Category: Music

  • Auto-Tune

    Sasha Frere-Jones’ has an interesting piece on Auto-Tune, the pitch-correction software used in music recordings, in this week’s New Yorker. And he also demonstrates the software (with his own voice, covering Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone”) on NewYorker.com.

  • Down In The Delta, in BKLYN

    By the way, if you haven’t heard about this yet, you should definitely check out 651 Arts upcoming festival The Mississippi Delta Heritage Project which has tons of great events and performances going on in BKLYN from May 28 to June 7. (They actually had an event in early May, but I spaced. Sorry!) Personally…

  • Ancient Songs of South Africa: Ngqoko Cultural Group

      If you have never been to the Skirball Center for Performing Arts, keep an eye out for anything presented there by the World Music Institute! Last night, an ensemble of 6 women and 1 man offered an exciting and rare experience of traditional music and singing from the rural Xhosa communities of South Africa.…

  • Balkan BBQ

    This looks good: Ansambl Mastika with the Black Sea Hotel at Rose Live Music for a Memorial Day Balkan BBQ. Who:  Ansambl Mastika and the Black Sea Hotel What:  A Memorial Day Balkan BBQ When: Saturday May 24th, 4 pm – 8 pm Where: Rose Live Music, 345 Grand at Havemeyer & Marcy, Williamsburg How…

  • they promise they won’t be d-bags

    So  a while back I posted about this new venue Le Poisson Rouge that is set to open soon and I said that it  looks like it could be cool, depending on whether they got all velvet-rope-y, etc. Well, they sent me an email saying they were definitely NOT going to be like that, that…

  • JOSHUA LIGHT SHOW RESIDENCY at ISSUE PROJECT ROOM, MAY 28-31

    Turn on. Tune In. Drop Out. And back In. And out. And In…. Wednesday, May 28 ALL-STAR EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVISATION Ikue Mori (electronics), Zeena Parkins (electric harp), Lee Ranaldo (electric guitar) and Marina Rosenfeld (electronics), 8pm Thursday, May 29 NORTH INDIAN RAGA and TALA (co-presented by Chhandayan) Pandit Samir Chatterjee (tabla) and K.V. Mahabala (sitar), 8…

  • Experimental Music at The Incubator

    Experimental Music at The Ontological curated by Travis Just Christian Kesten composer portrait concert Friday, March 28, 10pm, $5 Program: The Suite (2008) based on: zonder titel (schuif en ruis) (2007) | cypress park (2007) | dodger stadium (2007) | zunge lösen (1999/2002) | pa studieförbundet (2000/2006) viola, guitar/electronics, voice, saxophone/clarinet, trombone, electric guitar/percussion, audio…

  • make music new york

    On June 21st, the first day of summer, NYC will join 300 other international cities in turning public spaces into musical stages. Its your turn to join in! The City of New York is waiving its permitting fees for sidewalk performances encouraging hundreds of artists, professional and amateur, to come out and perform. Any performance…

  • ICETank this Wednesday

    This Just In: Don’t miss Phyllis Chen, ICE‘s extraordinary toy pianist (and the Concert Artists Guild’s 2007 New Music/New Places Fellow) at ICETank this Wednesday, February 6 at 7:30 pm. She’ll be playing various toy pianos, laptops, bowls, eggs, frying pans, stuffed bunnies, live electronics and more. Music by Julia Wolfe, Andrian Pertout, Karlheinz Essl…

  • Go North

    We went to LaMama late Saturday night to see North and lemme tell ya, that Heather Christian is something else. And I mean that in a good way. Every once in a while you see someone perform and you’re like, “Yep. This one’s gonna take off.” She’s one of them. Her theatrical influences are obvious…

  • north at lamama

    We got an email about a show called North by Heather Christian. As I recall she did some lovely singing in Big Dance Theater’s The Other Here.  I don’t know much more about the show but it looks interesting. Here’s what the press release says: In North, Heather Christian and her kitchen sink orchestra ‘The…

  • Suicide For Xmas!

    This just in from Blake Zidell: THE TIGER LILLIES RETURN TO ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE WITH SUICIDE FOR CHRISTMAS Punk Cabaret Band to Perform Depraved Holiday Music December 13, 14, 15 at 8:00 P.M. What: St. Ann¹s Warehouse presents The Tiger Lillies Suicide for Christmas Where: St. Ann¹s Warehouse, 38 Water Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn When: December…