Engine 27: Cheryl Leonard's Instruments in Trees

Engine 27 is proud to present in our gallery a performance:

Cheryl Leonard - Instruments in Trees
A.L. Dentel (cello), John Blue (cello), Tim Blue (violin), Cheryl Leonard
(viola)
Dafna Naphtali (programming)

date & time: Sunday, April 27, 8pm
admission $7 (suggested)

address: 173 Franklin St. (btwn. Hudson & Greenwich)

information: http://www.engine27.org, 212-431-7466 or
[email protected]

San Francisco-based composer Cheryl Leonard's piece is a work for
upside-down string quartet (two cellos, viola, and violin) and arboreal
materials. Instruments in Trees is a semi-composed/semi-improvisational
work in which the performers will play their primary instruments as well as
materials from trees. Leaves, needles, pinecones, bark, sticks, twigs, and
lichen, will all be fair game, and the composition process will involve the
creation/assemblage of "instruments" from these raw materials. All sound
sources will be amplified, allowing spatialization and very quiet phenomena
to be vital aspects of the piece. The work investigates cycles and processes
inherent to trees by examining and juxtaposing diverse scales of time and
size, and exploring the subtle intricacies of sounds not usually considered
musical.









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art and multi-channel music of diverse forms. We focus our energies on
creating an infinitely flexible facility with variable acoustics and the
development of resources essential to carrying out our mission.