Bard Percussion: Sō Laboratories
Friday, November 17th, 7:00PM
20 Grand Avenue #205
Brooklyn, NY 11205
$15 at the door suggested donation
Our experimental and personal music series, Sō Laboratories (formerly known as Brooklyn Bound!) continues this month with a performance by the brilliant Bard Percussionists. They will feature works by Victor Caccese, Dániel Matei, Steven Snowden, Juri Seo, and Shodekeh Talifero.
vv – Suri Jeo 12’
Bell Patterns – Victor Caccesse 5’
Vodalities – Shodekeh Talifero 15’
A Man With a Gun Lives Here – Steven Snowden 11’
There are two ways to escape suffering it…the second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension. – Daniel Matei 11’
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Bard Percussion
https://www.facebook.com/bardpercussion
Eric Cha-Beach and Jason Treuting, co-directors
Since 2011, members of Sō Percussion have conducted an intensive and elite undergraduate double-degree program in percussion performance at the Bard College Conservatory of Music. Currently, Eric Cha-Beach and Jason Treuting are directors of the program. Our course of study places emphasis on chamber music as a tool for creating thoughtful, well-rounded musicians.
Students will have opportunities to explore music outside of the western tradition, most notably Gamelan, and to work closely with the John Cage Trust. All of this exists within the framework of a 5-year double-degree program at one of the finest liberal arts institutions in the world, where the student chooses another discipline to pair a Bachelor of Arts with the Bachelor of Music degree.
Performers:
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Victor Caccese
https://www.victorcaccese.com/
Victor Caccese is a founding member of the Brooklyn-based percussion quartet, Sandbox Percussion and a GRAMMY® nominated percussionist. As a member of Sandbox, Victor has performed over 200 concerts worldwide and taught at institutions such as University of Missouri – Kansas City, The New School College of the Performing Arts, The Peabody Conservatory, The Curtis Institute, Yale School of Music, Michigan State University, Vanderbilt University, University of Kansas, and University of Massachusetts Amherst. Victor has collaborated with composers such as Amy Beth Kirsten, Andy Akiho, David Crowell, James Wood, John Luther Adams, and Thomas Kotcheff. This past summer Victor taught and performed at the eighth annual Sandbox Percussion Seminar, a chamber music festival accepting students from around the world to study and perform some of today’s leading contemporary percussion pieces.
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Dániel Matei
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Steven Snowden
https://stevensnowden.com/
The music of Steven Snowden has been described as “A visceral evocation of raw communal memories” (GoldenPlec, Dublin), “Beguiling… combining force with clarity” (San Francisco Classical Voice), “Wonderfully dynamic” (Interlude Hong Kong), “Marvelously evocative”, (Cleveland Plain Dealer), and “The most wildly intriguing sight and sound I have experienced at a concert” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer). Writing music for dance, theater, multi-media installations, and the concert stage, his work often focuses on underground American history and how past events relate to modern society. While his musical influences are deeply rooted in bluegrass, folk, and rock, he utilizes non-traditional techniques and processes to compose works that don’t squarely align with any single genre or style.
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Juri Seo
https://www.juriseomusic.com/
Juri Seo* (b. 1981.12.31) is a Korean-American composer and pianist based in Princeton, New Jersey. She seeks to write music that encompasses extreme contrast through compositions that are unified and fluid, yet complex. She merges many of the fascinating aspects of music from the past century—in particular its expanded timbral palette and unorthodox approach to structure—with a deep love of functional tonality, counterpoint, and classical form. With its fast-changing tempi and dynamics, her music explores the serious and the humorous, the lyrical and the violent, the tranquil and the obsessive. She hopes to create music that loves, that makes a positive change in the world—however small—through the people who are willing to listen.
*Note on pronunciation: In North America, my name is pronounced [Jew-ri Suh].
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Shodekeh Talifero
With over 30 years of experience, Dominic “Shodekeh” Talifero continues to make musical strides as a groundbreaking beatboxer, vocal percussionist and breath artist who pushes the boundaries of the human voice within and outside the context of Hip Hop music and culture. He currently serves as a musical accompanist and composer in residence for Towson University’s Department of Dance and is the founding director of Embody, A Festival Series of the Vocal Arts, which strives for artistic and cultural convergence through a variety of vocal traditions from the worlds from opera and throat singing to the many forms of vocal percussion.
