Yarn/Wire Performs at TIME:SPANS Festival at the DiMenna Center on Wednesday, August 24

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YARN/WIRE PERFORMS AT TIME:SPANS FESTIVAL AT THE DIMENNA CENTER ON
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24

Yarn/Wire Gives World Premiere Performance of
New Work by Igor Santos, Along With Works by Misato Mochizuki & Enno Poppe/Wolfgang Heiniger

www.yarnwire.org

New York, NY (July 20, 2022) — Yarn/Wire gives a performance this summer at the 2022 TIME:SPANS Festival at Mary Flagler Cary Hall at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music on Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 7:30pm. The program includes the world premiere performance of a new work, living to fall, by Igor Santos, commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust, along with Le Monde des Ronds et des Carrés (2015) by Misato Mochizuki and Tonband (2008) by Enno Poppe/Wolfgang Heiniger.

Igor Santos’s living to fall is the third work in a series exploring the relationship between water and music, specifically focused on the sounds and images of rain. The piece navigates between sound, performers, and video, as well as back and forth in historical time while quoting and deconstructing rain-related musical works and engaging with the rituals and labor of live performance.

Tonband is a five-movement, 30-minute piece inspired by the German word “tonband,” meaning “tape” as in “tape recorder,” that utilizes electronic manipulation with two full-size MIDI keyboards to distort the sounds played by the percussionists. The percussionists generate all of the acoustic sounds in the piece, which are then passed through the keyboards as the pianists twist and alter them, all in the same instant.

Commissioned by Yarn/Wire for the 2015 Lincoln Center Festival, Le Monde des Ronds et des Carrés attempts, in the composer's words, “to install, in space and in music, geometric combinations arising from the shapes mentioned in the title – circles and squares – in exploring the relationships possible among the musicians, whether opposed to one another (square) or united (circle).”

The performance features Yarn/Wire members Laura Barger, piano, Russell Greenberg, percussion, Sae Hashimoto, percussion, Julia Den Boer, piano, and Sam Torres, electronics.

This concert comes on the heels of Yarn/Wire’s seventh annual International Institute, a two-week program that took place from June 11-24 during which participants from around the world, including both instrumentalists and composers, collaborated on new and existing works, and participated in performances, collaborations, exhibitions, talks, and workshops.

TIME:SPANS is dedicated primarily to the presentation of twenty-first century music. The festival is produced and presented by The Earle Brown Music Foundation (EBMF). Artistic Director for TIME:SPANS is Thomas Fichter. The name TIME:SPANS is taken from the title of an orchestra piece by the American composer Earle Brown. To find out more, please visit https://timespans.org 

Performance Details

TIME:SPANS
Yarn/Wire
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 7:30pm
Mary Flagler Cary Hall at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music | 450 W 37th Street | New York, NY
Tickets: $20
Ticket Link: https://timespans.org/concert/yarn-wire-4/ 

Please note: Proof of vaccination will be required to attend all TIME:SPANS concerts at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. All attendees must show CDC, WHO, Excelsior Pass, or similar official documentation of vaccination and booster status plus matching photo ID to a TIME:SPANS representative on entering the building.

Masks must be worn at all times inside the building. Masks must be worn properly covering the nose and mouth inside the building. TIME:SPANS can provide KN95s.

Program:
Misato Mochizuki - Le Monde des Ronds et des Carrés (2015)
Igor Santos - living to fall (2022) Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust
Enno Poppe/Wolfgang Heiniger - Tonband (2008/12)

Artists:
Laura Barger, piano
Russell Greenberg, percussion
Sae Hashimoto, percussion
Julia Den Boer, piano
Sam Torres, electronics

About Yarn/Wire
Yarn/Wire is a New York-based percussion and piano quartet (Sae Hashimoto and Russell Greenberg, percussion; Laura Barger and Julia Den Boer, pianos) dedicated to the promotion of creative, experimental new music. According to New York Classical Review, “Yarn/Wire may well be the most important new music ensemble on the classical scene today.” Founded in 2005, and admired for the energy and care it brings to today’s most adventurous compositions, the ensemble seeks to expand the representation of composers including but not limited to those who identify as women, LGBTQIA , Black, African, Indigenous, Latina(o)(x), Asian, or Arab so that it might begin to better reflect our communities and experience new creative potential.

Yarn/Wire’s expansive and international 2022-23 season includes festival performances at Tzlil Meudcan (Israel), Wien Modern (Austria), and Northwestern University New Music Conference (Illinois); returns to the TIME:SPANS (NYC), Festival 20/21 (Belgium), and Rainy Days (Luxembourg) Festivals; a Composer Portrait of Øyvind Torvund presented by Miller Theatre (NYC), which continues the ensemble’s long-running relationship with Torvund; plus appearances at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn and The Stone. Recent performance highlights include a residency at Pioneer Works featuring Katherine Young’s Biomes; premieres by Taylor Brook and Diana Rodriguez at the America’s Society in NYC; a video event and Composer Portrait of Thomas Meadowcroft at Miller Theatre; a concert of solo works at Indexical in Santa Cruz; and the continuation of the Yarn/Wire International Institute and Festival, a summer festival for composers and performers interested in exploring the collaborative side of contemporary music. Their ongoing commissioning series, Yarn/Wire/Currents, serves as an incubator for new experimental music in partnership with Brooklyn-based arts organization Blank Forms.

The ensemble additionally will be in residence at Northwestern University and Adelphi University, and will return for residency activities at Duke University in the 2022-23 season. In the previous season, Yarn/Wire was in residence at Cornell, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, Brandeis University, and University of Pennsylvania.

In Fall 2022, Yarn/Wire continues their multi-year residency at Girard College in Philadelphia developing a new multidisciplinary performance work, Be Holding, using poet Ross Gay’s book-length poem inspired by Philadelphia basketball champion Julius Erving (a.k.a. “Dr. J”) as its libretto. The commission will explore themes of Black genius and beauty in the face of racial violence and inequities, and the school will host Gay, composer Tyshawn Sorey, director Brooke O’Harra, and Yarn/Wire, with the world premiere scheduled for Spring 2023.

Yarn/Wire’s numerous commissions include works from composers such as Annea Lockwood, Enno Poppe, Michael Gordon, George Lewis, Ann Cleare, Catherine Lamb, Tyshawn Sorey, Peter Evans, Alex Mincek, Thomas Meadowcroft, Misato Mochizuki, Sam Pluta, Tyondai Braxton, Kate Soper, and Øyvind Torvund. The ensemble enjoys collaborations with genre-bending artists such as Tristan Perich, Ben Vida, Mark Fell, Sufjan Stevens, and Pete Swanson.

The quartet has performed at festivals all over the world including the Lincoln Center, Edinburgh International, Rainy Days (Luxembourg), Ultima (Norway), Transit (Belgium), Contemplus (Prague), and Wien Modern (Austria) Festivals, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall, Dublin SoundLab, Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), Brooklyn Academy of Music, and New York’s Miller Theatre.

Yarn/Wire has recorded for the WERGO, Kairos, Northern Spy, Distributed Objects, Black Truffle, Shelter Press, Populist, and Carrier record labels in addition to maintaining their own imprint. Recent and upcoming releases include Tonband, featuring works by Enno Poppe and Wolfgang Heiniger, on the WERGO label; Annea Lockwood’s Becoming Air and Into the Vanishing with trumpeter Nate Wooley on Black Truffle Records; Yarn/Wire Currents 7 featuring works by Victoria Cheah, Zeno Baldi, and Diana Rodriguez; Marcel Zaes’ Parallel Prints; the piano and percussion works of Andrew McIntosh; and many more. For more information, please visit www.yarnwire.org.

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