Bex Burch & Laurel Pardue + Teresa Allgaier

silent green presents

Bex Burch & Laurel Pardue
Bex Burch is a composer, percussionist, producer and improviser who emphasizes space, repetition and aspects of chaos. These themes characterize a continuous approach that she refers to as “messy minimalism.” She runs the label and post-punk band Vula Viel and has worked with influential artists such as Peter Zummo, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Ben LaMar Gay, Dan Bitney and Macie Stewart. Bex completed an 18-month instrument making apprenticeship in Ghana with Gyil master Thomas Sekgura, a formative experience that gave her a deep-seated respect for the music of the Dagaare and gave her the confidence to pursue a path that would express her own voice reflects. A restless, inquiring spirit has shaped her career since, from open-hearted collaboration on her musical releases to the creation of a new xylophone, which she handcrafted and tuned its overtones to maximize the resonances she wanted to hear.

She will be joined by Laurel Pardue for this show.
 

Sophia Jani – Six Pieces for Solo Violin, played by Teresa Allgaier
Composer Sophia Jani and violinist Teresa Allgaier present their new collaborative work Six Pieces for Solo Violin, which was released in May on the Munich-based label Squama Recordings. Jani composed the Six Pieces for Solo Violin between 2020 and 2023, and with it challenges the notion of simplicity as a parameter, weaving a tapestry of gentle consonance that invites contemplation and honors the violin as an instrument.

In his liner notes, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang writes of Six Pieces: “The music here, in all its movements, gives the illusion of simplicity. Sometimes the most complicated thing anyone can do is to try to create something that feels uncomplicated. Arvo Pärt, ballet, a delicious meal we didn’t cook ourselves, Ella Fitzgerald, a safe place to lay our heads at night, a quiet pine forest – […] In all these things, it takes a lot of effort to make us feel as if something is effortless.“

 

Friday, September 13
Betonhalle
Doors: 7 pm / Start: 8 pm
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