Center for New Music: Feedback – Self vs. Other
$5-$15 suggested donation
Brett Austin Eastman — Passover
Jen Wang — …for each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone
Phoebe Bognár — Vanishing Points
Evan Williams — if/else
Jessie Nucho, flute
Flutist Jessie Nucho and composer Brett Austin Eastman present the second of their three-part series exploring the nature of feedback in our lives. This program investigates the feedback systems that permeate our daily lives at the most intimate level: our relationships with ourselves and others. Most personal is our relationship to self and our emotional processes. Chelsea Loew’s deep breaths depicts invasive anxious thoughts and explores the role of breath in both calm and panicked states. Anxiety also surfaces in Brett Austin Eastman’s Passover, inspired by poetry written by Jessie Nucho. Here, the piece itself is also the result of a feedback process: the words of a personal struggle, when transformed through another’s lens, lose their original meaning and become something new.
Covid-19 has affected all of us in deeply personal ways and has had repercussions on our relationship to ourselves. In Jen Wang’s …for each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone, the flutist plays along with seven other versions of herself, a reminder of the loneliness and isolation of shelter-in-place life. Phoebe Bognár’s Vanishing Points is about arrival and departure, a consideration of the evanescence of place, being, and identity.
In counterpoint to this self-reflection is Evan Williams’ if/else. Inspired by programming logic and conditional statements, the piece creates the illusion that the computer has the agency to make a “choice,” thus allowing flutist and computer to respond to one another in real time.
The livestream will take place at 7pm Pacific.
All concerts are streamed via the C4NM YouTube channel. Event link will be emailed to ticket holders before the show.
Tickets: Pay as you can. Suggested donation $5-$15.
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