Sharing a WIP around poetry as score and explorations in handmade tape loops as instruments.
Honored to be sharing the night lead by Johann, with Sonic Liberation Devices & Femi
Thursday, June 12, 2025
7:30 PM 9:00 PM
Tickets: $0-$25, pay what you can : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-studios-if-the-stars-align-curated-by-johann-diedrick-tickets-1250388819619
CPR – Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan AvenueBrooklyn, NY, 11211
MORE about “If the stars align…”:
Artist and engineer Johann Diedrick organizes If the stars align..., an OPEN STUDIOS program inspired by Samuel L. Delany's novel Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand where Delany imagines the Morgre Festival, a gathering where composers traverse vast distances to experience music performed on electronic instruments yet to be invented. In Delany's wider work, from Nova to The Einstein Intersection, we encounter instruments that exist in the realm of the speculative and evocative. Considering such tools that expand our notion of what musical instruments can be and are able to express, Diedrick invites inventive electronic musical practices found on our terrestrial home, inspired by the earthly concerns of our times and our aspirational dreams found floating among the stars, with works in development by Rena Anakwe, Sonic Liberation Devices, and Femi Shonuga-Fleming.