Events

Ithaca’s premier experimental music event Naked Noise returns, with our annual large ensemble of improvised ritual drone.

CSMA’s Martha Hamblin Hall will be transformed into Ithaca’s premiere experimental audio-visual event. A selection of Ithaca’s most talented and innovative musicians will encircle the room with percussionists in the center, while a visual installation will envelop the space in a transcendental array of light, projection, and reflection.

The ensemble will perform two 45 minute sets of improvised drone and noise. Participants are encouraged to explore the ring around the space for a unique auditory experience with every step. This is an event of epic proportions and is not to be missed!

Naked Noise #10 performers include:
Sarmistha Talukdar (Tavishi) – https://tavishi.bandcamp.com/
Ada Adhiyatma (Madam data) – http://madamdata.net
Chris Corsano – http://www.cor-sano.com
Annie Lewandowski (powerdove)
Phillip Price (Kayo Dot) – https://kayodot.bandcamp.com/
Heather Fae
Piyawat Louilarpprasert
Anna Coogan – https://annacoogan.com/
Alejandra Marie Diemecke (La Llorona)
Fidget Illy Zero (Food Pill / Zero Mean) – https://zeromean.bandcamp.com
Dara Anissi -https://daraanissi.com
Charles Chatman (No-Comply) – https://no-comply.bandcamp.com
Smax Maxwell (SMaxKult) – https://smaxkult.bandcamp.com
Desmond Bratton
Chelsea Smarr
Zacc Charvolin (CHRMSM)

Visuals by Jeremy Veverka, Jason Passmore.
Installation by Yarra Berger.

In memory of Jeff Valla, Naked Noise co-founder.

This event is made possible with grant support from the Tompkins County Tourism Program, the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County, and the Community Foundation of Tompkins County.

Sponsored by Illume Projects & The Watershed.

$5 | All Ages | Safe Space | 9PM Doors | 930PM Start

Creative ReUse Instrument Making Workshop
with John Fuchs
Sunday, May 26, 3:00-5:00 PM
Ithaca ReUse Center, 214 Elmira Road. Free!
Want to make music with us? Make your very own percussion instrument out of reused materials to play in the parade! Local artist-inventor John Fuchs will share ideas and creative techniques, with all materials provided from ReUse Center inventory.  Or, bring an upcycled parade instrument from home. On parade day, Emily Richards (CSMA’s Education Director) will lead our band in playing simple rhythmic patterns that will sound super-cool!

CSMA is thrilled to announce a collaboration with Finger Lakes ReUse to march, dance, and make music together in the Ithaca Festival Parade on Thursday, May 30. Everyone and all ages welcome. Please join our celebration of creativity!

We thank the Park Foundation for generously supporting this project.

Dance Workshop
with Megan Omohundro
Wednesday, May 29, 5:30-6:30 PM
CSMA, Martha Hamblin Hall. Free!
Want to dance the parade route with us? Join us the evening before to practice choreography that will be easy and accessible for anyone to do!  Enjoy the fun, led by CSMA faculty teaching artist, Megan Omohundro.

CSMA is thrilled to announce a collaboration with Finger Lakes ReUse to march, dance, and make music together in the Ithaca Festival Parade on Thursday, May 30. Everyone and all ages welcome. Please join our celebration of creativity!

We thank the Park Foundation for generously supporting this project.

Parade Day
Thursday, May 30
Lineup time and location TBA
Free gifts!

CSMA is thrilled to announce a collaboration with Finger Lakes ReUse to march, dance, and make music together in the Ithaca Festival Parade on Thursday, May 30. Everyone and all ages welcome. Please join our celebration of creativity!

We thank the Park Foundation for generously supporting this project.

Whether you dance or play rhythms with us, carry the banner, or stroll along, everyone who participates with CSMA/ReUse in the parade will receive a gift certificate for $10 off a future class at CSMA. That’s right, a wonderful token of our appreciation!  And, you’ll get a colorful ReCreated sash to wear, an instrument if you make one, and memories to last a lifetime. This will be fun, wow!

Strewn Forgotten Gathered ReImagined
Opening reception, Friday, June 7, 5-8 PM
On view June 7 – July 26

From Finger Lakes waterways, to urban public spaces, to rural homesteads, litter and other left-behind objects are ubiquitous in the landscape. Join us for this exhibition of works by local artists addressing discarded objects found outdoors – trash.

Through photography, painting, sculpture, maps, and mixed-media work, artists Alyssa Anderson, Leslie Brack, Caroline Byrne, Amy Callahan, Paul Closs, Shera D’Elia, Nancy Malina, Michelle Plunkett, Marsha Taichman, Robin Tropper-Herbel, Bernard Yenelouis, and Magdalena Zink consider and reinterpret discarded materials. Cartography by Michelle Henry.

Join us from 5-8 PM for the opening reception and Gallery Night! Meet the artists and learn how to get involved in local trash clean-ups. Presented by Cayuga Lake Watershed Network, Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA), and the Glorious Trash Birds.

Strewn Forgotten Gathered ReImagined
Friday, July 5, 5-8 PM
On view June 7 – July 26

From Finger Lakes waterways, to urban public spaces, to rural homesteads, litter and other left-behind objects are ubiquitous in the landscape. Join us for this exhibition of works by local artists addressing discarded objects found outdoors – trash.

Through photography, painting, sculpture, maps, and mixed-media work, artists Alyssa Anderson, Leslie Brack, Caroline Byrne, Amy Callahan, Paul Closs, Shera D’Elia, Nancy Malina, Michelle Plunkett, Marsha Taichman, Robin Tropper-Herbel, Bernard Yenelouis, and Magdalena Zink consider and reinterpret discarded materials. Cartography by Michelle Henry.

Join us from 5-8 PM for Gallery Night! Presented by Cayuga Lake Watershed Network, Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA), and the Glorious Trash Birds.

We are thrilled to invite you to our next Music Share, an informal recital by CSMA private instruction students and faculty in historic Martha Hamblin Hall. These family-friendly events are free and open to all. Join us for some afternoon music and make CSMA your creative home!

This month includes students of Karen Melamed Smith, Christopher Morgan Loy and Molly MacMillan.

This event is FREE and open to the public.

The Ithaca Children & Youth Chorus will be holding placement auditions for Fall 2019 at CSMA (330 E. State St, Ithaca) on June 24th and 25th from 4:00-6:00 pm. Children that participated this year do NOT need to re-audition, but if you have younger or older siblings, friends from school or other activities you participate in, we would LOVE to have them join us this fall. New faces are ALWAYS welcome! Children interested in joining the newly formed Dolce Choir (ages 5 and 6) also need not audition.

Auditions are brief (approximately 10 minutes) and consist of a little vocalizing, some pitch memory exercises, and some basic harmony exercises. We aim to make auditioning a very low-key and comfortable experience for all singers.

Minimum age for participation is 5, but our ensembles go right up through middle and high school. The rehearsal schedule is as follows:

*We hope to ADD a young men’s ensemble this year for boys with changed voices. We would especially like to encourage them to audition!!

To schedule an audition time, call CSMA at 607-272-1474.

The Ithaca Children & Youth Chorus will be holding placement auditions for Fall 2019 at CSMA (330 E. State St, Ithaca) on June 24th and 25th from 4:00-6:00 pm. Children that participated this year do NOT need to re-audition, but if you have younger or older siblings, friends from school or other activities you participate in, we would LOVE to have them join us this fall. New faces are ALWAYS welcome! Children interested in joining the newly formed Dolce Choir (ages 5 and 6) also need not audition.

Auditions are brief (approximately 10 minutes) and consist of a little vocalizing, some pitch memory exercises, and some basic harmony exercises. We aim to make auditioning a very low-key and comfortable experience for all singers.

Minimum age for participation is 5, but our ensembles go right up through middle and high school. The rehearsal schedule is as follows:

*We hope to ADD a young men’s ensemble this year for boys with changed voices. We would especially like to encourage them to audition!!

To schedule an audition time, call CSMA at 607-272-1474.