Ne(x)tworks May 28

Friday, May 28 at 8:30PM

At Issue Project Room 619 East 6th (Between Avenues B and C)

$10

 

NE(X)TWORKS
performing Woman in the Dunes

Kenji Bunch - viola, Cornelius Dufallo - violin, Tim Kiah - bass, Rubin Kodheli - cello, Joan La Barbara - voice, Christopher McIntyre - trombone, Brian McWhorter - trumpet, Jesse Mills - violin

The event's concert will feature excerpts of Kenji Bunch's new Opera, Woman in the Dunes as well as music by other members of the ensemble. 

Woman in the Dunes is an experimental one-act opera based on Kobo Abe's classic existentialist parable of the same name. Inspired by the striking contradictions of Abe's abstract yet vivid imagery and text that is at turns comic, bleak, romantic, tragic, and hopeful, the work is a blend of both traditional and avant-garde vocal techniques, freely improvisational and strictly minimalist textures, an economy of movement and staging and yet a n extremity of emotional _expression_.

With a libretto by writer/singer/actor Willia m Youmans and performances by groundbreaking vocalist Joan LaBarbara and innovative music group Ne(x)tworks, this work is a collaborative event that will suggest a new definition for the term opera while drawing on the rich tradition of the genre as well as each performer's unique musical background.

 

Ne(x)tworks is a boundary-breaking group of performing composers generating totally original avant-garde music. Varying in size from two to eleven players, Ne(x)tworks specializes in open form music, with almost every piece involving improvisation.

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