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Annual Outdoor Performance featuring Suzanne Thorpe's RESONANCE & RESEMBLANCE
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Saturday, September 30, 3pm
Rain Date: Sunday, October 1
$45 General Public
$35 Manitoga Members
$20 Children 18 and under
$125 Benefit Ticket - Includes Private Reception with Suzanne Thorpe
$500 Benefit Performance Committee - Two Benefit Tickets for Concert and Reception, plus listing as member of the committee
Holders of Benefit Tickets will be invited to join Suzanne Thorpe and the musicians afterwards for a special cocktail reception. The main House will be open for viewing of artist Peter Bynum's site-specific installation Ecstatic Light. Space is limited, reserve your seats today.
ADVANCE TICKET PURCHASE ONLY
ARRIVAL TIME: Beginning 2:30 PM. Please wear suitable walking shoes for uneven terrain and outdoor seating.
PARK AT THE PUBLIC LOT 584 Route 9D where you will be directed to the performance.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE:
Extraordinary outdoor performances continue this year with musician/composer Suzanne Thorpe's Resonance & Resemblance - featuring recorders, electronics, the surrounding rocks, water, trees, insects, birds and you. The performance begins with a soundwalk through Manitoga's landscape, followed by a listening meditation around the Quarry Pool where musicians, upon the water, weave their sounds into the soundscape and activate its resonant features. Not to be missed.
Soundwalk Leaders: Lisa B. Kelley, Stephanie Loveless, Michelle Nagai
Performers: Katie Down, Madison Greenstone, Anne Gutherie, Adam Tinkle
Resonance & Resemblance is made possible in part by grants from New Music USA. and the MAP Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Thorpe says, "in a time when difference is often used to instigate division from each other and our environment, it is important to recognize that our boundaries are more porous than we think. Through sound and active listening, Resonance & Resemblance creates space to explore our interconnectedness and entanglement with each other, and our surroundings."
Sound has always been integral to Manitoga. Russel Wright designed the Waterfall to produce different sounds on either side, and from above and below. Speakers placed in the landscape once played a variety of recordings from opera to bird songs. Wright conceived "Days of Dance" and "Music in Nature" programs to celebrate creativity within Manitoga's landscape. Last fall, Suzanne Thorpe spent four days on-site to inform her current work - hiking the trails, listening to the forest, and conducting electronic and acoustic sound experiments.
To learn more about Thorpe's motivations and process at Manitoga, visit her online journal at Experimental Music Yearbook.
About Suzanne Thorpe:
Suzanne Thorpe composes site-oriented sound works that use a variety of media and technology, and performs on the electroacoustic flute, expanded with digital and analog tools. She is also a Deep Listening instructor, having studied in depth with American Composer and Deep Listening Founder Pauline Oliveros. Thorpe draws upon traditions of acoustic ecology, soundscape, land art, and improvisation, as well as research in phenomenology, ecological cognition and environmental ethics for her work. With sound, she works in conjunction with environments and their behaviors to yield compositions and performances that evolve with their surroundings.
Thorpe's work has been shown and performed internationally at venues such as The New Museum, Exit Art, and Issue Project Room in New York, and festivals such as All Tomorrowís Parties in Europe. As an improviser, she has performed with a wide array of artists, from Pauline Oliveros to J Mascis. Her discography features over 20 recordings on labels such as Sony, V2, Beggars Banquet, Geffen, Specific Recordings, and Tape Drift. She was a founding member of critically acclaimed Mercury Rev, with whom she performed, recorded and toured from 1989 - 2001, earning a gold record for 1998's Deserter's Songs.
Thorpe has received residencies and fellowships from Harvestworks Digital Media Foundation, Meet the Composer, New Music USA and the MAP Foundation. Having earned her MFA at Mills College, she is currently a PhD candidate in Music/Integrative Studies at University of California San Diego, and Co-Director of TECHNE, an organization that introduces young female-identified women to technology-focused art making, improvisation, and contemplative practices.
2017 Artist Residency Host Committee
Lead Sponsors
David & Nanci McAlpin, Marilyn & Jim Simons
Sponsors
Christopher Jara & Donald Taffurelli, Tom Krizmanic, Magazzino Italian Art/Cold Spring, Gary & Laura Maurer
Supporters
Robert Aresty, Sydney Babcock & Jose Romeu, Joe Chapman, Allison Cross & Henry Nye, David Diamond & Karen Zukowski, Melanie Dodson & David Granger, Melissa Meyers & Wilbur Foster, Bill Roos & Scott Olsen, Dick Polich & Cathy Kuttner, Liliane Salama & Peter Stillman, Aleta Wolfe
Friends
Stephen & Linda Breskin
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LocationManitoga / The Russel Wright Design Center (View)
Manitoga, 584 Route 9D
Garrison, NY 10524
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 9 |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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