FAST>>FORWARD>>AUSTIN - Contemporary Music Festival 2011 [April 9]
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
contemporary music and arts festival
This is an event open to the general public put on by Fast Forward Austin, presenting 8 hours of cutting-edge, genre-bending music from Austin’s most innovative artists with featured performances by Aeolus String Quartet, Line Upon Line Percussion, Austin New Music Co-op, and Bel Cuore Sax Quartet. Additional performances by Steve Parker, Mongoose, Tim Doyle, and Rosalyn Nasky.
SATURDAY >> APRIL 9, 2011
2 TO 10PM
Space 12 : 3121 E 12th Street : Austin, TX
FEATURING
Aeolus String Quartet : Line Upon Line
Bel Cuore Sax Quartet : New Music Co-Op
TICKETS
$10-$20 : proceeds benefit Anthropos Art
SCHEDULE:
2:00 Tim Doyle
a collective gathering of stringed instruments present a set of uniquely improvised compositions
2:30 Line Upon Line
the hard-driving, wildly adventurous percussion trio plays a set featuring newly commissioned works
3:30 Steve Parker
trombone like you’ve never heard it before
4:00 Bel Cuore
the barn-burning, precision unit of wizard saxophonists give a concert chock full of innovative works
5:30 Mongoose
this unconventional improv collective is part music, part theater, part performance art and all ridiculous
6:30 Aeolus String Quartet
visceral new music for strings, including a special performance of Dan Visconti’s Black Bend
(winner of Fast Forward Austin’s 2011 international call for scores)
7:30 Butoh
Vivid and surreal form of dance rooted in the modern Japanese tradition. Performed by Ellen Bartel and Mari Akita with live soundscapes by Adam Sultan
8:00 Austin New Music Coop
the passionately inventive group presents a rare performance of Arnold Dreyblatt’s monumental, large-scale minimalist score Kinship Collapse
9:00 In C
Terry Riley’s seminal work featuring students of Anthropos Arts
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