Neither Land, Nor Sea, Nor Air

Co-Presented by Dixon PlaceMATA's penultimate concert reimagines tradition and genre, pointing the way toward new musical taxonomies. Sabina Ahn’s alchemical Breath morphs the body’s energy into light and sound. In the same vein, Nicolai Worsaae’s Upon your body I’m crawling exhausts its performer (the legendary William Schimmel) as it engages with folk and modern conventions in a breathless one-man accordion-harmonica duet. Traditional instruments are transformed with rippling figurations and angular melody in Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets’ oboe-accordion duet Re-Pulse, and similarly in Qian Zhou’s serene Qu Shui Ming Yun for qin and electronics. Mátyás Wettl's Unusual, a song for guitar, voice, and electronics, proposes a new avant-indie sound, while Germán Alonso’s Time In & Out is an extended riff for bass clarinet and electronics, paying homage to jazz icon Eric Dolphy.Stuart Breczinski, oboe; Eliza Bagg, voice; Carlos Cordeiro, bass clarinet; Dan Lippel, guitar; Sam Pluta, live electronics; William Schimmel, accordion; Zhou Yi, qin8PM at Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, NYC$25 / $20 StudentsTickets available through Dixon Place

Maxim Kolomiiets (Ukraine): Re-Pulse (2012), APNicolai Worsaae (Denmark): Upon your body I'm crawling (2012)Zhou Qian (China): Qu Shui Ming Yun (2016 Qin Version) (2011/16), WPSabina Ahn (South Korea): Breath (2015), APMátyás Wettl (Hungary): Unusual (2014), APGermán Alonso (Spain): Time In & Out (2013), AP