Date Sept. 13, 14 at 7:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $28 Member/$35 General; see thirdangle.org for other discounts Run Time 60 min Capacity 500
THIRD ANGLE NEW MUSIC/ SARAH HENNIES 2018
Co-presented with Third Angle New Music US West Coast Premiere
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THIRD ANGLE NEW MUSIC/ SARAH HENNIES 2018
THIRD ANGLE NEW MUSIC/ SARAH HENNIES 2018
THIRD ANGLE NEW MUSIC/ SARAH HENNIES 2018
THIRD ANGLE NEW MUSIC/ SARAH HENNIES 2018
Third Angle New Music/Sarah Hennies (Portland, Oregon/Ithaca, New York)
...imaginative, resourceful, witty, defiant...haven't been so deeply moved by a new piece in ages. — National Sawdust Contralto is a work for video, strings, and percussion featuring a cast of transgender women who speak, sing, and perform vocal exercises, accompanied by a dense and varied musical score that includes conventional and "non-musical" approaches to sound-making. It is not widely known that trans women's voices are unaffected by higher levels of estrogen. Being a woman with a "male voice" can create a variety of difficult situations for trans women, including prolonged and intensified dysphoria, plus a higher risk of harassment and violence. "Contralto"—defined in musical terms as "the lowest female singing voice"—uses the sound of trans women's voices to explore transfeminine identity from the inside, and examines the intimate, peculiar relationship between gender and sound.
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Third Angle New Music performs and records the masterworks of the twenty-first century while commissioning new works from regional and nationally recognized composers. Focusing on creating a soundtrack for our time, Third Angle has presented more than 125 programs of contemporary music, commissioned more than 66 new works, and released 13 recordings to critical acclaim. Sarah Hennies is a composer and percussionist based in Ithaca, NY. Her work utilizes an often grueling, endurance-based performance practice in a subversive examination of psychoacoustics, queer identity, and performance art. She has presented her work in a variety of contexts including Café Oto (London), cave12 (Geneva), Ende Tymes (NYC), Festival Cable (Nantes), the Johns Hopkins Digital Media Center, O’ Art Space (Milan), and Second Edition (Stockholm). Hennies is currently a member of improvised music group Meridian with Greg Stuart and Tim Feeney, a duo with sound/performance artist Jason Zeh, and the Queer Percussion Research Group with Jerry Pergolesi, Bill Solomon, and Jennifer Torrence. Hennies founded the record label Weighter Recordings, releasing works by artists working at the fringes of contemporary music. This concert is sponsored by Altabira City Tavern with additional generous support from George
040 Rowbottom & Marilyn Crilley.
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