Mario Diaz de Leon
Cycle and Reveal
*Tickets go on sale shortly*
$20 General / $15 The Kitchen Members
An acclaimed composer and multi-instrumentalist known for his work spanning the worlds of modern classical, experimental electronic, extreme metal, and creative improvised music, Mario Diaz de Leon celebrates the release of Cycle and Reveal on Denovali Records with a one-night performance. The concert opens with live audiovisual set by Diaz de Leon, followed by performances from Cycle and Reveal by ICE ensemble musicians Rebekah Heller, Claire Chase, and Joshua Rubin. Talea Ensemble share the bill, performing Diaz de Leon's "Sacrament".
This event is presented by The Kitchen, and takes place at the Queenslab space in Ridgewood.
Cycle and Reveal is the fourth full length album by Mario Diaz de Leon, and moves from hypnotic repetitions that radically collide with colorful outbursts to primal, incantatory, and improvisatory sonic landscapes. Noted for their bold combination of acoustic instruments and electronics, his collaborations with ICE have been celebrated over the last decade for their “hallucinatory intensity” (New York Times), “snarling exuberance” (Pitchfork), “helter-skelter, electronically enhanced cadenzas” (New Yorker Magazine), and coupling of “crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex” (Wire Magazine).
Performances and commissioning activities during the 2019-20 concert season are made possible by the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, A.N. and Pearl G. Barnett Family Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc., Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Amphion Foundation, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Pacific Harmony Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, mediaThe foundation inc., The Casement Fund, BMI Foundation, as well as public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council for the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency. The International Contemporary Ensemble is the Ensemble in Residence of the Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for ICE.