Past Events

Marathon of Dreamers

Ione’s 16th Annual Dream Festival

5:oo pm, Saturday, October 1, 2011

David Arner’s

Bell Dream

For 18 audience members (plus Arner)  playing various bells following simple instructions.

Scored for 4 small brass bells, 4 medium brass bells, large shepard’s bell, 6 bell strings, 33-bell sleigh bells, 5-bell sleigh bells and glass bell.

 

The Vision Festival XV

It happens on the Lower East Side (NYC)…

It happens once a year…

It gets bigger every year…

It features some of the most adventurous and important jazz musicians of our time…

It attracts an audience from around the world…

It lasts 11 days…

It takes place at the Abrons Arts Center plus…

… 6 other locations, inside and out…

It is a festival of music with dance, poetry, visual art and video..

It is not to be missed.

VISION FESTIVAL XV

June 20th-30th, 2010

http://www.visionfestival.org/schedule/vision15

 

Among other things, it happens to include a stellar line-up of great pianists; including, Muhal Richard Abrams, David Arner, Dave Burrell, Marilyn Crispell, Connie Crothers and Mathew Shipp.

 

David Arner performs at the Vision Festival on:

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

at:

3:00pm

with:

The Lorenzo Sanguedolce Quartet

Lorenzo Sanguedolce (tenor sax)

David Arner (piano)

Francois Grillot (contrabass)

Todd Capp (drums)

at:

The Abrons Arts Center

at the Henry Street Settlement

466 Grand Street (at the corner of Pitt Street)

New York‘s Lower East Side

Admission for the whole day: $25/$20 for seniors and students 

(212) 598-0400

For directions, http://www.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AAC_abt_directions

 

ABOUT THE LORENZO SANGUEDOLCE QUARTET

 

This is an engrossing and uninhibited ensemble of accomplished improvisors spanning 4 generations of jazz.   All compositions are spontaneous collective improvisations noted for their free spirit as well as their intuitive cohesiveness.

 

Lorenzo Sanguedolce is a Brooklyn-based jazz improviser who is one of the most original voices of the younger generation tenor sax players on the Downtown NY scene today.  His debut album, Live at the Yippie, with bassist Michael Bisio was released on NoBusiness Records in November 2009.  He has also performed and/or recorded with Connie Crothers (p), John Zorn (as), Ken Filiano (b), Ratzo Harris (b), Carol Liebowitz (p), Kazzrie Jaxen (p), Andy Fite (g), Adam Lane (b), Nick Lyons (as), Adam Caine (g), John Wagner (d), Walter Thompson (soundpainting) and Jose Conde (voc).   www.lozosax.com

 

Recently David Arner was a featured pianist at the Whitney Museum’s showings of the silent films by the pioneering Alice Guy Blache.

Drummer Todd Capp was a mainstay of the Downtown music scene in NYC in the 1970’s, then ran a downtown art gallery for many years, and is now back on the music scene in full force.  His 1978 performance of his Improvising Orchestra at the Tanglewood Gallery Downtown, which was released on the Lucky Tiger label, is a classic today.  Players included Ray Anderson (trombone), William Parker (bass) and Rashid Bakr (drums).  Todd has also recorded with Gerry Hemingway (drums), Mark Dresser (bass), Reuben Radding (bass), Joe Giardullo (woodwinds), Steve Gauchi (Sax), Daniel Carter (Sax), Ras Moshe (sax) and Matt Lavelle (trumpet).

Contrabass player François Grillot has played at the jazz festivals of Nimes, Montreal, Barcelone, Palace and Fete de L’Huma in Paris, Rome and Milan.  In New York he has performed at Birdland, Lenox Lounge, SOB’s, The Stone, Augies, 55 Bar, Knitting Factory, Bowery Poetry Club, Barbes, Brecht Forum, Zebulon, Tonic, Viziones and CB’s Gallery.         Francois has performed with Harold Danko, Gunter Humpel, Daniel Carter, Matt Maneri, Roy Campbell, Burton Greene, Charles Gayle, Sabir Mateen, Daniel Levin, Jay Rosen and Robert Dick.

His recordings include:

2 albums on Dark Sun Records with Ed Russell in the 90’s

Dom Minasi’s Vampire’s Revenge

Matt Lavelle’s Handling the Moment (CIMP), Trumpet Rising and The Manifestation Drama

Chris Kelsey’s Renewal, Wishing You Were Here, and The Crookedest Straight Line, Volumes 1 & 2 (CIMP)

Earth People of Andre Matrinez’s Waking the Living, Simple…isn’t it!, Sky Reader, Now is Rising and Bang!

Ras Moshe’s Live Spirits Vol. 4

Thomas Reuben Group’s In Tongues and Levitation (ELM)

Michael Marcus’ The Magic Door (Not Two)

 

Arner at the Whitney – Part 3

Alice Guy Blache – Part 3

Sunday January 24, 2010

2:00pm

10 Classic Short Films of Alice Guy Blache – Cinema Pioneer

Live Music by DAVID ARNER

Dance of the Seville Gypsies (1905) 2:16

Dog Playing Ball (1905) 1:24

The Charity of the Magician (1905) 3:25

The High Cost of Living (1912) 13:00

First Class Nun (1902) 4:00

A Man’s a Man (1912) 9:02

The Sewer (1912) 23:18

The Child of the Barricade (1907) 4:39

The Gamekeeper’s Son (1906) 5:07

Goodnight – The Flower Fairy (1905) 00:46

 The Whitney Museum of Art

Madison Avenue and 75th St.

New York City

(212) 570-3600

 Why you should come to this performance:

1. These are films about gypsy dancing, dogs, a magician, the working class, labor battles, antisemitism, the sewers, the Paris Commune, humanity in the midst of strife, and/or existentialism.   This broad palette of visual and dramatic expression is perfect for Arner’s equally diverse and eclectic musical palette.

2. Just as Alice Guy Blache was exploring the possibilities of the camera, so has David Arner been exploring the possibilities of live film music as an active part of the story at hand.

3. These films are hilarious, thoughtful, poignant, riveting, irreverent, and/or compassionate.   All in the course of one hour!

4. This is the very last day of the Alice Guy Blache exhibition at the Whitney– a show not to be missed.

 

For more info about the exhibition go to

http://www.whitney.org/file_columns/0001/0459/aliceguyblache_press_release.pdf

Arner at the Whitney – Part 2

5 Classic Short Films of Alice Guy Blache – Cinema Pioneer

Sunday December 27, 2009

2:00pm

Live Music by DAVID ARNER

The Floor Polisher (1907) 3:32

The Volunteer’s Fiancee (1907) 7:00

The Recalcitrant Donkey (1906) 5:00

The Beasts of the Jungle (1913) 31:36

The Life of Christ (1906) 33:23

 

The Whitney Museum
Madison Avenue and 75th St.
New York City
(212) 570-3600

Why you should come to this performance:

1.  If you missed Arner at the Whitney last month, here is your second chance.  There will be only one more in this series, on Sunday January 24.
2.  Alice Guy’s The Life of Christ features 25 elaborate sets and 300 extras, packed into a 33-minute epic (a long film for 1906).
3. The whole show will be about an hour.
4.  It’s at the Whitney.  Always worth a visit.

Arner at the Whitney – Part 1

Alice Guy Blache – Part 1

Sunday November 15, 2009

2:00pm
8 Classic Short Films of Alice Guy Blanche – Cinema Pioneer
Live Music by DAVID ARNER

The Stepmother (1906) 6:38

The Sticky Woman (1906) 2:22

The Results of Feminism (1906) 7:00

A Four-year-old Heroine (1907) 8:18

The Making of an American Citizen (1912) 15:53

For Love of the Flag (1912) 13:40

The Thief (1913) 16:37

New Love and the Old (1912) 4:50

The Whitney Museum of Art

Madison Avenue and 75th St.
New York City
(212) 570-3600
For more info about the exhibition go to

Why you should come to this performance:

1.  Arner is a pioneer in the re-vitalization of silent film music.  Alice Guy Blanche is a pioneer in making films, period.  Some of these films are from 1906.
2.   Arner’s favorite short being screened, The Sticky Woman (a kind of Dadaist-slapstick piece), is only 2 minutes and 20 seconds.  The longest one is only 17 minutes.
3.  For the 1st time in more than 20 years, Arner will be performing on an electronic keyboard!!  (Actually it’s the second time.  A month ago Arner covered a restaurant gig for the great pianist Nina Sheldon, which was on a  keyboard, and it suddenly became strangely interesting to him.)
4.  If you live in the city, it’s easier than going Upstate Films.
5.  It’s at the Whitney.  Always worth a visit.  Check out the other exhibitions before or after the films.
“His [Arner’s] process will transfix and awe”  (Cadence Magazine)
“Emphatic yet empathetic”  (Signal To Noise)

The David Arner Trio: Porgy/Bess

The DAVID ARNER TRIO

Excerpts from Arner’s all new

PORGY/BESS SUITE

Sep 27, 2007
8:00 pm
Alternative Books

It’s been 5 months but we’re back at ALTERNATIVE BOOKS

DAVID ARNER piano
MICHAEL BISIO bass
JAY ROSEN drums

The David Arner Trio performs music of the moment.

Free, open, expansive, unpredictable, lyrical, driving, sensitive, daring, evocative, fun, virtuosic, thundering, whispering, creative musical interactions,
Creating…
Whispering, thundering, virtuosic, fun, evocative, daring, sensitive, lyrical, unpredictable, expansive, open and free music.

Thursday, September 27 2007

8pm

35 North Front Street, Kingston, NY

Suggested Donation $10

This is a special ONE TIME ONLY performance.

Deep Listening Convergence

3 Days of Performances at the Lifebridge Sanctuary June 8-10 2007

Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale NY
Sunday June 10 2007
3:00pm
Deep Listening Convergence at
Lifebridge Sanctuary
333 Mountain Rd.
Rosendale NY
(845) 338-6418

New works and collaborations with David Arner, Monique Buzzarte, Renko Dempster, Pauline Oliveros, Susie Ibarra, Scott Gresham-Lancaster, Vonn New, Kristen Nordival, Roberto Rodriquez, Katharina von Rutte, Gayle Young.

Including David Arner’s
“Abstract Songs of Birds for Harpsichord, Accordion & Percussion”
With David Arner (harpsichord), Pauline Oliveros (accordion) & Susie Ibarra (percussion)

This is David Arner’s premier performance on the Harpsichord

Arner is also performing in compositions by Roberto Rodriquez and Scott Gresham-Lancaster