(Chinen) FREE ZONE MUSIC SERIES FUND-RAISER (Tuesday) The downtown avatars John Zorn and Lukas Ligeti headline this benefit for a new-music series in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; also on hand are the Refuseniks, a texture-minded collective, and a six-piece group led by the percussionist Andrew Barker.
A dog and 843 acres of water, woods and emerald textures unveil their collective soul to witnesses who have magically graced their DNA.
"Energy music," later called "noise," became an identifying label for high-energy, collective improvisations in which dense sound textures were created from furiously generated note sequences.
(Chinen) LIBERTY ELLMAN, VIJAY IYER, STEVE LEHMAN (Tomorrow) Texture and tonality are malleable properties in this collective trio, with Mr. Ellman on guitar, Mr. Iyer on piano and Mr. Lehman on saxophones.
(Chinen) Kornstad-Opsvik-McPherson (Sunday) Rugged texture and wakeful calm represent two strong possibilities for this collective trio, consisting of two displaced Norwegians — the tenor saxophonist Hakon Kornstad and the bassist Eivind Opsvik — with the brilliant American drummer Eric McPherson.
Based on the collective descriptions of the five taxa now considered to be G. marginata, the texture of the surface shows significant variation.
And there are five tracks featuring soul-jazz collective Zbonics, including the yearning title track with its Headhunters-like keys textures.
In Jacob Garchik's arrangement of "Tashweesh," by the Palestinian collective Ramallah Underground, the Kronos players seemed nearly lost amid dense, crackling textures.
It is their collective voice that allows him the flexibility to create the multi-phonic textures so critical to his work.
Its cover artwork – layers of typography distorted by the art and advertising collective Tomato, for whom Underworld provided music and ideas echoed the music's textures, prefiguring the word clouds and data visualisations of the emerging internet age.
