The piece recombines audio and video from different how-to videos towards a surreal and uncanny effect.Īlec Hall brings to life a series of wellness products, life coaching strategies and community building exercises in Getting to We.
Three brand new pieces by the composers of Qubit will be premiered by the musicians of soundinitiative.Īaron Einbond's Attempt at Exhausting a Place transforms the performance space through field recordings that Einbond made in Paris, recasting Georges Perec’s descriptions of the city in 1974 as both familiar and distant today.ĭavid Bird's work, How To, is a mashup of some of the most idiosyncratic how-to videos on the internet and YouTube in particular. In collaboration with Winnie Huang, The Vanity of Small Differences references body language in today’s modern world and is composed through the musical elements of phrasing, cooperative polyrhythmic movements and harmonization through expression, connotations and feelings conveyed.Īaron Einbond, Attempt at Exhausting a Place 6pm The Vanity of Small Differences - Jessie Marino
