4/1 Tuesday (KR)
8 pm
JACK Quartet performing music by Timothy McCormack
Chris Otto, Ari Streisfeld (violins) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello)
10 pm
JACK Quartet performing music by Michele Lou, Natacha Diels, Brian Baumbusch, and Elliott Sharp
Chris Otto, Ari Streisfeld (violins) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello)
4/2 Wednesday (ICS)
8 pm
CD pre-release event: JACK Quartet performing music by Miguel Frasconi featured on “Five Lines & More Thoughts” to be released by Tzadik
Chris Otto, Ari Streisfeld (violins) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello)
10 pm
Kevin McFarland performing music by Kevin McFarland
Kevin McFarland (cello)
4/3 Thursday (JR)
8 pm
Christopher Otto, Jay Campbell, Kevin McFarland, Doug Balliett, and Greg Chudzik performing music by Christopher Otto
Christopher Otto (violin) Jay Campbell, Kevin McFarland (cellos) Doug Balliett, Greg Chudzik (basses)
10 pm
JACK Quartet performing music by Nathan Shields, Christopher Trapani, Taylor Brook
Chris Otto, Ari Streisfeld (violins) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello)
4/4 Friday (DDT)
8 pm
JACK Quartet and Joshua Roman performing music by Jefferson Friedman, Carlo Gesualdo, and John Luther Adams
Chris Otto, Ari Streisfeld (violins) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland, Joshua Roman (cellos)
10 pm
JACK Quartet performing music by John Zorn
Chris Otto, Ari Streisfeld (violins) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello)
4/5 Saturday (DDT)
8 pm
CD release event: JACK Quartet performing music by Ha-Yang Kim featured on “Threadsuns” released by Tzadik
Chris Otto, Ari Streisfeld (violins) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello)
10 pm
JACK Quartet, Jay Campbell, David Fulmer, and Stephen Gosling performing music by John Zorn
Chris Otto, Ari Streisfeld, David Fulmer (violins) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland, Jay Campbell (cellos) Stephen Gosling (piano)
4/6 Sunday (SV)
8 pm
Ari Streisfeld and Rachel Calloway performing music by Guillaume de Machaut, Andrew Waggoner, Kamala Sankaram, and Amadeus Regucera
Ari Streisfeld (violin) Rachel Calloway (voice)
10 pm
CD release event: JACK Quartet performing Matthew Barnson’s String Quartet No. 3 featured on Sibyl Tones newly released on Tzadik
Chris Otto, Ari Streisfeld (violins) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello)
4/7 Monday (JR)
8 pm
CANCELLED—LOIS MARTIN RECITAL
Lois Martin (viola) Mike Truesdell (marimba) Caroline Stinson (cello) Molly Morkoski (piano)
WITH APOLOGIES, LOIS HAS HAD TO CANCEL THIS EVENT.
4/8 Tuesday (KM)
8 pm
David Scanlon Solo
David Scanlon (guitar)
10 pm
KILLER BOB
Daniel Ellis-Ferris (voice) Max Jaffe (drums) Jessica Pavone (bass) Dave Scanlon (guitar)
4/9 Wednesday (RJP)
8 pm
Kenny Wollesen
10 pm
CANCELLED BECAUSE OF FAMILY EMERGENCY—Ariana Reines sends her regrets
Ariana Reines (cancellations)
4/10 Thursday (ICS)
8 pm
James Ilgenfritz
James Ilgenfritz (bass) Nick Hallett (voice, electronics) Ryan Jewell (percussion) Richard Kamerman (motorized objects)
Bassist/composer James Ilgenfritz performs MAX/MSP & PD creator Miller Puckette’s “Talkback,” which enables the sound of his bass to cut-up the recorded voice of William Burroughs. Then, he premieres a new quartet with Nick Hallett, Ryan Jewell and Richard Kamerman, which recontextualizes the libretto for his opera “The Ticket That Exploded.”
10 pm
Anthony Coleman
Anthony Coleman (piano)
4/11 Friday (TY)
8 pm
INTERZONE—Raha Raissnia and John Zorn
Raha Raissnia (film, projections)
Raha performs live visuals to John Zorn's Burroughs tribute INTERZONE.
10 pm
PROOFReaders trio
Trevor Dunn (bass) Darius Jones (alto sax) Ryan Sawyer (drums)
PROOFReaders Trio play music from Naked Lunch and other Ornette melodies.
4/12 Saturday (KM)
8 pm
Louis Belogenis—The Algebra of Need
Louis Belogenis (sax) Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) Tyshawn Sorey (drums)
10 pm
Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews—a B=U=R=R=O=U=G=H=S tribute
Charles Bernstein (reading) Bruce Andrews (reading)
4/13 Sunday (JI)
8 pm
Bradley Eros
Bradley Eros (readings, projections, performance)
10 pm
Andrew Lampert with opening act Title TK (Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen & Alan Licht)
Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen (words) Alan Licht (guitar)
4/14 Monday (JA)
8 pm
Kojiro Umezaki
Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi, electronics) Joseph Gramley (percussion)
4/15 Tuesday (SV)
8 pm
Object Collection
10 pm
Kenneth Goldsmith
Kenneth Goldsmith (readings)
4/16 Wednesday (HM)
8 pm
VOMIT FIST with guest Todd Colby
Nick Didkovsky (guitar)
10 pm
JG Thirlwell and Sarah Lipstate
4/17 Thursday (KM)
8 and 10 pm
Thurston Moore and Anne Waldman
Thurston Moore (guitar) Anne Waldman (reading)
Q&A / music and reading
4/18 Friday (HM)
8 pm
Billy Martin—the exploding junky
Billy Martin (percussion, laptop, drums) Steve Canon (spoken word)
10 pm
Hieroglyphic Silence
Eyvind Kang (viola) Fenway Bergamot (spoken word) Gamin (saenghwang, piri)
4/19 Saturday (RK)
8 pm
John Zorn and Bill Laswell Duo
John Zorn (sax) Bill Laswell (bass)
TWENTY DOLLARS
10 pm
Bill Laswell—THE ROAD TO THE WESTERN LANDS
Bill Laswell (bass, tapes) Dr. Israel (voice) Grandmixer DXT (dj)
TWENTY DOLLARS
4/20 Sunday (RJP)
8 and 10 pm
Hal Willner
Hal Willner (tapes) Bill Frisell (guitar) Eyvind Kang (viola) Lenny Pickett (sax)
4/22 Tuesday (KR)
8 pm
Space / Time・Redemption
Milford Graves (drums) Bill Laswell (bass)
TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS
10 pm
Bill Laswell and Wadada Leo Smith
Bill Laswell (bass) Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet)
TWENTY DOLLARS
4/23 Wednesday (ICS)
8 and 10 pm
Helio Parallax
Josh Werner (bass) Takuya Nakamura (trumpet) Gintas Janusonis (drums) Mari Ayabe (drums, bass)
4/24 Thursday (SK)
8 and 10 pm
Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band
Tunde Adebimpe (voice) Josh Werner (bass) Alex Holden (guitar) Ryan Sawyer (drums)
TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS
4/25 Friday (ICS)
8 and 10 pm
MUMPBEAK
Roy Powell (keyboard) Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass) Pat Mastelotto (drums)
4/26 Saturday (ICS)
8 pm
Bernie Worrell solo / Bernie Worrell & Bill Laswell duo
Bernie Worrell (keyboards) Bill Laswell (bass) Adam Rudolph (percussions) Grandmixer DXT
TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS
10 pm
Bernie Worrell, Bill Laswell, Dr. Israel, Grandmaster DXT
Bernie Worrell (keyboards) Bill Laswell Bass) Dr. Israel (voice) Grandmaster DXT (dj)
TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS
4/27 Sunday (SC)
8 and 10 pm
METHOD OF DEFIANCE: 3rd Column
Dr. Israel, Garrison Hawk (voices) Bernie Worrell (keyboards) Guy Licata (drums) Bill Laswell (bass) Adam Rudolph (percussion) Graham Haynes (trumpet) Peter Apfelbaum (sax) Special Guest Foday Musa Suso (kora)
TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS
4/28 Monday (ICS)
8 and 10 pm
Jon Madof’s Zion80 plays John Zorn’s Book of Angels
Jon Madof (guitar, conductor) Matt Darriau (alto sax) Greg Wall (tenor sax) Frank London (trumpet) Jessica Lurie (bari sax, flute) Zach Mayer (bari sax) Yoshie Fruchter (guitar) Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass) Brian Marsella (keyboard) Marlon Sobol (percussion) Yuval Lion (drums)
Zion80 returns to The Stone for two sets of music from John Zorn’s Book of Angels!
4/29 Tuesday (BK)
8 pm
Jennifer Choi, Felix Fan, Annie Gosfield
Jennifer Choi (violin) Felix Fan (cello) Annie Gosfield (sampling keyboard)
Jennifer Choi plays the US premiere of the acoustic version of “Long Waves and Random Pulses,” which uses extended techniques, noise, and notes to evoke jammed radio signals. Cellist Felix Fan performs “Harmony of the Body-Machine,” for cello and machine sounds, “Four Roses” inspired by whiskey and detuned pianos (with Annie Gosfield on sampler). Gosfield performs "Phantom Shakedown" for piano, cement mixer, and a broken radio.
10 pm
Sylvie Courvoisier, Ha-Yang Kim and Annie Gosfield
Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) Ha-Yang Kim (cello) Annie Gosfield (sampling keyboard)
A reprise of this improvising trio, with Gosfield performing “phantom electronics,” a ghostly electric bridge drawn from her extensive collection of altered cello and piano sounds.
4/30 Wednesday (JRSK)
8 pm
Kathleen Supové, MIVOS Quartet, Olivia De Prato
Kathleen Supové (piano) MIVOS Quartet: Olivia De Prato and Joshua Modney (violins) Victor Lowrie (viola) Mariel Roberts (cello)
Kathleen Supové performs “Shattered Apparitions of the Western Wind.” Imagined as a hallucinatory duet with Claude Debussy, it couples Supové’s wild playing with distorted fragments of the prelude “What the West Wind Saw”, on site recordings of Hurricane Sandy, and lush Debussy harmonies. MIVOS quartet plays “The Blue Horse Walks on the Horizon,” inspired by codes used by resistance groups in WWII, and Olivia dePrato performs a piece for violin and satellites.
10 pm
Annie Gosfield, Brian Chase, and Roger Kleier
Annie Gosfield (keyboards) Brian Chase (drums) Roger Kleier (guitar)
This improvising trio includes the powerhouse drummer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, longtime collaborator guitarist Roger Kleier, and Gosfield on piano and sampling keyboard.