SUBTROPICS XXIV
a festival preview | march 1-2, 2017
Subtropics 24 honors CHARLES RECHER With Three Preview Events in March and a Full Summer Festival in July | see press release below
DAY 1
Event 1
EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SINCE 1970
curator Jennie Gottschalk
part of the two-day Subtropics 24 Preview
WED 2017 MAR 01
7:00 PM | recommended time of arrival
7:30 PM | program begins
FREE (donations accepted)
liquid concessions available
The first in a 2016-17 series of Audiotheque solo cello concerts by Miami based master cellist Jason Calloway, this time featuring music by Boulez, Donatoni, Harvey, Pousseur, Saariaho, Sciarrino, and Zimmermannday!
Audiotheque
924 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach 33139
located at ArtCenter South Florida on
the south side of Lincoln Road – parking in the back
Event 2
MUSIC FOR SOLO CONTRABASS
a program of music by women composer
performed by Kyle Motl
part of the two-day Subtropics 24 Preview
WED 2017 MAR 01
9:00 PM | recommended time of arrival
9:30 PM | program begins
FREE (donations accepted)
liquid concessions available
Kyle Motl presents a program of solo contrabass music composed exclusively by women, including the world premiere of a new composition by Caroline Louise Miller. Though originating from varying perspectives, the works on this program all engage with some aspect of improvisation, from asking the performer to make local timbral decisions to leaving sections open for improvisation or determining the sequence of events. These pieces all invite both listener and performer to investigate the depths of sound and its generation, each through its own idiosyncratic architecture.
program:
Eight Etudes – Sofia Gubaidulina
Octobre – Joëlle Léandre
For Peter H – Joëlle Léandre
new work – Caroline Louise Miller Axe VII – Ana-Maria Avram
Audiotheque
924 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach 33139
located at ArtCenter South Florida on
the south side of Lincoln Road – parking in the back
DAY 2
Event 3
REUNION II
Abbey Rader Quartet
Abbey Rader / Kidd Jordan / John McMinn / Kyle Motl
part of the two-day Subtropics 24 Preview
THU 2017 MAR 02
7:30 PM | recommended time of arrival
8:00 PM | program begins
$10 (at the door)
liquid concessions available
This group was a huge success in its last Miami performance. Many considered it the best jazz concert of the year in South Florida. They went on to release the critically acclaimed album, “Reunion”. Don’t miss their return to Audiotheque.
Reviews of “Reunion”:
- Free Jazz Collective
- Jazz da Gama
- Downtown Music Gallery (scroll down to find it)
- All About Jazz
Audiotheque
924 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach 33139
located at ArtCenter South Florida on
the south side of Lincoln Road – parking in the back
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PRESS RELEASE
SUBTROPICS 24 HONORS CHARLES RECHER WITH PREVIEW EVENTS IN MARCH AND A FULL SUMMER FESTIVAL IN JULY
ABOUT THE PREVIEW EVENTS | MARCH 1-2, 2017
SUBTROPICS — Miami’s biennial of experimental music and sound art — announces a series of three festival events, March 1-2, 2017, presented at Audiotheque as a preview of what is to be expected during the full three-week biennial later in July of 2017.
For this two-day preview festival, Subtropics will introduce on Wednesday, March 1, composer and new music journalist Jennie Gottschalk who will present a program of recorded and live music based on her latest book, Experimental Music Since 1970, as part of Audiotheque’s free Listening Club program, featuring live performances by cellist Jason Calloway and bassist Kyle Motl.
Copies of Jennie’s book will be available for sale and signing as well as fundraising copies of the Subtropics 24 festival poster, honoring our dearest recently departed friend, filmmaker Charles Recher.
The same evening — immediately following the Listening Club presentation — bassist Kyle Motl will perform a full program of music for solo bass by women composers, including pieces by Sofia Gubaidulina, Joëlle Léandre, Ana-Maria Avram and the world premiere of a new piece by Caroline Louise Miller. This concert will also be free.
Lastly, on Thursday March 2, Subtropics brings you a special evening of free jazz featuring the Abbay Rader Quartet with special guest from New Orleans, saxophonist Kidd Jordan, the one and only Abbey Rader on drums, as well as bassist Kyle Motl and saxophonist John McMinn. Admission to this performance is $10 at the door.
All events happen at Audiotheque, located at ArtCenter South Florida, 924 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL 33139. For more information read below or visit our website, Subtropics.org.
ABOUT SUBTROPICS SUMMER FESTIVAL | JULY 2017
For its 24th edition, Subtropics Biennial will become a Summer Festival and will feature live performances by Olivia Block, Raven Chacón, Abbey Rader, John Driscoll, Zeena Parkins, Richard Garet and Barbara Held. Also in the program, composers Miguél Álvarez-Fernández and Ferrer-Molina — representives of AMEE — will offer a Listening Club presentation of electroacustic music from Spain.
Subtropics will also feature a sound art exhibition titled LISTEN curated by Gustavo Matamoros from installations developed for the Listening Gallery, lecture presentations by Jennie Gottschalk and Christoph Cox and the classic Subtropics Marathon. The festival will celebrate the life and work of our dearest friend and collaborator, filmmaker Charles Recher with an evening of his best films projected on the giant wall at the New World Symphony’s New World Center.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Our 2016-17 season of events is possible with funding from City of Miami Beach through its Cultural Affairs Program and the Cultural Arts Council, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, State of Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and the Blank Family Foundation. This project was realized with assistance from ArtCenter, Miami, Florida. subtropics.org would like to acknowledge the ongoing support of Sennheiser leaders in superior sound technology