Tag Archives: ICE

Photographs: “Impossible Flow”

Here are some pictures of ICE rehearsing Impossible Flow, the new commissioned piece by composer/saxophonist Steve Lehman. The world premiere will be during the second concert of our FREE ICElab residency at (le) poisson rouge on Tuesday, April 19th. Reservations are strongly encouraged!
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ICEcast: Mario Diaz de León

ICElab composer, guitarist, and ICE-friend Mario Diaz de León sat down for an interview with composer, guitarist, and ICE-friend Rafiq Bhatia to discuss Diaz de León’s most recent compositions for the band, to be performed next week at (le) poisson rouge: the New York premiere of the blistering bass clarinet solo The Soul is the [...]
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2012 ICElab Collaborators Announced!

We are pleased to announce our 2012 ICElab Collaborators! We’d like to congratulate those who were selected, as well as to thank everyone who submitted an application. Click the image above to learn more about ICElab. Or, just come on out to (le) poisson rouge next Wednesday for the first of three FREE ICElab concerts, this [...]
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Mario Diaz de León on Wolf Eyes, Morbid Angel, and Musicians of Nechmaya, Algeria + MIRRORGATE Sneak Peak!

We’re pleased to have Mario Diaz de León back in the house with another guest post, this time discussing three tracks that have inspired him as a composer and performer. We’ve attached audio of all three tracks – please purchase them if you like what you hear – plus some new music from Mario’s noise/metal band [...]
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Mario Diaz De León + ICE on SoundCloud

ICElab composer Mario Diaz De León has launched a SoundCloud page! Stay tuned for updates (read: more music and perhaps some unreleased tracks!) as we approach our first FREE ICElab show feat. world and NYC premiers of Mario’s works at (le) poisson rouge on March 30th. Hear ICE perform MDdL’s Mansion (from “Enter Houses Of”, Tzadik) [...]
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ICElab: Prism Path | Music of Mario Diaz de León

We’re very excited for our upcoming ICElab residency at (le) Poisson Rouge. We’re presenting three FREE concerts over the next three months, starting with a tour de force program from composer & multi-instrumentalist Mario Diaz de León. Check out this unreleased footage of ICE’s Joshua Rubin premiering MDdL’s composition The Soul is the Arena at The [...]
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Davidovsky at C-PEMC

We’ll be at Miller Theatre this Friday to perform works from electro-acoustic music pioneer Mario Davidovsky. Check out this great picture from circa 1970 taken at Studio 317, one of four composition studios at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, located at Columbia’s Prentis Hall on West 125th Street. Clockwise from the center front, Vladimir Ussachevsky (seated), Milton [...]
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NYTimes: “I’m Playing With the Orchestra. Leave a Message After the Beep.”

The New York Times has a wonderful review of Nathan Davis’s Bells and our Chance Encounters program at the opening of Lincoln Center’s TullyScope Festival this past Tuesday. Be sure to check out the video of Jalons on the Times’s site.
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Review: “Enter Houses Of”

Just browsing through The Bangkok Post, and we stumbled upon this review of ICElab composer Mario Diaz de León’s 2009 album Enter Houses Of, performed by ICE. From writer Ung-Aang Talay: You won’t have to listen too hard to catch Diaz de Leon borrowing from rock and from composers as different as Scelsi, Steve Reich and [...]
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Schick: “The King of Denmark”

More incredible drawings from Steven Schick. On our Varèse project, he graphed out a map of “zones of intensity” for the program; this time, we have a visual representation of the the choreography for playing Morton Feldman’s The King of Denmark. Click the images to enlarge. See Schick perform it tomorrow, Tuesday, February 22, at TullyScope.
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