Artist and composer Seth Cluett creates work that explores the territory between the senses, using sound to influence our sense of place, memory, and time. Join us for an interactive concert, featuring the New York premiere of Cluett’s woodwind quartet, and a performance by Rebekah Heller of A Rift Within for solo bassoon. Program also includes Ann Cleare's Luna for solo saxophone, performed by Ryan Muncy, and Alvin Lucier’s In Memoriam Jon Higgins for clarinet and oscillator, performed by Joshua Rubin.

This event takes place in the Library for the Performing Arts' Vincent Astor Gallery, at the Amsterdam Avenue entrance.

This project is supported by Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology program.

(If you need assistance with online reservations, please visit the welcome desk at the Library for the Performing Arts' Lincoln Center Plaza entrance, where volunteers will make a reservation for you, even if you do not use email. For free events, The Library generally overbooks to ensure a full house. All registered seats are released 15 minutes before start time, so we recommend that you arrive early.)

OpenICE Library Festival

Deep Listening Session

Wed, Nov. 7; 1 PM

Pauline Oliveros' life as a composer, performer, and humanitarian was about opening her own and others' sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Her sonic mediations, invite us to understand more deeply ourselves and our world. Join us for an afternoon of deep listening with historic recordings of Oliveros guiding her signature sonic meditations, along with in-person meditations, led by members of the International Contemporary Ensemble.

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OpenICE at the Library: Collecting Nathan Davis

Wed, Nov 7; 7 PM

Hagoromo album release event

The swan maiden archetype can be found in Western and Asian folklore, specifically in Germanic sources, Scottish traditional stories, and Japanese Noh theatre. Nathan Davis’s dance opera Hagoromo retells this ancient story with exhilarating, contemporary sounds, echoing the Noh tradition. With imaginative music, Davis conjures two realms, the heavenly and the earthly. Join us for a concert, with live performance excerpts by Claire Chase, Rebekah Heller, and Davis, celebrating the album release of Hagoromo, whose premiere was recorded live at BAM’s Next Wave Festival in November 2015.

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Circuits and Currents: Columbia Computer Music Center Showcase

Thurs, Nov 8; 1 PM

The Library sound archives preserve the groundbreaking work of Columbia University’s electronic and computer music pioneers. Explore a new universe of sounds with Columbia University Computer Music Center Director Seth Cluett. From Charles Dodges’ 1969 computer generated masterwork Earth’s Magnetic Field to the most boundary blurring contemporary works by Columbia’s current students, join us for an interactive electronic sound salon.

Reserve your seat HERE.

OpenICE at the Library: Collecting Seth Cluett

Thurs, Nov 8; 7 PM

Artist and composer Seth Cluett creates work that explores the territory between the senses, using sound to influence our sense of place, memory, and time. Join us for an interactive concert, featuring the New York premiere of Cluett’s woodwind quartet, and a performance by Rebekah Heller of A Rift Within for solo bassoon. Saxophonist Ryan Muncy plays Ann Cleare's Luna for solo saxophone, and Joshua Rubin performs Alvin Lucier’s In Memoriam Jon Higgins for clarinet and oscillator.

Reserve your seat HERE.

ICEcommons at the Library: New Discoveries

Fri, Nov 9; 1 PM

Ryan Muncy, saxophone and lead curator

ICEcommons is a crowdsourced index of newly composed music that welcomes all composers to share their new work. Join us for a concert of new works by New York City Composers, discovered via the Ensemble’s open-call index, ICEcommons.org. For this edition, we’ll explore the animated scores of BERGRÚN SNÆBJÖRNSDÓTTIR, whose work the Ensemble discovered via the ICEcommons Living Archive at Nordic Music Days 2016. SNÆBJÖRNSDÓTTIR’s expansive, animated, graphic scores are projected on the floor in front of the performer. Unexpected instructions appear, and the performer was must react the to the in-motion music notation in real time.

Reserve your seat HERE.