05.04.24 Queens College Gamelan, Yowana Sari with Dewa Alit and Talujon at the Bang On A Can Long Play Festival. At BRIC in downtown Brooklyn
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05.04.24 Queens College Gamelan, Yowana Sari with Dewa Alit and Talujon at the Bang On A Can Long Play Festival. At BRIC in downtown Brooklyn
Alex Mincek and The Marimba
The first review of this year's Avant Music Festival is in - with Daniele Sahr talking Alex Mincek and Marimba over on Seen and Heard International.
Opening Soon! In our Lab gallery, William Engelen: Falten presents a new series of musical scores for percussion made from folded paper. In performing Falten, musicians use the paper’s planes, heights, and structures as parameters for qualities in volume, pitch, rhythm, tension, character, and the spatiality of sound.
This Thursday at 7:30pm (at The Drawing Center) Falten for Percussion consists of eight parts, and will be debuted by the celebrated percussion ensemble Talujon during the evening opening for all our current shows.
This Friday at 8pm Offsite! (at ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn) FALTEN / DAMAGED, William Englelen & Aki Onda At this special musical performance presented in collaboration with ISSUE Project Room, celebrated percussion ensemble Talujon will perform William Engelen's recent work Falten, a hybrid of score and sculpture. Percussionist Eli Keszler and the Ashcan Orchestra’s Pat Spadine will perform Aki Onda’s Damaged, in which slide projections from Onda’s ongoing series of New York street photography serve as visual cues for improvisation. Please purchase tickets here and use discount code DRAW for a special $12 rate.
IMAGE: detail of William Engelen: Falten installation.
UPCOMING PROGRAMS AT THE DRAWING CENTER
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, November 21, 6–8pm Filling the Main Gallery, the exhibition Drawing Time, Reading Time features an international group of artists spanning the 1960s to today, all of whom are engaged in exploring the relationship between drawing and writing as distinct yet interrelated gestures. Presented in the Drawing Room,Dickinson/Walser brings together Emily Dickinson’s original poem manuscripts and Robert Walser’s microscripts for the first time. In the Lab, William Engelen: Falten presents a new series of musical scores for percussion made from folded paper. In performing Falten, musicians use the paper’s planes, heights, and structures as parameters for qualities in volume, pitch, rhythm, tension, character, and the spatiality of sound. Falten for Percussion consists of eight parts, and will be debuted by the celebrated percussion ensemble Talujon during the opening. FALTEN / DAMAGED William Englelen & Aki Onda Friday, November 22, 8pm
Offsite! ISSUE Project Room 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn At this special musical performance presented in collaboration with ISSUE Project Room, celebrated percussion ensemble Talujon will perform William Engelen's recent work Falten, a hybrid of score and sculpture. Percussionist Eli Keszler and the Ashcan Orchestra’s Pat Spadine will perform Aki Onda’sDamaged, in which slide projections from Onda’s ongoing series of New York street photography serve as visual cues for improvisation. This is a ticketed, off-site event at ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn. Please purchase tickets here and use discount code DRAW for a special $12 rate. THE GORGEOUS NOTHINGS Book Launch Saturday, November 23, 3–5pm In conjunction with Dickinson/Walser, join us to celebrate the release of The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope-Poems, published by New Directions and Christine Burgin. The Gorgeous Nothings is the first full-color publication of Emily Dickinson's envelope writings in facsimile from her visually stunning manuscripts. Remarks by editors Marta Werner and Jen Bervin will begin at 3:30pm. Renowned poet and Dickinson scholar Susan Howe will introduce the editors and, following their remarks, Walser translator Susan Bernofsky will speak about her work with Walser and New Directions/Christine Burgin. FROLIC ARCHITECTURE Susan Howe & David Grubbs Thursday, December 5, 6:30pm In conjunction with Drawing Time, Reading Time, writer Susan Howe and composer David Grubbs will perform a selection from their celebrated multidisciplinary concert Frolic Architecture. FAMILY ART WORKSHOP: DRAWING TIME, READING TIME Saturday, December 7, 10:30am–12pm Ages 9–12 | RSVP to [email protected] Family Art Workshops at The Drawing Center are designed to encourage children and adults to observe, discuss, and explore art together in the intimate setting of the Center's galleries. In this Family Art Workshop, children and their parents will be encourage to make artworks inspired by the drawings on view in Drawing Time, Reading Time. "DRAWING POEMS" Robert Grenier & Charles Bernstein Monday, January 6, 6:30pm In conjunction with Drawing Time, Reading Time and Dickinson/Walser, poet Charles Bernstein will introduce and engage in conversation with poet Robert Grenier, who will present and interpret a series of his handwritten "drawing poems."
The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster between Broome and Grand Streets
IMAGE: Mirtha Dermisache, Diario N° Año 1,1972. Ink on Paper, 18 5/8 x 14 3/8 inches (page 4 of 8). Courtesy Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York. (Dermisache's work is in the Drawing Time, Reading Time exhibition.)
talujon performs their own "their four and sow three". saw them perofrming at mannes a couple of weeks ago and this piece uses the coolest instrument: an amplified udu drum.