DRIFT/LOOP: A 24-hour Music Performance Installation at Wesleyan University’s Olin Library
https://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/events/2024/11-2024/11012024-drift.html

Friday, November 1, 2024 noon to Saturday, November 2, 2024 at noon Olin Library, Campbell Reading Room and 2nd Floor Balconies, 252 Church Street, Middletown, Connecticut. Free and open to the public

For 24 hours beginning Friday November 1 at noon, Wesleyan’s Olin Library will be immersed in the sounds of live and recorded experimental music, from reverberated tones to small, shimmering noises and rhythmic exclamations. The public is welcome to drop at any time to explore, listen, and actively participate in this ambitious installation.

DRIFT/LOOP is designed to create an expansive space for sonic engagement and reflection. Musically, it braids three 40-hour LOOP scores with 32, 1-hour DRIFT scores, performed across three library spaces. The scores are composed and performed by visiting artists, Wesleyan students and faculty, and community members. Audience members may wander freely and listen, join in performing on any instrument (bring your own), or tune in to live audio streams. For information on participating, please visit the project web page.

Initiated and commissioned by Metropolis Ensemble and Andrew Cyr, conductor/producer, DRIFT/LOOP is a collaboration with composer and Wesleyan Professor of Music and Director of Graduate Studies Paula Matthusen, visual artist Olivia Valentine, and poet and media scholar Tung-Hui Hu, with original audio interpretations by the saxophone quartet Singularity, Metropolis Ensemble, and Matthusen. DRIFT/LOOP will also feature the Wesleyan University Orchestra directed by Nadya Potemkina, Director of Private Lessons and Adjunct Associate Professor of Music and of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.



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