ALVIN CURRAN

Up And Coming

photo of Japanese acoustic locators thanks to Douglas Self

2010 EVENTS
BACK IN 2009
...IN 2008
...IN 2007
... IN 2006
...IN 2005
OTHER CURRENT CURRAN PROJECTS

CURRAN EVENTS IN 2010...

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.

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.

May 1, 2010 - solo ENDANGERED SPECIES concert, Blurred Edges festival. Golden Pudel Klub, St.Pauli Fischmarkt 27, Hamburg, 7.00 pm. "The Blurred Edges avantgarde festival couldn't have chosen a better guest star than Alvin Curran." - Hamburger Abendblatt

May 2, 2010 - performance of VSTO string quartet at concert by Ensemble Resonanz, Blurred Edges festival. Fabrik im Gängeviertel, Valentinskamp 34a, Hamburg. Composers' introduction 7.30 pm, concert 8.00 pm.

May 4-5, 2010 - Mini-residency, Muthesius Academy of Art and Design, with Arnold Dreyblatt, Kiel

May 4, 2010 - lecture open to the public, "Music Outside the Concert Halls," Muthesius Kunsthochschule Aula, Lorentzendamm 6-8, Kiel, 8.30 pm

May 7, 2010 - concert at Les Instants Chavirés, 7 Rue Richard Lenoir 93100 Montreuil- Métro Robespierre, Paris. Tel: 01 42 87 25 91. 8.30 pm

June 19, 2010 - Maritime Rites, at the Holbeinsteg river park on both sides of the Main River (Städel Museum), Frankfurt am Main, 5.30 pm and 7.45 pm. TV newscast (in German)

July 14, 2010 - concert: Endangered Species. Sarzana (La Spezia), in the Sconfinando 2010 Festival. Fortezza Firmafede (Cittadella- Centro Storico, Piazza Matteotti), 11.00 pm

July 19-25, 2010 - TORZAM geht von ARMZOT bis ZAMTOR jeder RATZMO MARTOZ und TAMOZR, installation for the Mannheimer Mozartsommer, in the Baroque garden of the Schwetzingen palace, with computer realization by Luca Spagnoletti. Open 11.00 am - 7.00 pm daily - excerpt on video

October-November 2010 - residency, ARD Radio Days / ZKM, Karlsrühe - details to be announced

November 14, 2010 - premiere of Inner Cities XXL by Daan Vandewalle, November Music Festival, den Bosch, Holland - details to be announced

November 2010 - premiere at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - details to be announced

December 2010 - seminar in media studies, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, Prof. Valentina Valentini - details to be announced

2010-2011 - Gutenberg Fellowship, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz - details to be announced

July 2011 - premiere at the Nö Festival in Krems - details to be announced

September 2011 - premiere of Circus Maximus, commissioned by Integra for the Ars Nova Ensemble in Malmö, at Warsaw Autumn Festival - details to be announced

CURRAN EVENTS IN 2009...

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 films Organum 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 "A wonderful study in contrasts...I loved it." - Richard Friedman

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).

photos by Susan Levenstein - see more

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 - 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 (see some of the dancing but without the music)

September 21-25, 2009 - Kurt Jordan plays Inner 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 27, 2009 - concert with Musica Elettronica Viva at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - Phipps Hall, 8 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

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, Karlsrühe, 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.

December 27, 2009 - In Memory of Maryanne Amacher published by the New York Times Opinionator

 

CURRAN EVENTS IN 2008...

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 1 excerpt 2

April 23, 2008 - premiere of "Weil Erde in meinem Körper war..." with choreography by Wanda Golonka, the Ensemble Modern, the schauspielfrankfurt ensemble, and guests, for Frankfurter Positionen 2008 at the schauspielfrankfurt, Neue Mainzer Straße 17, Frankfurt, tel. 069/212 37 000 - repeat performances May 1 and June 14, 2008 - "Sound, bodies, space, and props in marvelous symbiosis... This wonderful evening of music theater is a widescreen elegy that packs a wallop"- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

 

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


photos Susan Levenstein


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

photo Antonio Trimani

November 1 - Beams, Americans festival - Aa Church, Groningen, Holland, 4:00 pm

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 - "Only one [of the works], Alvin Curran's Erat Verbum Johnny, with its final swoop into a first world war music-hall song, came close to the humour and exuberance so important in Cage's musical personality" - The Guardian (Andrew Clements)

WHAT HAPPENED IN 2007

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 - Rebecca Huber, Elyssa Shalla, Maya Dunietz - see video of this plus of AC solo concert on Listen page

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

"Doveva essere proprio così l'incontro dell'umanità primitiva con la grande madre Natura..." - Sergio Sciacca

June 17 through September 16 - Gardening With John installation at the Moyland Castle Museum, Bedburg - Hau, Germany

August 2 - The Fromm Concert at Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, with Musica Elettronica Viva, 8:30 pm. Listen to an excerpt.

 

September 14 - Maritime Rites 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. You can get some idea of this great event from the video coverage by Radio Suisse Romande or by checking out several video clips on YouTube, thanks to "shuffleboil": 4-minute clip 3-minute clip 45-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

 

October 11 - "Gardening With John" sound installation - opening at the Fondazione Mudima - Via Alessandro Tadino 26 (20124)
Milano - call 02 29409633 for time

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

October 20 - Eve Egoyan plays Inner Cities complete at the Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto

October 27 - concert in "Wiva Russolo" festival, Chiesa di San Luigi, Porto Gruaro

November 16 - "Oh Brass On the Grass Alas" at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in Yorkshire

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

December 17-19 - composition workshop, Palermo

 

BACK IN 2006:

Out of 05 barely alive, into 06 with a new bag of tricks...

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

March 28- lecture, Peabody School of Music

March 30 - Musica Elettronica Viva concert, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York (West Hall Auditorium, 7:30 PM)

    

 

April 21 to May 21 - installation in Hermes' Ear exhibition, Nitrianska gallery, Nitra, Slovakia

May 10 - Event, 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 14 - concert at the D22 Club, Beijing

  

  

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

October 20 - premiere of "Oh Brass on the Grass Alas" - brass band performance for 300 musicians, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Donaueschingen, Germany; excerpt 1, excerpt 2, excerpt 3, excerpt 4, excerpt 5

 

 

October 24 - concert at RAI (Pino Saulo), Via Asiago, transmitted live on RAI Radio 3 and on web radio, 8:30 pm

October 28 - talk, "Musica Fuori le Sale da Concerto," Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio, Rome, 6:00 pm

November 5 - concert for Nuova Consonanza, Villa Aurelia (American Academy of Rome), approx. 9:30 pm

November 8 - rebroadcast of "I Dreamt John Cage Yodeling in the Zurich Hauptbahnhof," Swiss radio DRS and on web radio , 8:00 pm

November 16 - rebroadcast of "Oh Brass on the Grass Alas" on SWR2 radio 11:00 pm

November 18 - concert "Transdada Express" Rialtosantambrogio Rome

December 15 - Inner Cities complete, concert by Daan Vandewalle, Goteborg Sweden

...AND IN 2005...

March 17th - Montevideo/GRIM, Marseilles - duo with Jean-Marc Montera

March 19th - Montevideo/GRIM, Marseilles - Inner Cities complete, Daan Vandewalle

March 25th and 26th - Events, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, with Kosugi and Phil Corner - Rovereto, Italy

March 25th - Nuuk, Greenland - Inner Cities complete, Daan Vandewalle

April 24th - Krems, Austria - the NOE/Danube Festival - concert/installation with the Zeitkratzer Ensemble

April 30th - Montclair State, Montclair New Jersey - concert with MEV

May 3rd - duo with poet Clark Coolidge - Providence, RI (listen to an excerpt)

May 8th (Sunday) - Zorn's Cobra - Bologna, Italy (Angelica Festival)

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 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)

December 13 - duo with Domenico Sciajno, Venice

December 19th - Montevideo/GRIM, Marseilles - Inner Cities complete, Daan Vandewalle

 

OTHER CURRENT PROJECTS:

THE ALVIN CURRAN FAKE BOOK

fake book

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 set of volumes (notebooks) containing about 10 works each.

 

ENDANGERED SPECIES

dodo

...is an ongoing solo project begun in 1988 (ELECTRIC RAGS) for Midi Keyboard Sampler and Laptop...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
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 Festival, Germany. In 2007: Kinsale, Ireland; the slopes of Mount Etna; the Tate Modern, London. In 2008: Bologna; Groningen. In 2010: Frankfurt Am Main.


 

 

 


GRID JAM

 Jack Ox shofar image
 image by Jack Ox of a Curran shofar call

Of all the current projects GridJam kind of leaves the earth completely to return to it, bang! in a very hi-tech way: In Collaboration with artist Jack Ox, programmer Dave Britton and sound-artist Tana Leah, I will be creating the music for this project - to take place in four "cave" environments simultaneously using the highest-speed digital communication systems available for sound and image--where the creation, derivation, and transformation of image from sound and sound from image aims at a completely new paradigm...planning to be seen and heard soon, to be announced.

 

 

SHOFAR

Curran with 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...




                    photo:  Claudia Von Alemann

 

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