Roulette: Susie Ibarra – Talking Gong with Claire Chase & Alex Peh

Claire Chase, piccolo, flute, & alto/bass flutes
Alex Peh, piano
Susie Ibarra, drumset, kulintang, gandingan, agung, & percussion

Composer and percussionist Susie Ibarra returns to Roulette with Talking Gong featuring flutist Claire Chase and pianist Alex Peh. This dynamic trio emerged out of the premiere of the title piece commissioned for SUNY New Paltz in 2018 when Ibarra was Davenport Composer in Residence, and the release of their album Talking Gong on New Focus Recordings this January 2021.

Talking Gong will perform an evening program of music featuring compositions by Ibarra from their album, as well as Ibarra’s series of solos as bird songs of the sunbird, hummingbird, and kingfisher for piano, flute, and drums. The trio will also perform an excerpt of Pauline Oliveros's The Witness, a trans-species opera, a biocentric experiment for humans and non-humans, combining deep listening, conscious movement and “blue hour” (dawn) light. Peh and Chase will perform a duet inspired by the black bird, The Merle Noir, by Olivier Messiaen. Amidst the program are conduction pieces by Ibarra , a mixture of motivic scores and improvisation that highlight the trio’s unique sound world and musical chemistry.

The broadcast will take place at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific.

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