The programme proposes a different way of listening to the world —through other beings. Flutes, clarinets, and percussion explore how the bodies, echoes, and environments of birds, bees, and electric fish sound. The concert includes Birds, Bees, Electric Fish by Juri Seo, the world premiere of Seven Miniatures for Double Duet by Javier Compeán, and the seven interludes from the piece 30 – The Third Decade by composer Mark Applebaum, performed by students from Ensamble de Percusiones de la Universidad de Guanajuato —a work commissioned in 2012 by Iván Manzanilla and the university’s percussion ensemble.

Each piece is a doorway to non-human ways of perceiving, a game between the acoustic and the imagined. Music becomes a form of empathy: listening from another place and inhabiting another rhythm. A brief, intense, and relevant experience in times of change.

Programme

Artists

Iván Manzanilla

México | Guanajuato

Dúplum

Ensamble de Percusiones de la Universidad de Guanajuato

Caballito Negro

Press quotes

“This concert invites the audience to delve into the perceptual worlds of birds, bees, electric fish, and murmur as both sound and musical source, offering an acoustic exploration of how these organisms experience their surroundings through a unique and immersive composition, and inviting listeners to reconsider what it means to 'listen' from the perspective of another being.”

Dúplum

"A true institution of new music in New York, dedicated to concerts, album production, and multiple ensembles under a broad and tenacious brand. They thrive on the emulsion of contemporary classical music, free improvisation, jazz and rock, explicit humour, and fearless political statements —all of which are strongly present… The ensemble… was masterful from start to finish.”

John Pietaro, The Brooklyn Rail

“For the past 30 years, they have been a driving force for local composers, both through their concerts across the city and their record label.”

The Wall Street Journal

“An enterprising organisation of new music.”

The New York Times

“Bold… boisterous… demands our attention.”

San Diego Story

“These men and women are creating exciting music, blending elements of jazz, world music, and numerous experimental techniques in equal measure with classical tradition and instrumental skills.”

Asbury Park Press