MATA Festival 2024 Evening 3: Earthing
$45
- Azalea Twining, voice
- Titilayo Ayangade, cello
- Dennis K. Sullivan II, percussion
- Laura Cocks, flute
- Jennifer Choi, violin
- Jane Sheldon, voice
- Henryk Golden, speaker
Henryk Golden — Sprechen Sie Musik? (NY premiere; for reader & mezzo-soprano)
Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh — Permeating Through the Pores of Shifting Planes (NY premiere; for percussion & electronics)
Marco-Adrián Ramos — Altar with pines and bread from Acámbaro (Music with my grandma) (for alto flute, percussion, & electronics)
Qiujiang Levi Lu — Before it Gets Too Late (NY premiere; for solo percussion & laptop)
Bobby Ge — Doppelgänger Streets (NY premiere; for violin & electronics)
Jane Sheldon — I am a tree, I am a mouth (world premiere; for 2 voices & gong drone)
Earthing features the Bergamot String Quartet and selected composers performing their own works. Ideas focus on communication through music and how technology impacts the cause and effect of that result.
The 26th annual MATA Festival will be presented over four nights at Fotografiska New York, reflecting a newly forged relationship between the MATA Festival and the famed Contemporary Museum of Photography, Art and Culture in Gramercy. The theme of this year's festival, conceived in alignment with the museum's spring exhibition, is "INTEGRATION: Music/Technology + Human/Nature"—an exploration of human connection against the backdrop of ever-advancing technology that is changing how we relate to one another and make music
About Music at the Anthology (MATA)
Music at the Anthology (MATA) is an incubator for adventurous emerging artists experimenting with composition, multi-media, collaborative performance art, and every imaginable sound in between. We present, support, and commission the music of early-career composers, regardless of their stylistic views or aesthetic inclinations. Founded by Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa in 1996 as a way to address the lack of presentation opportunities for unaffiliated composers, MATA has since developed into the world’s most sought-after performance opportunity for young and emerging composers.
https://www.matafestival.org/About Titilayo Ayangade, cello
About Dennis K. Sullivan II, percussion
About Laura Cocks, flute
Laura Cocks is a New York-based flutist who works in a wide array of creative environments as a performer and promoter of contemporary music. Laura is the flutist and executive director of TAK ensemble, and a member of the Nouveau Classical Project and the Association of Dominican Classical Artists. They can be heard with TAK, International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea, Wet Ink Ensemble, and others on labels such as Carrier Records, ECM, Centaur Records, New Focus Recordings, Sound American, Denovali, Orange Mountain Music, Chambray Records, Amplify, TAK editions, Double Double Whammy, Winspear, Supertrain, and Gold Bolus.
http://www.lauracocks.biz/