Space, Breath, Time – Concert by Joe Namy

The performance is intended to be a series of musical conversations, spanning from the micro to the macro. It begins with an internal conversation with yourself (the performer), your place in time and sound, extending to your fellow colleagues performing alongside you, out to the audience, and beyond, the environment and history as a whole. Its purpose is to expose the internal manifestation of a cosmic system, so that something of our great struggle is conveyed.
Not necessarily for harmonium, but for any instrument given asylum. For any number of performers.
This piece is an opportunity for an interpreter. It demands no very sophisticated formal approach. The interpreter may embellish,decorate, strip or fill as they feel – with a focus on an patterns that can be produced on the instrument that cannot be produced by any other instrument or by the voice. Play a section until you exhaust the thought, at which point pause for a moment of silence before collectively beginning the next conversation.

About Joe Namy
Joe Namy is a Beirut based artist/composer. His projects often address aspects of identity, memory, power and currents encoded in music/organized sound. He was a participant in the Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace independent study program and received a MFA from New York University, as well as having studied Jazz, Arabic, and Heavy Metal drumming. His work has been exhibited, screened, amplified at the Brooklyn Museum, Beirut Art Center, Detroit Science Center, Queens Museum, and less prominent international dance floors. Some of his projects fall under the sound art platform titled Electric Kahraba, which operates as an experimental radio program on clocktower.org.

Cost
$10

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