Anti-Social Music (ASM) is a composer/performer

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founded in

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in 2001. The group started as a one-off concert organized by

Franz Nicolay Franz Nicolay (born 1977) is an American musician and writer. He is best known for playing the accordion and piano in The World/Inferno Friendship Society and keyboards in The Hold Steady from 2005 to 2010 and again from 2016 onwards. He is also ...

of world premieres of works by William Brittelle, Jason Freeman, Dan Lasaga, Franz Nicolay, and John Wriggle at Columbia University's Philosophy Hall on March 25, 2001. ASM performs two concerts of all world premieres annually. World Premieres Shows have been held in various New York venues including the Pantheon Theater, The Flea Theater, CAMI Hall, Greenwich House Music School, Merkin Hall, and La Tea and are noted for their informality and tongue-in-cheek attitude. ASM's first recording, "ASM Sings the Great American Songbook" was released on

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and features world premiere recordings of works by William Brittelle, Peter Hess, Andrea La Rose, Dan Lasaga, Pat Muchmore, Franz Nicolay, Ken Thomson, and John Wriggle and was funded by the Cary Trust. This recording was listed in Magnet Magazine's "Top Ten Recordings You Didn't Hear" for 2005. ASM produced the hit indie opera The Nitrate Hymnal, a multimedia one-hour work in four acts by writer Bob Massey and filmmaker David Wilson. The Nitrate Hymnal had its world premiere at the Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia on January 23, 2003. The performance featured a hybrid orchestra of post punk and classically trained musicians, and told the story of a couple who obsessively filmed their lives. In 2005, ASM partnered with Bob Massey and The Gena Rowlands Band to re-orchestrate and record songs from The Nitrate Hymnal, which was released on Lujo Records in 2006 and funded by the Copland Fund for Recording. Inspired by the success of the Nitrate Hymnal, ASM has partnered with innovative composers working outside the classical and jazz traditions in a new DIY commissioning program called "ASM Sleeps Around." The first partnership was with experimental hip hop group

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; the second was with Warn Defever from

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. ASM's fourth studio recording "...is the Future of Everything" was released by Peacock Recordings in April 2011.

Members

ASM's principal members include: *William Brittelle (

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) *Hubert Chen *Jean Cook (

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, Gena Rowlands Band) *David Durst (Poor But Sexy, The Gena Rowlands Band) *Joe Exley (Tubajoe) *Peter Hess (

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) *Bradley Kemp *Andrea La Rose *Dan Lasaga *Pat Muchmore *

(

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, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Guignol) *

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*Maria Sonevytsky (Main Squeeze Orchestra,

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) *Ken Thomson ( Gutbucket, World/Inferno Friendship Society) *John Wriggle (Swing Repair, Ex Caminos)

Discography

* Anti-Social Music Sings the Great American Songbook (Peacock 007) * Anti-Social Music + Gena Rowlands Band: The Nitrate Hymnal (

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760) * Anti-Social Music is the Future of Everything (Peacock 015)

References

External links

Official ASM Site

ASM MySpace Page

Nitrate Hymnal Site
{{Authority control Musical groups from New York (state) Experimental musical groups