Iktus Percussion hosts the third installment of The Firehouse New Music Series featuring:

PANOPLY PERFORMANCE LABORATORY
"Any Size Mirror is a Dictator”, an opera: workshop performance
http://www.panoplylab.org/

EXCLUSIVE OR
Sam Pluta: laptop/Jeff Snyder: analog synths/Federico Ughi: drums
http://www.sampluta.com/

DAVE SCANLON
guitarist of Killer BOB/Pet Bottle Ningen shreds solo
http://davescanlon.com/

PURE AIRNESS
"DOCTOR ROCKTAPUS HAS BEEN SHREDDING PURE AIRNESS ON STAGE FOR 9 YEARS AND OFF STAGE SINCE BIRTH. HIS PERFORMANCES HAVE BEEN HAILED AS 'UTTERLY ASTOUNDING' AND 'A GLIMPSE INTO HEAVEN'".

The Firehouse Space
246 Frost St, Brooklyn (L to Graham Ave)
$10 admission
http://thefirehousespace.org/

THIS WILL BE POWERFUL AND WEIRD AND REAL
- Iktus Percussion

We're psyched to hit up the Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo, Brooklyn with the righteous trio Concert Black and fellow percussionists ensemble, et al. This concert will feature stellar works by French spectralist Philippe Hurel, Bang on a Can member Julia Wolfe, and Iannis Xenakis' epic djembe trio Okho. Not to be missed!

Tuesday, March 26
doors at 7pm, show at 8pm
Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St, Brooklyn (click here for a map)
$15 in advance / $20 at the door
Click here to buy tickets! 

Iktus Percussion continues The Firehouse New Music Series with four of New York's most burning new music ensembles including Concert Black, Mariel Roberts, Duo Orfeo, and Radical 2.

Friday, March 1st, 8pm
The Firehouse Space, 246 Frost St, Brooklyn (click here for a map)
$10 admission

Concert Black formed in Brooklyn in 2011 after bonding over the music of George Crumb and Riskay at the ever unconventional Bang on a Can organization's summer institute. While all the members boast acute classical over-training, Domenica Fossati (flute) is steeped in the NYC Afrobeat scene, Lisa Dowling (bass) is also DJ Lil Miss Dolemite, and Owen weaver (drums) fronts as an electro-acoustic percussion artist and former thrasher. Together, they draw upon their diverse musical backgrounds for their song writing, improvisation, and commissioning of today's emerging composers.

Lisa Dowling, bass
Domenica Fossati, flute
Owen Weaver, percussion 

“Trailblazing” cellist Mariel Roberts (Feast of Sounds) is quickly gaining recognition as a deeply dedicated interpreter and performer of contemporary music. Recent performances have garnered praise for her “technical flair and exquisite sensitivity” (American Composers Forum), as well as her ability to “couple youthful vision with startling maturity”. (InDigest Magazine). She holds degrees from both the Eastman School and the Manhattan School of Music, where she specialized in contemporary performance practice while studying with Alan Harris and Fred Sherry. Mariel performs internationally as a member of the Mivos String Quartet, and has performed with a variety of other ensembles in venues around the world as an advocate of living composers.

Duo Orfeo draws their repertoire largely from hidden and under-explored byways of western musical tradition both past and present—ranging from Renaissance lute and French Baroque harpsichord music to compositions by such modern masters as Arvo Pärt, Federico Mompou and Valentin Silvestrov—an ever-expanding body of music that includes many of their own arrangements of works written for other instruments as well as works written for the ensemble of guitar duo. They play this unique repertoire on classical guitars with an approach inspired by the tradition of Andres Segovia (which they learned from Phillip de Fremery, a guitarist and teacher who studied with Segovia and a true curator of his legacy) and also on vintage electric guitars through tube amplifiers, creating a new sound that is all their own by playing these instruments (normally associated with styles outside of classical music) with the finesse, clarity and focused touch of classical musicians.

Jamie Balmer, guitar
Joseph Ricker, guitar

Levy Lorenzo and Dennis Sullivan (Radical 2) are an irrational, classification-defying duo that explores the intersection of theatric, percussive and electronic mediums. March 1 will feature compositions by Rick Burkhardt, Alexander Schubert, and custom electronics designed by Radical 2.

[rescheduled from February 8 due to snow conditions]

Iktus presents an evening of six solo sets featuring experimental electronic musician Lesley Flanigan and Iktus affiliates Sean Statser, Nick Woodbury, Cory Bracken, Chris Clarino, and Vasu Panicker.

Friday, February 22, 8pm
Outpost Artist Resources, 1665 Norman St, Queens [click here for a map]
$7 admission at the door

Lesley Flanigan is an experimental electronic musician living in New York City. Inspired by the physicality of sound, she builds her own instruments using minimal electronics, microphones and speakers. Performing these instruments alongside traditional instrumentation that often includes her own voice, she creates a kind of physical electronic music that embraces both the transparency and residue of process — sculpting sound from a pallet of noise and subtle imperfections. Her work has been presented at venues and festivals internationally, including Sonar (Barcelona), the Guggenheim Museum (New York), ISSUE Project Room (Brooklyn), The Stone (New York), TransitioMX (Mexico City), CMKY Festival (Boulder), the Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art (Denmark) and .HBC in Berlin.

Iktus Percussion kicks off The Firehouse New Music Series with Cadillac Moon Ensemble, New Morse Code, and Localized Corrosion, a Philippe Hurel quartet featuring members of Iktus+.

Friday, February 1st, 8pm
The Firehouse Space, 246 Frost St, Brooklyn (click here for a map)
$10 admission

Cadillac Moon Ensemble has commissioned and premiered over fifty works from talented, emerging composers. The group’s first full CD was released on the New Dynamic Records label in September 2012, and a release of Zack Browning’s music on Innova Records was released earlier this year. The group was recently featured on John Shaefer’s New Sounds program on WNYC. Described as a “commission-crazed young group” (Time Out NY) “with excellent ensemble awareness and phrasing” (The Examiner), other 2011-2012 season highlights included: a residency at Indiana University Southeast, collaborations with Blind Ear Music and Random Access Music, Rutgers University graduate composers, and seventeen commissions. This season will include performances in Portland, Maine, Baltimore, and New York, with upcoming premieres by Caleb Burhans, Osnat Netser, Alex Weiser, Nicholas Deyoe, Rick Burkhardt, and Daniel Felsenfeld

Patti Kilroy, violin
Roberta Michel, flute
Meaghan Burke, cello
Sean Statser, percussion

New Morse Code is dedicated to enriching contemporary culture by advocating for new expressions in music and art.  New Morse Code strives to present bold, engaging performances of new works while catalyzing collaboration with instrumentalists, actors, dancers, and visual artists. During the 2011-2012 season, New Morse Code worked with composers Paul Kerekes, Robert Honstein, and Andy Akiho on premieres of new works and new arrangements at venues such as 92Y Tribeca, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Dwight Chapel at Yale University. NeMoCo has worked with renowned composers David Lang and Kaija Saariaho on performances of their works and shared the stage with pianist/composers Timo Andres and Paul Kerekes.

Hannah Collins, cello
Michael Compitello, percussion

Members of Iktus+ will present Localized Corrosion, a sophisticated spectralist work of high energy and intensity for chamber quartet by French composer Philippe Hurel. Performers include:

Andrea Lodge, piano
Jay Sorce, electric guitar
Scott Litroff, saxophone
Chris Graham, percussion
Piero Guimaraes, conductor