Bassoonist Dafne Vicente-Sandoval and cellist Charles Curtis perform live-in-concert at Human Resources premiering a new version of Tashi Wada’s 2017 Witness, originally written for Vicente-Sandoval on bassoon and now including accompaniment by Curtis on cello. In Witness, a series of microtonally inflected scales and tetrachords are explored through repetition, variation, and improvisation. At this intimate concert, Curtis will also present brief solo cello pieces, possibly including music by Tashi Wada, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, and/or other works in progress. Vicente-Sandoval’s own Minos Circuit Rewired, for microphone feedback, voice, and disassembled bassoon, will close the evening.

Dafne Vicente-Sandoval (b. 1979, Paris) works at the intersection of bassoon acoustics, resonant spaces, and amplification; Charles Curtis (b. 1960, Laguna Beach) explores classical cello performance, precise tuning, and sustained sound. Together, they have marked out a distinctive perspective on contemporary experimental music. Working collectively with composers Alvin Lucier, Tashi Wada, and Éliane Radigue, and individually with Jakob Ullmann, Phill Niblock, Peter Ablinger, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, and Christian Wolff, Vicente-Sandoval and Curtis present a shared concert of works made for them, along with original sound pieces.