Friday, 17 April


Would you like a cookie with that new music? 
The first annual New Music Bake Sale, an unusual combination of baked goods and music performances, drew a large crowd of composers, performers, and new music enthusiasts Friday night.  

Held in the dining hall of First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn Heights, several groups set up tables displaying their concert schedules, CDs and Frankenberry-inspired baked goods, to be perused in between performances.  Starting off the festivities, Loadbang's performance of Matthew Hough's "Silhouette," a blast of sound followed by quiescent suspense, literally jolted the audience to attention (one audience member admitted to having inadvertently screamed as the piece exploded into existence). 

The raucous styling of Newspeak---an experimental ensemble with rock-rebellious overtones---was featured later on in the evening, followed up by the electric guitar quartet Dither, whose set engulfed the audience in increasingly louder and louder interweaving guitar threads.