Name: Amir ElSaffar, Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch, Amirtha Kidambi & Matteo Liberatore
Start: 2022-11-01T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Pioneer Works

Amir ElSaffar, Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch, Amirtha Kidambi & Matteo Liberatore

Pioneer Works

False Harmonics #13 will feature an evening of sonically rich and explorative duos.

Amir ElSaffar

Lorenzo Bianchi

Amirtha Kidambi

Matteo Liberatore

False Harmonics #13 will feature an evening of sonically rich and explorative duos. Trumpeter, santur player, vocalist and composer Amir ElSaffar will join with electronic musician and composer Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch to premiere their project Inner Spaces, along with Amirtha Kidambi and Matteo Liberatore’s glacial duo of voice and guitar.Inner Spaces:Amir ElSaffar: trumpet, santur, voice, modular synthesizerLorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch: electronics, sound designSponsored by the French American Cultural ExchangeTrumpeter, santur player, vocalist and composer Amir ElSaffar joins with electronics performer and composer Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch in a new project exploring electro-acoustic spaces, maqam, microtonal harmonies, improvised and composed structures, in a modular musical composition that accommodates a variety of musical styles across genres. Together, they create an immersive sound that transcends notions of form, musical language, electronic, acoustic and other categories in music. This new work will be a modular composition, combining pre-determined structural elements with freely improvised sections played live by ElSaffar and Bianchi-Hoesch. The work explores electro-acoustic spaces and a microtonal environment that embraces the sonic spectra of multiple musical languages.Bianchi-Hoesch and ElSaffar are interested in creating a transcultural collaboration combining jazz, contemporary classical music, maqam, raga and other musical backgrounds, inclusive of all the richness, complexity, and idiomatic expression, without compromising or oversimplifying in order to be compatible with others. They are in search of boundaryless spaces in music.Amirtha Kidambi and Matteo Liberatore’s duo of voice and guitar creates improvised aural landscapes that are glacial and highly evocative, unfurling through dynamic gestures that are at once spacious and restrained. Juxtaposed against the frenetic pace characteristic of the New York improv scene, the pair applies the compositional aesthetics of Feldman or Oliveros to a free environment. The project is set apart from Kidambi’s work with Lea Bertucci, Mary Halvorson or Elder Ones and Liberatore’s collaborations with musicians including Elliott Sharp, Mark Kelley and Catherine Sikora. Each piece explores the unique possibility space created by the union of voice and guitar, delving deep into specific permutations including registral extremes, detuning and quiet mouth sounds. After a prolonged period of isolation, the duo emerged to record and play together for the first time since the start of the pandemic. The music is nuanced, patiently developing as the subtleties of gradual seasonal change or the awareness of sound in meditation. Like shifting color gradients and patterns on a canvas of Agnes Martin, timbral shading and repetition form large scale impressions. Neutral Love investigates an emotional inner world, taking its name from The Passion of G.H. by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, a narrative monologue of a woman’s existential spiral. While Kidambi and Liberatore come from radically different backgrounds, they draw from universal sonic signifiers, like the ringing of the bell at a Hindu temple threshold or the echo of church bells across the piazza of a small Italian town, invocations to prayer and reflection. The duo’s interactions simmer beneath an anti-climax, begging the listener to observe one’s surroundings, turn inward, and confront the self.

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