Fri, Oct 16th

@MoMa. 10:30am. Yes, that's as in the morning.
"Looking At Music: Side 2" 

@ISSUE Project Room .  8pm. $10
Larkin Grimm + MV & EE Barn Nova Release




@Madame X. 8pm. $15.
Naked Girls Reading. 

Carson Daly said it's "the best thing to happen to books since they were put on tape."
I would argue it's not the best thing to happen to books, but the worst thing to happen to naked girls. I mean think about it: you're with a girl, and she's naked. Nice. Then she says "wait! first, I'd like to read to you 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.'"

This seems like an idea that sounds good in theory, looks even better in picture, but would probably get boring and annoying after 10 minutes. Like girls.

Of course, if it weren't $15, I'd definitely. Now it's knocked down to a maybe.


@ The Stone. 8pm $10
Evan Parker, Tim Berne and Earl Howard
Evan Parker (soprano and tenor saxophones) Tim Berne (alto sax) Earl Howard (electronics)

Evan Parker has a residency here for the whole month, but the month is running out.

@BAM Cafe Live . 9pm. Free.
The Skye Steele Quartet

If there's one word I love to hear in a band name (besides 'Experience' or 'Traveling'), it's 'quartet.' Any 'tet will do, really. Or any number in the name that refers to how many members are in the band. Even if the number isn't accurate at all. The only word I like more is 'Chamber,' and I don't even know what that means. No, wait, the only word I like more is 'Naked.'

Skye Steele Quartet @ Sputnik-- Black is the Color

Skye Steele|MySpace Music Videos
(I love that the video cuts off at "that's the first track off our record, it's called 'Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair', it's actually an ancient...", exactly the place where the audience stops listening.)

@Galapagos . Cabaret Magyar. 10:30PM
(also November 20)
$15.00 at the door

*this looks great, but if you're going to go to one wacky Brooklyn cabaret this weekend, I'd go to the Floating Kabarette on Saturday for free. But only cause it's free. It may be free for a good reason.

A three-part series of fin-de-siècle cabarets with 21st-century spirit. New York and Hungarian artists, writers, and musicians take on a variety of Hungarian subjects you never knew were Hungarian: from Harry Houdini and Zsa Zsa Gabor to Cicciolina, Transylvania, and Ex-Lax. Foot juggling, mustache animations, Communist-era Hungarian commercials—everything you crave in a cabaret!

Featuring performances by:
Marianna Falusi
Sweet Soubrette
Adira Amram
Bekah Brunstetter
Julie Atlas Muz
Tanya Gagne
animation by Nina Frenkel & Stefany Anne Golberg

And your host Nick Jones!

http://extremelyhungary.org/cabaret.php

@BAM cinemas. "Gigante" 7pm*

Part of the BAMcinématek series ¡Go Uruguay!

*Q&A with director Adrián Biniez and producer Fernando Epstein

Directed by Adrián Biniez. (2009) 84min

 

Sat, Oct 17th

@issue project room  8pm – Glenn Branca Ensemble – THE ASCENSION: THE SEQUEL
 The new Glenn Branca Ensemble will be performing the entirety of the soon to be recorded album ”The Ascension: The Sequel” at Issue Project Room. Buy Tickets | Admission: $15 door, $12 advance online




@Galapagos. Floating Kabarette
Doors: 10pm/Show: 10:30pm
FREE

" This weeks Floating Kabarette features performances by:
Trixie & Monkey: sexy trapeze and aerial hijinks
Dirty Martini: international burlesque sensation
Jenny Rocha & Her Painted Ladies: deliciously bawdy dancers
Gay Marshall: heart melting chanteuse
Tanya Gagne: titillating trapeze star
The Maine Attraction: exotic burlesque beauty

And featuring your hosts for the evening: Olga & Bjorn!

*Free Haircuts all night by Lynsey!
*2-4-1 drinks from 12am-1am"

@Glasslands. 10 pm $5
Lagos Disco Inferno (Nigerian Disco Dance Party)

@The Stone. Badal Roy Trio. 8 pm. $10.
Badal Roy (tabla, percussion) Kenny Wessel (guitar) Dave Ambrosio (bass)

@ The Public Assembly. 10pm. "Uh Yeah Dude" Live.
View event page.

Sun Oct 18th

@Le Poisson Rouge.  6pm. FREE

A CD release party and listening event for Alarm Will Sound's 2009 Nonesuch Records debut recording "a/rhythmia," with music of Nancarrow, Ligeti, Birtwistle, Benedict Mason, Michael Gordon, Josquin, Autechre, and Mochipet.

Alarm Will Sound is a 20-member band committed to innovative performances and recordings of today's music. The versatility of Alarm Will Sound allows it to take on music from a wide variety of styles. Its repertoire ranges from European to American works, from the arch-modernist to the pop-influenced. The group fosters close relationships with contemporary composers and has commissioned and premiered pieces by Steve Reich, David Lang, Anthony Gatto, Cenk Ergün, Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Gordon, Augusta Read Thomas, Stefan Freund, Wolfgang Rihm, Payton MacDonald, Gavin Chuck, and Dennis DeSantis. 




@Glasslands.  8pm. $7 
Tom Mulligan & Ben Owen, Elodie Lauten, Che Chen & Robbie Lee, Jozef Van Wissem 

"Composer-lute player Jozef Van Wissem is renowned for his unusual approach of the Renaissance and Baroque lute. He cuts and pastes classical pieces, reverses melodies, adds electronics and processed field recordingsmade at airport lounges and train stations. The unusual wedlock of composition and improvisation creates an unheard amalgam of contemporary folk and late Renaissance music."

"Robbie Lee/Che Chen use a constellation of instruments that includes bass clarinets, baroque recorders, flutes, reed and pipe organs, renaissance keyboard instruments, bowed and plucked strings, bells, shakers, rattles, drums, blocks and the occasional electrical device,  make (mostly) acoustic, improvised music that unfolds slowly, guided principally by a sense of listening in the moment and by placing precedence in attention over technique."

Janel and Anthony 10 Janel and Anthony are an experimental cello and guitar duo. Their intuitive compositions leave room for improvisation while staying grounded in their cumulative musical backgrounds. Combining their knowledge of rock, classical, surf, jazz, Japanese traditional music and free improvisation, the duo work together to create something beautiful every performance.