Roulette: JACK Quartet Plays John Zorn's 'Memento Mori' & 'Necronomicon'
$30 advance, $35 doors ($25 student/senior 65+ with ID)
- Christopher Otto, violin
- Austin Wulliman, violin
- John Pickford Richards, viola
- Jay Campbell, cello
- Ikue Mori, electronics
JACK has had a long and fruitful relationship with Zorn that goes back to 2007, and it continues to this day. Passionate and dedicated supporters of his work, they have been involved in close to 100 performances of his compositions in major venues all over the world.
Zorn's last two quartets were composed with JACK in mind. This exciting evening features two of Zorn's greatest masterworks—Memento Mori (with Ikue Mori as a guest soloist) and the challenging Necronomicon—marking his triumphant return to the string quartet medium after a 10 year hiatus.
Memento Mori is one of Zorn's most personal creations—a unique, hermetic work filled with hidden messages, deep lyricism, microtones, noise, and fleeting references to Alban Berg's Lyric Suite. Composed in 1992 and dedicated to Ikue Mori, the piece takes you on a surreal journey unlike any other. For this special performance, dedicatee Ikue Mori will improvise her signature live electronics along to JACK Quartet's dynamic interpretation of this vexing and emotional work.
Necronomicon is in five movements, and draws upon hermeticism, alchemy, magick, mysticism, and more.
About Christopher Otto, violin
About Austin Wulliman, violin
About Jay Campbell, cello
About Ikue Mori, electronics
Ikue Mori moved from Tokyo to New York in 1977. She started playing drums and soon formed the generative no-wave band DNA with Arto Lindsay. In the mid 1980s Mori started to employ drum machines in the context of improvised music. Since the 1990s, she has collaborated with musicians and artists throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, while continuing to produce and record her own music. Beginning in 2000, Mori started using a laptop computer to expand her vocabulary; not only playing sounds, but creating and controlling the visual work as well. Commissioners of Mori's work include the Montalvo Arts Center, Südwestrundfunk German radio program, Relâche, the Mary Flagler Charitable Trust, and Sharjah Art Foundation in United Arab Emirates. Mori was a 2022 MacArthur Fellow and has received numerous other honors, including the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists (2006), a Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction (1999), a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship (2000), and she participated in the Ucross Foundation Residency Program (2005). Ikue has lead workshops and lectures at the University of Gothenburg, Dartmouth College, New England Conservatory, Mills Collage, Stanford University, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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