Thursday September 8 * 7pm * TICKETS
4tet2duos: collaborative works by and for James Ilgenfritz, bass & objects, Katie Porter, clarinet, bass clarinet & voice, Teerapat Parnmongkol, electric guitar, oud, pedals & voice, and Lucie Vítková, accordion, harmonica, synthesizer, hichiriki & voice. Hanging by a thread in these strange times, we present new ideas for music made carefully, strangely, beautifully together.
James Ilgenfritz – contrabass, objects, voice
www.james-ilgenfritz.com
Katie Porter, clarinet, bass clarinet, voice
www.fromkp.com
Teerapat Parnmongkol, E.Guitar. Oud and Voice
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Lucie Vítková, accordion, harmonica, hichiriki, synthesizer, voice
www.vitkovalucie.com
Matthew Goodheart is a composer, improviser, sound artist, and educator who has developed a wide body of work that explores the relationships between performer, instrument, and listener. His diverse creations range from large-scale microtonal compositions to open improvisations to immersive sound installations – all unified by the analytic techniques and performative methodologies he has developed to bring forth the unique and subtle acoustic properties of individual musical instruments. Goodheart’s approach results in a “generative foundation” for exploring issues of sound in relation to physicality, perception, technology, and cultural ritual.
A fearless and charismatic presence, Simone Baron is a concert pianist, accordionist and composer of infectious energy. She engages with a broad range of musical languages, traditions, and art forms, and has performed throughout Europe, Israel and North America (Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center). While finishing her formal studies in piano and conducting at the Buchmann-Mehta School (Tel Aviv University) and Oberlin Conservatory, she fell in love with the accordion. Its vibrant sounds and pulsing bellows breathed new life into her musical world which opened the door to multidisciplinary collaborations with dancers, puppeteers, visual artists. In 2016, she founded the ensemble Arco Belo, leading them in performances of compositions and arrangements that reveal a gargantuan musical appetite which pulls language from the jazz, world and contemporary chamber music idioms orchestrated for strings, percussion, bass and piano/accordion. Recently an artist in residence at the Banff Centre, Strathmore and the Washington Jewish Music Festival, Simone's work focuses on experimenting, reimagining and forging a sound at the junction of the familiar and the avant-garde. simonebaron.bandcamp.com/releases
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