$10 Cover @ the Door / Start 4:30pm / Doors 4:15pm / Seated Show
Sputter Box is an interdisciplinary performance ensemble consisting of clarinet, voice, and percussion. They will present a concert with works by Alan Hankers, Bethany Younge, Victor Ekimovsky, Jordan Nobles, Chris Fisher-Lochhead, and Georges Aperghis. These pieces include sounds inspired by the physical act of writing, music based on visual art that transports the audience to a museum, explorations and manipulations of language, and a passionate theatrical work in seven parts.
There will be a 10-minute social starting at 4:30 with music beginning at 4:40.
Program:
Alan Hankers - INHALE//EXHALE
Bethany Younge - Doublespeak
Victor Ekimovsky - Verse for the End of the Century
Jordan Nobles - Museum Pieces
Chris Fisher-Lochhead - Tandem
Georges Aperghis - Sept Crimes de l’Amour
Sputter Box is a clarinet, voice, percussion performance art ensemble committed to performing interdisciplinary pieces involving sound, theater, movement, visual art, and improvisation. Inspired by Sept Crimes de l’Amour by Georges Aperghis, Sputter Box began commissioning performance art works for their unique instrumentation. The trio recently commissioned composers Alan Hankers, Chris Lucius Newman, and Joe Krycia. Sputter Box and the composers attended Avaloch Farm Music Institute this past summer to create these pieces through collaborative composition workshops alongside choreographer and performance artist, Neil Parsons. These works were presented in their fall premieres concert, Music for 8x11 Rug at Areté Gallery and Venue in Brooklyn. Sputter Box is currently working on pieces with composers Niloufar Nourbakhsh and Maxime Esformes, which will both be premiered on March 6, 2020 at Shapeshifter Lab in NYC. Sputter Box is also in the process of collaborating with the Millennium Composer Initiative (MCI) to premiere new works by members, Stephen Jackson, Ali Balighi, Conner Shaw, Dominic Matthews, Eddie Jonathan Garcia Borbon, and Isaac J. Mayhew in May 2020 at Scholes Street Studio in Brooklyn. In addition to performing, Sputter Box hosts a monthly interdisciplinary arts improvisation event open to all artists and ability levels called Sputter (Open) Box Improv.
Kathryn Vetter (clarinet), Alina Tamborini (soprano), and Peter White (percussion) met at Stony Brook University as graduate students in the music department. They are all active performers and teachers in NYC and Long Island.
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