Philip Glass, Tyondai Braxton and Ben Vida, & More to Perform at Philippines Benefit Concert for Typhoon Haiyan, 12/19

START HERE collaborates with composer/musician Tyondai Braxton and Le Poisson Rouge to present Philippines Benefit Concert for Typhoon Haiyan on Thursday, December 19 at 8:00 PM at Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, NYC). The night features performances by legendary composer Philip Glass, Tyondai Braxton + Ben Vida, Prefuse 73, Satomi Matsuzaki of Deerhoof, Dan Friel of Parts & Labor, DJ Jon Santos and special guests to be announced. This one-night-only benefit concert brings aid to the Philippines in response to super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda). All proceeds will benefit A Single Drop (ASD), a Philippines-based NGO dedicated to shaping mid- to long-term aid in water and sanitation, as well as sustainable strategies for shelter, food security and livelihood.

Tickets are $25, $50, $75 and $100 and available now at https://www.ticketprophet.com/events/9537/orders/new

Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Woody Allen to David Bowie, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times. The operas - "Einstein on the Beach," "Satyagraha," "Akhnaten," and "The Voyage," among many others - play throughout the world's leading houses, and rarely to an empty seat. Glass has written music for experimental theater and for Academy Award-winning motion pictures such as "The Hours" and Martin Scorsese's "Kundun," while "Koyaanisqatsi," his initial filmic landscape with Godfrey Reggio and the Philip Glass Ensemble, may be the most radical and influential mating of sound and vision since "Fantasia." His associations, personal and professional, with leading rock, pop and world music artists date back to the 1960s, including the beginning of his collaborative relationship with artist Robert Wilson. Indeed, Glass is the first composer to win a wide, multi-generational audience in the opera house, the concert hall, the dance world, in film and in popular music - simultaneously.

Tyondai Braxton has been actively involved in music composition and performance since the mid 90s.His music consists most prominently of "orchestrated loops," a real-time overlaying of guitar, voice and found objects designed to simulate an ensemble. As the former guitarist, keyboardist and singer of Battles, he received world-wide acclaim for the group's debut album Mirrored, which, amongst other honors and awards the album received, was hailed by Time Magazine as one of the ten best records of the year. With over 2.5 million views on YouTube of the band's single Atlas, the 10 month tour for the record brought the band to such venues as The Cartier Foundation Museum in Paris, The Fuji Rock Festival in Northern Japan, and the Sydney Opera House in Australia for Brian Eno's Luminous Festival.

Ben Vida has worked with artists Siebren Versteeg, Meredyth Sparks, Marina Rosenfeld, Luke Fowler, Hisham Bharoocha, Nadia Hironaka and Mathew Suib and has played in ensembles led by Tony Conrad, Rhys Chattam, and Werner Dafeldecker. He has performed with with David Behrman, Nate Wooley, Ryan Sawyer, Chad Taylor, Eli Keszler, Yamatsuka Eye and C. Spencer Yeh among many others. He has released over twenty records on such labels as Thrill Jockey, Drag City, PAN, Amish, Bottrop-Boy, Hapna and Kranky.

Guillermo Scott Herren is nothing if not proven. It's hard to think of a name that carries as much weight in both hip-hop and avant-rock circles as Prefuse 73, who in the past year alone has been asked to remix TV On The Radio, Pelican, BLK JKS, Cornelius, and producing the L.A. duo: "Voices Voices" e.p. on Manimal Records. Not to mention his collaborations with School of Seven Bells and Battles. These interactions have clearly helped to shape the evolving Herren's sonic aesthetic, which has expanded to include Diamond Watch Wrists twisted visions of prog-rock & "machine funk" and Savath y Savalas global psychedelia.

Dan Friel is an experimental electronic musician based in Brooklyn, NY. He has been releasing solo recordings since 2001 and is a founding member of the indie/noiserock band Parts & Labor. Friel has also performed in Tyondai Braxon's Central Market, Glenn Branca's Symphony 13, and Damo Suzuki's Network. Friel's music has been featured in the New York Times, Pitchfork, Spin, Rolling Stone, and Wire.In 2005, Friel co-founded the independent record label Cardboard Records, releasing albums for Gowns (feat. Erika Anderson of EMA), Ecstatic Sunshine (feat. Dustin Wong of Ponytail and Matt Papich of Co La), and the "Love and Circuits" compilation featuring Thee Oh Sees, Matt and Kim, fbuttons, High Places, Oneida, Japanther, and dozens of others).

Jon Santos is an artist living and working in New York City. He works in video, sound, performance and sculpture. Recent projects include The Last Weekend with Peter Coffin, Telegraph at the Storefront for Art and Architecture Gala and Social Mirroring at the New Museum. Jon is an adjunct professor at Pratt Institute and is the principal of Common Space Studio, a multidisciplinary design and art studio. He has exhibited widely in group exhibitions at BAM, NY, WalkerArt Center, MN and the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, NY.

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