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Southland Ensemble: Ghost Trance Music

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Southland Ensemble presents an evening of Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music. Written between 1995 - 2006, Braxton created over 100 of these compositions that serve as pathways between different notation systems and musical idioms. We are excited to be joined in this performance by Corey Fogel, Andrew Munsey, David Tranchina, and Argenta Walther.

Composition No. 228
Composition No. 245
Composition No. 358

"In my system, every piece is an orchestra piece, every piece is a chamber piece, every piece is a solo piece. But that's just on one plane. On the second plane, the bass part of "Composition 83" can itself be extracted and played by four hundred flutes with tambourines. Or it can be taken and played backwards, and hooked to something else. Finally, every composition of mine can be placed in a summation logic context, where it will aid the predominant voices of whatever identity it is aligned with. This is a context of structural connections that can be viewed in the same way that we talk of an erector set, that can be put together in different ways depending upon the needs of the moment."
- Anthony Braxton, 1995 interview