Sat 3/15 @ 7PM
Suma Recording has launched a new series of projects, inviting audiences to buy tickets to live recording sessions — with money going to help fund the projects.
It’s already done one with folk band New Long Road, and now it’s doing one with OPUS 216, the fluid ensemble founded and helmed by violinist Ariel Karas, where a constantly changing lineup of trained classical musicians collaborates in different ways, with different types of musicians and performs in atypical spaces.
For this event, OPUS 216 will start recording their third studio album which will draw on French and South American jazz, original music and rearrangements of pop material.
The session has two tiers of tickets: general admission tickets will let the listener sit in Suma’s living room with the musicians, while the VIP tickets will allow holders to sit in the control room with the engineers. All the ticket money will go to paying for the recording and post-production.
“It was really an idea born out of necessity,” says Suma owner Michael Seifert. “Artists can’t rely on income from record sales in the age of streaming but they still need to record and release new music. We collaborate directly with the artists and 100% of contributions from ticket sales go directly to the recording and post production budget. It puts fans and other people from the community, who might be curious as to what goes on in a recording studio, right in the room with the musicians while the record is being made.”
In addition to the session, there’s a post-concert dessert reception where guests can chat with the musicians and studio personnel. Tickets also include a signed copy of the completed CD and a digital download of the album. Get tickets here.