Dirt Frequencies: a deep dive into soiled sounds

Dirt Frequencies: a deep dive into soiled sounds with Tessa Brinckman, Scott L. Miller, and Jane Rigler utilizing multiple flutes, miscellanea, electronics, Kyma (sound design programming environment) and Onde resonator. Suggested admission fee - $20.

Dirt Frequencies is a collaboratively composed, concert-length work. It combines electroacoustic music, text, and Deep Listening®, inviting the audience into the sonic environment, responding to their present body, dreams, and imagination.
Based on the growing processes of a garden, this concert is part of an on-going series that develops over time. Sound sources being dispersed will emerge from present sounds as well as those we’ve collected from the earth and all the microbial organisms living in the soil. We consider all the bodies that release and absorb sound—the land, the water, the air, plants, and human-made materials, and our bodies—as sound sources. Water is the tissue that connects us between these processes.

Bios:
Interdisciplinary flutist/composer Tessa Brinckman has been praised for her “chameleon-like gifts” and “virtuoso elegance” (Gramophone), "an adroit creator of sound worlds” (Fanfare). Originally from Aotearoa/New Zealand (now in NYC since 2022), her work honors synesthesia, dialect, innate meter and collaboration, with numerous prominent global musicians and artists. Tessa co-directs the bi-coastal duo, Caballito Negro, commissioning ground-breaking work for flute and percussion. She released another critically acclaimed album, Take Wing, Roll Back (New Focus Recordings) in 2024.

Minnesota composer/improviser Scott L. Miller’s music is defined by an experimental aesthetic, collaborative approaches to composition and performance, and the use of electronic sound. Recent work explores virtual and augmented reality to immerse the audience, geolocate sound in parks and farms, and animate graphic scores. His interests include small, quiet, spatialized sounds that juxtapose synthetic and organic materials to draw attention to the details found in the world we inhabit. In addition to being a Professor of music at St. Cloud State University, he is Director of SEAMUS Records.

Jane Rigler, flutist/composer/educator/organizer and Deep Listening® facilitator, explores the complexities of language (of the body, dream, landscape) through the flute, electronics, voice, and movement. She thrives at artist residencies like Civitella Ranieri, Montalvo, Ucross, and the US-Japan Friendship Commission that promote her collaborative, explorative nature. A former interdisciplinary music Professor at the University of Colorado, she continues to perform world-wide, organizing sound spas, and arts-wellness events.