2020

Live Performances and events

DATE: February 1, 2020
ARTIST: Kobe Van Cauwenberghe Ghost Trance Septet
WHERE: Post X (Ghent, Belgium)
COMPOSITIONS: Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music

DATE: February 1, 2020
EVENT: Do-Over Music Series #14: The duo. B. Experimental Band
plays Anthony Braxton w/ Chris Jonas, guest director
LOCATION: Temescal Arts Center (Oakland, CA)
COMPOSITIONS: the (unrecorded) work Ghost Trance Music No. 246, and will include the multi-movement work, No. 173, a series of marches that are part of the No. 40 collection of works, and familiar works from Braxton’s quartet recordings such as compositions 6F, 69q and 23c.

DATE: February 7, 2020
ARTIST: Kobe Van Cauwenberghe Ghost Trance
WHERE: Madame Fortuna (Antwerp, Belgium)
COMPOSITIONS: Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music

DATE: February 8, 2020
ARTIST: Kobe Van Cauwenberghe Ghost Trance Sextet
WHERE: Werkplaats Walter (Brussels, Belgium)
COMPOSITIONS: Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music

DATE: February 16, 2020
ARTIST: AB West 8+1, with Del Sol String Quartet and Goggle Sax
Quartet
LOCATION: UC Berkeley Museum and Pacific Film Archives (Berkeley, CA)
COMPOSITIONS: Composition 18 (for String Quartet), Composition 37 (for Sax Quartet), and Composition 265 (2nd species Ghost Trance Music).

DATE: March 5, 2020
ARTIST: Prague Improvisation Orchestra
LOCATION: Kampus Hybernska, Prague, Czech Republic
COMPOSITIONS: Composition Nos. 6F, 23E; 40(O), 69M, 74E, 159, 161, 193 (+108A and 221)

DATE: March 26 - 28, 2020 POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
ARTIST: Experiments In Opera
EVENT: Anthony Braxton Theater Improvisations
LOCATION: The Flea Theater (New York, NY)
COMPOSITIONS: Composition Nos. 279-283

DATE: March 27-29, 2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
ARTIST: Anthony Braxton, Adam Matlock, Jessica Pavone, Roland Burks, Chris DiMeglio, Nick Hallett, Kyoko Kitamura, Raquel Klein, Reut Regev, Anne Rhodes, Kamala Sankaram, Carl Testa.
EVENT: Braxton75 A Celebration: Solo, Diamond Curtain Wall Trio, Thunder Music Ensemble World Premiere
LOCATION: Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN

DATE: April 3, 2020 POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
ARTISTS: Kyoko Kitamura, Adam Matlock, Chris DiMeglio, Anne Rhodes with UCONN Associate Professor Scott Campbell
LOCATION: University of Connecticut Hartford Campus
EVENT: "Creativity and Composition. An event linking sound, music, and writing (composition)". With a workshop conducted by Tri-Centric musicians and vocalists led by Kyoko Kitamura and UCONN Associate Professor and Writing Coordinator Scott Campbell

DATE: May 2, 2020
ARTIST: Matthew Welch POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
EVENT: Matthew Welch plays Anthony Braxton as part of Bang On A Can "Long Play" Festival
LOCATION:
COMPOSITIONS: Selections from his Anthony Braxton: 10 Solo Bagpipe Compositions 2000 album as well as Ghost Trance Music

DATE: May 3, 2020
ARTIST: The Decisive Instant
LOCATION: Eagle Rock Center for the Arts (L.A.)
COMPOSITIONS: Comp Nos. 55, 56, 58, 59, 142

DATE: May 23, 2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
ARTIST: Visionary Youth Orchestra
LOCATION: Roulette (Brooklyn)
COMPOSITIONS: Comp Nos. 59 + Language Music

DATE: June 4, 2020
ARTIST: The Present Quartet with Ellen Burr (flutes), Anne LeBaron (harp), Charles Sharp (reeds), Jeff Schwartz (contrabass).
LOCATION:
COMPOSITIONS: Comp Nos. 6K, 23H, 40I, 40N, 40O, 69M, and 110A

DATE: June 9, 2020
ARTIST: Face The Music CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
LOCATION: Le Poisson Rouge
COMPOSITIONS:

DATE: June 14, 2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
ARTIST: Kyoko Kitamura leads a Braxton75 workshop
LOCATION: Rhizome (Washington D.C.)
COMPOSITIONS:

DATE: June 18-20, 2020 POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
EVENT: 50+ Years of Creative Music: Anthony Braxton – Composer, Multi-Instrumentalist, Music Theorist International Conference
LOCATION: Institute for Historical Musicology of the University Hamburg

DATE: July 2, 2020 1PM EST (1700 GMT) ONLINE
EVENT: The International Contemporary Ensemble/Tri-Centric collaboration event
Braxton75: The Music of Anthony Braxton – Navigation Through Form
Talk by James Fei
LOCATION: Public livestream, free and open to the public worldwide
REGISTRATION: Ensemble Evolution Zoom Link, also available via Facebook

DATE: July 24, 2020
TIME: 00:05 Uhr (German time), 22:05 GMT, 6:05PM EST
EVENT: Radio broadcast of the Berlin Sonic Genome

DATE: July 27, 2020
TIME: 5:30PM - 6:30PM EST (21:30 - 22:30 GMT) ONLINE
LOCATION: online (register here)
EVENT: Braxton75: The Music of Anthony Braxton
The International Contemporary Ensemble, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and Tri-Centric will jointly present a panel on the music of Anthony Braxton

DATE: July 29, 2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
ARTIST: International Contemporary Ensemble
LOCATION: Lincoln Center Atrium as part of Mostly Mozart Festival
COMPOSITIONS: Ghost Trance Music

DATE: November 21, 2020
ARTIST: Kobe Van Cauwenbergh’s Ghost Trance Septet
LOCATION: Philharmonie Luxembourg
COMPOSITIONS:

Recordings

Album: Axioms // 75ab
Artist: Tropos
Label: Biophilia Records
Date: May 15, 2020
Compositions: Comp Nos. 23c, 23e, 40o, 40b, 23h, 6i

Album: The Anthony Braxton Project
Artist: Thumbscrew
Label: Cuneiform Records
Release Date: July 24, 2020
Compositions: Comp Nos. 52, 157, 14, 68, 274, 61, 35, 150, 79

Album: Ghost Trance Solos
Artist: Kobe Van Cauwenberghe
Label: all that dust
Release Date: November 5, 2020
Compositions: Comp Nos. 255, 284, 358