Master Class with Vincent Royer
(featuring Alex Waterman)
Friday, December 10, 2010 from 12 - 4 p.m.
International House Philadelphia

Violist Vincent Royer, joined by Alex Waterman, will discuss and demonstrate contemporary repertoire and techniques for the viola and cello at International House Philadelphia. The focus of the master class will be on the solo repertoire that Royer will perform at a concert that evening at Slought Foundation, including works by John Cage, Gyorgy Ligeti, Tristan Murail, Horatiu Radulescu, and Giacinto Scelsi. Cellist Alex Waterman will also discuss and play excerpts from some of the more adventurous compositions for the cello.

In addition to the presentation on repertoire and techniques, Vincent Royer and Alex Waterman will read works by ACF Philadelphia members. Up to 10 members will be able register for a 15-20 minute reading/feedback session with Royer and Waterman. Composers who register as "participants" will be required to begin a new composition for viola (cello optional) and submit a work-in-progress or draft by midnight on Sunday, December 5, 2010 (aka 12 a.m. Monday, December 6).

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Beatrice Gibson's films explore voice and its notation, employing the graphic score and the conversation as paradigms for their production. Framed by a new publication by Gibson and editor and typographer Will Holder , the exhibition presents three existing films and a new work, commissioned and co-produced by Künstlerhaus Stuttgart . Conceived as the first chapter to the publication The Tiger's Mind, six practitioners (John Tilbury, Alex Waterman , Celine Condorelli , Jesse Ash, Christoph Keller , and Axel Wieder) have been invited to hold a conversation during the time of the exhibition, scored by Cornelius Cardew's 1967 composition of the same name.

The Tiger's Mind by Beatrice Gibson is part of the project 'Scores', organized by Künstlerhaus Stuttgart in collaboration with the CAC Brétigny .

http://www.kuenstlerhaus.de/en/archive/prev-beatrice-gibson-the-tigers-m...

watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVjW_IkfpFs

Yearly, Dionysian event to celebrate Darmstadt Classics of the Avant-Garde. All-star cast and crew.

John King's 10 Mysteries

http://www.arsnovaworkshop.org/events/john-kings-10-mysteries-11-05-2010

Jennifer Choi, violin
Cornelius Dufallo, violin
John King, viola
Alex Waterman, cello

"The ensemble brings vitality, sensitivity and, in many instances, astounding brute force to their impassioned interpretations." -All About Jazz on John King and the Crucible Quartet

Ars Nova Workshop presents a special night of string quartets led by two of the most exciting downtown composers: John King with Crucible Quartet - who will be performing pieces from their 2010 collaboration, 10 Mysteries - and Jessica Pavone with members of the Toomai Quartet - who will be performing pieces from their 2009 collaboration Songs of Synastry and Solitude.

Awesome night of music!!!

Also on that night: + Michael Evans’ Swirling Lotus Blossom Bandits Band

http://www.issueprojectroom.org/music/fulminate-trio-zach-layton-alex-wa...

Awesome night of music!!!

http://www.issueprojectroom.org/music/fulminate-trio-zach-layton-alex-wa...

Ars Nova Workshop
presents
Andy Laster’s Sounds of Cairo
Andy Laster, clarinet + saxophone
Curtis Hasselbring, trombone
Alex Waterman, cello
Kermit Driscoll, bass

Ars Nova Workshop is pleased to present this special performance by Andy Laster’s Sounds of Cairo, an all-star quartet with Alex Waterman, Kermit Driscoll, and Curtis Hasselbring that performs songs inspired by Egyptian composers of the 1920s.

http://www.therotunda.org/calendar/ars-nova-workshop-pres-andy-lasters-s...

Performing Ferneyhough's solo piece from 1976. I will be treating the work as a historical performance piece and performing with two composers of University of Minnesota on analog tape machines and electronics.

http://spark.umn.edu/

Playing with Bill Baird. Nice string section. Spooky, ambient music.

http://www.issueprojectroom.org/music/loren-conners-bill-baird/

http://whitney.org/Events/Ephemera17

Performance of Beacons of Ancestorship, Live via Skype from New York!

Performance by JEREMIAH DAY;
live broadcast of a radio
play by ALEX WATERMAN;
recitals of Robert Ashley’s
“Yes, But Is It Edible?”
(1999, by Will Holder) and
“Maneuvers for Small Hands”
(1961, première, pianist
to be confirmed).

Since 2004,Will Holder has been working
with AlexWaterman on “Yes, But Is It Edible?”,
a scored biography of the composer, to be collectively
read aloud. Holder and Waterman have
developed a form of typographical notation in
order to reproduce (semi-autobiographical)
operas that were developed through oral instruction
and negotiation. During the period of the
exhibition, Holder will be residing in Brussels
to complete this publication.
On show at Objectif are earlier works of Robert
Ashley which – though not included in the biography
– have informed the process of its making.

Spor Festival 2010

19.30 Friday 7 May 2010
Spor Festival 2010
Ablinger/Reinholdtsen Double Portrait
Granhøj, Aarhus, Denmark

Peter Ablinger – Instrumente und Rauschen
Trond Reinholdtsen – Concert Music Piece
Peter Ablinger – 1-127
Trond Reinholdtsen – 13 Music Theatre Pieces

VILMA GOLD ARE PLEASED TO PRESENT
"BEACONS OF ANCESTORSHIP", A LIVE RADIO PLAY BY ALEX WATERMAN
THURSDAY 15 APRIL, 7:30 PM

As part of our current group show, 'The Inhabitants', the performance will mark the second stage of Waterman's piece 'Beacons of Ancestorship'- a piece based upon the last and never published book by John Barton Wolgamot. Spoken over an imaginary soundscape composed by Waterman and broadcast on a radio in the gallery, the performance will be delivered as a live film script describing 128 landscapes. The landscape is a memory theatre composed of a group of names sourced from the permutating lists used by Wolgamot for his singular poem, ‘ In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women’. Never changing/ always changing, Wolgamot's poem is a container for hundreds of stories in addition to being a perfect syllabic and formal breakdown of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. The performance will be recorded live thus forming the next installment of Waterman’s piece in the show.

Waterman's scripting of the garden/landscape is conditioned in that it follows two statements from Alan Weiss’s ‘Manifesto for the Future of Landscape’. They are: 7. The garden is a narrative, a transformer of narratives, and a generator of narratives; 8. The garden is a memory theater.

Alex Waterman is a founding member of the Plus Minus Ensemble, based in Brussels and London, specializing in avant-garde and experimental music. In New York he performs with the Either/Or Ensemble. Alex is presently working on his PhD in musicology at NYU as well as writing a book about the composer Robert Ashley with the designer and writer Will Holder. Waterman participated in Dexter Sinister’s residency at the Armory for the 2008 Whitney Biennial writing a new work based upon Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener. Alex Waterman and Beatrice Gibson’s film, A Necessary Music, narrated by Robert Ashley and with original music by Waterman, premiered at the Whitney Museum ISP show and will be shown in galleries and museums in the US and Europe this Autumn.

For further information or images
please contact Gili Tal:
+44 (0)20 7729 9888
or: gili@vilmagold.com

http://www.vilmagold.com/newpages/theinhabitants.htm

D.S. al Coda inaugurates its activities with the release of A Ballad of Accounting by Alex Waterman with a film by Liz Wendelbo.

The label is a collaboration between Alex Waterman and Dexter Sinister's David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey.

The launch takes place at the Dia Chelsea building as part of the Independent Show, curated by Thea Westreich and others.

Either/Or Spring Festival II 2010
27th March 2010, 8 pm
Tenri Cultural Institute www.tenri.org
43A W 13th Street, 10011 New York
$15 ($10 students/seniors)

Alex Hills - Knight's Move (2009, U.S. premiere)
Trevor Baca - Mon seul désir (2010, World premiere)
Martin Iddon - Danaë (2010, World premiere)
Eve Beglarian - Play Nice (1999/2010, premiere of this version)
Erik Griswold - The Yellow Fog (2010, World premiere)

Benjamin Baron - clarinet
Richard Carrick - conductor
Stephanie Griffin - viola
Margaret Lancaster - flutes
Esther Noh - violin
David Shively - cimbalom, percussion
Alex Waterman - cello

Either/Or's 5th Annual Spring Festival of New Music: two nights of compelling new chamber music from around the world...

This concert is made possible by the generous support of the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation, the BMI Foundation, Meet the Composer's Cary New Music Performance Fund and the Music Department of New York University (FAS). Either/Or is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Chaya Czernowin Portrait Festival
26th February 2010, 8.30 pm
Tenri Cultural Institute www.tenri.org
43A W 13th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
$20 ($10 student/senior)

Chaya Czernowin, composer
Ina (1988, NY premiere)
Dam sheon hachol (1992 rev. 2002, NY premiere)
Die Kreuzung (1995, U.S. premiere)
Seed I (2008, U.S. premiere)
Anea (2008, U.S. premiere)

Aaron Baird - bass

Olivia de Prato - violin

Michael Ibrahim - saxophone

Margaret Lancaster - flutes

Victor Lowrie - viola 

Jessica Meyer - viola

Esther Noh - violin 

William Schimmel - accordion

Alex Waterman - cello

Richard Carrick and David Shively - conductors.

Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin joins Either/Or for a three day residency to present her ideas and music, including her first-ever U.S. portrait concert.
This concert is made possible by the generous support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the BMI Foundation, Meet the Composer's Cary New Music Performance Fund, the New School for Social Research, and the Music Department of New York University (FAS). Either/Or is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
The Either/Or Ensemble is Artist-in-Residence at the New School this Spring 2010