Sam Amidon @ LPR in 2009 (more by Fresh Bread)

tonight in NYC
* Talib Kweli @ SOB's
* Questlove on a boat
* Brand Nubian @ Crotona Park
* Villagers @ Joe's Pub
* Phil Collins @ Roseland Ballroom
* Victor Wooten @ Highline Ballroom
* Taking Back Sunday @ Irving Plaza
* Juana Molina @ Stuyvesant Town Oval
* Goldfrapp & Cults @ Hammerstein Ballroom
* Sam Amidon, Partyface @ Mercury Lounge
* Tortoise, Aethereal Bace @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
* Steve Hackett and Renaissance @ Rockefeller Park
* The A-Bones, Girls At Dawn @ Rocks Off Concert Cruises
* Susu, The Naked Hearts, Arc in Round, Tami Heart @ Cake Shop
* Punch Brothers, Julian Lage Group @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Harper Blynn, Jenny Owen Youngs, Pearl & The Beard @ Maxwell's
* Sound Bites Luchtime Series w/ The Beets @ South Street Seaport
Kevin Barker & Tiny Vipers, Leif Vollebekk, Dormant @ Littlefield
* Big Terrific w/ Max Silvestri, Gabe Liedman, Jenny Slate @ The Cameo
* The Babies, Narwhalz of Sound, DJ Dogdick, Shams, Nonhorse, Sewn Leather @ Silent Barn
* Extra Life, Sam Mickens' Ecstatic Showband & Revue, Apollo Heights @ Death By Audio
* McCoy Tyner Quartet w/ Ravi Coltrane, Esperanza Spalding & Francisco Mela, The Stanley Clarke Band w/ Hiromi @ Central Park

The Beets play South Street Seaport at 1pm.

Two members of Genesis are in town.

Tame Impala are playing a private show at Coco66 tonight. It'll be their first NYC show ahead of their sold out ones at Pianos at Glasslands this week. It's invite-only, but the venue posted the info.

As previously reported, tonight is Irving Plaza's official first night with its old name: Taking Back Sunday play.

Sam Amidon plays Mercury Lounge. He's got a song on The Builder 'foundtrack', and one as part of the BV Katrina & The Waves series which is now posted in full.

A video of Monday's Make Music NY performance of Iannis Xenakis' "Persephassa" played around the lake in Central Park to a crowd in boats is posted below.

What else?

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by Andrew Frisicano

IX. 17 - Study for Terretektorh (distribution of musicians), 1965

Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary will explore the fundamental role of drawing in the work of Greek avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001). A leading figure in twentieth century music, Xenakis was trained as a civil engineer, then became an architect and developed revolutionary designs while working with Le Corbusier. Comprised of nearly 100 documents created between 1953 and 1984, this will be the first North American exhibition dedicated to Xenakis's original works on paper. Included will be rarely-seen hand-rendered scores, architectural drawings, conceptual renderings, pre-compositional sketches, and graphic scores. Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary is co-curated by Xenakis scholar Sharon Kanach and critic Carey Lovelace and will travel to the Canadian Centre for Architecture (June 17 - October 17, 2010) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (November 7, 2010 - February 13, 2011).

The show is currently at the NYC Drawing Center through April 8th. That picture above is a diagram for an 88-member orchestra scattered among its audience (aka the squiggly lines). More works on display are below.

There are also concerts and events to go along with exhibit. JACK Quartet, who put out a CD and DVD of Xenakis's string quartets last May, already played in conjunction with showing earlier this month (videos from their DVD are below). JACK do have shows coming up, but those are mainly comprised of new material; they play March 3rd at Merkin Concert Hall. Their upcoming schedule also includes the Look & Listen Festival 2010 (coming up May 7th-9th); So Percussion are on the bill for that too, playing music by Morton Feldman, John Cage, and their own Jason Treuting (So Percussion are also at Carnegie Hall this March). Advance tickets for Look & Listen are available by phone.

If you'd like to learn more about the Xenakis show, co-curators Sharon Kanach and Carey Lovelace, who both worked with the composer, discussed the show with Art International Radio - that's streaming.

More drawings, videos, and Drawing Center info and events are below...

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