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Hans Tammen & Third Eye Orchestra: Clepsydra

Tuesday, June 6, 20178:00 pm

Shelley Hirsch – Voice
Dafna Naphtali – Live Sound Processing, Voice
Sarah Bernstein – Violin
David Soldier – Violin
Jason Hwang – Viola
Tomas Ullrich – Cello
Ned Rothenberg – Clarinet, Bassclarinet
Michael Lytle – Clarinet, Bassclarinet
Briggan Krauss – Alto and Baritone Saxophones
Josh Sinton – Contra Bass Clarinet, Baritone Saxophone
Ursel Schlicht – Piano
Gordon Beeferman – Organ
Shoko Nagai – Moog
Nick Didkovsky – Guitar
Satoshi Takeishi – Percussion
Hans Tammen – Composition, Binary Conducting

Hans Tammen‘s Third Eye Orchestra performs Clepsydra, a score produced from electronic sample and hold procedures.

Tammen’s compositions are inspired by Charles Ives’ polytonality, Steve Coleman’s rhythmic complexity and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s organization of sounds. Using textures, timbre and dynamics as primary elements, Tammen’s music shifts continuously, with different layers floating into the foreground while others disappear. Whether richly processed guitar sounds from his hybrid interactive guitar / software instrument Endangered Guitar, traditionally notated material for his Third Eye Chamber Orchestra, or graphically notated elements for the all-electronic Dark Circuits Orchestra, Tammen’s music “[transforms] a sequence of instrumental gestures into a wide territory of semi-hostile discontinuity; percussive, droning, intricately colorful, or simply blowing your socks off” (Touching Extremes).

The 13-17 piece ensemble includes string and wind quartets, voice, pianos, guitar, moog bass, percussion, plus electronic live sound processing. Founded in 2005, the ensemble regularly plays in New York City at Roulette, Czech Center, Brecht Forum, Galapagos, and others.

Clepsydra is supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Carl Jacobs Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts.

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This performance is part of a series supported, in part, with funds from GENERATE: The Frances Richard Fund for Innovative Artists of Promise. Instituted in 2014, GENERATE aims to provide immediate, practical assistance to artists, helping them achieve ambitious work to be presented in our theater. Click here for more information about how you can contribute to GENERATE.

 

Hans Tammen & Third Eye Orchestra at Roulette June 6, 2017

 

Hans Tammen & Third Eye Orchestra: Clepsydra

Tuesday, June 6, 20178:00 pm

Shelley Hirsch – Voice
Dafna Naphtali – Live Sound Processing, Voice
Sarah Bernstein – Violin
David Soldier – Violin
Jason Hwang – Viola
Tomas Ullrich – Cello
Ned Rothenberg – Clarinet, Bassclarinet
Michael Lytle – Clarinet, Bassclarinet
Briggan Krauss – Alto and Baritone Saxophones
Josh Sinton – Contra Bass Clarinet, Baritone Saxophone
Ursel Schlicht – Piano
Gordon Beeferman – Organ
Shoko Nagai – Moog
Nick Didkovsky – Guitar
Satoshi Takeishi – Percussion
Hans Tammen – Composition, Binary Conducting

Hans Tammen‘s Third Eye Orchestra performs Clepsydra, a score produced from electronic sample and hold procedures.

Tammen’s compositions are inspired by Charles Ives’ polytonality, Steve Coleman’s rhythmic complexity and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s organization of sounds. Using textures, timbre and dynamics as primary elements, Tammen’s music shifts continuously, with different layers floating into the foreground while others disappear. Whether richly processed guitar sounds from his hybrid interactive guitar / software instrument Endangered Guitar, traditionally notated material for his Third Eye Chamber Orchestra, or graphically notated elements for the all-electronic Dark Circuits Orchestra, Tammen’s music “[transforms] a sequence of instrumental gestures into a wide territory of semi-hostile discontinuity; percussive, droning, intricately colorful, or simply blowing your socks off” (Touching Extremes).

The 13-17 piece ensemble includes string and wind quartets, voice, pianos, guitar, moog bass, percussion, plus electronic live sound processing. Founded in 2005, the ensemble regularly plays in New York City at Roulette, Czech Center, Brecht Forum, Galapagos, and others.

Clepsydra is supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Carl Jacobs Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts.

NewMusic

 

 

 

This performance is part of a series supported, in part, with funds from GENERATE: The Frances Richard Fund for Innovative Artists of Promise. Instituted in 2014, GENERATE aims to provide immediate, practical assistance to artists, helping them achieve ambitious work to be presented in our theater. Click here for more information about how you can contribute to GENERATE.

 

Hans Tammen & Third Eye Orchestra at Roulette June 6, 2017