Versipel New Music: Chaos Cultures

• Alexandria Smith, trumpet
• Byron Asher, saxophone & clarinet

Join the Versipel Collective for an exciting, hybrid evening featuring works performed by the Collective with special guest NOLA improvisers Alexandria Smith and Byron Asher. The concert features works by composers on the edge of composition and improvisation such as Artificial Life by George Lewis, Heart of Tone by Pauline Oliveros, O Yer by Hakki Cengiz Eren, and Hymn for the Arc Harvester by Philip Schuessler.

Tickets are $20 – no one is turned away for lack of funds.

About Versipel New Music

Versipel New Music presents contemporary classical music, New Orleans style. Reflecting the breadth and beauty of the classical concert music scene of today, we perform music of the late 20th and 21st Centuries, music inspired by our modern, peripatetic, global, and technologically driven lives. Frequently collaborating with living composers both in the U.S. and overseas, our programs span a diversity of styles from fresh European modernism, to U.S. postmodernism, with a heavy dose of technology, improvisation, and performer creativity thrown in. At a Versipel show, you'll see and hear music that is recent and new, fresh from the composer's pen (or pencil… or computer), pieces that are often being performed for the very first time.

Versipel reflects the idea of the constant morphing of the artistic muse and how contemporary music continuously reforms, reshapes and grows anew. As a free-spirited city with its unique convergence of cultures and eclectic traditions in music and in art, New Orleans makes a perfect home for adventurous and innovative new music. Because of the multifaceted nature of the New Orleans cultural and artistic scene, we have created an organization designed to be versipellous, to change shape and take on audience engagement in many different ways. Our concerts are performed by the Versipel Collective, a group of local musicians dedicated to exploring the outer realms of contemporary music through the use of electronics, computers and improvisation as well as visiting artists and ensembles from all over the world.

About Alexandria Smith, trumpet

https://www.alexandriarsmith.com/

About Byron Asher, saxophone & clarinet

Byron Asher is a saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer based in New Orleans, working at the intersections of broadly experimental composition, jazz, and improvised music.