THE INSTRUMENTAL UNDERGROUND
Jun
17
7:00 PM19:00

THE INSTRUMENTAL UNDERGROUND

Sylvain Leroux Trio — 7 pm

Sylvain Leroux - winds
Hilliard Greene - bass
Dan Kurfist - drums

Charles Downs Trio - 8 pm

Dave Sewelson - baritone sax
Dave Hofstra - bass
Charles Downs - drums

Pearring Sound = 9 pm

Jeff Pearring - alto sax
Alexis Marcelo - piano
Ken Filiano - bass
Michael TA Thompson - drums

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Novoa/Pérez/Warren/López
Jun
21
8:00 PM20:00

Novoa/Pérez/Warren/López

Gían Pérez, electric guitar & effects
Kenny Warren, trumpet
Cecilia López, keys & electronics
Eva Novoa, piano & Chinese gongs

$20 (students $15)

This quartet gets together for the first time and will perform an improvised set. Join us for a special night and expect no rhythm section. The aim is to interact in conversation without bass or drums creating a more intimate quartet setup. Sound being our motto.

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BROOKLYN FREE SPIRIT FESTIVAL - Day 1
Jul
12
5:00 PM17:00

BROOKLYN FREE SPIRIT FESTIVAL - Day 1

The 2nd Annual BROOKLYN FREE SPIRIT FESTIVAL is produced by Siren Xypher Collective with support from Alan Feller & Creative Music Studio. The Free Spirit Festival convenes improvised music creatives and audiences to promote freedom of expression, inventiveness, & social-bonding as an antidote to the oppression of all life forms.

5:00pm

Improviser’s Workshop (open to all!) 
Lifelong ecstatic improvising pianist & 40-year Qigong Practitioner Kazzrie Jaxen offers a qigong workshop for creative improvisers. Wuji Gong: Skill of Entering the Supreme Unknown
(comfortable clothes suggested)

7:30pm

Siren Xypher
Melanie Dyer - Viola
Kyoko Kitamura - Voice
Mara Rosenbloom - Piano & Voice

8:30pm

Kazzrie Jaxen Solo Piano

$20 Admission / day | cash or Venmo  
Daily Admission includes access to all daytime and evening events 

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The Brooklyn Free Spirit Festival - Day 2
Jul
13
3:00 PM15:00

The Brooklyn Free Spirit Festival - Day 2

The Second Annual BROOKLYN FREE SPIRIT FESTIVAL is produced by Siren Xypher Collective with support from Alan Feller & Creative Music Studio. The Free Spirit Festival convenes improvised music creatives and audiences to promote freedom of expression, inventiveness, & social-bonding as an antidote to the oppression of all life forms.

3:00pm

Improvisation Workshop (open to all!)
Kyoko Kitamura guides participants through Anthony Braxton’s Musical Systems and beyond. (90-minute workshop in two parts: Anthony Braxton’s Language Music for beginners + further explorations at 3:45pm. Score excerpts provided. Instruments welcome but not required.)

5:00pm

Listening Session & In-Person Interview: AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS
90-minutes of immersion into the luminary pianist/vocalist/composer’s multi-decade body of work. Conversation moderated by W.S. Tkweme, Pan-African Studies Professor at University of Louisville & 25 year radio programmer at stations across the US. Archival support from Ras Moshe Burnett. (Curated by Melanie Dyer)

7:30pm

DoYeon Kim - Gayageum & Voice
Cooper-Moore - Homemade Instruments
Satoshi Takeishi - Drums & Percussion

8:30pm

Mazz Swift & Ana Luisa Díaz de Cossío
Mazz Swift - Violin
Ana Luisa Díaz de Cossío - Violin

$20 Admission / day | cash or Venmo  
Daily Admission includes access to all daytime and evening events 

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Alone Not Lonely: XII
Jun
6
7:30 PM19:30

Alone Not Lonely: XII

Yoon Sun Choi - voice/piano
Barbara Mansukhani - Alto Saxophone
Tammy Scheffer - voice
Tomoko Omura - violin

Yoon Sun Choi
Yoon Sun Choi, born in South Korea, raised in Canada and now a New York-based improvising vocalist and pianist using her vocal prowess that transitions effortlessly from resonant, haunting melodies to deep, resonant wails. Yoon has made significant contributions to the music scene over her twenty-year-long career performing and collaborating with esteemed artists including Mark Dresser, Darius Jones, Jacob Sacks, and Kenny Wheeler, on prestigious stages such as The Blue Note, Birdland, and Carnegie Hall.

Barbara Mansukhani, a California-based saxophonist, composer, and improviser originally from Mexico, explores jazz, experimental, and improvisational music. Self-taught, she is currently guided by Michaël Attias and has studied with Ralph Alessi. She is working on a duo recording with guitarist Chris Janzen, a quartet with Aaron Quinn (guitar), Jeong Lim Yang (bass), and Yuko Tagami (drums), and a trio with Quinn and Diego Hedez (trumpet). A detail-oriented artist with a deep love for sound, she remains open to endless explorations, always seeking new ways to shape and experience music.

Tammy Scheffer
Vocalist and composer Tammy Scheffer has been a creative force in NYC’s vibrant music scene for more than a decade. Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “innovative, provocative and alluring.” Scheffer lends her voice to ensembles that range from jazz to progressive rock, from improvised music to modern classical music. Most recently she has been collaborating with bassist Moto Fukushima, composer Asuka Kakitani, vibraphonist Stefan Bauer, and The Brooklyn Jazz Underground. Tammy performed at Carnegie Hall and Birdland in NYC, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Revoice Festival in London, MISA Festival in China, San Sebastian Jazz Festival in Spain, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Chicago Cultural Center, and many other premier stages.

Tomoko Omura is a Japanese-born jazz violinist and composer based in Brooklyn, New York. Raised in Shizuoka, Japan, she began violin studies at age four and later self-taught jazz while attending Yokohama National University. In 2004, she moved to the U.S. to study at Berklee College of Music, where she became the first violinist to receive the Roy Haynes Award. Omura has released six albums, including “Branches Vol. 2,” named Bandcamp’s “Best Jazz of 2021.” She has performed at renowned venues such as the Village Vanguard, Lincoln Center, and Blue Note, and collaborated with artists like Paquito D’Rivera, Kenny Barron, and Christian McBride. In 2021, she was named #1 Rising Star Violinist by DownBeat Magazine’s Critics Poll

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UNSCRIPTED SOUNDSCAPES
May
24
6:00 PM18:00

UNSCRIPTED SOUNDSCAPES

6 pm

Mike Golub - Drums/Syn
Nick Gianni - Sax/Key/Bass
Trevor Bajus - Guitar/Syn/D.Mix

7 pm

Matt Knoegel -Tenor Sax
Eric Plaks - Piano
Zachary Swanson -Bass
Ken Kobayashi -Drums

8 pm

Eli Wallace - Piano
Josh Sinton - Bass Clarinet
Sabrina Salamone -Violin
Vijay Anderson -Drums

$20

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Instrumental Underground
May
10
7:00 PM19:00

Instrumental Underground

Beyond Flute Group - 7 pm

Cheryl Pyle -c flute/alto flute
Michael Eaton-soprano sax
Gene Coleman -bass flute /piccolo
Sylvain Leroux-c flute /fula flute

Golden Pearring - 8 pm

Patrick Golden -drums
Jeff Pearring - alto sax

Charles Downs Quartet - 9 pm

Sam Childs - tenor sax
Jonathan Paik - piano
Joe Morris - bass
Charles Downs - drums

$20

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Recorded Live [25]
May
4
6:00 PM18:00

Recorded Live [25]

We're making live recordings at Ibeam in Brooklyn. Come see this happen. 
Doors at 5:30pm - $22 (ticketed)

BUY A TICKET HERE!
This is also a party for humans that includes snacks! BYOB. 

6pm | Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon) and Matt Glassmeyer (reedless tenor), duo
Vinnie Sperrazza, solo drums, Nathan Koci, solo accordion

7pm | We the Gleaners
Dana Lyn (violin), Kyle Sanna (guitar), Matt Kanelos (piano)

8pm | Hompulon records live versions of songs from the new album
Tom Spiker (bass VI), Tim Keiper (percussion/drums), Jonathan Goldberger (guitar) Dana Lyn (violin), Brian Drye (trombone), Matt Glassmeyer (Wurlitzer, tenor, percussion)

This is a limited-ticketed event so grab one soon.

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VIO/LA - Workshop
Apr
26
12:00 PM12:00

VIO/LA - Workshop

CMS is celebrating VIO/LA on April 25 & 26 in Brooklyn! A concert will be held on April 25 at 8:30pm at Ibeam Brooklyn, with a workshop the following day on April 26 from 12-2pm; open to all violinists & violists of all ages & musical backgrounds! Tell your fellow fiddles, students, and lovers of violin and viola music!

Featuring:

Jessica Pavone, Charles Burnham, Che Buford, Alex Cunningham, Trina Basu, Jason Kao Hwang, Sana Nagano, Arun Ramamurthy, and Ana Luisa Díaz de Cossío Sánchez.

Suggested Donation $20

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VIO/LA
Apr
25
8:30 PM20:30

VIO/LA

CMS is celebrating VIO/LA on April 25 & 26 in Brooklyn! A concert will be held on April 25 at 8:30pm at Ibeam Brooklyn, with a workshop the following day on April 26 from 12-2pm; open to all violinists & violists of all ages & musical backgrounds! Tell your fellow fiddles, students, and lovers of violin and viola music!

Featuring:

Jessica Pavone, Charles Burnham, Che Buford, Alex Cunningham, Trina Basu, Jason Kao Hwang, Sana Nagano, Arun Ramamurthy, and Ana Luisa Díaz de Cossío Sánchez.

Suggested Donation $20

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Eleven O’Five + Quintet + Dimensionality Quartet
Apr
17
8:00 PM20:00

Eleven O’Five + Quintet + Dimensionality Quartet

Eleven O’Five - 8 pm

Claire de Brunner - bassoon
Melanie Dyer - viola
Virg Dzurinko - piano

Quintet - 9 pm

Carol Liebowitz - piano
Nick Lyons - alto saxophone
Stephanie Griffin - viola
Ken Filiano - bass
Billy Mintz - drums

Dimensionality Quartet - 10 pm

Ursel Schlicht - piano
Andrea Wolper - vocals
Ken Filiano - bass
Lou Grassi - drums, percussion

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Instrumental Underground
Apr
12
6:00 PM18:00

Instrumental Underground

Tamara Yadao and Max Kutner - 6 pm

Tamara Yadao - electronics
Max Kutner - bass, guitar

New Sextet - 7 pm

Ras Moshe Burnett - tenor saxophone
Jeff Pearring - alto saxophone
Colin Babcock - trombone
Matthew Putman - piano
Trevor Bajus - dubbelizer
Reggie Sylvester - drums

Stephen Gauci Quartet - 8 pm

Stephen Gauci - tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet
Shinya Lin - piano
Shogo Yamagishi - bass
Kevin Shea - drums

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Lost In Plainville
Mar
30
8:00 PM20:00

Lost In Plainville

Jeremy Udden - Saxophone
Nathan Blehar - Saxophone
Andre Matos - Guitar
Frank Carlberg - piano
Bridget Kearney - bass
Ziv Ravitz - drums

$20

An evening of music by Jeremy Udden played by friends of 20 years. “Udden’s seamless integration of simple country, folk and rock melodies into a sophisticated jazz context lends Plainville’s improvisational excursions a cohesive sensibility, whether crafting pastoral ballads or tumultuous rockers.”
(ALLABOUTJAZZ.com)

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Potions Trio
Mar
29
8:00 PM20:00

Potions Trio

Yoon Sun Choi - voice
Andre Matos - guitar
Jeong Lim Yang - bass

$20

This trio discovered their combined magic on a cold, winter morning after the first musical moments began. Jeong Lim Yang on bass, Yoon Sun Choi on voice and Andre Matos on guitar, bring their own special ingredients of sound, improvisatory creativity and generous spirit.

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