03.29.2022 ENS New Music ft Methods Body

NEW MUSIC SERIES

featuring Methods Body Jacob Cooper & Van Stiefel, Directors

TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2022 WARE FAMILY RECITAL HALL SWOPE MUSIC BUILDING 8:15 PM

PROGRAM & ARTIST PROFILE Tonight's program will include selections from both suites on Methods Body's self-titled debut record (New Amsterdam Records/Beacon Sound 2020), Quiet and Claimed Events, as well as selections from new suites, Attention and Four, Three, Two. METHODS BODY (Portland, OR, USA) is a performance duo that creates original sound art and music using custom tunings systems, polyrhythms, and the cadences of language. Longtime collaborators Luke Wyland (keys, electronics) and John Niekrasz (drums, percussion) use bespoke live-sampling technologies to create compositions that inhabit waves of subliminal melody and deep, uncanny grooves.

Methods Body builds on the non-traditional tunings of Terry Riley, the experimental energy of Éliane Radigue and Silver Apples, and the refracted electronics of Aphex Twin to create a sonic language completely their own. Together, Wyland and Niekrasz have been pushing the bounds of rhythm and melody for more than a dozen years. Their duos, AU and Why I Must Be Careful, were lauded as groundbreaking and breathtaking.

Both Niekrasz and Wyland are idiosyncratic innovators on their instruments and use performance as an arena for legitimate connection and energetic exchange. They're currently working on the follow-up to their critically acclaimed self-titled debut record (New Amsterdam Records/Beacon Sound 2020), forthcoming in 2022. https://www.methodsbody.com

https://methodsbody.bandcamp.com

Special thanks to Jacob Cooper, West Chester University, New Amsterdam Records and Beacon Sound.

Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices.

UPCOMING WELLS SCHOOL OF MUSIC EVENTS For full event details visit wcupa.edu/music or call (610) 436-2739 Wednesday, March 30, 2022, 8:15 PM Flute Ensemble Concert Kimberly Reighley, director Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center

Thursday, March 31, 2022, 12:00 PM Madeleine Wing Adler Concert Series: String Division Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Grand Foyer Performing Arts Center

Friday, April 1, 2022, 8:00 PM *Sounds of the Caribbean! Featuring WCU Steel Band & Latin Jazz Ensembles Marc Jacoby, director Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center 226 N. High Street, West Chester, PA

Monday, April 4, 2022, 8:00 PM WCU Percussion Faculty Recital: Ralph Sorrentino, David Nelson, Brent Behrenshausen Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center

Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 8:15 PM Trumpet Ensemble Concert Robert Skoniczin, director Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center

Thursday, April 7, 2022, 12:00 PM Madeleine Wing Adler Concert Series: S. Powell Middleton Freshman Instrumental Scholarship Competition Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Grand Foyer Performing Arts Center

Friday, April 8, 2022, 7:30 PM *WCU Opera Theatre Production: Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, Jr. Nicholas Provenzale, director Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall Philips Memorial Building

Saturday, April 9, 2022, 7:30 PM *WCU Opera Theatre Production: Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, Jr. Nicholas Provenzale, director Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall philips Memorial Building

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For further information, please call (610) 436-2868 or visit wcufoundation.org A majority of performances are available to watch via live stream at Facebook.com/WellsSchoolofMusic and Vimeo.com/WSOM Mr. Robert Rust, Audio & Visual Technician Steinway & Sons Piano Technical, Tuning and Concert Preparations by Gerald P. Cousins, RPT If you do not intend to save your program, please recycle it in the baskets at the exit doors.

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