From Troy, NY‘s EMPAC:
Verdensteatret: And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
Thursday February 17, 8:00 PM | Studio 1 – Goodman
Friday February 18, 8:00 PM | Studio 1 – Goodman
In a complex landscape of moving image, layered sound, and kinetic sculpture, this hybrid performance employs animation techniques from micro puppetry to shadow play to create an ever-changing composition driven by an abiding sense of wonder.
Les Percussions de Strasbourg: Gérard Grisey: Le Noir de l’Étoile
Saturday February 26, 8:00 PM | Concert Hall
An evening length percussion piece by French composer Gérard Grisey, using a feed of distant pulsars, is performed around the audience with more than 100 instruments by the six musicians of the world – renowned ensemble Les Percussions de Strasbourg.
Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians + Double Sextet performed by Signal
Saturday March 12, 8:00 PM | Concert Hall
Steve Reich’s mesmerizing minimalist masterpiece, Music for 18 Musicians, transformed classical music forever, and has also made waves in electronica and pop music. This piece is performed alongside Reich’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Double Sextet, by New York’s Signal, under Brad Lubman.
Jaroslaw Kapuscinski: Catch the Tiger!
Saturday April 16, 8:30 PM | multiple venues
Intermedia composer and virtuoso pianist Jaroslaw Kapuscinski performs fanciful, lighthearted media compositions, created through witty interactions on a computerized grand piano that also controls video and graphics projections.
Francisco Lopez: Hyper-Rainforest
Thursday April 28, 8:00 PM | Concert Hall
Friday April 29, 8:00 PM | Concert Hall
Saturday April 30, 8:00 PM | Concert Hall
Using his archive of rainforest sounds from around the world, Francisco Lopez will perform this EMPAC-commissioned world premiere over several loudspeakers surrounding the audience in the EMPAC Concert Hall.
- More on EMPAC (therestisnoise.com)
