SWELTER
on the Central Park Lake (enter at 72nd Street)
Performances at 3:30PM and 5:00PM

Make Music New York returns to the Central Park Lake in 2011, as MATA presents TILT Brass performing SWELTER.

Dozens of brass players will be positioned around the lake to play a new ambient music-scape by three Australian sound artists - Julian Day, Luke Jaaniste and Janet McKay - which the audience will experience from rowboats on the water.

SWELTER is part of Day, Jaaniste & McKay's ongoing project "Super Critical Mass," which has appeared in various spaces since 2008. Much like MMNY's Mass Appeal, each event brings together large numbers of the same kind of instrument and uses simple instructions to create complex and beautiful site-specific works. The instructions respond to different skill levels so that a wide range of players can participate, from young performers to world-class professionals.

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TILT Brass is a Brooklyn-based experimental music organization dedicated to expanding the world of contemporary brass performance by producing innovative concert programs and recording projects, and by commissioning new works for its two ensembles, TILT Creative Brass Band (CBB) and TILT SIXtet. Since forming in 2003, TILT Brass has presented the work of over 50 composers, including group members and local colleagues, as well as established masters.

Super Critical Mass is a large-scale performance/installation project that explores spatialized masses of musicians playing identical instruments within public places. There is no conductor, scores or music stands - instead, performers execute simple "algorithms" for sounds and movement that build up complex, evolving textures. The results are immersive and often meditative performance-installations, articulating both instrument and architecture, within which audiences freely move about or simply sit back and take it in. Super Critical Mass is directed by Julian Day, Luke Jaaniste, and Janet McKay.

MATA is a non-profit organization that has, for the past fourteen years, been dedicated to commissioning and presenting works by young composers from around the world. MATA's directors are motivated by a desire to create community among young musicians, especially those whose work defies definition and doesn't fit into existing institutions. By providing young composers with a professional performance of their work, access to first-rate performers and valuable connections to colleagues, MATA nurtures their entry into American musical life.