Set One
Thea Farhadian; laptop
Thea Farhadian will present laptop explorations in cultural memory, weaving together concepts of the old and the new, past and present, traditional and electronic. The work blends influences from the tonality and omamentation of Arabic classical and Armenian liturgical music with processed, and sampled sounds, commenting on the incompleteness of memory and the places in-between where things are less remembered, and memory is more obscured.
Set Two
Iron Dog
w/
Sarah Bernstein; violin
Stuart Popejoy; electric bass
Iron Dog is about forces in complement. Violin and electric bass veer from psychic improv to post-rock monophonies, through heavily processed drones and rhythms, acoustic purity and harmonic depth. A language of sound develops in a dream-space of glistening, numbing, chemically-distorted collision. Iron Dog is a two-year-old project begun as a series of acoustic duo improvisations that has since grown to include through-compose pieces and larger ensemble groupings, always unfolding from the essential sonic pairing of electric bass and violin.