Looking forward to performing with the International Contemporary Ensemble April 5th at Roulette Intermedium for a concert featuring the World Premiere of Mazz Swift’s New Work and the NYC Premiere of Murat Çolak’s LAV, with works by Akiko Yamane, Brittany J. Green, Tyshawn Sorey, Yaz Lancaster, Aliya Ultan, and Katinka Kleijn.
Telegraph features the live performance of 6 players on amplified, electronic, and feedback instruments, diffusing sound in real time through stage movement and speaker spatialization. Ensemble Decipher commissioned Telegraph, with support from the Alice M. Ditson Fund and will give the premiere performance as part of the Peabody Institute’s Sylvia Adalman Faculty Recital Series.
Monday, April 3, 2023 // 7:30pm
Joe Byrd Hall
Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins
1 E Mt Vernon Pl
Baltimore, MD 21202
FREE
Ensemble Decipher: Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Joseph Bohigian, Chelsea Loew, Robert Cosgrove, Eric Lemmon, Taylor Long.
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The Brick presents
You Against Nature + Your People Saying Hello
by Joseph White, ThingNY, + Aaron Siegel
Sunday, March 19, 2023 // 8pm
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn NY
sliding scale $15-25 (buy tickets)
Joseph White‘s opera, You Against Nature, ingeniously brought to life by ThingNY, is a potpourri of song, text, visual candy, and sonic froth based on 19th century decadent novel, “Against Nature.” Your People Saying Hello is the solo project of composer/percussionist Aaron Siegel. Equal parts storytelling, poetry reading and sonic ritual, Your People performances feature synths, spoken texts, songs, and percussion.
You Against Nature:
Joseph White – Composer
Gelsey Bell – Vocals, Keyboard
Andrew Livingston – Cello
Paul Pinto – Vocals, Percussion
Erin Rogers – Saxophones
Dave Ruder – Laptop, Narration
Your People Saying Hello:
Aaron Siegel – Composer, Percussion, Voice, Synthesizers
You Against Nature is a new opera by Joseph White, commissioned by ThingNY. Blending elements of monologue, Webernian pointillism, karaoke, and electronic klangfarbenmelodie, You Against Nature offers a maximalist sound world with a lean, stripped-down ensemble of merrymakers. Based on Joris-Karl Huysmans‘ remarkable, and remarkably-decadent 19th century novel, “”Against Nature,”” You Against Nature explores timely themes of isolation, decadence, hedonism, and the limits of self-sufficiency.
