At our February 17 concert, we talked about the Make Music New Jersey program. This is part of a free celebration of music-making that takes place on June 21 every year in over 450 cities world-wide. All concerts are free and outdoors (weather permitting) and participation is open to both amateur and professional musicians. MusiXplore…

For those who didn’t have a chance to get down the the Wheelhouse on Sunday, here is video of Keren Rosenbaum and Giorgia Ghizzoni performing “The Man Who Shouted Teresa” from a text by Italo Calvino. Click to find out more about Keren and Giorgia.

Keren Rosenbaum is a choreographic composer, cello performer, interdisciplinary musician and an educator, born in Israel in 1970. She started composing music at the age of seven, and later graduated from the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag, Holland. She is founder of the Reflex Ensemble, a unique collective of classical musicians, jazz musicians and actors,…

Our first artist of the 2013 season is Michael Durek, performing as The Use (formerly Cloud Cloud) on Sunday, January 20. Michael is a multi-instrumentalist, artist, and curator. From a chip-tunes beginning in 2009, Cloud Cloud became an electro-acoustic experimental chamber ensemble, and finally meshed into it’s current form as The Use: A saucy blend…

We hope you had a fine holiday season and are just itching to get back to work! No? We’re not dawdling at musiXplore. Here’s our Winter-Spring 2013 list of concerts by experimental musicians from New Jersey and the Hudson Valley: Let’s begin with Sunday, January 20 when we’ll be hosting The Use, which is Michael…

On Sunday, November 18, musiXplore will host a performance by legendary NJ avant-improv veterans Monkeyworks. This crew plays a great blend of jazz and African styles with an electronic overtone. Their specialty is improvising musical pairings with silent film or avant-garde video, and that’s what you’ll see at musiXplore. The show begins at 1:00 pm…

Here at musiXplore, we think the finest group of improvising musicians in New Jersey is Monkeyworks. Led by Ian Smit, these are veterans who have jammed together for decades. Here is a short excerpt from a performance in October of 2011, when they performed their piece “The Raven” to the accompaniment of a silent black…

The duo of Ray Bally and Dennis Young go off into the outer reaches. Performance on October 21, 2012 at the Ivanhoe Wheelhouse in Paterson, NJ.

Mark Weinberg performing as Trinitron: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVWG8K60qbQ