Bearthoven Buckshot
The eccentrically-named trio of piano, percussion, and bass known as Bearthoven takes the stage with a widely-varied program of new music that challenges the notion that the instrumentation makes the music. The evening begins with the flourescences and electronics of Jonathan Nangle’s lambent untitled (after Dan Flavin) and continues with the improvisational talents of Amanda Schoof as she joins Bearthoven for her graphic score, Intimate Addictions. David Alan Broome’s atomistic Ominousty scatters glitches from Billy Joel’s “Honesty” into millions of pieces, while Fjóla Evans’s Shoaling rumbles in murmuring and growing streams. MATA’s own Du Yun performs a new work with bass, and the evening concludes with the UK’s Adam de la Cour’s MATA-commissioned Corporate Talent Factor’s Next Top Idol! a talent competition, the likes of which has never been seen on these shores.
Amanda Schoofs (USA): Intimate Addictions (2014), NYP
Fjóla Evans (Canada/ Iceland): Shoaling (2014)
David Alan Broome (USA): Ominousty (2014)
Jonathan Nangle (UK): untitled (after Dan Flavin) (2013), AP
Du Yun (China/USA): The Man Who Swallowed A Snake (2015), WP
Adam de la Cour (UK): Corporate Talent Factor's Next Top Idol! (2015), WP - Festival Commission