Event

Watershed

Watershed is a collection of six new pieces composed by Ted Allen for the Incendiary Cycle, an ongoing creative music project exploring the dynamic relationships between people, industry, and nature in California.

In Watershed, the recorded voices of four California poets reading their work add literary resonance to the Incendiary Cycles ongoing exploration of the processes shaping California. The poets, Juan Delgado, Imani Love, Emily Kim and Stephen Meadow, come from different generations and different places in California, yet they all share a compelling relationship with their regional environment.

Ted began work on the Incendiary Cycle in 2013 with a video production of the piece Gold Rush. Subsequent performances of new sections of the cycle took place at the Sound Room and Temescal Arts Center in Oakland and at the San Francisco Conservatory and Center for New Music in San Francisco. Ted's compositions for the project deploy an ensemble of four horns, percussion and electronics to evoke powerful and often chaotic processes that cyclically renew the California landscape.

In addition to Watershed, the September 13 concert will feature a performance of Teds big band composition Pullman Sleep, performed by his students in the Oakland Tech Jazz Band.

Musicians:
Ted Allen, composer, keyboard
Zack Pitt-Smith, tenor sax, flute
Sean Norris, tenor sax, clarinet
Daniel Andrade, trombone
Mara Fox, trombone
Isaac Schwartz, drums

http://www.wmlsong.com/Incendiary_Cycle/Watershed/watershed.html