2020 uprisings as a mandate to dismantle foundations of historically White fields of knowledge, the program interrogates unexamined defaults such as Work, Composer, Spectator, Feeling, and even Music through commissions of new works, together with new approaches to radical 1960s experimental music scores, talks, and more, offline and online.
September 12, 2021
Buffalo, NY
4pm
free admission
Null Point: Art Music Uncomposed (Aug)
Building on
Null Point's past work conjugating music and contemporary art, this project examines a range of manifestations of Western Art Music—from scores to concert hall architecture, from composer busts to listening practices—from the standpoint of frameworks such as institutional critique and radical Black thought. Taking the 2020 uprisings as a mandate to dismantle foundations of historically White fields of knowledge, the program interrogates unexamined defaults such as Work, Composer, Spectator, Feeling, and even Music through commissions of new works, together with new approaches to radical 1960s experimental music scores, talks, and more, offline and online. The August performance will include the premiere realization of Ethan's installation,
Captain Clark Welcomes You Aboard!.
August 22, 2021
Buffalo, NY
4pm
free admission
Wooden Cities plays the music of Anthony Braxton
Wooden Cities celebrates the opening of its 10th anniversary season with the music of Anthony Braxton, a prolific and essential composer of the past several decades. Much of the composer's work focuses on empathy, community-building, and accessibility. The ensemble will perform collections of Braxton's music ranging from improvisation techniques established in what he terms "language music", pulsed structures of Ghost Trance Music, and through-composed pieces spanning over five decades.
August 19, 2021
Buffalo, NY
8pm
$12 general, $10 students/seniors, $8 members
Buffalo State Digital Music Ensemble: Long Distance Music
Buffalo State College's Digital Music Ensemble presents their Fall 2020 concert under Ethan's direction. The concert will feature premieres of new pieces by DME students, and a collaborative networked performance.
November 19, 2020
7:30pm
free
Wooden Cities: WORK online premiere
WORK documents the recording process of the first in a trilogy of albums by the Buffalo-based new music ensemble, Wooden Cities, grappling with issues of labor, environmental justice, and workplace democracy. The 56-minute documentary features footage captured during the ensemble's summer 2018 recording sessions, as well as Mehrvarz's interviews with the musicians and ensemble director Brendan Fitzgerald. The film also includes animations of two sections of the recorded premiere of Frederic Rzewski's The Price of Oil, made using stop motion techniques and consisting of over 80,000 frames. Also featured are Cornelius Cardew's Red Flag Prelude—an elegiac commemoration of the martyrs of the early labor movement—and Wooden Cities' Chain Gang, a dynamic, structured improvisation.
produced by Buffalo Documentary Project and Wooden Cities
sponsored by UB Arts Collaboratory
October 23, 2020
Null Point with Kamari Carter
Building on its past work with situation-attuned events, experimental music ensemble
Null Point offers a performance specifically designed for the streaming video format of the Bemis Center's Twitch Channel. The performance includes new works by
Kamari Carter and Null Point's musicians as well as new realizations of event scores by Yoko Ono, in formats including video, directed listening, field recording, and more. The works engage the sounds of police radio, "nature sound" recordings, and live environmental sounds audible to listeners, approaching these sounds and their cultural codings as traces of the production and contestation of racialized social space.
September 24, 2020
Omaha, NE
8pm (CST)
free
Patti Cudd @ Buffalo State
Visiting artist
Patti Cudd performs a concert of new music for percussion and electronics, including the premiere of Ethan's
Serif Flow.
March 12, 2020
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
Null Point @ Bodies in Flux: Foot 2020
Ethan will perform with Colin Tucker in the premiere of Tucker's new piece,
Embodying Documentation, for humans and microphones. Performance to take place at
Bodies in Flux: Foot 2020, the 28th Annual Conference in the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at University of Toronto.
February 28, 2020
Toronto, ON
4:00pm
free admission
Mallwalkers @ Mohawk Place
Ethan proudly joins
Mallwalkers' horn section as they play their final show at a celebration at Mohawk Place.
December 6, 2019
Buffalo, NY
8pm
Buffalo State Interactive Synthesizer Orchestra: Edges + Outlines
Buffalo State College's Interactive Synthesizer Orchestra presents its Fall 2019 concert under Ethan's direction. Program to include works by Oliveros, Wolff, and centered around a realization of Anthony Braxton's
Composition No. 18. This concert is part of the Tri-Centric Foundation's
Braxton75 initiative.
November 25, 2019
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
free
Buffalo State Digital Music Ensemble: Scales + Sequences
Buffalo State College's Digital Music Ensemble presents their Fall 2019 concert under Ethan's direction. Program to feature works by Alice Coltrane, Philip Glass, and Frederic Rzewski's Attica.
November 21, 2019
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
free
Mallwalkers @ Bug Jar
October 18, 2019
Rochester, NY
9:30pm
$15
Live Your Art: Premiere Screening
Live Your Art, a short film by
Mani Mehrvarz documenting the work of four Buffalo-based artists—Naila Ansari, Julia Anne Cordani, Pam Glick, and Maryam Muliaee—will premiere at UB's Center for the Arts. The film's music was composed by Ethan and performed by
Wooden Cities. Watch a
teaser or see the
full film.
September 15, 2019
Buffalo, NY
12:00pm
free admission
Mallwalkers @ Sugar City
September 13, 2019
Buffalo, NY
6-10pm
$15
Null Point @ Intersection Festival
August 31, 2019
Yonge-Dundas Square
Toronto, ON
4:30pm
CAGES: A World in Song
Buffalo-based expermental duo CAGES present A World in Song, an evening of new music celebrating the rehabilitation of musician/artist Nola Ranallo. Ethan joins over twenty local musicians, poets, artists, and chefs supporting the band. Proceeds from the cost of admission will be donated to the Crisis Services organization who will be present during the event.
August 3, 2019
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
Buffalo State Interactive Synthesizer Orchestra: Rough Smooth Long Short
Buffalo State College's Interactive Synthesizer Orchestra presents its Spring 2019 concert under Ethan's direction. The concert will feature works by composers of the AACM, specifically Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, and George Lewis, all performed entirely on analog synthesizers. This concert is part of the Tri-Centric Foundation's
Braxton75 initiative.
May 2, 2019
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
free
Buffalo State Digital Music Ensemble: Invisible Cities
Buffalo State College's Digital Music Ensemble presents their Spring 2019 concert under Ethan's direction. The concert will feature three world-premieres by Buffalo composer Megan Kyle, commissioned by the DME, as well as works by David Behrman and DME students.
April 26, 2019
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
free
Wooden Cities: JCC Residency
Wooden Cities performs a concert of new works to cap off a residency at Jamestown Community College. The residency will also workshops on electroacoustic music led by Ethan and Wooden Cities director, Brendan Fitzgerald.
April 25, 2019
Jamestown, NY
7:00pm
Null Point: Soundscape—Landscape
Null Point presents a series of performative installations for loudspeakers, computers, bodies, and ambient sound at Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery, including excerpts from David Dunn's
PLACE and Ethan's
HaEccEity / QuiDDity.
April 20, 2019
Rochester, NY
Wooden Cities: WORK release
To celebrate the release of their debut album,
WORK,
Wooden Cities is playing selections from their past and present, including Ethan's arrangement of Cornelius Cardew's
Red Flag Prelude (which appears on the album), and John Zorn's seminal work,
Cobra, the first piece in the group's expansive repertoire. The record is the first to be released on Ethan's new label,
Infrasonic Press.
April 19, 2019
Buffalo, NY
8pm
$10 general, $7 students/seniors/members
Hiller Studios Black Box Concert
Ethan will present two works—Are you ripe at last, / my slim, pale, double-breasted turd? for fixed media, and For $5, I'll show you my daughter's burns, performed by f-f-f-f-Faulty Tower—at a collaborative concert featuring faculty and student composers from Buffalo State and the University at Buffalo.
April 16, 2019
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
free admission
Collaborative Electro-Acoustic Music Series: Concert IV
Ethan will premiere a new fixed media work, Are you ripe at last, / my slim, pale, double-breasted turd?, at a collaborative concert featuring faculty and student composers from Buffalo State and SUNY Fredonia.
April 11, 2019
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
free
Megan Kyle: The Oboe in Transformation
Oboist Megan Kyle performs works by Bozza, Stadelman, Gilna, Bainbridge, and Ethan's
Violetear at SUNY Geneseo's Doty Hall.
March 10, 2019
Geneseo, NY
3:00pm
free admission
Marina Blitshteyn: Two Hunters Book Launch
Wooden Cities perform sound poetry works at the book launch for Marina Blitsheyn's Two Hunters, including a piece based on one of Marina's own poems, and Ethan's setting of Kurt Schwitters' Ribble Bobble Pimlico. The event will also include a performance by Esin and Justin.
February 16, 2019
The Second Reader Bookshop
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
free admission
Wooden Cities: A More-er Very-er Wooden Christmas
Wooden Cities revives their live scoring project at Hallwalls, adding live scores to some classic (and not-so-classic) silent Christmas films. The seven shorts, all filmed between 1898 and 1925, map the full range of the silent film era, and include works by acclaimed directors Edwin S. Porter and D.W. Griffith. Wooden Cities will provide soundtracks that by turns augment, mimic, comment on, or undercut the action onscreen. The concert will also feature works by poetic/sound art works by Robin Lee Jordan and Adam Drury.
December 14, 2018
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
Buffalo State Interactive Synthesizer Orchestra: Anima—in memoriam Takehisa Kosugi
Buffalo State College's Interactive Synthesizer Orchestra presents its Fall 2018 concert under Ethan's direction. The concert, in memory of the recently-deceased Japanese composer Takehisa Kosugi, will two of the composer's FLUXUS pieces, an improvisational homage to the composer's ensemble, the Taj Mahal Travellers, and a new work by student composers.
November 29, 2018
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
Buffalo State Digital Music Ensemble: Critical Band
Buffalo State College's Digital Music Ensemble presents their Fall 2018 concert under Ethan's direction, centered around James Tenney's Critical Band. The concert will also feature works by Pauline Oliveros, Michael Pisaro, Raymond Scott, Hugh Shrapnel.
November 19, 2018
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
Null Point: The Music of David Dunn
October 26
Philadelphia, PA
Ethan Hayden: μ-movements
Ethan presents a solo recital as part of Buffalo State College's Faculty and Friends Concert Series. Program to feature works by Dmitri Kourliandski, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, and the world premiere of two new works by Ethan. Special guests
Wooden Cities and f-f-f-f-Faulty Tower. More info available
here.
October 4, 2018
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
$10 general
Null Point: David Dunn's PLACE @ DePauw
Ethan and
Null Point artistic director Colin Tucker present a series of workshop-rehearsals with DePauw students, leading up to a full performance of David Dunn's site-responsive work
PLACE (part of Null Point's
Sound American release tour). Event funded by the DePauw School of Music and the Environmental Fellows Program.
September 22, 2018
Greencastle, IN
10am - 4pm
Null Point: Place-Situated Music: Contextualizing David Dunn's PLACE
September 13, 2018
Rochester, NY
4:30pm
Null Point: Sound Garden
Null Point presents
Sound Garden, a series of place-situated participatory sound-making and listening events in
Artpark's outdoor public space: performances, installations, workshops, talks, and open rehearsals. On Sunday afternoons in July and August 2018, the program enmeshes human sound-makers with Artpark's striking sonic and material environments, radically transforming historical art forms—chamber music, rock music, electronic music, and more—while grounding them in the everyday life of a particular place.
Lewiston, NY
free admission
SUNY Conference on Instruction & Technology
Ethan will present a post on
mutebook.me, an interactive textbook designed to assist music technology students in learning practical, theoretical, and aesthetic concepts. Ethan will present the IITG-funded project on behalf of its creators,
Thilo Schaller &
Jan Burle.
May 24, 2018
SUNY Cortland
Cortland, NY
6:15pm
Null Point: David Dunn's Techno-Alchemy @ Dartmouth
Ethan and
Null Point artistic director Colin Tucker present a talk and workshop on the music of David Dunn to Dartmouth College's program in Digital Poetics (part of Null Point's
Sound American release tour).
May 9, 2018
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Null Point: David Dunn's PLACE, Part 10
May 5, 2018
Springville Center for the Arts
Springville, NY
Buffalo State Digital Music Ensemble: Sonus/Locus
Buff State's Digital Music Ensemble presents a concert of works which focus on particular ambient spaces—parks, window vistas, urban sidewalks, and even the inside of a computer keyboard—creating a tableau of sonic images from particular locations. The concert features works by Satoshi Ashikawa, John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Hiroshi Yoshimura, and a world-premiere by Buffalo composer Colin Tucker, commissioned by the DME.
May 3, 2018
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
Null Point: The Music of David Dunn @ UB
Ethan and
Null Point artistic director Colin Tucker present a talk on the music of David Dunn to the University at Buffalo's graduate musicology seminar (part of Null Point's
Sound American release tour).
May 1, 2018
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY
4:00pm
Buffalo State Interactive Synthesizer Orchestra: Meeting Points
Buff State's Interactive Synthesizer Orchestra presents their spring concert under Ethan's direction. The program will feature open and improvisatory music by Cage, Oliveros, and Stockhausen, as well as two world premieres: John Dejac's Sunrise Signals and Ethan's The Continuous Transition from Micro- to Macro-Mechanics.
April 20, 2018
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
Null Point: Sound American release event
Ethan and
Null Point artistic director Colin Tucker talk with
Sound American editor Nate Wooley to celebrate the publication of Sound American volume 19. The event will conclude with a performance of Parts 4 and 5 of David Dunn's
PLACE with special guest Carrie Frey.
April 14, 2018
New York, NY
7:30pm
Wooden Cities: The Price of…
Wooden Cities presents a program centered on Frederic Rzewski's rarely-performed The Price of Oil, a massive work featuring percussion instruments the ensemble is building especially for the event.
April 7, 2018
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
$10-20 slideing scale
Weston Olencki: Artificial Life
Null Point hosts trombonist/composer
Weston Olencki in a concert of works for brass, electronics, and ensemble that will include pieces by George Lewis, Michelle Lou, Colin Tucker, and Olencki.
April 6, 2018
Buffalo, NY
7:00pm
Collaborative Electro-Acoustic Music Series: Concert III
Ethan will perform his work for voice and live electronics, Hommage à TC, at a collaborative concert between Buffalo State and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
April 4, 2018
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
free
NY Philharmonic CONTACT! Series: Music by Emerging Russian Composers
The ninth season of
CONTACT!, the New York Philharmonic's new-music series, concludes with a co-presentation by the Philharmonic and National Sawdust in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, featuring musicians from the New York Philharmonic performing works by emerging Russian composers: Dmitri Kourliandski's
Voice-off, with vocalist Ethan Hayden in his Philharmonic debut, and the U.S. Premieres of Denis Khorov's
Barcarolle, Marina Khorkova's
VORderGRENZE, Alexander Khubeev's
Ghost of Dystopia, conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky, and Nikolay Popov's
Nibiru 20/13. Hosted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
April 2, 2018
Brooklyn, NY
7:30pm
$35
Matt Wellins w/Wooden Cities
Wooden Cities joins visiting artist Matt Wellins for a concert at the CASS Project. The ensemble will premiere Wellins' Dead Room for four players, written for Wooden Cities.
March 9, 2018
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
$10-20 slideing scale
Megan Kyle, oboe
Oboist Megan Kyle presents her faculty recital at Houghton College's
Greatbatch School of Music. The program will include solo oboe and chamber repertoire, including Ethan's new solo oboe work,
Violetear, composed in close collaboration with Kyle.
March 5, 2018
Houghton, NY
8:00pm
Null Point: Margins @ WASH Project
Null Point presents a performance at Buffalo's
WASH Project. The concert will include Ethan's solo oboe work,
Violetear, performed by Megan Kyle, as well as works by Colin Tucker, Mark So, and Yoko Ono, and a participatory jam session by Arrow Fitzgibbon.
February 11, 2018
Buffalo, NY
6:00pm (participatory jam session at 5pm and 7pm)
$5-10 suggested donation
Null Point: Margins @ Syndicate for the New Arts
Null Point travels to Cleveland, Ohio, for a performance in the Syndicate for the New Arts' spring series. The concert will include Ethan's solo oboe work,
Violetear, performed by Megan Kyle, as well as works by Colin Tucker, Mark So, and Yoko Ono.
February 9, 2018
Cleveland, OH
7:30pm (pre-concert talk, 6:45pm)
$10 suggested donation
Wooden Cities: A More Very-er Wooden Christmas
Wooden Cities revives their live scoring project at Hostel Buffalo-Niagara, adding live film scores to some classic (and not-so-classic) silent Christmas films. The event is also a toy drive for St. Luke's Mission of Mercy.
December 16, 2017
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
Null Point: WEAVE @ Stay Gold
Null Point presents WEAVE, a multi-authored, site-specific, interactive sound work presented as part of the Burchfield Penney Art Center's
Stay Gold event. The work takes the ambient sounds of the gallery as a point of departure, subtly transforming them as a way to activate new perspectives on everyday sounds. The event will include the premiere of Ethan's performative installation,
HaEccEity / QuiDDity. More info available
here.
December 8, 2017
Buffalo, NY
5:30 - 11:00pm
free admission
Buffalo State Digital Music Ensemble: Reflections
The Digital Music Production program at Buffalo State College presents "Reflections" a program of music played by the Digital Music Ensemble. Presenting works which explore the themes of repetition, refraction, and reflection, the ensemble will create labyrinthine sonic mirrors in performances of works by Timothy Georger, Philip Glass, Joseph Kudirka, and Hugh Shrapnel.
December 4, 2017
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
Wooden Cities: Work
Wooden Cities presents a program on the themes of labor, justice and harvest. Played by a spirited nonet including percussion, synthesizer, winds, and strings, the program features Louis Andriessen's racous and resolute
Workers Union and the crisp dynamism of Rzewski's
Main Drag. The program will also feature traditional shape note and sacred harp music, a 17th century protest ballad, and Ethan's new solo oboe work,
Violetear, played by Megan Kyle.
November 18, 2017
Buffalo, NY
7:00pm
Buffalo State Interactive Synthesizer Orchestra: +/-
The Digital Music Production program at Buffalo State College presents "+/-" a program of music played by the Interactive Synthesizer Orchestra. Presenting works from the rich history of Fluxus and American Experimental music, the ensemble will explore new avenues of sound creation in pieces by George Brecht, Takehisa Kosugi, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, and James Tenney.
November 17, 2017
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
Sotto Voce: In barren lands, I linger bitter
Sotto Voce, a Buffalo-based vocal collective, will present
an evening of music for voices by contemporary composers, centering around linguistic sounds—featuring texts in Hebrew, German, English, and babble. Program to feature works by Carola Bauckholt, Chaya Czernowin, Osnat Netzer, and will feature a movement of Ethan's
Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers.
November 11, 2017
Buffalo, NY
7:00pm
$10 general / $5 students (
tickets)
Legacies of Pauline Oliveros
The Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn College, CUNY, hosts
a symposium honoring the first anniversary of the passing of Pauline Oliveros, celebrating her pioneering practice and considering its place in the context of contemporary experimental music. Ethan will join British singer and soundscape artist
Viv Corringham in a performance of Oliveros's
Thirteen Changes for two voices, and will also present his research into the performance practice of the composer's
Heart of Tones.
November 3-4, 2017
Shapeshifter Lab & Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NY
CAGES @ The Boiler Room
Buffalo-based expermental duo CAGES present a performance at the CASS Project's Boiler Room. Ethan joins the brass section as the duo presents music from their new album, Inside a Ringing Chord.
October 7, 2017
Buffalo, NY
7:00pm
Megan Kyle, oboe
Oboist Megan Kyle presents her faculty recital at the University at Buffalo. The program will include solo oboe and chamber repertoire, with an emphasis on Buffalo-affiliated composers. The concert features the premiere of Ethan's new solo oboe work,
Violetear, composed in close collaboration with Kyle.
October 5, 2017
Baird Recital Hall
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
UB Brown Bag concert
Oboist Megan Kyle previews her UB faculty recital, including an early performance of Ethan's new solo oboe work,
Violetear.
October 3, 2017
Lippes Concert Hall
Buffalo, NY
12:05pm
free admission
Null Point & Sotto Voce: Out of the Dark
The first program in the CASS Project's Fall season at the Boiler Room,
Null Point and
Sotto Voce present a night of experimental sound and vocals. Audience members will be invited into an immersive, seamless performance experience, beginning with barely audible environmental sound and culminating in boisterous participation. The concert centers around two works by the late Pauline Oliveros, in addition to works by local, national, and international emerging composers.
September 23, 2017
Buffalo, NY
7:15pm
$10-20 sliding scale
Null Point: PLACE at Artpark
This summer, Null Point presents the overdue world premiere of
PLACE, an extended interactive performance created by pioneering composer
David Dunn. The performance is the pilot project of Null Point's
In Place initiative of site-specific sound projects. PLACE will unfold over seven hours from early afternoon to sundown; audience members will be free to come and go throughout the event. More info available here.July 16, 2017
Buffalo, NY
2:00-9:00pm
free admission
Sotto Voce + The Syndicate for the New Arts
July 22, 2017
Buffalo, NY
7:00pm
$5-10 suggested donation
NYCEMF 2017
June 19th, 2017
New York, NY
1:00pm
Null Point: PLACE at Silo City
This summer, Null Point presents the overdue world premiere of
PLACE, an extended interactive performance created by pioneering composer
David Dunn. The performance is the pilot project of Null Point's
In Place initiative of site-specific sound projects. PLACE will unfold over seven hours from early afternoon to sundown; audience members will be free to come and go throughout the event. More info available here.June 17, 2017
Buffalo, NY
2:00-9:00pm
$10 (18 and under free)
Wooden Cities: Tombstones for Buffalo String Works
June 4, 2017
Buffalo, NY
3:00pm
2017 Indeterminacy Festival
Ethan will perform with Sotto Voce as part of a large ensemble presenting music by Stanzi Vaubel at the 2017
Indeterminacy Festival.
May 19-20
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
$10 general, $5 students
Sotto Voce: Lullabies and Landscapes
Sotto Voce, a new Buffalo-based vocal collective, will present
Lullabies and Landscapes, an evening of music for voice by contemporary composers. Program to feature works by Brien Henderson, Eva-Maria Houben, György Ligeti, Pauline Oliveros, Lauren Redhead, and James Weeks.
May 7, 2017
Buffalo, NY
2:00pm
Buffalo State Digital Music Ensemble: Artificial Intelligence
Buff State's Digital Music Ensemble, of which Ethan is interim-director, presents their Spring concert, which features works by Raymond Scott, Boards of Canada, and Aphex Twin.
April 27, 2017
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
Buffalo State Interactive Synthesizer Orchestra: Scratch
Buff State's Interactive Synthesizer Orchestra presents their spring concert under Ethan's direction. Program to feature works from the repertoire of the Scratch Orchestra, including pieces by Ono, Skempton, Stockhausen, and Wolff.
April 26, 2017
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
Null Point presents Gyre Ensemble
April 26, 2017
Buffalo, NY
8:30pm
$5-10 sliding scale
SEAMUS 2017
Saturday, April 22nd, 2017
Saint Cloud, MN
9:30am
Silence/Noise/Stasis: Experimental Music at Sugar City
April 16, 2017
Buffalo, NY
7:00pm
$5-10
Wooden Cities: Women in the Electronic Arts
Wooden Cities caps off a two-day residency at
Buffalo State College's Digital Music Production program with a concert of works emphasizing the contribution of female composers in electroacoustic music. Program to include works by Anna Meredith, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Kaija Saariaho, Amanda Stuart, and Gayle Young.
April 14, 2017
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
Collaborative Electro-Acoustic Music Series: Concert II
April 12, 2017
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
free
Null Point presents Patchwork
Null Point hosts Cleveland duo
Patchwork, for a concert of works by Didkovsky, Ling, Sokol, Wilmoth, and Wubbels. Ethan will perform a set of works by Beuger, Kosugi, and Shiomi with Null Point curator
Colin Tucker.
March 28, 2017
Buffalo, NY
7:00pm
$5-10 suggested donation
Sotto Voce: Something Old, Something New
Sotto Voce, a new Buffalo-based vocal collective, will present
Something Old, Something New, an evening of music for voice by contemporary composers. Program to feature works by Julius Eastman, Brien Hendersen, Porter James, and Sylvia Lim.
March 15, 2017
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
Wooden Cities: Cobra @ Houghton
Wooden Cities performs a concert of new and improvisatory works during a residency at Houghton College's
Greatbatch School of Music. Program to include Ethan's Brion Gysin setting,
in the beginning was the word, John Zorn's
Cobra, and works by Julius Eastman and Anthony Braxton.
February 10, 2017
Houghton College Center for the Arts
Houghton, NY
7:30pm
Buffalo State Digital Music Ensemble
Buff State's Digital Music Ensemble, of which Ethan is interim-director, presents their Fall concert, which features works by Pärt, Pisaro, and Young, and will include several works from Peter Ablinger's Black Series.
November 29, 2016
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
Sotto Voce: Strange Songs
Sotto Voce, a new Buffalo-based vocal collective, will present
Strange Songs, an evening of music for voice by living composers. Program to feature works by Antoine Beuger, Reiko Füting, Sylvia Lim, and James Weeks.
November 17, 2016
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
Null Point 10
Ethan will perform several works for 'objects' at the tenth
null point event. The program will feature three performances by tubist
Aaron Hynds.
November 9, 2016
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$5-10 sliding scale
James Currie & Wooden Cities: Examples of Excess
Wooden Cities collaborates with James Currie, a well-known musicologist currently teaching at the University at Buffalo, to create a performance piece around a lecture on music, philosophy, and critical theory. Performance will also include a performance of Louis Andriessen's Toespraak, for speaking trombonist.
October 27, 2016
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
A Madness Shared By Many
October 8, 2016
New York, NY
5:00pm
Wooden Cities: Social Improvisation and Action
Wooden Cities presents a series of improvisation workshops with the
Youth Orchestra of Bucks County. Utilizing John Zorn's Cobra, the ensemble will demonstrate free improv practices as students explore various modes of improvisation. Students will also reflect on their role as an artist and music-maker in society and what it means to work together.
September 10, 2016
Philadelphia, PA
3 dB at Silence Sounds
3 dB, an adventurous new vocal trio consisting of baritones David Breen, Daniel Baumgartner, and Daniel Bayot, will perform at the "Silence presents" concert series at Guelph's
Silence Sounds. The program will include Ethan's Gertrude Stein setting,
What Happened, for three voices and live electronics.
September 4, 2016
Guelph, ON
8:00pm
Wooden Cities: Graphic Music at Starlight Studio
Wooden Cities collaborates with Starlight Studio & Art Gallery, a vibrant art studio located in downtown Buffalo that supports adults with disabilities in their artistic development. Starlight artists will create unique contemporary music which the ensemble will then perform. (The exhibition, Conjuring a Rumpus will be on display in the gallery). Event funded by a DEC grant from Arts Services Initiative of WNY and the New York State Council on the Arts.
July 15, 2016
Buffalo, NY
7:00pm
free admission
Null Point: SOLO
July 1, 2016
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$5-10 sliding scale
Null Point: Surfaces
Null Point presents the North-American premiere of James Saunders'
Surfaces, in a new site-specific realization at Buffalo Gear and Axle Plant designed by Albert Kahn, wherein all sounds will be produced by activating the ageing building's surfaces. Part of
Echo Art Fair. For more info, click
here.
May 14, 2016
OSC Manufacturing & Equipment Services
Buffalo, NY
2:00-5:00pm
Sotto Voce: Vocal Translations
Ethan will join Jessie Downs and several other Buffalo-based vocalists for performances of Jessie's
Castings of Light and Ethan's
Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers.
May 13, 2016
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
Null Point: Found Sound—Creative Soundmaking with Architecture
Found Sound is a series of free, educational events introducing young people with no prior musical training to the performance and composition of experimental music, featuring guest artist
Sarah Hennies.
May 10, 2016
Buffalo, NY
5:00pm
Buffalo State Digital Music Ensemble
Buff State's Digital Music Ensemble, of which Ethan is interim-director, presents their Spring concert, which features works by Houben, Lucier, Oliveros, Rzewski, Tenney, and the premiere of Ethan's Interaction between two arbitrary systems.
May 3, 2016
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
Buffalo State Interactive Synthesizer Orchestra
Buff State's Interactive Synthesizer Orchestra presents their inaugural concert under Ethan's direction. Program to feature works by Cardew, Oliveros, and the premiere of Ethan's Rough description of the wave-systems in the hydrogren atom. Degeneracy. Perturbation.
May 2, 2016
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
Narrations contemporaines
April 29, 2016
L'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Montreal, QC
Wooden Cities & Girilal Baars
Wooden Cities is excited to host Swedish vocalist/composer
Girilal Baars for a collaborative program at Pausa Art House. Concert to feature performances of Baars' work by Wooden Cities (including the world premiere of
Fair Margaret by Ethan and oboist Megan Kyle).
April 28, 2016
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$7, $5 students
Buffalo State Electroacoustic Music Concert
Ethan will perform his suite of pieces for voice and electronics,
"…ce dangereux supplément…" at a concert of electroacoustic works by Buff State/UB composers. Program co-organized with Dr. Tomás Henriques.
April 22, 2016
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
PLASMA 2016
Ethan will perform some of his recent work as part of the UB Department of Media Study's
PLASMA series, alongside other artists, including
Benerva!, Tammy McGovern, and Loss Pequeño Glazier.
April 18, 2016
Buffalo, NY
6:30pm
Imagining New Media Research Workshop
Ethan will present some of his recent research and compositional work at UB's Imagining New Media Research Workshop, alongside other local scholars as well as Benerva! digital poets/performers/theorists visiting from Mexico.
April 17, 2016
Buffalo, NY
1:00pm
Evan Courtin: Violin Recital
Ethan joins
Wooden Cities for a performance of John Zorn's
Cobra at a recital by violinist Evan Courtin.
April 15, 2016
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
Dissertation Defense
Ethan presents his recent vocal compositions,
"…ce dangereux supplément…" and
Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers. Presentation to include discussion of extended vocal techniques, syntax mapping, homophonic translation, Derrida's linguistic critique, and Walter Benjamin's translation theory.
April 12, 2016
University at Buffalo (Baird Hall, 201)
Buffalo, NY
2:00pm
Wooden Cities & Ensemble Suplex
Wooden Cities shares a bill at Pausa Art House with Buffalo's newest new music quartet: Ensemble Suplex. Program to feature works by Andriessen, Birtwistle, Pisaro, and the premiere of Ethan's large ensemble piece,
Let's celebrate our corpse-strewn future!.
March 10, 2016
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$7, $5 students
Dada at 100: A Centenary Celebration of Dada
BuffFluxus will perform Ethan's four-voice arrangement of Kurt Schwitters'
Ribble Bobble Pimlico as part of Hallwall's Dada centenary event
February 13, 2016
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$10, $5 members
Wooden Cities: John Zorn's Cobra Workshop/Performance
Wooden Cities teams up with frequent-collaborator Aaron Staebell and the Greece Olympia Jazz Band for a workshop and performance of John Zorn's Cobra.
January, 15, 2016
Greece Olympia High School
Greece, NY
7:00pm
Ljudbio II
December 9, 2015
Slottsbiografen, Nedre Slottsgatan 6B
Uppsala, Sweden
7:00pm
Wooden Cities: Megan Kyle Faculty Recital
Wooden Cities joins oboist Megan Kyle for her Houghton faculty recital, and a performance of John Zorn's classic game piece, Cobra.
December 9, 2015
Houghton College
Houghton, NY
8:00pm
Open! String Ensemble
UB's Open! String Ensemble performs Ethan's arrangement of Sigur Rós's "Heysá́tan", featuring director
Jonathan Golove on theremin 'cello.
December 7, 2015
Baird Recital Hall
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
VoxNova Italia Workshop
Ethan will have a portion of his in-progress work for six voices,
Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers, performed by
VoxNova Italia.
December 6, 2015
Lippes Concert Hall
Buffalo, NY
10:00am
Buffalo State Digital Music Concert
November 18, 2015
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
Null Point: Virtuosities
Ethan will join Colin Tucker and Zane Merritt for
null point's
Virtuosities program. The ensemble will perform works by Kourliandski, Kudirka, Houben, and others.
November 4, 2015
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$7, $5 students
FinnFest 2015: A Kalevala Duo, Playing Bones
Wooden Cities collaborates with Finnish artist Pia Lindman, an expert in the ancient Kalevala tradition. The duo will bring to avant-garde performance an ancient Finnish therapeutic modality and vernacular tradition.
October 11, 2015
Buffalo, NY
Nuit Blanche Toronto
October 3, 2015
Toronto waterfront (between York and Parliament)
Toronto, ON
7:00pm
ICMC 2015
September 25 - October 1, 2015
University of North Texas
Denton, TX
Michael McNeill Farewell Concert
Ethan joins Wooden Cities in wishing pianist and composer
Michael McNeill a fond farewell as he leaves Buffalo.
Saturday, August 15th, 2015
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$7, $5 students
When Music is Religious: "Alternative" Theologies
Ethan joins UU Church of Buffalo's summer series to talk about Sigur Rós's
( ) with music director, Dan Bassin. Evening also to feature discussion of Neutral Milk Hotel's
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Learn more about the series
here.
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Buffalo, NY
6:30pm
free
Wooden Cities: Music in the Woods
Wooden Cities plays a free summer concert in Artpark's Lower Park Emerald Grove area, overlooking the Niagara River.
July 19, 2015
Buffalo, NY
4:00pm
free admission
Null Point: Midwestern Tour
Ethan will join Colin Tucker and Zane Merritt for
null point's midwestern summer tour. The ensemble will perform works by Kourliandski, Kudirka, Houben, and others.
E-Poetry [2015]
Ethan performs his suite of pieces for voice and electronics,
"…ce dangereux supplément…" at the biannual international E-Poetry festival & conference.
June 9-12, 2015
Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero
Buenos Aires, Argentina
From the Center's Edge: June in Buffalo 40/30 Anniversary Exhibit
June 1-7, 2015
UB Music Library
Buffalo, NY
Wooden Cities: Sight as Sound
Presented by Young Audiences of Western New York.
Wooden Cites presents a program which places contemporary music in a historical context, putting on display the tradition that extends from Bach, through Schoenberg and Cage, to contemporary, Buffalo-based composers.
Friday, May 1, 2015
Buffalo, NY
5:30pm
SoundGallery at SUNY Oneonta
Thursday, April 23, 2015
SUNY Oneonta
Oneonta, NY
Wooden Cities & Ryan Ross Smith
Wooden Cites performs live-video scores by composer Ryan Ross Smith, including
Study no. 40.3.1 and
Study no. 45.1.
Friday, April 17, 2015
Troy, NY
Wooden Cities - O Swan: Good Friday Music by Buffalo Composers
Wooden Cities plays a Good Friday program centered on two important minimalist works from the 1970s: Gavin Bryars's Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet and Julius Eastman's rarely-performed Stay on It. The program also features two classic Morton Feldman pieces and recent works by local composers, including new pieces by Michael McNeill and Zane Merritt and a new arrangement of Samuel Barber's "The Crucifixion" by Nathan Heidelberger.
Friday, April 3, 2015
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$7, $5 students
Music for the Passion
Wooden Cities performs works by Bryars and Barber as part of St. Joseph's annual Good Friday concert.
Friday, April 18th, 2014
Buffalo, NY
1:15pm
free admission
Hiller Studios Black Box Concert
Ethan performs his suite of pieces for voice and electronics,
"…ce dangereux supplément…" as part of the Hiller Computer Music Studios' annual concert of electroacoustic music.Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
free admission
Digital Poetry & Dance 2015
Ethan will premiere his full suite of pieces for voice, electronics, and animation,
"…ce dangereux supplément…", as Artist-in-Residence at the Electronic Poetry Center's annual poetry and dance event.Saturday, January 31, 2015
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm & 9:00pm
$15
Wooden Cities: PLASMA 2015
Wooden Cities performs works by sound and concrete poets (including Ethan's
(tRas) and two of his arrangements) as part of the UB Department of Media Study's
PLASMA series. Program in support of Ethan's residency at Digital Poetry & Dance 2015.
Monday, January 26, 2015
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
Cages CD Release
Wooden Cites teams up with Buffalo band
Cages to celebrate the release of their latest record
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
Wooden Cities: A Very-er Wooden Christmas
Wooden Cities returns to Pausa to perform more live film scores to some classic (and not-so-classic) silent Christmas films
December 20, 2014
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$7, $5 students
Rock Hall Library's Book Club
Ethan will be joining in as the Library and Archives of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hosts an online discussion on his 33⅓ book,
Sigur Rós's ( ). Join the group at
GoodReads.
December 15 (start date)
Wooden Cities: Young Composers Workshop
Wooden Cities reads works by UB composition students.
December 9, 2014
UB North Campus
Buffalo, NY
5:00pm
free admission
null point 3: impossibilities
Ethan will perform two solo works at the third concert in the
null point series, including Peter Ablinger's
The Real as Imaginary" and Dmitri Kourliandski's
Voice Off (North American Premiere).
November 15, 2014
Buffalo, NY
7:00pm
ThingNY at Rutgers
thingNY will perform Ethan's four-voice arrangement of Kurt Schwitters'
Ribble Bobble Pimlico as part of a set of new works at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts.
November 11, 2014
Richard H. Shindell Choral Hall
New Brunswick, NJ
7:30pm
free admission
<fidget> 5th Annual Experimental Music Festival
At the closing night of <fidget>'s Experimental Music Festival,
thingNY will perform Ethan's four-voice arrangement of Kurt Schwitters'
Ribble Bobble Pimlico.
November 9, 2014
Philadelphia, PA
7:30pm
FAU Concert Percussion Ensemble
November 9, 2014
FAU University Theatre
Boca Raton, FL
3:00pm
$10 suggested donation
Aaron Staebell and Wooden Cities+
Wooden Cities plays a program of new works by Buffalo composers, splitting the bill with Aaron Staebell's Solo Drum Solo project. The program will feature guest performers Meredith Gilna (bass) and Glenn Einschlag (bassoon).
October 25, 2014
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$7, $5 students
INTIME 2014 - Voice and Text: Experimentation/Transformation
As part of the
InTime Applied Research Group's annual symposium on experimental music, Ethan will give a performance of
(tRas) for voice and electronics, as well as present some of his work on Sigur Rós's
( ) and invented languages from his
upcoming book for the 33⅓ series.
October 18-19, 2014
Coventry University
Coventry, UK
ICMC-SMC Joint Conference 2014
Ethan's
bats with baby faces in the violet light will be played in the listening rooms at the joint conference of the International Computer Music Conference and the Sound & Music Computing Conference.
September 14-20, 2014
Athens, Greece
EPC@20: Second Decade Celebration & Symposium
Ethan will perform some of his own work, as well as works by sound and concrete poets with
Wooden Cites as part of the 20th anniversary celebration of UB's Electronic Poetry Center.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Buffalo, NY
7:00pm
33⅓ Book Release @ Talking Leaves
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Buffalo, NY
7:00pm
2014 Western University Graduate Symposium on Music
Ethan will be presenting some of his work on Sigur Rós's
( ) and invented languages, which can also be found in his
upcoming book for the 33⅓ series.
Saturday, August 23, 2014
London, ON
9:00am
Wooden Cities: University Heights Arts Association Festival
Saturday, August 16, 2014
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Buffalo, NY
1:00pm
Wooden Cities: Sight as Sound
Wooden Cites presents a program of graphic music as part of professional development for music and special education teachers in the Williamsville School District. The program demonstrates various literacies in music and beyond, engages educators to compose, and reflects on effective assessment in the arts.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Mill Middle School
Williamsville, NY
9:00am
TJ Borden Farewell Concert
Ethan joins Wooden Cities in wishing cellist
TJ Borden a fond farewell as he leaves Buffalo.
Saturday, July 19th, 2014
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$7, $5 students
Wooden Cities and Ensemble Pamplemousse
Thursday, June 26th, 2014
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$7, $5 students
Wooden Cities: Rust Belt Citizens (Summer Tour)
Wooden Cities hits the road for a tour of the Midwest, performing works by Buffalo composers, along with pieces by Berio, Eastman, Ives, Pisaro, McCaffery, and Zorn.
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
Cleveland, OH
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
Lafayette, IN
Thursday, June 19th, 2014
Indianapolis, IN
Friday, June 20th, 2014
Louisville, KY
Saturday, June 21st, 2014
Toledo, OH
Wooden Cities: Silo Sessions Launch Party
Saturday, June 14th, 2014
Silo City, Perot Grain Elevator
Buffalo, NY
5:00pm
NYCEMF 2014
Sunday, June 8th, 2014
New York, NY
1:30pm & 10:30pm
Wooden Cities in Pittsburgh
Wooden Cities plays contemporary works in Pittsburgh, PA
Saturday, May 24th, 2014
Pittsburgh, PA
9:00pm
$3-$10 suggested donation
Wooden Cities: Inharmonicity
Wooden Cities performs a concert of works for carillon and ensemble, including works specifically composed for the event by Buffalo-based composers. A new work by Ethan,
in sonos benesonantibus, will be premiered by Wooden Cities and the Calvary church choir.
Friday, May 23rd, 2014
Williamsville, NY
7:30pm
$10 suggested donation
Switch~ Ensemble
Ethan will be performing live electronics with the Eastman School's resident electroacoustic ensemble, the
[Switch~ Ensemble].
Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
Post-Sonus Orchestra
Thursday, May 8th, 2014
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
[null point]: too little/too much
The inaugural performance of
[null point], a new series of concerts featuring recently-composed music by emerging composers, and overlooked works by established composers (curated by
Colin Tucker). Ethan will be performing works by Gerhard Rühm, as well as the premiere of
Charlie Sdraulig's
few.
Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
Wooden Cities: Young Composers Workshop
Wooden Cities reads works by UB composition students. Ethan will perform on the closing piece, Pauline Oliveros's Wind Horse.
Sunday, April 27th, 2014
UB North Campus (B1 Slee)
Buffalo, NY
2:00pm
free admission
Wooden Cities: (B)uffalo (A)rt (D)ispensary Interactive Art Event
Wooden Cities interprets graphic scores created at a previous (B)(A)(D) event. Event will also feature Joshua Nickerson and (B)(A)(D)Muses.
Saturday, April 26th, 2014
Buffalo, NY
7:00pm
free admission
An Excess of Voice: Wooden Cities & Steve McCaffery
Wooden Cities collaborates with author, scholar, and sound poet, Steve McCaffery to present a program of works which exploit the tenuous boundary between speech and music, vocal and instrumental sound. Program to include several works by McCaffery, premieres of new vocal pieces by Ethan, and arrangments of classic sound poems for Wooden Cities' instrumentation.
Saturday, April 19th, 2014
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$7, $5 students
Music for the Passion
Wooden Cities performs sacred music as part of St. Joseph's annual Good Friday concert.
Friday, April 18th, 2014
Buffalo, NY
1:00pm
free admission
Words @ BPAC
Wooden Cities performs a set of pieces with Steve McCaffery as part of the UB Poetics program's Poetics Plus series.
Saturday, April 12th, 2014
Buffalo, NY
4:00pm
SEAMUS 2014
bats with baby faces in the violet light is a finalist in the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition, and will be performed at the 29th national conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.
Thursday, March 27th, 2014
Middletown, CT
8:00pm
E-Poetry 2014 Intensive Mayagüez
Ethan will be speaking on sound poetry and Kristeva's semiotic chora, the presentation will also include a discussion of his electroacoustic setting of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," six stanzas of anglo-saxon poetry
March 19-22, 2014 (specific date/time TBA)
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
2014 Buffalo Graduate Student Symposium on Music
Ethan will be presenting some of his work on Sigur Rós's
( ) and invented languages, which can also be found in his
upcoming book for the 33⅓ series.
March 1-2, 2014
Baird Hall, University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY
Time TBA
Megan Metté: [un] sound spaces
Wooden Cities performs with special guest, dancer and choreographer Melanie Aceto, at the closing reception of photographer
Megan Metté's [un] sound spaces exhibit at the Unity Gallery (January 7 - February 26).
Friday, February 21st, 2014
Unity of Buffalo
Buffalo, NY
7:00-10:00pm (8:00pm performance)
Wooden Cities: Chain Gang Citizens
Wooden Cities plays favorites by Buffalo composers, and engages in an extended full-ensemble improvisational work.
Thursday, February 13th, 2014
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$7, $5 students
Muddle Instead of Music
Thursday, February 13th, 2014
Louisville, KY
11:00am
Wooden Cities: Inaugural Murial Wolf and Albert Steger Endowment Concert: (Re)Constructions
Wooden Cities presents a full program of works by Buffalo composers, including recently composed pieces and reconstructions of pieces from Buffalo's rich history of new music. Program to feature works by Hiller, Stadelman, Merritt and McNeill.
Friday, February 7th, 2014
Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
free admission
Wooden Cities on Upstate Soundscape
Wooden Cities guest hosts WBNY's
Upstate Soundcape, presenting a wide variety of music from past performances and talking about the Inaugural Muriel Wolf and Albert Steger Endowment Concert. Audio available
here.
Wednesday, February 5th, 2014
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
Wooden Cities: Brown Bag preview
Wooden Cities previews some works which will appear on the Inaugural Murial Wolf and Albert Steger Endowment Concert
Tuesday, February 4th, 2014
Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall
Buffalo, NY
12:05pm
free admission
Southern Humanities Council
Ethan will be speaking on sound poetry and Kristeva's semiotic chora, the presentation will include a performance of Hugo Ball's "Seepferdchen und Flugfische."
Friday, January 31, 2014
Crowne Plaza Richmond Downtown
Richmond, VA
11:00am
Sound & Revision
Wooden Cities joins other local bands at Nietzsche's annual tribute show, arranging four David Bowie tunes for their unique classical instrumentation.
Saturday, December 14, 2014
Buffalo, NY
9:00pm (Wooden Cities' at 10:20pm)
$5
Wooden Cities: A Very Wooden Christmas
Wooden Cities performs live, quasi-improvisatory music to score some classic (and not-so-classic) silent Christmas films
Saturday, December 7th, 2013
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$5
Wooden Cities: Rise and Fall--Songs for All Souls
Saturday, October 26th, 2013
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$5
Wooden Cities: Ebbing Flow
A continuous, fully immersive concert experience, mixing fully-composed, openly-notated, and improvised works, as part of the CFA Open Studios event.
Friday, October 25th, 2013
Buffalo, NY
6:00pm
free admission
Wooden Cities: Buffalo Composers Get Up and Out!
Works by local composers, including Ethan's game piece
Monte will be performed by
Wooden Cities.
Friday, May 10th, 2013
The Vault
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$10 general, $7 advance
Wooden Cities: Works and Process
Performances of six new short works by student composers, concluding with a performance of an old classic: Terry Riley's In C
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$7 general, $5 students
Wooden Cities on Upstate Soundscape
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
Zane Merritt Recital
Performance of Zane Merritt's
In Memoriam Brooks Frederickson with members of
Wooden Cities.
Saturday, May 4th, 2013
Buffalo, NY
7:00pm
$5 suggested donation
Wooden Cities: Sacred Spaces
Performance of sacred and quasi-sacred music with
Wooden Cities, including works by Charles Ives and Michael Pisaro
Saturday, April 20th, 2013
Buffalo, NY
7:00pm
$5 suggested donation
Wooden Cities: Guerrilla Tactics
Performance of improvisatory works with
Wooden Cities, including John Zorn's
Cobra and Zane Merrit's
In Memoriam Brooks FredericksonFriday, April 5th, 2013
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$7 general, $5 students
Hiller Studios Black Box Concert
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm; 9:00pm
free admission
NSEME 2013
March 22nd, 2013
Rock Hall Auditorium, Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
5:10pm
free admission
Wooden Cities Fall Concert I
Works by Buffalo composers, including Ethan's game piece
Monte will be performed by
Wooden Cities.
Friday, December 14th, 2012
Buffalo, NY
8:00pm
$10 general, $5 students
Big Draw Event
Friday, October 26th, 2012
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
free admission
Wooden Cities performs Cobra
Performance of John Zorn's
Cobra with
Wooden Cities as part of a lecture on quotation
Monday, October 1st, 2012
Slee Hall (B1), University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY
7:30pm
free admission
Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
Toronto, ON
8:00pm
$15/$10
Wooden Cities on Upstate Soundscape
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
Buffalo, NY
10:00pm
SEAMUS 2012
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Lawrence Memorial Chapel, Lawrence University
Appleton, WI
2:30pm
