Percussion and keyboard quartet Yarn/Wire perform with an assemblage of acoustic, modified, electronic, and handmade instruments, presenting the result of close collaborations with an international array of experimental composers: Ann Cleare, Chiyoko Szlavnics, and Øyvind Torvund.
Acclaimed piano and percussion quartet Yarn/Wire premiere Writing Against Time, a commissioned work for the ensemble by Christopher Trapani, as part of Yarn/Wire/Currents.
Yarn/Wire/Currents continues with premieres of newly commissioned works for piano/percussion quartet Yarn/Wire by Christopher Trapani and Pete Swanson. Trapani explores the concept of stopping time, Swanson, in his second collaboration with the ensemble, forays into the intersection of electronic and acoustic sound.
Berlin-based Danish sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard presents Faust and other works by the pioneering electronic musician Else Marie Pade (not present). Acclaimed piano/percussion quartet Yarn/WIre perform works by composers Øyvind Torvund, Simon Steen-Andersen and Anna Thorvaldsdottir/Sigurdur Gudjonsson.
Yarn/Wire/Currents, a new and ongoing collaboration of ISSUE and the acclaimed piano and percussion quartet Yarn/Wire, opens with the premiere of newly commissioned works for the ensemble by Berlin-based composer Marianthi Papalexandri Alexandri.
Yarn/Wire/Currents, a new and ongoing collaboration of ISSUE and the acclaimed piano and percussion quartet Yarn/Wire, opens with the premiere of a newly commissioned work for the ensemble by Berlin-based composer Thomas Meadowcroft.
Yarn/Wire/Currents, a new collaboration of ISSUE and the acclaimed piano and percussion quartet Yarn/Wire, is initiated with the premiere of newly commissioned works for the ensemble by Berlin-based composers Marianthi Papalexandri Alexandri and Thomas Meadowcroft.
ISSUE presents work from 3 former Artists-In-Residence: Yarn/Wire, Tristan Perich, and Ashley Paul. Yarn/Wire perform Perich’s “Chalk”– a hypnotic chamber piece for pianos, xylophones, and 1-bit electronics. Ashley Paul’s song-based solo work is a psychologically intense combination of melody and raw textures.
Yarn/Wire plays premieres two new pieces for percussion and piano quartet by two of NYC's most exciting musicians, composer/multi-instrumentalist Tyondai Braxton and trumpeter/composer Peter Evans. Evans gives solo performance of his signature trumpet improvisations, and Tyondai Braxton + LAAND play a duo set.
In anticipation of their final residency performance, Yarn/Wire's Russell Greenberg poses questions to composers Andrew McIntosh, Chris Burns, and Elizabeth Adams. The ensemble premieres new works by each composer in their September 29th, 2012 performance.
The New York Times' Steve Smith on Yarn/Wire's debut residency performance in March, 2012.