Please join us for a program of new music performances, including multi-media, feedback loops, above and below the piano strings(!), along with voice and traditional instruments.
Puget Sounds-Contemporary Music-New Performances presents a program of music by composers in the area with a wide stylistic range. Daniel Carr will feature a number of recent pieces for flute guitar, and piano. At the other end of the spectrum will be music by William Dougherty, who will create amplified feedback loops from guitar picks on the piano strings in “fragments I have shored against my ruins,” inspired by T.S. Elliot’s “The Waste Land.” Carson Farley features new works with subconscious multi-media, projected from the music into simultaneous visuals.
In addition to these premieres will be vocal music by Greg Youtz, who has written in many different genres, including opera, one of which was recently produced at the Rialto Theater in Tacoma. Clement Reid’s song cycle is a setting of works by Phyllis Wheatley, the first African American poet in North America to be published in the 18th Century. In addition Keith Eisenbrey will present a contemplative piano work.