Discover More: Record Release
Wild Cities / New Focus Label: Francesca Anderegg and Brent Funderburk
Tuesday, July 12th @ 7:00pm
Francesca Anderegg and Brent Funderburk are releasing their second album of contemporary music on New Focus Recordings in 2016. Titled “Wild Cities,” the album features new works by young American composers: Hannah Lash, Ted Hearne, Ryan Francis, Clint Needham and Reinaldo Moya.
The narrative of the album involves a journey through the new landscape of American music: the name “Wild Cities” is inspired by the poem “After Dead Souls” by Allen Ginsberg. In it, Ginsberg asks, “Where O America are you/ going in your glorious/ automobile….toward what wild city/ jumping with jazz/ on the Pacific Ocean?” The Ginsberg poem suggests both a journey and a destination.
In this album, the journey towards the “wild city” is represented by the musical language of minimalism. Each composer uses American minimalism as a reference to forge their unique style, mixing minimalism with electronic dance music, extended techniques, harmonic ambiguity and the fast, revolving rhythms and fluidity of Venezuelan folk music. “Wild Cities” surveys the landscape of American music with these five pieces, and takes the audience on a journey to new, fantastic places.
Discover More: Language
Intro to Rock‘n’Lolo
Wednesday, July 13th @ 10:30am
Come get a preview of the Rock’n’Lolo curriculum at National Sawdust! The intro classes are 45 minutes long, full of singing and dancing while learning Spanish, and most importantly, having fun! For toddlers, learning to use their voice starts with imitating sounds and experimenting with as many sounds as they can produce. Rock’n’Lolo classes are intended for toddlers up to 4 years old, and each lesson is designed to provide kids with a rich set of new activities and material to help keep the kids engaged in the process. As your child is inspired and motivated through singing and dancing, my program will also be helping to build your child’s confidence, self-control, and early Spanish language skills through repetitions and engaging melodies.
Original songs are composed specially to encourage kids to make relations between concepts and words, and to connect ideas. Kids can do this so easily. They are super smart! Their capacity to learn and create is infinite. That’s why I like to talk and sing to them as what they are, super smart little people. I’ll be creating cool and different styles of music that they can totally “get”. Simple, but with cool melodies that are easy to remember. Lyrics that deal with everyday objects and events that are already familiar to them. We sing about colors, numbers, animals, night time, etc. Music and singing naturally leads to movement. Rock’n’Lolo encourages kids and parents alike to get up and move!
Discover More: Multidisciplinary
Sacred Geometry
Saturday, July 16th @ 7pm
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
– Nikola Tesla
National Sawdust invites you to Sacred Geometry, a meditative electro-acoustic improvisation on visual sound patterns generated by resonances of sound waves. Music by Ricardo Romaneiro with live projections by Christian Hannon. In performance with Ola Gjeilo (piano), John Hadfield (percussion), Jacqui Kerrod (electric harp), Hannah Sumner (vocals), Justin Abrams (cello), Ramin Abrams (bass), David Zisa (modular synth) Leo Leite (engineer) & with special guest String Noise. Geometry is number in space, music is number in time. These geometries in music ascribes symbolic meaning to certain shapes and patterns in certain proportions – it uses the laws of vibrations to manifest aurally emotions and what exists at the center of everything.
Join us for an ambient and pulsating exploration on the symmetry of sound accompanied by live visuals.
On Program
Cymatics – piano & electronics [Ola Gjeilo & Ricardo Romaneiro]
Phi 1.618 – percussion loops [John Hadfield]
Wavelengths – electric harp [Jacqui Kerrod]
Sacred Geometry : Meditations on Sound Patterns [Romaneiro]
Discover More: Community
The Revolution Presents WE ARE HERE: A Response Concert In Honor Of Black Lives
Saturday July 16 doors open @ 9:30, show starts @ 10
The Revolution Music Series of National Sawdust will be hosting a late night concert event, in honor & loving memory of Delrawn Small, Alton Sterling, & Philando Castile. All proceeds of the night (besides venue operating costs) will go directly to the families of these 3 men for immediate help & assistance. We will gather together, in unity, Saturday evening as we allow music & art to honor, uplift & support the lives that have been personally affected by these specific, recent tragedies within the US.
Discover More: Brunch
Table Music Brunch Series: New Vintage Baroque
Sunday, July 17th @ 10am
About This Event
New Vintage Baroque
New Vintage Baroque, is an adventurous period instrument ensemble dedicated to the creation of a 21st century repertoire for early instruments. Inviting audiences to examine their relationship with both the past and the present, their performances inventively weave together narration, new commissions, and music of the Baroque. Founded in 2011, by Lindsay McIntosh (Baroque oboe ‘14), during her second year at the Juilliard School, New Vintage Baroque and it’s players are committed to bringing the highest level of historical performance practice to their audiences.
Recent projects have included a New York-Netherlands tour of Gregory Spears’ cantata Virginiana, a rap cantata cycle by Doug Balliett, and the completion of their first album,The Passionate Pilgrim, a song cycle by The Oracle Hysterical for voices and Baroque band. For their recent performances of Handel’s Rinaldo with Boston Opera Collaborative, the Boston Globe cited New Vintage’s “graceful, songful playing… a major element in the production’s success.”
Discover More: Storytelling
The Tell Vol. 10
Sunday, July 17th @ 8pm
Michael Leviton invites various characters and raconteurs to tell stories.
