Sat 11/15 @ 8PM
The Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project’s concert series presents artists and ensembles you won’t hear anywhere else in town, because their music is too freeform, experimental, abstract or unpredictable. This week’s concert presents one artist who is all that and another which is slightly more conventional.
Headliner the Antigone Music Group focuses on experimentation, working with many contemporary composers to commission new work. It has several sub-groups, which are mostly stocked with musicians with classical music training who perform with orchestras and chamber ensembles, so it leans more toward classical music, albeit on the contemporary and avant-garde end. And at the CUSP concert, it will be playing music by one of the forerunners of today’s avant-garde classical music, French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992).
Performers will include Antigone leader, violinist Amelia Korbitz, and her co-leader, cellist Liam Battle, along with Tao Ke, Jackie Pegis, Robert Michel, and Ellen Boll.
Opening the show is Orson Abram, a multimedia artist whose talents include composing, percussion, improvisation, filmmaking, and sound artist. Their bio tells us that they use video, performance, installation, and music composition “to explore the translation from personal to universal memory, the ethics of performance, and transgression in traditionally conservative spaces.”
Go here for more information and tickets. A portion of the proceeds will go to Cleveland Heights for Immigrant Rghts.
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