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Prism Quartet: Breath Beneath at Drexel University Urbn Center Annex, Black Box Theater
Courtesy of Matthew Levy | Posted on August 18, 2017
Where
Drexel University Urbn Center Annex, Black Box Theater
3401 Filbert Street
Philadelphia, PA
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When
Thu, September 14, 2017
7:00 pm
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Musicians
PRISM Quartet
band / ensemble / orchestraAbout
Hailed by Chamber Music magazine for “pioneering achievements of the highest order,” the PRISM Quartet partners with Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design in Philadelphia to co-present Breath Beneath, a pilot project that explores the intersection of music, interactive technology, and durational visual art. The program is presented under the umbrella of the Fringe Festival.
Breath Beneath is the first phase—and first public presentation—of a multi-year “Discovery” initiative, supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Reaching across disciplines, the PRISM Quartet (saxophones) joins forces with two intrepid creative teams to investigate how saxophonists’ movements and sounds can be used to generate images—and how those images shape musical interpretation....