Sight/Sound Calendar (where there will be beats)
July 27th: /Beats
A night of electronic madness in Grand Rapids featuring the music of Dan , Frank Nawrot, Nate Bliton and Matthew Finch. More details coming soon. /dan
July 15-August 4: Bang on a Can Summer Festival @ MASS MoCA
Adam goes to Banglewood! What will it sound like? /adam
November @ La MaMa ETC: Pioneers Go East Collective premieres Maria Celesta: Letters to Galileo
Adam is back with PGEC for a new technologically-charged opera-theatre piece. Directed by Gian Marco Lo Forte. Details soon. /adam
November: Electronic Trumpet Concerto
Commissioned by John Adler, professor of trumpet at UNC, we’ll hear a new collaboration which will feature live processing, jazz, improvisation, and sick beats. Details soon. /adam
Past Performances (where there were beats)
April 5 @ The Secret Theatre, Long Island City, Queens: Quiet City Music
Adam Cuthbért jams with Quiet City on a bill of NYC Composers and Performers. /adam
March 5 @ Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI: The Community Collection
Dan joins a bill of rising Grand Rapids musicians from all genres, performing new solo versions of Awash and Detroit: City on the Move. /dan
March 27-29 @ Winchester Art Forum, Winchester, VA: Sight/Sound workshops and performances
2 shows, and more events of brand new electronic chamber music by Adam and Dan. Hosted by Greg Brown of Shenandoah University. /adam /dan
February 28-March 3 @ The Incubator Arts Project: PGEC presents 7AM: di Mattina
4 nights only; the next evening-length production from Pioneers Go East Collective. Details coming soon. Tickets here. /adam
January 28 @ Union Colony Civic Center, Greely, CO: John Adler, trumpet
University of Northern Colorado professor John Adler blows down Rikai (trumpet + electronics) on a recital of trumpet music old and new. /adam
January 24 @ Radford University, Radford, VA: Amphion Percussion
Amphion Percussion joins Rob Sanderl at Radford University to smash some more electronics in Rupture (percussion trio + electronics). Bring safety goggles. /adam
December 15-16, 2012 @10:00pm/5:30pm, The Club @ La MaMa: Christmas in Nickyland
Nicky Paraiso is the master of ceremonies for the ultimate holiday cabaret, in our intimate 99-seat cabaret space, The Club at La MaMa. Each night there will be a holy host of characters singing, dancing, gender-bending, and merry making, all to get you into the East Village spirit of the season. Tickets here. /adam
November 15 – December 2, 2012 @5:30pm/8:00pm, La MaMa Galleria: S16 Luna Nera
Pioneers Go East Collective presents the full installment of S16 Luna Nera (Black Moon) in a three week installation, featuring 13 performances at La Galleria @ La MaMa in the East Village, NYC. /adam
November 15 – December 2, 2012 @5:30pm/8:00pm, La MaMa Galleria: The Displacement Series
Members of the Pioneers Go East Collective present concurrent works after each night’s performance of S16 Luna Nera. Each is produced and directed by a different member or team within the collective. Adam will present a new electronic work featuring Rebecca Hudelson (clarinet) and Ashley Winland (soprano), as well as collaborative projects with choreographer/dancer Maura Donohue and actor/director Xavier Reminick. /adam
November 13th, 2012, Allendale, MI: GVSUNME Presents David Lang Days
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang visits Grand Valley for a few days and the GVSUNME plays his music. Daniel Rhode is featured playing euphonious brass sounds and some guitar. /dan
November 5, 2012 @ 7:00pm, The Asia Society, New York, NY: Performing Debates
Just in time for election day, Adam Cuthbért and Maura Donohue bring back their duo of music and motion, this time with a political charge as they join the lineup in The Asia Society’s Performing Debates program. Details and tickets here. /adam
October 24, 2012 @ 12:00pm, Cook DeWitt Center, Allendale, MI: CelloFest.
World premiere of Daniel Rhode’s new work, Opaque Projector for amplified and processed cello ensemble. The new work will feature the talents of Leah Hagel from the Music Institute of Lexington, Kentucky; Carl Donakowski from James Madison University; GVSU’s own Pablo Mahave-Veglia and Lee Copenhaver; and soloist Ian Maksin. /dan
October 13, 2012 @ 1:00pm, Sherman Van Solkema Hall, Allendale, MI: Ashley Stanley Flute Recital
Daniel Rhode premieres a live video realization of Luciano Berio‘s Sequenza for Flute. /dan
October 11, 2012 @ 8:00pm, Brooklyn, NY: Adam Cuthbért & Levy Lorenzo
Part of Michael Lowenstern’s Electronica @ The Firehouse series, Adam plays a night a new electronic music with electronic musician and instrument builder Levy Lorenzo. /adam
September 15, 2012 @ 8:00pm, Newport News, VA: Amphion Percussion
Amphion Percussion joins Dr. Annie Stevens at Christopher Newport University for the Virginia premiere of Adam’s Rupture, the hard-hitting, printer-smashing piece originally premiered @ sight\sound2.0, featured on a program of music by Ligeti, Reich, Mazzoli, and Radiohead. /adam
September 15, 2012 @ 10:00pm, Detroit, MI: New Music Detroit Marathon
September 15th, 2012: The midwest new music powerhouse Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble performs Adam’s arrangements of In C Remixed on New Music Detroit‘s fall marathon concert. /adam
August 26 @ 5:30pm, Chicago, IL: John Luther Adams’ Inuksuit
Adam and Dan will join 97 percussionists from around the country in Chicago’s Millenium Park to play John Luther Adams’ natural-spatial masterpiece of conch shells, airhorns, sirens, gongs, maracas, drums, cymbals, and glockenspiels. More information here. /adam /dan
August 9-11, 2012 @ 5pm, New York, NY: Alli Uccelli e Al Lupo
Pioneers Go East Collective presents a new installation with soundtrack and videography by Adam. Presented at Chashama 461 gallery at 461 West 126th St. /adam
July 12, 2012 @ 2pm, London, Amsterdam, Allendale: Bodies in Motion
2012 London Cultural Olympiad presents Bodies in Motion, featuring Adam and Dan’s commission, several rooms away from their source for symphony orchestra and iPads
Simulcasted from Allendale MI, USA, London, UK, and The Hague, Netherlands /adam /dan
April 26, 2012 @ 9pm, Allendale, MI: Sight/Sound 6
Sight/Sound is back for it’s sixth installment, bringing another block of mind-expanding fight-the-power music to Grand Valley State University’s Club 1515. The chameleonic Sight/Sound house ensemble & (ampersand) takes the center stage with their fusion of post rock and chamber music, while Adam and Dan unleash their newest wave of apocalyptic/intimate/subterranean sounds. Featuring solo cello, poetry, digital violin, video games, iPad improvisations, pipe wrenches, and an abandoned suitcase of cassette tapes in a slew of world-wrecking sensory stimulations. /adam /dan
May 11-13, 2012 @ 6pm, The Club @ La MaMa ETC: present.tense(progressive)
present.tense(progressive) is a “solo” work conceived, scored and performed by Maura Nguyen Donohue in collaboration with sound composer Adam Cuthbert and movement composer Aretha Aoki. Inspired by Yvonne Meier’s score-based work, “present.tense (progressive)” is an examination of immediacy in exchange and response systems between 3 artists on stage. Each night, Donohue, in movement, and Cuthbert, in sound, will enact selections from a range of movement scores and sound arrangements that Aoki will determine (nightly) and declare in a contest of authorship. “present.tense (progressive)” considers evolving states of being within rapidly changing categories of ongoing movement that result in a collaborative creation out of autonomous actions. Every night will be different. /adam
April 6-8 2012 @ 10pm, The Club @ La MaMa ETC: S16 Luna Nera – Part 1
Pioneers Go East Collective presents the first half of S16 Luna Nera (Black Moon) for three nights, at The Club @ La MaMa ETC in the East Village. /adam
