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loadbang Presents: Premieres Vol. 11
March 7th at 7:30PM at Opera Americas National Opera Center in Manhattan, loadbang Presents: Premieres Vol 11, part of an ongoing series of concert dedicated to commissioning and performing new repertoire for their unique instrumentation (trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, baritone voice).
Andrew Harlan, the winner of loadbangs 2017 commission competition, has written HYPHA: a work which situates the ensemble in a dystopian forest, surrounding the instruments with atmospheric electronics. Two of the players double on recorder headjoints, blending with and augmenting the electronic soundscape, which includes nods to the online trend of ASMR videos
The Signs of Our Time by Andrew List sets texts from the medieval Carmina Burana, combining them into a single throughline of monodrama, moving through different moods and settings. The ancient texts often seem all too familiar to our modern world, and the work draws parallels between the foibles and difficulties of politics and life in the middle ages and today.
John Cages Five is a work for five performers, and loadbang is a quartet. The ensemble is made able to perform the work with some electronic assistance. Composer Jude Traxler created a piece of software that will, within the given parameters of the part, randomly give a different performance of the fifth part every performance.
Helmut Oehrings SunRise Song for 4 is a setting of the composers own text, and an exploration of the lower threshold of the dynamic range. The creaking and unstable instrumental and vocal sounds characteristic of Oehrings music are evocations of the sound of his deaf-mute mothers speaking voice, which directly informs a great deal of his work.
Chaya Czernowins IRRATIONAL is a tour de force for loadbang, treating the ensemble as a single organism that occasionally splinters off into fragments. Featuring both motoric drive and gauzy textures, the work is an astonishing timbral picture of what is possible with loadbangs unique instrumentation.
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LocationMarc A. Scorca Hall, National Opera America Center (View)
330 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10001
United States
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