Description
Sci-fi opera takes center stage in this show, as we dive into Upload by Michel van der Aa, comparing its theme of immortality gained through digitizing one’s consciousness with Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers, and the original science fiction opera, Karl-Birger Blomdahl’s Aniara, set aboard a doomed spaceship.
We also sample the latest recorded works by Sciarrino, Adès, Christian Wolff, Younghi Pagh-Paan and Ryan Carter, and introduce ourselves to the sparse, delicate piano music of Bolivian composer Cergio Prudencio. Pablo Ribot offers avant-electronica from Argentina, while Satoko Fujii and Otomo Yoshihide record together for the first time. John Zorn and Bill Laswell follow their own duet inclinations, as do Christian Bucher with Rick Countryman, and Gerald Cleaver with Brandon Lopez (via HPrizm's electronic post-filtering). A newly-excavated Derek Bailey outing from 1982, plus João Lencastre’s international quartet and Austin Larkin’s solo violin, round out the proceedings.
