January 12, 2024 - concert for GRM Live Electronics 2024, LE CENTQUATRE-PARIS 5 Rue Curial, Paris, 8:30 PM
January 14, 2024 FINISSAGE CAGE • CURRAN • Kunsthaus der Achim Freyer Stiftung, Kadettenweg 53, 12205 Berlin, Germany
photo Arnold Dreyblatt
March 9, 2024 - Closing concert for Hear Alvin Here, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Via Nizza 138, Rome, 7:00 PM
photo Vasco Forconi
March 23, 2024 - Solo concert, Gisela Capitain Gallery, C.A.S.A - Palazzo Degas, Calata Trinità Maggiore, Piazza del Gesù Nuovo, 53, Naples, 8:00 PM
May 2, 2024 - two-piano performance, Era Ora with Daan Vandewalle, Ha Concerts, Kouter 29, Gent, Belgium, 8:15 PM, €12 - €28
May 3, 2024 - two-piano performance, Era Ora with Daan Vandewalle, Lunalia Festival, kunstencentrum nona, oude zaal, Mechelen, Belgium - 8:30 pm
June 1-9, 2024 - Footnotes 1.2 installation at the Munich Biennale Musik, FAT CAT Glashalle, Haupteingang / Rosenheimer Str. 5, Munich, installation open to the public 8 AM to 11 PM, free entry, with five live trumpet performances by Marco Blauuw
February 24, 2023 - Concert, A letter to Giacinto Scelsi, with students from the Bern Arts Academy, Swiss Institute, Via Liguria 20, Rome, 6 pm
April 29, 2023 - concert with Marcus Schmickler, The Rhine Meets the Tiber on the Hudson, Gallerie Gisela Capitain III, Palazzo Degas, Calata Trinità Maggiore, 53, Naples, 7.30 pm
photo Hanna Hartman
May 2-7, 2023 - Trisha Brown Dance Company spring program featuring Curran compositions For M.G.: The Movie " (1991 ) and "Rogues " (2011), The Joyce Theatre, 175 8th Ave, New York
photo Steven Pisano
May 24-29, 2023 - Workshop and performance Cuneo, for Città in Note: La Musica dei Luoghi.
June 17, 2023 - Performance for Art Basel, Messeplatz,
2:30 pm
July 15, 2023 - Solo Concert of film music: "Play It Again Sam" for the Marienbad Film Festival 2023, Marienbad spa, Mariánské Lazne, Czech Republic
- 5:30 pm
August 31, 2023 - Premiere of Na Rosetta for orchestra and basketball players, Ostrava New Orchestra conducted by Petr Kotik, Ostrava Days - Ostrava, Czech Republic
November 2, 2023 - Solo performance, Festival of Endless Gratitude, Copenhagen
November 17, 2023 - Inauguration of the "Una Voce Poco Fa" sound installation for the Fantasmagoria Callas exhibit on the centenary of Maria Callas, Museum of La Scala, Largo Antonio Ghiringhelli, 1, Milano , up until at September 16, 2024.
December 13, 2023 - Premiere of Flipped Out Jive Ass Ear Candy by Daan Vandewalle , Nicholas Isherwood
, and the Piccolo Coro Angelico - for AngelicA, Teatro San Leonardo, Via San Vitale 63, Bologna, 7:30 pm
February 2, 2022 - Lecture and solo concert, MIRY Concertzaal, Biezekapelstraat 9, Ghent, Belgium, 9.30 pm
- among Best Concerts of the Year for Jeroen Stevens
February 22, 2022, Shofar performance at the inauguration of SOLO SUONO audio archive
March 18, 2022 - Signage: conduction of IATO orchestra, Angelo Mai, Via delle Terme di Caracalla 55/a, Rome, 9.30 pm
April 22, 2022 - Premiere of "Shofar Per Tre" for Electric Shofar (AC), Harp (Zeena Parkins) and Percussion (William Winant), Music in the Fault Zone Festival - Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, 8 pm - video of entire concert - Curran piece starts at 64'30"
May 17, 2022 - Solo concert "Penultimi Pensieri" for the Satierose festival, Teatro Miela Bonawentura, Piazza Duca degli Abruzzi, 3 - Trieste, 9 pm
May 24-28, 2022- Residency at Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, UK
Exhibition: When There Is No More Music To Write, with Eric Baudelaire, curated in collaboration with Maxime Guitton, running through September 18
Screenings of Eric Baudelaire's video When There Is No More Music To Write, and other Roman Stories Era Ora 1982–2018 installation for suspended Yamaha Disklavier piano and digital file
May 25-27 - Improv workshop
May 27 -
Performance of Beams
(video)
photos Max McClure
June 14, 2022 - Community Garden performance with Walter Prati for the Tempo Reale Festival 2022 - Piazzale del Torrino – Parco di Villa Strozzi, Via Pisana 77, Florence, 9 pm
June 21, 2022 - Concert for Ephemera In Vigna Festival: sound performance for synthesizer, vinyard, and sunset, Vigne Museum - via Eufemio IV , Manzano (UD) -8 pm
photos Luigi Vitale
July 6-9, 2022 - Superspectives Festival
July 7 - Daan Vandewalle performing piano solo and in two-piano duo, ERA ORA ,with AC - Maison de Lorette, 42 Montée Saint-Barthélémy, Lyons, 8.30
July 8 - Curran Solo concert, preceded by screening of Where There Is No More Music To Write - Maison de Lorette, 8.30 pm
August 19, 2022 - First broadcast of Achim Freyer Trifft Don Giovanni am Checkpoint Charlie (Achim Freyer Meets Don Giovanni at Checkpoint Charlie), a radio work for Deutschlandradio, 41:25; listen or download.
September 26, 2022 - preview of Mario Canale's documentary Era Roma about art in Rome 1963-1979, Cinema Farnese Campo de’ Fiori 56, 9.00 pm
November 14, 2022 - Footnotes sound installation for the Pierpaolo Pasolini centenary exhibition, Tutto è Santo: Il Corpo Politico, National Museum of 21st Century Art (MAXXI), Via Guido Reni, 4a, Rome, through May 28, 2023, video excerpt
November 19, 2022 - first screening of “Canti Illuminati” with complete soundtrack, for Scena Spazio Cinema's Aggettivo donna: Il cinema di Annabella Miscuglio, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Via Tuscolana 1520, Rome
November 20, 2022 - Performance at memorial concert for Roberto Masotti, Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna, 6:00 pm
Roberto Masotti, photographer unknown
November 25, 2022 - Solo concert, Venice Biennale Swiss Finissage event, Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, 7:30 pm
December 16, 2022 - Workshop, Mannes School of Music, New York
December 20, 2022 - Performances at memorial concert for Richard Teitelbaum, Roulette, Brooklyn, 8:00 pm
August 20, 2021 performance of Era Ora (On Wheels) with Daan Vandewalle and the Coal Mine Band Stonava, Ostrava Days Festival, Masaryk Square, Ostrava, 5.00 pm
photos Miya Masaoka
August 22, 2021 presentation, Ostrava
August 27 to September 5, 2021 Installation for the sound art festival IL SUONO IN MOSTRA 2021: The Gong Tree Of Life, Pieve di Santa Maria di Castello Udine, daily 10 am to 7 pm
photo Lara Carrer
September 27 to October 1, 2021 Workshop and concerts at the Scuola di Musica Elettronica at the Turin Conservatory
October 8, 2021 Solo concert, Skanu Meza Festival, Riga
October 15, 2021 Duo concert with Walter Prati: Community Garden, for Parade Électronique 2021, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano - 8.30 pm
November 19-27, 2021 Sound installation, Daven Mir Dos, for the Eufonie Festival, Centrum Kreatywnosci Targowa, Targowa 56, Warsaw
January 28, 2020 - premiere of Missteps: About Five of Them - Bang On a Can Allstars' Ecstatic Music concert. Merkin Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York- 7.30 pm
January 31, 2020 - Shofar Rags XXL, solo concert. Roulette - 509 Atlantic Avenue (Corner of Third Avenue), Brooklyn - 8 pm
February 5, 2020 - workshop at Mannes School of Music
February 23, 2020 - Endangered Species solo performance for the Percorsi Jazz Festival. Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, Sala Accademica, Via dei Greci 18, Rome - 6.00 pm, free entry
February 24, 2020 - Music Outside the Concert Hall/Signage - a conduction: Masterclass for the Percorsi Jazz Festival. Casa del Jazz, Viale di Porta Ardeatina 55, Rome, 10 am to 1 pm €15 (free for Conservatory students) - reserve at educational@musicaperroma.it
March 7, 2020 - house concert, North Berkeley, CA- for information and reservations write to Harry Bernstein, harry@fullplatemedia.com
[April 24, 2020 - When There’s No More Music to Write, joint exhibition with artist and filmmaker Eric Baudelaire, curated in collaboration with music historian Maxime Guitton, Spike Island, Bristol, UK - postponed due to pandemic]
[April 30, 2020 - concert with Jon Rose: Ausland, Berlin - postponed due to pandemic]
May 10, 2020 - solo concert at home, live on the internet (and posted permanently), for Tonspur Kunstverein Wien - 10 am Pacific Time
May 16, 2020 - performs Satie's Vexations, the first of 124 pianists participating in the Satiepandemie project - 3 pm Pacific Time
[June 18-22, 2020 - workshop with students - opening concert and keynote speech, conference on computer music, Turin - postponed due to pandemic]
May, 2020 - premiere of The Glove, a video by Eric Baudelaire
September 25, 2020, inauguration of the permanent site-specific installation Gardening With John at the Cage-Haus, monastery, Halberstadt, next to the site of Cage’s Organ Project ORGAN2/ASLSP
photo Ronald Göttel
October 31, 2020 - inauguration of the permanent site-specific installation Gardening With John 1.3, for Zerynthia/RadioArteMobile at NoMansLand in Loreto Aprutino, Italy. Video intro. English-language interview with Karolina Liusikova.
[October 17-25, 2020 - workshop and performances, Ryderup Festival, Denmark - postponed due to pandemic]
[November 7-15 - Hic Et Nunc, theater piece by Muta Imago, Teatro India, Rome - postponed due to pandemic]
December 4, 2020 - Solo concert, The Containment Etudes, for ArteScienza, performed at Rome's Auditorium and streamed live on Facebook - 7.00 pm- posted permanently on Facebook
Pian de Pian Piano, inaugurated July 8, 2017, continues to evolve. No Man's Land Foundation - Contrada Rotacesta, Loreto Aprutino (Pescara)
extended through March 3, 2019 - installation "Omnia Flumina Romam Ducunt" at the Baths of Caracalla, Rome - "A magical music" - ANSA "Gorgeous" - Grazia De Gennaro "A magical mix between the Baths' extraordinary archeology and the music of the world, a carpet of sonic architecture" - Online News "A universal symphony" - Anna Giannandrea "Extraordinary" Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani, Filmaker's Magazine "very moving" - Stefano Torossi intervistainterview video of opening; video of a walkthrough
photo Fabio Caricchia
February 16, 2019 - installation, and performance with Angelo Farro, for the opening of the Microcosmo exhibition curated by Antonio Trimani - Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj, Valmontone
photos Antonio Trimani, Susan Levenstein
March 3, 2019 (date change!) - finissage concert for "Omnia Flumina Romam Ducunt" at the Baths of Caracalla, Rome - noon - complete video
April 7, 2019 - Inner Cities complete performed by Daan Vandewalle, Zagreb
May 3, 2019 - The Alvin Curran Fakebook, performed by Valentin Garvie's Valensamble, Centro de Experimentacion del Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires. Video
May 12, 2019 - performs with Oren Ambarchi at Cafe Oto - 18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston, London tel 020 7923 1231 - 7.30 pm - £16-14-12
May 25/26 - Notes from Underground, for ambulant shofar player and 60 musicians in the two-kilometer St. Pauli Elbtunnel, Hamburg, 6.30 pm
June 23, 2019 - launch of the Simone Carella website
August 24, 2019 - Inner Cities complete performed by Daan Vandewalle, Ostrava Days festival, Ostrava, Czech Republic - Jiri Myron Theatre, 2.30 am
August 28, 2019 - Shofar Rags performance, Ostrava Days festival, Ostrava, Czech Republic - BrickHouse, Hlubina Coal Mine, 8.30 pm
September 7, 2019 - performance in memory of Patience Gray and Norman Mommens - Spigolizzi, Puglia - 7.00 pm
October 8, 2019 - solo concert, "Libri d’Armonia XXL,” for voice, conch shell, shofar, piano, MIDI keyboard, computer, and objects.
Forte Marghera, Via di Forte Marghera 30, Venice - 8.30 pm
October 11, 2019 - concert with Musica Elettronica Viva at the 14th International Ad Libitum Festival of Improvised Music Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Jazdów 2, 00-467, Warsaw - 7.00 pm
November 8, 2019 - workshop performance, Junk Music workshop, at the opening of Eric Baudelaire's exhibition, Faire Avec. Museum of Contemporary Art, 26 Quai Aspirant Herber, Sête, France - 6.00 pm - video
November 21, 2019 - concert, invited by Prof. Roberto Favaro, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera – Ex Chiesa di San Carpoforo, Milan - 5 pm
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November 25, 2019 - concert for de natura sonorum, Pelanda theater, at the ex-Mattatoio, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, 4, Rome, 9.00 pm. complete video
November 26, 2019 - Excerpts from the alvin curran fakebook, performed by the Ensemble Modern, conducted by Valentin Garvie. Atelierfrankfurt, Clubraum, Frankfurt am Main, 8.00 pm - �15
November 26, 2019 - premiere of Silvia Stucky's 50-minute video Come l�acqua che scorre [Like flowing water] to Curran's "On The Roads," musique concrète for Deutschland Radio Kultur, 2007. MACRO Asilo, Via Nizza, 138, Sala Cinema - 8.00 pm
November 28-30, 2019 - workshop and performance, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, GIOfest XII
December 11-15, 2019 - Diario Indiano, by Vita Accardi, on texts from Allen Ginsberg's Indian Journals, Terme di Diocleziano Viale Luigi Einaudi, Rome
...continued evolution of the installation Pian de Pian Piano, inaugurated July 8, 2017, toward rejoining the earth. No Man's Land Foundation - Contrada Rotacesta, Loreto Aprutino (Pescara), 6.30 pm - 2017 video2018 video
February 14, 2018 - performance with Dj-Nina in Soltanto 4 al massimo, with artworks by Baldischwyler, Vascellari, and Edith Schloss - Villa Massimo, Largo di Villa Massimo 1-2, Rome - 9.00 pm
February 17, 2018 - performs in Mike Cooper's "Tropical Gothic - a kind of electronic video opera" with Cooper, Federica Santoro, and video projections - Angelo Mai, Via delle Terme di Caracalla 55a, Rome - 9.30 pm
March 13, 2018 - presentation for public school classes, Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory, New York
March 14, 2018 - solo concerts, Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory, Veterans Room, 643 Park Avenue, New York (212) 933-5812 - 7.00 pm & 9.00 pm - "Magical" - The Observer (Margaret Carrigan)
March 16, 2018 - talk for the Brown University Music Now series - Orwig Music Building rm. 109, Providence - 1.00 pm
March 25, 2018 - duo concert with Ciro Longobardi for the Festival MANN and Piano City - National Archaeological Museum, Sala Cielo Stellato - Piazza Museo, 19, Naples - 6.00 pm
May 4, 2018 - solo performance Nuovo Cinema San Lorenzo, Rome - details to be announced
May 12, 2018 - premiere of A Banda Larga (Broad Band), a street symphony, with Antonello Salis, INCROCI Orchestra, and Filarmonica Imolese for the Angelica Festival - Bologna - 6 pm procession from Due Torri, 7 pm concert at S. Maria dei Servi - photos and videos... 11-minute video trailer
photos Margherita Caprilli, Massimo Golfieri, SL
May 24, 2018 - The Book Of Beginnings, version for Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Angelica Festival - Centro di Ricerca Musicale / Teatro San Leonardo - Via S. Vitale, 63, Bologna - 9.30 pm
June 4-6, 2018 - workshop on sound art for Donatella Landi at the Fine Arts Academy, Rome
June 7, 2018 - premiere of Monte dei Cocci Here We Come with the Banda della Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio as part of an evening of music and video celebrating Rome, organized by Maxime Guitton - Villa Medici, Viale Trinità dei Monti, Rome - 7.00 pm, €15
photo Valentina Ferro
June 17, 2018 - Monte dei Cocci Here We Come with the Banda della Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio, ex-Mattatoio, Roma, 9.50 pm
July 22, 2018 - Gabriella Smart plays Inner Cities complete: Beaumont House 631 Glynburn Road Beaumont, SA, Australia 2-7 pm
September 2, 2018 - Maritime Rites Bern with musicians on boats, the Pontonierfahrverein Bern, Aare Club Matte, for République Géniale - on the Aare river, between the Schwellenmätteli and the Stauwehr Engehalde, 2.00 pm video excerpts
video still courtesy of Dampfzentrale Bern
September 20, 2018 - Performance for vernissage, with Alfredo Pirri, Palazzo Altemps, Rome. Installations "Passi" by Pirri and "Ancient Talking Heads" by Alvin to remain on display until January 6, 2019 - 6.30 pm. Video excerpts
September 29, 2018 - Marseilles - concert at Villa Meditérranée to open exhibition including the installation, Of about : Alvin Curran by Maxime Guitton for the Viva Villa Festival - Villa Méditerranée, Promenade Robert Lafont (Esplanade du J4), Marseilles - 9.00 pm - free entry
October 22, 2018 - opening of installation "Omnia Flumina Romam Ducunt" at the Baths of Caracalla, Rome - 5.30 pm
October 27, 2018 - concert “Private Pattering 1.3” with Gianluca Codeghini and Marco Mariani for Atelier Musicale - Teatro Dal Verme, via San Giovanni sul Muro 2, Milan - 5.30 pm, €10
November 3, 2018 - on jury for Sounds of Silences competition, Mattatoio, Rome
November 7-9 - Moscow tour: at Moscow Conservatory Nov 7, Curran solo concert Nov 8, concert with Richard Teitelbaum Nov 9 - DOM Club - 24, B. Ovchinnikovskiy lane, building 4 Metro Tretiakovskaya
November 22, 2018 - performs with Urs Leimgruber, Andreas Willers, and Fabrizio Spera (the Rome-Ing International Quartet) at the Casa del Jazz, Viale di Porta Ardeatina, 55, Rome - 9.00 pm Full concert video
November 23, 2018 - on jury for Premio Musto, Naples
November 24, 2018 - panel discussion at MAXXI con Giancarlo Cardini, Rome
January 23, 2017 - Lecture at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, on Cardew/ AMM/MEV and beyond
January 27, 2017 - Concert, "Dal Alvin Curran Fake Book," with Sergio Amaroli, Alipio Neto, Giancarlo Schiaffini - Le Rane di Testaccio, Via Galvani 29, Rome, 9.00 pm
February 24, 2017 - solo concert "Aria di rigore," celebrating 40 years of Out Off - Teatro Out Off, Via Mac Mahon 16, 20155 Milan - 02 3453 2140 - 8.45 pm
March 8, 2017 - talk about sound and architecture as part of ATTRAVERSO LO SPECCHIO: Alfredo Pirri. I Pesci non portano fucili - MAXXI, via Guido Reni 4A, Rome - 4.30 pm
March, 2017 - Big Ears Festival Knoxville, Tennessee
- solo concert March 24 - 8 pm, on The Square Room
- concert with Musica Elettronica Viva March 25 - 3.30 pm, on The Mill & Mine
May 19, 2017 - premiere for Contemporary Locus: Concerto per vasca da bagno e orchestra [Concerto for Bathtub and Orchestra], performed by musicians from the Gaetano Donizetti Conservatory, alongside visuals by Kader Attia - ex-Diurno, P. Dante 2, Bergamo. "A sonic architecture that shakes up both the space and the spectator" trailer video
May 20, 2017 - performs Era Ora with Ciro Longobardi for Piano City - Santeria Social Club, viale Toscana 31, Milano, midnight
June 18, 2017 - performs John Cage and Alvin Curran with Robyn Schulkowsky and Giannis Aggelakas at the Tectonics Festival - Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, 9.20 pm
July 3-5, 2017 - on jury at the Avellino Conservatory for Italy's national Art Prize in electronic music
July 8, 2017 - inauguration of Pian de Pian Piano, a permanent site-specific sound installation, curated by Zerynthia for the No Man's Land Foundation - Contrada Rotacesta, Loreto Aprutino (Pescara), 6.30 pm - video by Curran; other photos and video
- Aug 24 Beams, Kunsthalle, 5.30 pm
- Aug 25 concert with Musica Elettronica Viva, Noumatrouff, 9.00 pm
September, 2017 - concerts for the CENTRO DE EXPERIMENTACIÓN TEMPORADA 2017 - Teatro Colon, Cerrito 628, Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
- solo concert Shofar Shoals Sept 14 at 8.00 pm video excerpt
- concert with Musica Elettronica Viva Sept 17 at 5.00 pm. Video excerpt.
September 22, 2017 - concert in Pigneto, Rome, organized by Valentina Valentina
October 6 - performance of John Cage's "Steps" for Tonspur - Halberstadt, Germany
photo AC
photos Ronald Goettel
October, 19 2017 - conversation with Valentina Valentina at La Lotta Per Il Teatro conference, Ex-Cotonificio, Venice
photo Roberto Paci Dalò
October 20, 2017 - performs "Chiari ossia dj Beppe meets King Kong da Beethoven" at the finissage of the exhibition Giuseppe Chiari: All Music Is The Same, works from the Block Collection - Villa Romana, Via Senese 68, Florence - info +39 055 221654
October 28, 2017 - jury, Sounds of Silences - an international competition of musical composition for the moving image
November 25, 2017 - Neapolis Sounding: conduction concert with the Orchestra Elettroacustica Officina Arti Soniche - Ex Asilo Filangieri, vico Giuseppe Maffei 4 (via San Gregorio Armeno), Naples - 10.00 pm. Excerpt on video
November 27, 2017 - launch concert for the CD "From The Alvin Curran Fakebook | The Biella Sessions" in quartet with Giancarlo Schiaffini, Alipio Carvalho Neto, and Sergio Armaroli - Teatro Out Off, Via Mac Mahon 16, Milan - info 333.9692237- 9.00 pm
November 28, 2017 - vernissage of the exhibition From The Alvin Curran Fakebook | Signage (open until December 19), with photographic portraits by Silvia Lelli and Roberto Masotti and with the sound installation Maritime Rites, curated by Sergio Armaroli and Steve Piccolo at ERRATUM, Via Doria 20, 20124 Milan - info 333.9692237- 8.00 pm. Video.
December 9, 2017 - concert with Angelo Farro - MainOFF Festival - Cantieri Culturali Alla Zisa, Via Paolo Gili 4, Spazio Tre Navate, Palermo - 8.00 pm. Video.
through June 12, 2016 - sound installation Tuba Sospeso at the Palazzo Chigi, Siena as part of the Ricordanze exhibition
through February 22, 2016 - sound installation, Concerto Preistorico, Palazzo Tupputi, Via Cardinale dell'Olio - Bisceglie
March 24, 2016 - solo performance in concert - double-billed with The Necks - Floor Three, Susan and John Hess Family Theater, Whitney Museum, New York- 8 pm
April 17, 2016 - performance on shofar and electronics, stazione Ospedale of the Brescia Metropolitana, Brescia - 6.30 pm
April 23, 2016 - concert with Jon Rose, with performances by Mike Cooper and Amy Denio - Angelo Mai - Via delle terme di Caracalla 55a, Rome - 10.00 pm. Entire concert on video.
May 27, 2016 - Musica Elettronica Viva concert with special guest Pauline Oliveros: Symphony 106 (The River) for the Angelica Festival - Centro di Ricerca Musicale / Teatro San Leonardo, Via San Vitale, 63, Bologna - 9.30 pm (roundtable 5.30 pm) - "a spider's web of thoughtful sound" - Giampiero Cane (Il Manifesto)
June 3, 2016 - Musica Elettronica Viva concert, Auditorium Pollini, Via Cassan 17, Padua, 8.30 pm
July 8 - August 31, 2016 - Tuba Sospesa, sound installation in a cave, as part of Chigiana radioarte, Sound in Space, curated by inner room's Federico Fusi. Santa Maria della Scala, Piazza del Duomo 2, Siena - open 10 am to 8 pm daily.
July 19-29, 2016 - composition workshop San Marino, organized by Nicolas Isherwood
July 30, 2016 - solo concert for Lugocontemporanea and Area Sismica - Chiostro del Monte, Lugo - 9 pm
September 14, 2016 - solo concert TransDadaExpress for Roma Poesia della parola festival - Via del Mandrione 451, Rome, 9.00 pm
September 18, 2016 - intervento for the closing of M.A.S. - Via dello Statuto at Piazza Vittorio - 6.00 pm
photo Mike Cooper
September 25, 2016 - Maritime Rites (Riti Marittimi) for the Romaeuropa Festival, Laghetto of the Villa Borghese park, Rome - 12 noon. "All around stood hundreds of people ravished and moved for a magical moment outside their daily life" - Mario Martone Excerpts on video. Other video.
photo thanks to roma2oggi
October 12, 2016 - duo concert with Massimo Pupillo - Cafe Oto - 18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston, London tel 020 7923 1231 - 8.00 pm
October 20, 2016 - concert: Orchestral works by AC, Frederic Rzewski, and Richard Teitelbaum, and an improv performance by MEV - FILHARMONIE BRNO - BESEDNI DUM, Komenskeho namesti 534/8, Brno, Czech Republic. Tel: 539 092 811 - 7.30 pm
photo Toth Pal
November, 2016 - MEV North American tour
- Nov 3 concert - Wave Equation series, Western Front, 303 E 8th Ave, Vancouver - 8 pm
- Nov 5 concert for the Wayward Music Series - Chapel Performance Space, 4649 Sunnyside Avenue North, Seattle - 8 pm
- Nov 9 concert - Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater - Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex - 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, tel 213 237-2800 - 8.30 pm $12-$25
- Nov 13 - National Sawdust, 80 North 6th St., Brooklyn - 6.00 pm
photo Yoshiko Chuma
November 14-20, 2016 - residency at Mills College, Oakland
- Nov 17 lecture open to the public, Littlefield Concert Hall, 7:30 pm
- Nov 20 - live interview and tape concert with Charles Amirkhanian, in Other Minds' The Nature of Music concert series, The David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Suite 100 Berkeley, CA , tel 510.809.0900 - 7 to 9 pm - "[The audience] sat in rapt attention stunned by the audacity of the composer’s visions . . . a lovely evening with a true master musician" - Allan Cronin
photos Allan Cronin, Richard Friedman
November 27, 2016 - Endangered Species, or The Alvin Curran Fakebook, solo concert for the Romaeuropa Festival. French Academy, Villa Medici, Rome - 5.00-9.00 pm - € 10 - € 15
December 17, 2016 - performance at Con Edith: Allegro Feroce, Via del Corallo 29, Rome
photos MONA/Remi Chauvin with Army percussionists, courtesy Sean O'Toole
March 4 to April 2, 2015 - Alvin Curran Fakebook (a draft) and Living Room Music video (with Theo Eshetu) exhibited in Drawing Towards Sound: Visualising The Sonic, curated by David Ryan. Stephen Lawrence Gallery Project Space, University of Greenwich Galleries,Old Royal Naval College, 30 Park Row, London, tel. +44 20 8331 8260. Open 10 - 5 Mon.- Fri.; 11 - 4 Sat.
March 27, 2015 - Maritime Rites on Tempe Town Lake, Phoenix, Arizona, with 100 musicians on boats - 3:30 - 5 pm. Viewing area: Tempe Beach Park
March 29, 2015 - keynote speaker at Balance-Unbalance 2015: Water, Climate, Place – Reimagining Environments, Arizona State University, on panel with environmental artist Eve Mosher - 1:30-3 pm
April 7, 8, and 9, 2015 - premiere of music for actress Vita Accardi in Beckett's "Little is Left to Tell" and Claudio Damiani's "Endimione," Biblioteca di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte, Via del Collegio Romano 27, Rome - Sala Crociera - 7 pm. Watch complete video or excerpts of the Beckett.
photo Rocco Trevisiol
April 16, 2015 - duo performance with Jon Rose, Tectonics Festival (Ilan Volkov) - Nordic Lights Hall in Harpa Concert Hall, Austurbakki 2, Reykjavík, Iceland, phone +354 528 5000 - 10.00 pm
April 17, 2015 - Beams Reykjavik for orchestra and voices, with performers from the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Iceland Academy of the Arts for the Tectonics Festival - foyer, Harpa Concert Hall - 7.00 pm. Excerpts on video.
May 6, 2015 - solo concert: The Alvin Curran Fakebook. F. Morlacchi Music Conservatory, Piazza Mariotti, 2, Perugia - Auditorium, 9.15 pm
May 7, 2015 - seminar: "Open-source composition and electroacoustic improvisation" - Morlacchi Conservatory, Perugia - Aula 23, 10.30-12.30 am / 2.30-4.30 pm
May 24, 2015 - opening of sound installation for Maryanne Amacher, Hello, How Are You?, TONSPUR_passage, quartier_21, Museumsquartier, Museumsplatz 1/5, Vienna, 5.00 pm
May 25 through August 22, 2015 - Hello, How Are You? open to the public, 10 am to 8 pm
May 30, 2015- performs with Orkestra AngelicA in Chris Cutler's “The Nature Theatre of Nowhere” for the AngelicA Festival, tel. 051 240310. Teatro San Leonardo, Via San Vitale, 63, Bologna - 9.30 pm, €8
June 11, 2015 - plays in Paula Matthusen's house concert, American Academy in Rome
July 4, 2015 - encounter with Ars Ludi for "Made in Italy 3X1" - Associazione Culturale Dello Scompiglio, Via di Vorno, 67 – Vorno, Capannori (LUCCA) panel discussion 6.00 pm, concert 7.30 pm - €12/€7
July 8, 2015 - keynote address at conference on Music-Dance: Sound and Motion in Contemporary Discourse and Practice, Fondazione Cini, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice- tel. +39 041 2710220 - 6:00 pm
July 14, 2015 - Maritime Rites concert for shiphorns on ships, ending the Palermo Per Kantor festival and marking the opening of the 391st Festino di Santa Rosalia - Port of Palermo, Banchina Piave - 6:00 pm. Video.
July 28 - September 13, 2015 - Gardening With John installation sponsored by Zerynthia as part of Brera In Contemporanea: Accademia Aperta - Orto Botanico, Milano - opening July 28 at 12.00 noon
photos Antonio Maniscalco
August 27 to September 27, 2015 - Tuba Sospesa, a sound installation produced by inner room, via G. Di Mannaia, 15 Z.a.Toselli/Siena, open Monday-Saturday 10-1 and 3-7 tel: 0577 43160 - www.inner-room.org - innerroom1@gmail.com
September 11, 2015 - "Passi" concert-installation: the real-time creation of an artwork by artist Alfredo Pirri and audience, to a live soundtrack by AC and stomped-on glass - Museo Novecento, Piazza di Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 9.00 pm. Video by the Museum (in Italian).
photos and video Susan Levenstein
September 19 to 27, 2015 - workshop for the KlangKunstBühne International Summer Academ, Universität der Künste Berlin. Final show Saturday Sept 26, UdK Berlin . Fasanenstraße 1B, 7.00 pm - free entry. Video by Ira Schneider.
photo Stephen Bradshaw
October 11, 2015 - “Lo spazio diventa spartito” concert-installation sponsored by inner room as the final concert of the Settimana del Contemporaneo - for four brass marching bands converging on the Piazza del Campo, Siena - 5.30 pm
October 18, 2015 - premiere of THE BOOK OF BEGINNINGS for orchestra, youth orchestra, two self-playing pianos, and smartphone app, at the Donaueschingen Musiktage festival - Baarsporthalle, Donaueschingen, Germany - 5.00 pm. Brief video with interview (in English). Listen to entire piece online.
The Book of Beginnings app: an online music generator
November 1, 2015 - Prehistoric concert premiering Prehistory 1.0 and Prehistory 1.1, in collaboration with RAM radioartemobile, as part of the Casa Futura Pietra series of events - Dolmen la Chianca, Bisceglie, Puglia, 9.00 am
video Antonio Trimani
November 14, 2015 - round table followed by solo concert as part of the event AER American Electronics in Rome: 50 Years of Electronic Music at the American Academy in Rome, Villa Aurelia, Largo di Porta San Pancrazio, 1 - 5.00pm
November 15, 2015 - Daan Vandewalle plays Inner Cities complete for music on main, The Roundhouse, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver - 3:00-7.30 pm , free entry
November 22, 2015 - solo concert for the V Festival Musica Contemporanea Italiana, area sismica, Forlì - Via Le Selve, 23 - 6.00 pm
November 24, 2015 - opening of the sound installation MEV's Glass Piano as part of the Visitazioni Festival (open until December 5th Tues-Sat 3.00-7.00 pm) - Sala Santa Rita, Via Montanara, near Piazza Campitelli - 7.00 pm
December 14, 2015 - Beams 2 with SMUG - Ensemble On-Off, in collaboration with the University of Padova Students' Art Center - Auditorium Pollini, Via Carlo Cassan, 17, Padova - 6.30 pm, free entry
December 15, 2015 - solo concert - Auditorium Pollini, Via Carlo Cassan, 17, Padova - 8.30 pm, tickets €5/€10/€12, reservations at press@centrodarte.it
February 28, 2014 - L’improvvisazione non si improvvisa, a performance with Giancarlo Schiaffino and Alípio Carvalho Neto, in the “Anni 70. Arte a Roma” exhibition spaces of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale 194, Rome, 7.00 pm
March 19, 2014 - lecture: The New Common Practice: A Life in Unpopular Music, Danforth Lecture Hall, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, 7.00 pm
March 28, 2014 - The Alvin Curran Fakebook, duo concert with Willie Winant at the Center for New Music, 55 Taylor St, San Francisco - (415) 275-2466 - "Melodic, chaotic, incandescent, brilliant" - Geeta Dayal
April 1, 2014 - BEAMS: a collaborative performance with the Molissa Fenley Dancers, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland - 5.00 pm & 6.30 pm . Watch video of entire piece.
April 8 and 9, 2014 - classes at U.C. Berkeley and Mills College
April 11, 2014 - The Alvin Curran Fakebook, solo concert at Berkeley Art Museum, 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California, 510-642-0808, 7.30 pm
April 24, 2014 - Giornata Domenico Guaccero, Aula Riccardo Bianchini, Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, sponsored by RadioCEMAT. Listen (minute 58).
April 30, 2014 - concert with Joëlle Léandre, Urs Leimgruber, and Burkhard Stangl as part of MusikKultur, +43 (0) 5352/ 61 284, Alte Gerberei, St. Johann in Tirol, Austria, 8.00 pm
May 1, 2014 - concert with Joëlle Léandre, Urs Leimgruber, and Burkhard Stangl as part of Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon 2014, Jazzatelier, +43(0)72886301, Badergasse 2, 4161 Ulrichsberg, Austria, 11.00 pm. Watch part of it on video...
May 2, 2014 - concert with Joëlle Léandre, Urs Leimgruber, Burkhard Stangl, and the Peter Schärli Trio with Glenn Ferris, Porgy & Bess, Riemergasse 11, 1010 Vienna, Austria, +43 1 512 88 11, 8.30 pm
May 8, 2014 - performance/lecture, "The World Is My Mother Tongue," as part of the series Dimore dei Suoni by the Laboratory of Sound Theatre, curated by Valentina Valentini and produced by Laura Palmieri, RAI Sala A Auditorium, Via Asiago 10, Rome, 9.00 pm (to be broadcast on RAI Radio 3 in November 2014)
June 20, 2014 - "Procession - Maritime Rites Bonn" for winds, percussion and live electronics concludes a city-wide concert in Bonn as part of the Bonn Hoeren Festival - 6.00 pm Münsterplatz, 6.30 on the bank of the Rhine (Alten Zoll). Video:
Maritime Rites excerpts run from 15.32 to 21.25
photos Camilla Hoitenga, Susan Levenstein
June 27, 2014 - with Trisha Brown Dance Company at the Fisher Center, Bard College - 7:30pm (followed by a discussion with the artists)
June 28, 2014 - with theTrisha Brown Dance Company at the Fisher Center, Bard College - 2.00 pm (pre-performance conversation at 1pm) and 7.30 pm
July, 2014 - with theTrisha Brown Dance Company in Ravenna
August 8, 2014 - with Joëlle Léandre, Fred Frith, and Urs Leimgruber (the MMM Quartet) at Jazz Em Agosto, in the Gulbenkian Foundation's Open Air Amphitheatre, Lisbon, 9.30 pm. "One of the best concerts in the festival, intense from the first second to the last, whether in gentle moments or in fiery passages" - David Cristol, Jazz Magazine - Jazzman
photo Márcia Lessa
September 14, 2014 - concert in the Ex cartiera latina, Via Appia Antica 42, Rome - 10.00 pm
October 1, 2014 - MIT Libraries' Composer Forum talk, "Music Outside the Concert Halls," Lewis Music Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass - 5.00 pm (reception follows at 6.00). Free, open to the public.
October 3, 2014 - lecture at the Berklee School of Music Electronic Production and Design Department in Boston, followed by performance with Neil Leonard
October 9, 2014 - The Flexible Orchestra premieres Viola Voilà, in memory of Joan Kalisch, in the presence of the composer, at the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant, 140 2nd Avenue at 9th St., New York, tel. 212-614-3283. 8.00 pm. Listen to excerpt 1excerpt 2
October 29, 2014 - Giordano ReMix: concert Umberto Giordano Conservatory auditorium - Piazza Vincenzo Nigri 13, Foggia - Tel. 0881 723668/773467 - follows an award presentation at 7.00 pm
November 6, 2014 - event for Renato Nicolini, "Meraviglioso Urbano," Palladium Theater, piazza Bartolomeo Romano, 8, Rome, 9.00 pm
November 9, 2014 - Slow Talk #5 about Inner Cities - Kamermuziekzaal, Concertgebouw, Bruges, 10.00 am, €7
November 9, 2014 - Daan Vandewalle plays Inner Cities complete for the Slow Festival, Kamermuziekzaal, Concertgebouw, Bruges, Belgium, 1.30-7.30 pm, €12
November 23, 2014 - concert with Ossatura at Rialto S. Ambrogio, Via di Sant'Ambrogio, 4, Rome, 10.00 pm - free
November 28, 2014 - talk for SpazioAereo at Palazzetto Tito > Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Dorsoduro 2826, Venice, 3.00 pm
November 28, 2014 - workshop/master class, SpazioAereo, Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico di Venezia, Via delle Industrie 27/5, Marghera, Venice - 5.00-9.00 pm
November 29, 2014 - concert, From the Book of Beginnings, SpazioAereo, Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico di Venezia, Via delle Industrie 27/5, Marghera, Venice, 9.30 pm
December 6, 2014 - performance with Paolo Buggiani, "Il Minotauro e Alvin Curran," at the Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove di Metropoliz, Via Prenestina, 913, Rome.
February 7, 2013 - presentation of the book Drammaturgie sonore: Teatri del secondo Novecento, ed. Valentina Valentini (Bulzoni publisher), with chapter by AC, at the Casa delle Letterature, Piazza dell'Orologio, 3, Rome, tel. +39 06.68134697 - 6 pm - 8 pm
February 9-13, 2013 - performs in For M.G. with the Lyons Opera Ballet - Opéra de Lyon - Place de la Comédie - 69001 Lyon - Tél : 0826 305 325
February 28 - April 27, 2013 - sound installation in camere #18: Intese exhibition with Maurizio Mochetti and Alfredo Pirri, at Zerynthia's radioartemobile, Via Conte Verde 15, Rome, tel. 06 44704249 - open Tues-Sat, 4:30-7:30 pm
March 3-5, 2013 - mini-residency, Department of Electronic Music Composition, Birmingham Conservatoire.
March 5, 2013 - concert of solo performance and chamber works as part of Frontiers Plus Festival, Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University, Paradise Place, Birmingham, Tel: +44 (0)121 331 5901 - 8.30 pm
March 14, 2013 - solo concert as part of the Subtropics Festival, Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach - 7.00 pm
photos Steve Malagodi, Susan Levenstein
March 20, 2013 - conducts the Iato Orchestra at the Angelo Mai Altrove, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 55a, Rome – tel 329 4481 358 - 9.30 pm
photos Christian Rizzo
March 27, 2013 - "Narrenschiff," a performance with Alipio C Neto (tenor and soprano sax), Roberto Bellatalla (bass), and Marco Ariano (percussion) at the Teatro Tor di Nona, Via degli Acquasparta 16, Rome – tel 06 6880 5890 – 9.30 pm. Entire performance on video.
April 17, 2013 - "Probabilmente Tondo," performance with Vita Accardi and Andrea Levialdi Ghiro as part of the Festa d’Artisti by the visual magazine A.R.I.A. (Artisti Romani in Assemblea) at the -1 art gallery, Acquario, Piazza Manfredo Fanti 47, Rome, Tel. 06 97604598, 97604580 - 10.00 pm. Entire performance on video.
photo Lim
June 12-16, 2013- Gardening With John installation at Janacek's house in Brno
August 11, 2013 - premiere of Way Out Back by the Decibel Ensemble at the keynote concert of the International Computer Music Conference - Hackett Hall, Western Australian Museum, Perth Cultural Centre, James Street, Perth, Australia - 7.00 pm
August 17, 2013 - Maritime Rites solo concert, B Shed, Victoria Quay, Fremantle, Australia - 3.00 pm
August 18, 2013 - Beams, performed by 35 musicians in the B Shed, Victoria Quay, Fremantle - 3.00 pm
Beams 2, Fremantle 2013 (excerpts).
Video by Susan Levenstein (11:20)
August 23, 2013 - Oh Man Oh Mankind Oh Yeah for large chorus, instrumental ensemble, and shofar. Bonython Hall, North Terrace, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 7.00 pm. Video.
Photos Mark Patterson
August 23, 2013 - concert: Rose of Beans 2 for chamber ensemble, and solo performance of The Alvin Curran Fakebook, Bonython Hall, Adelaide, 8.30 pm
August 24, 2013 - Public Forum with Brian Ritchie (Artistic Director of MONA FOMA), Bonython Hall, Adelaide, 2 pm
August 24, 2013 - Inner Cities I-XI played by Gabriella Smart, Bonython Hall, Adelaide, 3.00-8.30 pm. Brief video.
Photos Susan Levenstein, Mark Patterson
August 28, 2013 - Inner Cities I-XI played by Gabriella Smart at the Religious Centre, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria, 11.00 am - 4.30 pm
August 29, 2013 - speaks at Warren Burt's composition class, Box Hill Institute, 1000 Whitehorse Road, Melbourne - Building W2, Room G04 - 12.30-2.00
August 29, 2013 - speaks at Prof. Thomas Reiner's composition seminar/workshop Monash - 3.00-5.00 pm
August 31, 2013 - concert with Jon Rose, Col Fulhur, and Robbie Avenaim, produced by the Sydney Improvised Music Association, at The Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre, Cnr City Rd & Cleveland St, Chippendale NSW 2008, Sydney, 8.30 pm
September 1, 2013 - Inner Cities I-XI played by Gabriella Smart in Sydney - 2.00-7.30 pm
September 25, 2013 - solo concert, Cartoline Romane, in the garden of Villa Medici (the French Academy),Viale della Trinità dei Monti, 1, Rome, invited by David Sanson as part of Teatro delle Esposizioni #4. Free entry, 8.30 pm
September 28, 2013 - solo concert at MINIERE SONORE - Oristano, Sardinia - Teatro Antonio Garau, Via Parpaglia, tel. 0783 78886. Free entry, 10.00 pm
October 5, 2013 - in Nuit Blanche, Paris, produced by radioartemobile
October - December 2013 - graphic score for Boletus Edulis exhibited in the Hunter's Moon Score Trail 2013, curated by Caroline and Jennifer Walshe in Carrick on Shannon, County Leitrim, Ireland
November 14, 2013 - Maritime Rites: concert for shiphorns, sampler, and brass bands on land and sea, opening the Tage für Neue Musik - Bürkliplatz, Zurich, 5.00 pm
painting by Noah Seraphin Felsing
November 27, 2013 - panel discussion sponsored by Nuova Consonanza on the occasion of the presentation of Giovanni Guaccero's book, "L’improvvisazione nelle avanguardie musicali [improvisation in the musical avant-garde]. Roma, 1965-1978" -Sala Casella, Giardini dell'Accademia Filarmonica Romana - Via Flaminia, 118, Rome - 6.00 pm
December 7, 2013 - "Symphony 104 - The Berlin," concert with Musica Elettronica Viva as part of the DAAD's 50-year Jubilee celebration - Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, Berlin - info 030–20220820 - 10.00 pm. To be broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur at 5 minutes past midnight on the night between 12 and 13 December 2013 (click on the arrow under "Jetzt im Radio")
December 12, 2013, conducts the IATO orchestra at the Angelo Mai Altrove, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 55a, Rome – tel 329 4481 358 - 9.30 pm
photo Rachele Gigli
December 13, 2013 - concert with Musica Elettronica Viva, Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston, London tel 020 7923 1231, 8.00 pm. "A subtle master class in improvisation" - Geoff Winston (London Jazz News)
December 16, 2013 - sound installation, "Palchi Irreali," as part of Enzo Cosimi's MY_DAY MAY_ DAY - in the boxes of the Teatro Argentina, Largo di Torre Argentina, 52, Rome, tel. 06 684 00 03 11 - 8.00-9.30 pm. excerpt from 7:13-8:37
January, 2012 - Painted Songs, an exhibit of of artworks on paper and canvas by the late Edith Schloss with AC collaboration. Casa delle Letterature, Piazza dell'Orologio, 3, Rome, tel. +39 06.68134697. "Vernissage" December 21, 2011, with musical performance at 7:30 pm. "Embrace the astral body of beauty!" - Dionys. See video.
January 31, 2012 - "finissage" of Painted Songs, with performance by AC and films with/about Edith, 6:30-9 pm. See video by Simone Carella and Areta Gambaro.
February 17 to May 6, 2012 (opening Feb 16, 7:00 pm) - Gardening with John as part of Membra Disjecta for John Cage - freiraum quarterier21 INTERNATIONAL, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, 10:00 am to 7:00 pm daily. Video.
February 23, 2012 - Composition colloqium at Princeton, Music Department, Room 102, Woolworth Center, 4:30 pm
February 27, 2012 - Composition seminar at Harvard
February 28, 2012 - Louis C. Elson Lecture, "The New Common Practice, or, A Life in Unpopular Music." John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Music Building, Harvard University, Cambridge, 5:15 pm. "It’s captivating to surrender to Curran’s creativity, his enthusiasm—and frankly, his ear for sheer beauty" - Matthew Guerrieri
February 29, 2012 - Schtyx played in concert by the Callithumpian Consort at Brown Hall, New England Conservatory, 290 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115, (617) 585-1260, 8:00 pm - free entry
Mar 1, 2012 - Seminar at Harvard (music and politics), 1.00-3.00 pm
March 2, 2012 - Piano seminar at New England Conservatory, 10:00 am
March 2, 2012 - Solo concert - "The Alvin Curran Fake Book" - sponsored by Non-Event at the Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon Street, Boston 617.262.6050, 8:00 p.m. / $15 general admission/$12 students
photo Daniel Fradkin
March 8, 2012 - Inner Cities complete, concert by Daan Vandewalle at the Brno International Musical Festival, Czech Republic - Besedni dum, Concert Hall, 6:00 pm
March 9, 2012 - concert in Brno with Richard Teitelbaum and Ralph Samuelson at the Brno International Musical Festival, Besedni dum Concert Hall 7:00 pm
March 11, 2012 - concert in Vienna with Richard Teitelbaum and Ralph Samuelson: "Tribute to John Cage," echoraum, Sechshauser Straße 66, Vienna, 8:00 pm
April 12, 2012 - Inner Cities complete played by Daan Vandewalle at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, midnight April 12 to 6:00 am April 13
May 25 - August 20, 2012 - Gardening with John at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Poupetova 1, Prague 7, Metro C: Nadrazi Holesovice. Open 11.00 am – 6.00 pm except Tuesdays - phone: +420 295 568 123
June 2 and 3, 2012 - Oh Brass on the Grass Alas, historic center and Serralves Foundation Park, Oporto, Portugal, in "Serralves em Festa." 4:00 pm
June 3, 2012 - Solo concert in "Serralves em Festa," Casa de Serralves, Oporto, Portugal. 8:30 pm
photos Kathy Brew, Hugh Burckhardt, Eric Garcia, Anne Maxwell, Torin Olsen, Dan Rosenblum, Megan Szymanski
Maritime Rites New York (excerpts), video by Susan Levenstein
June 25, 2012 - blows shofar as contribution to Alfredo Pirri's opening at the Galleria Guidi, Corso Vittorio Emmanuele 284, Rome
June 2012 - Gardening with John in Bratislava
July 1, 2012 - Riti Marittimi: Floating With John, concert for the Teatro Valle Occupato. On the Laghetto of Villa Borghese, 5.00 pm.
photos Mariateresa Barbieri and Francesco Petretti
Riti Marittimi (excerpts), video by Jacob Burckhardt and Susan Levenstein
July 19 - October 31, 2012 - Sound installation Maritime Rites 4:33, in Forte Piano: Le Forme del Suono (Part II), curated by Achille Bonito Oliva. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome. Opening Thursday July 19, 7 pm. Free entry 11 am - 8 pm every day
August 17, 2012 - Proms Plus Intro roundtable on John Cage, with broadcaster Ivan Hewett, presented by Martin Handley. Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, London. 5.00 pm
August 17, 2012 - Sound installation piece DJ Albert Spins Cage and Cardew as part of the BBC Proms Music Walk in London, 6.00 pm – 7.00 pm - free, but reservations required. (download all the pieces.)
August 26, 2012 - performs John Cage's Empty Words at the Kolumba-Museum, Kolumbastraße 4, Cologne, 12 noon to 8.00 pm.
September 28, 2012 - Premiere of Symphony 1.1 by the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, sponsored by the centocage festival. San Petronio, Piazza Maggiore, Bologna, 9.00 pm. Listen to excerpt 1excerpt 2
September 29, 2012 - Smistamenti generali for band, chorus, and soloists, sponsored by the centocage festival. Piazza Maggiore and San Petronio, Bologna, 12.00 noon. Listen to excerpt
October 2-5, 2012 - with Musica Elettronica Viva in residence at Bard College
- Tues Oct 2 informal piano concert, Blum Hall, 6.40 pm
- Weds Oct 3 "Talk with MEV," moderated by Marina Rosenfeld, Blum Hall, 6.30 pm
- Thurs Oct 4 MEV concert, Olin Auditorium, 8.00 pm
December 23, 2012 - sounds in Cagean mix #3, an installation produced by Ear to the Earth and MA.P.S as part of 100 x JOHN: A GLOBAL SALUTE TO JOHN CAGE IN SOUND AND IMAGE- White Box, 329 Broome Street, New York, 5 - 10 pm
January 4, 2011 - Premiere of the radio piece, "A Naar Mit a Car in America," a studio variant of "On Hearing The Brooklyn Bridge Sing In Yiddish." Streamed from the Südwestrundfunk 11 pm - midnight European time (5 - 6 pm EST).
January 14, 2011 - book launch, Daniela Tortora's Alvin Curran: Live in Roma, with Prof. Tortora, Eleonora Ludovici, and Nicola Sani, organized by Prof. Valentina Valentini at her Laboratorio di Drammaturgia Sonora, "La Sapienza" University of Rome - Aula Levi, Via dei Volsci 122, 5.30 pm.
January 2011 - The bilingual English/Italian book Alvin Curran: Live in Roma, edited by Daniela Tortora and with text by Tortora, Eleonora Ludovici, David Bernstein, and A.C., is now available in the USA from Forced Exposure, in Italy from FNAC, and in the rest of the world from the publisher, Die Schachtel.
March 11, 2011 - lecture at New England Conservatory of Music
March 15, 2011 - concerts at The Stone, New York - avenue C and 2nd street, Essex St. subway - 8 pm solo, 10 pm with Elliott Sharp
March 16-19 and 22-26, 2011 - Revival of Trisha Brown's For M.G. - music by Curran including himself live on piano. Dance Theater Workshop, 219 W 19th Street, New York, 7:30pm. Before the opening on March 16th: Coffee and Conversation at 6:30pm. Tickets online; info 212.924.0077. Watch video (at minute 24:40).
March 20, 2011 - "Music for Merce" concert sponsored by the Music Committee of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Roulette, 20 Greene Street New York. Info 212-291-8242; 8:30pm
March 22, 2011 - lecture at Columbia University, New York
March 24, 2011 - lecture at Cooper Union, New York
April 12, 2011- “Palermo Sonic Graffiti” - concert with Domenico Sciajno, sponsored by Associazione Siciliana Amici della musica - - Politeama Garibaldi, 9:15 pm
April 20, 2011 - "The Future of Music" lecture for the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz - Hochschule für Musik, Roter Saal (00-315), Hochschule für Musik, Jakob-Welder-Weg 28, Mainz- 7:30 pm
April 29, 2011 - "Chiari ossia dj Beppe meets King Kong da Beethoven" - solo concert at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, following the opening of an exhibition on Giuseppe Chiari - Teatro Studio, 9.00 pm - Tickets online or at 892982
May 7, 2011 - Inner Cities XXL piano cycle played by Daan Vandewalle in the marathon concert "Alterminimalismes 3" at the Collège des Bernardins, 20 rue de Poissy, 75005 Paris - info tel. 01 53107444 - Métro Maubert-Mutualité, Cardinal Lemoine - 2:30 pm - 10 pm
April - October 2011 - Media Convergence fellowship, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, and composer in residence, Hochschule für Musik, Mainz
June 30, 2011 - concert with Domenico Sciajno and others ("Alvin Curran and Friends") in the Black Box of the Hochschule für Musik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Jakob-Welder-Weg 28, Mainz. 7:30 pm. Tel 06131-3928009
Recording the Pink Puffers with Theo Eshetu at the Circus Maximus. Photo Ron Bunzl. See video.
July 13, 2011 - premiere of Choral Reefs, violin and piano version, by Marc Sabat and Stephen Clarke at the Museo Casa Scelsi, Via San Teodoro 8, Rome - 9 pm, by invitation only
July 19 to Oct 16, 2011 - Rhinestones / Bigiotteria, sound installation created with Luca Spagnoletti and produced by Peter Kiefer as part of the Klanginstallation BUGA 2011 series at the Bundesgartenschau, kurfürstlichen Schloss, Koblenz, Germany.
Sept. 11, 2011 - Inner Cities complete played by Daan Vandewalle at the GERGIEV festival in Rotterdam - LP 2 in Las Palmas, Wilhelminapier - 12:30 – 5:00 pm - free entry
Sept 14, 2011 - premiere of Hoe Sow Till Mulch for large instrumental and vocal ensemble as part of the hörMal afternoon of Spektrum Villa Musica at the Bundesgartenschau, Koblenz, Germany - 4:00 pm, followed at 8:00 pm by the presentation, "Musik in der Natur," by Alvin Curran and Peter Kiefer, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz
Sept 29, 2011 - premiere of Circus Maximus, a work for 17 musicians and electronics, with live video by Theo Eshetu, commissioned by Integra for the Ars Nova Ensemble. Royal Conservatory of Music, Copenhagen Konservatoriets Koncertsal (Main Hall), Julius Thomsens Gade 1 - 7:30 pm; pre-concert talk 6:30 pm. Read program notes, listen to excerpt. Complete video.
Oct 5-14, 2011 - premiere of I'm Going to Toss My Arms - If you Catch them, They're Yours, for AC live with tape, with the Trisha Brown Dance Company: Création à Chaillot, Théâtre National de Chaillot, 1 place du Trocadéro 75116 Paris (M° Trocadéro) 01 53 65 30 00 Salle Jean Vilar 8:30 pm.
photo Laurent Phillippe
Oct 21-22, 2011 - in Rome with the Trisha Brown Dance Company as part of the RomaEuropa Festival, Teatro Olimpico, Piazza Gentile da Fabriano 17, tel. 06.32.65.991 - 8:30 pm, tickets €16 - €30.
Oct 28, 2011 - premiere of Rogues, for tape, with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, New York City Center ("Fall For Dance" Festival).
Nov 14 - improv workshop, New Orchestra Workshop Society 303 East 8th Ave, 4 - 6 and 7:30 - 9:30 pm. "It was a great privilege to partake in these few hours with a masterful musical storyteller." - Coat Cooke
Nov 17 - performance of choral piece - Open Space, 510 Fort Street, 2nd floor, Victoria - 8:00 pm
Nov 18 - solo concert: The Alvin Curran Fake Book - The Western Front 303 E 8th Ave - 8:30 pm. "A truly masterful display of technology, beautiful cinematic sensibility, love of the traditional American song and blinding love of spontaneous music making." - Coat Cooke Listen to excerpt.
December 1, 2011 - premiere of revised version of Circus Maximus by the Grup Instrumental de València, commissioned by Integra, with live video by Theo Eshetu, as part of the Moderna Música festival. Centro del Carmen, C/ Museo, n. 2, Valencia - 8:00 pm
January 7th, 2010 - A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION CONCERT FOR GIACINTO SCELSI...1905-1988....blowing the shofar along with Mike Cooper, Luca Venitucci, Luca Tilli, Roberto Bellatalla, Fabrizio Spera and others - IL CANTIERE - VIA MODENA 95 - TRASTEVERE, Rome...21.30 until late.
January 30, 2010 - concert, Living Room Music,
presented by Fondazione Musica per Roma in collaboration with Pino Saulo's Radio3 Battiti. With Sabina Meyer, Mike Cooper, and Paolo Ravaglia, and help from Luca Spagnoletti. “An event of crystalline uniqueness and beauty” - Antonio Pellicori Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Teatro Studio, 9.00 pm
February 3-7, 2010 - Innominabile ("The Unnameable"), theater piece with Vita Accardi - text by Samuel Beckett, sets by Nunzio, music by AC - Sala Uno, Rome, P.zza di Porta S. Giovanni, 10 (Scala Santa) - Tel/Fax +39 06 89531154 - 9.00 pm Weds.-Sat., 6.00 pm Sunday. Listen to an excerpt. Watch a video trailer.
February 11, 2010 - Klangzeit concert, Münster, Kleines Haus der Städtischen Bühnen, Neubrückenstraße, 8.00 pm. Info and tickets: 0251 5909-100
February 24, 25, and 26, 2010 - Events, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, 9.00 pm. Tickets: 892982.
April 9, 2010 - concert, La Città Del Teatro, Cascina (PI) - FOSFENI - “TRANSDADAEXPRESS IN SPACE," 10.00 pm
April 17, 2010 - concert in Llorenç Barber's festival ANEM ANEM: La festa de l'escolta. Casa de la Cultura, Gandia (Valencia), 10.30 pm.
April 28-29, 2010 - workshop in composition, with Walter Zimmerman, Berlin.
April 29, 2010 - lecture open to the public, "Music Outside the Concert Halls," UdK Berlin, Raum 310, Bundesallee 1-12, Berlin, 2.00 pm
April 30, 2010 - PRÄSENTATION XVIII talk, "Music Outside the Concert Halls," Blurred Edges festival. Pudel Salon, St.Pauli Fischmarkt 27, Hamburg, 8.00 pm.
July 14, 2010 - concert: Endangered Species. Sarzana (La Spezia), in the Sconfinando 2010 Festival. Fortezza Firmafede (Cittadella- Centro Storico, Piazza Matteotti), 11.00 pm
October 18 -November 15, 2010 - residency at ZKM, Karlsruhe
November 1, 2010 - premiere of Roma, a film by Theo Eshetu with music by AC. Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma, Viale Pietro De Coubertin, 10, 7:30 pm. Complete video.
November 5-7, 2010 - new version of Gardening With John 1.1 sound installation as part of Il Treno by RAM radioartemobile at Artissima 17, Zerynthia's STAND N. 5/ LIGHT BLUE, Lingotto Fiere-Torino
November 7, 2010 - hear Living Room Music at Nuova Consonanza's Festa d'Autunno, Villa Aurelia (American Academy), Largo di Porta San Pancrazio, 1, 8.00 - 11.00 pm
November 13, 2010 - premiere of On Hearing the Brooklyn Bridge Sing in Yiddish, ARD Radio Days, Karlsruhe. Listen to excerpt 1excerpt 2
November 14, 2010 - Inner Cities complete concert, pianist Daan Vandewalle, including premiere of Inner Cities 14, November Music Festival, den Bosch, Holland, Verkadefabriek Filmzaal 4, Boschdijkstraat 45 - from noon until 5.00 pm
- November 19 - Ear Training, Huddersfield Train Station, noon
- November 20 - panel discussion about John Cage, Huddersfield Art Gallery,10.00 am
- November 22 - Big Squeeze Long Stretch for 15 accordions, Worksetting Gallery, Byram Arcade, 6 pm. See video.
- November 24 - Take the Cage Trainbis, Huddersfield Train Station 7.30 - end of route 9.15 pm
November, 2008 through February 1, 2009 - Shin far Shofar installation in the Aleph-Bet
Project at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (curated by John
Zorn) Listen to excerpt
1.excerpt
2
January 11, 2009 - showing
of filmsOrganum Multiplum and Effetto Puglia: Travels with Alvin Curran,
followed by performance of For Cornelius - Goethe-Institut Media Lounge, 5750
Wilshire Blvd. Suite 100, Los Angeles, (323) 525-3388 - 11 am
January 12, 2009 - performance of Schtyx in American
Originals Concert, Zipper Concert Hall, Colburn School of the Performing
Arts, 200 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles - (310) 836-6632 - 8 pm
January 22, 2009 - concert at American Academy of Rome with
Alter Ego and Ars Ludi, in collaboration with Contemporanea (Auditorium di
Roma), Villa Aurelia, 9.00 pm
January 25, 2009 - shofar and electronics performance as part
of the Day of Remembrance - synagogue of Ostia Antica
February 8, 2009 - concert as part of Audio
Poverty festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee
10, Berlin, 3:00 pm
February 19, 2009 - performance as part of Il
pugno di Boccioni, sponsored by the Museo del Louvre bookshop for Futurism's
100th birthday - Piazza Mattei, Rome, 10:30 pm
March 3, 2009 - lecture at composition seminar, Stanford University
March 4, 2009 - lecture at Danforth Hall, Mills College, Oakland
(open to the public) - 7.30 pm
March 6, 2009 - lecture at composition seminar, U.C. Berkeley
March 8, 2009 - performance
of VSTO (new version) by the Arditti Quartet, Mills College, Oakland.
Concert Hall, 3:00 pm
March 12, 2009 - lecture at U.C. Santa Barbara Dept. of Music
March 13, 2009 - lecture at Calarts
March 15, 2009 - concert with William Winant: Shofar III, for
shofar, keyboard, electronics, and percussion Contemporary
Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 736 Mission Street - 3:00 pm. Video
excerpt at YouTube (2:19).
April 25-26, 2009 - workshop with Roberto Castello and Stefano
Giannotti for REPORTERS
/ musica, SPAM!, Capannori (Lucca)
June 15-17, 2009 - miniresidency in composition, Hochschule
für Musik, Frankfurt
September 4, 2009, 0:05 - premiere of Living
Room Music on Deutschlandradio Kultur. Listen to an excerpt
September 12, 2009 - concert for the Notte Bianca in Rome, Via
del Mandrione, 451 (Porta Furba; Metro Arco di Travertino), "Valentini-Pirri,"
10.00 pm
September 15 and 17, 2009 - Molissa Fenley and Dancers perform new
choreography to music from Maritime Rites (Ice, Dew, Food, Crew, Ape) - Judson
Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, New York, 8:00 pm. View video of entire piece.
September 21-25, 2009 - Kurt
Jordan playsInner Cities complete, Azusa Pacific University, California,
8:00 pm each evening
September 27, 2009 - Endangered Species concert, Fondazione
Atopos, Arezzo, Tuscany - Teatro della Bicchieraia , Via della Bicchieraia,
6:00 pm. See Discography.
November 3-4, 2009 - seminar in media studies, "La
Sapienza" University of Rome, Prof. Valentina Valentini
November 20, 2009 - concert with Joelle Leandre and
Fred Frith - GRANDE SALLE ARSENAL, Avenue Ney, Metz, France - 7:00 pm
November 21, 2009 - concert with Joelle Leandre, Fred
Frith, and Urs Leimgruber at LE
BRASS, 364 av. Van Volxem 1190, Brussels (trams and bus 49, 50, 82, 97,
Wiels stop) info@forestcentreculturel.be or +32 (0)2 345 37 71 - 8:30 pm
November 22, 2009 - concert with Joelle Leandre, Fred
Frith, and Urs Leimgruber, in All
Frontiers 09 festival, Nuovo Teatro Comunale, Gradisca d'Isonzo (Trieste),
6 pm
November 29, 2009 - premiere of Oh Man,Oh Mankind,
Oh Yeah, for the Huddersfield Choral Society, Huddersfield
Contemporary Music Festival in England - Huddersfield Town Hall, 4pm
photo Martin Jenkins
December 1, 2009 - concert with Musica Elettronica Viva,
Gran Raccordo Anulare, sponsored by the Istituzione
Universitaria dei Concerti - Aula Magna, University of Rome "La Sapienza,"
8:30 pm
December 2, 2009 - concert
with Musica Elettronica Viva, Grande Auditório
da Culturgest, Rua Arco do Cego, Lisbon, 9:30 pm - information tel. 217 905
155
December 5, 2009 - concert with Musica Elettronica Viva, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves
Rua D. João de Castro, 210, Porto, Portugal, Tel: +351226156500, 9.30 pm
December 9, 2009 - concert with Paolo Ravaglia at the
Museo Casa Scelsi, Rome, 8.00 pm; by invitation only
December 15-18, 2009 - teaching residency in composition, Zentrum für Mediakunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
December 15, 2009 to January 15, 2010 - Lezione di Boxe - sound installation on Achille Bonito Oliva - Il Ponte Contemporanea gallery, Via Monserrato 23, Roma 00186 - Tues-Sat noon-7.00 pm.
February 29, 2008 - premiere of new piano work, E Poi...,
at Ten
For Carter, Network for New Music Ensemble, on the occasion of Elliot
Carter's 100th birthday, Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre, 2537 Broadway at 95th
St., New York, 8:00 pm. Listen to an excerpt.
March 2, 2008 - repeat performance of Ten
For Carter at the Settlement Music School, Mary Louise Curtis Branch,
416 Queen Street, Philadelphia, 3:00 pm
March 13, 2008 - concert,
Madrid, - 10:00 pm - La Casa Encendida, Ronda Valencia, 2 28012 Madrid, tel.
902 43 03 22 / 91 602 46 41
March 20, 2008 - Eve Egoyan plays Inner Cities complete at the
Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver, in Vancouver
New Music Festival
April 5, 2008 - Curran works featured in concert
by the Ne(x)tworks group, Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W 22nd St., New York, 2:00
pm. Listen to excerpt 1excerpt 2
May 8-30 - TazebAu
s'pace 2008. Informazione in rivoluzione, triplych installation with Paolo
Monti, Museo dell’ Istituto di Chimica, Rome
May 8 - Malapromptu for cello and piano performed at concert
in Utrecht, Holland, by Arne Deforce and Daan Vandewalle
May 13-14 - in residence at Bolzano Conservatory
May 19-20 - panelist at conference on 1960s Italian avant-garde
theater, University of Rome
May 30 - concert with Joan Labarbara and Philip Corner, Museum
of Modern Art Bologna (MAMBO), for Take
the Cage Train.
May 31 - June 1, 2008 - Boletus Edulis: Musica Pendolare - for
"Take
the Cage Train," on the 30th anniversary of John Cage's train happening,
sponsored by Angelica
- radio
interview with AC and various musicians
bands at Riola, music and choreography by Curran, video
Susan Levenstein
June 12 - concert
in Ferrara (Mumbai’s Way, with videomakers Lino Greco & Gerardo
Lamattina), produced by Franco Masotti - Palazzo Ludovico il Moro, 9:15 pm
- tickets and information at tel. 0532 202675, fax 0532 206007, or the Aterforum
web site
September 7, 2008 - Crystal Psalms aired at Ars
Electronica 2008 gala concert evening ("Sonorous Embodiment")
in the Klangpark outside the Brucknerhaus, Linz, 10.00 pm
September 28, 2008 - Eve Egoyan and Kathleen Supove play Inner
Cities complete. EMF
production, Judson Church, 55 Washington Square South, New York
September 29 - October 10, 2008 - in residence at Oberlin College
October 13-17, 2008 - in residence at Art Institute of Chicago
October 18, 2008 - concert at EMF Ear
to the Earth Festival, TransDadaExpress:The Brooklyn Bridge.
Judson Church, 55 Washington Square South, New York, 8pm, $15 / $10 students
October 20-21, 2008 - lecture and masterclass, University of
New Mexico, Albuquerque
October 25-November 1- Americans
festival, Groningen, Holland, Curran concerts Oct 25, Oct 29, Oct 30
October 25-November 1 - Gardening with John installation - public
library, Groningen, Holland
November 8 - concert at FMP's TOTAL
MUSIC MEETING, Berlinische Galerie. Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst,
Fotografie und Architektur, Alte Jakobstr. 124 - 128 (Kreuzberg), Berlin,
7:30 pm
November 24 - Poli(s)fonie - Citta' in ascolto: radio art round
table with Nicola Bernardini, Götz Naleppa, and Nicola Sani, Festival
of Science, Casa Paganini, Sala del Minor Consiglio, Palazzo Ducale, Genova,
5:00 pm
November 28 - TransDadaExpress at TempoReale Festival – CanGo (Cantieri Goldonetta), Via Santa
Maria 25, Florence - information and tickets: TEMPO REALE 055717270 3357063218
or CANGO 0552280525 – interview 6:00 pm, concert 9:30 pm. Excerpt on video.
November 30 - premiere of Erat Verbum Johnny in John
Cage: Concert Reclaimed Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - Town
Hall, Huddersfield, 4 pm
January 9 - lecture, Haifa University School of Music
January 11 - shofar solo concert:, Levontin 7, Tel Aviv (listen
to an excerpt)
January 13 - Israel Contemporary Players, Conductor Ilan Volkov,
concert Tel Aviv Museum
January 14 - Israel Contemporary Players, Conductor Ilan Volkov,
concert Jerusalem Music Center
January 20 - premiere of Passing Notes, with William Winant
and Joan Jeanrenaud, Santa Cruz
January 25 - concert with Cenk Ergün, Recombinant Lab,
San Francisco
January 28 - lecture and master class, UC Berkeley
January 31 - lecture, Cooper Union, New York
February 2 - lecture, Brown University, Providence
February 3 - shofar concert with Robert Gluck, EMF production,
Judson Church, New York
February 4 - interview and concert with Gene Coleman and Ensemble
Noamnesia, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia
February 5 - improv concert with Gene Coleman and others, Broad
Street Ministry, Philadelphia
February 6 - concert with Ensemble Noamnesia and AGAM Quartet,
Renaissance Society, University of Chicago
February 7 - lecture and master class, Northwestern University
February 7 - improv concert with Gene Coleman and others, Chicago
February 8 - lecture, Yale University
February 11 - Inner Cities complete, concert by Daan Vandewalle
at the Glasgow National Review of the Arts
March - Four articles by Curran at New York Times website (TimesSelect
Opinion) as part of The
Score: Four Innovative American Composers Sound Off, ed. Peter Catapano.
(see Writings page)
April 17-21 - Curran's music featured at spring
festival, Royal Conservatory of Music, the Hague, Netherlands
Schtyx, The Hague (excerpts)- Rebecca Huber, Elyssa Shalla, Maya Dunietz
April 22 - concert, Zo,
P.le Asia, 6, Catania, tel. 095.7463122, 9:30 pm
May 10 - Il
Suono del Logos - concert and premiere of Triadic Limbo with Alter Ego,
Auditorium, Rome, 9:00 pm
May 22 - talk, music conservatory of Perugia
June 18-30 - in residence at the Experimental Studio of the
Heinrich
Strobel Foundation of the SWR, Freiburg
July 1 - premiere of new work for shofar and electronics, concert
SWR
Studio Freiburg, Heinrich-Strobel-Saal, 8:00 pm
July 8 - Maritime Rites concert-installation, the port of Kinsale,
Ireland (Kinsale
Arts Week), 12 noon to 2:00 pm
July 12 and 13 - Inner Cities complete, concerts by Daan Vandewalle,
Rimini, Santarcangelo
dei Teatri festival
July 15 - premiere of Conversazioni Geologiche with
80 musicians on the slopes of Mount Etna, Festival
Cultania
June 17 through September 16 - Gardening With John installation
at the Moyland
Castle Museum, Bedburg - Hau, Germany
September 14 - Maritime Rites Tate concert-installation
on the Thames River, its strand, and the Millenium Bridge in London, featuring
AC (Diskklavier and sampler), Evan Parker (sax), Anton Lukoszievze (cello),
Melvyn Poore (tuba), the brass ensemble of the London
Symphony Orchestra, the bells of St. Paul's Cathedral, and 200 volunteer
musicians, presented by the Tate
Modern - 5:30 - 7:00 pm. video clips on YouTube, thanks
to "shuffleboil": 4-minute
clip3-minute
clip45-second
clip
September 27-30 - In Tempo Reale concert, Nuovo Teatro Colosseo,
and Viaggio in Tempo Reale, a performance caravan, curated by Achille Bonito
Oliva and Carla Subrizi as part of Romapoesia 2007
October 5 - premiere of On
The Roads, radio work about the ancient Roman roads for Deutschlandradio
Kultur - 00:05 am (listen to an excerpt)
Mim Bird, Francesco Careddu, AC, Riccardo La Barbera, SL,
Marco Mascaro, Alessandra Marzo, Davide Piersanti
recording at the naval museum in Nemi; video by Susan Levenstein ("Stompin' at the Golden Bough")
October 11 - Gardening With John installation
- opening at the Fondazione Mudima, Milano - Via Alessandro Tadino 26
October 18 - music
and performance with video installation by Roberto Masotti and live
video by Gerardo Lamattina and Lino Greco, wallsCAGEwalls, (Milano
Musica) Spazio Antologico, via Mecenate 84/10, Milan, 8:30 pm
December 4-5 - Inner Cities 1 - 11 complete on Future
Radio, at 96.9 FM in the Norwich (England) area and on the web at http://www.futureradio.co.uk/Future.m3u.
Four 1/2 hours without interruptions, played by Daan Vandewalle beginning
at midnight UK time, which corresponds to 7 - 11:30 pm on December 4th Eastern
Standard Time. And at any time, listen to a free podcast of Daan introducing
the music by clicking
here. You'll need iTunes to listen to the podcast; if necessary click
here to download it.
December 15 - premiere of new work for cello and piano, Daan
Vandewalle / Arne De Force, Handelsbeurs, Ghent
through January 15 - installation, Gardening with John, in exhibition PLAYING JOHN CAGE, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
January 17 - Art's Birthday - Trans Dada Express: international radio celebration of the 90th birthday of Dada, Sudwestrundfunk live performance 8:00 pm, remixing 8:30 pm to midnight (Baden-Baden)
January 18 through early May - in residence at Mills College,
Oakland
February 24 - Inner Cities complete, Stockholm new music festival,
Daan Vandewalle
March 4 - Alvin Curran Filharmonia concert (A.C., Scanner, and
D.J. Olive): Scelsi incontra Luc Ferrari da King Kong. Teatro
degli Arcimboldi, Milan, 9:00 pm
March 25 - Improvisation symposium of New York University Music Department, "Current Free Practices in Music and Poetry," New York City
March 26 - concert with Domenico Sciajno, Matt Ostrowski, and Gene Coleman, Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street, Manhattan (between Delancey and Rivington Streets), 8:00 pm
April 21 to May 21 - installation in Hermes' Ear exhibition, Nitrianska gallery, Nitra, Slovakia
May 10 - Events, Merce Cunningham Dance
Company, with improvised music by Takehisa Kosugi and Alvin Curran- Auditorio
Conciliazione, Via della Conciliazione 4, Rome, 8:45 pm, tel. 899 5000
55
May 15 - concert with Domenico Sciajno: Sonic Grafitti. Etnafest, Catania, Sicily, 9:15 pm
May 26 - concert with the Ensemble Dissonanzen, Maggio dei Monumenti, Chiesa di Santa Caterina di Siena (Via Santa Caterina da Siena, 38), Naples, 8:30 pm
June 1- July 16 - installation, Gardening
With John 1.1, at Sonambiente
festival in Berlin, in collaboration with Zerynthia
. Academie Der Kunste Hanseatenweg (Tiergarten). See video on installation
page.
June 13-16 - production of TransDadaExpress 2 –- Extraordinary
Renderings, Südwestrundfunk, Baden-Baden
June 21 - Tevereterno solstice event, with Kristin Jones, in Rome
July 1 - Inner Cities complete, concert by Daan Vandewalle at New Music Indaba, Grahamstown, South Africa
July 7 - Inner Cities 12, concert by Daan Vandewalle, Grahamstown, South Africa
June 26 -July 17 - in residence at the Experimental Studio of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of the SWR, Freiburg
September 10 - Inner Cities complete, concert by Daan Vandewalle at the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Holland
September 29 - October 1, Gardening With John 1.1 installation in Zerynthia Editing #4 exhibition, "Immaginando Terre Condivise" - Palazzo Lantieri, Gorizia
October 6-14 - contribution, with Joel Chatabe and others, to
Suspended Sounds, a 3-dimensional virtual-reality immersive audio environment
of sounds from extinct and endangered species, at Ear
to the Earth festival, New York City
October 8 - concert with Cenk Ergün and Fred Frith,
for 16th Akbank Jazz Festival,
at BABYLON, Sehbender
Sokak, No. 3 Asmalimescit –- Tünel Beyoglu, Istanbul, 7:00 pm
October 20-22 - TransDADAexpress 2 installation in MediaSpace
06 exhibit, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart
May 11th (Wednesday) - Ritratti Incrociati - double
portrait with Domenico Sciajno- Bologna, Italy (Angelica Festival)
June 7th - RAI, Via Asiago, Roma, Sala B - 40th Rome Anniversary
blowout: premiere of Pozzulana
June 17 - Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome - Improvisations
on silent films by Stan Brakhage (with Domenico Sciajno).
July 19 - duo with Domenico Sciajno, Kals'Art Festival,
Palermo, Italy
photo: Marco Bruni
July 30 - concert-installation, Nora Sonora, at the archeological
site of Nora (Cagliari)
September 4 - Shofar II: duo with Domenico Sciajno,
Gaudeamus Week 2005, 20.30 hrs.
Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ (MH), Amsterdam, Holland
September 25 - Vindobona Blues - concert-installation,
17.00 - 20.00, Tonspur, Arena 21, Museumsplatz 1, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
October 2, 23.05 hrs - Vindobona Blues on
Ö1 Kunstradio, Austria FM, KW, MW Radio 1476, and in 5.1 via OE1DD (listen
on line any time)
October 2 through November 20, every Sunday 11.00 -
20.00 - Vindobona Blues sound installation. Tonspur, Arena 21,
Museumsplatz 1, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
October 18 - solo concert, 19:00, Štúdio 12, Jakubovo nám. 12, Bratislava
November 5 through January 15 2006 - installation in exhibition PLAYING JOHN CAGE, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
November 5 - performance in PLAYING JOHN CAGE LIVE, 3:00 pm, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
November 22 - Premiere of Saltando in Padella by Alter
Ego, Teatro Palladium (Garbatella), Rome
November 26 - concert with Scanner, Gradisca d'Isonzo (Gorizia)
November 30 - concert with erikM dedicated to Luc Ferrari. TonArt,
Swiss National Library, Bern (listen)
The creation and edition of a large number of compositions, improvisations,
situations, and hypotheses for making music with modern acoustic instruments
which have little or no feature literature written for them: from bass saxophones
to musical saws, jugs to oboe d'amore, singing tea kettles to piccolos, euphoniums
to thumb pianos, banjos to contrabassoons, hurdy-gurdies to dobroes to sopranino
saxophones etc., for use in concert halls, the street, in the air on water and
for any occasion. Some works will feature one instrument type i.e. 4 bass flutes,
or 3 alto trombones, 5 contrabassoons etc, others will be a fanciful pairing
and mix of instruments as suggested above. The music will be written in such
a way as to offer both professionals and virtuosi as well as beginners and non-reading
musicians compositions to realize. This long term project has been enabled initially
by the Guggenheim Fellowship Program and will be published in a spiral-bound volume.
ENDANGERED SPECIES
...is an ongoing solo project begun in 1988 (ELECTRIC RAGS) for Midi Keyboard
Sampler and Laptop evolving into TRANSDADAEXPRESS, ENDANGERED SPECIES, and THE ALVIN CURRAN FAKEBOOK...this project makes me constantly update and assemble my
vast sample library and create spontaneous music-performances with 1000's of
selected samples from sounds of music, people, places, and things from all over
the world - literally the world under my fingers!!! Updated versions reflect
current configurations of sampled-sets that interest me...often leading to the
creation of Sound Portraits of People, (John Cage, the art critic Achille Bonito
Oliva, or Zurich street yodeler Alowys Bucher) or even live Double Portraits
with other artists and friends such as Scanner and was planned with Luc Ferrari
(Angelica Festival 05),....
XXTRA LARGE
Maritime Rites, Chicago, New Music America
A music-theater project (installation) in specially chosen sites involving
hundreds of musicians on land and on water - in a moving choreography of sound
and celebration. Walls of highly contoured sonic anarchy and unity outside the
Concert Halls. In 2005: Krems, Austria;
Nora, Sardinia. In 2006: Donaueschingen. In 2007: Kinsale, Ireland; the slopes of Mount Etna; the
Tate Modern. In 2008: Bologna; Groningen. In 2009: Huddersfield. In 2010: Frankfurt Am Main, Huddersfield. In 2011: Koblenz. In 2012: Oporto, New York, Rome, Bologna. In 2013: Perth, Adelaide, Zurich. In 2014: Oakland, Bonn. In 2015: Hobart, Tempe, Reykjavík. In 2016: Glasgow, Rome
JUKEBOT
JukeBot, in collaboration with the New York artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese – who are remaking an old 1950s Juke-Box into a digital composing and light machine – based on random selection of musical and sound files taken from the WWW and redesigned into personalized JukeBox “Szongs.”
SHOFAR
A constant return to my roots where the Ur-typical horn or horns meets MAX/MSP
- an ongoing project nearly 20 years in evolution toward a definitive version
- progress in June 2006 and 2007 at the SWR in Freiburg - airings in Jerusalem
Jan 2007, New York Feb 2007, Freiburg June 2007, installation San Francisco
2008, Ostia Antica 2009, live in San Francisco March 2009, Tzadik CD 2013, Brescia 2016...
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The creation and edition of a large number of compositions, improvisations,
situations, and hypotheses for making music with modern acoustic instruments
which have little or no feature literature written for them: from bass saxophones
to musical saws, jugs to oboe d'amore, singing tea kettles to piccolos, euphoniums
to thumb pianos, banjos to contrabassoons, hurdy-gurdies to dobroes to sopranino
saxophones etc., for use in concert halls, the street, in the air on water and
for any occasion. Some works will feature one instrument type i.e. 4 bass flutes,
or 3 alto trombones, 5 contrabassoons etc, others will be a fanciful pairing
and mix of instruments as suggested above. The music will be written in such
a way as to offer both professionals and virtuosi as well as beginners and non-reading
musicians compositions to realize. This long term project has been enabled initially
by the Guggenheim Fellowship Program and will be published in a spiral-bound volume.
