[microsound] [OT] darmstadt avant garde listening party 5/25 w. Alex Waterman, cello

[zach layton <zachlayton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

I'm extremely happy to invite you to hear the super-talented 
cellist, Alex Waterman, play music by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Cornelius
Cardew and others at the next Darmstadt "classics of the avant-garde"
listening party in Brooklyn, NY.   

Also, Nick Hallett (maison du chic) and the talented pianist Emily Manzo
will join me as we play recordings by such luminous visionaries as Robert
Ashley, Meredith Monk, John Cage, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Alvin Lucier,
Morton Feldman, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav Mahler, Erik Satie, Laurie
Anderson, and so on and so forth.

Come on down and join us for a very special and classy evening.

DARMSTADT @ GALAPAGOS
May 25th...wednesday...10pm free...

"Classics of the Avant Garde Listening Party"
every last wednesday of the month at Galapagos Arts Space
in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
70 N6th Street, between Kent and Wythe

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Alex Waterman ?cello and electronics 
(Portsmouth, Virginia 1975)

Studied cello at the New England Conservatory, and the Oberlin
Conservatoy of Music in the United States. His main teachers were Andor
Toth Jr., George Neikrug and Frances Marie Uitti. Master classes with Yo
Yo Ma and Anner Bylsma. He received his Masters degree in composition and
performance from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He is a founding
member of the Plus Minus Ensemble, based in Brussels and London;
specialized in avant-garde and experimental music. As improviser he works
with the Henneman String Quartet, the Maartje ten Hoorn Quartet, Magpie
Music and Dance Company, Trio Céline (with Eric Thielemans and Jean Yves
Evrard), and with Yves de Mey in the duo Eavesdropper and Waterman.  He
also works with singer Ghalia Benali in her group playing traditional and
modern Arabic music repertoire and with the Keith Rowe Elecotroacoustic
Ensemble.  He has written music for numerous dance productions including
for NDTIII (Tanz in August 2002), Michael Schumacher (Heaven is a Radio
Frascati 2002), Masako Noguchi (Knock, Japan Festival 2001), Katie Duck
(Love Poems, The Kitchen, New York) and Steve Paxton (Kaai Theatre Improv
Festival 2001). Alex has worked with musicians such as Richard Barrett,
Keith Rowe, Axel Dorner, Tristan Honsinger, Ned Rothenberg, Mark Helias,
Steve Heather, Cor Fuhler, Gert Jan Prins, Andy Moor and members of <<the
Ex>>, Yannis Kyriakides, Mary Oliver, Michael Moore, Anthony Coleman, Phil
Niblock, Pauline Oliveiros, Robert Ashley and Michael Finissy. He has
performed as guest musician with numerous ensembles, including Trio Event
Berlin, Champs d´Action, Q-O2, and Black Jackets Company.  Waterman has
also curated music in Musiclab at Les Bains::Connective in Brussels and
guest curated for the Kraakgeluiden series in the OT301 in Amsterdam.  He
now lives in New York City. 

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