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Saturday, March 2nd - 7:30pmCenter for Performance Research (361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211)
WORLD PREMIERES BY JESSIE COX & TAK ENSEMBLE
CENSORED SOUNDS: STRUCTURAL ERASURE
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ARTEFACTS
For the first time, TAK will present a fully original generative work, collaboratively composed by the members of the ensemble. The members of TAK are known individually for their striking notated and improvisational compositional voices, and their new collective work, ARTEFACTS, features the collective’s own highly personal style of virtuosity. Mercurial, energetic, and unexpected, TAK’s ARTEFACTS is the result of years of collective experimentation, discussion, and exploration with the ensemble they have lived and breathed and played with for over a decade.
& TAK's long friendship with composer, performer, and scholar, JESSIE COX takes shape within his new long-form work, "Censored Sounds: Structural Erasure," which melds textual vignettes, improvisation, and rapidly shifting stretched textures into a gut-wrenching 40-minute work that demands the closest attention.
“It is a well-known fact that some of the photos that helped document the Holocaust were taken by Nazis. It is a well-known fact who lynched the Negroes. The Nazis tried to erase their own violence. Lynching happened both without record but also as mass spectacle with souvenirs. How many Black lives are taken by societal violence? The forgetting of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter is happening faster than time. Repression is a formal thing: “I am going to tell you what I am not.” Its form is just as important and defining as its content, if not more. Repression and false memory are the same: they both profess something by negating it. “I have already told you this. I already know this.” A déjà vu, a false memory, this way I don’t have to hear anything here. AGAIN: Repression is a formal thing: “I am going to tell you what I am not, which is really what I am” Its form is just as important and defining as its content, if not more. Repression and false memory are the same: they both profess something by negating it. “I already know this. It has already been done. I have already seen it.” A déjà vu, it’s a false memory, this way I don’t have to hear anything here. I am not listening.” — Jessie Cox
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
CPR-Center for Performance Research, 361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211-1887, United States,New York, New York