(2010, cd, usa, composer concordance records comcon001)
(2010, cd, usa, composers concordance records comcon003)
the internatinal street cannibals
The International Street Cannibals is a collective of acclaimed and untamed instrumentalists, singers, composers, videographers, audio technicians, dancers, puppeteers and visual artists, directed by Dan Barrett with Assistant-Director Chala Yancy, Dance Director Megan Sipe, Technical Director Tyler Learned. In the spirit of Montaigne's 1580 essay, "Of Cannibals," in which the French philosopher derides the status distinctions and disingenuous mores of the contemporary society of his time, the ensemble presents a mix of fresh compositions and the more arresting in classical music, showcasing diverse modalities while challenging assumptions about the concert space.
Since its
inception in 2005, ISC has made as its performance homes the main dance space of
St Mark's in-the-Bowery, The Outreach Festival (Schwaz, Austria), The Player's
Theatre (NYC), and has performed at Le
Poisson Rouge, St. Mark's in-the-Bowery, the Austrian Cultural Forum, HOWL!
Festival (New York), and the legendary boxing ring, Gleason's - home of 127
world champions - in which ISC holds its annual STRIKE! concert series.
ISC can be heard on two CDs released in 2010-11 by Composers Concordance
Records: Ballets & Solos (Music by Dan Cooper, Part Hardish, Otto Luening,
Joseph Pehrson and Gene Pritsker), and The International Street Cannibals
Present The Music of Gene Pritsker. Composers Concordance Records/Naxos will
release Non Western Omelette (Music by Luciano Berio, Dan Cooper, Paul
Hindemith, Guillaume de Machaut/Barrett, Dary John Mizelle, Arvo Pärt, Gene
Pritsker, James "Nyoraku" Schlefer, and Tyrolian folk tunes) in Sept
2013, and Beethoven: Works for Pianoforte and Violoncello (Twelve Variations on
a Theme from Judas Maccabaeus; Grand Sonata, Opus 64, in D major; Sonata, Opus
17, in F major) performed by Dan Barrett on cello and Joshua Pierce on piano, in
fall of 2013.
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street cannibals ensemble: ballets & solos (2010, cd, usa, composer concordance records comcon001) |
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street cannibals: solo - duo - trio - quartet - quintet - the
chamber and electronic music of gene pritsker (2010, cd, usa, composers concordance records comcon003) |
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The
International Street Cannibals (ISC), the multi-genre new music ensemble
of seasoned and exploratory chamber musicians/composers, directed by Dan
Wotan Barrett, and co-directed by Chala Yancy and guest co-director Joe
Gallant, will crown its 2012-13 season with Hour of The Beast, on
Sunday, May 5 at 7:30 p.m. A 2-hour mosaic of short works plumbing the
sensibility of totemistic belief, this butt-kicking event will set the
rawest modes of rock against classic techniques, in an ungovernable
melange of incongruous transcriptions and new music compositions from
some of today's most establishment-unfriendly composers. The course of
this incendiary hullabaloo will usher in the dance components of Megan
Sipe and Amanda Mottur, bellydancer, which will serve to
"translate" the music, spatially. Among the tidbits of this
savage musical repast will be renderings of several Beethoven Bagatelles
with piano, belly dance and electro/acoustic ensemble; a malformed
chamber version of Captain Beetheart's "When I See Mommy I Feel
Like A Mummy" with go-go dancer;
a schizo-affective rendering of Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs'
"Wooly Bully"; a recitation, in the original Ionic dialect,
accompanied by tribalistic sonorities, of Homer's Hymn to Demeter; and
some solo bijoux by Mr Kigawa. Hour of The Beast is part of ISC's
Holding Tank series, which offers a mix of traditional and
non-traditional chamber works by European masters, contemporary American
composers and satirists, as well as improvised and semi-staged works
exploiting the spatial qualities of venues in novel ways.
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