Ensemble Linea: Chaos Terrain and Lines of Fortune

Linea New York

Co-Presented by National Sawdust

The "superb" (Time Out New York) Ensemble Linea, under the direction of Jean-Philippe Wurtz, travels from Strasbourg to make its MATA Festival debut with an evening that celebrates transcendence. Highlighting the night will be two MATA-commissions: Weijun Chen's Dancer, an elegant meditation on the moment when practice becomes art, and Yair Klartag's revelatory There's no end of void. The program begins with Michelle Agnes Magalhaes’ cosmic Mobile for prepared piano, and falls back to earth with Scott Wollschleger’s America, a commentary on the post-suburban commercial landscape. Linea continues with the sonic camouflage of Zeno Baldi’s Mimo, the fissured lines and aural illusions of Arash Yazdani’s Demodulation, and the untraversed landscapes of the Turkish composer Utku Asoruglu.

8PM at National Sawdust, 80 N. 6th Street, Brooklyn$25 / $20 Students Advance Sale Only

Tickets available at National Sawdust

Yair Klartag (Israel): There's no lack of void (2016), WP - Festival Commission
Utku Asuroglu (Turkey): yES I dOESN’T (2016), WP
Zeno Baldi (Italy): Mimo (2014), APScott Wollschleger (USA): America (2013)
Weijun Chen (China/USA): Dancer (2016), WP - Festival Commission
Arash Yazdani (Iran): Demodulation (2014), AP
Michelle Agnes Magalhaes (Brazil): Mobile (2012) AP 

Yair Klartag's "There's no lack of void" was commissioned for the 2016 MATA Festival with the support of the Adele and John Gray Endowment Fund.