Video of the digital premiere of Bethany Younge’s Feast of Selves, premiered on April 20th, 2021 with the Experimental Sound Studio’s Quarantine Concerts.
Link available May 27th
Samuel Rowe, guitar
Daniel Walden, harpsichord
Kathryn Schulmeister, double bass
Ryan Packard, percussion
Video by Bethany Younge
The Columbia Composers Digital Premieres series premieres two of three works recorded in distance by Fonema Consort during our 2020 residency.
Jessie Cox | The Weaving of Worlds
Fjóla Evans | Self-Care
and featuring a sound installation by Dani Dobkin, White Roses
The video premiere of Sterling Gray’s When Shirley Speaks, premiered on April 29th, 2021 by the Experimental Sound Studio’s Quarantine Concerts.
Watch here
Nina Dante, vocalist
David Cubek, piano
Ryan Packard, percussion
Tape created by Sterling Gray
Video by Pablo Chin
Video premiere of Luis Fernando Amaya’s studies for Bestiarios: seis, premiered on April 29th, 2021 by the Experimental Sound Studio’s Quarantine Concerts.
Nina Dante, vocalist
Dalia Chin, flute
Emily Beisel, clarinet
Ryan Packard, percussion
The Experimental Sound Studio presents Fonema Consort and the virtual premiere of three works written for the ensemble by composers Luis Fernando Amaya, Sterling Gray, and Bethany Younge.
Program
Studies for Bestiarios Seis – Luis Fernando Amaya
When Shirley Speaks – Sterling Gray
New Work – Bethany Younge
The consort is thrilled to work for the first time with Baltimore-based composer Sterling Gray. Gray’s work is spacious, starry, slow-moving, and constellationaly harmonic. It encourages stillness; it reflects. Fonema will premiere a new work by Gray in the spring with the Experimental Sound Studio.
This project will stream on our Digital Mural page and our YouTube channel on February 11 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT.
Leading to Fonema’s closing concert of the 2020-2021 season, our close collaborator and friend composer Bethany Younge shares her thoughts on the inspiring forces behind her work, and her new piece for Fonema. Words from Nina Dante on Younge’s music: “The music of Bethany Younge is raw. It deals with the body, the unique vocal expression and physicality of Younge herself, questions of identity when as much conditioning as possible is stripped away, and the bizarre theater that is born of all this. It is music that becomes desperately personal to the performer, as Younge composes with the essence of specific humans in mind. The brilliance of it all is its uroboric quality: in the end, Younge’s creations always circle back to be a representation of themselves.” Join us on the 29th for the premiere with the ESS Quarantine Concerts!
Leading to Fonema's closing concert of the 2020-21 season, Mexican composer Luis Fernando Amaya shared his thoughts on his recent work, music inspiration, and his new piece for Fonema Consort to be premiered on 04.29 at the Experimental Sound Studio's The Quarantine Concerts in Chicago (live streaming).
The Americas Society of New York City virtually presents Fonema Consort in the world premiere of Pablo Chin’s virtual opera Green Alter Egos, as well as presenting video performances of Marisol Jimenez’ Caro cibus and Mauricio Pauly’s Dust Unsettled from our archives.
Green Alter Egos: a virtual opera about insects' vulnerabilities is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC. LMCC serves, connects, and makes space for artists and community.
https://www.as-coa.org/events/fonema-consort-green-alter-egos
Along with rotating members of the ensemble, Cubek will lead three interviews with composers, followed by archived performances of their work conducted by Cubek throughout different seasons.
This interview with British composer Richard Barrett, featuring his work Coïgitum, will stream on our Digital Mural page and our YouTube channel on February 25 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT.
This project will stream on our Digital Mural page and our YouTube channel on February 18 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT.
In a series of recorded excerpts, Fonema explores Anthony Braxton’s music, focusing on “Composition No. 255”. This piece is part of Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music and therefore allows us to come together, break away, and follow our intuition as members of a collaborating body. In live performance the score’s monophonic notated line functions as a communal home base and a loose road map so that sections can be entered and exited spontaneously by the performing group. In this spirit, each of our recordings will capture a piece of this hour-long work and will highlight different potentials and possibilities underlying the score. We are grateful to the Tri-Centric Foundation for their support and assistance with this project!
This project will stream on our Digital Mural page and our YouTube channel on January 7 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT.
Along with rotating members of the ensemble, Cubek will lead three interviews with composers, followed by archived performances of their work conducted by Cubek throughout different seasons.
An interview with indigenous Ecuadorian composer Mesias Maiguashca featuring his work 8 ejercicios para oír lo inaudible / 8 exercises to hear the unhearable will stream on our Digital Mural page and our Youtube channel on January 14 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT.
This collaboration with Costa Rican composer Julio Zúñiga will explore musically and sonically the mountains we have found ourselves transplanted to during the Covid-19 months, just outside of Mora in Costa Rica, Settignano in Italy, and Lugano in Switzerland. Such exploration will be built from field recordings interspersed with image/text roughly modeled after W.G. Sebald.
This project will stream on our Digital Mural page and our YouTube channel on January 21 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT.
In a three-part series, composer-performer Nina Dante premieres new works that connect with the animate landscape that she is a part of in the Pacific Northwest. Her current artistic practice is dedicated to engaging in deeper communication with, exchange with, and knowing of her home wilderness.
This project will stream on our Digital Mural page and our YouTube channel on December 31 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT.
The Argentine/Uruguayan composer Graciela Paraskevaídis wrote one work for solo guitar, El nervio de Arnold (1992). Written while Paraskevaídis was struggling with chronic nerve pain, El nervio de Arnold records the experience of being stuck inside one's own body: moments of inescapable discomfort, moments of fluid lucidity, interspersed with expectant silence. There's something about this enigmatic score that resonates with our collective moment of being stuck indoors, our days immersed in both quietude and anxiety. This recording is the first of three in a series Rowe is calling Nervio, which recovers Paraskevaídis' piece, rarely performed in North America, and also presents some semi-improvised responses to it, recorded alone, inside; and which continues Fonema’s long-term exploration of Paraskevaídis’ work, which began last year.
Please consider supporting Fonema Consort's work this season through our fiscal sponsor ESS! https://www.fonemaconsort.com/support
This project will stream on our Digital Mural page and our YouTube channel on December 24 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT.
Along with rotating members of the ensemble, Cubek will lead three interviews with composers, followed by archived performances of their work conducted by Cubek throughout different seasons.
An interview with Mexican composer Marisol Jimenez, featuring her ensemble work Caro cibus, will stream on our Digital Mural page and our Youtube channel on December 17 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT.
In his first project for the Digital Mural, artistic director and composer Pablo Chin presents sketches for Green Alter Egos, a virtual opera combining film, meditational electroacoustic music and poetry by Mar Alzamora-Rivera. It portrays anthropomorphized insects from the natural scenery of New York, recorded during silent quarantined times. It blends fiction with reality and through the voices of Fonema members will express the vulnerability of its little green characters.
This project will stream on our Digital Mural page and our YouTube channel on December 10 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT.
In a series of recorded excerpts, Fonema explores Anthony Braxton’s music, focusing on “Composition No. 255”. This piece is part of Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music and therefore allows us to come together, break away, and follow our intuition as members of a collaborating body. In live performance the score’s monophonic notated line functions as a communal home base and a loose road map so that sections can be entered and exited spontaneously by the performing group. In this spirit, each of our recordings will capture a piece of this hour-long work and will highlight different potentials and possibilities underlying the score. We are grateful to the Tri-Centric Foundation for their support and assistance with this project!
This project will stream on our Digital Mural page and our YouTube channel on December 3 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT.
The Argentine/Uruguayan composer Graciela Paraskevaídis wrote one work for solo guitar, El nervio de Arnold (1992). Written while Paraskevaídis was struggling with chronic nerve pain, El nervio de Arnold records the experience of being stuck inside one's own body: moments of inescapable discomfort, moments of fluid lucidity, interspersed with expectant silence. There's something about this enigmatic score that resonates with our collective moment of being stuck indoors, our days immersed in both quietude and anxiety. This recording is the first of three in a series Rowe is calling Nervio, which recovers Paraskevaídis' piece, rarely performed in North America, and also presents some semi-improvised responses to it, recorded alone, inside; and which continues Fonema’s long-term exploration of Paraskevaídis’ work, which began last year.
Please consider supporting Fonema Consort's work this season through our fiscal sponsor ESS! https://www.fonemaconsort.com/support
This project will stream on our Digital Mural page and our YouTube channel on November 19 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT.
In a three-part series, composer-performer Nina Dante premieres new works that connect with the animate landscape that she is a part of in the Pacific Northwest. Her current artistic practice is dedicated to engaging in deeper communication with, exchange with, and knowing of her home wilderness.
This project will stream on our Digital Mural page and our YouTube channel on November 5 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT.
The Argentine/Uruguayan composer Graciela Paraskevaídis wrote one work for solo guitar, El nervio de Arnold (1992). Written while Paraskevaídis was struggling with chronic nerve pain, El nervio de Arnold records the experience of being stuck inside one's own body: moments of inescapable discomfort, moments of fluid lucidity, interspersed with expectant silence. There's something about this enigmatic score that resonates with our collective moment of being stuck indoors, our days immersed in both quietude and anxiety. This recording is the first of three in a series Rowe is calling Nervio, which recovers Paraskevaídis' piece, rarely performed in North America, and also presents some semi-improvised responses to it, recorded alone, inside; and which continues Fonema’s long-term exploration of Paraskevaídis’ work, which began last year.
Please consider supporting Fonema Consort's work this season through our fiscal sponsor ESS! https://www.fonemaconsort.com/support
This project will stream on our Digital Mural page and our YouTube channel on October 29 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT.
Mined Temporality is a musical collaboration of composer/guitarist Dylan DelGiudice and bassist Kathryn Schulmeister. With a mutual interest in improvisational experimentation, this piece creates an environment for interactive performing at a distance with an original electronic track and score by DelGiudice.
This project will stream on our Digital Mural page and our YouTube channel on October 22 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT.
In a series of recorded excerpts, Fonema explores Anthony Braxton’s music, focusing on “Composition No. 255”. This piece is part of Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music and therefore allows us to come together, break away, and follow our intuition as members of a collaborating body. In live performance the score’s monophonic notated line functions as a communal home base and a loose road map so that sections can be entered and exited spontaneously by the performing group. In this spirit, each of our recordings will capture a piece of this hour-long work and will highlight different potentials and possibilities underlying the score. We are grateful to the Tri-Centric Foundation for their support and assistance with this project!
This project will stream on our Digital Mural page and our Youtube channel on October 15th at 8pm ET / 7pm CT.
