May 2013

When: May 23, 2013

What: Low Boyz

Where: ________ ________, New York

Presented by: _____________

When: May 19, 2013

What: Mantra Percussion concludes the 2013 Queens New Music Festival

Where: Secret Theatre Long Island City, New York

Presented by: Queens New Music Festival

When: May 16-18, 2013

What: 3Nights (a trifecta of evening-length portrait concerts curated by the composers)

Where: First Presbyterian Church Brooklyn Heights, New York

Presented by: Mantra Percussion / Music at First

Mantra brings back our annual 3Nights series with the music of Paula Matthusen, Daniel Wohl, and the experimental rock trio Zs.

Night 1 - Mantra Percussion + Paula Matthusen = Electron Boogaloo

Night 2 - Mantra Percussion + Daniel Wohl  x  Mivos Quartet = Another Brick in the Wohl

April 2013

When: April 30, 2013

What: Mantra Percussion premieres the first LIVE remix of Timber

Where: Roulette Brooklyn, New York

Presented by: Ear Heart Music

For the first (of many) live electroacoustic collaborations on Michael Gordon's Timber, Mantra performs with electron manipulators Ikue Mori, Ian Williams, banjoist Brandon Seabrook, and Jeremiah Cymerman,  clarinet - alongside Joshue Ott manipulating Java drawings in realtime.

We perform the 65-minute marvel while remixers improvise through each section in a whirlwind of wood and electrons. Check out this highly acclaimed work for 6 amplified 2x4s and (for the first time) electronic sound artists. These folks are the real DJs, folks.

March 2013

When: March 29-30, 2013

What: futureCities helps celebrate the Living Earth Show's CD release of White Blood Cells

Where: The Center for New Music San Francisco, California

Presented by: The Center for New Music and St. George Spirits

When: March 24, 2013

What: futureCities at the 2013 Switchboard Music Festival

Where: Brava Theater San Francisco, California

Presented by: Switchboard Music

Anne Rainwater and Jude Traxler are at it again! Teaming up with Travis Andrews and Andy Meyerson of the Living Earth Show, futureCities tours the North-West with a vengeance. No ear is safe. We'll be playing one of our earliest commissions, Wally Gunn's Can You Hear Me? From house shows to sold out venues, we're keeping the NYC sound alive in SF as "everyone's new favorite band". (Photos by Aron Pruiett)

When: March 9, 2013

What: Mantra Percussion headlines the Vancouver New Music Festival with Timber by Michael Gordon

Where: Orpheum Annex Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada)

Presented by: Vancouver New Music

When: March 3, 2013

What: Tilted Axes leads a music parade around downtown Brooklyn

Where: Roulette Brooklyn, New York

Presented by: The New Music Bake Sale

What better way to spend the shortest day of the year than to march around Flatbush Ave with a portable guitar band and a snare-drummer?

February 2013

When: February 16, 2013

What: Mangobot (aka Mantra Percussion) plays the 2013 Avant Media Festival

Where: Wild Project East Village, New York

Presented by: Avant Media

Members of Mantra Percussion take part in the 2013 Avant Media Festival celebrating John Cage at 100. Apartment House 1776. Double Music. Forever and Sunsmell. Third Construction. Three2. You know, the classics. Find the review in the Times HERE.

When: February 11, 2013

What: F.I.Re Ensemble performs Huang Ruo's Flow

Where: Signature Theater Manhattan, New York

Presented by: Signature Theater

As a gift to esteemed playwright Henry Hwang, Future In Reverse Ensemble plays (and sings) Flow at the gala honoring Hwang and his work in NYC theater. Check us out HERE. There's nothing like belting out soaring Chinese melodies while playing movie-soundtrack drums in a suit.

When: February 2 - 3, 2013

What: 2013 American Innovators Festival - The Music of Stuart Saunders Smith: Continuing the Transcendentalist Tradition / Transcendentalism and Experimentalism

Where: Wright State University Dayton, Ohio

Presented by: Franklin Cox and the WSU Music Department

Playing for the first time, Links No. 4 (Monk) and the newly revised Quilt make their Ohio debut. Stuart wrote Quilt for me after we met in 2007. Sean Kleve and I premiered a version for marimba and vibraphone at Manhattan School in 2009. Smith rewrote the score and, finally, in 2013, Joey van Hassel and I rehearsed via YouTube and re-premiered Quilt (for glockenspiel and vibraphone)... It's been a long time comin'. The recording will drop this Summer of 2013. Keep an ear out.

January 2013

When: January 25, 2013

What: F.I.Re Ensemble records audio for The Dance and the Railroad by David Henry Hwang, Directed by May Adrales, Music by Huang Ruo

Where: John Kilgore Sound & Recording Manhattan, New York

Presented by: Signature Theater

December 2012

When: December 13 - 15, 2012

What: Mantra Percussion plays the NYC premiere of Timber

Where: the Brooklyn Academy of Music Brooklyn, New York

Presented by: BAM's 30th Next Wave Festival

Named as a Top 10 Memorable Performance of 2012 by the New Yorker, Mantra Percussion brings down the house at BAM's 30th year of presenting forward-thinking artworks. Check out our promo video HERE and see a clip of our performance HERE with help from Jim Findlay (lights) and Jamie McElhinney (sound).

November 2012

When: November 6, 2012

What: Teaching Through Performance: A Percussion Crash Course by Jude Traxler

Where: Stamford, Connecticut

Presented by: Stamford Public Schools

Teaching teachers to teach percussionists by being percussionists. Spend a day going through technique and traditions of percussion playing, tackling common learning obstacles as we play through a wide range of percussion pedagogy. The day culminates with a round of small percussion ensemble performances prepared by the participants and a round-table discussion of teaching thoughts and techniques for good music instruction.

September 2012

When: September 17-23, 2012

What: Mantra Percussion performs the west coast premiere of Michael Gordon's Timber

Where: Southern California

Presented by: Carlsbad New Music Festival

Including San Diego, Los Angeles (Cal Arts and USC), Orange (Chapman University), and Carlsbad California, Mantra tours the west coast with 2 new percussion masterpieces, Michael Gordon's Timber and Aaron Siegel's Science Is Only A Sometimes Friend for 8 glockenspiels and organ (featuring local musicians, young and old, playing along on the beautiful California beach).

Check out this video of me playing Songs I-IX at Warp Records in Carlsbad, CA.

August 2012

When: August 23, 2012

What: Parias Ensemble performs the works of Daniel Reyes Llinas

Where: New Spectrum Foundation Manhattan, New York

Presented by: New Spectrum Foundation

July 2012

When: July 12, 2012

What: Mantra performs Timber at the Bang On A Can Summer Institute

Where: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art North Adams, Massachusetts

Presented by: Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA

When: June 28-July 2, 2012

What: Traxler Studios composes, records, and engineers the music for the C-Fit App

Where: Traxler Studios Manhattan, New York

Presented by: C-Fit

Katie Traxler and I scored the music for a series of Apps designed to give children a fun, ten-minute workout that can be performed in the classroom or living room including Yoga, Cha-Cha, Hip-Hop, West African and Cross-Training videos. Preview the audio from all 3 Apps below.

June 2012

When: June 22-23, 2012

What: New Voices in Live Performance Curated by Compendium: Technics

Where: Center for Performance Research Brooklyn, New York

Presented by: CPR

Exploring the dramatic enhancements of technology, Sister Sylvester experimental theater group presents an excerpt from Hideouts for Time, or The Whale in two different contexts: first using only human bodies and objects, then replacing all but two of the human bodies with every piece of technology available. Night 1, no electronic elements. Night 2, all electronic elements. Come enjoy the divergence.

When: June 18, 2012

What: Mantra Percussion performs on So Percussion's Night of Awesome(ness)

Where: Le Poisson Rouge Manhattan, New York

Presented by: So Percussion and Le Poisson Rouge

The Percussion All-Stars hit the stage at LPR in downtown Manhattan with powerhouse groups NEXUS, So, Tigue, Akros, Mobius, MP Duo and Mantra Percussion making noise all night. Come end the night with 50 percussionists cramming Terry Riley's IN C down your throat with a smile.

When: June 9, 2012

What: Mantra Percussion performs on YPC's Spring Celebration

Where: Kaufmann Concert Hall @ 92nd Street Y Manhattan, New York

Presented by: Young People's Chorus of New York City

When: June 8, 2012

What: Winter Count: The Music of Jerome Kitzke

Where: Roulette Brooklyn, New York

Presented by: Roulette

When: June 2, 2012

What: Mantra Portraits, Night 3: The Music of Ted Hearne

Where: First Presbyterian Church Brooklyn Heights, New York

Presented by: Music at First and Mantra Percussion

Metal band + classical composition + Mantra Percussion = the final night of our 3 Nights :: 3 Composers :: 3 Premieres series! Featuring Anne Lanzilotti on viola and Aaron Packard on violin. Come check out 2 brand new works written for Mantra Percussion.

When: June 1, 2012

What: Mantra Portraits, Night 2: The Music of Aaron Siegel

Where: First Presbyterian Church Brooklyn Heights, New York

Presented by: Music at First and Mantra Percussion

Mantra Percussion presents the music of Aaron Siegel, one of New York's finest composers under 40. Featuring the Young People's Chorus of New York City and 2 world premieres, Mantra opens the show with an antiphonal timpani quartet that's sure to sympathetically resonate your ear drums into oblivion.