NEW SOUND, NEW YORK is a citywide festival of performances, installations and public dialogues featuring new works by sound artists who are exploring fresh connections among music, architecture and the visual arts. Running March 30-May 16, 2004, the festival is organized by The Kitchen and The
Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union, in conjunction with eleven other arts organizations: Art in General, Charles Morrow Associates Inc., Creative Time, Dancing in the Streets, Diapason Gallery, free103point9, Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center, Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority, PhenomenArts, Inc., SculptureCenter, World Financial Center Arts & Events Program.

The following group of individuals and companies made generous contributions in order that the New Sound, New York Festival be dedicated to the city of New York and its enduring creative spirit: Morton Meyerson, Marlene Nathan Meyerson, Marti Hooper, Robin Neustein, Cathy and Keith Abell, Gerald Rosenfeld and Judith Zarin, The Nash Family Foundation, Insight Venture Partners, Anonymous, Joyce F. Menschel, Jean and James W. Crystal.

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March 30-May 1, Tue-Sat, 2-6pm Free

Opening reception: March 30 (Tue) 6pm Free
Gallery Talk: April 17 (Sat) 3pm Free
3D Sound Workshop: April 21 (Wed) 10am-1pm Free

Curated by Charlie Morrow, Stephen Vitiello and Christina Yang.

Produced by The Kitchen, Charles Morrow Associates Inc., and Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center

Twelve composers write for sound art pioneer Charles Morrow's Sound CubeTM —a multi-channel, playback environment providing an immersive, 3D audio experience. With world premieres by Olivia Block, Shelley Hirsch, Illustrious Company: Martyn Ware/Vincent Clark, Miya Masaoka, Steve McCaffrey, Charles Morrow, Phill Niblock, Michael J. Schumacher, Scanner, Stephen Vitiello, and Pamela Z.

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March 30-May 1, Tue-Sat, 2-6pm Free

Philip Glass: Dance No. 4 (1979)
Pauline Oliveros: The Tuning Meditation (1979)

Audience members can listen to two compilation CDs featuring highlights from the 1979 New Music, New York concerts, pulled from The Kitchen Archives. Featuring music by Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros and Tony Conrad—"One of the most important records ever of the history of minimal music," (Tom Johnson, The Village Voice ).

To order From The Kitchen Archives: New Music, New York 1979 (two-cd compilation), visit www.orangemountainmusic.org or The Kitchen Box Office, Tue-Sat, 2-6pm.

Partial funding for the recording has been provided by the Mary Flagler Charitable Trust, and a grant from the Recording Academy.

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Resonating Frequencies   
dialogues on architecture & music

March 31-21 (Wed) 8pm $12
Location: The Great Hall of The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, NYC
Ticket Central: 212-279-4200 or www.ticketcentral.com

Curated by Christopher Janney
Hosted by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union

Prominent architects and composers are paired to reflect on architecture and music.

March 31 (Wed): DJ Spooky and Greg Lynn
April 7 (Wed): Philip Glass and Thom Mayne
April 14 (Wed): Laurie Anderson and Martha Schwartz
April 21 (Wed): MOBY and Bernard Tschumi

Funding for Resonating Frequencies has been provided by The Marlene Nathan Meyerson Family Foundation in honor of Marti Ann Meyerson and David Nathan Meyerson

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April 1 (Thu) 8pm $15

Curated by Christopher McIntyre and Michael J. Schumacher (Diapason)

Architects and musicians collaborate to design three-dimensional sound structures, using Michael J. Schumacher's computer-based matrix. With architects Victoria Meyers, Christopher Warnick, and Stéphane Roux and three trios of improvisers: Kaffe Matthews, electronics; Matthew Ostrowski, electronics; and Okkyung Lee, cello (Trio 1); Raz Mesinai, percussion/electronics, and Daniel Carter, saxophone, Seth Cluett (Trio 2); Andrea Parkins, accordion/electronics, Hans Temmen, endangered guitar, and Charles Cohen, Buchla Music Easel (Trio 3).

L I T E R A T U R E

April 6 (Tue) 7pm $10
(Free Zoetrope magazines given to all attendees)

Director: Javier Gutierrez
Theatrical Adaptation: Joy Barrett, Javier Gutierrez, Beth Lein
Producers: Joy Barrett, Beth Lein

Presented by Zoetrope, Francis Ford Coppola's celebrated literary magazine, Live Story is a night of dramatic reading in which actors assume the characters and narrative tones of acclaimed short stories. For its first Kitchen venture, Zoetrope stages pulp writer Tod Robbins' Spurs the circus side show tale that inspired the cult-classic Freaks.

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April 8 (Thu) 8pm $15

Curated by Christopher McIntyre and James Fei

Sound innovators explore the use of feedback to create sonic environments. The program traces a lineage from legendary pioneers David Behrman (Wave Train) and Nic Collins (pea soup performed by Ben Neill on mutantrumpet and Kato Hideki on double bass) to a new generation of sound artists, including James Fei (low-fi innovator) and Jim O'Rourke (Gastr del Sol and Sonic Youth).

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April 15 (Thu) 8pm $15

Curated by Christopher McIntyre and Share

NYC audiovisual collective Share presents a real-time concert in "networked" collaboration with colleagues worldwide. Featuring Opalab + Cyberpipe (Ljubjana), Michelle Teran + Boris Hauf (Berlin), Michael Liegl (Munich) Solu + Optiq (Barcelona), Société des arts technologiques (Montreal), Kaffe Matthews + Leafcutter John + others at Annette Works, and resonanceFM (London), Isabelle Jenniches (Canary Islands), Klaus Filip + Dieb 13 + lloopp developers at rhiz (Vienna), Arri (Amsterdam), Radiojeleni (Prague) and more.

This Program is funded by The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds program supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.

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April 22 (Thu) 7-11pm $20 (includes radio)/$10

Curated by Christopher McIntyre, Galen Joseph-Hunter (free103point9 & Electronic Arts Intermix) and Tom Roe (free103point9)

This sound installation/event is designed for a virtually silent environment in which listeners hear live performances through individual radio headsets. Co-presented by The Kitchen and New York-based transmission arts organization free103point9, Tune(In))) The Kitchen showcases five "stations" of sound performance and video work: Kitchen Legacy, free103point9 Transmission Arts, Avant-Rock, New Electronics, and Video Tune(In))), with over forty artists participating, including 31 Down, Peggy Ahwesh, David Behrman, Erika Elder, Barbara Ess, Carlos Giffoni (Monotract), I-Sound, John King, Alan Licht, Thurston Moore, Ikue Mori, Jeremy Novak (Dymaxion), Zeena Parkins, Tom Roe, Marina Rosenfeld, Scanner, Sybarite, Richard Teitelbaum, The SB, Matt Valentine, Stephen Vitiello, Gregory Whitehead, among others, with engineers Marcel Blum, Matt Bua, Damian Catera, Matt Mikas, Michelle Nagai, Ben Owen, Radio Ruido, and Transmaniacon MC.

Tune(In))) The Kitchen is funded, in part, by the Experimental Television Center. The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.

O P E N   K I T C H E N : F A M I L Y   E V E N T S

April 24 (Sat) 12pm-3pm $5

Rap a verse, sing a tune, dance a line-it's up to you to express yourself! Now in its fifth season, this non-competitive showcase gives teens three minutes in the spotlight and features performances and feedback by three artists who explore culture and identity through poetry: Nelson Estabon Chimilio, Mark Dow, and Mervyn Taylor.

To sign up: 212.255.5793 x25

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Photos Left to Right : Laurie Anderson by Paula Court, Robert Ashley by Jack Mitchell, Meredith Monk by Shigeo Anzai, Philip Glass courtesy of Philip Glass, Pauline Oliveros by Becky Cohen, Steve Reich courtesy of Steve Reich 

April 27 (Tue) 8pm $100-$1,200
Location: Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, NYC
For information on Gala tickets and activities: 212-255-5793 x11
For performance tickets: 212-307-7171 or in person at Townhall after April 6



Featuring Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, and Steve Reich.

Curated by Stephen Vitiello

When The Kitchen launched the New Music, New York festival in 1979, it created a "genuine landmark in the evolution of a genre" (The Village Voice), and spawned the legendary New Music America. The Kitchen celebrates the 25 anniversary of that event with a gala concert that re-unites an all-star line up from the original New Music, New York. An extraordinary opportunity to hear two compositions premiered at the 1979 concerts— Steve Reich's Drumming, Part 1 and Meredith Monk's Dolmen Music— Robert Ashley's 1987 song, Love is a Good Example (with performers Joan La Barbara, Thomas Buckner and Tom Hamilton), a solo accordion Pauline Oliveros and new works by Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass.

New Music, New York + 25 is sponsored by WNYC New York Public Radio.

P E R F O R M A N C E / N E W   M E D I A

April 30 (Fri) and May 1 (Sat) 8pm $12

Live digital samplings from the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Anti-fi techno-punk feminist Tracy + The Plastics spins a fractured multimedia video art experiment in the politics of identity and sexuality. Golan Levin, creator of the Dialtones Telesymphony (2001), collaborates with artist-engineer Zachary Lieberman on an audiovisual piece probing "the subtleties of manual expression." Topping off the evening is Cory Arcangel from BEIGE, an art group who has pioneered the practice of hacking obsolete 8bit computers and video game systems, and was hailed as one of 2002's "Top Ten Art Moments" -The New York Times.