This special event offers a first look at Breaking Counterpoint, a boundary-breaking performance-installation and full-length album for amplified guitar. You'll experience a 25-minute preview featuring two works from the upcoming project:
- Michael Laurello’s Tell Hope Everything You Hear – an explosive, visceral piece for amplified guitar and electronics
- Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint – radically reimagined with producer Wendel Patrick through multitracking, hip-hop-inspired beats, and digital sampling, reshaping the iconic work for 21st-century ears
In collaboration with Emmy-nominated choreographer Katherine Helen Fisher and her team at Safety Third Productions, and the powerhouse movement artists of Orange Grove Dance, this preview invites you into a multisensory world of sound, movement, and projection. Using real-time technologies like TouchDesigner and OpenFrameworks, the performance transforms the stage into a living system—reactive to performer and audience alike.
This is not a finished concert. It’s a living question:Why gather—physically, together—in an age of infinite digital content?How can music, movement, and design become tools for building connection, not just consumption?
This performance-in-progress is your invitation to help answer those questions.
Created by:Katherine Helen Fisher + Safety Third Productions, choreography + visual design
Orange Grove Dance,choreography + movement performance
Zane Forshee, guitar
Wendel Patrick, sound + samples
This project is made possible through the support of the Dean’s Excellence Accelerator Award. Funded by President Ronald J. Daniels as a three-year pilot initiative, the DXA Grant supports innovative faculty development projects at the Peabody Institute that advance creative research, pedagogy, and public impact.
