Architectures of Sound

Sunday, March 21, 2010 | 7pm

Every musical performance is accompanied by an unacknowledged, and yet not-so-silent partner. The built environment reflects, refracts, and reshapes sound, and performer and audience act and listen under the influence of its formal language.

The latest instantiation of a performances series commissioned in 2009 by New York’s MATA Foundation, Architectures of Sound assembles an evening of interventions into the uncanny convergence of sound and built space. It presents new works that take the built environment as a compositional tool, and draw upon its materiality, its geometric form, its historical specters and vanishing present.

Architectures of Sound features new works by Casey Thomas Anderson, G. Douglas Barrett, Cameron Hu, David Kant, Avery Lawrence, Michael Winter, and others.