Fruit Scores // Marisa Tornello

As part of , a new exhibition of 36 international artists and a five-week festival celebrating the union between food and art at The Invisible Dog Art Center: a musical performance composed by Marisa Tornello.

Fruit Scores is a study on transience, delight, improvisation, decay, and nourishment. Living as a rapidly evolving composition and visual/performance art piece, Fruit Scores takes a closer look at the anatomy of fruit and musical interpretation of that anatomy. Defining characteristics of each fruit can be viewed not only as art and food, but also as rules and instructions, communicating textural + tonal expression depending on the specific features of each fruit.

The conductor creates each score in sequence, and conducts a group of musicians, cuing each musician to perform their scores in the same sequence. Every score must be eaten in its entirety by each musician following the performance. The score cannot exist before the piece, and cannot exist after the piece, similar to life; that of a fruit or even of the human that eats it.

Marisa Tornello is a composer, vocalist, performance + visual artist, poet, mover, and maker. Tornello cultivates an artistic practice that explores the art of living scores and thematic development through the dual lens of trauma and healing. Their practice has been shown at Roulette, the Tank, Jack, La MaMa ETC, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Vital Joint, Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn Botanical Garden and Judson Church, and have been featured in the Flame Keeper series with Metropolis Ensemble, the Exponential Festival with Pioneers Go East Collective, and Ladyfest at the Tank. They are a member of ECHO Ensemble and performed with Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks in the Bessie-winning piece, My Diary: Secret Journey to Tipping Utopia. In spring 2022, they received the Jerome Foundation commission at Roulette, were featured in Peach Magazine for two graphic scores, and performed in "Biophony" with Metropolis Ensemble at Brooklyn Botanical Garden. This summer, they will perform with Queer Van Kult at Snug Harbor Cultural Center. Marisa is a fourth-generation Staten Islander and stems much of their artistic focus on mental health from their family’s deep history of volunteerism and aid to the senior community of Staten Island.

Laura Bibbs (trumpet) (she/her) is an educator, performer, composer, singer, and trumpet player. She holds degrees from Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Manhattan School of Music, where she studied both classical and contemporary music. Earlier this year Laura performed with Will Wells and the Whole Team Winnin’ Orchestra for ESPN’s Heisman Trophy Ceremony and Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Most recently, Laura had the opportunity to perform with artist Harry Styles at his headlining Coachella performance, performing in “Watermelon Sugar” and the world premiere of his song “Late Night Talking” from the “Harry’s House” album. Laura has performed in notable venues including Boston’s Symphony Hall, New York City’s Symphony Space, the Coachella Main Stage, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Rockwood Music Hall, Mercury Lounge and Berklee’s Power Station to name a few. Laura currently resides in New York City, but actively teaches and performs all over the East Coast. She is a member of Soul of Boston (Boston), Big Stuff Band (Astoria), and Patriot Brass Ensemble. She has also shared the stage with a variety of artists including Harry Styles, Jon Faddis, Chris Jaudes, Wycliffe Gordon, Angel Subero, Eva Sita and many others. In New York she primarily works as a studio and session musician, recording and performing with artists in person as well as remotely.

Ezra Gans (bassoon) (he/him) is a performer currently residing in New York, NY. His work is grounded in tenets of experimental improvisation, placing an emphasis on spontaneity and real-time communication between performers and audiences. Aside from performing on bassoons and clarinets of various shapes and sizes, Ezra incorporates live electronics, spoken word, and even, on occasion, fun costumes into his works. He is a member of slapslap, a performance-art-rock band consisting of two electric bassoons and two drummers, and BRIGE, a group alternatingly known as “a multi-disciplinary experiment in radical geometry” and “just four friends.” Currently, Ezra is pursuing a Masters of Music in Historical Performance Practice at The Juilliard School, studying historical bassoons and the creative decision-making processes of musicians past and present.

Mobéy Lola Irizarry (percussion) (they/she) is a genderqueer composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, and transdisciplinary artist. Based in Brooklyn, they hail from the Puerto Rican diaspora in Hartford, CT, and are a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She makes within the lineages of decolonial uprisings, collections of tiny mirrors at queer clubs, and the precolonial languages of the drum and the braid. | mobeyirizarry.com/ IG: @lola.machine

Lara Lewison (violin) (she/her) is a violinist, painter, and developer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and was the recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts. Lara was a two-time violin fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, where she performed as a co-concertmaster of the TMCO. She is a member of the BlackBox Ensemble and the Intimate Artistry String Quartet. Lara also works as a freelance visual artist and as an VR/AR developer.

Magnus Løvseth (tuba) ( / ) is a Norwegian multidisciplinary artist rooted in experimental music. Gazing into the future, Magnus is on a quest to find new and innovative collaboration formats. On this journey, he brings with him his dependable tuba full of sounds and noises, his fine-tuned electronic components that process video and audio alike, his ever-moving body, and his vandalous voice. While traversing on this path, the themes of his works tend to gravitate toward heavier subjects, often framed by internet culture. Magnus collaborates with artists from a wide range of genres and art forms, from avant-garde improvisatory music with electronics to conceptual performance art and audiovisual installations. Magnus has received several grants from various art institutions, including The Norwegian Arts Council and Arctic Arts Festival for projects such as LÄNGSTWELLE, an audio-visual live performance about childhood, and ArtSMR, an internet video art piece. He has a bachelor’s degree from The Norwegian Academy of Music and recently received his Master’s degree from The New School in New York.

Shara Lunon (voice) (she/they) is the product of the evolution of Black American musical traditions. As a poet, vocalist, composer, and improviser, her art finds the ethereal in the chaotic. With voice as the foundation, Shara’s music is an exploration of text and sound that seamlessly weaves through the ceaseless relationship of struggle, resilience, and resolution. Her goal is to challenge lassitude and in its place, instill hope. Shara has performed with leading improvisers including Darius Jones, Ches Smith, and members of the International Contemporary Ensemble. Her work has been featured in The Gothamist, Metropolis Ensemble, and has won residency with Amanda + James production company, the 2022 Audiofemme Agenda Grant, and is a featured composer in the 2022 MATA Festival and the Metropolis Ensemble's BIOPHONY series. Shara has also recently joined the Innova record label roster and plans to release a project with them in early 2023.

Yoshi Weinberg (flute) (they/them) is a New York City based flutist, harpist, and composer. Lauded for their “sublime tone” and “creative interpretation and technical virtuosity” (I Care If You Listen), Yoshi is a dedicated performer of contemporary and experimental works. Yoshi has performed as a soloist across North American and Europe including the Fitzgerald Theater (St. Paul, MN), the Ordway Center (St. Paul, MN), Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), Mahaiwe Theater (Great Barrington, MA). Orchestra Hall (Minneapolis, MN), Gesellschaftshaus (Magdeburg, Germany), Fondation des États-Unis (Paris, France), Conservatoire Darius Milhaud (Aix-en-Provence, France), Duomo di Pavia (Pavia, Italy), Palau de la Musica (Valencia, Spain), among many others. They currently are Co-Artistic Director of InfraSound, and is founding member and flutist for Apply Triangle, InfraSound, and KnoxTrio. Additionally, Yoshi served as Artistic Director of the Minnesota new music ensemble RenegadeEnsemble for the 2017-2018 season. As a performer-composer, Yoshi’s compositions have been described as “a stunning compositional display of polyphony and texture” (ICIYL) and their works have been premiered by InfraSound, e(L)ement duo, the dream songs project, and RenegadeEnsemble, and have been featured on Minnesota Public Radio and at the American Harp Society Summer Institute. Yoshi received their MM in Contemporary Performance from Manhattan School of Music, and their BM in Performance from Saint Olaf College. Yoshi is currently studying their D.M.A. in Flute Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center, studying with Robert Dick.

Sam Zagnit (bass) (he/him), a versatile bassist, composer, and educator, is a New-York-based musician who enjoys a multifaceted career. Performing and composing contemporary music make up a large part of Sam’s career, and he is dedicated to performing works by living composers and creating a more inclusive environment in every musical context. As a composer, his work focuses on self-reflection as a way to deepen connections and build intimacy with his audience and fellow musicians on stage. Sam has worked and studied with exemplary musicians from many generations, including John Adams, Marin Alsop, Orin O’Brien, Mattias Pintcher, Lucy Shelton, Jessie Montgomery, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Seth Parker Woods. Sam is part of the duo confluss, with soprano Amber Evans, an up-and-coming chamber ensemble committed to the exploration of their unique timbre and sound through performing original compositions for their ensemble, some by Sam himself. Since 2019, Sam has served as Acting Associate Principal Bass with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, where he plays alongside his former teacher, David Grossman. As an educator, Sam is a teaching artist for the Harmony Program in NYC, and leads workshops and residencies with the arts education program, LEAP. Sam is a graduate of the Yale School of Music, where he studied with Don Palma. He is currently a candidate for the Performer/Composer MM at the New School.

Location

The Invisible Dog

51 Bergen St.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, United States