SoundBox : Modern Sanctuary

February 07 & 08, 2020

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Overview

Seek refuge from the chaos of the world outside—step into a glorious realm of sound.

This February, SoundBox reimagines the old idea of sacred space, and explores the ability to create new ones through the powerful presence of music alone―no steeple necessary. Join us as we transform a cavernous void into an awe-inspiring cathedral of sound through otherworldly waves of ethereal voices, sublime amalgamations of strings and synth, rapturous visuals, and a divine DJ. It’s a transcendent healing like no other.

Come on in. Rejuvenate your mind. Electrify your soul. Leave feeling totally righteous.

Program Notes: Modern Sanctuary

SoundBox curator MISSY MAZZOLI offers these comments on
Modern Sanctuary:


Tonight’s concert is a series of musical rituals for our modern age. The featured composers have created sacred sonic spaces, often inventing their own musical styles of prayer, meditation and communion.

We move from darkness into light over the course of the evening, beginning with the vulnerable breathiness of Marcos Balter’s solo work Ut(2005) and the haunted words of Oakland-based poet Matthew Zapruder in an excerpt from Missy Mazzoli’s Vespers for a New Dark Age (2015).

We taste the strange ecstasy of Meredith Monk’s Passage and What Does It Mean? (2006) and the luminous, synth-drenched world of Mario Diaz De Leon’s Sacrament (2019) and Sanctuary (2017), before finally moving to shimmering, enveloping works by John Luther Adams and Arvo Pärt.

Guiding us on our journey is musical shaman Lorna Dune, who not only presents ambient selections and ambisonic nature samples that swim through the 85-speaker Meyer Constellation System during intermissions, but also premieres her imaginative remixes of other works on the program. 

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Artists

Edwin Outwater

Conductor

SOUNDBOX CURATORS

Sponsors

SOUNDBOX SPONSORS

Frederic H. Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C. Einstein

Dr. Jerome Guillen & Mr. Jeremy Gallaher

Jeff Han & Jennifer Banzaca 

Bernadino J. Pistillo, Jr.

Mr. Paul Upham

Dr. Paul Wilson

 


Missy Mazzoli, curator

Edwin Outwater, conductor

Marnie Breckenridge, soprano

Seth Reiser, lighting design

Adam Larsen, video design




SoundBox : Modern Sanctuary


SoundBox Sponsors


Frederic H. Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C. Einstein

Dr. Jerome Guillen & Mr. Jeremy Gallaher

Jeff Han & Jennifer Banzaca 

Bernadino J. Pistillo, Jr.

Mr. Paul Upham

Dr. Paul Wilson

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