Shocking Red at Concept Lab
Free (no cover)
- Kathleen Supové, piano
- Michelle Shocked, vocals
Concept Lab is a contemporary classical chamber series curated by Seth Boustead and Will Rowe that invites composers to challenge themselves, take risks, and try things they might not otherwise. Concept Lab welcomes performances and workshops alike to be enjoyed by an enthusiastic and understanding audience in a casual, productive, and fun setting. Both productive success and productive failure are part of the musical experience, and Concept Lab invites all into the whole of the music-making experience.
Shocking Red is a narrative song cycle created by pianist-composer Kathleen Supové and lyric poet-composer-singer Michelle Shocked, based on the paintings of Mark Kostabi.
About Kathleen Supové, piano
In May 2012, Kathleen Supové received the John Cage Award from ASCAP for “the artistry and passion with which she performs, commissions, records, and champions the music of our time.” Kathleen Supové is one of America’s most acclaimed and versatile new music pianists, continually redefining the pianist/keyboardist/performance artist in today’s world. Ms. Supové presents solo concerts under the moniker THE EXPLODING PIANO. A striking presence onstage, she has performed with computers, boxing gloves, robots, and laptop orchestra.
Recent projects include two solo CDs: "The Debussy Effect," on New Focus Recordings (La Barbara-Clark-Marks-Felsenfeld-Woolf-Gosfield-Cooper), the result of a multi-composer commissioning project; and "Eye to Ivory" (Childs-Woolf-Barash-Didkovsky-Naphtali), with vocalizing, extended techniques, Yamaha Disklavier, and noise-based effects.
http://www.supove.com/