7 and 9 PM this (Wednesday) evening at Spectrum: Elliott Sharp brings his ambitious SyndaKit work with an impressive lineup of virtuosi. 7pm: all-acoustic strings: John Pickford Richards & Christopher Otto of JACK Quartet; Fung Chern Hwei, Jeremy Harman , & Ronald Lawrence of Sirius Quartet; Judith Insell; Rachel Golub; James Ilgenfritz; Jeanann Dara; Kevin Ray; Reuben Radding; E# 9pm: all-electric guitars: Taylor Levine & James Moore of Dither Quartet; Anders Nilsson; James Ilgenfritz; Cristian Amigo; Lily Maase; Ron Anderson; Ben Tyree; Ava Mendoza; Marc Sloan; Zachary Pruitt; E# Composed in 1998 for the composers ensemble Elliott Sharp / Orchestra Carbon, SyndaKit utilizes a collection of biological metaphors to create an ever-shifting rhythmic and timbral matrix. Improvisatory and algorithmic but not improvisation, SyndaKit¹s essence is a transformative organism consisting of 144 composed cores on 12 pages divided among the 12 players with a set of simple rules for their use through processes of imitation, addition, recombination, transposition, and mutation. These actions are based on the activities of flocking birds, African drum choirs, cellular automata, hunting packs, and recombinant amino acids. SyndaKit has been performed extensively by Sharps Orchestra Carbon, by Zeitkratzer in Berlin, the Beijing New Music Ensemble, and other groups in the US, Japan, Italy, France, Spain, Austria, and Germany. A digital album of the Beijing New Music Ensemble recording of SyndaKit is available here: datacide.info/index.php/downloads/mp3/product/13-beijing-syndakit
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 02:49:45 +0000