Mata Festival 2024 Night 3: Earthing at Fotografiska

April Dawn Guthrie – Toy Toy Toypurina [New York Premiere]
Henryk Golden – Sprechen Sie Musik? [New York Premiere]
Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh – Permeating Through the Pores of Shifting Planes [New York Premiere]
Marco Adrián Ramos – Altar with pines and bread from Acámbaro (Music with my grandma)
Qiujiang Levi Lu – Before It Gets Too Late [New York Premiere]
Bobby Ge – Doppelgänger Streets [New York Premiere]
Jane Sheldon’s – I am a tree, I am a mouth [World Premiere]

MATA Mavens
Azalea Twining, voice
Titlayo Ayangade, cello...

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April Dawn Guthrie – Toy Toy Toypurina [New York Premiere]
Henryk Golden – Sprechen Sie Musik? [New York Premiere]
Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh – Permeating Through the Pores of Shifting Planes [New York Premiere]
Marco Adrián Ramos – Altar with pines and bread from Acámbaro (Music with my grandma)
Qiujiang Levi Lu – Before It Gets Too Late [New York Premiere]
Bobby Ge – Doppelgänger Streets [New York Premiere]
Jane Sheldon’s – I am a tree, I am a mouth [World Premiere]

MATA Mavens
Azalea Twining, voice
Titlayo Ayangade, cello
Dennis Sulliva, percussion
Laura Cocks, flute
Jennifer Choi, violin
Jane Sheldon, voice
Henryk Golden, speaker

Earthing features the Bergamot String Quartet and selected composers performing their own works. Ideas focus on communication through music and how technology impacts the cause and effect of that result. Program highlights

April Dawn Guthrie ToyToyToypurina for Flute, Cello, Percussion commissioned by DogStar Orchestra Festival, “we help to raise Toypurina from the grave”; Marco Adrián Ramos Altar with pines and bread from Acámbaro (Music with my grandma) for Alto flute, Percussion and Electronics; Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh Permeating Through the Pores of Shifting Planes for Percussion and Electronics; Qiujiang Levi Lu Before It Gets Too Late Solo Percussion and Laptop; Bobby Ge Doppelgänger Streets for Violin and Electronics”; Henryk Golden Sprechen Sie Musik? For Reader and Mezzo Soprano; and Jane Sheldon’s I am a tree, I am a mouth for Two Voices and Gong Drone (world premiere).

The 26th annual MATA Festival will be presented over four nights at Fotografiska New York, reflecting a newly forged relationship between the MATA Festival and the famed Contemporary Museum of Photography, Art and Culture in Gramercy. The theme of this year’s festival, conceived in alignment with the museum’s spring exhibition, is “INTEGRATION: Music/Technology + Human/Nature” – an exploration of human connection against the backdrop of ever-advancing technology that is changing how we relate to one another and make music.

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