Concerts
Frank Abbinanti: piano & politics
Outpost Performance Space 210 Yale SE, Albuquerque Frank Abbinanti is a pianist and composer from Chicago specializing in contemporary music and the experimental tradition. As an interpreter, his repertoire ranges from Ives to Feldman to the current generation of Americans and Europeans, with a particular affinity for more politically engaged composers such as Cornelius Cardew …
Susan Alcorn & Chas Smith: Avant Steel Summit
Outpost Performance Space 210 Yale SE, Albuquerque Not one, but two experimental pedal steel guitarists with completely distinct styles on one bill! Without forsaking the instrument’s ties to country music, these two innovators take it into a whole new realm of sonic possibilities. Susan Alcorn (Houston), having cut her teeth on the Texas c&w scene, …
Ana Cervantes: Muchas voces, one piano…
Outpost Performance Space 210 Yale SE, Albuquerque Muchas Voces, One Piano: Music of Mexican Women Composers American pianist Ana Cervantes has appeared in numerous concert halls in México, Cuba, and the US, premiering and performing works of such Mexican composers as Marcela Rodríguez, Ramón Montes de Oca, Federico Ibarra, and Arturo Márquez, as well as …
Nicolas Collins & Peter Cusack
Outpost Performance Space 210 Yale SE, Albuquerque Nicolas Collins (USA) and Peter Cusack (England) have pioneered the use of computers and alternative music controllers in improvised music since the mid-1980s. Using various computers, hot-wired consumer electronics, and actual musical instruments, they have subsequently developed a style of “computer folk-music” that is at once deceptively sophisticated …
Alvin Curran: Endagered Species
Outpost Performance Space 211 Yale Ave. SE, Albuquerque Alvin Curran has been a consistently innovative member of the international New Music scene for over 25 years. Democratic, irreverent and traditionally experimental, Curran travels in a computerized covered wagon between the Golden Gate and the Tiber River, and makes music for every occasion with any sounding …