Ecstatic Music Festival
Dawn of Midi released new LP, playing shows, including BK Night Bazaar & Ecstatic Music Fest (LP stream, video)
Dawn of Midi makes electronic sounding acoustic music or, as the New York Times recently put it, “something like minimal dance music using piano, acoustic bass and a drum kit with a high-hat but no other cymbals…
Ecstatic Music Festival 2014 lineup & tix (Hospitality, Mirah, William Basinski, Buke & Gase, Colin Stetson, and more)
Hospitality at Glasslands in October (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)
The annual Ecstatic Music Festival is returning to its usual location, the Merkin Concert Hall (except for the kickoff show at The Green Space, and one show happening at Carnegie Hall) in 2014 from January 31 to March 29…
Tift Merritt and Simone Dinnerstein played the Ecstatic Music Festival finale (pics)
The 2013 Ecstatic Music Festival came to a close last night (3/21) with a performance and Simone Dinnerstein at the Kaufman Center’s Merkin Hall…
Bang on a Can All-Stars performed works by Dan Deacon, Tyondai Braxton and more at Ecstatic Music Fest (pics)
Last night’s installment (3/14) of the 2013 Ecstatic Music Festival was the the Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund Concert which saw the Bang on a Can All-Stars performing world premieres of new commissions, and Fay Kueen Wang’s Weltinseln…
listen to Laurel Halo, Julia Holter and Daniel Wohl's Ecstatic Music Fest performance
Wohl, Halo, & Holter @ Ecstatic Fest 2013 (more by David Andrako)
As mentioned, Laurel Halo and Julia Holter played the Ecstatic Music Festival over the weekend (2/23)…
Laurel Halo, Julia Holter, and Daniel Wohl collaborated at Ecstatic Music Festival (pics, review)
“So you were there in a car and the windshield shattered,” are the first words you heard at Laurel Halo and Julia Holter‘s collaborative set with electroacoustic composer Daniel Wohl and his TRANSIT orchestra at the Merkin Concert Hall on Saturday night (2/23), as part of the ongoing indie-classical Ecstatic Music Festival…
Deerhoof with Ensemble Dal Niente played the Ecstatic Music Festival (pics)
The Ecstatic Music Festival, which has been happening at Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center, continued last night (2/22) with one of the more anticipated of this year’s season: Deerhoof with Chicago ensemble Dal Niente, including new work by Brazilian-born composer Marcos Balter…
Clogs, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Shara Worden and more played Ecstatic Music Festival (pics, setlist)
As you may know, the Ecstatic Music Festival is underway in NYC with concerts happening now through March 21 at Merkin Concert Hall in the Kaufman Music Center…
DJ /Rupture & Zs played Ecstatic Music Fest (pics); Clogs & Sarah Kirkland Snider (w/ Shara Worden) play this week
“There’s nothing you can do to avoid a museum-ification of your own work when you put out a retrospective box set, but we’re doing everything we can to keep it fresh,” said Hillmer, a thoughtful and passionate performer for whom Zs (“It just means us…
Carla Kihlstedt played Ecstatic Music Fest's first weekend (pics); DJ /Rupture & Zs' performance moved up to this week
We are currently in the midst of NYC’s Ecstatic Music Festival which is running now through March 21 at Merkin Concert Hall. This past weekend was the fest’s kickoff with My Brightest Diamond’s Sharon Worden performing on Friday (1/25) and Carla Kihlstedt premiering her ICElab-commissioned song cycle, At Night We Walk in Circles and Are Consumed by Fire on Saturday (1/26)…
