SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2024
8PM
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TASHI WADA
CHARLES CURTIS
2220 ARTS + ARCHIVES
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8PM
TASHI WADA
CHARLES CURTIS
2220 ARTS + ARCHIVES
Tashi Wada celebrates the release of What Is Not Strange? – a new 2xLP on RVNG Intl. Wada will debut material from this new album live with a special performance in the Theater at 2220 Arts + Archives.
Playing material from the album live for the first time, Wada will perform alongside musicians featured on the record: longtime associates Julia Holter, Ezra Buchla, and Corey Fogel. Visual collaborator Dicky Bahto will provide visuals special for this event. Renowned avant-garde cellist Charles Curtis opens the show, and deep selectors Matt McDermott and Matt Werth DJs the night.
Tashi Wada refers to “What Is Not Strange?” as dream music that is “shapeshifting from moment to moment.” Composed in an adjusted meantone tuning system, these wildly experimental works reveal his latest directions as a composer – expressive and soulful – all while covering a wide swath of sonic terrain – from shimmering harpsichord runs to elegiac drones. Like the album, this special hometown show will feature Julia Holter’s soaring vocals, the orchestral percussion of Corey Fogel, and the texture and dynamics of violist Ezra Buchla.
Flyer photo and portrait photo by Dicky Bahto.
Playing material from the album live for the first time, Wada will perform alongside musicians featured on the record: longtime associates Julia Holter, Ezra Buchla, and Corey Fogel. Visual collaborator Dicky Bahto will provide visuals special for this event. Renowned avant-garde cellist Charles Curtis opens the show, and deep selectors Matt McDermott and Matt Werth DJs the night.
Tashi Wada refers to “What Is Not Strange?” as dream music that is “shapeshifting from moment to moment.” Composed in an adjusted meantone tuning system, these wildly experimental works reveal his latest directions as a composer – expressive and soulful – all while covering a wide swath of sonic terrain – from shimmering harpsichord runs to elegiac drones. Like the album, this special hometown show will feature Julia Holter’s soaring vocals, the orchestral percussion of Corey Fogel, and the texture and dynamics of violist Ezra Buchla.
Flyer photo and portrait photo by Dicky Bahto.
Cellist and composer Charles Curtis opens the show, performing his own work Ultra White Violet Light.
Approaching performance with a singular rigor and vision, Curtis has rightly become a crucial conduit for contemporary works of minimalism, exploring the fabric of acoustic sound – as well as it’s psychoacoustic contours. A recent retrospective edition — “Performances & Recordings 1998-2018” — appeared on Tashi Wada’s Saltern labeland surveys Curtis’s career and it’s astounding range, from medieval compositions to 20th century avant-garde to his own innovative works.
Photo by Bradford Bailey m taken earlier this year at Cafe Oto in London.
Called by Artforum “one of the great cellists” as well as “spellbinding and minimal,” Charles Curtis has woven a unique career through the worlds of classical performance and musical experimentation. Curtis has developed a unique repertoire of major works created expressly for the distinctive qualities of his cello-playing including works by Tashi Wada, Alvin Lucier, Éliane Radigue, and La Monte Young, the latter of whom he has been closely associated with for more than thirty years.
Approaching performance with a singular rigor and vision, Curtis has rightly become a crucial conduit for contemporary works of minimalism, exploring the fabric of acoustic sound – as well as it’s psychoacoustic contours. A recent retrospective edition — “Performances & Recordings 1998-2018” — appeared on Tashi Wada’s Saltern labeland surveys Curtis’s career and it’s astounding range, from medieval compositions to 20th century avant-garde to his own innovative works.
Photo by Bradford Bailey m taken earlier this year at Cafe Oto in London.
Called by Artforum “one of the great cellists” as well as “spellbinding and minimal,” Charles Curtis has woven a unique career through the worlds of classical performance and musical experimentation. Curtis has developed a unique repertoire of major works created expressly for the distinctive qualities of his cello-playing including works by Tashi Wada, Alvin Lucier, Éliane Radigue, and La Monte Young, the latter of whom he has been closely associated with for more than thirty years.