Exploring The Hidden Music: 6.8.18 at Boston University Dance Theater

Boston-based architect and jazz musician Christopher Janney, along with musicians Stan Strickland, Josh Rosen, Jerry Leake, Alicia Ortiz, Nedelka F. Prescod, and dancer Jamie Brege.

Christopher Janney’s June concert will continue his explorations in “Physical Music” with fellow performers. Among the works to be presented will be a new version of his “Heartbeat” piece with choreographer/dancer Jamie Brege and “Bubble Toy” for tabla and snare with brushes, as well as some of his latest sculptures - “Sound is an Invisible Color.”

Christopher Janney has been combining architecture and music for more than thirty years. On the one hand, making architecture more like music, his installations include his MIT graduate thesis “Soundstair- An Urban Musical Instrument” at the Boston Museum of Science and “Rainbow Cove” in Logan Airport. On the other hand, making music more like architecture, he has created a number of performances including “Heartbeat: MB” with Mikhail Baryshnikov and “Visual Music” with Sheila E. Janney’s June performance will be an exploration in physical music....

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Boston-based architect and jazz musician Christopher Janney, along with musicians Stan Strickland, Josh Rosen, Jerry Leake, Alicia Ortiz, Nedelka F. Prescod, and dancer Jamie Brege.

Christopher Janney’s June concert will continue his explorations in “Physical Music” with fellow performers. Among the works to be presented will be a new version of his “Heartbeat” piece with choreographer/dancer Jamie Brege and “Bubble Toy” for tabla and snare with brushes, as well as some of his latest sculptures - “Sound is an Invisible Color.”

Christopher Janney has been combining architecture and music for more than thirty years. On the one hand, making architecture more like music, his installations include his MIT graduate thesis “Soundstair- An Urban Musical Instrument” at the Boston Museum of Science and “Rainbow Cove” in Logan Airport. On the other hand, making music more like architecture, he has created a number of performances including “Heartbeat: MB” with Mikhail Baryshnikov and “Visual Music” with Sheila E. Janney’s June performance will be an exploration in physical music.

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