Ben Ellis will perform the second movement of in search of distant, guiding suns at the SCI Regional Conference, I-II at the University of Maine (Orono). Exact date TBA.
The Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra will perform the US premiere of at the foot of the mountain alongside works by fellow Central New Yorkers:
Dan Lawitts: Mystery of History (World Premiere)
Victor Mallia: Counterpoint (World Premiere)
Neva Derewetsky: We Race in Circles (Kodylynn Perkins, soprano)
Diane Jones: Soul Dance (Heidi Hoffman, cello)
Chris Cresswell: at the foot of the mountain
Ryan Chase: TBA (World Premiere)
Arr Sean O’Loughlin: How to Train Your Dragon
Arr Calvin Custer: A Salute to The Big Apple
Jacob Swanson will perform the world premiere of and it worked, a new piece for alto saxophone, live processing, fixed media, and video, alongside works by Marc Mellits and the world premiere of Frank Zabel’s …lost, but found…
Jacob will be joined by saxophonist Michael Hernandez.
The Composition Studio at Onondaga Community College will have their annual recital.
Students and faculty at Onondaga Community College will perform In C, alongside other works.
The Decho Ensemble will perform and it worked and Too Late in the Evening at the University of Illinois, Chicago alongside the world premiere of Marc Mellits’s Dreamscapes (Peisaje de Vise).
I will be giving a lecture on John Oswald’s "Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as Compositional Prerogative”, looking at its legacy 40 years later and reflect on Plunderphonics in a world of sampling, remix, and meme culture.
SPLICE Festival will include five concerts, along with presentations and hands-on workshop sessions. Concerts will feature performances selected from submitted works and a curated concert by the SPLICE Ensemble. Presentations and workshops will serve Western Michigan students and festival attendees.
The exact time of the lecture to be announced later.
The RE:Duo will perform the world premiere of Sometimes I Get a Feeling as part of the SPLICE Festival at Western Michigan University.
SPLICE Festival will include five concerts, along with presentations and hands-on workshop sessions. Concerts will feature performances selected from submitted works and a curated concert by the SPLICE Ensemble. Presentations and workshops will serve Western Michigan students and festival attendees.
The exact time of the concert to be announced later.
On November 20th, Onondaga Community College will host a "Works in Progress" presentation of "Requiem for a Shopping Mall at their new performance space, The Vault. We will share several musical movements, archived footage, and some of my research.
Dr. Ryan Chase and I will talk about the work I've been doing, what's left to do, and how to write a requiem about an inanimate object. (something I'm still working on!)
The concert will also include performances of Another Morning of Musical Ramblings and Patrick Ellis’s AUGMENSIONS AND EXTENTATIONS.
On November 8th, Colgate University will host a "Works in Progress" presentation of "Requiem for a Shopping Mall at their new performance space, The Vault. We will share several musical movements, archived footage, and some of my research.
Dr. Ryan Chase and I will talk about the work I've been doing, what's left to do, and how to write a requiem about an inanimate object. (something I'm still working on!)
The concert will also include performances of Another Morning of Musical Ramblings and Patrick Ellis’s AUGMENSIONS AND EXTENTATIONS.
Floris Van der Veken will return to Syracuse to perform my work for baritone saxophone, live processing, and fixed media. Visit OCC’s Facebook page for a link to the livestream.
Floris Van der Veken is a Belgian saxophonist and performance artist currently residing in Rochester, NY. His performances are characterized by a strong emphasis on contemporary repertoire and interdisciplinary collaboration.
At the moment he pursues the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music with Dr. Chien-Kwan Lin. He received his Master’s degree as well as a postgraduate specialization degree in performance, both with highest distinction, at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, Belgium, studying under Hans de Jong. During an exchange year he studied under Rodrigo Vila at the Conservatori Superior de Música de les Illes Balears in Mallorca, Spain.
Floris specializes in contemporary and experimental repertoire, often working together with composers to highlight new works. He participated in many masterclasses with renowned saxophonists such as Timothy McAllister, Arno Bornkamp, Ryo Noda, Lars Mlekusch, Vincent David, Joonatan Rautiola, Jérôme Laran, and Nicholas Prost.
The Byrne:Kozar:Duo will perform all that’s left is dirt and sky as part of their October 2024 tour, alongside music by Chen Yi, Qi Li, Christina George, Marti Epstein, and Alexandre Lunsqui.
The Byrne:Kozar:Duo will perform all that’s left is dirt and sky as part of their October 2024 tour, alongside music by Chen Yi, Qi Li, Christina George, Marti Epstein, and Alexandre Lunsqui.
The Byrne:Kozar:Duo will perform all that’s left is dirt and sky as part of their October 2024 tour, alongside music by Chen Yi, Qi Li, Christina George, Marti Epstein, and Alexandre Lunsqui.
The Byrne:Kozar:Duo will perform all that’s left is dirt and sky as part of their October 2024 tour, alongside music by Chen Yi, Qi Li, Christina George, Marti Epstein, and Alexandre Lunsqui.
I’ve been writing songs for over 20 years. On October 4th, I’ll be performing from my every expanding songbook along with some fun reimagined covers of my favorite songs by others.
The Byrne:Kozar:Duo will perform all that’s left is dirt and sky at the Hopkinton Arts Center in Hopkinton, MA.
Created by New York City and Boston-based soprano Corrine Byrne and trumpeter Andy Kozar, the Byrne:Kozar:Duo presents historically informed performances of Baroque music for natural trumpet and soprano and commissions new works for modern trumpet and soprano. They have been said to create 'an arresting symbiosis in their melding of voice and trumpet timbres' (Textura) and that the 'trumpet and voice seem to take on one another's qualities' (Bandcamp Daily).
Benjamin Ellis will bring my work, in search of distant guiding suns to the Skaneateles Library as part of their concert series hosted by the Skaneateles Library and the Great Lakes Guitar Society.
I will be performing Patrick Ellis’s detunes, drones at Ohio University as part of their Clickfest Festival.
A reading session with the Ryan Chase’s composition students at Colgate University.
Clarinets: Ryan Sparkes
Electric Guitar: Chris Cresswell
Percussion: Andrea Scheibel
Rochester based saxophonist, Floris Van der Veken, and I will travel to Oklahoma for the North American Saxophone Alliance to present my new work Means both sanctioned and forbidden for baritone saxophone and electronics.
The work uses sounds from the no input mixer to create an equally melodic and noisy soundscape.
MCPA RH @ 3:50 pm
I’m back doing singer/songwriter things at McCarthy’s Pub! Come join me for great food, great beer, and great songs!
“This ones gonna be a big one. We have New Grasping Machina and ksssssshk973 coming through from New Brunswick, NJ bringing their own unique styles of cut up harsh noise. Both are incredibly unique. Myself (Flesh Shuddering) playing material from my new album SCISSORS on Love Ea’rth Music (not yet released). ∇ ∇ SAMSVNGTHUUG ∇ ∇ from the Hudson River Valley bringing plunderphonic madness. And last but not least we have hometown hero Chris Cresswell performing solo guitar and electronics. certainly not to be missed if you like fast, loud and bizarre sounds.”
New Music Chicago Presents:
Decho Ensemble
January 16, 2024
7:30 pm (CST), 8:30 (EST)
Experimental Sound Studio
(5925 N Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago, IL)
Sarah Marchitelli, saxophones
Katherine Petersen, voice
Jacob Swanson, saxophones
A new version of “Too Late in the Evening” for saxophone, voice, and electronics will premiere alongside works by Ruby Fulton, Marc Mellits, and more!
“This program addresses forms of evolution, revolution, and renewal while exploring the outpouring of emotions that we experience during these processes. With pieces that incorporate acoustic instruments, fixed media, electronification, and sonic landscaping, Decho Ensemble will portray various renditions of metamorphosis and transformation.”
Chris Cresswell returns to McCarthy's Pub in Cazenovia to bring his trademark wit, fingerpicking guitars, and powerful voice. A constant explorer of sound, he has a solo rig that allows him to loop guitar, bass, keyboards, and voice in real time, creating a unique musical experience.
this is where I am right now will be performed as part of the Society of Composers, Inc Conference at Ohio University.
Chris Cresswell returns to McCarthy's Pub in Cazenovia to bring his trademark wit, fingerpicking guitars, and powerful voice. A constant explorer of sound, he has a solo rig that allows him to loop guitar, bass, keyboards, and voice in real time, creating a unique musical experience.
My sound installation, dis- will be included as part of Society for New Music’s October 14th Concert at Thornden Park.
Saturday, October 14, 2023, 2:00 PM
Thornden Park Amphitheater, Thornden Park Drive, Syracuse
Tickets: Free
SU Humanities Center's Syracuse Symposium, Society for New Music, and the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts welcome composer Augusta Read Thomas for a participatory work of bells and ambient sounds to celebrate community across cultures.
Organized by the Society for New Music and the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts, Resounding Earth inspires a participatory sonic landscape in the park amphitheater, featuring a performance of Pulitzer finalist Augusta Read Thomas's music for percussion quartet and ambient sounds celebrating community across cultures.
Ambient sounds, in this case, refer not only to sounds within the natural, outdoor setting but the fact that the musical score calls for 500 bells or sculpted metals of different sizes and shapes, from different cultures and historical periods.
To make this distinctive to CNY and the park, four regional composers will create mini-soundscapes in mapped locations nearby for visitors to explore before, during, or after Resounding Earth. Attendees are encouraged to bring a bell to "ring in" the performance, helping to change the sonic landscape for themselves and others.
The four movements of Resounding Earth:
1. INVOCATION – Pulse Radiance
2. PRAYER – Star Dust Orbits
3. CEREMONIAL TIME SHAPES
4. CRYSTAL LATTICE
"Everything that we are made of, everything that we know and love, is made from the stars." —Composer Augusta Read Thomas
315 Ensemble Presents:
Michael Pisaro’s asleep, street, pipes, tones
featuring Chris Cresswell (electric guitar) and Diane Jones (flutes)
Wunderbar, Syracuse, NY
Program:
yaz lancaster - everything cut down
Melissa Keeling - Northern Lights
Adam Scott Neal - cords
Michael Pisaro - asleep, street, pipes, tones
Members of 315 Ensemble return to Wunderbar to perform a deeply moving concert and audio-visual experience featuring Michael Pisaro’s monumental, asleep, street, pipes, tones. This 64 minute work, performed here by Chris Cresswell on electric guitar and Diane Jones on amplified contrabass flute, the work incorporates field recordings and sounds from everyday life to create an ambient, reflective work. Asleep, street, pipes, tones has been described as “a fascinating, intense and lovingly produced example of what can be made if you come from a completely different direction to the music-making process." The work is accompanied by an abstract visual film created by Chris Cresswell.
This 64 minute work is preceded by yaz lancaster’s everything cut down for solo electric guitar, Melissa Keeling’s Northern Lights, and Adam Scott Neal’s cords for electric guitar and electronics.
Andy Kozar will perform Convenient bits of unupholstered furniture at Cornish College of the Arts as part of a recital of music for trumpet and electronics.
Andy Kozar will perform Convenient bits of unupholstered furniture at Pacific Lutheran University as part of a recital of music for trumpet and electronics.
The concert will be livestreamed.
More information: https://calendar.plu.edu/event/artist_series_andrew_kozar_trumpet
Chris Cresswell returns to McCarthy's Pub in Cazenovia to bring his trademark wit, fingerpicking guitars, and powerful voice. A constant explorer of sound, he has a solo rig that allows him to loop guitar, bass, keyboards, and voice in real time, creating a unique musical experience.
The Byrne:Kozar:Duo will perform “all that’s left is dirt and sky” at the DiMenna Classical Music Center in New York City as part of the Time:Spans Festival.
Reiko Füting
eternal return (Passacaglia), 2016
Vid Smooke
All Are Welcome Here, 2017
Chris Cresswell
all that's left is dirt and sky, 2019
Jeffrey Gavett
Proof of Concept for Floating Child, 2019
Scott Wollschleger
Bring Something Incomprehensible Into This World, 2015
Alexandre Lunsqui
Two Patches, 2019
Alexandre Lunsqui
Solis, 2019
Taylor Brook
New Work, 2023*
* world premiere
Corrine Byrne, voice
Andrew Kozar, trumpet
Concert duration: approximately one hour and fifteen minutes
315 Ensemble will be performing some of favorite pieces, including:
Evan Williams - bodies upon the gear (2013/2023)
Emily Levy - Sorry, Where are we now? (2017)
Joshua Dowling - Unfolding Spiral (2023)
Yaz Lancaster - intangible landscapes (2019-2020)
Ed Ruchalski - Song and Variant (2022)
Chris Cresswell - Sonic Abstractions (2019)
315 Ensemble & Wunderbar Presents: An Arts Salon. An opportunity for ages 18+ musicians, poets, actors and artists of all genres to connect, collaborate, and share their work. We strongly encourage artists to share "in progress" and experimental work, in a warm, welcoming environment. If you're interested in performing or have questions, please reach out to Chris Cresswell at ChristopherECresswell@gmail.com
