2018
(Dis)connect: New Music for Challenging Times
After a fiery, sold-out debut concert series in 2017, Burn After Listening lit up the stage with another sold-out musical adventure. The vibrant visual and acoustic space at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center was the scene of a concert exploring the connections and disconnections between us.
Featuring all new chamber, vocal, acoustic, and electronic music by three Portland composers – Lisa Ann Marsh, Stacey Philipps, and Jennifer Wright – (Dis)connect offered an evening of new music to engage, provoke, connect, and explore our challenging times. The smokin’ new music premiered by some of Oregon's top performers featured:
Disjecta's gallery was open for viewing Portia Munson's singular large-scale art installation, "Flood," assembled from thousands of found objects all comprised of blue plastic. Creating a meditation on archive, materiality, and mass consumption, Munson's construction offered a lens through which we can decipher the artifacts of consumerism. |
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One night only! Saturday, March 3, 7:30 pm
Disjecta Contemporary Art Center 8371 North Interstate Avenue Portland, Oregon 97217 |
(Dis)connect Concert Sponsors
2017
Fire & Ice
Thanks to everyone who joined us at our sold out debut concerts! We had an amazing time. In case you missed it, here's what happened.
The stunning PLACE hosted an adventurous multi-sensory concert exploring the elemental extremes of fiery intensity, icy stillness, and the fluid water worlds between. This debut event of the new group, "Burn After Listening," featured new chamber, vocal, acoustic, and electronic music by three Portland composers – Lisa Ann Marsh, Stacey Philipps, and Jennifer Wright – and remarkable artwork from multimedia Finnish sculptor, Melita Westerlund. The smokin’ new music premiered by some of Portland's top performers combined electro-acoustic submerged soundscapes, an acrobatic piano duet full of fireworks, ethereal chamber music evoking the elements, and amplified songs of melting glaciers. The sounds of ice instruments, otherworldly piano techniques, strings and woodwinds, and haunting songs of change mixed in an unforgettable landscape of art at this unique concert/happening, a Design Week Portland featured event. This event was the West Coast's first chance to view Westerlund's art in person. Encompassing both flat works and sculptures (as well as the intriguing area between the two), this show included a striking variety of media, techniques, and scale, the result of a lifetime engaged in exploring the interrelationship of color and form. Westerlund's striking graphic treatment and sense of form combine elements from her experiences and studies in America, Africa, Europe, and her native Finland. Her most recent works, many of which were on display, are motivated by the worldwide degradation of the coral reefs and provide a striking visual environment for the concert experience. |
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Two nights only! Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29, 7:30 pm
PLACE 735 NW 18th Avenue Portland, Oregon 97209 |