New Sounds: Jennifer Grim at National Sawdust
Flutist Jennifer Grim is especially interested in recent works for the instrument, and her album Through Broken Time is a collection of Afro-modernist and post-minimalist compositions, mostly for flute and piano. But then there’s this work, called “Oxygen,” by New York composer Julia Wolfe, which calls for twelve flutes, from the high-pitched piccolo down to the hulking bass flute. On March 7, at National Sawdust, Jennifer Grim pre-records eleven of the flute parts and plays the twelfth part live, using that venue’s Meyer Sound spatial sound system to present a surround-sound version of the piece. Also on the program are works by Tania León, Alvin Singleton, David Sanford, and Allison Loggins-Hull.
New Sounds
By John Schaefer
Flutist Jennifer Grim is especially interested in recent works for the instrument, and her album Through Broken Time is a collection of Afro-modernist and post-minimalist compositions, mostly for flute and piano. But then there’s this work, called “Oxygen,” by New York composer Julia Wolfe, which calls for twelve flutes, from the high-pitched piccolo down to the hulking bass flute. On March 7, at National Sawdust, Jennifer Grim pre-records eleven of the flute parts and plays the twelfth part live, using that venue’s Meyer Sound spatial sound system to present a surround-sound version of the piece. Also on the program are works by Tania León, Alvin Singleton, David Sanford, and Allison Loggins-Hull.
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New Sounds: Keyboard and "Percussion"
Hear music with piano and percussion of ALL kinds - from the inside of a piano with preparations, flower pots, ping pong balls, bowed vibraphone, and even echolocation by an endangered species of bat in works by Matt McBane and Sandbox Percussion, American composer Ellen Reid and the L.A. Percussion Quartet, and Andrew McIntosh for Yarn/Wire.
Listen to some of composer, producer, and violinist Matt McBane’s collaboration with Sandbox Percussion, Bathymetry -a “reference to how bass synthesizers affect percussive sounds, mimicking how the ocean floor shapes the waves above,” (National Sawdust event page.) McBane and Sandbox use monophonic Moog analog synthesizer, found instrument percussion (mixing bowls, ping pong balls, glass bottles), orchestral percussion and drum sets, drawing on minimalism and achieving something close to ambient music to evoke the mysterious underwater depths.
New Sounds
By John Schaefer
Hear music with piano and percussion of ALL kinds - from the inside of a piano with preparations, flower pots, ping pong balls, bowed vibraphone, and even echolocation by an endangered species of bat in works by Matt McBane and Sandbox Percussion, American composer Ellen Reid and the L.A. Percussion Quartet, and Andrew McIntosh for Yarn/Wire.
Listen to some of composer, producer, and violinist Matt McBane’s collaboration with Sandbox Percussion, Bathymetry -a “reference to how bass synthesizers affect percussive sounds, mimicking how the ocean floor shapes the waves above,” (National Sawdust event page.) McBane and Sandbox use monophonic Moog analog synthesizer, found instrument percussion (mixing bowls, ping pong balls, glass bottles), orchestral percussion and drum sets, drawing on minimalism and achieving something close to ambient music to evoke the mysterious underwater depths.
Read more here.