Yarn/Wire Currents is a commissioning series launched in 2013, serving as a living incubator for new works exploring the intersections of composition, technology, and performance. In 2026, the series presents new works by composer and Rome Prize laureate Jonah Haven and Icelandic experimental composer Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, co-commissioned with the legendary Moers Festival in an exciting new partnership.

Yarn/Wire ensemble
Laura Barger piano
Julia Den Boer piano
Dustin Donahue percussion
Russell Greenberg percussion

Jonah Haven composer
Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir composer

PROGRAM
i tell you i want to be one sticking out of the ground like a tongue
Jonah Nuoja Luo Haven, 2026

“I still wish I could say this is about hunters, but I still do not like hunting. I still want
to say it’s about this map of time in the sky, how each star’s light reaches Earth
a little later than the other. I still would like this to be about an ocean or a heart
or a tree. But the instinctive expressions of happiness still press this to be about
radishes. The spontaneous sounds and movements of the face and body, those
swollen, pungent-tasting roots that are small, spherical, and red—I still gather them.
My heart still moves toward them like slow summer rain in the distance. The colors
yellow in the warmness. I tell you I still want to be one, sticking out of the ground
like a tongue. All I can think about is eating radishes raw with salad.”

Supraseether
Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, 2026

“Supraseether explores the interplay between performers and their environment
as they are dissolved into a shared, teeming field of awareness. Feelers extended,
wanting to be limbs unfurled – the quartet as organism, sensing at the edges of
its conditions. The sound becomes a field of perception, a body that listens as it
negotiates with itself to breach their boundaries, shaped through contact, pressure
and proximity. The material slipping away as it emerges, heeding a call towards
impending fission.”

Presented by Yarn/Wire in partnership with Roulette.

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.

Described by The New York Times as “key figures from the contemporary music scene… with unmistakable devotion and excitement” and “wildly virtuosic” by The Wire, Yarn/Wire is a New York based percussion and piano quartet (Russell Greenberg and Dustin Donahue, percussion; Laura Barger and Julia Den Boer, pianos) dedicated to the promotion of creative, experimental new music.