With They Will Have Been So Beautiful, celebrated composer, performer and instrument inventor Paul Dresher collaborates with composer-vocalist
Amy X Neuburg on an electroacoustic song cycle. This evening-length program features ten newly commissioned works from a host of today's most compelling composers, alongside projections of the images that inspired them.
They Will Have Been So Beautiful features new works by composers Lisa Bielawa, Jay Cloidt, Conrad Cummings,
Fred Frith, Guillermo Galindo, Carla Kihlstedt, Ken Ueno,
Pamela Z, Dresher and Neuburg. Each composer was asked to select or create one or more photographic images, to find or create a text connected in some way to the image, and to use these as the basis for their composition. The texts range from the earnest and passionate — an essay by a San Quentin Prison lifer, an ode to a small child, infatuation and desire among the disadvantaged of Mexico City — to the humorous and absurd — anglophilic bath fixtures and an infomercial angrily critiquing late-stage Capitalism.
More info about the program: http://dresherensemble.org/concertmusic/electroacoustic/theywillhavebeen.html
Post-concert reception hosted by New Music USA.
Pre-show artist talk at 7pm.
Cost: $20 general/$12 students/low-income
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)