Bowerbird is pleased to present The World According to Sound, an immersive sonic experience by Sam Harnett and Chris Hoff. During the performance, the audience sits blindfolded at the center of a ring of loudspeakers. Listeners will be transported inside another person's head, and back in time a hundred years to the streets of Berlin.…
ABOUT THE EVENT Bowerbird is pleased to present the next installment of the BEGIN ANYWHERE series, a performer-driven, salon-style concert series curated and performed by the musicians of the Arcana New Music Ensemble. THE PROGRAM Oliver Messiaen: Le traquet stapazin (no. 4 of Catalogue d'oiseaux) -- Michael Tan, piano Franco Donatoni: Fili -- Emma Resmini,…
NODAL EXCITEMENT for prepared Double Bass with Piano Wire REPERTOIRE for prepared Double Bass with Piano Wire, Laptop MAGNETOM for laptop THE EVENT Bowerbird is pleased to present a rare performance by composer-performer Arnold Dreyblatt (b. New York City, 1953). Dreyblatt studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier and has been…
ABOUT THE EVENT The Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) created some of the most severe, brutalist classical music of the 20th century. Favoring stark textures and unusual combinations of instruments-- she never formally studied orchestration-- her music unfolds in ruthlessly throbbing rhythms, angular melodic shards, and resonant caverns of silence. Though she mostly avoided programmatic…
ABOUT THE EVENT Bowerbird is pleased to present the first event of the newly rebooted BEGIN ANYWHERE series, a performer-driven, salon-style concert series curated and performed by the musicians of the Arcana New Music Ensemble. With appropriate irony for our current political climate, the concert will feature a variety of works by American composers and…
BOWERBALL A 10th anniversary fundraiser and open house featuring A NIGHT OF BINGO hosted by Allen Crawford musical performances by Ashley Tini, Laura Baird, Bhob Rainey with great prizes, raffles, food and drink, and tunes from DJ Sebastian Petsu ABOUT THE EVENT It's time to dust off the ball cage and get out the daubers,…