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Perhaps the best way to celebrate the summer solstice today: two live performances of Canto Ostinato in a brand new arrangement for 50 musicians. Erik Hall joins the Metropolis Ensemble and Sandbox Percussion for the performance at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
It was new to me; it was new to Andrew; it was new to Sandbox. It will likely be new to the vast majority of our concert audience. For lovers of Reich, Glass, and Riley, there is simply zero reason to miss Simeon ten Holt.
Grammy-nominated NYC new music pillar Metropolis Ensemble announces live performances of Simeon ten Holt's minimalist landmark Canto Ostinato for over 50 musicians on June 20, 2024.
Metropolis Ensemble founder and conductor Andrew Cyr discovered the piece through a feature in The New York Times that included Hall who had recently released Canto Ostinato via Austin record label Western Vinyl.
This time Canto Ostinato’s palette comprises several keyboards, extensive mallet percussion, woodwinds, and strings, and rather than just fall straight into fanfare, we want to use these many tones to go deep into the inherent beauty of the piece.
Here’s a few highlights from the project, including the rehearsals over the past few weeks and the inspiring and massively popular performances February 11–12.
Get a preview of our immersive soundbath experience at Brooklyn Botanic Garden with composer Ricardo Romaneiro and Metropolis artists.
Biophony: SoundGarden is an immersive soundbath experience created by composer Ricardo Romaneiro for Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s conservatories.
In conversation with Ricardo about the genesis of Biophony: SoundGarden, composing for soundbaths, and what it's like to make music with plants.
Metropolis Ensemble’s immersive soundbath audiovisual experience by composer Ricardo Romaneiro features plant-generated soundscapes and live musicians in each conservatory ecosystem.
Get a hands-on interactive experience making music with plants. Fun for the entire family!
Get to know the ways sound and light therapy can stimulate changes in your brainwaves.
Explore how plants connected to PlantWave devices can translate their biorhythms into music.
Here’s what you will experience as you move through the installation at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
The weather looks a bit iffy tomorrow, but the rain should hold off just long enough for Metropolis Ensemble's 2nd annual outdoor musical extravaganza Biophony at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
