From NEWMUSICUSA: “Fragility : An Exploration of Polyrhythms” 06/09/2018 — 07/01/2018
Fragility: An Exploration of Polyrhythms is a new work that mines the dimensions of rhythm through music, dance, physics, and technology.
Project Created By
Susie Ibarra
New York, New York
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Composer/Percussionist Susie Ibarra creates live and immersive music that explores rhythm , indigenous practices and interaction with cities and the natural world. Ibarra is a Yamaha, Paiste and Vic Firth Drum Artist. She is a 2014 TEDSenior Fellow. Ibarra premieres a new project this year 2017 DreamTime Ensemble, with a forthcoming new album on Decibel Collective titled Perception, a collection of pieces around the idea of finding unfixed meaning in sensory experiences and interaction in ones environment . Her work includes , Musical Water Routes in the Medina of Fez, a music and river route mobile app in collaboration with architect Aziza Chaouni May 2016 Sacred Music Festival of Fez, Mirrows and Water, a composition and sonic installation commissioned for Ai Wei Wei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Signs at the sculpture trail of the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming 2015; Digital Sanctuaries, a modular music app walk that remaps cities with sanctuaries of music and engages with historical and cultural sites within a city with music composed by Electric Kulintang commissioned by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and City of Asylum Pittsburgh; Circadian Rhythms, commissioned for Earth Day 2013 at Renssalear RPI EMPAC inspired by endogenous rhythms for 80 percussionists and 8.1 surround sound of Macaulay Library recordings; The City a Radio Radiance commission for Young Peoples Chorus of NYC; We Float, a 2014 commission by Ecstatic Music Festival with singer songwriter Mirah, a sonic retelling of space explorations; and The Cotabato Sessions , a digital music film and album that captures one family legacy of gong-chime kulintang music in Mindanao, Philippines . She is a Faculty member at Bennington College where she teaches Performance, Percussion, and at the Center for Advancement of Public Action. Her teaching at the Center focuses on her work in rebuilding cities with the arts, art intervention and advocacy for human rights extended equally to women and girls. susieibarra.com
SO thrilled to have the premiere of Fragility installed and performed at the Starr Gallery , Asia Society Museum in NY. I am very grateful to the performers, surround sound , set and lighting designers, tech team and producers. The polyrhythmic game piece and all the pieces came out so very well with everyone!
Overview
We play polyrhythms everyday by recognizing and allowing our bodies and minds to move and think in multiple ways. I am interested in how physically playing polyrhythms in music taps into our intuition . The ability to understand something immediately allows us to be fully present. I find this to be a heightened experience that gives us a greater awareness for people and our surroundings , while allowing us to hear and see a larger world.
Fragility: An Exploration of Polyrhythms is a new work that mines the dimensions of rhythm through music, dance, physics, and technology, created by composer/drummer Susie Ibarra.
Ibarra will be joined by performing choreographer/dancers Souleymane Badolo and Yanan Yu in live experimentation. Their investigations form the core of a groundbreaking new interactive game commissioned by Asia Society and developed with Pioneer Works to be premiered in June 2018 on Governors Island NYC and at the Starvos Niachos Cultural Center in Athens. Ibarra is composing an electro-acoustic score for 8.1 surround sound multi-channel installation with live music performed by her 6 piece band DreamTime Ensemble ( violin, cello, voice, guitar/piano, electronics and percussion) .
The dance is choreographed and improvised movement utilizing a custom built motion capture software and features multi-percussion compositions with strings and electronics by Ibarra. Dancers interacting with the polyrhythms follow delicate parameters that shift in response to the music. One piece will allow for audience members to play with motion capture technology in a movement improvisation led by Susan Sgorbati. Ibarra experiments with how to relate chaos theory, symmetry, and Conway’s game of life to polyrhythms in the creation of this new work.
Fragility: An Exploration of Polyrhythms is created in collaboration with choreographer Susan Sgorbati, physicist Bernard Grossman, performing choreographer/dancers Souleymane Badolo and Yanan Yu, sound engineer and sound design by Justin Frye, interactive programming by Tommy Martinez and Greg Fox.
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