William Brittelle's Forbidden Colors

PRESENTED BY METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE, NONESUCH RECORDS, NEW AMSTERDAM RECORDS, AND WILLIAM BRITTELLE

Forbidden Colors

An Album Release Party and Electro-Acoustic Mini-Festival

Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Public Records / 233 Butler St / Brooklyn, NY
7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show / 10:30pm curfew
Tickets: $10 advance / $15 door — all prices include a free copy of “Spiritual America"

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Image Credit: Matthew DiVito

The Experience

Forbidden Colors is a walk-about concert and listening party in the style of a roving electro-acoustic music mini-festival.

Featuring performances and hard-wired installations hand-crafted to take advantage of the "profoundly high-fidelity" (New York Times) custom-built sound system at Gowanus’ newest venue, Public Records, the event is named for a piece on Spiritual America, the new album written by William Brittelle (featuring Metropolis Ensemble, Wye Oak, and Brooklyn Youth Chorus and released in a special partnership with Nonesuch and New Amsterdam Records.)

In celebration of the release, the music and sound-art performed will be inspired by the mosaic of sonic worlds found on this large-scale album and work, selections will be played between live performances, and attendees will receive a complimentary copy of the album.

The Sounds

Electro-acoustic music ranging from experimental jazz, sound-art, hacked theremins, custom built synthesizers, interactive computer music installations, and post-classical works, including the World Premiere of a new piece written by Brittelle for synthesizer and harpsichord entitled "Lost in Norfair” (an ode to the original Metroid video game) for the occasion.

Other composer/performers and electronic artists include: Lea Bertucci, Jakub Ciupinski, Seth Cluett, Dani Dobkin, Jordan Dodson, Erika Dohi, Chris Fishman, JK Kim, Molly Joyce, Live Footage and Danny Meyer, Susanna Hancock, Daniel Fishkin, Ryan Francis, Ian Rosenbaum, Jay Sorce, Singularity (saxophone quartet) and Immanuel Wilkins.

Additionally, selections of music from Daniel Wohl's new album, État, (also recently released through Nonesuch/New Amsterdam Records) will be played, along with a live performance of his Mutations in Plainchant (with the saxophone quartet Singularity).

on the program

William Brittelle: Escape from Norfair**

Ryan Francis: Quartet**

Wilkins/Fishman: Improvisation*

Wilkins/Kim: Improvisation*

Susanna Hancock: Blossom and Furl

Jakub Ciupinski: SpAM**

Lea Bertucci: Improvisation*

Topu Lyo: Improvisation*

Seth Cluett: the whole of us all

Dani Dobkin: of the earth

William Brittelle: Future Shock II

Anna Meadors: Improvisation*

Daniel Wohl: Microfluctuations in Plainchant

*World Premiere

**World Premiere Metropolis Ensemble Commission

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS

Featured

WILLIAM BRITTELLE / COMPOSER

William Brittelle is a North Carolina-born, Brooklyn-based composer of genre-fluid electroacoustic music. His work has been praised on All Things Considered and in many other major outlets, including The New York Times (Sunday Arts & Leisure), The Nation, the… READ MORE

DANIEL WOHL / COMPOSER

Born and raised in Paris and currently residing in Los Angeles, Daniel Wohl's music blends electronics with acoustic instrumentation to often "surprising and provocative effect" (NPR). He has produced albums, orchestral and chamber works… READ MORE

ANDY AKIHO / COMPOSER

Described as "mold-breaking," "alert and alive," "dramatic," and "vital" by The New York Times, Andy Akiho is an eclectic composer and performer of contemporary classical music. Recent engagements include commissioned premieres by the New York Philharmonic… READ MORE

LEA BERTUCCI / COMPOSER/PERFORMER

Lea Bertucci is an American composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her instrumental practice, (alto saxophone and bass clarinet), her work often… READ MORE

JAKUB CIUPINSKI / COMPOSER

Jakub Ciupinski ('yacoob chioopinsky') is Polish composer living in New York City. Although his music is often associated with electronics and interactive performances, he has written numerous pieces for traditional acoustic forces… READ MORE

SETH CLUETT / COMPOSER

Seth Cluett is a composer and visual artist who creates work that explores everyday actions at extreme magnification, examines minutae by amplifying impossible tasks, and tries to understand the working of memory in forms that rethink the role of the senses in an… READ MORE

DANI DOBKIN / SOUND ARTIST

Dani Dobkin is a resonant body and artist working with sound as a sculptural medium. Their work investigates elements of noise, signal flow, forced resonance, drone texture and the liminal space between. As a sound artist, Dobkin works with both large and small… READ MORE

JORDAN DODSON / GUITAR

Jordan Dodson, “one of the top young guitarists of his generation” (Performance Today), is continually expanding the guitar’s repertoire through commissioning, arranging, and composing, and has premiered dozens of... READ MORE

ERIKA DOHI / PIANO

NYC-based pianist Erika Dohi, a multi-faceted artist with an eclectic musical background that ranges from traditionally classical to jazz, free improvisation, and new music, has been described as a “dynamic” performer whose “technique is decidedly… READ MORE

CHRIS FISHMAN / PIANIST/COMPOSER

Chris Fishman is a pianist, composer, and sound designer from Los Angeles. His innovative style in both performance and composition have consistently been praised by the likes of the Grammy foundation and Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has performed and recorded… READ MORE

RYAN FRANCIS / COMPOSER

Portland-based composer Ryan Francis has cultivated a deeply personal aesthetic across a wide array of musical projects ranging from an extensive catalogue for piano solo to a series of works for diverse synthesizers. His music has been described as “shimmering,”… READ MORE

SUSANNA HANCOCK / COMPOSER

Susanna Hancock is a Florida-based composer and bassoonist whose works explore color, process, and acoustic phenomena. Her music draws from a wide array of influences including minimalism, spectralism, folk, and electronic mediums… READ MORE

LIVE FOOTAGE AND DANNY MEYER

Live Footage formed in 2006 playing an avante-garde modern dance collaboration in Tribeca, NYC. Since 2010 they have held a residency in Chinatown's "Apotheke" every Sunday. They have toured throughout the United States, Europe and Asia and scored… READ MORE

ANNA MEADORS / COMPOSER/PERFORMER

Anna Meadors is a composer and saxophonist whose music embraces patience, pulse, energy and joy. She has been commissioned by Rhymes With Opera, Echo Chamber, Conduit, and Evan Chapman, and was the winner… READ MORE

IAN ROSENBAUM / PERCUSSION

Praised for his “excellent” and “precisely attuned” performances by the New York Times, percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum has developed a musical breadth far beyond his years. He made his Kennedy Center debut in 2009 and later that year garnered a special prize… READ MORE

SINGULARITY

Singularity is a contemporary saxophone ensemble dedicated to building relationships through live performance. Praised by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen after their Carnegie Hall debut for bringing “a wonderful life and spirit to my work,”… READ MORE

JAY SORCE / GUITAR

A classical and electric guitarist noted for his unique blend of refinement, intensity, and virtuosic technique, Jay Sorce has performed throughout the United States and in Canada, Mexico and Germany as soloist and chamber musician. Highlight appearances include… READ MORE

KIMBERLY SPARR / VIOLA

Equally skilled as a solo, chamber, and orchestral violist, Kimberly Sparr is associate professor of viola at Texas Tech University and is a founding member of the Atlantic Chamber Ensemble and violist of the Amistella Duo. She is the assistant principal viola of the… READ MORE

IMMANUEL WILKINS / COMPOSER/SAXOPHONE

Immanuel Wilkins is an American Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger, and Band Leader. While growing up in the Philadelphia area, he played in his church and programs dedicated to teaching jazz music such as the Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts. Immanuel… READ MORE