Bone and Air / Connective Tissue

October 26 8:00pm

Bone and Air - sound and visual by Tansy Xiao

Bone and Air is an audience participatory visual and sound installation inspired by the idea of the juxtaposition of bone conduction (within the human body) and air conduction (receiving sounds via the ears). The audience members are invited to make certain sounds through the piece according to the graphic score as an ensemble to create a spontaneous heterophony that is unique each time.

Connective Tissue - written by Ryan Pratt, performed by Marina Kifferstein

The title refers to a process by which the piece was derived from the acoustic structure of the violin, in conjunction with a theory of proportional relationships, finely tuned by the ear of the performer. In lieu of relaying some version of the myth of Ariadne, the work instead calls attention to the perpetuation of myth in general with regard to what Diane Marie Keeling refers to as “colonizing cuts” made throughout history that constitute “exclusions of communities from history and world making.”