Wednesday, May 21, 20258:00 pm
$25 advance$30 doors$20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)doors 7pm
Yarn/Wire Currents is a commissioning series started in 2013. Focused on the creation of new works specifically for Yarn/Wire, the series serves as an incubator for experimentation in which a wide range of musicians, artists and composers explore intersections of composition, technology, installation, improvisation, live performance, music theater and more, in an effort to expand the ensemble’s performance practice and reflect music’s fluidity and reach.
The 2025 edition of Yarn/Wire Currents features 2 world premieres by composers Ashkan Behzadi and Kari Watson.
Laura Barger piano
Julia Den Boer piano
Russell Greenberg percussion
Dennis Sullivan percussion
“Yarn/Wire may well be the most important new music ensemble on the scene today” –NY Classical Review
“…questioning the boundaries of what music might be.” –The Guardian
presented by Yarn/Wire in partnership with Roulette
Described by The New York Times as “key figures from the contemporary music scene… with unmistakable devotion and excitement,” Yarn/Wire is a New York-based percussion and piano quartet dedicated to the performance of creative, experimental new music.
Since its formation in 2005, the ensemble has become a fixture at the world’s preeminent halls and music festivals.Yarn/Wire’s 2024-25 programming exemplifies its expansive reach, musical breadth, and international acclaim with residencies at EMPAC (Troy, NY), a repeat performance at Donaueschingen, and appearances at the Venice Biennale, Other Minds Festival (San Francisco), Manifeste (Paris), Black Mountain College, McKnight Center, and Gardner Museum; and returns to Miller Theatre, Time:Spans Festival, Long Play Festival (Brooklyn), and Roulette. Yarn/Wire holds educational and performance residencies this season at Harvard and Columbia Universities, and the University of Miami (Ohio).
Their ongoing commissioning series, Yarn/Wire/Currents, serves as an incubator for new experimental music in partnership with a variety of Brooklyn-based institutions. Yarn/Wire has recorded for the WERGO, Kairos, New Amsterdam, Northern Spy, Distributed Objects, Black Truffle, Shelter Press, Populist, and Carrier record labels, in addition to maintaining its own imprint.
