American Contemporary Music Ensemble at Constellation
Organization:
American Contemporary Music Ensemble
Category:
Concert
Geographical Area:
Chicago
Start
Date:
10/26/2014
End Date:
10/26/2014
Start Time:
8:30 PM
End Time:
10:30 PM
Event
Info:
New York-based new music group ACME, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, will perform for the first time at Constellation, as part of the Frequency Series. In its tenth season in 2014-2015, ACME brings the imaginative, carefully crafted, and rarely performed music of Joseph Byrd to Constellation, and pairs it with two new trios written by avant-metal guitarist Mick Barr. The program includes Joseph Byrd's Loops & Sequences (1961), Densities I (1962), String Trio (1962), Animals for solo prepared piano and ensemble (1961), and Water Music (1963) for percussion and tape plus Mick Barr's Lordlore for piano trio (2011) and his ACMED for string trio, written for ACME in 2012.
ACME's 2013 New World Records recording of Byrd's music was described by The New York Times as a "vital new CD" performed with "verve and commitment," and by The Chicago Reader as "a stunning album." Byrd's work lends itself to careful listening, and celebrates subtle shifts in texture and timbre.
Mick Barr's trios will both complement and contrast with Byrd's stark music. Consequence of Sound described ACME's 2012 premiere of Barr's ACMED trio, writing, "It was a damn good piece of music . . . Barr arranges his music into juxtaposed blocks of sound, each stuck in its own melodic and harmonic vortex like some kind of death metal Stravinsky. Yet the ACME players brought out the formal cohesion and line that connected each section, occasionally lapsing into languid tones before restarting the rhythmic juggernaut."
ACME's dedication to new music extends across genres, and has earned them a reputation among both classical and rock crowds. NPR calls them "contemporary new music dynamos," and The New York Times describes ACME's performances as "vital," "brilliant," and "electrifying." Time Out New York reports, "[Artistic Director Clarice] Jensen has earned a sterling reputation for her fresh, inclusive mix of minimalists, maximalists, eclectics and newcomers."
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