Labor Sonor

Dafne Vicente-Sandoval’s Minos Circuit Rewired is a site-specific exploration of the contingent musicality of feedback. Various resonant spaces – the cavities of a disassembled bassoon, the concert room itself – are made audible, turning physical volume into frequency and unintended harmony. Luciano Maggiore’s work addresses the performativity of the musical act, the perception of it, and the obscurity that emanates from it. With the use of speakers, several analogue/digital devices as well as acoustic objects, he crafts work of dedicated simplicity and, at moments, absurdity, where the traces of the various sound media in use surface. Clare Cooper is an improviser and a classically trained harpist who also plays Guzheng. She’s ferocious with strings and sticks, her sound inspired by synthesizers and broken boom boxes. “She reveals her entire dancing/musicking being, being-in-place, being-in-now — an unmeasured, poetic immersion of the listening/sounding/dancing body in the immediate.” (Jim Denley)