Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band and
Amy X NeuburgThey Will Have Been So Beautiful: Songs and Images of Now
New works by Paul Dresher, Lisa Bielawa, Jay Cloidt, Conrad Cummings,
Fred Frith, Guillermo Galindo, Carla Kihlstedt,
Ken Ueno,
Pamela Z,
Amy X Neuburg Neuburg and Dresher commissioned 10 composers to create songs inspired by Diane Arbus's Guggenheim grant application, American Rites, Manners and Customs. Arbus proposed to photograph everyday people, places, and routines, which to generations of the future "will have been so beautiful." Each composer found or created a photograph or series of images, ranging from intimate self portraits to stark landscapes, that spoke to him or her in this regard, and used the images as inspiration for the music.
The band: Jeffrey Anderle, clarinets; Karen Bentley Pollick, violin; Joel Davel, Marimba Lumina; Paul Dresher, electric guitar; Marja Mutru, keyboard; Gene Reffkin, electronic drums;
John Schott, electric guitar.
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
BREATHING is a movement from Carbon Song Cycle (a inter-media chamber work by composer/performer Pamela Z and visual artist Christina McPhee). The work was originally written for voice & electronics, bassoon, viola, cello, percussion, and tape. This is a solo version performed by the composer (with just voice, processing, and tape), recorded at a 3/13/2014 duo concert with Joan La Barbara as part of the 2014 ROOM Series. Pamela Z is using a gesture controller (designed and built by Donald Swearingen). © 2013 Last Letter Music (ASCAP)