this week in music

ATLANTIC ANTIC

Atlantic Ave. between Hicks St. & Fourth Ave.
Sunday, October 2, free, 12 noon – 6:00 pm
www.atlanticave.org

It looks like it should be quite a beautiful day for the thirty-seventh annual Atlantic Antic, where more than one million people are expected to enjoy food, art, music, dance, and more along Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn, from Hicks St. to Fourth Ave. On outdoor stages and inside bars and restaurants, you’ll be able to catch live performances by the Winsor Terrors, Les Sans Culottes, Charanga Soleil, the Dysfunctional Family Jazz Band, the Jack Grace Band, BR and Timebomb, the Black Coffee Blues Band, Alex Battles’ Whisky Rebellion, the Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues, and many more. The afternoon also includes lots of family-friendly activities between Boerum Pl. & Smith St,, with pony rides, magicians, puppet shows, kids’ bands, face painting, inflatable rides, and plenty more. Among the participating establishments are the Chip Shop, the Waterfront Ale House, the Brazen Head, the Flying Saucer, Gumbo, and Hank’s Saloon, and there will be local booths galore selling all kinds of items you won’t find at standard street fairs. And for the eighteenth year, the New York Transit Museum is hosting the Bus Festival on Boerum Pl. between State St. & Atlantic Ave., featuring vintage buses, workshops, free tours, and other fun things.

BRING TO LIGHT: NUIT BLANCHE NEW YORK 2011

Marcos Zotes’s “CCTV/Creative Control” will look down on “Nuit Blanche” visitors from the Milton St. water tower (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Multiple locations throughout Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Saturday, October 1, free, 6:00 pm – 12 midnight
www.bringtolightnyc.org

Greenpoint will shine bright tonight for “Bring to Light: Nuit Blanche New York,” the second annual multimedia festival featuring site-specific projections and performance art in the gentrifying neighborhood. Begun ten years ago in Paris and now held in numerous cities around the world, “Nuit Blanche” celebrates the community in which it takes place; in the case of Greenpoint, an industrial zone that has seen an influx of artists (and hip bars, restaurants, and music clubs) over the last few years, “Nuit Blanche” seeks to build interest in expanding and opening up more of the waterfront to public use. In fact, executive director Ethan Vogt and director of operations Tom Peyton got the city to allow access, just for one night, to several areas that are usually closed to the public. “Bring to Light” consists of more than fifty installations scattered throughout Greenpoint, from a trio of Richard Serra videos from the 1960s and ’70s to Krzysztof Wodiczko’s “Veterans Flame Greenpoint” (footage of a flame flickering to Afghan war stories told by Polish and English-language veterans), from Jeremy Blake’s Winchester Trilogy to Raphaele Shirley’s light-and-water-based “Light Cloud on a Bender,” from Sean Boggs’s slide sequence “Passerby” to Jeff Desom’s panoramic restaging of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. Among the interactive performances are Rita Ackermann’s “A Backwards Walking Flash Mob,” in which one hundred participants will be filmed walking backward; Daniel Canogar’s “Asalto,” in which people are filmed crawling across a green screen, the results of which will be projected onto a tall building across the street, as if dozens of men, women, and children are climbing up the facade toward the heavens; and Ellis & Cuius’s “The Company,” in which visitors can walk under and around an arch of dangling Tungsten lightbulbs that react to sound and movement (and will host live performances in the space). If you take the East River Ferry from Thirty-fourth St., you’ll be greeted by Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s “Soft Sell,” a video of a large lipsticked mouth welcoming visitors to Greenpoint (and which was originally created for Times Square in 1993, just as it was about to undergo massive changes itself), and can later find Alex Villar’s “Splitting Image” in the park, about a commute on the ferry. And keep an eye out for Marcos Zotes’s “CCTV/Creative Control,” a projection of an enormous watching eye under the Milton St. water tower. There’s art just about everywhere you look, so grab a program, follow the map (or just walk around aimlessly), and enjoy what should be a fascinating and fun — and free — evening of unique and unusual art and architecture.

FIRST SATURDAYS: LATINO HERITAGE

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, “Marta Moreno Vega,” pigmented ink-jet print, 2011 (© Timothy Greenfield-Sanders)

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Saturday, October 1, free, 5:00 – 11:00 (some events require free tickets distributed in advance at the Visitor Center)
212-864-5400
www.brooklynmuseum.org

The Brooklyn Museum will be celebrating Latino heritage at its October First Saturday program, centered on the exhibition “Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: The Latino List,” in which the photographer behind “The Black List” turns his camera on such Latino figures as Marta Moreno Vega, Pitbull, Eva Longoria, Cesar Conde, Robert Menendez, and John Leguizamo. Greenfield-Sanders will screen the HBO documentary The Latino List at 7:30 and participate in a discussion following the film. The evening will also include live performances by ABAKUÁ Afro-Latin Dance Company, Jerry Hernandez y La Orquesta Dee Jay, Carmelita Tropicana, and Jose Conde, a book-club talk by Moreno Vega about her memoir When the Spirits Dance Mambo, a curator talk on “Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk — An Introspective,” an art workshop, and more. Also on view are such exhibits as “Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior,” “Raw/Cooked: Kristof Wickman,” “Eva Hesse Spectres 1960,” “Matthew Buckingham: ‘The Spirit and the Letter,’” “reOrder: An Architectural Environment by Situ Studio,” and “Ten Years Later: Ground Zero Remembered.”

RISK + REWARD: PERFORMANCE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES

John Kelly will welcome MAD visitors into open rehearsals of his updated version of FIND MY WAY HOME

Museum of Arts & Design
2 Columbus Circle at 58th St. & Broadway
Through December 8
212-299-7777
www.madmuseum.org

The Museum of Art & Design’s extremely promising inaugural Risk + Reward performance series kicked off last Saturday with Sarah Maxfield’s all-day site-specific “Knowing the Score: An Investigation of Improvisational Structures” and continues this week with John Kelly presenting a work-in-progress reexamination of his 1988 piece Find My Way Home, which was previously revised in 1998. On September 28 from 3:00 to 6:00 and September 29 from 7:00 to 9:00, museumgoers will be able to watch Kelly conduct open rehearsals for the multimedia dance-theater project, which moves the Greek myth of Orpheus, the god of music, to the Great Depression. On September 30 at 7:00, Kelly will stage a ticketed ($15-$18) concert version of the production. Last December, Kelly, whose many risks always lead to myriad rewards, revisited his wonderful Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte, at La MaMa, so we can’t wait to see what he does with Find My Way Home, which will be presented in full October 21-29 at New York Live Arts. Risk + Reward continues October 10 with the social-intervention-based performance “A New Discovery: Queer Immigration in Perspective”; on November 11-12 with Me, Michelle, a new duet about Cleopatra by choreographers Jack Ferver and Michelle Mola in conjunction with Performa 11; and concludes December 8 with “Benjamin Fredrickson, Artist,” a first-ever one-man show by the photographer dealing with his life and work.

CSS: “HITS ME LIKE A ROCK”

Brazilian sensation CSS has just released the video for their bouncy pop song “Hits Me Like a Rock,” from their latest release, La Liberación (Fontana, August 2011). You can catch Lovefoxxx, Adriano Cintra, Luiza Sá, Ana Rezende, and Carolina Parra at Webster Hall on October 22, on a bill with MEN and EMA.

GLENN JONES

West Park Presbyterian Church
165 West 86th St.
Sunday, September 25, $15, 7:00
www.thrilljockey.com

Glenn Jones is a god of the guitar, so it’s only fitting that he’s holding his record release party for the extraordinary The Wanting (Thrill Jockey, September 13, 2011) in a place of God, the West Park Presbyterian Church on West 86th St. in a program tonight with Hauschka: A Prepared Piano Performance. On the gorgeous new disc, Jones, who came of age in the late ’60s and acknowledges that his “head was blown off by Jimi Hendrix’s second album,” leading to getting his first guitar at the age of fourteen, plays acoustic steel string, six-string, ten-string, and bottleneck guitars and a five-string open-back banjo on The Wanting, which features such dazzling sonic forays as “A Snapshot of Mom, Scotland, 1957,” “The Great Swamp Way Rout,” “Anchor Chain Blues,” and “Twenty-three Years in Happy Valley, or Love Among the Chickenshit,” each with its own unique tuning. Recorded in his apartment in Massachusetts, the album reveals the continuing influence of John Fahey on Jones, who in 1997, in the liner notes to Fahey’s The Epiphany of Glenn Jones, wrote, “I was introduced to the music of John Fahey in the early ’70s by my high school art teacher, who played me ‘The River Medley’ from the first of his two Reprise albums, Of Rivers and Religions. The first album I bought myself was Fahey’s fourth for his Takoma label, The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party. It was, for me, one of those life-changing albums, important as only the right album at the right time is to a curious kid with a growing interest in esoteric music.” Jones has also just edited John Fahey: Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You (The Fonotone Years 1958-1965), an eighty-eighty-page book with five CDs that comes out on October 11. The Wanting concludes with the seventeen-minute duet “The Orca Grande Cement Factory at Victorville,” with Chris Corsano on drums, a tour de force for Jones and his remarkable mastery of his instrument. The show tonight with Hauschka at the West Park Presbyterian Church should be, as one of Jones’s new songs says, “Of Its Own Kind.”

PARTY ON THE INTREPID

Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Pier 86, 12th Ave. & 46th St.
Thursday, September 29, free with RSVP, 7:00
www.intrepidmuseum.org

Pandora internet radio, the music service based on the Music Genome Project to serve each individual’s particular tastes, and State Fare are teaming up to sponsor a free concert on board the Intrepid on Thursday, September 29, a cool lineup featuring DJ Vice, the Hold Steady, and the Roots, playing on a stage on the aircraft carrier’s flight deck. Although admission is free, you must RSVP to get on the first come, first served guest list RSVP, which does not guarantee entrance, but you won’t be able to get in at all without it. There will also be vendors, food trucks, and more on hand for what should be a very hot show.