Sō Percussion
Imaginary
City
February 12 & 13,
2010, 8pm
Commissioned by
DiverseWorks with Myrna Loy Center/ Helena, Flynn Center for the Performing
Arts and National Performance Network
Please
note tickets for the Friday performance are no longer available online. You may
only purchase tickets at the door for the Friday performance.
The New York Times
described Sō Percussion as “brilliant” and Billboard Magazine called them
“Astonishing.” Imaginary City is the newest work by Brooklyn’s Sō
Percussion. The virtuosos of So Percussion create mind-expanding chamber music that is at turns raucous and touching, barbarous and heartfelt. They have collaborated with filmmaker Jenise Treuting to capture the sounds and images of several cities – from Treuting’s home in Tokyo to the vast skies of Helena, MT; to the mountains of Denver, CO; through the heartland
of Cleveland, OH and the New England landscape of Burlington, VT and to the
urban jungle of Houston. to emphasize the uniqueness and commonalities between
the various cities. The performance will center around Sō Percussion’s
utilization of percussion instruments to communicate the extremes of emotion
and musical possibility. Imaginary City takes the experimentation one step further with music based partially on invented instruments, blurring the lines between sound and vision to create an artistic metropolis.
Imaginary City is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation
Fund Project co-commissioned by DiverseWorks, Myrna Loy Center/ Helena, Flynn Center for the
Performing Arts, and the NPN. Major contributors to the NPN are
the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, The Nathan Cummings
Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information on NPN: www.npnweb.org
www.sopercussion.com
Check out what others are saying about Imaginary City: NYTimes TimeOut NY
There are still a few tickets available for the Saturday, February 13 performance, but only at the door. The remaining seats will be given out in a "first-come/first-served" basis.
Adam Sliwinski and Eric Beach of So Percussion talked to Meghan Hendley of KUHF's The Front Row, click HERE to listen to the intereview.
Nancy Wozny interviewed So Percussion for Culturemap . Check it out!
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