Lifes is a curatorial assemblage, an exercise in synthesis, a composite being, a living software, a durational sequence, a cacophony of intentions, a misunderstanding, a text that dances, an extended conversation, a voice in ruin, a mapping of relations, a lean into the future. Initiated by four commissioned texts and including contributions from more than
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BSAC’s “Riddem, Esoteric Rambunction & Eclectic Blue Cheer Conduction #2” is presented by USC’s Visions and Voices and co-sponsored by the Center for Black Cultural and Student Affairs. This performance is in collaboration with the Hammer Museum at UCLA, which will be hosting “Cosmic Riddem, Esoteric Rambunction & Eclectic Blue Cheer – Conduction #4” on
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Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute (WMI) today announced that self-described “territory band, neo-tribal thang, community hang” Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber (BSAC) will lead a free workshop for six rising musicians, ages 18-35, from March 31-April 3, 2022, as part of the Hall’s ongoing series of workshops and master classes for young professional musicians. The BSAC workshop will focus on the group’s approach to “Conduction,” also known as conducted improvisation, coined, constructed, and championed by Butch Morris. BSAC who “continues to celebrate never playing anything the same way once” will aim to enhance
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Beloveds,We’re broken hearted to confirm that this mourning, the morning of Tuesday, December 7th, 2021, Gregory Stephen Ionman Tate passed on to the next life. At this time, out of respect for his sister Geri, his brother Brian, his daughter Chinara, and his “Grand Sun“ Nile, The Burnt Sugar Arkestra Family will refrain from further
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This Fall, Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber debuts Angels Over Oakanda, a four-song suite which is the group’s first new studio-generated album of original material since 2017’s All You Zombies Dig The Luminosity. The album is being released on CD and as a digital download by Avant Groidd Musica September 23, 2021 with a 12” vinyl release to follow in 2022.
Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber would like to thank Steve Baczkowski, Ed Cardoni, HALLWALLS Contemporary Art Center & The .9Mile Collaborative for presenting Nicole Mitchell, Mazz Swift, Charles Gayle, Henry Grimes and The Brotzmann/Parker/Drake Trio’s 2020 commissioned & archival digital performances for their “Sonic Vault” Series. We are thrilled to be included amongst this cadre
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Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber Presents Fourteen Dollars & Fifty CentsFeaturing Abby Dobson.From “Porgy and Bess: The Astro Black Trapfish Row Variations”Performed live at David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center on January 30, 2020. BSAC would especially like to thank our Biggest Fan in Italia Achille Silipo, the Associazione Culturale Punta Giara’s Basilio Antonio Sulis
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Our “20 Years of Avant Groiddnuss” Celebration continues with an all-the-way-live AFRO PUNK FESTIVAL appearance on Sunday, August 25th, 2019.
The Burnt Sugar Arkestra is thrilled to announce our SFJAZZ debut with a four night residency in which we bring our mix of euphoric funk, space jazz, power-packed rock, sweet soul and avant-garde experimentation to the music of Max Roach, Prince, Steely Dan, and David Bowie. July 11 – 14, 2019Joe Henderson Lab @ SFJAZZ
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The Burnt Sugar Arkestra is happy to be a part of the 13th annual Anson B. Nixon Park Summer Concert Series in Kennett Square. Pennsylvania. We’ll be “caramelizing” Prince & Bowie with a cherry on top “Groiddest Schizznits” encore! In its 13th season, the Summer Concert Series returns to Anson B. Nixon Park in June.
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