Past Events

Deep Listening Art/Science

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The first International Conference on Deep Listening

Birdsong and Beyond: The Spectrogram as Score

This presentation explores the nature/spectrogram relationship as a palpable ear-training modality for musicians, birders, and listeners-at-large, framed historically and phenomenologically in the context of bird song.

The marriage of art and science has as one of its myriad beginnings one question, “What bird is that I hear?”  Aristotle, the first person in Western civilization who asked (and answered) that question, also asked, “What is art?”

Ever since, interweaving threads of inquiry, observation, experimentation and creativity on the part of ornithologists, inventors, musicians and an army of dedicated amateur birders continue to ask more questions, seeking whatever insights may come to light.

David Arner’s wall-size spectrogram score for his “Abstract Songs for Birds: American Goldfinch ” will be on display.

Abstract Songs for Birds: American Goldfinch

July 12-14, 2013

Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, NY

Arner at Roulette

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Saturday, March 30, 2013

DAVID ARNER

PAULINE OLIVEROS

DOUG VAN NORT &

FILTER  (Intelligent Software)

 Arner (piano), Oliveros (vox accordion) and Van Nort (electronics)

Interacting with FILTER, the

Freely Improvising, Learning and Transforming Evolutionary Recombination system developed by Van Nort.

Roulette

8:00 pm

509 Atlantic Ave (On the corner of Atlantic & 3rd Ave)
Downtown Brooklyn, New York

From The New Yorker:

“The godmother of American experimentalism (Pauline Oliveros) headlines an evening at the essential Brooklyn center for avant-garde music. Her fellow-travelers in improvisatory electro-acoustic tones include not only the pianist David Arner and the sound artist Doug Van Nort but also a thing called FILTER—the Freely Improvising, Learning, and Transforming Evolutionary Recombination system, a machine that reacts to the work of its human colleagues.”

This electro-acoustic improvising quartet features three humans (piano, accordion synthesizer, greis/electronics) and one machine which reacts to its partners, transforming their sound in a musical dialogue.  This set will feature each of the three possible human-machine duos, followed by the full quartet.

Virgo Rising             Doug Van Nort & FILTER

Nodal Virgo              David Arner & FILTER

Virgo Spirit               Pauline Oliveros & FLITER

Vergo Stellium        Quartet

Axial Music + Drawing

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BEACH BOX: WHITE BOX   SUMMER SERIES

Friday August 31st, 2012

7:00 pm

Axial Music + Drawing
David Arner (keyboard, balafon, slide whistle)
John Beaulieu (keyboard, harmonica)
George Quasha (percussion, visuals)
Charles Stein (voice, harmonica)
An ensemble of outstanding musicianship.  Boundless imagination.
(Must be heard to be believed.)

Axial Music follows a principle of spontaneous composition without the intention of honoring precedent or previous patterns, guided instead by radical following of actual sounds generated. When successful the sound event has a life independent of the musicians and may generate an altered state of listening. In addition to sound events, the performance has visual components, including axial drawing & video.
The White Box
329 Broome Street
Near the Bowery
New York, NY 10002
(212) 714-2347

Double Bill at the STONE

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Sunday, August 26, 2012
DOUBLE BILL at The STONE!!
Not To Be Missed!!
8:00pm
DAVID ARNER (solo piano)
TRANSCENDENTALITIES
Out there with intentionalities, inevitabilities, interactivities, incarnations, indeterminacies, inclinations, inherencies, inventions and intuitions.
10:pm
THE ROSI HERTLEIN TRIO
Rosi Hertlein (violin & voice), David Arner (piano), David Taylor (bass trombone)
Parhelia and other compositions by Rosi Hertlein
August 26th 
$10 admission each set
The Stone (artistic director, John Zorn)
at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street
See directions below
Rosi Hertlein and David Arner began performing together in 2003 in the New Vanguard Series in Kingston, NY.  Their New Vanguard duo performance In the Language of the Dream is available on the Deep Listening label as a digital download at  http://www.deeplistening.org/site/releasesby/Arner as well as elsewhere online.

Rosi Hertlein was a member of Pauline Oliveros’ “New Circle Quintet,” Cecil Taylor’s “With Blazing Eyes and Opened Mouth,” Reggie Workman’s “African-American Legacy Project.”  She played the Vision Festival with Joe McPhee twice, and has also collaborated with Howard Johnson and Jay Rosen.

David Taylor started his playing career as a member of Leopold Stokowski’s American Symphony Orchestra, and also appearing with the New York Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez.  Almost simultaneously, he was a member of the Thad Jones Mel Lewis jazz band, and recorded with Duke Ellington (The New Orleans Suite), The Rolling Stones, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears.  David Taylor and David Arner first played together in 2006. 
David Arner recently performed his “An Invocation fro Hermes Twice Revealed,” for piano and harpsichord at EMPAC in Troy, N.Y. 
His 4-CD boxed set, Spontaneous Suites for Two Pianos (RogueArt) with Connie Crothers has just been released.  The online music journal Point of Departure describes the music as “… parallel journeying… evocative… each return to the music yields a different aural itinerary… comfortable with each other’s biorhythms and sense of space… exuberant… dramatic and physically demanding… introspective and intimate… it’s hard to get used to the idea that this is all spontaneously made rather than organized and in some measure pre-set. What has happened is that the two musicians have constructed a vivid, one-use-only musical language, a singleton rhetoric for duo playing that is entirely self-sustaining. Such a thing ought to be, if not forbidding, then at least exclusive, but there is real and deep pleasure in hearing two musicians of this caliber talking through the arcane and technical matter of their craft.  Revelatory music.“
Directions to The STONE:
The STONE is located exactly on the North-West corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street.  It is an unmarked building except for the door, which has “the stone” printed in small type.  There is a gas station on the corner across the street.
From the Lower East Side – 2nd Avenue station (for the F or V trains), walk North on 2nd Avenue, then Right onto 2nd Street to Avenue C.
OR…  
From the Delancey Street – Essex Street station (for the F, J, M or Z trains), walk North on Avenue A across Houston Street to 2nd Street, then Right onto 2nd Street to Avenue C.

The Rosi Hertlein Trio

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Saturday, July 14th 2012

Music Now! at the Brecht Forum

The Rosi Hertlein Trio

Rosi Hertlein (violin, voice), David Arner (piano), David Taylor (bass trombone)

7:00pm    $10
The Brecht Forum
451 West St. (between Bank St. & Bethune St.)
NYC
212-242-4201
www.brechtforum.orgSee full line-up below
Rosi Hertlein and David Arner began performing together in 2003 in the New Vanguard Series in Kingston, NY.  Their New Vanguard duo performance, In the Language of the Dream, is available on the Deep Listening label as a digital download at  http://www.deeplistening.org/site/releasesby/Arner as well as elsewhere online.

Rosi Hertlein was a member of Pauline Oliveros’ “New Circle Quintet,” Cecil Taylor’s “With Blazing Eyes and Open’d Mouth,” Reggie Workman’s “African-American Legacy Project.”  She played the Vision Festival with Joe McPhee twice, and has also collaborated with Howard Johnson and Jay Rosen.

David Taylor started his playing career as a member of Leopold Stokowski’s American Symphony Orchestra, and also appearing with the New York Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez.  Almost simultaneously, he was a member of the Thad Jones Mel Lewis jazz band, and recorded with Duke Ellington (The New Orleans Suite), The Rolling Stones, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears.  David Taylor and David Arner first played together in 2006. 
David Arner recently performed his “An Invocation fro Hermes Twice Revealed,” for piano and harpsichord at EMPAC in Troy, N.Y.  His 4-CD boxed set, Spontaneous Suites for Two Pianos (RogueArt) with Connie Crothers has just been released.  The British online music journal Point of Departure describes the music as “… parallel journeying… evocative… each return to the music yields a different aural itinerary… comfortable with each other’s biorhythms and sense of space… exuberant… dramatic and physically demanding… introspective and intimate… it’s hard to get used to the idea that this is all spontaneously made rather than organized and in some measure pre-set. What has happened is that the two musicians have constructed a vivid, one-use-only musical language, a singleton rhetoric for duo playing that is entirely self-sustaining. Such a thing ought to be, if not forbidding, then at least exclusive, but there is real and deep pleasure in hearing two musicians of this caliber talking through the arcane and technical matter of their craft.  Revelatory music.“
6pm   Ken Filiano-Andrea Wolper-Erika Dagnino
7pm   Rosi Hertlein Trio with David Arner & David Taylor
8pm   Music Now! with Ras Moshe & friends
9pm   James Brandon Lewis-Greg Loewer

Arner at EMPAC

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But A Rumor to Me

Tuesday May 1st, 2012

DAVID ARNER

piano and harpsichord

 

An Invocation of Hermes Twice Revealed

David Arner (piano, harpsichord, narration)

Namely, a cryptic improvisational score based on a chorale for the Earthling (implied but not revealed) for solo piano once and then for harpsichord  exploring yet also re-contextualizing in the manner of Hermetic mythos the synchronicities, spontaneities and evolutions inherent or otherwise informed by both the inevitabilities of the circumstances and the whim of the trickster.

(Or to put it differently, two performances of the same piece that won’t sound the same, separated by an intermission.)

Text adapted from the Homeric Hymn to Hermes translated by long-time collaborator Charles Stein.

 

EMPAC

The Curtis R. Priam Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

8th St. & College Ave., Troy NY, 12180

8:00 pm

Admission Free   Parking Free

This performance is sponsored by IEar Presents, part of the ARTS Department at Rensselaer

Evelyn’s Cafe at EMPAC will be open prior to this performance for lite fare.

 

DUETS: CONNIE CROTHERS & DAVID ARNER

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Sunday Afternoon February 26, 2012
3:00pm

DUETS: CONNIE CROTHERS & DAVID ARNER

2 Pianos, 2 Pianists

Celebrating the release of their monumental 4-CD boxed set:

Spontaneous Suites for Two Pianos (on the RogueArt label)

Copies will be available for sale

The Firehouse Space

246 Frost Street

Brooklyn, NY 11211

In Williamsburg.  Take the L to Graham Ave.

http://www.thefirehousespace.org/

$10

Hertlein & Arner in The Evolving Voice Series

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January 30, 2012

The Vision Festival’s Evolving Voice/Evolving Music
String Things

3 sets

7:30  Rosie Hertlein Trio
Rosie Hertlein – violin, voice
David Arner – piano
Dave Taylor – trombone

8:45   Macroscopia
Daniel Carter – sax
Claire de Brunner – bassoon
Ken Silverman – guitar
Tom Zlabinger – bass

10:00   Juan Pablo Carletti Trio
Michael Attias – alto & bari sax
Daniel Levin – cello
Juan Pablo Carletti – percussion

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
107 Suffolk Street
New York, NY 10002
$11 for one set.  Stay for the whole night for $22.  Student and senior discounts available.
http://www.visionfestival.org/schedule/evolving-voice