Brogan Daly Sfirri (the latter not pictured)
20 November 2012, Miguel Abreu Gallery, NYC
The Speculative Turn and Contemporary Music
12 November 2012, Harvard Group for New Music
photo by Timothy McCormack
Wandelweiser und so weiter (Another Timbre, 2012)
featuring a sonification of ensemble (2010) by Crys Cole, Jamie Drouin, Lance Austin Olsen, and Mathieu Ruhlmann
“Je ne sais pas trop où ils veulent en venir, ni où ils vont ni d’où ils sont parti” (Julien Héraud).
“Jason Brogan’s ensemble, performed here by the Canadian electronics quartet of Crys Cole, Jamie Drouin, Lance Austin Olsen and Mathieu Ruhlmann brings a new palette of sounds to the table. The greyness of silence is there again, this time gradually violated by soft cracking, hissing electronics and alien little disruptions, all very subdued. I don’t know the score, so it is hard to ascertain to what extent this music ‘belongs’ to the musician or the composer, where any lines may be drawn, but it sounds as if the various parts (the musicians are indistinguishable from one another here) are arranged carefully, but that their particular identities are not prescribed. This is a very nice work, highly listenable, with the way the sounds interact almost seamlessly an engaging element” (Richard Pinnell).
“There’s a forlorn, distant horn sound dwelling beneath the scrabbly, staticky foreground that inevitably brings to mind that snowy north country… It’s the sort of piece one could easily pass over thinking, “OK, I’ve heard things like this before” but at the cost of missing some finely etched detail (a whispered phoneme at one point, I think) that lends a good amount of mystery to the proceedings” (Brian Olewnick).
Michael Rosenstein: “A continual reappraisal of what is in the process of happening: Wandelweiser und so weiter”
Word Events: Perspectives on Verbal Notation (Bloomsbury, 2012)
featuring the collaborative project with Compost and Height, Only
Michael Pisaro’s “Tombstones”
Performed by Jason Brogan, Tucker Dulin, Julia Holter, Andrew Lafkas, Katie Porter, Sam Sfirri, and Ron Wiltrout.
10/3/12 @ Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral
Tombstones (2006-10) by Michael Pisaro
performed by Julia Holter with Tucker Dulin, Andrew Lafkas, Katie Porter, Sam Sfirri, and Ron Wiltrout; contributions by Greg Stuart
directed by Jason Brogan
8 pm, 3 October 2012 @ ISSUE Project Room, NYC
realization of (night.) for percussion perhaps, or… (1970-71) by James Tenney
from asleep, afield (2012) co-written/performed with Ben Owen and Tucker Dulin
15 August 2012, CT-SWaM, Eyebeam, NYC
photo by Daniel Neumann
A Survey is a Process of Listening
A performative survey of listening, as we managed to find it being used as a tool in different practices, disciplines and communities in North America (music, poetry, film, philosophy, activism…). A set of performances that demonstrate how listening can be used to consider history, language, space, liberty, politics…
2 - 6 May 2012, Whitney Museum, NYC
text pieces (2009)
November 2011 – April 2012, on and around Oberlin College, Ohio
Jason Brogan, Sam Sfirri, Mark So, and Manfred Werder
20 April 2011, Sound Series, Brooklyn, New York
21 April 2011, Bowerbird, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
photo by Yuko Zama
Scenes of Two
I. Eva-Maria Houben, rufe (2010)
II. Jürg Frey, Exact Dimension without Insistence (1999)
III. Samuel Beckett, Enough (1965) & Jason Brogan, duet (2010)
performed by Jason Brogan, Nathan Koci, and Jessie Marino
24 February 2011, Sound Series, Brooklyn, New York
Michael Pisaro: 2000 - 2010 – a conspectus
19 - 21 September 2010, Charleston/Columbia/Pickens, South Carolina
photo by Melinda Mead Photography
