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Doctor Nerve European Tour 2013
Ice Cream Time is back!
The 10th year anniversary of Ice Cream Time is marked by two performances by PRISM Sax Quartet, with Nick Didkovsky (gtr/composer) and Thomas Dimuzio (real time sound processing).The PRISM Quartet, composer/guitarist Nick Didkovsky, and sonic alchemist Thomas Dimuzio perform Ice Cream Time, an evening-length work by Didkovsky that uses electric guitar, an onslaught of saxophones, and real-time computer processing to explore the boundaries between human- and software-generated music. Didkovsky is best known for his work with Doctor Nerve, Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, and Bang On A Can, and for developing his own computer music language.
Friday, May 17, 2013 @ 5:00 PM
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Art After 5 Series
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Sunday evening, May 19, 2013
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(917) 267-0363
Ice Cream Time CD on New World Records
Past Performances
Doctor Nerve plays ProgDay 2012!
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Come to beautiful Chapel Hill, NC and see Nerve rip up the stage on Sunday Sept 2 at ProgDay! Be a badass! Come to ProgDay and see Doctor Nerve perform! We will be selling a limited edition ProgDay only EP of five new tunes! |
Doctor Nerve at Le Poisson Rouge, Feb 13, 2012
Doctor Nerve returns to Le Poisson Rouge in NYC! We'll be ripping through our new tunes and digging out some of the less played older repertoire as well. The band is ridiculously hot since our Zappanale performance, and we are excited to play in this superb venue. And we'll be recording multitrack! Check out some recent videos.Monday Feb 13, 2012
Doors 9:30 // Show 10pm
$10 advance, $12 day of show
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Häßliche Luftmasken, Feb 29, 2012, 10pm
Nick's metal band returns to The Stone!Jesse Krakow on bass, Keith Abrams on drums, Josh Lopes on guitar, and Nick D on guitar.
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Thanks to Pogus Productions for curating this night!
Check out our YouTube playlist from our premiere show.
The Stone is located at the corner of avenue C and 2nd street.
Swim This (Lytle/Didkovsky/Hemingway)
"Three highly inventive improvisers (or instant composers) matching wits and working most creatively together." - Bruce Lee GallanterTwo gigs in January:
These two performances are considered rare and spectacular, featuring:
Michael Lytle - clarinets and electronics
Gerry Hemingway - drums, perc.
Nick Didkovsky - electric guitar and sonics preparations
You will leave this concert with vibes in your ears.
Doctor Nerve, Nov 29, 2011
At The Stone, Cuneiform Records week! Forever Einstein at 8pm. Doctor Nerve at 10pm. Read all about itCheck out our YouTube playlist from our recent performance at Zappanale. THE STONE is located at the corner of avenue C and 2nd street.
Police Academy perform Didkovsky's "Caught by the Sky With Wire"
Police Academy is an uncanny duo consisting of the exceptional Mariel Roberts ('cello) and superlative Mike Perdue (percussion).They're performing my piece Caught by the Sky With Wire and they're going to nail it beyond belief.
Also performing pieces by Xenakis (who?), Perdue, Golijov, Traxler, and Perotin. Holy moley watta night.
Manhattan School of Music (122nd and BWay), Ades Performance Space
Tuesday, Jan 25, 2011, 7:30PM
Free admission!!! Free admission!!! Free admission!!!
If you don't attend this you will turn into a ___________.
Nick Didkovsky Guitar Mashup at Machine Project
Friday, April 22nd, 20118pm
Nick Didkovsky plans an evening to celebrate his guitar some, performing some new and some not-so-new works for solo electric guitar. He’ll include homebrew music software in the mix, and take an occasional break from his own pieces to play some classic Black Sabbath solos, guitar-clinic style. Finishing the evening, Nick will be joined by noise-smith Ulrich Krieger for a blistering improvised set. Free admission!!! Free admission!!! Free admission!!! You do not need a valid birth certificate to attend.
Machine Project
1200-D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Phone: 213-483-8761
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Häßliche Luftmasken
Really excited about this: new metal band with Jesse Krakow on bass, Keith Abrams on drums, Josh Lopes on guitar, and Nick D on guitar, playing metal edged face melters.Premiere show June 1, 2011 10pm, at The Stone NYC, as part of New World Records week.
Thanks to New World Records and New Spectrum for supporting this startup!
Michael Lytle & Nick Didkovsky Duo
Following their staggering premiere performance at Roulette Intermedium, the incorruptable duo does it again at University of the Streets!The University of the Streets
Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 8PM
130 E. 7th Street 10009
www.universityof the streets.org
$10
Michael Lytle & Nick Didkovsky Duo (pics and sounds)
Shadow Puppies (Hans Tammen, Kurt Ralske, Nick Didkovsky)
The Shadow Puppies rise again with Tammen and Didkovsky torturing tabletop guitars and Ralske schnickling with real-time video projection and stuff.They will performing a new work entitled "Feast on Meat Packets"
Come to beautiful and educational Monmouth University (West Long Branch, NJ), on February 7, 2011 at 8PM to see this extraordinary thing.
And the performance is in Monmouth's TV Studio, so we're getting some cool documentation.
Shadow Puppies Home
Music With A View
The Music With A View season is ending with a supercharged show on June 6 at 3:00 PM---and it's FAMILY-FRIENDLY!!There will be percussion, dance, video, electric guitar, computer madness, and a fictional bear who tells her tale to the accompaniment of DJ turntables! After the concert, there will be demonstrations, and we'll be taking questions from YOU, the audience.
As always, the event is FREE.
Here's the Program:
MICHAEL EVANS-SUSAN HEFNER (Percussion, Dance) "Happy Accident"
NICK DIDKOVSKY (Electric Guitar, Computer) "She Closes Her Sister With Heavy Bones" "Density Trajectory Study II"
ELAN VYTAL (aka DJ Scientific----Narrator, Turntables, Electronic Sounds) "Prospect Bear"
@The Flea Theater
41 White Street (between Church and Broadway---3 blocks below Canal)
Sunday, June 6, 3:00 PM
Admission Free---Open Seating
Drinks Served in the Lobby, can bring into the theater
Visit http://www.theflea.org/
Dither Guitar Quartet - CD release party!
Saturday, June 12, 2010 @ The Invisible Dog$6, 7:00-11:00, festivities continue into the night!
Dither hosts a ridiculously amazing party and concert in celebration of the release of our debut album on Henceforth Records!
Nick will be performing new duo stuff with Kathleen Supove, then joining the Hearing Deprivation Orchestra for a piece by Eric km Clark, and then joining Dither for a performance of James Tenney's Septet for Electric guitars and Bass. Overstimulating!
$6 will earn you admission to the gallery, curious musical offerings throughout the evening, inexpensive drinks provided by Brooklyn Brewery, and a special reduced album price!
Highlights include Elliott Sharp performing on eight-string guitarbass, a solo bagpipe performance from progressive piper Matthew Welch, a collaboration between pianist Kathleen Supové and composer/guitarist Nick Didkovsky, live circuit bending from Loud Objecst, Wii-controlled drumming from Mantra Percussion, gorgeous new compositions from Redhooker, multitracked textural ecstacy from French singer/bassist Florent Ghys, and the Deprivation Orchestra of NY's rendition of Eric km Clark's "Deprivation Music #1" for a large ensemble of hearing-deprived musicians!
Dither will perform selections from their album, as well as the the world premiere of Eve Beglarian's "The Garden of Cyrus", Fred Frith's "Stick Figures" performed by two players on six table-top guitars, and James Tenney's rarely heard "Septet" for six guitars and electric bass.
The Invisible Dog Art Center is a beautiful new space in downtown Brooklyn. This historic building was once a manufacturing plant for invisible dogs in the 70's, and is now converted into a spacious industrial gallery. The Invisible Dog is adjacent to the Bergen F/G line, and a short walk from the 2/3/4/5/A/C/R lines.
The Invisible Dog Art Center
51 Bergen St. (F/G to Bergen, 2/3/4/5/A/R to Borough Hall)
Brooklyn, NY
Facebook Invitation here
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Nick Didkovsky : recent software-assisted compositionNick will present his new composition "Firm Soapy Hothead", commissioned by the loadbang ensemble. The piece brings together dadaistic aphorisms that he penned with his colleague Charles O'Meara (www.aphorismoftheday.com), Nick's own automatic composition software authored in JMSL (www.algomusic.com), and the formidable talents of the new music quartet *loadbang* (Jeffrey Gavett - baritone voice, Andy Kozar - trumpet, William Lang - trombone, Alejandro Acierto - bass clarinet, www.loadbangmusic.com). Nick will demonstrate the software he used to compose the piece, and loadbang will be on hand to perform a few movements from the work.
dorkbot info
loadbang premieres "Firm soapy hothead"
Loadbang are premiering my new piece at ISSUE Project Room!Sickly aphorisms set to healthy music (see www.aphorismoftheday.com)
You will love this ensemble, comprised of tinnitus-inducing trumpet, bold and beautiful bass clarinet, tenacious and tremulous trombone, and brazenly barbaric baritone voice.
If you stay home your eyes will fall off
March 18, 2010 at 8:00pm
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Fear Grinders, Ride! The Stone, NYC The corner of Ave C and 2nd St Sun Oct 18, 2009, 8pm Nick Didkovsky - elec guitar Don Davis & Peter Buettner - saxes Keith Abrams & Kevin Norton - drums Jesse Krakow & Steve Rust - elec bass Performing music for flame throwers and motorcycles. This is a double band, but you can hear a trio rehearsal here and just double it in your head. |
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Doctor Nerve, Dither Guitar Quartet, and Todd Reynolds (solo)
Le Poisson Rouge, July 12, 2009 starting at 7:30pmUnbelievably sick night of music.
First Todd's going to do something with his violin, starting around 7:30pm
Then Nerve is going to play a bunch of new and not so new pieces drawn from 25 friggin YEARS of our musical life together.
Then Dither is going to incite some violence on four electric guitars.
Don't be surprised if Todd joins Nerve some time during the set.
Don't be surprised if Dither joins Nerve some time during the set.
Don't be surprised if you leave this show feeling like you just ate a hand grenade.
TILT Brass plays Didkovsky's "Stink Up! Evolved Form"
This premiere is not to be missed! This piece is based on rhythmic modulations, as are all pieces in the Stink Up! series. Tempo changes abruptly each measure, keeping one or another group of instruments’ absolute pulse constant through each change.June 18th at ISSUE Project Room
Geoff Burleson and Mary Rowell play Didkovsky's If Reptiles Organs Thrive
Flea for Tribeca New Music Festival. Sunday June 7.If Reptiles Organs Thrive consists of short little movements that are precise fleeting and as one audience member told me after the premiere, "exceptional". But I did not really understand what she meant. Still that's nice.
Bang on a Can Marathon
Sunday, May 31 at 12:00pm, The World Financial Center Winter Garden, NY NYI'll be playing guitar with the Dither Guitar Quartet and 6 other guitarists, performing Eric km Clark's gorgeously cacophonous hearing deprivation piece "exPAT". Should be a good gig: I get to play loud and I don't get to hear any mistakes because I've got white noise pumping into my ears. So please come and let me know if we did a good performance... "exPAT"'s scheduled to go on around 1:30pm
JavaOne, San Francisco, June 5, 2009
Nick will participate in a discussion/demo of making music with the Java programming language. He'll be showing off his Java Music Specification Language (JMSL), a Java API for making real-time and surreal time music with computers.See Making Music With Java
With Andrew Brown, Queensland University of Technology; Frank Greco, NYJavaSIG; Robert Keller, Harvey Mudd College; David Koelle, Charles River Analytics Inc.
Ice Cream Time European Tour
5th of march 2009, Münster, CUBA, Germany, 8 pm, http://www.muenster.org/cuba/7th of march 2009, Forli, Area Sismica, Italy, 10:30 pm, http://www.areasismica.it/areasismica/
8th of march 2009, Lugano, Conservatori della Svizzera Italiano, Oggi Musica, Switzerland.
Extended Guitars (Didkovsky, Tammen, Hirt, Repetto)
ISSUE Project Room, Wed July 2, 2008The EXTENDED GUITARS with Erhard Hirt, Hans Tammen, Nick Didkovsky and Douglas Repetto play contemporary tabletop guitar music (all except for Douglas who will perform with bio-activated electro mechanical creatures) - sounds that not only seems chaotic on the surface, with a forest of apparently separate details, interlinked underneath, woven together as a maze of infinite complexity, but is chaotic at deeper levels as well.
For this quartet improvisation at ISSUE Project Room our guest Douglas Repetto has bred a small army of bio-activated electro-mechanical creatures that produce small and terrifying noises. The audience is advised to bring a mask and snorkel, or maybe a puffer.
Extended Guitars info
ISSUE Project Room info
ETHEL and Electric Kompany perform Didkovsky's "Human Dog"
Look and Listen Festival 2008Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 8 pm
OK Harris
383 West Broadway, NYC (between Broome and Spring)
$10 per concert. For tickets or reservations call 718-622-3005
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Ice Cream Time
Ice Cream Time is a one hour performance featuring Nick Didkovsky, Thomas Dimuzio and the Arte Saxophone Quartett. We are performing ICT at the FIMAV festival in Victoriaville, Quebec05/18/2008 03:00 PM
Ice Cream Time info
Ice Cream Time CD on New World Records
FIMAV info
Didkovsky's Slim In Beaten Dreamers for brass quintet and drum set
Sunday, March 30, 2008, 7:30 PMPerformed in LA's dazzling Walt Disney Concert Hall by CalArts New Millennium Performers, Wind and Brass Ensemble
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Premiere of new Didkovsky piece "Each Tick of the Living", for Glass Farm Ensemble
March 12th at the Embassy of Switzerland, 2900 Cathedral Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20008, Tel. 202-745-7900 Fax 202-232-1050Event details
March 16th at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 W 37th Street (37th street between 9th and 10th Ave) New York, NY
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Sonic Generator performs Nick Didkovsky's "Rain On A Frail Cutie"
Feb 12, 2008, 8pmGT Alumni House, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
Sonic Generator is the contemporary music ensemble-in-residence at Georgia Institute of Technology dedicated to the performance and exploration of music composed, shaped, influenced, enhanced, and created by the use of technology. "Rain..." was originally composed for California EAR Unit. This is the second performance ever. If you are anywhere within 2000 miles of Georgia, you must see this.
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Doctor Nerve, Bone, Sirius String Quartet at Whitney Museum of American Art (Madison ave at 75th street, NYC)
Friday, Feb 15th 2008, 7pmNick has been invited to do a "composer's showcase"... we'll open with Tube Mouth Bow String for string quartet and four talkboxes, then a set by Bone (Didkovsky/ Hugh Hopper/ John Roulat), finishing with a set by Doctor Nerve.
If that's not enough, Ben Herrington of Meridian Arts Ensemble is joining Nerve for these shows.
Should be slammin'. Pay what you wish.
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Supported in part with a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Doctor Nerve and Bone double bill.
Feb 16th, 2008Oh my lord this will be sick. Bunch of new Nerve tunes, too. And yes Ben Herrington is playing with Nerve tonight as well.
Orion Sound Studios 2903 Whittington Ave Suite C, Baltimore, MD
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Supported in part with a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Bone in-store
Nick Didkovsky / Hugh Hopper / John RoulatFeb 17th, 2008, 7pm
Downtown Music Gallery
342 Bowery [between E. 2nd & E. 3rd Streets], New York, NY 10012-2408 Phone: (212) 473-0043
Didkovsky's "If Reptiles Organs Thrive" performed by Either/Or
CounterStream Radio Concert Broadcast: Either/Or Spring 2007 Festival
Founded in 2004 by composer/pianist Richard Carrick and percussionist David Shively, Either/Or performs music for unconducted chamber ensemble or soloists. Its programs focus on American experimental music, its influence on the European avant-garde, and the works of emerging composers.
Hear selections from Either/Or's 2007 Spring Festival on December 6 at 9 p.m. If you miss the show, catch the recap on December 9 at 3 p.m.
Electric Kompany and ETHEL string quartet
Premiere Nick Didkovsky's "Human Dog"
Attack of the Killer Rock Octet Halloween Concert & Party
Join ETHEL and ELECTRIC KOMPANY at Dominic Frasca’s The Monkey! 7pm concert features performances by ETHEL and Electric Kompany as well as select pieces from Nick Didkovsky’s "Human Dog." 10pm concert features extended performances by both groups and the full premiere of “Human Dog” plus a post-concert Halloween party featuring DJ Spencer Levon with costume contests and prizes, and psychic readings.
Premiere of Nick Didkovsky’s "Human Dog" commissioned by Electric Kompany with funding provided by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust through fiscal sponsorship provided by ETHEL’S FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
7pm Concert
10pm Concert & Halloween Party w/ DJ Spencer Levon
Attack of the Killer Rock Octet @ The Monkey, NYC
Advance Tickets: www.themonkeynyc.com
$20 7PM (includes wine reception)
$40 10PM (includes wine reception and post-concert party with DJ Spencer Levon)
THIS CONCERT SUPPORTED, IN PART, BY PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, AND MEET THE COMPOSER'S JPMORGAN CHASE REGRANT PROGRAM FOR SMALL ENSEMBLES.
Electric Kompany
Friday, September 14th at 7:30 pm at the Ethical SocietyPreviewing one movement of Nick Didkovsky's new piece Human Dog (see Oct 27 premiere below)
Electric Kompany (www.electrickompany.com) is very proud to be part of the opening concert of the 2007-8 Wordless Music series on Friday, September 14th at 7:30 pm at the Ethical Society of Lincoln Center (64th st. and Central Park West).
Nick Didkovsky and Sirius String Quartet, Sonic Circuits Festival
Performing the repertoire from the CD TUBE MOUTH BOW STRINGSaturday, September 22 at The Warehouse 1017 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001 Metro: Mount Vernon Sq/Convention Center Show time: 8:00pm Tickets: $15.00 Nick Didkovsky & Sirius String Quartet Ida Lunden Shelf Life Murmer Moljebka Pvlse Cheapmachines Kohoutek Percussion Ensemble Caustic Castlehttp://dc-soniccircuits.org/
New Ballet festival at the Miller Theatre
Sep 27-30, 2007 at Miller Theatre, Columbia UniversityNick will perform electric guitar with the Sirius String Quartet on Fred Frith's piece "Fell". Choreography by Amanda Miller.
This is an exciting series which presents three newly commissioned dances by choreographers Alison Chase, Luca Veggetti, and Amanda Miller.
More info at Miller Theatre listing for this event
Xtended Guitars (Nick Didkovsky, Keith Rowe, Erhard Hirt, Hans Tammen)
Sep 6-8Music in the Global Village Conference, Budapest, Hungary
Premiering "Density Trajectory Study II", following a real-time score ND composed in JMSL
Nick will also present his paper "Automatic composition for traditional instruments using Java Music Specification Language"
www.globalvillagemusic.net
Either/Or Ensemble
Friday April 6, 2007 at 8pmPremiering "If Reptiles Organs Thrive", a new work for piano and violin composed by Didkovsky for Either/Or.
Also on the program, works by Xenakis, Gordon, Byrne, Flynt, and Carrick.
Either/Or is also performing a completely different program on Saturday, April 7 see http://www.eitherormusic.org/concerts.html
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street
(between 5th and 6th)
New York, NY
(212) 645-2800
$15/$10 students
Swim This (Didkovsky, Hemingway & Lytle)
Galapagos Art Space Williamsburg, BrooklynFriday, March 30, 2007 midnight
Celebrating our new Swim This CD! ( http://www.punosmusic.com/pages/swimthis/ )
Swim This is...
Nick Didkovsky - tabletop guitar
Gerry Hemingway - drums
Michael Lytle - clarinets and electronics
"Three highly inventive improvisers (or instant composers) matching wits and working most creatively together." - Bruce Lee Gallanter
This evening of twisted music curated by Kevin Gallagher. We're on at midnight, but come early because look who else is playing:
8pm - Marco Cappelli - solo guitar with electronics
9pm - Dan Cooper Trio - classical and contemporary compositions arranged and composed for rock trio
10pm - Electric Kompany - complex contemporary music for Rock quartet
11pm - Do Shadows Savage - Experimental Punk Rock Trio
12am - Swim This ( that's us )
1am - Blarvuster - avant rock, celtic, minimalist, and asian traditions
http://groups.myspace.com/rockexperiment
admission $12
Galapagos is at 70 North 6th Street between Kent and Wythe in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, tel. 718 782-5188
New Sounds on WNYC
Tuesday March 20, 2007 at 11pmWNYC 93.9 FM
Nick talks with John Schaefer about his new CD Tube Mouth Bow String (Pogus Productions), and composes two pieces for Doctor Nerve live in the studio using a new version of his automated composition software.
Nick Didkovsky, A fün nite
Performing on laptop and generating a couple of spontaneously combusted Nerve tunes.
This coming Thursday evening (March 1 2007) marks the inaugural event in
a monthly meeting devoted to informal performance and discussion of
laptop improvisation in the New York area. We're calling these "CMC
fün nites" and our intention is to provide a dorkbot-like forum for
artists and musicians involved in technological improvisation. This
first event will feature performances and talk by:
PG (Terry Pender and Brad Garton, possible video
enhancements by Luke Dubois)
Sam Pluta (audio and video improvisations)
Nick Didkovsky (improvisational pieces by Dr. Nerve!)
Please come to join us! We will be in the main space of the third
floor of Prentis Hall, 632 W. 125th Street (just off Broadway).
Visit the CMC web site [http://music.columbia.edu/CMC] for
directions.
Nick Didkovsky, Music With A View @ Flea
Monday, February 5 @ 7pmModerator: Nick Didkovsky Lisa Karrer Hans Tammenthe flea theater is located in Manhattan's Tribeca district, at 41 White St., between Broadway and Church St., three blocks south of Canal St.
Body Parts European Tour 2006
-23 Novembre Coustellet -24 Novembre Schio -25 Novembre Meldola -26 Novembre Genève -27/28 Nancy -29 Novembre Lille -30 Novembre Rennes -01 Decembre Cherbourg -02 Decembre Bielefeld -03 Decembre MünsterNick Didkovsky - electric guitar
Guigou Chenevier - drums and toys
HUGH HOPPER / NICK DIDKOVSKY / JOHN ROULAT (a/k/a Bone)
Thursday 12/14/068 & 10 pm - $15 admission each set
The STONE is located at the corner of avenue C and 2nd street
Hugh Hopper el bass, Nick Didkovsky guitar and computer, John Roulat drums
Though this trio - Hopper (Soft Machine), Didkovsky (Doctor Nerve), Roulat (Forever Einstein) - recorded the album Uses Wrist Grab, this is actually the first time they will play together in the same room.
And now a word from the fine producers of this event and the month long festival of which it is a part... take it away Bruce Gallanter...
A FAIRY TALE COMES TRUE, SO HERE'S THE REAL STORY...
More than a year ago, my partner, Manny Maris, was having a conversation our good friend John Zorn, artistic director of The Stone performance space, and asked if it was possible for Manny to celebrate his birthday next year (2006) with a special concert at The Stone. Since each month at The Stone is curated by a different musician, Zorn suggested that Manny & I curate the month of December ourselves. We are the only non-musicians to be asked to do this and we are truly honored. Our store, Downtown Music Gallery, is a big supporter of The Stone. We are pleased to sell The Stone benefit CD and your truly was only too glad to be made Communications Director of The Stone. So...
Our initial dream was to open our fest with Keith Tippett's Mujician, since Keith is our favorite pianist and Mujician would've played on Manny's birthday, December 2nd. But alas, we couldn't afford the guarantee that Keith desired. Perhaps next year. What we do have is the rest of Mujician, Paul Dunmall, Paul Rogers and Tony Levin as a trio and with guests for December 1st-3rd, as well as collaborating with trumpet ace Dennis Gonzalez on December 9th. For the rest of the month, Manny and I sat down and put together our dream list of musicians who have inspired us for many years. Many of whom are coming from faraway places like England, Amsterdam, France, San Francisco and L.A. None of whom, have ever played at The Stone before as a leader, except for Fred Frith.
This festival is dedicated to three of our heroes, master musicians who have passed away in the last year: Derek Bailey, Elton Dean and Pip Pyle. This will be a truly historic month, a once-in-a-lifetime month-long festival. We will be filming (on DAT) and recording each set, with hopes of releasing some/many of these sets in the future on the DMG/ARC label. Remember that the Stone has only 65 seats plus a small standing room section, so please book those vacations now! We hope to selling advance tickets for the three-day Frith/Hodgkinson/Cutler reunion/celebration, December 15th-17th. We hope that our friends at various enlightened publications help to spread the word, as well as those of you who read our weekly newsletters.
Shadow Puppies
Presents a new work entitled "Rise from the Depths of the Sea!" for electric guitars, computers, and live video processing.Sat, Dec 16, 8pm
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
400 Carroll Street
between Bond and Nevins
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Telephone: 718-330-0313
Nick Didkovsky & Sirius String Quartet
CD Release concert at ISSUE Project RoomSaturday Jan 6, 2007, 8pm
400 Carroll Street
between Bond and Nevins
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Telephone: 718-330-0313
Performance includes tabletop electric guitar, pieces for computer and string quartet, and TUBE MOUTH BOW STRING, for String Quartet, talkboxes, and whammy pedals
Nick Didkovsky, Music With A View @ Flea
Sunday, January 7 @ 3pmThis is Family Sunday!
Bring the kids!
Nick will present his automatic composition software. You get to pick the numbers, the computer generates a freaky piece for mixed ensemble.
Moderator: Preston Stahly Presenters: Nick Didkovsky Joshua Fried Ritsu Katsumatathe flea theater is located in Manhattan's Tribeca district, at 41 White St., between Broadway and Church St., three blocks south of Canal St.
Zinc Nine Psychedelic, Baltimore and NYC shows
Dave Ballou: trumpet, electronicsNick Didkovsky: guitar, laptop-electronics
Kevin Norton: percussion
Saturday Nov 4th, 8:30pm
An die Musik LIVE!
409 North Charles Street, Second Floor, Baltimore, Maryland 21201
888.221.6170
410.385.2638
For more info, including misspelled ensemble name
Sunday Nov 5, sets at 7 and 9pm
Jimmy’s Restaurant DOWNSTAIRS @ 43 East 7th Street • NYC • 212-982-3006
$10 door • 1 drink minimum
Reasonably great and reasonably priced food
Xtended Guitars: Didkovsky, Tammen, Hirt, Cooper
International Guitar Festival Münster 2006, Germany
Xtended Guitars: The quartet with Erhard Hirt, Hans Tammen, Nick Didkovsky & Mike Cooper play contemporary tabletop guitar music - sounds that, to the initiated, seem, at first, practically chaotic (on the table's surface), with an acid rainforest of nearly-apparent yet separate details, marginally interlinked underneath the lobes, woven together with glucose as a maze of partially infinite neocomplexity.Xtended Guitars: Das Quartett mit Erhard Hirt, Hans Tammen, des Einschnittes Didkovsky u. Mike des Faßbinders Spiel zeitgenössische tabletop Guitarre Musik - Töne, die, eingeleitet, anfangs praktisch chaotisch scheinen (auf der Oberfläche der Tabelle), mit einer Säure, die von den fast-offensichtlichen dennoch unterschiedlichen Details rainforest ist, verbanden am Rand unter die Vorsprung, gesponnen zusammen mit Glukose als Labyrinth des teilweise endlosen neocomplexity.
Wednesday. 17.Mai.2006, 20hrs.
cuba-cultur
Tickets: 8,-/ 5,- €
Get real: this page
New Thing Productions with Metropolis Books, Ra-Lins & the CNY JAF Presents:
Zinc Nine Psychedelic (Z9P)
Dave Ballou: trumpet, electronicsNick Didkovsky: guitar, laptop-electronics
Kevin Norton: percussion
ZINC NINE PSYCHEDELIC is a trio of three visionary musicians that play exciting, vital music, devoted to improvisation based in pure sound and sonic tone color. Their first performance together as this trio achieved legendary status within the New York new music cognoscenti. Kevin’s percussion colors, Dave’s trumpet and live electronics, and Nick’s electric guitar and software create a sonic space that is vibrant, exciting, and transformational.
Sunday May 14th, 2006 at 7 PM
Jazz Central at 441 East Washington Street, Downtown Syracuse
$12, $10 with student ID
For more info 315.569.4529
Monday, May 15th 2006 at 8 pm
The Bop Shop is located at 274 North Goodman Street, Rochester, NY
$ FREE!
For more info: 585-271-3354
Electric Kompany with guitarist Kevin Gallagher play three of ND's compositions
Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 7 p.m. at The Flea Theater, the New York Art Ensemble will present the guitarist Kevin Gallagher and his Avant Pop group, Electric Kompany, featuring - Kevin Gallagher, electric guitar, Jim Johnston, keyboards; Alex Walker, bass; Thad Wheeler, drums; and guest, Sarah M. Newman, vocals.The program includes
Electric Kompany is an ensemble dedicated to arranging, composing, and commissioning music for rock quartet--the “modern instrument ensemble” of our times. At this time in music history, composers are freely combining avant-garde and American popular music aesthetics. This new “Avant - Pop” music is daring, exciting, shocking, and cutting edge. However, most composers are writing this “new” music for “old” instruments. Typically, pieces are written for traditional instruments with touches of modern technology--a string quartet with an added delay effect, a cello routed through a tube screamer pedal, an orchestra piece with a sampler. As beautiful as these pieces are, there still is a tremendous lack of “modern music” written for “modern instruments”--electric guitar, keyboards, drum set, etc. This is the next logical step in music evolution and is the main reason for the formation of the group Electric Kompany.
Tickets are $15 and are available through Theatermania: online at www.theatermania.com or by phone at 212-352-3101.
Marco Cappelli, Extreme Guitar Project
Marco Cappelli performs Didkovsky's A Bright Moon Makes a Little DaytimeRelease concert for Marco's new solo cd EGP (EXTREME GUITAR PROJECT), which will take place on:
Wednesday MARCH 8, 2006 - 8:00 pm
@ THE ITALIAN ACADEMY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
(The Italian Academy´s Teatro in Casa Italiana is located at 1161 Amsterdam Avenue between 116th and 118th Streets)
EGP has been produced by Elliott Sharp and will be released next week on Mode Records, see more on: http://www.moderecords.com/catalog/157cappelli.html
---------------------------------------------------------------- THE ITALIAN ACADEMY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESENTS THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF ITS SPRING 2006 CONCERT SERIES MARCO CAPPELLI, guitar WEDNESDAY MARCH 8, 2006 AT 8:00 PM The Spring 2006 concert series at Columbia University´s Italian Academy opens on Wednesday March 8 with a recital by the well-known Italian guitarist Marco Cappelli. This performance will coincide with the release on Mode Records of the new solo CD of Cappelli´s "Extreme Guitar Project" (produced by Elliott Sharp) in which ten downtown New York composers were commissioned to write new pieces for Cappelli. The composers include Elliott Sharp, Annie Gosfield, Marc Ribot, Otomo Yoshihide, Ikue Mori, Anthony Coleman, Mark Stewart, David Shea, Erik Friedlander and Nick Didkovsky. Admission to the Spring 2006 concerts is $12 for the general public, $5 for students and seniors with tickets available only at the door the evening of the performance. Call 212 854 1623 or email rw2115@columbia.edu for reservations or information. The Italian Academy´s Teatro in Casa Italiana is located at 1161 Amsterdam Avenue between 116th and 118th Streets. Series curator: Rick Whitaker.
Anne La Berge performs Scratch, for multiple CD players and live performer
Thursday March 9, at 8pmGreenwich House Music School
46 Barrow Street, New York City
Listen to some scratchy excerpts and find out more about Scratch
Find out what else is on Anne's agenda at http://www.annelaberge.com/
Fireworks Ensemble performs Didkovsky's "Browless, Mere Knife"
Fireworks will perform Browless twice (see below). Very hot ensemble (crankin' piece too!)March 10, 2006 Patricia M. Sitar Center 1700 Kalorama Road, NW Suite 101 Washington, DC 20009 (202) 797-2145 Washington, DC http://www.fireworks-ensemble.org/calendar/20060310.htm March 18, 2006 Tenri Cultural Institute 43A West 13th Street (between 5th and 6th) New York, NY (212) 645-2800 http://www.fireworks-ensemble.org/calendar/20060318.htm
Michael Lytle, Gerry Hemmingway, and Nick Didkovsky
Experimental Intermedia Foundation224 Centre Street, NY NY
Sunday March 19, 2006
Improvising of course! Michael plays bass clarinet and is the evening's host. Gerry plays all manner of percussive things. Nick plays tabletop guitar and software and may occasionally pick his guitar up.
Radio Broadcast
On Monday March 20, there will be an radiobroadcast on De Concertzender on Nick's music.The program contains composition by ND for Dr Nerve, Fred Frith Guitarquartet, Binky Boy and 4 tracks of the new extremely exciting and delicious piece Ice Cream Time for ARTE Saxophone Quartett, Thomas Dimuzio, and Nick.
It will also be broadcast through the internet march 20 23.00-0.00 CET; www.concertzender.nl so if you're not in Europe on Monday you can still hear it.
Thanks Patrice Zeegers.
Doctor Nerve
Open Ear Music presents : THE 1st ANNUAL FUTURE FEST of EXPERIMENTAL ROCKfeaturing : PAK Friendly Bears Doctor Nerve Trio Convulsant The Zs Snuggle/Stencil November 5th, 2005. Doors at 8pm. $10 The Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (btw. bleecker & houston). www.bowerypoetry.com questions, email szeniuk(at)gmail.com
Nerve will premiere three new tunes!
Staying at home would be a tragedy
Kathleen Supove performs Didkovsky's Rama Broom, a homicidal fantasy for solo piano and voice
Montclair State University, "Peak Performance, celebrating the creative voice"Saturday, October 29, 2005 7:30 PM
PIANO LICKS Kathleen Supove & Jed Distler
Pianist and performance artist Kathleen Supove is one of today's most celebrated and versatile contemporary artists. Her orally - and visually - stimulating performances have wowed audiences in concert halls and clubs alike, and have made her synonymous with edgy yet accessible concert-theater. Jed Distler is a versatile, New Jersey born composer and pianist with a worldwide reputation for audacious musicality, having created compositions for airline boarding videos to mini operas. Together Supove and Distler will provide a highly enjoyable redefinition of the world's first synthesizer: a piano.
Ticket price $25.00. MASTERCARD, VISA & DISCOVER ARE ACCEPTED. Takes place at the Alexander Kasser Theater.
To purchase tickets, visit the Online Ticket Box Office, or call the MSU Box office at 973-655-5112. NO CHARGE FOR MSU UNDERGRADS THROUGH PERFORMING ARTS FEE.
FONT Festival: Meridian Arts Ensemble performs Didkovsky's Slim in Beaten Dreamers
August 26 concert at Yamaha Artist Services Center (see address below):Bliggidy Blam: featuring Brian McWhorter and Nate Wooley, announcing the release of their new album “formal i.”
Meridian Arts Ensemble: commissioned works by Sanford, Sharp, Didkovsky (Slim in Beaten Dreamers), and Zappa – announcing the release of their new album “Brink”
SEMINAR WEEK
AUGUST 22 – 27
A week of concerts and masterclasses presented by Lew Soloff, Mark Gould, Jeremy Pelt, Eric Biondo, Dave Douglas, Brian McWhorter, Kevin Cobb, Peter Evans, Manhattan Brass Quintet, Meridian Arts Ensemble, Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble, New York Trumpet Ensemble, Nate Wooley, Butch Morris, and Trumpet Nation
All events will be held at the:
Yamaha Artist Services Center
689 Fifth Avenue
New York City
www.fontmusic.org
FRESH BLOOD presents Roaring Around
at the Merce Cunningham Studio, 55 Bethune St. 11th FloorJune 17th at 9pm
June 18th at 8pm
FRESH BLOOD is Jennifer Schmermund and KC Chun, a dance performance group who will present two new works that include Nick's music:
Stark Ravings, choreographed by Jennifer Schmermund, with Nick's "Tearing His Head" and "Flesh Comes Out" recorded by the Sirius String Quartet on Doctor Nerve's Ereia CD.
Collywobbles, choreographed by the utterly strange Sara Hook, using Nick's Amalia's Secret, recorded by Bang On A Can All-Stars
Make a phone call to 917.582.8902 for tickets.
FRESH BLOOD Productions is a newly established company under the co-direction of KC Chun and Jennifer Schmermund. Their joint philosophy and company framework aim to develop dance work both independently and collaboratively. Both women revel in their distinct points-of-view, nudging each other in unforeseen directions.
FRESH BLOOD
Prism Sax Quartet
Performing three pieces Nick composed for Prism:Stink Up! (PolyPrism 1)
Stink Up! (PolyPrism 2)
Talea
The Stink Up's are gnarly little pieces based on life-threatening tempo modulations. Talea is a one-minute piece based on disgruntled rhythmic boundaries.
Venue: Leonard Nimoy Thalia
May 20, 2005, 8:30pm
info
TimeTable Percussion trio perform Didkovsky's "Overlife"
TimeTable Percussion trio (Matthew Gold, Joseph Tompkins, and Matt Ward) will perform works by Nick Didkovsky, Beat Furrer, Wolfgang Rihm, Hiroya Miura and others. They will be followed by the avant-rock band Coptic Light.Wednesday, April 20, 8pm, The Bowery Poetry Club is located at 308 Bowery between Houston and Bleecker.
California EAR Unit
Premiering "Rain on a Frail Cutie" by Nick DidkovskyMarch 21, 2005 at 8PM
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. LA CA 90036
Ticket info 323-857-6010.
Shadow Puppies with Guitarbots
Harvestworks/Studio PASS, 596 Broadway, NYCMarch 21st, 2005, 7pm
Following a residency at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where Didkovsky, Tammen, and Ralske successfully synchromeshed with LEMUR g-bot, Shadow Puppies returns to their native New York City to perform with the Guitarbot in an all-new edition of "Bots Gone Wild, Spring Break Bash, part 2".
Glimpse of gushing talent at Shadow Puppies Official Meat Feast Home Page
Genkin Philharmonic
Performing Didkovsky's Preaching to the ConvertedThe Genkin Philharmonic, an electro - acoustic chamber ensemble that performs music of contemporary composers, will present three performances in February 2005.
Formed at University at Buffalo in 2000, Genkin is comprised of students from the UB Music Dept. and recent alumni. The Ensemble has been featured in performances at Buffalo area venues including Neitzche’s, the Calumet Arts Café, and the Hallwalls Arts Collective, at the 2002 International Trumpet Guild Conference, and in Mexico City at the 2003 Condesa Jazz Festival and the Festival Centro Historico de la Ciudad de Mexico.
The concert dates are:
February 1 - Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall, Fredonia
College, 8:00 pm, Fredonia, NY
admission - free
February 10 - The Tralf, 8:00 pm, Buffalo, NY
admission - free
with special guests, Thought
February 13 - Tonic, 8:00 pm, New York City
admission - $12
with Nemesis, Frank London, and the New York Trumpet Ensemble
the musicians: Jon Nelson – Director, arrangements, trumpet, vocals, Raymond Stewart – tuba, artistic advisor, Kevin Moehringer – trombone, Sabatino Scirri – flute, piccolo, vocals, Matthew Thomas – alto and soprano sax, Steve Baczkowski – tenor and baritone sax, David Pinchoff – tuned percussion, Tim Allen – electric guitar, Dave Lansom – electric bass, Vincent Loccisano – electric piano, Matt Felski – drum set, Jeremiah Fox – drum set
music by: Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, Bobby Previte, King Crimson, Emil Harnas 2, Tom Pierson, Jon Nelson, and Nick Didkovsky
Shadow Puppies
Presents a new work entitled "Feast on your meat!" for electric guitars, computers, and live video processing.Tuesday Nov 23, 2004, 8pm sharp!!!
Thalia Theatre, 95th and Broadway, NYC
Presented by Electronic Music Foundation ( www.emf.org )
As you probably know by now, Shadow Puppies is:
Video/audio clips and handsome faces at http://www.tammen.org/ens_shad.html
If you come to this gig you can share a cab with Nick down to Bowery Poetry Club to see Doctor Nerve at 10pm (see next listing)
Doctor Nerve and PAK
Tuesday Nov 23, 2004, 10pm sharp!!!Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (East Village)
between Bleecker and Houston Sts.
www.bowerypoetry.com
Part of Stefan Zeniuk's Open Ear series. Yeah!
Doctor Nerve and Fireworks Ensemble
Club Makor on October 20th , 8pm35 West 67th Street (between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue)
The uncorruptable Doctor Nerve will perform another rousing set of sounds for your screaming ears.
Fireworks will perform their Dance Music project (Strauss, Bee gees, AFX, Ellington...)
Fracture will perform some of Didkovsky's pieces for guitar quartet (!)
Line up:
8pm Fireworks
9pm Doctor Nerve
10pm "Fracture": guitar quartet
More info! (212) 415-5500 for tickets or www.makor.org
$12 for all three bands
Shadow Puppies
October 22, 2004 at Rensellaer Polytechnic InstitutePerforming with guitarbots (guitar robots! Freaky!)
"Go go go Shadow Puppies feast on your meat.
Go go go Shadow Puppies from the depths of the sea!"
More info!
Meridian Arts Ensemble
Perform Didkovsky's Slim in Beaten Dreamers.November 14,2004, Festival of New American Music, in Sacramento, CA.
11/14 FNAM program Brass Quintet (1974) Elliott Carter Slim in Beaten Dreamers (1998) Nick Didkovsky Beyond the Curve (2002) Elliott Sharp Counterparts (1994) Milton Babbitt Slim in Beaten Dreamers (1998) Nick Didkovsky Corpus (1996) David Sanford
Doctor Nerve & Sirius String Quartet: EREIA
Tuesday, May 4, 2004, Caspary Auditorium, Rockefeller University, York Avenue and 66th StreetInfo: Ereia page at Rockefeller University
This is a FREE event. Reserve Tickets
More about EREIA
The ambitious piece contrasted sections of through-composed counterpoint with a central movement where Didkovsky led the combined ensemble through a conducted improvisation as he spontaneously layered and juxtaposed slashing rhythms, horn trills, string glissandi, and synth smears like an aural painter.
(Michael Rosenstein, Cadence)
Fireworks Ensemble Premieres Didkovsky's "Browless, Mere Knife"
Composed for Fireworks Ensemble, Browless Mere Knife is a fireball of complexity and energy.Also on the bill, premieres by Glenn Branca, David Sermersheim, David Ozab, and Brian Coughlin.
Sunday, May 16, 2004 at 2:00 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
New York, New York 10011
(212) 645-2800
information: http://www.tenri.org/upcoming.html
directions: http://www.tenri.org/map.html
suggested donation: $10
MUSICIANS
Brian Coughlin: bass
Oren Fader: guitar
Jennifer Grim: flute
Jim Johnston: keyboards
Julian Molitz: percussion
Tricia Park: violin
Leigh Stuart: 'cello
Taimur Sullivan: saxophone
Shadow Puppies
Aug 20 or 21, 2004Lotus Dance Studios, NYC
More info as it develops
Shadow Puppies is a cutting edge trio which conjures rich, complex, and entrancing worlds of electronic sound and vision in real-time. Didkovsky and Tammen stretch the boundaries of the electric guitar with an arsenal of objects, electronics, and homebrew computer software, while Ralske interactively captures and processes video using digital technology of his own design. The result is an uninterrupted journey through sonic eruptions, video hallucinations, and aggressive, entrancing mediascapes.
Kathleen Supove, Exploding Piano
Performs Didkovsky's Rama Broom, a homicidal fantasy for solo piano and voice8pm, March 30, 2004
Flea Theatre, White Street, NYC
New Century Players, REDCAT Theatre, Los Angeles
Tuesday, March 9th, 2004
The New Century Players premiere "Birds by their Feet, Men by their Tongue", composed by Nick Didkovsky.Tickets and info at REDCAT Calendar
Nick will be in residence at CalArts during this period.
Birds by their Feet, Men by their Tongue
Composed by Nick Didkovsky for New Century Players
The first half of Birds by their Feet, Men by their Tongue was composed by hand, with some use of algorithmic transforms to modify and develop material. Most of the last four minutes of the work was generated algorithmically. Instruments gradually veer away from their repeated phrases, following linearly interpolated statistical trajectories that begin with the pitches and event densities of hand-composed material, and end with the low event density and the pitches contained in the final chord. A thinning algorithm was applied to the drum set over the course of this passage, which gradually reduced the density of its repeated rhythm.
Birds by their Feet, Men by their Tongue was composed using Java Music Specification Language (JMSL). All compositional algorithms and transforms were programmed in JMSL. All notation was done in JMSL’s Score package. The piece was exported from JMSL to San Andreas Press’s SCORE Music Typography System for final printing and part extraction.
Birds by their Feet, Men by their Tongue is dedicated to my father Rostislav Didkowsky (1914 – 2003)
Nick Didkovsky, Feb 22, 2004, NYC
Info:
http://www.algomusic.com
http://www.punosmusic.com/pages/tongue/
Ice Cream Time: Nick Didkovsky, Thomas Dimuzio, ARTE Quartett
"Ultraschall" festival in Berlin.january 23.1.2004 21:00
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation
The Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation is producing a new ballet by Dwight Rhoden called Bounty Verses. Bounty Verses includes my solo guitar piece "I Kick My Hand", which I recorded live at Bang On A Can, and CRI originally released on the Emergency Music series. Thanks to New World Records for giving the Ailey Foundation the permission to use this recording.Bounty Verses at City Center December 16th - 8:00pm (PREMIERE) December 19 - 8:00pm December 21 -7:30pm December 26 - 8:00pm December 30 - 8:00pm January 3 - 2:00pmFor tickets and more info, visit City Center
Doctor Nerve, Pak, Samla
Knitting Factory, Aug 28, 2003Hot!
A Bright Moon Makes a Little Daytime
More on the piece.
Shadow Puppies
Sunday October 19, 2003, 8:30pm
"Roulette at Location One"
Visit Shadow Puppies online!
Also on the bill: Matthew Ostrowski's group
Nick Didkovsky & Thomas Dimuzio
ND: Electric guitar, laptop (homebrew JMSL and JSyn software)TD: Live sampling (Kurzweil K2600)
Improvised sonic extremism.
Date and location TBA - late October 2003
Phil Burk, Nick Didkovsky, Jonathan Simon
JavaOne Conference, San FranciscoInteractive Audio Techniques in JavaTM Technologies
Interactive Audio Techniques in JavaTM Technologies TS-2616
Thursday Jun 12, 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM, Esplanade 303/305, Moscone Center
This session demonstrates several techniques for adding audio to Java TM technology-based desktop applications, including real-time audio recording, playback, synthesis, and processing. Learn techniques applicable to voice messaging and voice over IP. Additional application areas include real-time continuous data sonification, musical performance, and live processing of voice and guitar signals. Particular attention is given to audio support on the various browser platforms.
Examples use the Java TM Sound API available with JDK 1.3 release and above. Alternative APIs will also be demonstrated such as the JavaTM Sonics and JSyn packages, which work in browsers and older JDKs 1.1 and above.
Intermediate knowledge of desktop Java technology programming and digital audio concepts such as sampling, tone generation, and mixing is recommended.
Nick Didkovsky & Thomas Dimuzio
ND: Electric guitar, laptop (homebrew JMSL and JSyn software)TD: Live sampling (Kurzweil K2600)
Improvised sonic madness.
June 10, 2003, 8pm
Black Box, Oakland, CA
Paul Dunmall, Kevin Norton, Paul Rogers Trio, with guests Roy Campbell and Nick Didkovsky
VisionFestMay 21 the Knitting Factory (11pm) Old Office ... this is going to be great!
Nick will play mistreat his guitar with a variety of objects including a laptop computer running homebrew software.
Mercury New Music Ensemble
Performs Nick's Amalia's Secret (originally commissioned for Bang On A Can).7:30pm 9th May 2003 Metro Arts Theatre 109 Edward Street, Brisbane (other works by Louis Andriessen, Paul Stanhope, David Lang and Gerard Brophy)
1pm 10th May 2003 Metro Arts Theatre (repeat program)
3pm 8th June 2003 Old Museum Building Concert Hall, Cnr. Gregory Tce. & Bowen Bridge Rd. Bowen Hills.
Sirius String Quartet
Perform TUBE MOUTH BOW STRING, for String Quartet, talkboxes, and whammy pedalsThursday, April 10, 2003
Roulette, 228 West Broadway, NYC
8:30pm
Ice Cream Time: a new work commissioned by ARTE Quartett
April 11, 2003 palazzo, Listal (Basel Switzerland)ARTE Quartett - saxophones and more saxophones
Nick Didkovsky - composer, guitar, homebrewed software
Thomas Dimuzio - live electronics (and how!)
info
Fr 11. April 20.30h Theater Palazzo Poststrasse 2 Postfach 572 CH - 4410 Liestal Kartenreservationen und Vorverkauf Tel +41 (0)61 921 56 70 info@arte-quartett.com ICE CREAM TIME Arte Quartett Plus Nick Didkovsky (Komposition/E-Gitarre) und Thomas Dimuzio (Live-Elektronik) Das Saxophon-Quartett präsentiert in seinem 3. Konzert den Komponisten Nick Didkovsky, der mit seiner selbstentwickelten Software die Klänge der Saxophone auffängt, live verarbeitet und die entstehenden Klanggebilde mit seinem Gitarrenspiel anreichert. Sein musikalischer Hintergrund als Avantgarde-Rock Gitarrist/Komponist wird dabei ebenso einfliessen wie seine Beschäftigung mit zeitgenössischer elektronischer Musik. Die Musiker begeben sich auf einen spannenden Weg zwischen notierten Partituren, Konzepten und Improvisationen. www.palazzo.ch www.arte-quartett.com
Meridian Arts Ensemble, Nick Didkovsky
Eastern Carolina University New Music FestivalNick will give a seminar on composing with JMSL and JSyn. Meridian performs Nick's Slim in Beaten Dreamers
MERIDIAN ARTS ENSEMBLE
EXTREME NEW YORK: THE MERIDIAN COMMISSIONS VOLUME I
The Meridian Arts Ensemble continues its Merkin Hall
series with a second concert on, January 29, 2003 at
8:00 PM at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W. 67th Street,
New York City. The program, Extreme New York: The
Meridian Commissions Ð Volume I, will open a series
with a series revisiting works that Meridian Arts
Ensemble has commissioned from New York City composers
since the Ensemble's inception in 1987. Tickets are
$15, $10 for students and seniors, and can be
purchased from the Merkin Hall box office,
212-501-3330.
The program by the Meridian Arts Ensemble features the New York Premiere of Nick Didkovsky's Slim in Beaten Dreamers. Guitarist Didkovsky is best known for leading his New York based avant Ð rock ensemble "Dr. Nerve", and also has performed with Fred Frith. The MAE will also perform David SanfordÕs Corpus, which was commissioned by Chamber Music America in 1996 for the MAE. The program also includes Milton BabbittÕs Fanfare for All, written for the Meridian Arts Ensemble in 1993 in celebration of Princeton University's Summer Chamber Concert's 25th Anniversary season. The concert will open with John HalleÕs Softshoe. A faculty member of the Yale Composition Department, John Halle has performed and recorded as a pianist with jazz artists Tom Harrell, and Woody Shaw, and at the Bang on a Can Festival.
Meridian Arts Ensemble Jon Nelson and Brian McWhorter Ð trumpets Daniel Grabois Ð horn Benjamin Herrington Ð trombone Raymond Stewart Ð tuba John Ferrari Ð percussion MERKIN CONCERT HALL 129 W. 67th Street, New York City Tickets $15, $10 students and seniors at the box office: 212-501-3330 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, at 8:00 PM JOHN HALLE Softshoe (1992) NICK DIDKOVSKY Slim in Beaten Dreamers (2000) New York Premiere MILTON BABBITT Fanfare for All (1993) DAVID SANFORD Corpus (1997)
Preview the scores and hear the pieces directly in your web browser (requires JSyn plugin)
Sirius String Quartet, Nick Didkovsky
Experimental Intermedia Foundation , Tuesday Dec 17th at 9pmSirius String Quartet will be performing a number of pieces of mine, and I'll be joining them on computer and guitar.
The evening will go something like this... 1) You (that's you) should bring a diskman and headphones because before the show, I'll be passing around CD's of my new piece "Headphone Canon for Ross Hendler". Headphone Canon uses the Deutsch Octave Illusion as a compositional element, and this illusion is best heard on headphones (see http://psy.ucsd.edu/~ddeutsch/psychology/deutsch_research2.html ) "Headphone Canon" was recently released on Larry Polansky's new CD of Four Voice Canons on Cold Blue Music ( see http://www.coldbluemusic.com/pages/newreleases.html ) 2) She Closes Her Sister With Heavy Bones, for electric guitar and string quartet 3) MachineCore, for solo electric guitar and computer (JMSL/JSyn software) 4) TUBE MOUTH BOW STRING, for String Quartet and talkboxes (see http://www.punosmusic.com/pages/tubemouthbowstring/index.html ) 5) What Sheep Herd, for String Quartet and computer. Based on a extremely slowed down pop tune (see http://www.punosmusic.com/pages/whydontyouwriteme/index.html ) 6) Just a Voice That Bothered Him, for String Quartet
Experimental Intermedia Foundation is at 224 Centre Street, in NYC Third floor.
Sirius String Quartet, perform TUBE MOUTH BOW STRING
Knitting Factory Old OfficeNov 25, 2002, 8pm
Also in Sirius's set: Woolf, Okura, Sharp, and an improvisation with Nick/guitar/computer
TUBE MOUTH BOW STRING for String Quartet, Talkboxes, and live electronics
TUBE MOUTH BOW STRING was commissioned for Sirius String Quartet with a supporting grant from Meet The Composer.
Also on the evening:
Nancy Magarill and Michael Ivan Berk
Niels Meliefste & Annie Tangberg perform Didkovsky's Caught By The Sky With Wire
30-10-2002
20.15 hour
De IJsbreker, Amsterdam
*TURBULENCE*
Duo Percucello
Annie Tangberg & Niels Meliefste
Program: * Roderik de Man - a case history (solo percussion) (premiere)
* Nick Didkovsky - Caught by the sky with wire
* Michel van der Aa - Oog (cello solo)
* Oene van Geel - Turbulence (premiere)
* Martin Bresnick - songs of the mousepeople
* Carola Bauckholt - Slower than I thought
Kathleen Supove, premiering "Zero Waste" for piano and computer
November 11, 2002, 8 pm, NYU's Loewe Theater, 35 W4th St., NYCI have a new piece for piano and computer that Kathy Supove will be premiering in concert on Monday Nov 11.
"Zero Waste" uses JMSL/JScore to generate and display a musical score in traditional staff notation. The piece begins by displaying two measures of autogenerated music, which Kathy then sight-reads. The computer 'listens' to what she just played, and immediately transcribes her performance into the same score. She in turn sight-reads that transcription, the computer listens again and transcribes... forming a kind of feedback loop of sight-reading and transcription. Over time the challenge of sight reading and the limits of music notation evolve the piece into something very different than how it began.
One of my students compared "Zero Waste" to the game of 'telephone', while someone else said it brought to mind Alvin Lucier's "I Am Sitting in a Room", where the emphasis is on the resonances in a system rather than the source material.
"Zero Waste" is composed by Nick Didkovsky for Kathleen Supove, using the music programming language JMSL (http://www.algomusic.com)
Interaxis, November 3, 2002
A two-site (LA and NYC) musical performance/improvisation. Interaxis is an investigation into the possibilities of improvisation, form, and presentation in multi-site, network-based performance. A group of accomplished composer-improvisers and technologists coming together to create a dynamic, structured, experimental sonic exploration on the web and in real space.Interaxis
- Los Angeles:
- Mark Trayle
- Wadada Leo Smith
- Karen Elaine Bakunin
- New York City:
- Nick Didkovsky
- Dafna Naphtali
- TBA
Locations: New York City: Engine 27, located at 173 Franklin St., New York, NY Los Angeles: CalArts Time: NYC: 8pm [ Eastern Std. Time ] LA: 5pm [ Pacific Std. Time ]
Music and Encounter - Hans Tammen & Nick Didkovsky
Concert In collaboration with Harvestworks Tuesday, October 15, 2002 7:00 p.m. free admission Goethe Institut Inter Nationes 1014 5th Avenue New York, NY 10028 Phone 212-439-8700 Hans Tammen, experimental guitarist Nick Didkovsky, guitarist, composer and computer music programmer Kurt Ralske, video artistFor more info visit http://www.goethe.de/uk/ney/enpmusik.htm#V2
Erhard Hirt, Hans Tammen, Nick Didkovsky, Keith Rowe - Improvising Guitar Quartet
September 22, 2002 - 8:30pm, Floratheater, Verwersdijk 1, Delft September 23, 2002 - 7:30pm, Galerie Rachel Haverkamp, Eigelstein 112, Köln September 24, 2002 - 8:00pm, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Domplatz 10, Münster September 25, 2002 - 8:00pm, Podewil, Klosterstr. 68-70, Berlin
Nick Didkovsky, Guitarevolution Festival.
Nick performs MachineCore: an electric guitar and computer improvisation
Saturday Oct 5, 2002, 8pmMaison de la culture Mont-Royal, 465, av. du Mont-Royal Est.
Concert and discussion. Software programmed in JMSL and JSyn. Atelier et concert avec Nick Didkovsky (New York) - "MachineCore" - musique pour guitare électrique et ordinateur.
For more info about this festival, visit http://www.innconcert.ca/, and visit Festival "Guitarévolution".
Direct link (no frames): http://www.innconcert.ca/IEC_Gtr_Fest_02_fr.html
Curated by Tim Brady
Sirius String Quartet, premiering TUBE MOUTH BOW STRING
Pace UniversityAlliance for Downtown New York and Delta Present: The Lunch Box Series 2002
Wed, June 26, 2002, Pace University, 12 and 1pm
Premiering Didkovsky's TUBE MOUTH BOW STRING for String Quartet, Talkboxes, and live electronics
TUBE MOUTH BOW STRING was commissioned for Sirius String Quartet with a supporting grant from Meet The Composer.
1 Pace Plaza New York, NY 10038 Opposite City Hall Park in lower Manhattan
Directions online
This is a free event.
Doctor Nerve
NEARFest Preshow, Fri June 28, 2002, 8pmConduit Music Club, 439 South Broad Street, Trenton, NJ TEL (609) 656-1199
With Special Guest Evan Ziporyn (!!!!!!!!!!)
Conduit website
Meridian Arts Ensemble
June in Buffalo Festival, June 7, 2002, at SUNY Buffalo, 8pmPremiering Didkovsky's Slim In Beaten Dreamers
Slim... is a new work in 15 parts, and was commissioned by Meridian Arts Ensemble with commissioning funds from The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust with support from Harvestworks, and further supported by a grant from The Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Program.
http://www.music.buffalo.edu/juneinbuffalo/
June In Buffalo, one of America's most ambitious contemporary music festivals, ...introduces audiences to emerging artists of innovative and uncompromising vision."
-Perspectives of New Music
Nick Didkovsky and HACO
April 28, 2002, 7pmImprovised performance at: Downtown Music Gallery, 211 East 5th Street, NYC NY
Nick and Haco last played together in Kyoto during Nick's Japan tour. This will be cool.
Body Parts, European gigs
August 25, 2001, Mulhouse Festival, Mulhouse, France. ( 8.30 PM in Noumatrouff, same bill than Pauvros solo, Mengelberg-Bennink duo, Alan Silva-Johannes Bauer, Roger Turner trio)August 28, 2001, Cave 12, Geneva, Switzerland, (probably around 10 P.M.)
August 30, 2001, a boat in Rotterdam, called Stubnitz, close to the "New York Hotel". Concert time in the evening...9 PM or so
September 1, 2001, Gronigen, Holland. Concert is in a farm at 20 kms north of Groningen, at 4 PM, details forthcoming.
Body Parts is Nick Didkovsky on Guitar and Guigou Chenevier on Drums. Such a great band.
Interaxis, December 8, 2001
A two-site (LA and NYC) musical performance/improvisation. Interaxis is an investigation into the possibilities of improvisation, form, and presentation in multi-site, network-based performance. A group of accomplished composer-improvisers and technologists coming together to create a dynamic, structured, experimental sonic exploration on the web and in real space.Interaxis
- Los Angeles:
- Wadada Leo Smith
- Mark Trayle
- Jesse Gilbert
- New York City:
- Nick Didkovsky
- Leroy Jenkins
- Dafna Naphtali
- Helen Thorington
Locations: New York City: Harvestworks Los Angeles: CalArts Time: NYC: 8pm [ Eastern Std. Time ] LA: 5pm [ Pacific Std. Time ]
Nick Didkovsky / Kathleen Supove
New compositions & improvs for electric guitar & keyboards, with some interactive & stubbornly non-interactive homebrew software.Nick Didkovsky - guitar & computers; Kathleen Supové - keyboards
This performance is a part of ONE - TWO - THREE - GO! a 16 Concert Series of Solos, Duos & Trios curated by Patrick Grant, at
EGIZIO'S PROJECT, 596 Broadway, (Houston & Prince), Suite 406, NYC, (212) 226-8537
www.patrickgrant.net/main_bios_sm.html
Nick Didkovsky & Phil Burk at ICMC
September, 2001 at International Computer Music Conference, in Havana, CubaNick and Phil will present a paper on Java Music Specification Language (JMSL, visit algomusic.com)
Doctor Nerve & Sirius String Quartet, performing EREIA
May 27, 2001, Musique Action Festival, Nancy, France.
June 2, 2001, Moers Festival, Moers, Germany.
Doctor Nerve and Sirius String Quartet join forces once again. The commissioning of Ereia was supported by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and the Jerome Foundation with support from Harvestworks and American Composers Forum. This performance is supported by a grant from Arts International.
Ereia CD available now.
Musique Action details at http://www.centremalraux.com/ma/
Moers details at http://www.moers-festival.com/festival/index.html
Contact: Centre Culturel André Malraux Scène Nationale 1, place de l'Hôtel de Ville 54500 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy tel (0)3 83 56 15 00 fax (0) 3 83 53 21 85
The Monkey Farm
May 4, 2001, 8:30pmRoulette, 228 West Broadway
Stories by CW Vrtacek
Read by Valeria Vasilevski
Guitar, concept, conducted improv, and software by Nick Didkovsky
Conducted improv: Doctor Nerve
Voice warping software: Nick Didkovsky, Phil Burk, Robert Marsanyi, JMSL, JSyn
Interpreter: Bill Moody (American Sign Language)
This is an ASL Interpreted Performance
you know......just as an aside to that joke and without dwelling on the maudlin aspects, because my dad was one of the town drunks, he often took me to this really cheap dive of a bar where he drank with indigent guys and the owner of the bar had a monkey that he kept chained at the bar, a little spider money, and the guys at the bar would feed it olives and pickles and peanuts and stuff....the bar was really awful and was called the Saybrook Inn but everybody in town disparagingly called it "the monkey farm" as a slap at the patrons and when it closed down after the original owner died, it reopened and the new guy called it "the monkey farm" and if you ever go to old saybrook, ct, you can drive by The Monkey Farm and know the real story of the name (which most people don't anymore) - the other thing I remember about this place is the bartender whose name was Kasper and he had a HUGE goiter on his neck and 1. i never saw a goiter and tht was freaky when i was 7 and 8 years old and 2. i thought it was weird that he was named after a cartoon character (the friendly ghost)
Nick Didkovsky, Kathy Supove
April 8, 2001, 2pmSnug Harbor, Staten Island
Computer Music, cyber piano duo.
address to come, honest
The Technophobe and The Madman
A Music Theatre piece which will take place simultaneously in NYC and Troy, NY, connected by Internet2 networking.The project grew out of a request from NYSCA to Harvestworks to put together a project or projects to explore the possibilities of performance on Internet2. This is a new networking technology which offers several technical advances which make it possible to deliver full bandwidth high quality video and audio in a synchronized way which is impossible with normal internet technology. This technology is currently only available at major research universities ... hence the involvement of NYU and iEAR. (prog notes by Niel Rolnick)
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Collaborating arists:
- Nick Didkovsky - music & interactivity
- Tyrone Henderson - writer & performer
- Daniel O'Neil - web design
- Quimetta Perle - writer, visual artist & web design
- Don Ritter - video & stage design
- Neil Rolnick - music & co-producer
- Robert Rowe - music & co-producer
- Peter Sherman - web design
- Diana Slattery - web design
- Valeria Vasilevski - director, avatar voice
Nick's contribution is...
The performance will be 8pm, February 20, 2001 simultaneously at the NYU's Loewe Theater, 35 W4th St., NYC and Rensselaer's iEAR Space, in the Darrin Communication Center on the RPI campus.
Web streaming and info: http://www.academy.rpi.edu/projects/technophobe
JMSL info: http://www.ingress.com/~drnerve/jmsl
JSyn info: http://www.softsynth.com
The project is being administered by Carol Parkinson at Harvestworks, in collaboration with NYU's Music Technology Program and Rensselaer's iEAR Studios.
Nick Didkovsky, solo Electric Guitar, maybe some computer stuff
"2001 New Music Odyssey"
Jan 25 8 PM $8 Center for Cultural Exchange One Longfellow Square Portland, Maine 04101 207-761-1545 www.centerforculturalexchange.org
Match: Concert II
Electro and acoustic works for percussion and cello
Friday January 26, 2001 at 7pm
The Bloomingdale School of Music
Matthew Gold Percussion
Paul de Jong Cello
Jennifer De Vore Cello
Program:
Caught by the Sky with Wire Nick Didkovsky
for cello and percussion
(New work for cello, percussion, Milica Paranosic and
tape)
Twinkletoes Eric Lyon
for percussion and tape
Match Mauricio Kagel
for three players
Bloomingdale School of Music is located on 323 West 108th Street between
Broadway and Riverside Drive. Take the #1 or #9 train to 110th Street and
walk two blocks south. For more information please call (212) 663 - 6021.
Kathleen Supove
Premiering "Rama Broom", a new piece for piano and voice, composed by Nick Didkovsky8pm, November 20, 2000
NYU Theatre, 35 West 4th Street, NY NY
Listen to a short mp3 excerpt of a computer realization of the piece.
See a page of the score (not same page as mp3 excerpt)
Tammen Hirt Kleier Didkovsky: Extended Guitars Quartet
Monday, December 11th, Knitting Factory Old Office, 8pm (one set).| HANS TAMMEN performs with a remarkable collection of mechanical preparations on his guitars. Critic Klaus Hübner recommended him -- "Anyone who's still says that experimentalism, especially on guitar, has no future, should hear Hans Tammen's Endangered Guitar." | ERHARD HIRT has appeared at most of the usual European free music and jazz festivals, the british magazine "Guitar Techniques" called him "Currently one of the most fascinating guitar soloists in Europe!" | ROGER KLEIER is a guitarist and composer whose unique guitar style draws equally from improvisation, contemporary classical music, electronic processing, and American guitar traditions of blues and rock. | NICK DIDKOVSKY is a guitarist, composer, and computer music programmer whose current projects include new works for Sirius String Quartet, Meridian Arts Ensemble, Kathleen Supove, Anne La Berge and a collaborative Internet2 Music Theatre project with Neil Rolnick and Robert Rowe. |
Ann La Berge: Scratch, for multiple CD players and processed flute
Composed by Nick Didkovsky for Ann La Berge
Scratch provides the performer with a context within which to improvise. Scratch is delivered to the performer as multiple copies of the same CD. Each CD has 22 tracks, each track is one minute long. Each of these tracks establishes a steady-state musical context. The performer chooses to mix various tracks together from the various copies of the CD, establishing a dynamically changing musical environment which stimulates an improvised interaction.
Upcoming performances:
Empty Bottle in Chicago on 18 October 2000
Roulette, NYC on 22 October 2000
More info and mp3 excerpts
Doctor Nerve, Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival, Rome
July 15 & 16Time of the performance: 23.00 p.m.
Location: Villa Celimontana (Piazza della Navicella, near the Colosseum)
Tickets: can be bought at the box office of Villa Celimontana (Piazza della Navicella, near the Colosseum)
The box office opens at 7:30pm
Box office phone: 0039 06 70496514
Rome Italy
ICMC 2000, Berlin
Nick Didkovsky and Phil Burk are running a workshop at the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Berlin, on August 27.The title of the workshop is "Computer Music Programming for the Web with JSyn and JMSL", and covers two new Java music tools Nick and Phil are developing:
- JMSL is a framework for algorithmic music, (Doctor Nerve fans may recognize JMSL's predecessor, "HMSL" as the software Nick used to create some of Nerve's pieces). JMSL is a collaborative effort by Nick and Phil.
- JSyn, which is a Java toolbox for creating realtime cd quality audio with virtual synthesizers. JSyn is by Phil.
Visit http://www.icmc2000.org
Official ICMC blurb follows:
The web can be your concert hall. Using JSyn you can develop complex interactive computer
music pieces that run in a web browser. JSyn is a Java API that provides real-time synthesis for
Java applications and Applets. It is based on a unit generator model and is designed for
real-time interaction. JMSL, the Java Music Specification Language, is a composition toolkit
written in Java that can control JSyn or JavaSound. JMSL provides hierarchical scheduling tools,
distribution functions and sequence generators based on the tools in its predecessor HMSL.
The tutorial will cover:
creating, connecting and controlling unit generators,
loading and queuing sample data,
creating and queuing envelope data,
creating complex patches,
building hierarchies of composition objects using JMSL,
using various algorithmic tools of JMSL,
using the Java network API to make interactive multi-user pieces,
practical issues involving plugins and browser compatibility,
how to put an interactive algorithmic computer music piece in a web page.
This workshop will explain how to write computer music programs in Java that can be placed in a
web page. We will use the JSyn API to synthesize audio in real-time using a library of unit
generators. We will then use the JMSL API to create high level compositions that can include
hierarchical scheduling. Because JSyn and JMSL are Java based, composers can combine any
of the Java APIs including networking, 3D graphics, GUI tools, etc. with these two powerful
music packages.
JSyn can be downloaded for free at: http://www.softsynth.com/jsyn/
JMSL can be downloaded for free at: http://www.ingress.com/~drnerve/jmsl/index.html
Details on the workshop leaders can be found under: http://www.softsynth.com/philburk.html and
http://www.ingress.com/~drnerve/nerve/pages/nick.shtml
Body Parts, European Tour, March 2000
Nick Didkovsky - electric guitarGuigou Chenevier - drums and so forth
March 18, Meldola March 19, Lucerne March 21, Grenoble, salle Juliet Berto, noon March 22, Montreuil, aux Instants Chavirés March 23, Lyon, Café Myzik March 24, Avignon, Coustellet "La Gare"
Recording new CD in Vandoevre end of tour
Nick Didkovsky (composer/software), James Forrest (computer), Joel Mellin (computer), Barbara Benary (Chung Hu)
Performing a new JMSL/JSyn duo for two computers and two performers, based on "Why Don't You Write Me?" using (obviously) Gamelan Son Of Lion's tuning.
Your Hit Parade (composers, artists & writers cover pop songs) The New Museum of Contemporary Art 583 Broadway Sunday March 26, 3 pm limited seating - for info and reservations call 219-1222 x200 guilty pleasures, closet confessions and rock classics... renderings and deconstructions of Jimi Hendrix, Leslie Gore, Barry White, Abba and many many more Compositions, performances, readings, writings, videos and drawings by Eve Beglarian Kitty Brazelton Robin Bruch Nick Didkovsky Judy Dunaway Barbara Ess David First Kenneth Goldsmith Annie Gosfield Tom Jarmusch & Fabienne Gautier Art Jarvinen Victoria Jordanova Roger Kleier Phil Kline Gordon Minette James Nares Geoffrey O'Brien Robert Polito Bradford Reed Luc Sante Mark Stewart & Rob Schwimmer Kathy Supove Randy Woolf
Nick Didkovsky, Realtime Computer Music
Warwick Cyber Arts Festival, Saturday, Feb 26, 2000, 7:30-9:30pm
Warwick Valley Community Center (Doc Fry)
11 Hamilton Ave
Warwick, NY
info: (914) 986-6422
contact: festivalwarwick@aol.com
Also performing the same evening: Laetitia Sonami (Lady Glove) and Helen Thorington (Web art)
Friday, Jan 28 Victoria Jordanova: The Blurb
Victoria Jordanova - harp
Nick Didkovsky - guitar
Fast Forward - percussion
Jim Staley - trombone
Phill Niblock - live video design
The Belgrade-born harpist combines her graceful and surreal expressions with
a Downtown all-star band. Live video provides literal visual counterpoint.
Lotus Music and Dance
109 W. 27th, 8th Fl. New York City
Info & Res: 212/627-1076
All concerts at 8:00pm. Admission $8. *Reservations Strongly Advised*
Produced by Thomas Buckner and Tom Hamilton
Caught by the Sky with Wire
New Works at Miller Theatre, Columbia University, NYCJanuary 29, 8 PM (Sat)
Caught by the Sky with Wire, composed by Nick Didkovsky, commissioned by Steve Schick and Maya Beiser
Maya Beyser, cello/ Steven Schick, percussion
THREETWO '99 6th Annual Festival of Contemporary Music
Sunday, December 12, 1999, 5pm Renee Weiler Concert Hall Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street, New York City $10/$5 students & seniorsThreetwo's soloists will be presented in a marathon concert of their most adventurous repertoire. The event will have two breaks of food & drink, and a reception to follow. We hope you can attend!
Works will be performed by composers Iannis Xenakis, Elliott Carter, Christian Wolff, Stuart Saunders Smith and Salvatore Martirano, the Russian futurists Sergei Protopopov and Nikolai Obouhov, and a transatlantic troupe of younger experimental composers including Paul Reller, Alfred Zimmerlin, Nick Didkovsky, Eric Lyon, Drew Krause, Larry Polansky, Martin Wehrli, and Benjamin Grosser.
Directors: Keith Moore and Taimur Sullivan
For more information, e-mail threetwo@mailroom.com
http://www.echonyc.com/~sulli/threetwo.html
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Tomas Bächli (piano)
Matthew Gold (percussion)
Margaret Lancaster (flute)
Drew Krause (piano)
Paul de Jong (violoncello)
Iannis Xenakis - Rebonds (1987-89)
Salvatore Martirano - Phleu (1988)
Alfred Zimmerlin - Piano Piece VIII (1999)
Nick Didkovsky - Caught by the Sky with Wire (1996)
Stuart Saunders Smith - Fences, in Three Tragedies (1998)
Martin Wehrli - Piano Piece VI (1997)
Elliott Carter - Scrivo in Vento (1991)
Paul Reller - Executive Outcomes (1998)
Drew Krause - Two Ballads (1997)
Christian Wolff - Piano Song "I'm a dangerous woman" (1983)
Sergei Protopopov - Sonata for piano (1924)
Larry Polansky - Cinderella (1998)
Paul Reller - In Praise of Buddy Hackett (1998)
Eric Lyon - Paradigm (1998)
Nikolai Obouhov - Adorons Christ! Fragment du troisième et dernier testament (1946)
Benjamin Grosser - new work (1999)
Valeska's Vitriol
A disturbing, and bizarre dance / performance piece with Sara Hook (choreography, much audience provocation), Nick Didkovsky (electric guitar, composition, some audience provocation), and Gil Morgenstern (violinist, audience sympathizer).Inspired by research into the late German dancer/actress Valeska Gert, who was famous for her provocative, satiric pantomime and ripe, acerbic wit. She became famous in Berlin during the 1920's and got booted out of Germany right around 1933 by you know who.
Wed, Nov 10, 8pm,University Settlement, 184 Eldrige Street, NYC
Doctor Nerve, Thinking Plague, and The Hosemobile
Wed. Sept. 8th - Knitting Factory - 74 Leonard St, NYC - sponsored by THE DOWNTOWN MUSIC GALLERY 8th YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION - for info call them at: (212) 473-0043Nerve's in the second slot. This will shred your noggin. We are inviting very very scary guests to join us. If you miss this you'll have to read about it in Tone Clusters and weep.
Doctor Nerve joins Micro-East Collective
"Micro-East Collective (): This is a truly rare thing, a functioning large ensemble based out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina and featuring many of the area's finest musicians. The group's performances have garnered them extensive praise for sensitive interaction and fine orchestral compositions by several of the members. Tonight, the group will have five guests from Dr. Nerve - Nick Didkovsky, Michael Lytle, Yves Duboin, Greg Henke, and Leo Ciesa." (Eugene Chadbourne)Performances Saturday, August 7, 1999, at 9pm at Tonic.
Tonic is at 107 Norfolk St, between Delancey & Rivington.
This series curated by Eugene Chadbourne.
Nick Didkovsky, panelist at IMX
Nick will be on a panel discussion group at the Interactive Music Expo on Tuesday August 10, 1999 at Javits Convention Center, NYC.Presentation will include comments on JMSL and JSyn: realtime web-capable music languages.
Visit IMX Home
Nick Didkovsky at Do What? Music Festival, Toronto
Nick will perform solo electric guitar and improvise joyously with Dinner is Ruined (elevator music for non-claustrophobic people) and Jean Derome/Joan Hetu.Festival dates are Fri/Sat/Sun June 18/19/20
For details (brace yerself), visit The Do What? Music Festival schedule.
This festival is insane, so go there.
Nick Didkovsky & Guigou Chenevier
May 24, 1999, Musique Action, Centre Culturel André Malraux, Nancy, FranceNick and Guigou premiere their new works for guitar, drum set, and voices at this long-living (16 of 'em) creative music festival. Boy oh boy this is going to be fun!
Visit the 16ème édition du festival Musique Action at http://services.worldnet.net/ccam/
Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, Bang On A Can
Fred Frith, Nick Didkovsky, Rene Lussier, Mark Stewart perform at Bang On A Can on May 5, 1999.Abrons Art Center at Henry Street Settlement, New York City
466 Grand Street (at Pitt)
8pm
tickets $15
Nick Didkovsky Moorhead State University Residency
April 13-17, 1999
Nick will be in residence at Moorhead State University's Roland Dille Center for the Arts. Teaching some classes, but mostly
working with the MSU New Music Ensemble: arranging Nerve tunes and other new/old works. Culminating in
an evening of public sonic debauchery.
A possible program order:
Nerveware No.1 MSU New Music Ensemble
Armed Observation MSU New Music Ensemble
solo Nick Didkovsky, guitar
Just a Voice that Bothered Him
Glenn Ginn, guitar
Steve Langemo, guitar
Karl Koopman, guitar
Eric Klotz, guitar
I Kick My Hand
Glenn Ginn, guitar
Steve Langemo
Well Ask the Questions Around Here, Part 2
Glenn Ginn, guitar
Steve Langemo, guitar
Karl Koopman, guitar
Eric Klotz, guitar
solo Nick Didkovsky, guitar
improvisation MSU New Music Ensemble, Nick Didkovsky
She Closes Her Sister with Heavy Bones MSU New Music Ensemble
Pain Waits Until 5pm MSU New Music Ensemble
Contact: Ross Feller (fellerro@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu)
Kathleen Supove, Victoria Jordanova, Kaffe Matthews, Knitting Factory, May 11, 1999
Kathy Supove performs over-the-top solo piano works and rants.Victoria Jordanova pushes the harp to its limits.
Nick will join Kathy for a duo version of I Kick My Hand (most of you already know that Kathy's playing keyboards in Doctor Nerve, right?)
Nick will join Victoria for an improvisation.
The deal:
KAFFE MATTHEWS AT 8
VICTORIA JORDANOVA AT 9
KATHLEEN SUPOVE AT 10
$10 ticket
More info, or just to say hello: 212 219-3006
Carrie Hanson, Joyce Soho Theatre, NYC, April 17, 1999
Carrie does some bizarre solo dances involving a skateboard and a very very red dress.Less succinctly...
Carrie Hanson's fondness of Nick Didkovsky's music has compelled her to make three solos and one octet, Eight Letters to the Moon from the Lunatic Castle, which is currently being performed by the Ballet Company of the National Theatre of Mannheim, Germany.
Tonight, the three solos appear next to one another in Suite for Weird Sisters. The sisters, Ruby, Aquamarina, and Brunella are accompanied by Didkovsky's I Kick My Hand, excerpts of Black Iris, and Our Soldiers Are Soft Pianos, respectively.
The music will be prerecorded.
Joyce Soho Theatre info: 212.226.7624
Nick Didkovsky and Phil Burk present JSyn and JMSL
Harvestworks, Saturday, April 3, 1999, from 5-8pm
JMSL is a new programming language for experimental music. It follows in the footsteps on HMSL (Hierarchical Music
Specification Language), and is written in Java. JSyn is Phil Burk's realtime synthesis API also written in Java.
JMSL and JSyn can work together to create powerful interactive compositions that can use the Internet as a network.Harvestworks is at 596 Broadway, New York City.
Event Info: 212 431-1130
JMSL Info
Admission is free.
Nick Didkovsky, Solo Electric Guitar, The Knitting Factory, NYC, March 14, 1999
Nick will perform solo guitar improv, opening the evening for a rare US performance by Richard Pinhas (the ex-Heldon dude).The fun starts at 8pm
Ticket info: 212 219-3006
This performance will be cybercast from www.knittingfactory.com
Nick Didkovsky (gtr), Steven Schick (perc)
Perform Overlife, a new work in three movements for dance, composed by Nick Didkovsky, and commissioned by John Malashock Dance Company.January 16, 1999, 8pm, Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park, San Diego, California. Champagne dessert celebration after the show!
tickets/info (619)235-2266
Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, European Tour 1999
Feb. 9 Ivry, France Theatre d'Ivry 2/10 Aachen, Germany Musikbunker 2/11 Gent, Belgium Vooruit 2/13 Vienna, Austria Radiokulturhaus 2/14 Ljubljana, Slovenia Slovenska Kinoteka 2/15 Florence, Italy Teatro Studio di Scandicci 2/17 Esslingen, Germany (Fred's 50th birthday!) Dieselstrasse 2/18 Munich, Germany Unterfahrt im Einstein 2/19 Berlin, Germany Quasimodo 2/20 Dortmund, Germany Domicil Jazzclub 2/21 Zurich, Switzerland Rote Fabrik 2/23 Marseille, France A.M.I. 2/24 Bordeaux, France Ecole de Musique 2/25 Coimbra, Portugal Concertos de Portugal
Nick Didkovsky and Jason Dumars, Friday, Oct 23, 1998 at 9pm
Nick plays electric guitar, Jason wails on a variety of saxophones and it's all quite intense.www.saxophone.org
The Knitting Factory is at 74 Leonard Street, NYC, info/tickets 212.219.3006
Doctor Nerve and Harpy and Phil Kline at the Knitting Factory, Oct 6th, 1998
Doctor Nerve returns to the Knit to perform more twisted metal, turn-on-a-dime improvisation, and mutations of recent compositions. Nerve's live performances are legendary, so don't miss this. Personnel: Greg Anderson (bass), Leo Ciesa (drums), Nick Didkovsky (guitar), Yves Duboin (soprano sax), Rob Henke (trumpet), Michael Lytle (bass clarinet), Kathleen Supové (keyboards). "Drastic, unpredictable, ear-opening, Doctor Nerve challenges the way we listen", (Jim MacNie, Guitar World).Harpy, from Japan, plays very creative and very bizarre music. In their words, "The concept is only strange music style!!". Harpy is Kenji Ito (drums), Kyoko (vocal), Suzuki (guitar), and Ono Tetsu (piano). This is Harpy's premiere NYC. Your ears will squirm. Ok!
Phil Kline is an utterly insane soundsmith/composer who will put your hammers, anvils, and stirups into an apoplectic rage, and I mean that in a good way.
The Knitting Factory is at 74 Leonard Street, NYC
Nick Didkovsky, solo electric guitar
At Tonic, that hip new space in NYC. Sept 4 at 9pm. Also on the evening, Elliot Sharp and Mari Kimura.Tonic is at 107 Norfolk St, between Delancey & Rivington.
(cancelled due to the timely arrival of Alexander "Sasha" Roberts Didkovsky, b. Sept 2, 1998, 8lbs, 13oz, 21.5 in)
Composer's Party
Nick will do a little solo electric guitar improv.The Swiss Institute New York, 495 Broadway, New York, New York 10009
tel 212/925 2035 fax 212/925 2040
e-mail: swissins@dti.net
Nick Didkovsky, on-line Web chat
Monday, June 8, at 3pm (eastern time).Sponsored by Kalvos and Damian's New Music Bazaar.
Nick will type as fast as he can to blur as many answers and ideas together as is possible in this very odd, realtime text-based medium. Visit http://www.maltedmedia.com/euromid/index2.html for information about what software you need, etc, to participate in this chat session.
Or go directly to the log in screen at http://chat.webproject.org/
Doctor Nerve
June 4, 1998 at Brownie's (9th street and Avenue A or something like that, in NYC)Great gig: with Present and Elliot Sharpe, produced by Downtown Music Gallery's Bruce "the man" Gallanter. Missing this is unforgivable.
Bang On A Can All-Stars
Perform Didkovsky's "Amalia's Secret" and other works by other people May 17, 1998 at The Knitting FactorySinew Double Trio
Holland Tour, 1998Cool group: two drummers, two sax players, two guitarists (one of which is Nick)
A new special project coordinated by Ruud Van Helvert (ex-Blast). Also in the band: Guigou Chenevier (yeah!) and Wiek Hijmens (yeah!).
Tour info so far:
May 1 Amsterdam
May 4 Eindhoven
May 7 'sHertogenbosch
May 8 Tilburg
May 9 Bielfeld
May 10 Rotterdam
Nick Didkovsky - Solo Electric Guitar
Saturday May 23, in Baltimore, in a triple bill with Forever Einstein, and Rattlemouth.Orion Sound Studios
2903 Whittington Ave
Baltimore, Maryland
The show will start with Nick at 7:30, followed by Forever Einstein, finishing with Rattlemouth.
More info: http://prog.ari.net/prog/shows/showcase/
Nick Didkovsky - Solo Electric Guitar
Sunday, May 31, Context Studios, 28 Avenue A (between 2nd and 3rd street), NYCThis concert also features performances by downtown mover and shaker Phil Kline and sample wiz Annie Gosfield.
Nick Didkovsky, solo computer at Circuits conference, Sat. March 28
Governor's Conference on Arts and Technology, Palisades Conference Center, Palisades, NYNick Didkovsky performs a statistical computer warpage of Schubert's Impromptu in Eb Major, Op. 90. Features the virtual performance of Evelyne Luest, statistically deconstructed with a new realtime software instrument written by Nick in Java.
Evelyne will also perform the piece on a real piano.
Conference info: http://www.circuitsnys.org/
Real Audio Stream
Nick Didkovsky - Solo Electric Guitar
Broadcast live on WFMU, 91.1 FM, East Orange, NJShow starts at 8pm, Sunday March 1
Doctor Nerve European Tour, 1998
4-Feb Roma, Centro Sociale Brancaleone5-Feb Montepulciano (near Chiusi), Granaio
6-Feb Schio (near Vicenza), Circolo Operaio Il Bruco
7-Feb Meldola (near Forli), Sala Arcinova
8-Feb Bologna, Link
9-Feb TBA
10-Feb Ulm, Roxy
11-Feb Nurnberg, Desi
12-Feb Leipzig, Moritzbastei
13-Feb Chemnitz, ZV-Bunker
14-Feb Gera, Germany, Engelskeller
15-Feb Hannover, Germany, Faust e.V.
16-Feb Tilburg, The Netherlands, Paradox
17-Feb Aachen, Germany, Musikbunker
18-Feb Wurzburg, AKW
19-Feb Wien, Porgy&Bess
20-Feb Wels, Alter Schlachthof
21-Feb St. Johann in Tirol
22-Feb St Gallen, Grabenhalle
Nick Didkovsky - Solo Electric Guitar
Free performance at Downtown Music Gallery, 211 East 5th Street, NYC NYCelebrate the release of new guitar CD, Binky Boy
Sunday, Feb 25, 1998, at 7pm
Doctor Nerve & Sirius String Quartet, performing EREIA
January 10, 1998, at 8pmThe Kitchen, 512 W 19th Street, NYC.
Performing the new work, EREIA. Doctor Nerve and Sirius String Quartet join forces to perform a new piece in three movements, composed by Nick Didkovsky. This is going to kill you.
The commissioning of this new work was supported by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and the Jerome Foundation with support from Harvestworks and American Composers Forum.
Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, European Tour, Nov 1997
Nov 1 Tampere, Finland
Nov 2 Brussels, Belgium
Nov 3 Heidelberg, Germany
Nov 4 Mainz, Germany
Nov 5 Winterthur, Switzerland
Nov 6 Luzern, Switzerland
Nov 7 Koln, Germany
Nov 8 Vandoeuvre, Nancy
Nov 9 Esslingen, Germany
Nov 10 Basel, Switzerland
Nov 11 Innsbruck, Austria
Nov 12 Vienna, Austria
Nov 14 Schwaz, Austria
Nov 15 Barcelona, Spain
Nov 16 Madrid, Spain
Nov 17 Frankfurt, Germany
Didkovsky/Dumars/Norton
Friday, October 17th, at 7pm, AlterKnit Theatre, Knitting Factory, 72 Leonard Street, NYC
Should be a pretty cool set of improv, some Ankle To Nose tunes, and a sick-o gigue by Jason. Jason is the kingpin of www.saxophone.org, and you can print out the poster he made for this gig at http://www.saxophone.org/kfgig.html
Guest Squeeler: Yves Duboin. Yikes.
Schubert Festival
Friday, September 19, 1997, 8 p.m.Nick Didkovsky performs a statistical computer warpage of a Schubert's Impromptu in Eb Major, Op. 90, at this Soho Arts Festival celebrating Schubert's birthday. Features the virtual performance of Evelyne Luest, statistically deconstructed with a new realtime software instrument written by Nick in the buzzword laden Java programming language.
American Opera Projects, 462 Broome Street
Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, Canadian Tour
Oct 2, 1997 - Jonquiere, QuebecOct 4, 1997 - Toronto
Oct 5, 1997 - Montreal
Need details? Visit www.guitarfest.com
"Too much of a good thing is wonderful", Homage a Liberace
Saturday, August 30, 1997, at 9pmTomas Baechli - piano, performing new pieces by Nick Didkovsky, Dan Goode, Virgil Moorefield, and others on the tenth anniversary of Liberace's death.
La Mama Galleria, 6 East First Street, NY
Suggested contribution: $5
Nick Didkovsky, Larry Polansky, Jody Diamond
Sunday, August 31, at 9pmPerforming new works for electric guitar, piano, and voice, with Tomas Baechli and Dieter Hall.
La Mama Galleria, 6 East First Street, NY
Suggested contribution: $5
Nick Didkovsky (gtr), Bart Maris (tpt), Tom De Wulf (dr)
Wed, July 9, 1997, at midnight.Beursschouwberg, August Ortsstraat 22-28, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Tel 02/513.82.90
E-Mail: Beurs@innet.be
Performing Bart's twisted tunes...
Victoriaville Festival, May 19th, 1997
Premiering a new work, EREIA. Doctor Nerve and Sirius String Quartet join forces to perform a new piece in three movements, composed by Nick Didkovsky.The commissioning of this new work was supported by
the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust
and the Jerome Foundation with support
from Harvestworks.
This performance made possible in part with a
supporting grant from Arts International.
Please check with the Victoriaville Festival in Quebec for
ticketing information:
(819) 752-7912 / fax (819) 758-4370.
Steve Schick & Maya Beiser (perc & cello)
Perform a new commissioned work by Nick Didkovsky,
"Caught by the Sky With Wire". Steve & Maya totally rule this piece. NY premiere.Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, April 5, 1997
Doctor Nerve performs at about 10pm. Part of a festival.Knitting Factory, March 4, 1997
74 Leonard Street, New York City
7:30 Michael Gordon Philharmonic
8:30 Doctor Nerve
9:30 Meridian Arts Ensemble
Tickets $12/14
Doctor Nerve"The best of the musicians who are fusing classical, jazz, and rock techniques"
Meridian Arts Ensemble
Michael Gordon Philharmonic
Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, European Tour, Dec. 1996
(Fred Frith, Rene Lussier, Nick Didkovsky, Mark Stewart)Dec. 6 - Bern, Switzerland
Dec. 7 - Meldola, Italy
Dec. 8 - Venice, Italy
Dec. 9 - Innsbruck, Austria at Treibhaus
Dec. 10 - La Spezia, Italy
Dec. 11 - Bologna, Italy
Dec. 12 - Rome, Italy
Dec. 14 - Berlin, Germany
Dec. 16 - Brussels, Belgium
Dec. 17 - Amsterdam, Holland
Dec. 18 - Hamburg, Germany
Didkovsky/Norton/Pugliese
Sunday Oct 6, 19965pm
Gowanus Arts Exchange, 295 Douglas Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Directions: Take N or R subway to Union Street in Brooklyn. Walk 3 blocks North (toward the big clock tower), take a left on Douglas. 3/4ths of the way down the block is a blue/green building with a purple door. That's Gowanus, dude.
Kevin's writing a new piece for this trio. Scary stuff.
Nick Didkovsky - Swirled Music
September 8, 1996Ohio Theatre
66 Wooster Street, between Spring and Broome, NYC
2pm - 10 pm
ND plays between 7:19 pm and 8:07
Three stages all day long, simultaneous performances that overlap in peculiar ways that only make sense to curator David First. Also with Evan Gallagher, Woody Mann, Arto Lindsay, Ben Neill, Spooky, Ken Butler, Petr Kotik ...
Nick Didkovsky - Japan Tour
Each night's program:
- ND joins Japanese band for one of their pieces
- ND joins Japanese band for a Doctor Nerve piece
- Conducted improvisation
- Free improvisation
August 3 - MANDA-LA2, Tokyo, with Happy Family
August 4 - MANDA-LA2, Tokyo, with Isso Yukihiro
August 6 - LA MAMA, Tokyo, with Tipographica
August 7 - MANDA-LA2, Tokyo, with Mamoru Fujieda
August 8 - MANDA-LA2, Tokyo, with Koichi Makagami
August 10 - CLUB QUATRO, Osaka, with Happy Family and varius artists
August 11 - TAKUTAKU, Kyoto, with Hisato Hosoi and Haco
contact: Locus Solus +81-422-21-4758
DOCTOR NERVE - MIMI Festival, Arles, France.
July 22, 1996Th??tre Antique d'ARLES
Contact MIMI Festival/AMI by E-Mail: ami@lia.imt-mrs.fr
Visit the MIMI Festival Homepage
This performance made possible in part with a supporting grant from Arts International.
DOCTOR NERVE - FabrikJazz
July 21, 1996Rote Fabrik
Seestr. 395
9pm
Zurich, Switzerland
Fred Frith Guitar Quartet
(Fred Frith, Nick Didkovsky, Rene Lussier, Mark Stewart)
Knitting Factory, NYCFriday and Saturday, July 12 and 13
Two sets each night at 9 and 11
DOCTOR NERVE - Creative Time Festival
Brooklyn Bridge AnchorageJuly 19, 1996
9pm
Also the same evening: Emergency Broadcast Network
Directions: The Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage is located inside the base of the Brooklyn Bridge located at Cadman Plaza West at the intersection of Hicks Street and Old Fulton Street in Brooklyn. Take the 2 or 3 train to Clark Street, or the A or C train to High Street. Walk down Cadman Plaza West toward the river under the BQE overpass. Anchorage entrance is to the right.
Nick Didkovsky, Kevin Norton, James Pugliese
Performing a new work by ND and by a twisted entity by Jim P.
Hopefully Nick won't blow a
speaker during sound check this time.
Monday, May 20, 1996, 8pm
A Tellus night celebrating a cool new CD release and more...
The Cooler, NYC
Contact Harvestworks for info (212) 431-1130
Nick Didkovsky, Kevin Norton, James Pugliese
Performing a new work by ND for two percussionists and prepared electric guitar.
Friday, May 3, 1996, 8pm
Context Studios, 28 Avenue A (between 2nd and 3rd street), NYC
Round Trip
A voyage into el corazon de Mexico in celebration of Cinco De Mayo
By Tena Cohen, music by Nick Didkovsky and Ian McGrath.
Opens May 1, runs through the 5th, 8pm each night
167 Ludlow Street (1/2 block south of Houston), NYC
reservations, call 420-1466
Nick Didkovsky - Guest Lecture at Princeton.
Nick will discuss and demonstrate his real time computer music performance software and composition software.
Friday, April 26, 1996
4:00 pm
ANNE
A multimedia performance, created by Elise Kermani.
Music performed by Nick Didkovsky (electric prepared guitars), and Elise Kermani.
Experimental Intermedia, 224 Centre Street (at Grand), NYC
(212) 431-5127
Friday, March 8, 1996, 9:00 pm, $5
Nick Didkovsky, "Listen In" Event at Harvestworks
Thursday, Feb 8 at 8:30pm
Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, Suite 602, New York, NY 10012
tel (212) 431-1130
Nick is a 1996 Artist in Residence at Harvestworks. He will discuss and demonstrate his real time computer music performance software and composition software. Should be fun.
Nick Didkovsky and Mark Stewart, Electric Guitar Duos
Sunday, Feb 4, at 5pmGowanus Arts Exchange, 295 Douglas Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Mark Stewart is a member of the Bang On A Can All-Stars. Nick is the neural center of Doctor Nerve. Both play in the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet. As a duo, it gets pretty scary. As shown on TV! (City Arts, PBS)
Directions: Take N or R subway to Union Street in Brooklyn. Walk 3 blocks North (toward the big clock tower), take a left on Douglas. 3/4ths of the way down the block is a blue/green building with a purple door. That's Gowanus.
NewEar
Music Ensemble
Performing three Doctor Nerve pieces!
- Nerveware No. 8
- Don't Call Too Late My Husband's A Baker
- Take Your Ears As The Bones Of Their Queen
Sunday November 5, at 3pm, St. Mary's Episcopal Church in downtown
Kansas City (13th and Holmes), NewEar Bites The Big Apple.Should sound pretty sick: violin and piccolo instead of soprano sax, synth instead of electric guitar, bassoon instead of electric bass, found percussive objects instead of drum set, etc. Jeeziz!
"Since its first performance in 1994, NewEar has defined the musical edge in contemporary music for Kansas City audiences. With a lighthearted earnestness and clarity of purpose, NewEar's concerts have run the gamut of current musical styles - from the dense textures and complex sound fields of Ligeti, Xenakis, and Cage to the insistent rhythms of the minimalists."
Also on the bill, works by Tisne, Goldstein, and Alexander.
Contact NewEar at PO Box 15748, Kansas City, MO 64106
Doctor Nerve
European Tour 1995
Nov 7 - "Vooruit" in Gent, Belgium Nov 8 - "Doornroosje", Nijmegen, Holland
Nov 9 - "Abattoirs" in Sierre, Switzerland
Nov 10 - "Cave 12" in Geneva, Switzerland
Nov 11 - "Case a Chocs" in Neuchatel, Switzerland
Nov 12 - "Reithalle" in Bern, Switzerland
Nov 13 - TBA
Nov 14 - Ecole de Jazz et Musique Actuelle, Lausanne, Switzerland (workshop and concert)
Nov 15 - TBA
Nov 16 - "Paradox" in Tilburg, Holland
Nov 17 - "Westwerk" in Hamburg, Germany
Nov 18 - "Rumor Festival at Kikker" in Utrecht, Holland
Fred Frith Guitar Quartet
European Tour 1995
(Fred Frith, Nick Didkovsky, Rene Lussier, Mark Stewart)Nov 26 - Hamburg,Germany
Nov 27 - Basel, Switzerland
Nov 28 - Villeurbanne, France
Nov 30 - Bydgoszcz, Poland
Dec 1 - Berlin, Germany
Dec 2 - Bern, Switzerland
Dec 3 - Esslingen, Germany
Dec 4 - Frankfurt, Germany
Dec 5 - Munich, Germany
Dec 6 - Vienna, Austria
Dec 7 - Trieste, Italy
Dec 8 - Schio, Italy
Dec 9 - Locarno, Swizterland
Dec 10 - Bregenz, Austria
Dec 11 - Fribourg, Switzerland
Dec 12 - Torino, Italy
Dec 13 - Bologna, Italy
Dec 14 - Milano, Italy
Dec 15 - Friedrichshafen, Germany