Third Eye Orchestra 15th Anniversary Concert

Sunday, December 11, 20228:00 pm

As part of the Third Eye Orchestra’s 15th Anniversary the ensemble performs Hans Tammen’s RODINIA, a one-hour work that revisits some of his compositional strategies and ideas from the last 15 years. Borrowing from Charles Ives’ polytonality, Steve Coleman’s rhythmic complexity, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s organization of sounds, and Earle Brown’s approach to form, the music of the Third Eye Orchestra is continuously shifting, with different layers floating into the foreground while others disappear.

The ensemble is organized in groups combining a variety of instrumental sonorities, i.e. horns, strings, and keyboards. Occasionally groups are trading phrases in a way to allow the music to flow from left to right and vice versa.

“nothing short of breathtaking … a masterpiece of musical evocation.” —All About Jazz

“individual virtuosity in a cohesive and fun-filled framework.”
—AvantMusicNews

Third Eye Orchestra at Roulette 2022 (audio)

Performers:
Shelley Hirsch – voice
SECTION I:
Sarah Bernstein – violin
Dafna Naphtali – soprano / live sound processing
Sarah Manning – alto sax
Tomas Ullrich – cello
Ursel Schlicht & Denman Maroney – piano
SECTION II:
Jason Hwang – violin
Nick Didkovsky – guitar
Briggan Krauss – alto sax, baritone sax
Michael Schumacher – fender rhodes
Ned Rothenberg – clarinet, bassclarinet
SECTION: III:
Stephanie Griffin – viola
Chris McIntyre – trombone
Brian Landrus – bass saxophone
Gordon Beeferman – organ
Michael Lytle – clarinet, bassclarinet
SECTION IV:
Shoko Nagai – moog bass
Satoshi Takeishi – percussion
Hans Tammen – composition, binary conducting

RODINIA is made possible, in part, by a Wave Farm sponsored Composer Commission from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Photo credit: Kurt Ralske


Third Eye Orchestra 15th Anniversary Concert

Sunday, December 11, 20228:00 pm

As part of the Third Eye Orchestra’s 15th Anniversary the ensemble performs Hans Tammen’s RODINIA, a one-hour work that revisits some of his compositional strategies and ideas from the last 15 years. Borrowing from Charles Ives’ polytonality, Steve Coleman’s rhythmic complexity, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s organization of sounds, and Earle Brown’s approach to form, the music of the Third Eye Orchestra is continuously shifting, with different layers floating into the foreground while others disappear.

The ensemble is organized in groups combining a variety of instrumental sonorities, i.e. horns, strings, and keyboards. Occasionally groups are trading phrases in a way to allow the music to flow from left to right and vice versa.

“nothing short of breathtaking … a masterpiece of musical evocation.” —All About Jazz

“individual virtuosity in a cohesive and fun-filled framework.”
—AvantMusicNews

Third Eye Orchestra at Roulette 2022 (audio)

Performers:
Shelley Hirsch – voice
SECTION I:
Sarah Bernstein – violin
Dafna Naphtali – soprano / live sound processing
Sarah Manning – alto sax
Tomas Ullrich – cello
Ursel Schlicht & Denman Maroney – piano
SECTION II:
Jason Hwang – violin
Nick Didkovsky – guitar
Briggan Krauss – alto sax, baritone sax
Michael Schumacher – fender rhodes
Ned Rothenberg – clarinet, bassclarinet
SECTION: III:
Stephanie Griffin – viola
Chris McIntyre – trombone
Brian Landrus – bass saxophone
Gordon Beeferman – organ
Michael Lytle – clarinet, bassclarinet
SECTION IV:
Shoko Nagai – moog bass
Satoshi Takeishi – percussion
Hans Tammen – composition, binary conducting

RODINIA is made possible, in part, by a Wave Farm sponsored Composer Commission from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Photo credit: Kurt Ralske