Tickets: Suggested Donation $20 Adults/$10 Students/Seniors

Tickets: Suggested Donation $25 Adults/$10 Students/Seniors

 

 

“In Sound” is a program designed to immerse the audience in sound, providing an alternative concert experience while maintaining proper social distancing for our audience and performers. Unlike a traditional concert experience where the audience sits side-by-side in long rows watching the performers perform close together onstage, this concert will take a different approach. We have chosen works that call for “spatialized” performance by spacing the performers on the edges of the space, surrounding the audience. To fully experience this type of immersive sonic experience, the audience will be free to move around in the space, approaching different groups of instruments, and physically exploring the differences in sound due to the architecture and acoustics of the building. We will provide groups of chairs (in social distanced rings if necessary) for those who would like to sit. The performance will incorporate works for large spatially-dispersed chamber ensemble by composers James Tenney and Matthew Burtner. To give the audience a truly sonically transcendent experience, we will also include multi-channel electroacoustic works played through an 8-channel speaker array surrounding the audience by composers Hildegarde Westerkamp and Natasha Barrett. The works by Burtner, Barrett and Westerkamp highlight an environmental message, by immersing the listener in environments and soundscapes that we are rapidly losing due to climate change.  Matthew Burtner’s “Threnody (Sikuigvik)” will blend the “ecoacoustic” sounds of melting glaciers with the instrumental sounds of the Versipel Collective. The title, “Sikuigvik,” is an Inupiaq word meaning “the time of ice melting” commemorating the loss of glacial ice since the late 1990s. Together, all of these pieces will provide an experience in which the audience is truly immersed “in sound.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This event is currently being rescheduled for April, 2022! Let’s keep our fingers crossed! 

 

 

 

 

 

May 15, 2022: Versipel Collective: Coming Together

Marigny Opera House, 7:30 PM

 

 

 

 

Supported by the Jazz and Heritage Foundation, this show will feature Frederic Rzewski’s classic “Coming Together” and other works that highlight social justice issues.