TIME:SPANS Festival: Ensemble Signal, Dana Jessen
$20 ($10 student/senior)
- Dana Jessen, bassoon
- Eli Stine, electronics
- Nicole Mitchell, flute
- Voyager Interactive Computer, piano
George Lewis — Seismologic (Jessen & Stine)
George Lewis — Tales of the Traveller (US premiere; Ensemble Signal with Nicole Mitchell, flute soloist & Voyager Interactive Computer, piano)
About the Festival: The TIME:SPANS Festival is dedicated to the presentation of primarily twenty-first century music. The festival is produced and presented by the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust. Artistic Director for TIME SPANS is Thomas Fichter. The name TIME:SPANS is taken from the title of an orchestra piece by the American composer Earle Brown.
COVID-19 Protocols: Proof of vaccination will be required to attend all TIME:SPANS concerts at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. All attendees must show CDC, WHO, Excelsior Pass, or similar official documentation of vaccination and booster status plus matching photo ID to a T:S representative on entering the building.
Masks must be worn at all times inside the building. Masks must be worn properly covering nose & mouth inside the building. We can provide KN95s.
About Dana Jessen, bassoon
About Eli Stine, electronics
About Nicole Mitchell, flute
A vital breath within the most urgent movements in jazz from this century, Nicole Mitchell is a flutist, composer, poet and educator whose trajectory gained traction in the fertile Chicago scene of the 90s. The first woman president of the legendary and valuable AACM, she planted the seeds for strong relationships with musicians like Anthony Braxton, Ed Wilkerson Jr, Avreeayl Ra, Maia, and Hamid Drake, allowing her to carve her own vision. Encompassing philosophy, mysticism, radical politics and a strong debt to the sci-fi writings of Octavia E. Butler, Mitchell’s work has been deconstructing and articulating problematics of race, gender, technology, and spiritualism in a communal approach to music that dreams of possible futures, conveying in its ascension the freedom of jazz, funk's eternal groove, gospel, modern composition, instruments from all over the world and a number of legacies of devotional and ecstatic music. Assembling different configurations like her Black Earth Ensemble, Sonic Projections or Ice Crystal as vehicles for speculation on alternative realities beside a number of collaborations – Moor Mother, Hamid Drake, Rob Mazurek, Artifacts or Matthew Shipp—Mitchell's compositions create an honorable and inspiring body of work through records like the expansive astral travelings of Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (2017) or the piercing restraint of the chamber-like maroon cloud (2018). Nicole Mitchell is a Professor of Music at University of Virginia and is the author of The Mandorla Letters: for the hopeful (Green Lantern Press and University of Minnesota Press).
https://www.nicolemitchell.com/About Voyager Interactive Computer, piano
Voyager Interactive Computer is software musician capable of musical performance and interactive improvisation, created by composer George Lewis. It is best known for its use in Lewis' 1987 piece 'Voyager'.