Ear Taxi Festival 2021
Mainstage Series Concert

Program:

Alex Temple: Microphages
LJ White: look after you
Clay Mettens: Passacaglia
alejandro t. acierto: Here, where we continually arrive
LJ White: space
Randall West: new work
Andrew McManus: quiet down

The works on our program represent a wide variety of LGBTQ voices. alejandro t. acierto’s work develops in real time from responses to a set of prerecorded viola samples activated from the frequency of #LGBTQ on Twitter. Alex Temple’s Microphages is a set of 10-second miniature piano pieces. Quiet down, a new work by Andrew McManus, draws on a recording of activist Silvia Rivera’s iconic speech at a New York rally in 1973. Clay Mettens’ Passacaglia is a set of colorful variations on saxophone multiphonics and hollow, muted piano sounds and their resonance. The program also features works by LJ White and Randall West.

Robin Meiksins, flute
Phil Pierick, saxophones
alejandro t. acierto, bass clarinet
Ammie Brod, viola
Daniel Baer, piano